pioneer. banking comerica -- liz: great to have you. thank you so much. dory wiley. >> thank you. liz: you're welcome. no records, no records on the major indices. doordash closing up 87 bucks or 85% on the first day of trading. connell: falling today from record highs. stocks taking a hit on stimulus uncertainty. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell revealing that lawmakers are still looking for a way forward on stimulus. the problem they still haven't found what they're looking for. the dow is down off the lows. dow, s&p, nasdaq hit all-time highs intraday during the session. stimulus dragging us into negative territory. down 109 points on the dow. the nasdaq snaps a four-day of record run of closing highs. maybe due for a little pullback. the nasdaq down 2%. take a look at doordash as we

close things out. the delivery company absolutely soaring on its first day of public trading. it opened at $182 a share. priced at 102. closes just below 190. that is some story for doordash. i'm connell mcshake. this is "after the bell." great to have you us. time for the news happening at this hour. our fox business team coverage, blake burman at the white house has the latest on vaccine candidates, wills wilkes with important tax news for those working at home. lauren simonetti on the big day for doordash, ahead of airbnb's day tomorrow and edward lawrence in washington as facebook is hit with massive lawsuits this afternoon. head's start with the white house. blake, what was the big takeaways from the "operation warp speed" briefing today? reporter: we're awaiting a big meeting out of the fda tomorrow which will take up the pfizer covid-19 candidate. now today from "operation warp speed" we learned how many doses could

potentially be distributed whenever there is vaccine, potentially pfizer in the very first week. that number is 2.9 million. let me break down for you how that works out as we heard today from general gus perna who oversees distribution for warp spread speed. he said 600 million doses set aside. 500,000 are in reserves, half are sent out, and that leaves the 2.9 million figure. this is how he explained it. >> eventually we will become much more confident in our manufacturing, our distribution process, state handling, et cetera, and then the requirement for reserve won't be necessary. reporter: connell as you know top officials in "operation warp speed" have been talking about 20 million doses potentially by the end of this month but it is clear like those 20 million doses are all going out at once. connell? connell: right. those will be rolling numbers,

that right? reporter: on a rolling basis is a good way to paint it. we heard from the top scientist on "operation warp speed," dr. moncef slaoui, said once the vaccine or vaccines are out there, the number of doses will vary week by week. listen here. >> unfortunately the mathematics are misleading. the numbers we share with you are monthly numbers. 40 million this month, 50 million next month. that is not how life happens. the life happens 40 million this month. two million this week, five million next week, three million the week after, seven million the week of a port port slaoui, connell, was optimistic about johnson & johnson vaccine candidate. we might learn the result at the very beginning of next month, connell. connell: blake burman at the north lawn off the white house. overseas on the second day of the uk's vaccine rollout.

officials warning that people with significant history of allergic reactions should not be given the pfizer biontech shot. after two health care workers experienced adverse reaction to it. u.s. officials are seeing first effects of thanksgiving travel. more than 200,000 americans are testing positive for coronavirus every day on average. hospitalizations at record levels. third day in a we we've seen that. covid related debts are higher than we've seen since april. 42 states, recently from alabama, where the governor is extending the safer at home order through january 22nd. baltimore imposing maryland's toughest restrictions closing all dining at restaurants starting on friday. with new capacity limits on other businesses. that is where we are with the daily virus update. brandon daniels joins us, president of global markets. we spoke to you a couple times

about the logistics of this vaccine getting everything rolling. those numbers i cited make it all important of course. listening to what blake was reporting from the white house today, what do you make of that, holding some vaccine in reserve, us up to start off conservatively, is that the right strategy? >> i absolutely do think it is the right strategy. when you have a, and entire logistics operation which is getting set up at the speed and scale that "operation warp speed" and specifically the vaccine delivery component of "operation warp speed" is, the critical thing is measure thrice and cut once. there are individual states today, connell that are doing stress test, right? they are quite literally taking a dummy vaccine candidate. they're moving it from a, an

airport to one of the local approved hubs in dry ice containers and then once it has got gotten to those hubs they're determining the protocals to move from large-scale refrigeration into the vaccine delivery protocols and so there is a huge importance to making sure that you are stress testing the environment, you're getting this first vaccine distribution effort right and that you are building something that is capable of scale. connell: because americans see the headlines to the uk. we had, you know, nice woman yesterday, we had her on the show, 90 years old, first vaccine was given to her, a number of other people were interviewed over there. they got themselves going. today the headline from canada, approved there. up and running by next week.

bahrain approved the pfizer vaccine. we might have our approved for emergency use tomorrow. that fda meeting will be closely watched but should americans look at all this and say, all right, to your point, we're being careful, we're not too far behind, those countries are getting ahead of us, we need to catch up what is your take what you're seeing around the world, not just us? >> well the government, the united states government has been instrumental in the creation of a vaccine and has been instrumental in pre-purchasing or pre-buying at such a scale has al how for rapid research and development, has allowed for rapid production. so you are going to see the united states receiving a large proportion of global vaccine volumes and, what i would say to every american is that the

capability to distribute this vaccine to local pharmacies, to urgent care centers, local care centers, is going to be dependent on a successful distribution to these core hubs that are getting the pfizer vaccine, in a couple of weeks maybe getting the moderna vaccine, right? the first part of staging this large-scale ramp up is getting the vaccine to these national hub facilities and largely hospitals that are going to begin the distribution. then what we can do is we can start to expand out those logistics. we don't want to have a situation that we had at the beginning of the covid-19 response effort where we have logistics providers or companies that are coming in to our

infrastructure that don't have the capability to deliver. so if we start at the, at this first phase of the rollout with a solid delivery we know we can build on top of that success. so i, 100% agree with what general perna had said and then believe in the team that is supporting him and including myself on vaccines supply chain security. connell: that makes a lot of sense when you explain it the way you did puts into context i think for people watching what general perna was talking about. brandon, thank you for joining us. brandon daniels. facebook in the news today because it is forced to fight a legal war. more than 40 attorneys agenda as well as the federal trade commission hitting the company with antitrust lawsuits. among other things if these suits are found to have merit facebook could be forced to spin off instagram and whatsapp.

that would be a big deal. edward lawrence joins us from washington with the details. edward. reporter: this is the unlike button. what is expected to be a series of lawsuits against the tech giant. in october it was google. today 48 attorneys general sued face book for anti-competitive behavior. the federal trade commission filed a separate lawsuit against the company. the lawsuit uses words like illegally acquired competitors in a predator manner. facebook cut services to smaller companies threatening to deprive users from benefits of competition. listen. >> facebook used vast amounts of money to acquire smaller rivals and potential rivals before they could threaten the company's dominance. i will say billions were thrown at smaller companies in an effort to get them to sell. the two most glaring are

examples of this unlawful scheme were instagram and whatsapp. reporter: in the lawsuit by the ftc it specifically says to rebalance the playing field it could require the divestiture of instagram and whatsapp. the new york attorney general says facebook used strong arm tactics to force the sale of startups, to simply crush competition. she also says that if an app encroached on facebook's turf or did not sell the ceo mark zuckerberg he would go into destroy mode. this on top of a lawsuit the company says, the company exploits more data than customers even realize, in some cases without their knowledge. listen. >> while consumers have been spending their time keeping in touch on facebook, facebook has been spending its time surveilling users personal information and profiting, profiting from it no company, no company should have this unchecked power over our

personal information and our social interactions. reporter: facebook just responded to this in a statement saying quote, the most important fact in this case which the commission does not mention in its 53-page complaint, talking about the ftc, is that it cleared these acquisitions years ago. the government now want as do-over, sending a chilling warning to american business that no sale is ever final. people and small businesses don't use choose to use facebook free services and advertising because they have to. they use them because the services deliver the most value. they will vigorously defend their position saying they did not do anything wrong in this case. back to you. connell: all right, edward lawrence in washington live with us on facebook. a softer stance on china. the biden administration potential nominee for u.s. ambassador to china receiving some pushback. what the move could mean on the world stage. plus divided by a town line. one community adding covid restrictions.

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♪. connell: he is facing skepticism. president-elect joe biden standing by his latest cabinet picks making the formal introduction today of his defense secretary nominee, retired general lloyd austin is facing bipartisan concerns over a congressional waiver. mr. biden expected to name ohio congresswoman marcia fudge as housing and urban development secretary. fudge comes with controversial past. she asked leniency for lance mason after nine months in jail and murdered his wife weeks after being released. the center for food safety policy director calling that appointment a huge step backward.

now biden administration considering rising democratic star pete buttigieg for china ambassador. i want to talk about mayor pete and china, hillary in a moment. what is the breaking news on hunter biden this afternoon? what is going on? reporter: connell, we're just learning via a statement president-elect joe biden's son hunter biden saying in a statement he learned yesterday he is under investigation by the u.s. attorney here in delaware. they are investigating his tax affairs. the news just breaking within the last few minutes with a simple statement released from hunter biden himself this afternoon, alerting the press his taxes are under investigation saying this, quote, i take this matter very seriously but i am confident that a professional and objective reviews of these matters will demonstrate i handled my affairs legally, appropriately including with the benefit of professional tax advisors. notably president-elect joe biden is silent.

instead a no-name statement from the biden-harris team backing hunter up. president-elect biden is deeply proud of his son who fought through challenges incruding vicious personal attacks in recent months to emerge stronger. we reached out to the delaware u.s. attorney for more information. at this point earns connell, all we know from hunter biden himself he is under investigation and they're looking into his taxes. why? we don't have that answer yet. connell? connell: obviously we'll follow that, president-elect son's hunter biden under investigation. let me circle back to what i mentioned at the top, mayor pete and china, possible ambassadorship and mayor and former presidential candidate. what can you tell us if anything about that? >> this is coming from a report in "axios" today, former south bend mayor pete buttigieg is on the short list to take over what would be the one of

the most high-profile posts as u.s. ambassador to china. the news, we are getting information that buttigieg wanted to have some type of post in the administration, foreign policy or national security related. so this is seen as a role that he would be open to accepting but it does signal a shift in how a biden-harris administration would have different relationship with china because buttigieg is outspoken against the use of a tit-for-tat tariff war with china and openly criticized president trump's aggressive posture against the country. >> that doesn't mean the answer is to close off or poke other countries in the eye like what they did with china. i'm not a fan of this president's strategy on china. it is not even a strategy but this president's pattern on china is poking in the eye. what happens they poke back. we get tariffs hurt our community. >> should the u.s. for example, boycott the 2022 beijing

olympics? >> i think that any tool ought to be on the table. reporter: and, connell, mayor pete made it clear that tariffs middle east be on the table but he didn't commit back when he was running for president that he would roll back president trump's tariffs. connell? connell: all right, hillary vaughn live in wilmington, delaware. let me bring in bob cusack in on this, the editor-in-chief from "the hill." what if this happens signal to anything to you? there have been some articles written, bob the biden approach to china similar to president trump's approach but would ambassador buttigieg signal it would be a little bit softer, what would you say? >> joe biden has to be careful of this as well as buttigieg if he is the pick. you don't want to look like you're being soft on china. the biden transition team indicated they will not remove the tariffs this president, president trump put on china right away.

wants to evaluate the situation you about there is no doubt, china is a threat to the united states in some ways but also somewhat of an ally and our economies are linked. you have to have a very nuanced approach. i think all the questions, everything that buttigieg said would certainly come up at a senate confirmation hearing. and buttigieg is well-spoken. he knows how to handle reporter questions i'm sure but he will be pressed on some of the things he said on the campaign trail about china. connell: he will be. to me, i don't know if you agree, if this appointment happens would be more about mayor pete than it would be about bide -- biden or china. this guy i'm sure wants to run for president again. >> right. connell: george h.w. bush only former ambassador to china i can think of that ran for president. that would ring up the credentials that would the appointment would be about rather than policy?

>> pete buttigieg will be pressed experience and was a mayor and military background. i will have to confer very closely with joe biden who used to be the chairman of the foreign relations committee. without a doubt, this is something the expertise as has been raised with other cabinet choices is going to be on the table and be questioned by republican senators and some democratic senators as well. connell: right. legitimately so. we'll we're talking about china i do want to at least mention the spy story everybody seems to be talking about the last couple days like something out after novel. "axios" had a report that a chinese spy made inroads on up-and-coming politicians during the obama administration. among those shown on the screen democratic congressman eric swalwell. the woman mentioned was christine fang. left the country five years ago.

helped to place a an intern in his offers. any political ramifications for wall well and others here? >> connell, swalwell ran for president. he has aspirations but he might not get to the white house but like hider office like the senate down the road. this is a significant story. very good story, well-investigated. i do think there are a lot of unanswered questions here. republicans questioning when swalwell should remain on the intelligence committee amid these new revelations. shows you that china is trying to infiltrate our system as russia has. that is not going to stop anytime soon. connell: they play the long game, right, this woman supposedly trying to build relationships and would have taken years and years to build those types of relationships. i don't know what value might have been there, but they're willing to play the long game, right? >> that's right. you have to also raise the question, if they're doing it with a house member, are they

doing it with other members of the house and the senate and other politicians? i'm sure the answer at least is yes. at least they're tying to. connell: at least they're trying to, exactly, it is very fair. bob, thank you, bob cusack. singapore's cruise to nowhere ending early. the royal caribbean ship involved in this was forced to return to port after one passenger tested positive for the coronavirus. they did reanalysis of the results and they came back negative. we're not sure exactly what is going on. authorities say another test will be conducted tomorrow to confirm his status. this cruise was part of a pilot program allowing two cruises to have round-trip journeys to get towerrism up and running again. we'll be right back.

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first day trading publicly. lauren simonetti joins us with more details on this debut. lauren. lauren: it is amazing, connell, but this pop they were looking at it wasn't expected. they actually tried to avoid it. what it does it gives doordash a 70 billion-dollar valuation, four times what it was over the summer. why is this happening? investors are seeking return in a low rate environment and they want a slice of this new digital economy that has been propelled by the pandemic. doordash delivers food to people stuck at home, right? 18 million customers pay fees, 390,000 merchants, mostly restaurants who pay commissions that can be as high as 30%. that is how doordash making its money, except, connell, they are unprofitable and they have been for the past seven years. investors don't seem to care. they're high on the hopeium

which is general delivery and goes beyond food. doordash inking deals with clothing stores, mace civil and bloomingdale's, sames club and pharmacies for prescriptions and pet smart. there is highly valued company, airbnb will price its long-awaited ipo tonight. it is expected to have go above the range you're looking at which has been increased already from 56 to $60 and it is problem hi going to go beyond that. initially stung by the pandemic airbnb has recovered faster than most of its travel peers, but investors are juiced not only bit performance of doordash but artificial intelligence company c3. more than doubling of their ipo price which is 42. they went well over 100 at one point even as the overall market

stumbled. is this froth in the market? is this justified? you make the decision, connell but this ipo market in 2020, on fire. connell: it is crazy stuff, really is. we'll watch airbnb tomorrow. thank you, lauren sum sim. as businesses nationwide struggle to stay afloat with all this in the stock market one investigation is finding a california company collectively received eight times the average ppp loans. here is the thing. they're all partially owned by the same big-time player. we'll talk about that coming up. plus a new record, massachusetts 50 people won the state's lottery jackpot picking the same combination of numbers on the same night. the top prize it usually $100,000. in this case each person brings home 48,000. one time divided. fox news correspondent mark meredith with what we have coming up. reporter: one community, two different sets of rules when it

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♪. connell: divided by coronavirus restrictions, we mean literally divided. this town sits in both tennessee and virginia is stuck. one side is open for business. one side adding restrictions.

fox's mark meredith joins us from state street in bristol on the border of two states. reporter: businesses are facing all sorts of challenges but here in bristol they're dealing with 2:00 sets of rules dealing with pandemic. depends on which side of the street you're on. of the bristol, the birthplace of country music has to follow different rules depending on tennessee side or the virginia side. in the virginia side there are restrictions imposed to capacity. some indoor event spaces had to turn away business. we've seen that happen with the alcohol sales curbed by a certain time. local leaders are used to two cities operate together but the two sets of rules continue to frustrate some people. >> we work together as much as we can but we're allowed to not allowed to do on this side that tennessee is allowed to do and stuff they don't do and we do. reporter: the businesses are not

angry over each other with the different rules. the chamber of commerce says they try to help each other out. they realize they're all in this together when it comes to the restrictions. it is interesting, we're hearing from the governor of virginia who says his commonwealth is facing a problem because the tennessee side has different restrictions. >> health officials believe tennessee's lack of a mask requirement and other restrictions has increased the spread of the virus in neighboring virginia communities reporter: residents tell us that they would like to see virginia and tennessee leaders get together to figure out one common solution. help is really need, connell, we got the latest numbers from the local hospital that serve this is community, 4400 new covid cases last week alone, 25% spike from the last week alone. they will be interested how serious they're taking the restrictions or not. connell: that is interesting

story, mark. not only those two states but the different approaches in many states around the country. mark meredith. we'll go out to california for a moment. a lot of people are talking about that one, speaking of grim numbers, california with 34,500 new covid cases and 219 deaths, the highest single day death toll since july 31st in california. the governor this, gavin newsom, has implementer ad stay at home order for majority of the state. small businesses have come under siege. many are speaking out. a new report meantime shows at least eight businesses tied to newsom received nearly $3 million from the paycheck protection program program. talk about california with john bussey "wall street journal" editor. there is lot of frustration with business owners in california but this news report from a local tv station out there they had one business, they had 14 employees. the average loan to a business for 14 employees is 128 grand. this particular business newsom

owned got seven times that, 900,000. people see that, they see their businesses being closed, there is a lot of frustration, what do you make of what is happening now in california? >> well i think that overall the paycheck protection program was rushed out. i think most people recognize that. over half of a trillion dollars spent on it. the intent was to keep as many people as employed as possible to keep money in people's pockets so they could get through the spring when the pandemic was initially at its worse. it is at its worse again. you had a lot of instances where a lot of money went out and not all the safeguards were placed on it. in the case of newsom, this is a local tv station, broadcaster that is reporting this, newsom saying all my stuff is in a blind trust. i don't know what decisions are being made regarding that. go talk to the managers of the business.

but the sba, the small business administration, the inspector general there said look, you know, this, overall, the overall program, not newsom's in particular, the overall program there was plenty of opportunity the inspector said for fraud and abuse because so much money went out so quickly, safeguards around it and requirements of businesses to file detailed information was really so restricted. the intent was to get money out quickly. therefore lots ever money went out. some of it went to the wrong places. connell: more broadly on newsom and his handling of the pandemic, early on there was praise specially from health experts in california, the way it was handling thing. they closed down early the numbers were not so high compared to other states. the numbers as we said have certainly started to go up. but the restrictions have come back. now there is a point we're at

real pandemic fatigue not only in california but around the country and businesses many are on the verge. many shut down. some won't be able to open again. what the frustration is, that people will tell you that they don't, nobody's really found the right balance. for example, do you need to close down outdoor dining in a state like california, obviously pretty good weather, you want to be out, but they're doing things like that. that is frustrating these business owners who are on the last leg, what do you make of that finding balance of these states in handling the pandemic? >> it is a worst-case scenario for small businesses why so many are going out of business and the paycheck protection program is finding that, that is lent a lot of money out and companies went bankrupt anyways or they just liquidated. in some cases some of the fraud and abuse issue, if some companies form lated themselves after the pandemic began so they could pursue paycheck protection money.

the difference is how states are handling outdoor dining, indoor dining, restrictions, no restrictions, masks, no masks is unfortunately, sort of exemplary how badly-managed the coronavirus response has been from the get-go, connell, not just, mixed messages from the white house, should you wear a mask, don't you have to, sort of macho need not to wear a mask, leading to that many more infections to varying degrees of shutdowns across the country. new york is now changed its metric for how it is going to determine whether there has to be restrictions. that is on the degree of hospitalizations whether or not hospitals are simply getting overwhelmed again, this chaos across the country, national standards, national plan, national program, national arm-twisting of governments to make things more consistent. example of bristol is a perfect example. businesses on one side of the

street can behave one which, businesses on the other not and as a result we have record number of hospitalizations again in this country and, as a result of that, if you get sick, hospital is a very problematic place to go because they are simply so overwhelmed at this point. connell: some of these icus, they are really, really on the verge. some are overrun already. thank you, john bussey from the "wall street journal." we'll check back to you. the cdc guidelines do apply to everyone, even santa. jeff flock knows too well. he have and santa are both coming up from the mall in illinois. ♪. before nexium 24hr,

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♪ connell: we're back with a "fox business alert." house of representatives discuss passed a one week extension ever the federal funding. this should avoid a government shutdown. the senate is expected to vote on later on in the week. this bill gives the government a week. it would fund it through

11:59:59 on december the 18th eastern time. give us a week to try to figure things out. growing concern meantime over pulling u.s. troops out of afghanistan. we continue with a series of reports from there this week. faith in the peace talks has been dwindling. experts, some impacted by the decision think the drawdown may not be the right answer. fox news's benjamin hall is on the ground in kabul. benjamin. reporter: connell, the american drawdown started over here. sources tell me it's a trickle more than an exodus but january 15th deadline to get numbers down to 2500 will be met. general milley, fuse ayes tag, chairman of the joint chiefs, he thought going forward there would be two large bases, number of satellite bases mainly for counterterrorism. as the u.s. draw down is taking place we're seeing up tick by attacks by the taliban last few

months. they are going heavily, against cities and towns leaving thousands of people displaced in their hopes. we spoke to some of the people earlier today. take a look. this man says that children are dying here. they have got no food. they have got no heating. but that is still better than the war and fighting they fled. that fight something worse now than has been in a long time. he asked the americans to stay in afghanistan until they can bring peace. the afghan police and the army have been trained up by the u.s. they do currently dot lion's share of the work. they do all the ground operations. they do 96% of the air operations. nevertheless it is widely thought they could not stand up to the taliban without u.s. support. over here, remember this war has cost the u.s. almost a trillion dollars and 138 billion has been spent on relief and restoration. it is hard standing here in kabul to explain exactly where all that money has gone. connell? connell: i'm sure it is. what about our allies, given all

of this, where do they stand, our nato allies on the drawdown? reporter: yeah, good question because nato for a while has said that they're not in favor of this drawdown. they said we came here together, we should leave together. there still will be 6500 other nato troops here. they will re-evaluate their place here in february. for the moment the conditions are not right. the peace deal hasn't moved forward enough for us to warrant pulling troops out. a little bit of friction there. certainly will be a larger nato presence here even though the u.s. drawdown is taking place. connell? connell: benjamin, thank you. benjamin hall giving us perspective what is happening in afghanistan. remote workers bracing for what could be a tax headache, a major hit to their wallets. let's get to the story from gerri willis. reporter: connell that is another nasty surprise, awaiting for taxpayers who worked from home in a different state from

where their office was located, they could get an unexpected tax bill. 1% -- 71% of americans surveyed they doesn't have any idea their tax bill would be higher because they work remotely. bottom line, taxes are based where they work and not where they live. 17 states will not tax people because of covid-19 working remote live. states are trying to snap up much-needed revenue. first off, check the state tax department's website where you're living and working to figure out if you're on the hook. listen. >> should try to track how long they have been working in the different locations and have a record of that and then they should see their cpa and their tax practitioner, to get advice where they will need to file.

reporter: remember, these guys can audit you. if you thought you would try to hide this information, well it may not work. connell. connell: all right, gerri, important stuff as always. i picture people taking notes during your reports so they can call their accountants after you're done. gerri willis. shooting for the moon again, israel is looking at a second attempt at an umanned lunar landing. it ended when the spacecraft crashed into the lunar surface. this mission is expected to launch in the year 2024. we have a while t would include an or bitter an orbiter would circle the moon oh. their award-winning content is tailored to fit your investing goals and interests. and it learns with you, so as you become smarter, so do its recommendations. so it's like my streaming service. well except now you're binge learning. see how you can become a smarter investor

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