with virdo's capital advisors. she is the director there. [closing bell rings] we're closing close to the session lows for the dow jones industrials. i believe we're hitting that floor, down 182 points now we have 300,000 deaths from covid in the u.s. connell: happening right now we have a bipartisan press conference that we're watching very closely, it is about to get started on covid relief. we'll keep an eye on that as stocks end mixed right at the lows on stimulus uncertainty in part even as the coronavirus vaccine has started to roll out across the country today. in fact a nurse in queens, new york became the very first person in all of america to receive that vaccine. just a great moment to watch earlier today but as it turns out that great moment happened on the very same day the u.s. surpassed 300,000 deaths from covid-19. now if you look at the markets at the close, the dow, s&p are

both lower on the day. the dow down 186 points, the s&p 16. the nasdaq finishes higher today, up by 62 points which is one-half of 1%. airline and hotel stocks all ending the day down, reversing gains from early in the day. that kind of mirrored the market dragging major averages off the highs along with them, hotels by marriott down 1 1/2%. we'll talk about all. i'm connell mcshane. welcome to "after the bell." time for the news that is happening at this hour. ♪. fox business team coverage today, gerri willis in new york reporting on our new way of working, edward lawrence is lynch outside of tampa hospital, one of the first five hospitals to receive a, have seen, grady trimble in the chicago on the big box companies and their role in vaccine distribution, blake burman live at the white house with the latest on stimulus. so we'll get to everybody throughout the hour but edward in tampa, florida, we start with you. what's the latest from there? reporter: connell things are

moving quickly. we saw the first person in florida vaccinated inside of tampa general hospital today. they're doing one after another after another of those front line workers in order to get all the vaccinations done that they can. they have 19,500 doses of vaccine here at tampa general. that is more than they need. >> but once a couple of days we vaccinated our own people we will be helping our hospital partners such as baycare, advent health, hca, moffitt, helping to start to vaccinate their people as well. reporter: now that the floodgates are open on the vaccine the vaccine will keep coming. another shipment expected tomorrow. this is the shipment here. you're looking at video of tampa arriving at the dock. you can see the pfizer vaccine arrived to tampa, went straight to the hospital in cold storage containers this process is

repeated in pennsylvania and new york. the first front line workers in the nation vaccinated in new york city. even new york city mayor bill de blasio enforces the lockdowns took time to tout the success. >> the vaccine will be given out from this day forward, from this day forward, the vaccine will be distributed and we will turn the tide on the coronavirus. this is a day to celebrate. reporter: the u.s. attorney general, the u.s. surgeon general says we need to reach herd immunity in order to eradicate the coronavirus from the united states. that is 70% of americans being vaccinated. he said this morning if we don't reach that 70% vaccination the pandemic will not end in 2021. back to you, connell. connell: edward, thank you. edward lawrence in tampa, florida. getting your covid vaccine eventually could be as easy as going to your nearest walmart or cvs pharmacy, walgreens.

grady trimble in chicago showing us how some big box stores are ready to be at the vaccine center of distribution. grady. reporter: connell, many americans already go to stores like walmart for their flu shot. as you said the goal eventually getting your covid-19 vaccine will be as easy going to walmart. the largest big box store in the country along with cvs and walgreen's will be among the first in the country to receive this vaccine. it enroute to them as we speak t will first be administered to health care workers and the elderly. in fact all of these chains have partnered with tens of thousands of long-term nursing homes across the country. they already had partnerships with them. they have used those relationships to come up with a plan to administer the vaccine starting seven days from now on december 21st. eventually the goal is anyone who wants a vaccine will be able to walk into a walmart, cvs or

walgreens location anywhere in the country and get it. the timeline for that though is not as clear. some point in 2021 is what they're saying right now but cvs and walgreens are preparing for that day, hiring tens of thousands of workers to make it happen. cvs points out this is not exactly new to them. they tell us in a statement, our experience providing vaccinations in a retail setting will be key. this year we'll administer 20 million immunizations including flu shots and will apply learning from our massive covid-19 testing operation but there are also unique challenges that come with this specifically vaccine, most notably as edward mentioned the cold storage. so all of these retailers right now preparing freezers and dry ice so when the vaccine eventually does make it to them and does get to the point where we have enough to administer them to anybody who wants them they say they will be ready. cvs saying they will be able to

do 20 to 25 million shots each month, connell. connell: wow. that would make it easy for us once it gets to that point. grady, thank you. here now with us is dr. jenette nesheiwat. specializes in family and emergency medicine and the challenge though, is dr. jenette is getting people to show up in walmart, to show up at cvs the polls showed us maybe six out of 10 are in getting the vaccine but was said a few moments ago, we need three out of four, 75% or so. how do we get there, how do we get to people who still may be reluctant? >> we definitely have room for improvement though six out of 10 is pretty good. we need to address vaccine hesitancy. what i do to my patients, connell, i listen to them, understand and respect their concerns and address what their fears an concerns may be. i take the opportunity to educate them to give the data we

have, inform them of risks and benefits. i have told them, studies trials, shown to be 95% effective. thousands of americans already had the vaccine, everyone is doing well. there is no significant serious life-threatening complications. we talk about the risks and benefits if they are in a high-risk category, heart disease, lung disease or cancer or immunocompromised. the risks and benefits of the vaccine, there has been really almost 100% safety measures found when you take this vaccine against being hospitalized, put on a ventilator and severe serious throughout threatening complications. we see great findings with moderna and not just pfizer. it is an opportunity toe educate. we need to make sure we have good awareness campaigns in the community. we need to get out there to engage with the community. answer questions that they have. i also think it is great what we're seeing right now, being a role model, being a leader, setting an example for those in the community, meaning doctors and nurses, health care workers going out getting their shot to

show it has been proven to be safe, it is effective, it has gone through multiple layers of advisory committee approvals, through such rigorous trials and studies and when you see doctors and our families, health care workers, we are wholeheartedly accepting this vaccine because we know first-hand that it will save lives and it can save your life too potentially. connell: now if people have already had the coronavirus, one of the questions that has come up, i believe the answer is yes to this, you can explain it maybe further, you should still get the vaccine right? >> we know that this vaccine due to the studies and trials we've done so far can protect you, prevent you from having severe serious life-threatening complications. that doesn't mean you can't transmit the virus to another person. on top of that it will take some time to immunize to vaccinate the entire nation. it will take several months at least to get everyone vaccinated. even though they have 95%

efficacy it is not 100%. that is why we still recommend to wear your mask, to practice physical distancing, to avoid confined spaces, crowds, congregation. try your best to avoid unnecessary travel. if you, if you have already had coronavirus you may have antibodies but you should still get the vaccine because those antibodies we don't know how long they will last. we don't know how long it will protect you. we are pretty sure you will have some protection but how long it is still unclear. maybe four months, six months. the longest patient i have had was eight months. connell: right. lasted sometimes, it fades away in shorter period of time. >> right. connell: last point you said people should still wear the masks even after they're vaccinated? this is by the way, a two-shot vaccine in the pfizer case. moderna as well. you need to get a second booster. how long, how long does it take, do you know until you're

complete hi in the clear so to speak? >> yes. it its recommended to still continue to wear your mask until we can get most of americans to be vaccinated, to get herd immunity. once you get the first shot, that is considered the prime shot, the primer. then you wait with the pfizer vaccine you wait 21 days, you get the booster shot. the studies found seven day is after the booster you will likely achieve that 95% protection which is phenomenal because we hit a grim milestone today of 300,000 deaths. we have over 7500 people right now in our country who are on ventilators, connell, and many may not make it. they say 80% won't come oven vens. it is so important to continue to practice the social distancing, wash your hands, wear your mask, especially during the holidays. connell: 300,000 is amazing to see that number, try to let it sink in even as the great news happening on the very same day. dr. jenette, always good to see

you. >> good to see you too. connell: to capitol hill that briefing we mentioned at the top is getting underway, bipartisan group of senators. they're sharing the text of their efforts on stimulus right now. blake burman is following all of this. he joins us live with the very latest whether they finally get something done? reporter: it is certainly part of the equation, connell. there are lots of requests and demands coming from all different corners of washington here but what is absent at this very moment is a deal. we know house speaker nancy pelosi was scheduled to talk today with treasury secretary steve mnuchin just like they have for several months. on the senate floor within the past hour we also heard from the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. he named ppp, small business loans, vaccine monies and unemployment benefits as priorities. he described this right now as a make-or-break moment. >> it is up to us. it is up to us. we decide this is entirely within our control.

i can speak for the republicans side, we want to make a law. reporter: want to take you back to a live look on capitol hill. susan collins, republican from maine. for example, dick durbin, joe manchin, they are democrats. this is bipartisan group of lawmakers in washington putting forth a 908 billion-dollar proposal. 3/4 of that they agree on, at least many in washington agree on but the other portion of it is sort of what is still to be negotiated. things like money for state and local governments and liability protections. we heard the top democrat in the senate chuck schumer talk about this group's text which is about to be released earlier today as well. >> the bipartisan group of senators who have been diligently working towards an agreement will announce the results of their work, a package of over 900 billion that includes an agreement on assistance to state and local government. notably there is no agreement on

corporate immunity. reporter: notably absent as well, connell, talks from leadership about direct payments. senator bernie sanders teaming up with republican josh hawley to push for those payments. sanders said in a statement, quote, congress cannot go home for the christmas holidays until we pass legislation that provide $1200 direct payment to working class adults, 2400 to couples and $500 to their children. this did what democrats and republicans did unanimously in march through the cares act. connell, lots of voices, lots of ideas, lots of wish-lists. there is a lot to get to, there is obviously a lot of hurt across this country right now, still here in washington, no deal. connell. connell: a lot of talk. we'll see, maybe talk much maybe, passing what they agree on to your earlier point, leaving other stuff for a later date. we'll see. blake burman with us. new york city, meantime the two-week indoor dining ban is in effect as of today and now the

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impacts is actually way out across parts of the west still. just yesterday coming onshore. that is the next 36 hours traverse parts of the u.s. right in the short term we have this one storm that impacted the northeast today. this storm really not a major issue. no significant snow from it. maybe four to five inches across interior mountain areas but what you notice much cooler air came behind this storm that cold air is in place and the next storm that comes will talk about a significant winter storm. mostly snow for everyone. this is how i plays out. two of our most reliable models, yellow blob or blue lines, they're in different spots. disagreement who gets most of this storm, most of the storm out of this, snow out of this storm i should say. where the snow lines up a little bit too early to tell. we have winter storm watches everywhere in effect where you

see the blue. we're talking about a southern new england event. not northern new england. some interior spots of pennsylvania. by the sometime we get in towards wednesday i think we'll be seeing the first wednesday afternoon, the first of the snow built in, d.c., philadelphia, towards new york. wednesday night into thursday morning that is the bulk of it. some spots definitely a foot. in the city i think a chance of six to 12 in new york city across down to philadelphia across the interior sections where we get into the one foot, 1 1/2 foot range. we'll track it, continue to do it right here. connell. connell: good luck with outdoor dining with a foot of snow what the businesses are dealing with later in the week. rick reichmuth there that weather forecast certainly adds to the challenges for new york city restaurants. indoor dining already banned as of today, then earlier today mayor bill de blasio warned things could get even worse saying all forms of restrictions

are on the table. take a listen. >> all forms of restrictions have to be on the table at this point. the governor's quote in the "times" i think said it exactly right, at the current rate we're going you have to be ready now for a full shutdown a pause like we had back at the end of the spring. connell: joining us once again to discuss the impact of restrictions on restaurants in luca pietro. own as number of locations in new york. luke car, good to see you again but every time we have you on, something else is added to your plate. how are you getting by here that you have to ban the indoor dining, that's the first thing? >> well, this morning i decided to close one of my restaurants. i had already closed one that never reopened. i closed another one this morning. i furloughed about 20 people. i decreased the shifts to many other people in my three

remaining restaurants. so things are awful and i can't get any worse or it might get worse because we're expecting six to 12 inches of know. at that point we've been told by -- yeah. connell: i want to put up on the screen for a he can, just so people understand, luca has five restaurants he owns. he already closed one. now another. two out of the five that closed f it snows they have the snow alert you can't sit in the structure. you have to take the electric heaters and remove them. remove all overhead coverings you may have built. if we get a foot, rick said, we might, it possible, you have to remove structures on the street to plow the snow. i don't know that would take a long time, probably close you down for a few days, not exactly comfortable sitting outside to begin with? >> absolutely. keep in mind we spent tens of

thousands of dollars to create structures outdoors, with electric gas heaters. it is just impossible to even understand how terrible this is, not just for my restaurants but all of new york city restaurants. connell: they're playing around with the stimulus in washington. we just had a report on that. maybe at some point they pass it. maybe at some point there is more ppp money or something like that but if they are going to force you to close down they have to give you something on the other end. what could you use right now? what do you need most in the short term? >> we need the restaurant act to be passed in congress. we need it to be passed before recess. this will allow us to survive to pay rent, to pay utilities, to pay our vendors, not just us, it is up and down the chain where people are struggling. our vendors, even our landlords are struggling because they are giving concessions by the concessions are ending soon and

they are struggling financially also. i happen to be good friend with, with most of my landlords. they're telling me. i want to help you. i want you to be viable but we're also struggling mentally. connell: right. only so much they can do. only so much they can stretch on their end i suppose. how long can you survive you? mentioned you didn't know how long at beginning, how long you keep this going. you closed down two out of five. how close to the brink are you in terms of overall business at this point? >> i'm sorry to say, if nothing happens i will have to close all my restaurants at the end of the year. hopefully, hopefully reopen two or three if the conditions are, you know, are okay for me because you know, but without stimulus, we're running out of cash. we're burning through cash day in, day out. since the end of the nicer weather, end of october we've been operating at a loss every

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♪. connell: we are back now with a look at the history between the bidens and the banks. a look back at the connections between hunter biden and president-elect joe biden's decisions when he was in the senate. hillary vaughn with new reporting on that. she is in wilmington, delaware, today. hillary? reporter: connell, before there were concerns about conflicts of interest about hunter biden's role at burisma there were those same questions about a potential conflict of interest about hunter biden's role at a credit card company when his dad was then senator joe biden, when the senate was taking up bankruptcy reform. the credit company in question, mbna, was paying biden's son hunter as a consultant in early 2000s when his dad cast a string ever controversial votes while the senate worked on bankruptcy reform n a rare move biden disagreed with some of his closest democratic colleagues in the senate and sided with credit card companies over legislation that would have made it harder for consumers to escape credit

card debt. >> gosh i hate being the opposite side of senator boxer this is with all due respect much ado about nothing. >> this is painful, to have a debate with your best, your brother, but the question of whose full of malarkey is a debatable one. reporter: newspaper editorials at the time biden was not a senator representing delaware but the senator representing creditor mbna. biden tried to distance himself from the nickname, defended his vote telling "the washington post" in 1999, i'm not the senator from mbna. i'm also not the senator from 1979 either. this year biden denied his involvement in bankruptcy reform during his time in the senate when he was challenged at a debate earlier this year. >> no, it is not over. we keep going. we'll continue to go forward. we have numerous local cases, some of the states that got

rigged and robbed from us. so it was a rigged election t was a, really a sham and a shame. i worry about the country having an illegitimate president. that is what i worry about. a president that lost. reporter: that was the wrong sound bite. what you were supposed to hear was bernie sanders challenging biden over essentially writing the bankruptcy reform bill. biden denied it on stage that he didn't but he did, he did play a roll and bragged about the roll he played in his senate floor speech in 2001, the work he did in the bankruptcy reform bill that ended up passing the senate. but, connell, it is not just his son who had a business history with this credit company. biden himself did as well. he sold his house to an executive at mbna and the reason why that is relevant and sparked questions at the time because he sold it for $1.2 million, six times more than what he bought it for just 20 years before that.

connell? connell: good reporting on all of this, hillary. previewing for our viewers there, brian kilmeade's interview with the president. different subject before i let you go. the early in-person voting begins in georgia today in the senate runoffs and i know biden -- stop this for a second. we'll talk to hillary about the early in person voting. biden is going there tomorrow, right, to georgia? reporter: yeah, that's right. he will be campaigning on behalf of jon ossoff and rafael warnock. that will be his first official campaign event since essentially being certified by the electoral college today. connell? connell: all right. hillary, thank you. we'll watch that tomorrow. watching everything you're reporting on today. hillary vaughn in wilmington, delaware. good stuff, hillary. some very first doses of the covid vaccine are being distributed across the country. we'll get to this coming up. pandemic is still raging, hospitalizations hitting record

highs. the 8th day in a row we've seen that the death toll topped 300,000 in this country from covid, prompting one state out with new restrictions here in the last few minutes. we'll have that. a number of growing silicon valley companies are contemplating a pandemic move after a series of high-profile departures. early on in the hour we'll look what it means for the region's status. we'll be back with much more to come. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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♪. connell: new challenges facing small businesses. more covid-19 restrictions are going into place today. as a matter of fact moments ago it was boston that rolled back its reopening. the numbers have been climbing in boston. add that to the list, district of columbia, maryland, delaware, virginia, all putting new restrictions and bringing back old ones. it is happening while congress continues to run the clock debating the next coronavirus aid package before there is possibly a government shut down. putting that together for us, dan henninger from "the wall street journal," fox contributor as well. these business, why don't we start there because they're trying to get by. we had a new york city restaurant owner on this hour, he is a good guy, he has been on a number of times, luca depietro, i had five restaurants, i closed one, closing a second. if i don't get stimulus before

the end of the year i will close down the all five. where do we go from here? >> for people like luca depietro the only place to go is down and out of business unfortunately. something fundamentally happening in new york city and states like and cities like boston where they're shutting down these restaurants. restaurateurs as all of us who know live around restaurants in these cities, these restaurateurs have moved heaven and earth to try to survive to keep their employees working as well. they have closed their restaurants by and large they have put up extraordinary outdoor spaces to try to keep serving people on the curbs of streets and now as the virus rises, they, almost singular, almost alone are being told they have to shut down. it is especially curious in new york state where the data shows the spread of the virus attributable to the restaurants

is 1.4% where as that attribute able to household gathers is 74%. in other words, connell, i don't think there is strong scientific basis at all for entirely closing down the insides of these restaurants. 100% capacity is one thing. most of them have tried to make some money at 25% capacity but places like new york, boston, michigan, are now shutting down indoor capacity to zero which is simply going to put many of these restaurants out of work and many minority workers who are employed by these restaurants. connell: those numbers you brought up, if you didn't bring them up i was going to in a moment are really ones frustrating the restaurant owners the most. they say that is what the data shows. i guess it is possible because that comes from contact tracing numbers are coming higher than that because people are not cooperating with contract

tracers, almost all local leaders in states and cities are trying to do something because there is not something they can do about the real issue on transmission, people choosing to get together in their own homes. you can't really police that. >> yeah but that is us why a breakdown of political responsibility. i do understand that they can't police people in their own homes. so i think the messaging and the moral as situation about household gatherings could be a lot stronger and more effective than it has been but how did we get to the point where the default for political leaders, mayors, governors, simply hammer restaurant owners who have probably done more to try to comply with keeping virus transmission down than almost any businesses? i mean they put new air systems inside of their restaurants. they have done the social distancing. they have had their employees tested. they put tens of thousands of dollars into these outdoor restaurant places yet they are the ones who are being asked to

shut down. it is really an outrage. connell: you might have more credibility i think also, could you have more credibility if you're a local leader trying to get somebody to wear their mask or not gather in local, you know in their homes if you were to not put these restrictions in place that are not backed up by data. it would be easier to make that argument. one final question on stimulus, damage, we talked about some times, maybe they split up the 900 billion-dollar bill, how do you think this end up before the end of the year? >> all is on speaker pelosi. she has been getting in the way of a deal done mainly because she is insisting on bailout money for state and localities. they are beginning to have difficult time, big cities, states, new york, chicago, new jersey, paying retirement benefits of their public workers which they're under contract to pay, contractual obligation, as

mitch mcconnell split the liability protections, state and local aid democrats want, pull that out of the bill. allow them to pass 700 plus billion dollars, to small business people at risk right now, then return to the larger issues in the congress next year. connell: they really need it. dan, thank you. always good to see you, dan henninger from "the wall street journal" quick break and we'll be right back smooth driving pays off you never been in better hands allstate click or call for a quote today allstate we try to soothe it with this. cool it with this. and relieve it with this. but new preparation h soothing relief is the 21st century way to do all three. everyday. preparation h. get comfortable with it.

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connell: let's talk about the silicon valley exodus for a moment. it's a topic we've been hitting on here a lot. a number of tech companies moving their headquarters out of california, relocating to low-tech states. texas an example of that. we were talking about it with steve forbes on friday and that conversation happened just after oracle had announced it was settling down in austin, texas. >> what made silicon valley unique combining entrepreneurs and the academic area, great scholars and the like, phds, they can recreate that in austin, texas. that has been growing. other regions of the country are growing as well there is no monopoly on brains and opportunity. if you create a bad opportunity environment, guess what, they

will relocate. connell: with us adam lashinsky. adam a fox business contributor. write as column for business insider. more important for that is a west coast guy. pick up on what steve is talking about there, whether you think this is the start of a big trend your neck of the woods needs to be worried about or a bunch of one-offs. >> it is unmistakennably a trend. there are a lot of reasons companies want to leave california. not just the west coast, i'm in the belly of the beast in an fran. the traffic is high taxes are high, traffic is terrible and house prices. the companies leaving are not exactly the cream of the crop. hpe, oracle, long in tooth to say the least. furthermore, already had significant operations in the places they're going. so i'm not denying there is problems but i think because we like to make a big deal out of

things we're probably making a big deal out of this. connell: yeah. elon musk likes to make headlines. he made some as well. the argument for northern california, most of these companies, oracle, is good example, when they announced on friday, they didn't leave. they changed the address on their corporate headquarters. they're staying there. the arguement pays off, make the same for banks and financial services the talent is no new york. is the talent still in california? >> overwhelmingly. that is not to say you can't build a good company a good tech company in new york city or austin or utah. they can be built and have been built. the overwhelming majority. the overwhelming majority of the tech companies that matter were built in northern california between san jose and san francisco. continue to be built. the overwhelming majority of venture capital firms are here. there still are great universities and the weather is still great. it is all true.

there had to be a some steam blown off the pressure cooker here. there was just too much but the fact of the matter is, it's still the focal point. connell: all right. while you're here i want to get your take on another story. we all had a big scare when we woke up this morning. you were actually still sleeping. google went down. meant we had to survive for not very long, but for half an hour, whatever it was without youtube and gmail. the kids were hoping it would stay down so google classroom didn't work. got me thinking, big tech companies, all the time, fang names, apple, amazon, facebook, apple, all those if you had to pick one is the google the one you couldn't live without? which one could you not survive without at this point? >> oh, my goodness. let's see i don't use, i use gmail at work but not for personal reasons. i probably couldn't find my way to the dry cleaners without

google maps. i guess if i had to choose which one would hurt me the longest it would be google. but you know aws, amazon's web services unit, the is the one that most people probably don't know how much they use it because so much of what they use runs on top of it. i guess the really good news here they haven't been tested for more than some number of hours. connell, when this outage was going on i was walking downstairs to get print newspapers i still read. i try to have my cake and eat it too. connell: that's it. that is a tech guy who is still balanced, hasn't lost his perspective yet. >> that's right. connell: adam, thank you. everybody was googling to figure out, otherwise they couldn't do that. that is ridiculous as well. speaking of google, the company, google is delaying employees returning to the office until september of 2021. that announcement was made today as well and they're testing the idea of this nextable work week.

let's bring gerri willis in. she has more on that story. gerri? reporter: connell, you have that absolutely right. one ever the first companies to ask employees to work from home due to the pandemic, now telling them well, you can stay there. according to multiple reports confirmed to us at fox business this afternoon, google is saying it will allow employees to work from home until september of next year, extending the return by a few months in a move that is sure to be emulated by other companies. google is also said to be testing the idea of a flexible work week once it is safe to return to work that is. the way it would work, google ememployees work three days a week from the office while working at home the other two days. ceo sundar pichai told employees in a sunday night email this, quote, we're testing a hypothesis that a flexible work model will lead to greater productivity, collaboration,

well-being. nobody at our scale created a fully hybrid model workforce a few are testing it. it will be interesting to try. it is interesting, right? previously the company has delayed the timing for return to the office by employees from january to july and now delaying again to september. google of course employs a lot of people, 200,000 full-time and contract workers from mountain view, california. including all over the world, india, the uk. it doesn't appear employers are rushing to bring workers back anytime soon when you look at this for detail. in new york, fewer than a 1/10 manhattan office workers are back in the work place. connell? connell: isn't that amazing, fewer than a 10th. gerri willis. i want to go to a quick "fox business alert" from the bipartisan news conference we covered earlier in the hour on stimulus and what is on the table in that bill. the group indeed has split its

908 billion-dollar proposal we were talking to dan heninger a few minutes ago into two parts. the first is 748 billion, would include pp money, employment assistance, testing, money for that and funding for vaccination. the second part would be more difficult to pass, 160 billion, state and local and liability protection. we'll see if this does the trick. still speaking senator rob portman on capitol hill. they're trying to get this stuff to get the so-called easy stuff passed first. don't goo away key portfolio events, all in one place. because when it's decision time, you need decision tech. only from fidelity.

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their ballots officially for president-elect joe biden. you are looking live now at the 55 electors. they're meeting in california. once they get done voting at the end of -- at the 5 p.m. hour eastern time, they are expected to put the president-elect, joe biden, over the threshold to officially be the winner of the presidency. each of these electors today cast two paper ballots, one for president, another for vice president. they then sign and verify the results with six certifications of the vote. and while president trump is contesting this election and, technically, the electors can vote for whoever they want, fact is 33 states have passed laws requiring their electors to vote for the candidate who won the popular vote in their state. so electors who vote differently from the popular vote are called faithless electors, and so far we have not seen that. the last chance for republicans to challenge the results will be on january 6th when congress

convenes to certify the official winner. connell. connell: all right. so no surprises. bryan, thank you, my friend. bryan llenas on that. getting more attention as president trump has refused to admit that the he lost the election, which he did. thanks for watching us, we'll see you psalm time tomorrow. muck. ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. we begin with historic events in our nation's fight against the china virus pandemic. hospitals across america administering the first doses of pfizer's china virus vaccine to front-line health care workers. critical care nurse sandra lenzi, who has taken care of they e that virus patients on long island, new york, among the first in the country to be vaccinated. today's historic achievement the result of president trump's operation warp speed, a program that has produced two remark by effective vaccines