live from hong kong, i'm anna coren. you're watching "cnn newsroom." major developments in the coronavirus pandemic unfolding on each side of the atlantic. viewed together, they show how complex and fluid the situation remains and how hope often goes hand in hand with hardships these days. in the u.s., a second vaccine is set for delivery. the cdc director just needs to give the moderna vaccine the final green light. it comes during some of the darkest days of the pandemic in the country. in the uk, the prime minister has put parts of england, including london, on a strict

two-week lockdown. it's because of a new variant of the virus that he says is up to 70% more infectious. we'll have the details on everything regarding the pandemic in just a moment. first, we want to bring you cnn's new reporting about a tense exchange in the oval office. sources tell cnn there was a contentious meeting at the white house friday where staff argued over highly controversial ideas to overturn the election. cnn's jeremy diamond has the details. >> reporter: while president trump isn't just publicly refusing to accept the results of the 2020 election, he is also privately still grasping for ideas and ways to possibly overturn the results of the 2020 election. sources telling cnn that those ideas were floated during an oval office meeting that the president held on friday that grew heated and ugly at times, according to our sources, as two people, two allies of the president, pushed some really deranged ideas about overturning the results of the election.

those two people are sydney powell, the attorney who is part of the president's legal team and who has been pushing these deranged conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, including suggesting that the deceased venezuelan leader, hugo chavez, was behind rigging the 2020 election, as well as film, who was a client of sydney powell's and former national security adviser who pleaded guilty to counts of lying to federal investigators before he was ultimately pardoned by the president of the united states. now according to our sources, the president discussed the possibility of naming powell as a special counsel to investigate voter fraud allegations in the 2020 election, and he also discussed this idea brought forward by film justmichael fly >> he could order -- within the swing states, if he wanted to, he could take military capabilities and he could place them in those states and basically rerun an election in each of those states. it's not unprecedented. there's people out there talking

about martial law like it's something that we've never done. martial law has been instituted 64, 64 times. >>. >> reporter: there's no indication the president is going to be imposing martial law in the united states to rerun the 2020 election, as flynn suggested, but obviously just the fact that this was an idea that was being discussed in the oval office with the president of the united states, a president who is refusing to accept the results of a democratic election, certainly is alarming. and it generated quite a bit of pushback from several of the president's advisers inside the white house, including, we're told, the white house chief of staff, mark meadows, as well as the white house counsel, pat cipollone, both of them pushing back against these outlanding ideas for overturning the results of election, sources telling us this meeting devolved into a shouting match. as the president is hyping up claims of voter fraud, trying to overturn the results of a

democratic election, he's also downplaying an attack on the u.s. government. this cyber attack that the u.s. government officials believe was conducted by russian intelligence services. the president tweeting on saturday that the cyber hack is far greater in the fake news media than in actuality, and he goes on to say while russia is the priority whenever something happens, he said he's also discussing the possibility that it could be china that was behind this attack. but that notion has been really pushed back on by members of the president's own administration. in fact, it was the secretary of state, mike pompeo, who on friday said that it was very likely that russia was indeed behind this attack. we're told white house officials were drafting a statement on friday to ascribe blame for this cyber hack to russia. now it seems we know why that statement ultimately was not released. jeremy diamond, cnn, the white house. breaking news from washington.

u.s. lawmakers are close to a deal for a new covid relief package. this is a live look at the nation's capitol where talks are happening right now. republicans and democrats had been deadlocked over how much power to allow the federal reserve under its emergency lending authority. a compromise has now been reached on that issue. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says that will allow them to move forward with the remaining details of the $900 billion measure. minority leader chuck schumer says it looks like both houses of congress could vote on sunday. oren brownstein is cnn's senior political analyst ask senior editor for "the atlantic." he joins us from los angeles. start with the stimulus deal. finally, it would appear, congress close to an agreement to be voted on sunday. what are you learning? >> look, it's been a long time coming. in some ways, the real story is how long it has taken them to get to this point, despite the obvious need in the country.

both sides have an incentive to avoid the worst from happening, so there is a logic to the deal. i think it is a little bit of a mixed blessing for the incoming president, joe biden. on the one hand, clearly they believe this is necessary, both to keep the economy from sputtering to a halt, also because the need is to great. but there is the risk that if a deal is reached now, that when he comes back in early 2021 seeking a bigger agreement, republicans are basically going to say, i gave at the office already. this might make it tougher for him in the long-term, but in the near term, it's very much-needed in the country. >> i wanted to ask you i do about that. what does this mean for the incoming biden administration? he has said that come january, february, there is going to need to be more stimulus. so where does this leave him? >> yeah, look, i mean -- they believe the incoming administration believes they need this, both because of the

human need that is involves, also because they fear that without this additional jolt, the economy will be weaker, significantly weaker, when he takes office. as i said, this has taken a very long time. republicans are refusing to include one of the elements that he considers essential, that all democrats consider essential, aid to state and local governments. obviously biden will want to follow a broader economic agenda, particularly on issues like climate and infrastructure, into any stimulus plan in the early spring. if this happens now, you can imagine mitch mcconnell saying, another deal is not needed. obviously underscores the stakes in that january runoff in georgia, because if the democrats hold the senate they'll have a much better chance in moving on a follow-up plan than if they don't. >> let's turn to the fiasco inside the white house and trump's desperate efforts to overturn the election result. he just won't give up, yet his cheer squad that's egging him on seems to be getting smaller and

smaller. >> yeah, but you don't get here in a day. you don't get to the point where someone is in the oval office talking about martial law overnight. you get there week by week, month by month of the president kind of pushing at the boundaries of the rule of law in this country. and frankly, his own party refusing to stand up to him in congress. this is kind of the end of a process that includes along the way him openly extorting the government of ukraine, and only one republican in either chamber deciding that was worthy of a sanction of any sort. weaponizing the postal service. trying to tilt the census. spending weeks seeding unfounded conspiracy theories about the election. each time republicans giving him more and more rope. now presumably this would be a bridge too far for them? but you can understand how the president has concluded along the way that each time he breaks a window, they will sweep up the glass. so i don't think he's going to

declare martial law, but that doesn't mean that between now and inauguration day he may not do things that are nearly as shocking. and we are going to see whether and where republicans are willing to draw the line on defending the rule of law in the country. >> the fact that the president of the united states is even entertaining martial law in the oval office, i mean, this has gone beyond a national embarrassment, hasn't it? >> absolutely. i mean, we are beyond an embarrassment. i think that we are looking -- what we have seen since the election with two-thirds of the state republican attorneys general, two-thirds of the republicans in the house endorsing this fantastical lawsuit that intended to disenfranchise 20 million voters and allow republican state legislatures in the four key swing states to appointee electricitiers who would subvert the election, that is -- and the fact that so many republican elected officials went along

with it is a marker that we are entering a dangerous new stage in the u.s. where many in the republican coalition believe that democrats, the threat of a democratic victory would so fundamentally alter the character of america that any means necessary are justified to combat that. and again, it is a step-by-step process. you don't get there in a day. and we will have to see -- it may be much too optimistic or even naive to assume all of this ends if and when donald trump leaves the white house in january. there's a rubicon being crossed here that promises a lot more turbulence ahead in the coming years in america. >> ron brownstein, always great to get your inside and perspective, joining us from los angeles, many thanks. >> thank you. coming up on "cnn newsroom, coronavirus infections are putting california's hospitals under intense pressure, and doctors are telling us the most

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final go ahead. the moderna vaccine is another badly needed weapon in the country's arsenal against the coronavirus. coming at a critical moment with infections skyrocketing. boxes are already being packed and loaded and officials say trucks should start rolling out sunday. that means americans could start receiving the vaccine monday. cnn's pete munteen started watching. >> reporter: vaccine shipments start monday and it begins here, a mckesson facility distributing the vaccine, not far from medical sister, headquarters of fed ex. it and u.p.s. will be shipping the vaccine to 3,000 locations across the country. this rollout about four times larger than the pfizer rollout of last week, and "operation warp speed" is apologizing to states that did not get as much

vaccine as they initially hoped. here's what they said. >> it was my fault. i gave guidance. i am the one that approved the forecast sheets. i am the one that approved the allocations. there is no problem with the process, there is no problem with the pfizer vaccine, there is no problem with the moderna vaccine, right? it was a planning error, and i am responsible. >> reporter: the moderna vaccine has a bit of advantage over the pfizer vaccine. it does not need to be as cold. in fact, a regular freezer works just fine for storing this version of the vaccine. 6 million doses will go out on sunday, and it all begins right here. pete munteen, cnn. california has a crisis on its hands. things are particularly bad in los angeles county, which one doctor says is quickly becoming

the pandemic's epicenter. hospitals are at breaking point with thousands of patients who are sicker than ever. cnn's paul vickerman is there. >> reporter: doctors, nurses in california battle weary. 45,000 new cases announced, 272 deaths, then the hospitalizations at about 18, 0 18,000, 3,500 of them in the icu. when the head of the unit here in tarzana started a shift at 2:00 a.m., he walked into a perfect storm of covid-19 infections. >> i had a patient this past week who waited too long. i asked him, why are you not coming in earlier? it broke my heart, but what he said was, i didn't want to take someone else's bed. i didn't want to take someone else's bed, i thought that someone is going to be sicker and needed it more. >> reporter: as the death toll rises, and so does the number of people in the icus, the doctors,

the nurses, the physician's assistants, so many others playing a role in trying to get the sick in touch with their relatives. >> until you have to go through talking to someone's family, telling them that we have to take these extra steps because they're not getting any better, or, you know, people calling their family and telling them that they're about to get intubated because they're not getting any better, you know -- it's a feeling that's indescribable. indescribable. and it's so sad. >> reporter: as the pandemic rages on in california, what's the solution? dr. yatagar says he thinks los angeles needs to go back to being a ghost town, meaning people need to stay at home. >> dr. mark morocco is an emergency room physician at the reagan ucla emergency medical center and joins us live from los angeles. doctor, great to have you with us. tell us about what you are witnessing. >> the first thing i want to say

is, this wave is not the kind of wave that californians are using to surfing, right? the first thing that all of your viewers, and all the viewers across cnn's universe should know, is this is not a time to panic. the things that you do in the next three to four weeks really matter. and can really help us begin to knock the top off of this wave. so all the things you've heard about, avoiding travel, avoiding groups, masking, hand washing, social distancing, that's really important. we are -- this time that's so difficult for us, the new vaccine, other vaccines in the pipeline, there is light at the end of the tunnel, but we cannot give up now. we never expected to win this war in one battle, and now we're in a real battle and we need your help. >> we heard from the previous fit who said he wants l.a. to turn into a ghost town. obviously you want people to stay at home, not to interact. >> that's correct. we want you to minimize -- i

tell people to think of it this way. you want to protect your family and yourself first, and to do that you want to minimize your interaction with the virus. we know that the virus, a communicable virus that's hard to understand is everywhere in ways we couldn't imagine back in march and april. the numbers we projected are so much higher that the safest thing for you to do is to stay at home. so that we can be ready and available and have beds open to treat you if you have a car accident, a stroke, a heart attack, or if your covid gets so bad that you need a ventilator, an icu bed, or aggressive treatment. >> we know there is a critical shortage of icu beds. hospitals are at breaking points. there's talk of field hospitals being set up in certain areas. will the health system be able to cope as cases rise? >> well, los angeles county is a very large and very diverse community of hospitals, from great university hospitals to small community hospitals.

every single one of them that i know of, every emergency physician, nurse, respiratory therapist, we've been preparing for this since before thanksgiving. we could see this coming. we tried to warn people to be good, but as one person said, we blew through a stop sign in our car at thanksgiving. now we're seeing the numbers we expected. so lots of preparation has happened. we're hoping we don't have to use those extra beds, extra facilities, that we'll be able to see, as soon as maybe monday or tuesday, first indications that this surge is leveling off. >> in the uk, the discovery of a variant of the virus believed to be up to 70% more transmissible than earlier versions is extremely alarming. your thoughts on this mutation and whether you expect to see something similar in the united states? >> well, mutations of this kind of virus are very common. there have been over 2,000 of them already since the beginning of the pandemic. and i would say again, don't panic. we don't think, and the folks who are studying this virus in the uk and worldwide don't think

that this mutation is going to have any effect on two important things. on whether or not the virus is affected by the vaccine, or whether it causes more severe disease. you might get it more easily, there's an association, but they haven't proved that it's causal yet. so stay tuned. it's like predicting the end score in a baseball game in the third inning, we're just not there yet. >> do we know if the current vaccines will work on this variant or future variants, for that matter? >> well, of course we don't know that yet. but there's no reason, based on the design of the vaccines and our knowledge of the genome of the spike protein that the vaccines target to think that this single mutation -- remember, the vaccines are looking for a pattern of -- think of them as fingerprints on the spike protein. the mutation is one tiny part of one bit of a fingerprint. and so this vaccine, the second vaccine and the third vaccines you have coming aboard, should all be as effective as we

thought they were before the mutation was known. >> dr. mark morocco from los angeles, thank you for your insights and your time. >> thanks. don't panic, hang in there. british prime minister boris johnson has essentially canceled christmas for millions of people in england. they're being put under severe tier 4 restrictions for two weeks which effectively amount to a lockdown. nonessential shops and businesses will have to stay shut. people can meet only one other person from another household, outdoors. residents are being told not to travel out of their region. england isn't the only place clamping down ahead of the holidays salma a abdelaziz has more. >> reporter: europe's nightmare before christmas. last-minute coronavirus restrictions forcing travelers to unpack bags and families to cancel plans. authorities in some european countries scrambling to contain a rise in infections with

warnings of a third wave next year. in england, an 11th-hour u-turn on coronavirus restrictions amid fears of a new strain of coronavirus. prime minister boris johnson says it could be up to 70% more transmissible. >> given the early evidence we have on this new variant of the virus, the potential risk it poses, it is with a very heavy heart, i must tell you, we cannot continue with christmas as planned. >> reporter: tier 4 rules go into effect on sunday and london and other affected parts of england, forcing residents to stay at home unless necessary, all nonessential shops to close, and crucially, travel in and out is banned. the british government also finally heeding advice from health experts to call off a planned five-day easing of restrictions over the christmas period. a day earlier, italy, sweden, and austria all announcing tough new restrictions to curb social gatherings during the festive season.

italian prime minister conti will put into force a lockdown around the holidays. >> translator: it is not an easy decision, it is a painful decision to strengthen the regime of measures necessary during the holidays and better protect ourselves. >> reporter: in austria, a third lockdown is set to begin on december 26th. the government says residents can celebrate christmas but must stay at home for new year's eve. sweden, a country that has so far resisted pandemic measures, will enforce its toughest rules yet, recommending face masks on crowded transport, and from december 24th, alcohol sales must end at 8:00 p.m. the prime minister pleading with the public to exercise caution. >> translator: do not let there be an outbreak during christmas. do not meet relatives over christmas dinner. celebrate only with those closest to you. >> reporter: the question now is one of compliance. will people scrap holiday gatherings? or are these moves too little,

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welcome back to "cnn newsroom." i'm anna coren. breaking news from washington, u.s. lawmakers say they're close to a deal for a new covid relief package. congress could vote on the $900 billion measure on sunday after

agreeing to compromise on a major sticking point. the talks are happening right now in the u.s. capitol. republicans and democrats had been deadlocked over how much power to allow the federal reserve under its emergency lending authority. with that issue resolved, majority leader mitch mcconnell says they can now close out the remaining details of the package. coronavirus-related job cuts have been impacting americans for most of this year, especially in tourist attractions and locations like orlando, florida, home to walt disney world. the trickle-down effect in this tourism-heavy city isn't just impacting theme park workers but other jobs too. cnn's natasha chen has this report. >> reporter: we've seen people line up for food donations throughout this pandemic, but what you're seeing here is particularly bad timing. thousands of theme park workers have been laid off. and as they're losing their paycheck, one critical food donation resource is suddenly disappearing just when they need it most.

>> you want to show your favorite ornament? >> reporter: amanda johnson and her husband made their living creating magic. their fairytale ended when they were furloughed from the walt disney resort. months later johnson was laid off, one of 32,000 u.s. disney employees expected to lose their jobs by march. >> i feel like drowning here. and it's just the worst thing. people come here to have a good time, and we're all suffering. >> reporter: one of their three children has autism and epilepsy. >> thinking about -- like one hospital visit would almost, like, bankrupt you. >> reporter: she says she's making food deliveries just to be able to give the kids a christmas. soon they will be hard pressed to pay the motorage. former employees of disney universal, seaworld, and others

on both sides of this line, receiving donations and volunteering too. >> we're focused on the members. we started out feeding 200 families, it ballooned inn 2,000. >> reporter: these artists who used to perform for theme park guests are entertaining each other. ♪ >> reporter: cheering up is a necessity when these boxes represent less than 10% of the food that used to be available, according to the society of st. andrew. farmers they work with had funding from the federal farm to families program to get fresh food into boxes and delivered to food banks, but that money ran out sooner than expected. >> what keeps me up at night is that child that will go to bed hungry. >> reporter: in an area whose lifeblood is tourism, the trickle-down effect on other jobs is apparent as motels are now filled not with out of towners but with the unemployed, like jose cruz, who lost his job at home depot. >> the majority of people work in theme parks. if they're not buying appliances from home depot, then i don't have a job to deliver anything.

>> reporter: theme parks may be suffering but the success of disney's streaming service, disney plus, has sent disney stock to its all-time high. meanwhile, for park employees -- >> that's where my disney journey ends for now. >> reporter: the echo disney ceo optimism around the vaccine, hoping guests and work will one day return like magic. florida has reported its highest daily coronavirus case count since july, but its health department barely mentions the virus on social media. many people have concerns about how the state and its governor are handling the pandemic. drew griffin has that story. >> ron, how are we doing? >> reporter: in the weeks surrounding the november 3rd election, florida's department of health all but stop reporting deaths that had taken place more than a month earlier, making overall death numbers appear much lower. days after the election, the department went back to reporting those backlogged deaths as first reported by "the

sun sentinel newspaper." why? the state isn't saying, but cnn has interviewed more than a dozen state officials and experts and finds governor ron desantis' administration has sidelined health experts, promoted questionable science, and left some county officials feeling muzzled from raising the alarm about rising cases. >> they're not necessarily at liberty to release all the information that they might want to release. >> reporter: dr. eileen marty, an infectious disease expert at florida international university, says the governor's approach to the virus has made it worse. >> it's counterproductive. >> is it also deadly? >> it leads people towards behavior that increases transmission, bottom line, it leads to more deaths. >> reporter: in recent weeks, governor ron desantis has defiantly kept restaurants and bars open, joined the maskless crowds, tweeting this picture, scoffed at the notion of more government-mandated shutdowns,

no matter how bad the virus. >> if they want to shut down businesses, i'm going to stand in the way. >> reporter: what he has rarely done is mentioned the 20,000 floridians who have died, or the more than 1 million who have been infected, seemingly, say critics, to downplay the virus, keep florida's economy open, in an effort to win an election for one person. >> we're with the governor of florida, ron desantis, who's done a spectacular job in florida. >> miserable job when it comes to this issue here with coronavirus in the state of florida, and i'll tell him to his face. >> reporter: the governor's executive order has prevented county officials and mayors, like carlos fernandez, republican mayor of hialeah, from enforcing mask regulations or other restrictions that could slow the virus spread. >> maybe he has a number in mind that it's okay for that number of people to guy, i don't know, but i think there's a lot more we could be doing as a state. >> reporter: health experts say desantis' administration

controls the messaging about the response. >> all of those decisions are made in tallahassee. i suspect that the governor's office. >> reporter: two department of health employees tell cnn in late september they were told to not focus on covid-19 in public messaging. both workers, who asked not to be named, said they were afraid to be fired. we're putting politics in front of lives is one said. sure enough, the state's public messages about coronavirus, almost entirely vanished. the florida department of health's website and social media accounts used to be filled with covid information and advice. but on september 25th, the day the governor signed his order that fully reopened florida, all of that changed overnight. the tweets and facebook posts suddenly were about infant hearing loss, carbon monoxide poisoning, and the flu shot. up until thursday the department of health's website was filled with a weeks' old image promoting national diabetes awareness month, which was

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climate team. clearly a front and center focus of his new agenda, recognizing climate change and doing something about it. introducing interior secretary nominee congresswoman deb holland from new mexico. if confirmed by the senate, she'll be the first native american to serve in a president's cabinet. also former michigan governor jennifer granholm as energy secretary. putting clean energy front and center, she believes it can create new jobs. both were announced here on saturday. >> growing up in my mother's pueblo household made me fierce. my life has not been easy. i struggled with homelessness, i relied on food stamps, and raised my child as a single mom. these struggles give me perspectives, though, so that i can help people to succeed. this moment is profound when we consider the fact that a former secretary of the interior once proclaimed his goal to, quote, civilize or exterminate us.

i'm a living testament to the failure of that horrific ideology. >> so we can stand on the sidelines and let other countries beat us to these opportunities, or we can get in the game. and i am so ready and honored, coach, that you are putting me on the field with this amazing team to help create those jobs in every pocket of this country, and especially in the hardest-hit places and for the people who are still waiting on the fair chance that they need. >> governor granholm clearly has been a long-time adviser to mr. biden. she helped him prepare for several presidential debates during this primary season, so she is an example of a loyalist that mr. biden has turned to. several other newer members of the team as well that he really does not know that well that would be historic and groundbreaking. michael regan, administrator of the epa. gina mccarthy to lead the white

house climate coordinator system, chief in the obama administration. familiar faces, new faces as well. now the cabinet is nearly full. about six more members to fill. the biggest one, attorney general, could come next week. jeff zeleny, cnn, wilmington, delaware. early voting is well under way in georgia, and record numbers of voters are returning to the polls for two crucial senate runoff races. some politicians are trying to impress a certain group of voters that could hold the key to victory. >> reporter: it has taken 18 years for valerie patamarev to finally get here. >> i've been looking forward to this day for so long. i'm so excited to see what my vote's going to accomplish. >> reporter: she's just turning 18, one of the thousands of georgians too young to vote on november 3rd, but able to vote for the first time in the january 5th senate runoffs.

while you hear the two democratic senate challengers talk directly to them. >> victory in georgia comes down to young people in georgia. >> reporter: and the issues those voters care about. >> when we do something about student debt, we will unleash the power of the american economy. >> reporter: grassroots group georgia stand up says the youngest voters may be the differencemaker. 18 to 24-year-olds made up 12 percentage points of georgia voters in november. a small group, but joe biden won the state by less than 1 point. >> that vote right there for any candidate is going to be one that makes the difference. because as you see, when they show up, they show out. >> reporter: errian that gooden, who wanted to vote after a black lives matter summer of activism, now finally can. >> i want to be a part of this group of young people, you know, voting to make a change, make a difference. >> reporter: that belief drives students for tomorrow, these

young activists have backed democrat john osoff. as they brainstorm how to boost energy, they say they've registered 3,000 new voters who turn 18 between election day and january. >> that is an extremely sought-after group. you're talking about voters out of thin after. >> reporter: michael gustav wanted to vote for the republicans but -- >> it feels like my demographic are completely written off. >> reporter: the republican senators have been far less specific about targeting young voters. but they may be looking at november exit polls that show 43% of 18 to 24-year-old georgians voted for donald trump. 12% more than their peers nationwide. >> a lot of my friends are republicans, so it's nice seeing them get all excited about voting. >> reporter: at the save america event in atlanta, 18 and 19-year-old republicans say they're not to be overlooked. >> what is it about kelly loeffler and david purdue that

draws you to vote for them? >> they're constitutional conservatives. i know for a fact that we may be outnumbered, but our will is strong. our will is strong to come out and vote. >> that was cnn's kim la reporting. coming up, a powerful storm could bring a white christmas to many americans. a live report from the cnn weather center is coming up next. we do it every night. every night. i live alone, but i still do it every night. right after dinner. definitely after meaoaf.

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airlines are trying a new technique to ease travel during the covid-19. delta airlines is among those trying out the new normal means of travels. urging those willing to take multiple covid tests to scan the globe. >> reporter: they actually began their journey up to five days earlier. when they took the first of several covid tests that allowed them to avoid quarantining. this is the covid-free corridor between atlanta and the dutch capitol.

that first pcr test is followed by a rapid test at the atlanta airport before boarding. of course, if both are negative, you can fly. there's a third pcr test upon arrival in amsterdom. only if that is negative can you avoid quarantine. >> it's sekwengsal testing to catch those that maybe converted. so, just another layoff protection. >> reporter: building covid corridors is part of the airlines effort to restore confidence, eliminating the need for time-consuming quarantines. >> we're hoping in the first quarter of next year, we'll be able to add more cities. >> reporter: there are similar corridors from rome to new york and soon, atlanta to rome. currently the number of passengers is limited because of

a both e.u. and u.s. travel restrictions that ban each other's citizens from non-essential travel. delta isn't alone. all the major transatlantic carriers are experimenting with corridors of one sort or another. but their success depends on governments giving permission. all in all, these individual flights are a glimmer of hope that a new normal for safer air travel and the covid era is well on the way. richard quest, cnn, new york. well, it could be a dream come true for many americans this year a white christmas. a strong storm system that could bring snow and a christmas star could be visible when jupiter and saturn will shine in a rare double planet conjunction. here is derrick van dam to explain. how do we witness it?

>> i love the term that you used, conjunction because that's what it is. it's the meeting of two planets. in order to see it, you have to look in the southwestern sky and just after sunset. best chance will be across the equator. but the entire planet has the option to see the conjunction taking place. it's going to coincide with the solstice. we jump up and down about this kind of stuff, because it's not only occurring with the winter and summer solester, but it's the last time something this magnitude hand in medieval times. you have to go back 800 years before we've lad something celestial like this occurring. tomorrow, the northern hemisphere, enjoying the winter months, shortest daylight hours and southern hemisphere, longest days of the year.

and i want you to take notices of the moon. because the conjunction that's going to occur. the planets will be so close, it will appear to us to be about a fifth of the diameter of the entire full moon. tlalts how close it will be. that's why it will appear to be one star. we've noticed saturn and jupiter getting closer and closer and they'll create that conjunction on the 21st. of course, we need clear skies for that to happen. europe lots of cloud cover, across the southern united states, we have clear skies. and we have to talk about christmas. if you haven't bought presents, you need to be prepared. it looks like it might be a rough go for him because we're going to melt a lot of snow with rain along the east coast. but never fear, maybe snow in atlanta. >> in atlanta. where you are.

a white christmas there. thank you very much. we are holding thumbs and crossing fingers. >> i bet, i bet. with christmas less than a week away, how can santa deliver presents to boys and girls with coronavirus spreading? boys and girls talked to dr. fauci about that very thing. >> will santa still be able to visit me in coronavirus season? what if he can't go to anyone's house or his reigndeer? >> i have to say i took care of that for you because i was worried worried you'd all be upset. i took a trip the north pole. i went there and vaccinated santa clause myself, measured his level of immunity and he's good to go. he can come down the chimney,

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