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around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. this is "cnn newsroom." millions of doses of co-vid vaccine are ready to ship across the united states at this hour awaiting a final thumbs up from the head of the cdc. it's up to dr. robert redfield to issue the government's final blessing on the vaccine developed by pfizer and biontech. an advisor panel made the recommendation earlier saturday. testing data shows the drug achieves 9d 5% immunity after two shots and showing up just as the pandemic in the u.s. is turning from bad to worse. one million americans tested positive in just the past four days bringing the total so far to a staggering 16 million infected people.

it took almost 100 days to reach the first million back in april. now, once the cdc gives the green light, a massive nationwide vaccination campaign will begin in earnest. simply transporting millions of doses while keeping them super cold is an epic challenge. we look at the details. >> reporter: we're getting new insight from why the vaccine is not on the move right this moment. pfizer says vaccine shipments will begin leaving here starting on sunday morning but what's interesting is we know this spot is central to the vaccine distribution network. this is pfizer's largest facility in michigan. they say vaccine shipments will leave here going to 600 individual locations across the country. hospitals, pharmacies, cvs and walgree walgreens. but they say many of the places will not see the deliveries until monday. the bulk of the shipments arriving on tuesday. it is fedex and ups responsible

for those deliveries and fedex says there is a reason why the vaccine is not rolling out right this moment. >> we could deliver it within 24 hours, but the decision was made by the team because there are hundreds of administration sites that are going to be receiving these, they thought it best that we wait until monday to deliver them to ensure they're open and ready to receive. a week day, a normal business day, seemed like the optimal time to send out the first shipments rather than try to get them delivered on a sunday when same of the administrative sites might be short staffed or not open. >> this is not just a ground game. also a major air operation. the faa is directing airports to get ready for vaccine flights whether or not they were planning on them already. there's always a plan a plane would have an emergency or divert because of weather. delivery trucks need priority access and security should be double checked.

this could be the beginning of the end for this pandemic, but this major movement is about to kick off right here. cnn, michigan. >> so if all goes according to plan, the first vaccine shots could be administered early as monday. sanjay gupta explains who is likely to benefit now and who shouldn't get it yet. >> reporter: remarkable developments with this vaccine. we know the vaccine is authorized and has now been recommended by the cdc as well. it means lots of moving parts are starting to unfold. we know that the shipments are scheduled to begin this weekend, likely going to be arriving in many cases by monday morning. we could see people starting to get vaccinated for the first time outside of the clinical trial early this week. perhaps even monday or tuesday. the process so far has been once the fda authorized it, the cdc then recommended it, and we give

some better clarity on not only who the vaccine is recommended for but also who may not be recommended. for example, we know that this is going to be recommended for people 16 and over. there was some back and forth on that among the advisory committee. some felt that maybe the age should be 18 and over, but the fda and cdc saying 16 and over. we know that pregnant women, for example, were not part of the original clinical trial. 23 women became pregnant while in the trial, but there's not a lot of data to worry it's dangerous or to show the efficacy in pregnant women specifically. that's likely to end up being conversations between pregnant women and their doctors. for example, if a pregnant woman ask in a high risk profession, exposed to co-vid over and over again as a health care worker, for example, they may go ahead and ask for this vaccine. we know as we saw from the uk that people have had a

significant allergic reaction in the past, so significant that they carry an epipen, for example. they're worried about it and carry an epipen, they may not be recommended to get the vaccine and people that have conditions that compromised their immune system. i think a lot of this is conversations between individuals and their health care provieders to try to figur out the best course of action for them. 3 million doses roughly are going to be distributed around the country. and it's going to be up to each state to triage the doses. we know that health care workers, specifically health care workers who take care of co-vid patients and people in long-term care facilities are going to be at the top of the list, but each state may handle it differently. they may give all their doses to health care workers or long-term care facility residents or may split it up. it may be different in one state as compared to the state right next door. that may feel a little disjointed in the beginning but the hope is as more and more

vaccine is created, it's going to help actually smooth out some of those demand surges that are likely to occur in the various states. >> new coronavirus case numbers are also headed in the wrong direction across parts of europe. according to johns hopkins university, denmark, france and germany are among the countries suffering an up tick in new infections in the last week. angela merkel is set to meet sunday with germany's 16 state premiers about a possible nationwide lockdown. it's expected to go into effect before or shortly after christmas in hopes of stemming the country's surging cases. let's go to anna stewart in london. opposing pressures with christmas on one hand, rising cases on the other. to ease restrictions to allow people to enjoy the holidays with loved ones. >> reporter: yeah. much of europe is already under

some form of restrictions or lockdown with plans to ease up over christmas and the infection rate is high in particular countries. over 20,000 cases in germany recorded in the last 24 hours. that's despite germany being in a soft lockdown since the beginning of november. today angela merkel will meet with the 16 heads of the state to discuss whether or not they need to agree to go into a nationwide lockdown. some of the states have already decided to implement just that. later today we could find out that germany will perhaps shut down schools, tell them to work from home. it's unclear what this would mean in terms of what they plan for christmas. they had planned to hay how families to meet and in the last week angela merkel knead an unusually impassioned speech about christmas saying if we have too many contacts now before christmas, and that ends

up making it the last christmas with the grandparents, then we will have failed. j germany is not alone. in france they registered 14,000 new cases in the last 24 hours. they were planning to ease their current lockdown on tuesday. they will be doing so, but much less than expected and a curfew will be extended across the nation. much more of denmark, many more regions added to their lockdown. around 80% of the population is under lockdown, and in england where we had a national lockdown that ended less than two weeks ago, the infection rate is high, in certain areas like london. at the end of this week we could see further restrictions added before christmas. >> all right. we'll watch. thank you so much, anna stewart in london. for more on this, let's bring in a virologist from england. thank you for joining us.

i want to start with the vaccine. already being rolled out in the uk where you are. in the u.s. we're a day away. you've westearned we can expect bumps in the road. what are those? >> thank you for having me on the show. this is incredible news we're having effective vaccines going into the arm soon and in some countries they've started. this positive note, there are challenges that we have to tackle down the line, because until we don't really have sort of level the bumps, we can't claim the victory. i think one of the problems is, of course, the one that we've been very commonly talking about is the storage and transportation at minus 70 celsi celsius. it's one of the biggest challenges. then there are other issues. for instance, we have to make sure that a certain level of population is immunized relatively quickly until we don't have 70% to 75% of people

immunized, we don't achieve herd immunity, and make sure a second dose is given at the right time. until we don't have the vaccine, the second dose is given within 21 days, the immune system might not elicit, and that is really the challenge. another is really to reach to the minorities within the population to really make sure that people who are hesitant, they would take the vaccine and will have the courage enough. >> i want to talk about that last point there. i have some numbers here in the u.s., african americans are about 20% less likely to want the shot than white people or latinos. in a study in london found minorities are about 30% less likely to get it compared to white people. so what effect could this have on those communities, particularly since they seem especially vulnerable to the disease? >> yes. absolutely. i think this is one of the major

concerns to reach to the minority communities first, because they're disproportionately affected secondly, because of rumors about the speed of the vaccine development or the trust either recently or historically are crick contributing toward the hesitancy toward the vaccine particularly in the minority communities. for example, as you were saying in london according to a survey, it's only 39% people in the ethnic minorities would be taking up the vaccine compared to 70% in the white population. that's something that we have to engage those communities effectively at the media, at the local level, and really to make sure that there is not any structural racism that is discriminating them. bringing them on board is critical to really ensure that we have a vaccine coverage enough to curtail this pandemic. >> now, the good news for people

who are scared of needles, they're working on a vaccine that would be delivered via a nasal spray. what advantages would that have and do you have any idea how far away that might be? >> yes. absolutely. kim, this is really important question, because my vaccine which we are developing at the lan caster university is using the same approach, intranasal vaccine. the virus that enters through the oral cavity. if we block the entry of the virus we have an advantage. pfizer and moderna at the moment are not very good in preventing the spread of the infection. so having immunization is certainly something that we have to count on. similarly with the flu as well and other respiratory viruses. so the promise is being made, but there are challenges with the technologies. those are at the front runner,

for example. mrna vaccine doesn't really have a great level of entry into the upper respiratory tract. viruses can be mutated in the way it can infection our upper respiratory tract and induce responses but we have to look carefully at that in coming days. >> any guess, is it months away or years away? >> well, certainly among the front runners we have vaccines in the phase three trial. none of them is intranasal. that's behind the curve, but we're working closely. my work is on nasal vaccine, and that's what we're aiming to bring it the mid of next year into the final stages of the phase three trial because we think the intranasal administration is critical, particularly for the children, for people having other underlying conditions that cannot allow the intramuscular administration or people can having history with needles and so on. >> excellent. we'll definitely stay tuned for

that. very important development there. thank you so much. we appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. supporters of the u.s. president trump flocked to washington d.c. this weekend. and their anger boiled over as clashes broke out with counter protesters. next the unrest in nation's capital. plus, mr. trump isn't letting go of his defeat at the polls. who is the president turning his fury toward? we'll bring you that answer coming up.

at least four people were stabbed and almost two dozen others arrested during post election unrest late saturday in washington d.c. the mayor's office says the stabbing victims are in critical condition. online videos show fights like this. large groups of trump supporters descended on the nation's capital early on the day to protest the presidential election results. those daytime demonstrations were largely peaceful but most protesters weren't wearing masks

even as the pandemic rages. president trump is still furious about the election results. more than a month later and the latest target of his anger? well, his own hand-picked attorney general william barr. cnn's boris sanchez has details from the white house. >> reporter: president trump spent saturday mostly focussed on the 2020 election, and myth making. repeating false claims that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen from him, and now the president is focusing his ire on those in his administration and elsewhere that are refusing to go along with this fantasy. on saturday president trump tweeting that the supreme court acted disgracefully in dismissing the lawsuit from the state of texas and other states trying to overturn the election results in pennsylvania and a number of other states. the president also focussed on his attorney general william barr. cnn reported earlier this month that president trump was furious with barr after the attorney general revealed in the

associated press that he did not believe that there was any widespread election fraud. there was no evidence of widespread election fraud. cnn has learned that president trump at that point contemplated potentially firing the attorney general but was talked out of it by aides, ultimately suggesting he was so close to january 20th and a new administration that it wouldn't be worth it. now the president is again revisiting the idea after news that attorney general william barr worked to keep news that the department of justice was investigating president-elect joe biden's son hunter under wraps. barr following precedent and policy at doj to not reveal any sort of information about a candidate or their family members being under investigation around election time. the president tweeting this. quote, why didn't bill barr reveal the truth to the public about hunter biden. joe was lying on the debate

saying that nothing was wrong or going on. prez confirmed. big disadvantage for republicans at the polls. the truth is president is alluding to, nebulous at best. this is history repeating itself. president trump berated jeff sessions on twitter because sessions did not do his bidding, and ultimately recused himself from the russia investigation. that went on for the better part of the year before president trump ultimately fired sessions replacing him with barr. now we find ourselves in a similar situation with the current attorney general. sources close to the two men say that the communication between them is virtually nonexistent, but there's been a breakdown between the two of them. they likened it to a cold war between the two men. at this point, we understand the president has mused about firing barr. it is unclear that he will so close to a new administration on january 20th. boris sanchez, cnn, at the white

house. all right. let's bring in natasha, a professor of government at the university of essex. thank you so much for joining us. i want to talk about what we saw before the story, the clashes that we saw in washington and elsewhere between the president's stop the steal allies including those from the far right and the counterprotesters, the question is, i mean, how do you govern a country when so many of your citizens clearly believe your presidency is illegitimate, i guess, ask barack obama, i suppose. but -- >> yeah. i mean, that's a great question. this is going to be a huge challenge for joe biden. and we knew he was going to face this challenge. it was inevitable with the way that trump was talking to his supporters, and some think that he was talking to his supporters in a way that would encourage violence. others think at least he has not seriously condemned any violence, but he's tried to encolonel his supporters to come

to the streets, to stop the steal. and he's created this false narrative that we've talked about many times that this election wasn't free and fair and it was stolen from them. this has fired up his supporters. now they don't think joe biden is a legitimate leader. a recent poll revealed that only 23% of registered republican voters think that the election was free and fair and on that same poll, less than half of white male voters think the election was fair. so we have a very divided public along very partisan lines that is growing polarizing. that's going to make it difficult to govern, and we're seeing people like rush limbaugh talking about cessation. this is an incredibly dangerous period in american history. >> on the flip side, we saw one republican lawmaker who had signed on to the texas lawsuit, congressman bruce westerman of arkansas wrote this following

the supreme court decision. the casting of electoral votes will end hotly contested election and we should come together to americans to work together for the future of our country. all right. so even if those are just words at this point, that's still very different from the tone coming from most of his colleagues. does the temperature sort of come down on monday when the electoral college meets, or are republicans too tied to president trump and they'll have to keep on with this resistance as long as trump does? >> right. i mean, i think that's a great question. because i think that the republicans thus far fear trump. they know that he'll attack them on twitter as he has the governors, the republican governors of arizona and georgia. he's merciless in his attacks of them. and they're completely afraid about what he's going to stay about them. as such, they have toed the party line and basically agreed to do whatever he wanted to do. i mean, you had 126 gop house

members that agreed to this completely frivolous lawsuit that the texas state attorney general decided to put into play. so the question really is will republican leaders decide to lower the temperature as you said, and say listen, we have to accept the election results and we have to move forward as a nation because we're facing a pandemic and one of the worst crises we've seen in the u.s. with so many people dying per day, up to 300,000 people have died now. we really need to put things aside and focus on all the challenges facing us. but we're not seeing enough republicans willing to co-do that yet. it's because they falsely believe that they have to adhere to trump in order to win, but we see that even though yes, trump did very well in the election winning 74 million votes the republicans themselves did better in the election. they don't need as much as they think they do. i think they'll be better off if they distance themselves from him. >> all right. i want to turn now to the biden

transition. we've seen him unveil more members of his cabinet this past week. there's been a lot of pressure from minority groups and progressives to be represented. of course, all the different groups have some cause to be disappointed with what they saw as those things tend to go, but it seems as if progressives have been largely left out. what's your take on how biden has navigated this mine field trying to please so many interest groups that each of them claiming they were the ones to put him in the white house? >> right. well, biden is a moderate. i don't think there's any surprise about that. he wants to govern as a moderate, but he also wants to have a cabinet that's very diverse and we've seen that with many of his picks with the secretary of homeland security, hispan hispanic. we've seen with his pick for secretary of defense, african american general. there's been a diverse group of

people he's picked, men, women, but he's a moderate, and at this point, given how polarized the country is, that may be the only way forward to govern. >> all right. thank you so much for joining us. i appreciate it. professor of government at the university of essex. >> thanks for having me. co-vid vaccines will be on the way to medical facilities across the u.s. how hospitals are preparing to receive the first doses? we'll take a look. plus a day in the life of an intensive care nurse. we'll speak to a uk woman sharing her experiences working on the frontlines. stay with us. elping change the future of heart failure. understanding how to talk to your doctor about treatment options is key. today, we are redefining how we do things. we find new ways of speaking, so you're never out of touch. it's seeing someone's face that comforts us, no matter where. when those around us know us,

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welcome back to our viewers in the united states, canada and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber and you're watching "cnn newsroom." millions of pandemic weary americans are waiting for the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention to give the final okay to a co-vid vaccine. that clearance could come at any time, and then millions of viles will be on the move across the u.s. the expectation is deliveries will begin monday to about 6 00 locations. the vaccine was developed by pfizer and bio tech and given emergency use authorization by the fda friday. now, getting the co-vid inoculation into your arm is a lot like getting the flu shot, but besides the need for super cold storage of the vaccine, there are other differences. we go inside one chicago hospital to see how they're prepa preparing. here at rush university

medical center in chicago, staff will be ready to roll when the vaccine arrives. saturday morning the staff learned the vaccine is sensitive to light. so engineers developed a plan to transform what they call the vx nation preparation area. you see this crew is working right now. they're going to darken the area to help maintain the integrity of the vaccine. over to my left, you'll notice there are ten vaccine stations. this is where those health care employees who are most at risk for contracting the virus will receive that shot in the arm. i spoke with the clinical physician who is going to administer the first shot. on friday he participated in a dry run here at the hospital. they wanted to test out their system and see how things would flow. i asked if there were any surprises. this is what he had to say. >> it's turning into a very nice full-sized clinic. so it will be -- i'm excited to be able to have the opportunity to vaccinate that many people. it's mind boggling how the

process will work. but we have different plans in place and different people working on different aspects. i think the clinic will run smoothly. it's a matter of getting it going. >> reporter: a new process for everyone. staff says once people get to this stage in the game, it will look no different than receiving the flu shot. the hospital is expected to receive about 2000 doses. there are roughly 10,000 employees at rush. back to you. the uk has already begun the vaccination program as it battles a second wave of coronavirus. now an intensive care nurse is giving us a window into her life in an open letter. vickie neville writes about his 12 1/2 hour shifts. quote, 11:00 a.m., i help turn another patient. check drugsous for another, order medication we've run out of. i need a drink. my mask is hurting my face and i can feel my face stinging from where it dug in. she describes interacting with family members writing i listen

to them cry and hold back the tears. i tell them i'm with their husband and won't leave him. i don't leave him. i stay by his side for three hours. he arrested. she describes part of her evening this way. quote, i have a quick walk around to check everyone is okay. they aren't. various patients are getting worse and the staff are tired but know they are back in again tomorrow. they know they're fighting a battle they can't always win. that nurse joins me now that england. thank you so much for joining us. i want to start with after you gave birth to your son, you decided to go back to work five months early in the middle of a pandemic. why? >> i just felt that you know, as a nurse, it's your kind of -- it comes naturally that you want to help, and i felt that there was kind of an outcry. we knew nurses were short and the influx of patients was taking us over, what we would

normally have as our threshold. it kind of felt i needed to do what i did. >> reading your account of your day-to-day schedule. i'm struck by the physical toll but even more striking was the motional toll. i mean, you talk about what it's like to have to call your patient's loved ones and often you're the last person they see holding their hand. one patient in particular seemed to hit you especially hard. describe those last moments. >> obviously if you've just got to put yourselves in the patient's shoes. he was the same age as my mom. that man, which i wrote about. it really struck quite strongly for that i couldn't leave him. his wife was isolating with co-vid, and i don't want to ever think of someone dying on their own. that was his last moments, and i stayed with him. i didn't leave his side. and i would hope that that would be the same for a nurse if they

were caring for my loved one. >> i mean, i can sense the emotion in your voice when you talk about this. i mean, as a nurse, you have to deal with death as a daily part of your job, but what is it about this co-vid pandemic that makes it so especially hard? >> i think -- i've been a nurse for ten years and obviously in the last ten years i've looked after people who have passed away. and it's different. it's a different type of circumstance normally in those instance. we have the relatives with us. we're able to discuss things with them. they're kind of packed in the picture of the patient's deterioration. the patients with co-vid are deteriorating so quickly. sometimes we're not able to get family in due to obviously the virus and obviously the restrictions. so things are slightly different. the roll of the carer kind of just fall on to the nursing and

the auxiliary team. i'm not the only nurse who has held someone who has passed away. some of our support workers hold hands when we're businesy with emergencies. we've taken on the role of the family. the family as well as the care provider. >> you go through these traumatic emotional moments, and then it must be especially frustrating then when you see people protesting against the measures that are meant to keep them out of your very ward. >> oh, you see, it's hard to kind of explain. i think these people that have obviously not been on the unit, have not dealt with what we've seeing. they don't understand the volume of it. the average person will have this mild and will recover from it. but that's amazing. isn't it? but there is a massive per s percentage of people with

long-term medical conditions who are unfortunate and do contract it and do unfortunately pass away from the illness. in if you're not kind of protecting yourself, then at least protect the other ones around you. i've protected my loved ones and i've protected my elderly relatives, and my relatives with health concerns and protected my family and my own son from this. these people, if they're not -- care about their own lives, they need to care about the lives of those elderly people and those with conditions around them. >> yeah. well, you're planning to get married next year. i hope with the vaccine that when you do tie the knot you'll be entering a different world than this one here right now. thank you so much for speaking with us. we really appreciate it. thank you for helping everyone

understand what you and your colleagues are going through. we really appreciate it. >> thank you. still ahead, the uncertain fate of schoolboys in nigeria following an armed attack on their school. we'll have a live report from johannisberg. stay with us. when you switch to xfinity mobile,

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attack. what have you found out? >> reporter: well, this is in a slightly different region of niger nigeria. the eyewitnesss describe a horrifying series of events friday evening. gunmen coming into the school, one 18-year-old kid told us the -- as the gunshots grew louder, as they were in the rooms preparing for an exam, this is a boarding school, they jumped out of the windows, him own his friends, to escape to a nearby forest as he described it. some 20 of them had to spend the night there and then come back. didn't even have time to get their shoes. another younger child said that a gunman came into their boardinghouse and tried to rob them. which leads to queries whether this was a kidnapping attempt or an attack in terms of the ongoing attacks in that region. he said that it was an ethnic

group in the area which has been part of an increasing set of tensions. ethnic tensions that are distinctly different from the northeast of the country, but it does paint this picture as we wait to find out the fate of all those children and whether there were those who were kidnapped potentially for ransom according to officials to the levels of insecurity in nigeria. the president buhari was in that region at the time. it's deeply embarrassing. but late last month, as you remember, there was an even more horrific attack on farmers in north nigeria by a group that killed more than 100. this insecurity is a critical one for the continue isn't. it seems to appear to be really at times getting out of control. >> all right. thank you so much for that reporting. appreciate it. david mackenzie in johannesburg.

time is running out for the uk and the european union to reach a deal on their future relationship. negotiators arrived a short time ago at the eu head quarters in brussels. today has been a deadline. both sides set for reaching a post grade agreement. the talks could continue past today. the latest eu offer is unacceptable one says. nick robertson joins me. lots of pressure on the prime minister to get a deal done. where do we stand? >> reporter: there is a sense that the clock really is ticking, and that 99% of the deal has been done according to the secretary speaking to the uk media a little while ago. he's the one saying that today isn't necessarily the end of the talks. we've also heard from the irish prime minister today speaking again on british media,

expressing his view as a member of the eu 27 nations that there is still a possibility to do something on the fisheries issue, the sticking issue, a level playing field issue. while boris johnson and the european commission president are expected to speak around midday today and the subject of their conversation rather the phone call rather than meeting, the subject of that phone call today was going to be taking stock of the talks over the past few days. it does now seem to be the case, the mood music around this, at least, and that their phone conversation may indicate the willingness to continue to talk. certain laze you say, a lot of pressure on boris johnson to do that from members within his party for what former senior conservative party members, formally in the government who said that some of the rhetoric that boris johnson is talking

about doesn't align with national interest. a lot of pressure on the prime minister. >> all right. so then what's at stake for a deal or if they don't get one, and what deal could they likely get? >> it's expected to be if there is a deal, this very, very, very late stage to be quite what people describe as a thin deal, but enough potentially to stop huge log jams to the ports and at borders. the calculations, the economical cuelations were that just leaving the european union alone would cost the uk about 4% of its gdp. if uk was to leave without a trade deal, that was estimated to go up by another 2%, the sort of economic impact that would have estimated to cost the country about 300,000 jobs. cost the country about more than $50 billion. tariffs could be expected to be

on cars in the region of 10%. tariff on food in the region of 20 %. on lambs for example in the uk exports a huge number of lambs to the european union, and expect tariffs of 40%. that has them worried about how they can continue. the economic hit would be significant. it would be painful. and it would have wide reaching consequences. >> hence the pressure on boris johnson. thank you so much, nic robertson in london. well, the pandemic can't put a damper on children's joy when they visit santa claus. >> very important. it's a big part of our psyche, really. we look forward to this as much as the children. but the coronavirus means hugs are out. socially distanced waves are in. stay with us.

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nothing says christmas like the beaming faces of children when they get a hug from santa. co-vid has forced the jolly old elf to take coronavirus tests and socially distance not quite what those naughty and nice kids

expected maybe but still as we report, seeing santa is still pure magic. >> look right here, guys. one, two, three. >> what would you like santa to bring you. >> reporter: one thing about santa, he always keeps his promises. >> no matter how bad co-vid gets, santa is going to be there. okay? >> reporter: especially in a pandemic. at malls and stores across america, visits to santa do look a little different this year. appointments for pictures instead of long lines. disinfecting elves between every customer and santa in some cases weekly co-vid tests and he's socially distant whether six feet apart by a stack of presents, virtual or behind plexi glass. >> how important was that for you to make it happen? >> very important. it was a big part of our psyche, really. we look forward to this as much as the children. >> reporter: the changes do take some getting used to.

for santa, too. >> high five in the air. we're used to the hugs and high fives. we're used to come on over and let's get the shot together. at least we're able to be here. >> reporter: even co-vid can't take away the joy of getting that perfect picture. >> we didn't want the ptraditio to die down. >> i wanted to have memory. i have every single year. at christmas time. it meant that much. >> reporter: in queens, new york, there's a special kind of magic happening. >> where are we? >> reporter: this is santa's socially disabout t socially distance workshop. >> reporter: he normally donates to hospitals and orphanages. since that's not possible he's allowing kids an up close and

safe peek while he makes the toys. >> this is going to be for you. i miss the ability to see the look in their eyes and believe me, that brightness, that joy is just overwhelming. especially to me. in this particular case, we're trying to just keep hope alive. it's important that the kids know that christmas is not cancelled. >> reporter: this christmas, whether you want -- >> a makeup set. >> a bar by house. >> reporter: immunization or for it to go away. >> reporter: santa promises nothing, not even coronavirus, will keep him from bringing christmas to the believers. cnn, new york. that wraps up this hour of "cnn newsroom." i'm kim brunhuber and i'll be back in a moment with more news. please stay with us.

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