thank you for joining us this hour. today we are waiting and standing by. we are waiting for the fda to officially announce emergency use authorization for pfizer's covid vaccine. that could happen at any time. this morning hhs secretary alex azar confirmed that fda officials in his words intend to proceed toward finalizing and giving the green light to the vaccine. we are also waiting for the supreme court to signal whether they will take president trump's latest baseless lawsuit trying to invalidate the votes of millions of voters in four battleground states. texas just filed its response defending the lawsuit against trying to invalidate those votes. which means the justices could respond at any time as well. we're also waiting on the president-elect, joe biden will be formally introducing more of his picks for his incoming cabinet today, though he is already facing some pushback that the -- in filling it out

he's filling it out too much with too many holdovers from the obama administration. and we're also waiting on congress to do its job, quite frankly. capitol hill is familiar -- is in a familiar place yet again. yet it is a no less disappointing place yet again. paralyzed, unable or unwilling to reach a deal on a relief package as millions of americans struggle in this pandemic and are about to hit a cliff with benefits running out. >> we'll have more on that in a moment, but first for the latest on where the country stands with covid-19 and this pandemic, here's cnn's adrienne broaddus. >> reporter: as the pandemic continues to worsen across the wasn't, one ray of hope with an advisory board for the food and drug administration emergency use authorization for pfizer's

coronavirus vaccine. >> i voted yes, we know enough to know this appears to be the way out of this awful mess. >> reporter: after the full fda signs off, an advisory panel for the centers for disease control and prevention is expected to vote sunday whether to recommend the vaccine. once the full cdc signs off, vaccinations can start. here in chicago hospitals are preparing, they're starting to receive the pfizer vaccine by getting freezers capable of storing the vaccines ready at the appropriate temperature and setting up vaccine bays like this one at rush university medical center to streamline the vaccination process once emergency use authorization is granted. >> we as a nation need to continue to wear the masks, to keep the physical distance to avoid crowds. we're not through with this just because we're starting a vaccine program. >> reporter: but as the country prepares for the potential first vaccine doses, some hospitals

are quickly reaching their breaking point. cdc director, dr. robert redfield thinks the next few months will be tough. >> probably for the next 60 to 90 days we'll have more deaths per day than we had 9/11 or pearl harbor. >> reporter: more than 2,700 deaths were reported thursday. and in the first ten days of december, the united states reported more than 2 million new coronavirus infections. more than 107,000 coronavirus patients are in the hospital, a record. in new mexico, the surge forcing the state to activate its, quote, crisis care standards. including suspending all nonessential surgeries, los angeles county shattering its daily case record again reporting more than 12,800 new cases. >> it's happening so quickly sometimes we can't even take in these numbers.

that's up 128% since last week. 300% since last month. 1,000% since a month and a half ago. >> reporter: and pennsylvania seeing a substantial up tick in cases this month. starting saturday indoor dining, gyms and indoor entertainment such as movie theatres will close until january 4th. >> over the past several weeks it's become clear that we need to take further mitigation actions to protect pennsylvanians and stop the spread of covid-19. we all hoped it would not come to this. >> reporter: and here in chicago at rush university medical center they set up a vaccine clinic for employees. you'll notice there are about 10 stations behind me. that's where the front line workers will receive the vaccine and the folks you see behind me are preparing to go through a drill where they will practice administering the vaccine in a mock situation. back to you. >> adrienne thank you so much.

joining me now cnn medical analyst dr. larry brilliant. he spent his career fighting epidemics including his work with the w.h.o. to wipe out smallpox. thank you for coming back in. when we talk about the vaccine, this is headed to approval to get the green light for emergency use. what does that moment mean in the fight against the pandemic? >> thanks for having me, kate. it seems like it's always darkest just before the dawn. whoever said that most recently, i'm afraid it's going to get a little darker yet. but i'm hoping the dawn is going to be a little brighter. this is a historic moment. it's not just that we went from a novel virus leaping from a bat to a human to a vaccine in ten months p. it's that we went from that new virus to a vaccine campaign in about a year. it's amazing. >> there are still questions,

though, after the big meeting, the long meeting yesterday of the vaccine advisory board. there are still some questions about what people with severe food and drug allergies should do after we learned of the allergic reactions of a couple of people in the united kingdom of the vaccine. i want to show you what dr. paul offett said about this. >> there are tens of millions of people who carry epipens with them who have allergies who are going to believe now they can't get this vaccine. that's a lot of people. >> it is a lot of people. what do you think should happen here? >> there's a tradeoff between speed and being comprehensive. we really don't know about pregnant women. we don't know about people who are immunocompromised. we don't know about age groups and different demographic groups. we're getting the data as we go. we don't even know is it better

one dose if we only have a scarce amount of vaccine, or wait for two doses even though that's what pfizer recommends. these are experiments that have to go on simultaneous with the vaccination program. that's not unusual. in the smallpox and polio program, the campaign went on side by side. >> people are playing closer attention to a vaccine advisory board meeting than they probably ever have in the history of these meetings. and we're hearing these things like the lead on the advisory board said this morning there's concern, he doesn't think there's enough data of the age range between 16 and 18 yet. he has questions. i'm left wondering if i'm the parent of a 16 to 18-year-old, what do i do when this becomes available? >> you might have to wait. if you want to get the complete

data. the fda may recommend that until all that data is in, they either will recommend against. they'll recommend for. or they won't take a stand. there will be ambiguity. it is the trade off. but i'd rather be in the position we're in right now than try to dot all the is and cross all the ts, the biggest concern you have is that there's not something awful waiting. and all indications so far are there are not, but we've only had vaccine in the arm of tens of thousands of people. it's going to go to hundreds of thousands, hundreds of millions and ultimately billions of people. so we have a long way ahead of us but this is still a momentous day. >> thank you for coming on, doctor. >> thank you for having me. we mentioned the supreme court lawsuit at the top of the

show. now president trump's continued efforts to overturn the results of the election is getting the full support from a clear majority of republicans in the house. we're going to control through this list for you. but it's 106 house republicans now backing a lawsuit that originated from texas, the texas attorney general that wants the supreme court to throw out the votes of millions of americans in four battleground states that the president lost. this morning texas filed its reply to the supreme court defending its lawsuit. so we are standing by to see what the high court decides. let me bring in cnn's john harwood. he's live at the white house for more on this. when you look at the list, this is more than half of the republicans in in the house and to be clear, there are members on the list backing the lawsuit who were elected in the very states that they want to see the presidential votes thrown out in. they're not questioning their own election wins, though. >> reporter: they're not. but what we're seeing kate is a

demonstration by house republicans of the extent of the rot inside the republican party right now. these people know what donald trump is, as ted cruz said in 2016 he's a pathological liar. marco rubio called him a con artist. but because they're afraid of him and afraid of the supporters that he holds the loyalty of and because the only principle that matters to them is holding onto power, they've agreed to sign on to this lawsuit aimed at the throwing out the votes in other states, in four battleground states. these are people who if donald trump said i'm going to trash you on twitter unless you go smack your mom in the face, they would go smack their moms in the face and try to explain it to them afterwards. in reality what they're doing is smacking american democracy in the face. >> it's pretty remarkable. i just don't see a universe where this changes in 40 days

when the president leaves office. >> reporter: no, it's not going to change. the occupant of the white house is going to change. donald trump is going to leave. we'll see whether not being president diminishes his grip on those members or his followers. he's going to have a lot of problems. we learned today about a criminal investigation in new york city by cy vance is accelerating. he's interviewing trump's bankers and insurance brokers. so trump may have plenty of problems that will cause the republican party to be less afraid of him, but we don't know that yet. >> john, thank you. still ahead for us, millions of americans desperately need coronavirus relief but congress is paralyzed. why can't they work out a deal? plus, president-elect joe biden will soon introduce more top level nominees but he's facing criticism that some of the faces may be too familiar. you can earn your degree faster and for less with relevant life experience

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president-elect joe biden is set to announce more key members of his cabinet later today, a quick look for you at his current cabinet, the nominees so far. you will see some familiar faces who also served in the obama administration. leaving some democrats quietly saying these appointments are a little too familiar. looking more like a third obama term. let's get to jessica dean joining us with more on this. how is the biden campaign responding to the pushback? >> reporter: we're told biden is not feeling defensive about his choices at all. the biden team would tell you there's a couple things going on they're facing a multitude of crises as biden assumes office

in january and they need people who know how to work government, who understand how to pull the levers and make things happen because they don't have time to waste and they're going to have to do a lot of things, big things at once in order to get the crises under control and that's before they get to the agenda setting that they want to do with other things outside the scope of getting the coronavirus and the economy under control. that's one thing. they're looking for experience. we also know that joe biden looks people and trusts people he has good relationships with. and that's important to him and we're seeing it. in the picks you just put up these are people he has long standing relationships with who he can trust to do their jobs. that's important to him as well. they'll tell you this is still a historic slate of nominees and appoi appointe appointees, something they're proud of, something that biden and vice president-elect kamala harris promised to do, put together a cabinet that looks like america, that's what they've been trying to do even

though they've gotten a lot of pushback and pressure from outside groups for more diversity. we'll be introduced to a new round of nominees and appointees later this afternoon and among those are a number of obama administration veterans. you have dennis mcdonna leading the department of veterans affairs. tom vilsack who served as the agriculture secretary for the entirety of obama administration's has been tapped to do that again. so yes, it is a lot of familiar faces where some democrats were hopping to inject more fresh blood into there. we'll hear more about those nominees and appointees later this afternoon. this is happening as we're told biden would like to have his full slate of nominees by christmas. we know his time lines can shift a little bit but right now his goal is to get it announced by christmas to get the nominees through the confirmation process and getting them settled in

their roles as soon as possible. one of the big ones we're still waiting on, probably the biggest one we're waiting on, is who will be attorney general, who will lead the department of justice? we know biden narrowed it down to a short list of contenders, including senator doug jones and sally yates, as well as judge merrick garland. looking to capitol hill, congress is paralyzed. negotiations over a covid-19 emergency relief package are on the brink of collapse with leaders from both parties now turning to the all too familiar position of pointing fingers. mitch mcconnell says there is no path forward on two sticking points, liability protection for businesses. republicans want the protections to be broader than democrats do. there's also state and local aid, democrats want much more than republicans will allow. but now this failure in negotiations is going to hurt

even more. some emergency benefits that have been keeping people afloat across the country expire at the end of the month things like unemployment benefits, eviction protection, relief that millions of people have clearly relied on during the pandemic. these are some of the people who, frankly, congress has failed. >> i have to take the bills and throw them up and pick the ones and hope they total the amount that i have. >> we stopped going to food banks because they're closing and they're far now. and we kind of -- if they open at 9:00 you have to be there at 5:00 a.m. to hope to get anything. >> when we go to the laundromat we see homeless washing themselves. and one day if i don't go back to work i'm going to be one of them. i live check by check but now it's not check, it's box.

box and a half to stretch out for seven days. >> makes you feel like a failure as a parent, a man to know you can't provide for your family. >> it's like i don't deserve my own kid. >> that's heartbreaking. joining me now is john kasich. thanks for coming back in. let's pick up where we left off, because this is what we were getting to, governor -- you look upset. why are you upset? >> well, these are people that can't pay their bills and they want to. the stories of these people in a car, kate, waiting four hours to get food at a food bank, yeah it breaks my heart because -- i don't know, it's because maybe i -- i thank the lord that i can kind of think about them and realize that, you know, they deserve better.

i mean, and yeah, we also can help -- demand that the government provide some aid, which they should do. but maybe we need to think what we can do, even if it's a little bit of stuff we can do for something else. think about this. these are people, maybe in the gig economy, they lost their jobs. they got no food. what -- could you imagine that? they have no food. says here the homeless are washing themselves -- you know, it was a lot of controversy when i expanded medicaid, i was the first republican governor to do that. people were mad, you love obama, whatever. i said, wait a minute, there's 600,000 people if i don't do this, they're not going to get health care, they're going to be living under a bridge or in jail. we can't treat people like that. remember the quote about did you feed the -- did you feed the neighbor? because if you didn't feed the neighbor, you didn't feed me. that's the word from the lord. when i look at this, it just --

it makes you want to cry, right. then you have the people in d.c., fighting with one another and it's -- look, i've been in many negotiations i was there when we went through government shutdowns. at some point when it's got people on the line, their lives and when they don't get these kinds of things, kate, think about what happens to them from the mental health aspect, the psychological aspect. you heard the guy say it's like i'm not even a man because i can't feed my family. so, what's failed to happen down there is, take off the title, take off all that phony armor and think about what people need. and sometimes you got to make a little compromise that you don't like to have to make. but so what, in the long run, people are better off. and that's what we got to do. that doesn't mean compromise your principles -- >> this is why this is so frustrating. it is good to see you wear your heart on your sleeve.

it is good to see blood coursing through your veins that you feel for these people. but that's what i don't get, these people live in every state. they're the constituents of every member of congress. this isn't one region hit by a hurricane that needs some help. this is everywhere. that's why it's so unbelievable that they can't find a place, find how to get to yes, you've been in the halls of congress. what do you say to the leaders? >> i could have been better. >> nancy pelosi, mitch mcconnell, chuck schumer, what do you say to them right now? >> you got to think -- you know, here's part of the problem. you're down there in congress, right. the guards know who your name is. to go through the door, they open the door for you, congressman this, senator this, you don't have to go through any kind of x-ray machine because you're important and wear a badge and you go on the floor

and people sit in the gallery and watch you and you're up here and they're down there, and you're important, people get out of your way and they tell you what you want to hear. but there's an element of that that takes you away -- i'm not trying to be mean here about anybody. it takes you away from understanding the problems. the real problems that real people have. >> there's no way they can't -- >> it's like they're removed, kate. >> governor, if they don't understand the problems with the pandemic, then they should walk off the job right now. this is not a hard one. >> there's a difference between -- i'm making excuse for them. there's a difference between understanding there's a problem and seeing it. putting yourself in the shoes of somebody that doesn't have anything. i think they'll get this deal done -- >> you do? you think they're going to? >> i think they have to. in order to get the government to stay open, they'll get

something. i think something will happen. this is a kind of rump group of house members and senators who are sitting down trying to work these out, one of the leaders, a guy named tom reed, i think highly of him, he's a republican. i know there are people of good hearts that want to work through the issues, liability issues, aid to state and local. i talked to a senator not long ago -- back in the beginning of the stimulus package, how many weeks do we give them a payment? i'm the guy that balanced the budget with my friends. there's nothing i care about more than the fiscal health of our country and the debt is rising. it's terrible, it could inflict us. but at the same time, kate, we got to help these people. they're going to lose their homes, they're hungry, their families are distraught. we got to do it. please. >> we never have enough time, governor, but i know -- and tom reed is -- we've had him on the show often. he and problem sol vers, they

are working in good faith but they're not going to get anything done -- >> they might. >> they're not, though, unless they have the leadership who just get past it. and get to a yes. >> sometimes the leaders -- kate, sometimes the leaders stand aside and they let other people kind of solve it and then they embrace it. that's what i hope will happen. we have to keep on the story, please. >> the message from john kasich is stand aside. let the problem solvers solve the problem. thank you for coming on. >> thanks, kate, very much. coming up for us, it is a delicate operation, handle, store, administer the first coronavirus vaccines. how one hospital is preparing down to the minute next.

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health care workers will be among the first to get the coronavirus vaccine. once it is green lit. but it is clear there will not be enough to go around initially. but even before that hospitals are preparing down to the smallest detail how to store, prepare and administer the shots from the moment they arrive. joining me right now is dr. susan mashny.

doctor, thank you for coming in. when the first shipments come in to mount sinai, what needs to happen in the first minutes? >> we absolutely need to be able to safely receive those, bring them to our sub zero freezers and put them away. each of the doses needs to be put in the freezer within 90 seconds from the time it's taken from the box. so it's a well orchestrated affair when it happens. >> 90 seconds is -- that's honestly something -- not something to mess around with. are you running drills on this? >> absolutely. there's videos and practice sessions. our teams will be going through those practice sessions they have been already drilling through and will continue to do that up to the time we actually receive the vaccine. >> what needs to be done to prepare the doses after you get them in the freezer when it's time to get the shots in arms? >> sure. so a frozen suspension. so we need to bring those up to

room temperature, that will take about three hours. so we have to be planning when we're going to have the vaccination pods when we know we're going to need doses and we need to reconstitute those and draw them to individual doses. it's yet to be determined on how we run the pods whether we'll draw the doses at the point we'll give them or drawing in the pharmacy and bringing them to the vaccination areas. >> do you have to have someone -- i'm not trying to be flippant at all but a clock counting the minutes here? >> absolutely. it's vital that folks open the box we need to count, make certain that everything in the box is received intact and then go ahead and get it into the freezer. so it's going to be a well orchestrated event. i think there's going to be a little sweating going on outside of the freezer making sure we get everything in. >> no kidding. assuming the fda gives the green

light to the pfizer vaccine say today or tomorrow when do you anticipate administering the first shots? >> we are set up, if we receive the vaccine over the weekends to go as early as monday or tuesday. we've just received notification last evening from the new york department of health which is overseeing how we're doing our vaccination role outs information on who we give the vaccine to we're working on those schedules right now. we're ready to stand up the pods we've been doing some dry runs for those, too. >> you've also been recruiting more people to administer the shots. how many more people do you need? >> it depends on how many people we administer the vaccines to. we know we'll administer to our own employees and maybe some other organizations around new york city. but we know maybe in our -- perhaps in our largest facility, mount sinai hospital we'll likely have 12 vaccinators set up at any station at any given

time. so it'll be in the hundreds of extra staff. we'll use some of our own internal staff to pull them in. we'll have volunteers, medical students and pharmacy interns, vaccinators to help also. it'll be a well orchestrated event with a lot of extra staffing. >> do you know yet who is going to be getting the first dose? >> we know it's going to be our emergency workers. so folks in our emergency department, intensive care units. other people that are inadvertently exposed to the aerosolized virus for long p periods of time. we're working on who those folks are to get those schedules set up. >> doctor, thank you for coming on. >> thank you. up next, skepticism about a covid vaccine is a real concern for public health officials. how real is it? listen to this. >> the pandemic is not real.

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the vaccine skepticism is a real thing and it's a real challenge to public health in this moment. from the president on down, officials are promoting the safety and efficacy of the vaccines but cnn's ellie reef went to wilson county, tennessee, trump country and found that message isn't getting through. >> reporter: news of vaccines comes just as covid-19 surges through rural parts of the country and the political debate is as heated as ever. >> i don't want to wear a mask. >> reporter: we wanted to know if the same resistance to masks would happen to the vaccine. so we reached out to a pastor in tennessee he said he has grown his congregation by protesting covid control measures. >> we're not going to close our church. >> there are a lot of people doing their best to put out a vaccine. i'm not going to take it. i don't believe the government can tell me when or how i can stick a needle in my arm. >> reporter: he said he moved

his services outdoors not to limit the spread of covid but to handle the people that have come. i'm saying the sickness is real, i'm saying the pandemic is not. >> i don't understand what you mean when you say the pandemic is not real. >> pandemic is not real. >> what do you think a pandemic is? >> not covid-19. it's no pandemic. >> what do you think a pandemic is? >> i think we're stuck on the pandemic question. >> why can't you answer it? >> i did. there's no pandemic. >> what would be a -- >> covid-19 is not a pandemic. >> what is a pandemic? >> not what we're experiencing. we've not had one in my lifet e lifetime, i'm 44 years old. >> to be clear a pandemic is a disease that spreads across many countries and affects many people. the world health organization considered covid-19 a pandemic in march. >> it's not been tested enough.

we don't know what's going to happen with it. in the future we don't know. >> it's not -- you know, this anti-vaccination, it's the devil. really it's a choice. >> reporter: some people at the service told us they'd seen him on facebook and liked his message. >> donald trump won the election by a landslide and he will be re-elected as president. >> reporter: we wanted to know how widespread his views are. so we drove deeper into the county where there's a covid testing site. we met clinton smith, a farmer who takes extra care to keep things sanitized during covid. >> you know, go to a fairgrounds where everybody is as proud of their bathrooms as i am. i'm cautious about doing anything. i think people are excited about there being a vaccine but it's going to be everybody wait around and watching the first responders and the nursing home

folks and if there's any reaction to it. everything here is clean. let me tell you what my daddy told me. son don't never believe anything you hear and only half what you see. >> i think it's entirely human to be a little skeptical and hesitant. after all, this is a new virus in the human population. this vaccine uses new technology. it's been developed very rapidly and that makes people cautious. >> reporter: based on our interviews and recent polling pastor lock represents an outspoken minority. surveys found that republicans are less likely than democrats to seiko vid as a threat to public health. but there's a growing acceptance to the vaccine nationwide, including among republicans. 60% of americans say they'd take it and those that are reluctant said they'd get it after others do so. dr. william shaft nner said in

order to overcome vaccine he hesitan hesitancy, officials have to build trust. >> you have to respect people. respect where they're coming from. hear what they say and then try to respond to their concerns. >> we give shots to cows all the time. you do get reactions to shots. so, you know, we have given a shot to an animal and it -- walk out there 20 feet out of the shoot and drop dead. everybody is going to respond differently. >> after the first responders take it, when it's your turn, will you take the vaccine? >> i'm probably going to take the vaccine. >> how do you feel about the vaccine? >> anything new that has not been proven, i'm not sure i want to be the guinea pig. i wish there was time for more testing but there's not. we're losing too many people too fast. so we have got to do what we can. i know it's become a political issue at times but it shouldn't be. this is a health issue. >> the approach to covid has had

substantial political overtones. people have attitudes about this and it will not be easy to change those attitudes. >> are you going to tell the members of your congregation not to get the vaccine. >> members of my congregation will do what they want to but they'll watch my videos and know i'm not getting it. >> you expect them to model your behavior? >> i expect them to use their bible and their brain. ellie, thank you for that reporting. still ahead for us, college football has been up ended by covid but the army/navy game is a go this weekend. but it's going to be different. that's next. a must in your medicine cabinet! less sick days! cold coming on? zicam® is clinically proven to shorten colds! highly recommend it! zifans love zicam's unique zinc formula. it shortens colds! zicam zinc that cold! iton all the food that makes you boogie. - [narrator] grubhub perks give you deals

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the pandemic. >> it definitely has been challenging football wise but we're not complaining because there are a lot of people that have it a lot worse. >> it is easy to get down about everything we're missing out on, you know, not being able to play in our home state in front of a sold out crowd, going on the road. >> what we could control was having a great attitude. i'm just really proud of west point and proud of our program, our players in particular on how we have continued to forge ahead. >> reporter: this rivalry, kate, traditionally played in philadelphia, a neutral site. tomorrow's game first time since 1943 will be played here on campus at west point due to the pandemic. inside the stadium, there will only be 8,000 attendees, the cadets and naval academy mid ship men from annapolis. back to 1890, the first game was

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