expect after the vaccine really gets distributed into the country and the world we think there is a lot of enthusiasm. [closing bell rings] liz: gotcha. michael clerfelled from clearbridge. airbnb, below the first trade but gain of 112% on the first trade. connell: happening right now, fda panel discussing the emergency use for the pfizer vaccine. they will vote shortly. we will bring all the headlines coming out of this, and the vote for the timeline of the vaccine, when it might be distributed across the country. we're watching that. at the close, stocks if anything near their highs. investors throughout the session juggling the vaccine optimism with an unexpected surge we saw earlier today with jobless claims. that raised concerns about the pace of the recovery which we'll

also talk about. the dow finishes the day now selling off down by 71 points. it is down below 30,000. the s&p 500 meantime also down. fell a few points in the last few minutes of the session, down about five. the nasdaq finishes higher. the nasdaq up half of 1%. that is 67 point gain for the nasdaq composite. i'm connell mcshane, good to be with you. welcome to "after the bell." time for the news happening at this hour our fox business team coverage blake burman on the vaccine beat once again. gerri willis waiting for costco to report earnings. jackie deangelis on day one of airbnb of a public company. hillary vaughn has news on hunter biden from wilmington, delaware. blake, we start you. reporter: we expect a vote coming up in the next couple hours, they will recommend or conversely not recommend that the fda grant emergency use

authorization for pfizer's covid-19 vaccine candidate. this meeting has been going on the better part, what is it, about seven hours. at one point earlier this afternoon we heard from pfizer's representatives. they laid out the case as to why this vaccine should get emergency use approval. listen here. >> as you can see observed efficacy was high regardless of age and consistent with overall results. comparable high efficacy across black, african-american and other racial groups and across hispanic and non-hispanicth necessarity. reporter: if the panel does recommend approval that is not the end all because the fda will still make the final call. here is fda commissioner dr. stephen hahn what would happen if the recommendation is indeed to go forward with the eua? >> our plan is to take their recommendations into account for our decision making and make a

decision shortly thereafter. it depends on the complexity of issues discussed but we intend to act quickly. reporter: connell, let's talk timing for a second. the vote, we believe they're running a little behind. probably in the upcoming couple hours. it is still unclear as you heard from dr. hahn if they vote to recommend when exactly the fda would give its final ruling. whether that is minutes after, the hours after, potentially in the upcoming days after. in any event we heard from officials from "operation warp speed" saying that whenever the fda gives the final green light, they expect doses into the arms of americans at some point about 24 hours or so after this. connell? connell: we'll watch it, blake, thank you. we speak to peter pitts about it. he is former associate commissioner at the fda now at the center for medicine in the public interest. why don't we start with blake on the timing how things like this

works. there is not much precedent given how quickly we already move but once the advisory panel votes, presuming they do in an hour, what does the fda then do with that information? is it minutes, hours, days, how do you think they will process it? >> i predict the unanimous committee will be unanimous vote in favor, thumb's up. what happens then? fda has to make the decision. peter marks who is head of the center that regulates vaccine, the vaccine don at the fda. he says he wants to get this done as quickly as possible. said it could take a week. i think that will be longer. i think folks will work through the weekend. i hope we have an answer as early as monday. connell: that gives us a better idea. of course it could come quicker, you never know. as early as monday would be fast. then people are getting shots here in the united states by tuesday. as blake told us timing, they move it out in 24 hours, right? >> my understanding the vaccines have already been shipped to points of departure.

when it comes to vaccine under refrigeration issues, not just access from a financial perspective, it's points of access. the vaccines have been sent to cities and towns across the country. it is ready for distribution to hospitals so people can get their arms pierced, once they roll up the their sleeves once the fda to make the decision. it is crucial for the fda to make the decision thought fully but expeditiously. not to rush but expedite, not cut corners use talent at the task at hand making a smart decision to move forward with the emergency use authorization, the eua, that the committee will vote on shortly. connell: we're showing live pictures of that meeting takes place. this has been going on for seven hours or thereabouts as some of are having our meetings these days. that is what they're doing right now. you talked about concerns. i don't know if you have any of them. side-effects of fever goes away in 24 hours. we might get aches an pains in

the site of injection which i assume is normal. folks brought up the allergic reactions after what we saw in the united kingdom. pfizer said there was no evidence of that in their trials. any red flags in terms of allergies and how people are reacting to this vaccine? >> what we learned from the uk which rolled the vaccine out earlier this week people who have severe allergies, for example, people that carry epipens with them had some sear ruse side-effects but they recovered quickly. you have to look at the facts behind the headlines. there will be side-effects similar to the you in shot, headaches, muscle aches, fatigue. again they're transient of the risk benefit analysis rather than being inoculated against infection is so huge that there would be no way that any type of side-effects short of death would stop this advisory committee. speaking of death, there were some deaths in the clinical trials but they were actually more in the placebo arm than there were in the vaccine arm. this vaccine, very safe, very

limited side-effects. very high efficacy, important for the fda to make a decision as quickly as possible. connell: speaking of folks who received the placebo that is another thing that has come up, should they be offered the real vacs soon once it becomes available because i think some people brought up the idea that could tarnish the long-term results of the trials? something of an ethical issue i guess. where do you stand on that? >> it is. one of the great things about the hearing today you have your headlines which is, this is a highly effective, very safe vaccine. then you get into the serious geek factor which is how do you make sure people in clinical trials right now in the placebo arm, folks not getting live vaccine have the opportunity to get vaccinated as quickly as possible from informed consent perspective. pfizer said one they want to make sure they protect the data collection. not allow everybody in the placebo arm to get vaccinated.

based on the grouping, primary grouping, secretary grouping so forth, they have the opportunity to move forward to get vaccinated when ever they want. that is large part of conversation. it is more detail. relative to informed consent and being honest but it will not slow down the approval of the vaccine from an emergency use perspective. connell: right. we could see that as you say the recommendation within an hour or two then the actual apositively soon after that. final question, is this start, peter, your view, a new way, new era way we approve vaccines? we moved so fast or hopefully once in a lifetime type pandemic, is this once in a lifetime way moving vaccines as well? >> the bad news this is not one and done with pandemics. we'll have more. we've learned so much. this isn't discuss so much about the science of developing vaccines which has taken huge leaps forward but how to manufacture them them. the messenger rna technology is

spectacular. it is safer. no live or dead vaccine. you can't get the virus from the vaccine as you can from some others. it is cheaper to manufacture. quicker to manufacture. you can scale up globally more quickly. we learned a lot so when this comes around next time, hopefully not in my lifetime we'll be able to deal with it much more quickly and effectively. connell: peter pitts, former associate commissioner at fda. we'll watch the panel in the hour. we'll move on. airbnb reaching for the sky. shares more than doubling in the wall street debut for this company. there it is up 113%. jackie deangelis in the newsroom with the details for us. reporter: good afternoon, connell. that's right. it went public on the nasdaq, ticker abbnb. it opened first trade at 146. closed just under that. you see that. last night it priced at 68. more than twice that right out of the feat.

earlier this year you saw this valuation climb from 30 billion first to 47 billion. where it is trading? roughly $100 billion. couple things to think about and the market is hot right now and investors are looking for diversification new names and looking for this type of stock. airbnb is totally disruptive the hotel industry like uber did for taxes. unlike uber, it showed profitability in 2017 and 2018. it showed a profit in the third quarter. this was pandemic early on. like amazon airbnb capitalized on people's desire for short-term rentals and the business came back and it came back to profitability. ceo brian chesky told our own liz claman how the pandemic made the company better. listen. >> there is a lot of things this crisis revealed. it revealed how adaptive our model is.

revealed how strong our brand is and made us more disciplined and focused. we were on a path of being more focused and disciplined. this pulled years forward and i think we're a better company with the changes we made. reporter: with pent-up demand and people looking to avoid airports and resorts. according to the company one day in july saw the company hit one million bookings half of them within 300 miles from home. i will leave you with this. it was 51.6 million share offering. 16.68 million shares of stock allocated to airbnb employees and others. many people from the ceo, down the chain are feeling this move higher today, guys. connell: they're feeling it indeed. jackie, thank you. it has been interesting couple of days, doordash and airbnb. the latest involving the biden family. hunter biden, the son of the president-elect under investigation by the u.s. attorney's office in delaware for is tax affairs in recent years and hillary vaughn has been digging into this today. she joins us live now from

wilmington. what is the latest, hillary? reporter: connell, we found a pretty thorough paper trail of what this senate report that looked into hunter biden's overseas business dealings called suspicious activity that really led senators to come to two conclusions. the first being that hunter biden had business relationships with chinese nationals linked to the communist government and that those connections turned out millions of dollars in cash flow. the money trail detailed in the report follows hunter biden's business relationship with two chinese businessmen, ya ming and his business associate gongwen dong. his connects to the chinese government the report says are extensive. in 2017 hunter opened a line of credit with gongwen dong under the business name, hudson west iii. that same account had credit cards given to hunter biden, joe biden's brother james and his wife sarah. they used the credit cards to

spend $100,000 on restaurants and apple products. the credit card collateral was ultimately flagged in the report as possible criminal financial activity and then from august 2017 to september 2018 that same business hudson west iii, sent frequent payments to hunter biden's law firm totally over $4.7 million in just one year and over that same time frame hunter biden's law firm sent 20 wire transfers totaling 1.3 million to joe biden's brother james' consulting firm. those transactions in the report as well were flagged for possible criminal financial activity. hunter biden we reported yesterday just found out about the two year investigation two days ago. he says he is confident the investigation will ultimately vindicate him. president-elect joe biden as of now is not a subject of this investigation and he also has emphatically denied any knowledge of hunter biden's

overseas business deals when he was asked multiple times including by myself last fall. connell? connell: all right. hillary, very thorough as always. we know you will follow this closely as you cover the transition. hillary vaughn in wilmington, delaware on hunter biden wow. spend less time in meeting rooms. spend more on the factory floors. that is the message coming from elon musk to you if you happen to run a business. we'll talk to steve moore what musk is calling the nbaization of america and the impact of that. that is coming up next. plus influencing on and off the field. health officials think pro athletes can persuade americans to get a covid vaccine. the question should they be allowed to cut the line? on the hunt for something new. lauren simonetti is diving into one activity that is spiking amid the pandemic. stick around for this. ♪. turn on my tv and boom,

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that is what they earned. expectations were $2.05. revenue, $3.12 billion in sales, compared to 3.42 expectations. the big shocker on this one, e sales up, comp store sales e sales up 86.4%. comp sales up 1%. the stock has been on fire this year. it makes you wonder if the same thing will happen to them that happened to best buy earlier this year where an analyst said we can't expect anything better than 2020. we'll downgrade the stock believe it or not. connell before i send it back to you, two great gift ideas for me from you, costco shares, announced a one-time dividend 10 bucks a share, november 22nd. that is a good deal. second they have a holiday advent calendar very popular. connell: i can see the second one, no doubt about it. you know you're a business

reporter asking for a stock certificate for christmas, gerri. this point about the stock. it has been on fire. down a little it about after-hours. gerri willis. a little bit of trouble in the job market today if you saw the numbers. we had more people filing for unemployment. 853,000 filing for first time unemployment claims, the largest since september as the virus surging across the u.s. we've seen restrictions and jobs cut. steve moore, freedomworks economist. we've been talking about what we should do, more stimulus, more restrictions on the economy. the reality more restrictions are going in place. more people are losing their jobs, right? >> connell, i'm surprised people were surprisessed about this number. it was not unexpected to me. we've seen, you've been reporting big lockdowns in states like new york and like

chicago, illinois, on obviously what is happening in california with its 40 million people and so many restaurants and retail stores shut down. so this is not a weakness of the economy as much as it is political decisions to a lockdown these stores. that leads to people losing their jobs tragically. so, now by the way, connell, there were a couple of good news items on the economy that people should be aware of. the labor department also reported that there are 6.7 million unfilled jobs. that is the at end of october. think about that, 6.7 million. that is almost an all time record in terms of unfilled jobs. that means either people are staying on the sidelines, connell, or they just don't have the skills to fill those jobs that are necessary. the other one you saw the report of a massive increase in wealth of the net worth of the american economy hit something like

$125 trillion in the middle of a pandemic. that's good news t means that the worth and the wealth of the united states economy continues to expand even as we fight this terrible virus. connell: yeah, you can tell the economy, i mean there is some disagreement about what we should do about it now, what type of action we should take we talked so many times but you can tell the economy will take off once we get through all of this. i want to talk to you about job qualifications if i can. elon musk makes interesting comments, he went after people who have mbas, tesla and space ex, called for business school leaders to spend less time in the boardrooms, more time on the factory floor. let's take a listen. >> i think there might be too many mbas running companies. the mbaization of america which i think is maybe not that great. spend less time in meeting rooms. spend less time on

presentations. less time in a spreadsheet. more time on a factory floor. connell: kind of interesting. the mba-ization of america. i didn't see any comments on those with a master degree in economics but what are your thoughts on this. >> i'm in agreement with him. by the way this is not a new argument, connell. i've been in this business for 30 years, these arguments have been made a lot of thee degrees americans are getting especially higher degrees are not necessarily worth a lot. now if going to get those basic skills in accounting and finance obviously yes, those have value but they don't teach you to innovate. they don't teach you how to satisfy customers and give, give the customers the kinds of products they want and those are the kinds of things you learn with street smarts. if that's the point that elon musk is making i'm in 100% agreement. a lot of time "street smarts" are more valuable than what you

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joe biden said they never talked about his business. hunter biden said they did. on two 14 hour flights to china, you never really talked to his son, what are you doing in china, son? to borrow from one much joe biden's favorite phrases, come on man. reporter: it talks about a relationship that representative eric swalwell had, other members of the house intelligence committee said they had no idea there was a possible connection to a chinese spy until today. house speaker says she is not concerned, listen. >> in the spring of 2015 the leadership of the house and the committee were informed that overtures from a chinese person was, were being made to members of congress. when that was made known to the members of congress it was over. that was the end of any communication with those people.

>> china is not our friend. let's just be clear. they are not our friend right now. reporter: we'll have to see if a new administration welcomes the investigations and keeps the hard-line on china. connell? connell: continue to follow the money on all of this. edward, thank you, edward lawrence in washington. who is on first? the debate who should get priority for the covid-19 vaccine is now turning to the world of professional sports. we'll have that for you plus this dog will hunt. how the pandemic has given hunting a past. we're on the ground. a warning from peppridge farm parent company, campbell's soup, there could be a shortage of holiday cooking this season. due to pandemic labor issues, people spending more time at home and the company doesn't outsource cookie manufacturing. a cookie shortage. wow of all the news we have had to report. we'll be right back

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fatalities. so that is where we kind of stand. we still have a lot of questions in terms of the vaccine trial data. there are questions about side effects. welcome in a emergency room physician, been with us before, global outreach doctors directive. the other thing that has come up looking at some of the notes on the discussion is the the a allergic reactions in the uk. that if they were part of the trial. pfizer says they did not counter any reactions during the trial. there have been a few in the uk. any concerns that you would tell people if they had concerns about this vaccine? >> right now it is very important for the public to know there were these reactions that happened but we still don't know that many details what actually happened to these individual, what were their symptoms but we do know they're recovering just fine. so you know making a blanket

statement that people should avoid getting the vaccine if they have allergies is really dangerous and very detrimental. we have no severe a allergic reactions in the pfizer trials that were done as far as i'm aware of and i don't think that is anything we need to really be overly cautious about. we need to look at date, what is going on with them. remember anaphylactic reaction is the allergic reaction we worry about, happens very quickly after the vaccine is administered. typically within several hours and we can treat that. we treat it all the time in the hospital. this is just another reminder that we have to be very cautious when we give these vaccines. they should be in health care settings. take precautions that we're well aware of now. connell: fair enough. that doesn't sound like it should slow things down. it has come up, been discussed. the point of having a meeting like this. the other thing they talked about is race a little bit

because, you know there have been polling that shows that in minority communities there is a lot of doubt compared to other communities about whether people will be comfortable taking the vaccine and what has come up today, some doctors asked about whether they need more racially diverse studies. what would you say about that issue if anything? >> right. this is very true. in certain minority communities there is a little bit of hesitance for medication treatment, even making appointments with physicians and that is for a reason. there has been large health care disparities in this country historically. those minority populations as is are a little bit fearful and rightfully so. but in this case these are the populations most vulnerable to covid right now. they are remarkably doing really well with the vaccine. black and hispanic patients did remarkably well as patients 75 and over. those are the target populations

this remarks remarkably well in them more than the white population based on the study data. we really want to assure them it is safe and is going to protect their community. we have to do a better job informing them, reassuring them this is safe and it is a really great idea and it will protect them and save their loved ones right now. connell: let me ask you that as a last point. i'm asking questions as they come up today, sounds overly negative. what happens at the panel meetings, they bring up concerns and questions. overall sounds like your level of confidence is pretty high, is that fair in terms of approval and safety? >> yes. my level of confidence is high. they have had over 25 meetings so far of the world's type scientists going over this data. this is not just like they sat down today went over it and voted on it. they have been meeting and going over it. if this is approved, i anticipate it will, i have full confidence in the safety of

this. our united states fda has the highest bar to meet and so if we meet it in america, that is a really great sign and i don't think they will cut corners with this. they are being very stringent. this has been a very thorough, detailed process. so i have faith in this. we've already had you know, rollouts kind of starting in texas. we have about over 200,000 vaccines that are anticipated to roll out to 109 hospitals on the ground here in texas that are anticipated to come out next week presuming we get emergency authorization. so things are rolling. we're anticipating this will start and we're hopeful moderna will follow soon after that about a week later. again things are still rolling. we'll see how things go today after the meeting. connell: right. as we said earlier this is an advisory panel. they advise the fda essentially. then the fda itself would approve. we maybe get a few days to your point vaccines rolling out if we

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safety and to encourage hesitant americans to vaccinate with us as well. we have with us a supports reporter at "the wall street journal." saw a piece written about this. louise, is this gaining steam? people making this argument or they could make a commercial as ohio posed to people cutting in line? >> people are worried about the perception of line cutting. people on the league side are worried about that and people worried about the who are devising campaigns that is not the message they want sent. in the course of lining up the general public for that phase of the vaccination, letting see athletes in that cohort might serve as credibility they need as influencers. they will test to see who might be an effective messenger here but sell shoes but don't sell the vaccine well. that is a idea under consideration. as well as host of other

influencers. other former presidents will be filmed doing it. and other athletes may be important mentioner for some communities or many communities. connell: i was talking to dr. kathuria who was our guest a few minutes ago, about the aspect of race convinces people to take the vaccine. the numbers do show, pew research showed 32% of black people might get vaccinated. that is a low number. is that a part of thinking like professional athletes, like lebron james, so well-known could get numbers higher? we need to get the numbers higher is what all the health experts tell us? >> that is part of it. health experts are paying a lot of attention what it would take to send the right message to the right communities as the previous guest noted. you have historically-based reasons for skepticism about this. connell: any athletes have shown interest in doing this?

>> none yet but what we have of course seen this year athletes play a much more public role in a number of social and political campaigns and i think we would potentially see this being in line with that activism or potentially being something frankly perceived beneficial to everybody, getting the vaccine sooner, means getting back to play under more lenient conditions as feasible as something told us, it might be perceived as win-win for all sides. connell: i don't know about the cutting the line part but certainly if they can help, as dr. fauci told us you have to get to5 to 80%. anybody that would help would be welcomed. thank you, louise rafnosky from "the wall street journal" as we wait for testing how about testing in your home? gnc is testing fda approved saliva kits for that purpose. they say they are 99% accurate.

we have gnc's chief brand officer. is that right? 99%? that is a huge number, right? >> kind of new to the market. we're excited to get it out there for the consumers around the public. connell: okay. so i'm sure the testing still would have to be done to confirm, that fair whether or not how accurate it is? what about implementing it and how easy it is for someone to administer something like this as opposed a lot of people are forced to do, get in a testing wait in a long line at a urgent care facility, something like that. >>? this is fairly easy. go online to gnc.com. you place the order. it gets shipped to your house in 48 hours. it is saliva based. it is not long swab. spit in a tube. the bock comes in your ownershipper. you put it back in a sealed pouch. the testing usually happens, you get it back to within 48,2 hours. pretty good turnaround time.

does not replace immediacy going to a local health care provider to get tested but it is another option if you don't want to wait those five hours. connell: if you have to pay out-of-pocket i guess some people might not have to, 129 bucks is that correct? $129 which is fairly expensive. i don't know how that compares to any other products that are on the market. what do you think the demand will be like? >> that's the on par for these solutions that are slowly coming out by a lot more retailers as well as us. mainly because you have to deal with the shipping two-day back and forth. also the testing that has to happen to make sure we get the accuracy. and so at the end of the day it is about that ease and convenience we're trying to achieve by providing this to the consumer. connell: all right. what about your business as you tie to work your way through? we have small businesses on all the time, medium businesses, sometimes larger businesses everybody had their struggles.

gnc not immune. stores closed, working your way through the bankruptcy process. how is this going, trying to help out at the same time and what about business and a quick outlook? >> we're excited about our business. we, at the end of the day we provide high quality products, vitamin-c, vitamin-d, a lot of products to help the immune defense system. our retail stores have been going really well during the pandemic. our franchisees have been amazing. they really have been hello be the community. we're trying to put a high quality product out there and put out new solutions for consumers like the covid test. connell: right. that is on peoples minds, i guess from a business point of view they come in and buy something else as well. maybe that is not the purpose of it, might be one of effects. ryan, thank you. $129 if you want to pay out-of-pocket take a test at home, offering them at gnc, another option. at least one sport has been helped by the pandemic and

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to syour body needs routine. system, centrum helps your immune defenses every day, with vitamin c, d and zinc. season, after season. ace your immune support, with centrum. ♪ connell: oh, dear. we've looked at it, and there has been a nationwide surge in hunting since the start of the pandemic as many are finding the sport and, i guess, the great outdoors in general is a great place of refuge. so with that, we sent lauren simonetti to butch chess, county -- duchess county, new york. >> reporter: hey, connell. i in this amazing 360-degree view of the grounds and the prey. i've got to tell you, there's a lot more to see this year. the number of licenses, tags,

permits and stamps sold nationally? 3 million more than next year. >> it's not annoying at all, honestly, it's good to see more people get back into it because there for a while hunting was fading. but now to get the younger people back into it is really good because it's a necessary thing to cull the herd and everything else around here. >> reporter: the increase in hunters coincides with the record increase in gun sales and a shortage of ammunition. these shotgun slugs doubling in price for last year. but while some hunters shoot for sport, others for food. in fact, the meat from two deer can often feed a family for a year. >> so we always make sure we use everything we possibly can. we'll get the meat processed, and that's what sustains our family for the year. we're not buying beef from the store. >> reporter: unless they want with chicken. connell? [laughter] lauren, thank you. lauren simonetti on the hunting bead. while we have a minute here,

that investor meeting that we were talking about, we're seeing a nice pop, 2%, in after-hours trading for the stock, up by $3. now, disney reported 86.8 million subscribers, disney plus, worldwide as of the 2nd of december. of it's up 13 million sub skypeers just -- subscribers just since october. obvious reasons, more people at home and all the rest. and they've been adding to disney plus. disney plans to add something new every week and will offer roughly ten marvel series and ten "star wars" series over the next few years. so that could add to your subscriber numbers, and it certainly helped to offset the losses that disney has had in other parts of the company hut so hard by the pandemic, the theme park business, and the new ceo's been talking about that today at the investor meeting. but there's a lot of optimism for the disney plus. and, you know, he's talked about

that. you have ten marvel series, ten "star wars" series, and you have nearly 87 million sub subscribers which is quite a number. all right, that's the news "after the bell." thanks for watching, i'm connell mcshane in new york. see you back here at the same time tomorrow. ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. we have a blockbuster of a story and a show for you tonight. we will be joined in just a few moments by attorney sidney powell who this evening appears to have delivered on her promise, crakk e n thunder bolt that she promised two weeks ago. she calls what happened on november 3rd now a 2020 cyber pearl harbor. sidney powell joins us in just moments. but first, we want to touch on a number of new developments today. the federal investigation or joe biden's