solarwinds123. a security expert warned the company about the password before the hack happened. that is company that got hammered. it is moving at the moment. [closing bell rings] down another 2 1/3%. up, dow, s&p, nasdaq and the russell appear to be closing at record highs. time for "after the bell." connell: we're at all-time highs here. stocks riding high on the vaccine rollout. stimulus optimism. an fda panel is meeting to decide to approve moderna vaccine for emergency use. if approved it would be the second vaccine approved in the u.s. hype pfizer. on capitol hill we do have lawmakers getting close on a 900 billion-dollar stimulus. you put that all together, we have records for the dow,

nasdaq, s&p 500. the dow is up 14at the close. that is the third straight record close for the nasdaq composite. i'm connell mcshane. welcome to "after the bell." time for the news happening at this hour. fox team coverage, blake burman with the latest on stimulus. gerri willis is waiting on a key indicator coming out tomorrow. edward lawrence is reporting on the fda panel which is a big story. edward, let's start with you. reporter: why the records may be happening in the markets the moderna could be approved today. i will get into why in a minute. the fda advisory committee is discussing whether the moderna vaccine deserves emergency use authorization. the vote will come in the next hour and ten minutes or soft. pfizer went through this last week. members of "operation warp speed" say there are no hurdles they see for emergency approval. >> i am very enthusiastic about the moderna vaccine.

the summary provided by the fda shows it is 95% efficacious in preventing covid. it is 100% efficacious preventing severe disease. it works in the 18 to 25-year-olds. it works in the elderly. it works across the spectrum and side-effects are very mild. reporter: the reason the moderna vaccine could get fda approval tonight there is no special treatment for this. the pfizer vaccine could be given to 16 and 17-year-olds but has special rules where it needs to be diluted. moderna is only given to 18 and older, no special rules t can be stored at negative 4 degrees fair return height like a normal freezer can handle. if it comes out that will be a full day faster than pfizer. still the vaccines are both for

front line workers and now nursing homes at this point. that is the reason that dr. anthony fauci says you should limit your family gatherings for the holidays. he is adding this, quote, that is just one of the things we're going to have to accept as we go through this unprecedented challenging time. christmas eve is dr. fauci's birthday. he says he will spend it alone with his wife. connell, people of whoville would have something to say if he says can sell christmas. back to you. connell: i know. i know. it is some year. big day. a lot of optimism about the vaccines you're talking about especially today for moderna. you also talked about pfizer so do we know pfizer has been able to distribute all the vaccine doses it said it would? i think the number was 2.9 million? reporter: pfizer says it has distributed the first wave of 2.9 million doses. they have millions more in a warehouse with no instructions where it should go. one much the last

"operation warp speed" meetings they said they are holding back a second batch of 2.9 million doses for that second vaccination needed for the first initial push. pfizer making more. it has orders for 20 million doses for the u.s. back to you. connell: all right. edward, thank you. edward lawrence live in washington. reaching the finish line, lawmakers rushing to complete a covid relief deal before the end of the week which would include it looks like additional direct payments to americans. checks in the mail. blake burman has been following progress on all of this, live with an update. blake? reporter: over at the white house they are confident there is potentially a deal on the next day or so on the other end of pennsylvania avenue on capitol hill. they are echoing sentiment as well as lead negotiators are speaking throughout the day. we have a general idea what some of the top line figures of this framework could eventually look like, this 900 billion-dollar

deal, for example. it would include 600-dollar stimulus checks, more to folks who have children. $300 a week for federal plusup for unemployment insurance. $300 billion for small business help. vast majority for reauthorization of ppp. specifically money to states specifically for vaccine distribution. however this is massive package. they are still trying to nail down the final details. later senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said now is the time not to get bogged down in the minutia. that this is fork in the road. democrat chuck schumer is arguing that the details are crucially important. >> do we want to haggle and spar like this would be ordinary political exercise get wrapped around axle of policy riders we know are controversial? >> we're very close to an agreement but the details really matter. when it comes to unemployment benefits, stimulus checks, aid to small businesses so much else we have a responsibility to get

this right. reporter: one thing to keep in mind, connell, if they are able to hammer out this deal here in the next day or so it is, as i mentioned huge, hundreds upon hundreds of pages most likely would be the legislative text. so mitch mcconnell said that it is likely that they are going to be working through the weekend to figure all of this out. connell? connell: at least they could do after everyone what everyone has been through. you had some vaccine related news at white house? reporter: we do. coming tomorrow morning, vice president mike pence, second lady karen pence and u.s. surgeon general jerome adams will be taking the pfizer covid-19 vaccine tomorrow morning this is in part to send a signal to the country that the vaccine along with possibly others down the line as edward talked about are safe, should be taken. we will see those three on camera get the vaccine here on white house grounds tomorrow morning, connell. connell: on-camera event.

thank you, blake burman on the north lawn. alert just in, fedex with second-quarter earnings results after the bell and gerri willis joins us with the numbers. how did they do, gerri? reporter: blowout good quarter for eps. expectations $4.01. big blowout on the bottom line. they also had great revenues. the actual number 20.6 billion for the quarter compared to estimates of 19.46 billion. this is a really big quarter. when you look at that bottom line, you know the estimate was $4.01. that was 60% over last year, last quarter's numbers. so this is a very big quarter and it is all about what you've already been talking about. this is a big christmas season for sending packages. obviously there is vaccine distribution, all of this playing into fedex's quarter. the stock up 93% year-to-date.

i cannot see it. i don't have eyes on what the stock, how it closed but it has had a very, very good year. this is an incredibly strong second quarter and of course the pandemic really playing into the hands of logistics companies like fedex. again, bottom line, $4.83 adjusted. expectations $4.01. connell: yeah, gerri. thank you, gerri willis cutting out a little bit but the stock down 2 1/2% in the after-hours even with the better than expected figures. it is down $9 right now. we'll have more on fedex. steve moore happens to join us right now, the freedom works economist. it is interesting steve at the top of the show saying gerry would come up. i didn't say she would cover fedex. she would have more about a key indicator on the economy. we knew she would be coming fedex. in a way what these types of reports become in this day and

age we're so reliant on ships companies fedex, ups, in the middle of a pandemic. what is your takeaway how the companies are doing? >> the fedex story is incredible one. this is incredible company from the beginning. fred smith is good friend of mine, one of the great ceos all time, he was the one came up with the idea all the people in the business schools said it would never work. he created a great company. but what is so interesting it, was only maybe a year to a year-and-a-half ago, connell, when a lot of people thought that because amazon was getting into the delivery business that they would wipe out fedex, remember that? now you've got fedex with record earnings. it's a great comeback story. and it is, i think gerri willis put it very well. this company is so well-positioned in terms of their logistics to deal with a crisis like this. connell: talk about amazon trying to wipe out fedex, ups, what about one of those companies wiping out the postal service at one point?

there is plenty to go around the way things are going right now. >> well, yeah. postal service is facing some pretty stiff competition now from all of these delivery services that are much more efficient. we'll see whether the postal service survives. as you know, you reported it, the postal service as major, major financial problems right now. lord knows whether they will be aable to come out of this without a major bailout. but you know i have not had a chance, yet, connell to read those hundreds of pages of this new stemlous bill that blake burman was talking about but it does look as though we're talking about near trillion dollar deal. i remember when a trillion dollars was a lot of money. we used to talk about 100 billion-dollar stimulus bills. this is one trillion. this is on top of the about $1.6 trillion that is already been provided in government aid this year. so we're talking about this year, so people get a sense of this, 2 1/2 trillion dollars of federal aid to deal with this

crisis. incidentally that is more money, connell, that is raised each year from the federal income tax. so we could, for the cost of all these bailouts we could have eliminated every single companies, single workers tax liability entire year cheaper than doing this. here we are. wall street loves it. i am somewhat skeptical this is going to rescue all ever these businesses that are facing such a tough time right now with 40% of the restaurants now facing closure because of, you know the fact that this is obviously between thanksgiving and new year's is their biggest season and so many of these restaurants panned stores are closed down. connell: talk about that a little bit, steve. one word or fedex. it did not provide a forecast for next year. maybe that is why the stock is little bit lower. everything looks good from the company's earnings report. if you look at economy, jobless claims for example, came in. they were close 900,000 for a

single week. 885,000 people applied for unemployment. that went up from a year, a week ago and there is an argument to be made i think, many economist even made it if we don't get something done on stimulus, that will only get worse the job market. those businesses many come on the show, a lot of those small businesses whatever their feelings are on the philosophy behind stimulus, listen i need something, if you force me to shut down, i need something soon. what do you say to that argument. >> certainly the businesses are going to need some help so the government shut them down. my heart bleeds for them, providing short-term assistance for those businesses certainly makes sense. providing aid for individuals. i'm not a huge fan of helicopter money, having helicopters drop dollar bills out the window. but that is what we're going to do. let's be clear my model, my friend casey mulligan did a study came out earlier this

week, by expanding unemployment benefit $300 a week, on top of the normal benefits that will cost the economy 3 to 4 million jobs. half the workers collecting unemmoment benefits get more money from the unemployment benefits with this addition than if they go back to work. that is a dumb policy. remember we found this out back, remember in june and july when you finally had a recovery coming in the economy, remember that, connell? all of sudden businesses said they couldn't get people back to work because they were paying $600. i'm glad they didn't go to $600. $300 on top of normal benefits is problematic. connell: we talked about that a number of times. looks like they're going forward. we'll see what they come up with the next couple days. always great to have you on. steve moore with his perspective on the economy. >> thanks, connell. connell: the white house weighing in not only on economy but the fda advisory committee

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moderna and pfizer, brian, if we can. on moderna it is interesting, reported out in our report a few minutes ago this is different kind of vaccine maybe approved tomorrow, whenever it is approved by the fda, that you don't have to keep it as cold. where does "operation warp speed" come in here getting a vaccine like this to people that don't get a pfizer vaccine? rural areas, is that where it will work? >> connell, thank you for having me back. it is great developments here that we're seeing. we hope the moderna vaccine will be authorized very soon. they have signaled they are likely to do that so we'll give them space to do their work but what we see from "operation warp speed" we anticipate close to six million doses of this vaccine, if it is authorized ready to go out this weekend across the country, where we see the doses in circulation, being administered to patients early next week. that is fantastic news. that is on top of an additional two million doses of pfizer

vaccine, four million available. we hold back half for the second dose. two million pfizer, six million moderna. eight million more people getting vaccinated in the next week. fantastic news for america. the president's "operation warp speed" is going very well. connell: what is going on with pfizer, edward lawrence was reporting on it a few minutes ago, yeah they are getting everything out they said they would in terms of distributing the vaccine but i believe millions of vaccine doses sitting in a warehouse. they said they didn't have instructions what to do. do you know what is happening there? can you explain it. >> no, i appreciate you asking about that. that is a misunderstanding or miscommunication there. connell, as i said the pfizer vaccine goes out in two shipments, half, 2.9 million going out this week. another 2.9 million will be held back for the second dose for those patients to receive in 21 to 28 days. there is another small amount being held back in the event

there is any mishaps on the shipping, spillage, things that we can't foresee but things are going as planned and the states are getting the vaccines out to where they are telling the government to ship them. it is just at mare, things going as planned but the plan includes holding some back for the second dose and some other incidentals but things are going very well. connell: okay. we'll continue to watch that. i do want to get a take on stimulus. all indications we get from capital hill they're close on this $900 billion in stimulus. you know, it has taken a long time to get there. direct payments, checks to americans, part of it, right? is the white house insisting that would be part of isn't what would you say about timing here? >> connell, we're very hopeful now that we see the negotiators getting closer and closer, that we'll be able to deliver support before the holidays. and that support will address issues facing american families. that is stimulus checks, the direct payments.

president is supportive of those. ppp to help small businesses, people connected to the jobs. half of the workforce works for small businesses very important. displaced through no fault of their own, additional unemployment insurance. critically important. president very supportive. some issues going on, some discussion of funding to get schools open, perhaps some additional funds to help with vaccine distribution. all of that seems, you know perfectly fine. the president is really focused on getting this support. the vaccines of course, every single day but this additional support to help get american families to the other side of this pandemic, getting it before christmas. that is what the president wants. we're very encouraged to see the progress going on on capitol hill. connell: one more issue for you, brian, before we wrap it up. that cyberattack getting a lot of attention last couple days, even more so, tom bossert, use towed work in the trump

administration, solarwinds, fire tackle, fireeye, in that op-ed he said the magnitude is hard to overstate and went on president trump is on verge of leaving behind a federal government, perhaps a large number of major industries compromised by the russian government. so this is a cyberattack that has been discovered. there was malware on the software system apparently from march to june. u.s. government agencies involved. number one, can we confirm or have we confirmed it is russia, number two, what is being done about it on the white house side, do you know? >> connell, some issues are a little too sensitive to discuss in detail in public but what i will tell you is that the administration is very focused on this we are aware of the reports and investigating and the president has invest ad tremendous amount in our cybersecurity infrastructure. we have many professionals of course at homeland security, national security council and at other various agencies conclude into this. we'll say we are aware the

russians tried to hack us on numerous occasions. i don't think that is news but we're facing threats from iran and of course from china who is very, very aggressive. these are all issues the administration confronts on a daily basis we take them very seriously and which want not only the federal government but american industry to be prepared. we have number of public/private panels that work on these issues on a regular basis. we're sensitive to it. connell: real quick, do you know if guys are working with the biden transition team with incoming administration on particular issue? >> these issues will be addressed professionally through any transition that may occur. our teams have been in touch. the biden transition said meetings and conversations in variety of venues are professional hand sincere that will continue under the president's direction of course while he pursues his legal remedies. connell: all right, brian

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there are parts still underconstruction and plans to build even more of the wall but those plans could be in "jeopardy" under a biden administration. here is what joe biden says he plans for the wall. >> there will not be another foot of wall constructed in my administration. i'm going to make sure we have border protection but it is going to be based on making sure that we use high-tech capacity to deal with it. reporter: we traveled to a remote part of arizona, about 15 miles along the border from where we are right now. you can see the wall just stops and that is where crews are working to build more of it. crews are essentially working round-the-clock between now and january 20th to try to get as much done as possible. they expect to complete at least 450 miles by the end of the year. the federal government has enough money to complete more than 200 additional miles of it. u.s. customs and bored

protection acting commissioner mark morgan said terminating existing contracts already signed could cost taxpayers a lot of money. >> we're going to have to go into settlement agreement with all the contractors. we'll pay them for performance they have already completed, for materials that they have already purchased. we have 270,000 tons of steel that already has been manufactured or produced that we would have to buy for. let's sit there or destroy. it could go on and on. that directly will cost the taxpayers billions of dollars. reporter: we should point out though there are other reports that the most cost effective approach is actually do as joe biden plans, connell, which is to stop building. connell: timing of this is very interesting, with the transition in administrations. also i think the number of people, right, grady have been caught trying to cross the border the last few months, that has been going up, hasn't it? >> in november, alone nearly 70,000 caught illegally crossing

the border. that is up about 64% compared to the same time last year. customs and border protection said there are several reasons for that. the pandemic namely because economies are struggling in central america. people are making their way here. they also expect the biden administration to be lenient on immigration. so that might give incentive to come here now, connell. connell: right. often times it all becomes about incentives. grady, thank you. grady trimble there along the border wall in arizona. well the north wind blows and we have snow. a nor'easter dropping multiple feet of the light stuff along the east coast and now the cleanup is underway. we have details ahead. where there is snow, for some there is opportunity. we're talking to a company taking new technology to the chore of shoveling the snow. is your dog a good boy? budweiser is teaming up with a dog reading twitter account,

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as we look at the aftermath. she is live in boston. reporter: hey, the flakes are finally starting to taper off a little bit, connell, but it is still very cold here in new england. across massachusetts there are dozens of cities and towns that reported over, more than a dozen inches of snow, 12 inches or more. across the northeast tens of thousands of homes and businesses lost power and this wicked nor'easter is not yet done with us. some areas in pennsylvania, upstate new york, saw three feet of snow. many regional trains and buses are suspended. drivers are urged to stay off the roads. still more than 1000 accidents have been reported. in baltimore, maryland, a spirit airlines plane slid off the runway at bwu. thankfully no serious passenger injuries were reported. states reporting hundreds of roads and highway incidents including a collision in collier county township pennsylvania. this winter storm claimed at least five lives.

two people dying in the wake of a massive 60 plus vehicle pile-up anyone i-08 in pennsylvania. -- i-80. new york woke up to more snow than they have seen in years. this covid area of remote learning, played virtual hooky and opted for a little winter fun. >> it is amazing. great for the kids to see normal stuff and experience some real winter in the city. reporter: cornell the big certain now is the deep freeze that is coming. we're expecting the temperatures to dip into the teens. that could mean black ice on the road. it also means all the snow will likely be sticking around for a while. back to you. connell: it is so cold. that is good with the masks on kids playing virtual hooky. molly line in boston. this is big problem for a lot of businesses but some take advantage of it to make snow

removal easy with the click of a button. the company called, plows and most. this is on demand snowplowing company. uses an app to connect customers and contractors. will has been on us before, at the top of the show, you were coming on, kind of like uber. >> it is. connell: we talked about before, plowing the snow. tell us how it works. >> it is really simple. you download the plowz to mowz app it spits out a message to 8,000 landscapers we have using the app. the job gets done. you have picture of completed job. it is very simple. connell: in this covid era, no personal contact. you use the app, come over to the house or business as it is. so what has the last 24 hours been like. how is business? >> it is phenomenal.

at one point we were getting a order every couple seconds. the orders rate has not let down. we mobilize well over 1000 trucks between the markets where it was heavily snowing. so you know, we put people up in hotels to make sure we were going to able to meet the demand. it is slow moving right now because we're well into the storm right now but you know, it has been great for us. connell: how about that meeting the demand, that is the challenge, right? you need enough drivers and people running plows to do it. if i wanted uber in a crowded time i can get one pretty quickly. what about this, do i have to reserve a day or two in advance? if i say to myself i can't get out and shovel, i need someone to shovel for your parents, whatever the case may be can you get it quickly? >> yeah you can. obviously with the scope of this storm things are a little bit slower right now but you know our technology we use route optimization. we're constantly tracking where our snow professionals are.

if you place an order there, is a truck a block away the truck will see that job and hopefully get to you quicker. connell: it is interesting, i said you were on with us before. we were talking about it again, so many people in the landscaping business mowing lawns and plowing snow. you're an aggregator for those businesses so you're in all those areas. last time you had the program going on for front line workers for the pandemic you would mow their lawn for free something like that. >> yes. connell: how did that go, are you doing something similar. >> it was wildly successful. we had so many health care front line workers take advantage of it. and you know, something that we might even consider doing again in the future. connell: plow, you're not doing it with snow then? >> we aren't at the moment. we did the campaign for two or three months but we're revisiting it right now for potential doing something yeah, for the snow season. connell: all right. wills, good to have you back on the show. >> of course. connell: we talk about company

all the time that are creative this is one of those that is kind of using technology and using models that work in other businesses and apply it soing it that makes a lot of sense for a lot of people. good luck with the company. >> thank you so much. connell: plows&mows a betting ring backfired. tyson foods fired seven managers that employees created a betting pool how many workers contracted covid-19. they were betting on it. of the allegations from the managers came that the company did not do enough to protect employees from the virus. a lawsuit claims, 1,000 out of 2800 workers at the plant ended up contracting the coronavirus. we'll be right back. before disr to treat her frequent heartburn, marie could only imagine enjoying freshly squeezed orange juice. now no fruit is forbidden.

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♪. connell: all right. it was the first eppy center of the pandemic, at least in the united states, talking about new york city and now the city quickly trying to administer pfizer's covid vaccine to its health care workers. one of them joins us right now, dr. calvin sun. dr. sun is a new york city emergency room doctor. you may recognize dr. sun, he is another guest who has been on with us before. he was on early with us during

the pandemic. i remember that interview, many of us on that program realized what we were dealing with and how bad things were at that time in new york city. i'm glad your back i guess in a different role or happier time we have a light at the end of the tunnel, right. you have the vaccine yourself or first round of it, how did it go, what happened? >> how does it look? i'm doing it on national tv. i feel great. it didn't make my muscle mask lower. i did a 100 push-ups nix morning instead of my usual 80. it is safe. i think when i got it it is as you said this is real catharsis of nine months flashing before my eyes in a good way how far we've come. i remember the last time i was on this program is was under, little more hopeful but different circumstances. they better make a movie about this because it is like more

crazy than a movie. connell: yeah, it is, it really is insane how long it has gone on for but to see the light at the end of the tunnel i think is encouraging and seeing people like you feel great, they don't have side effects and the like will help in terms of getting people to buy in we hope. what you were doing, what is the actually story behind it or is there one? >> i mean just like, it is like the complete opposite but similar energy as in march where we didn't know what the testing capabilities were for covid. not all the hospitals had tests. who would get the tests, which patients would get tests? we didn't have enough tests. how many hours, every five minutes it was changing. think of that kind of energy but now in hopeful sense. it flipped the negative to the positive. there is this effort to make sure that everyone goes down the algorithm who gets exposed to patients the most, who is higher

risk. so emergency room nurses, doctors, pas, mps, their age, most likely from getting sick. so older ones are supposed to get it before the younger ones. get an email or text. you are supposed to log on if you choose to go, it is not mandatory yet. if you want it you take the time to get it. now in my case it was anything but. i was in the middle of my shift thinking i would get it next week. i'm pretty young. i like to believe that. all of sudden a guy comes by, administrator, want vaccine, giver it to you yes. tonight, tomorrow, after my shift? how about now? when they ship the vaccine from the pharmacy, they have to mix it, prepare, have six hour to give it. they need five or six doses. five or six people to get it within five or six hours. they couldn't provide enough providers to come in. they called a doctor with a broken leg come over with his cast, and he did, 20 minutes later to get the vaccine.

he was in his 50s. came in the snow to get it because, we always or we would have wasted it. that was my yesterday. connell: but they couldn't find others to buy in. that is kind of a problem, right? >> a lot of people, it is kind of like when the new iphone comes out. there are people who buy it immediately and there is another group of people who want to wait for the update 2.0. they're going to get it but there is the ones that wait for the second wave. so it is kind of like that. no one is against it. oh, you got it? i want to see what happens. other people, sign me up. i wish i got it 20 minutes ago. connell: okay. so you just were one of those people, get out there, get it right away. i mentioned at the top, for people don't remember what your appearance was like last time, first time you were on, basically told us it was a cold night, you work at number of different hospitals, you're an emergency room doctor but work at number of different hospitals. it was a cold night t was a line outside the door because you

couldn't get all the people with covid in the hospital in time through the emergency room. you didn't even know what was happening to them by the time they sent upstairs t was that bad. what is it like now in the emergency room, yeah, right. what is it like now any know numbers are going up poffty rates are going up in new york but what is it like right now? >> it is much more complicated. i think that in march you had a lot of people that had covid or didn't have covid or really sick and not sick. it was overwhelming. we didn't know enough about the virus. we were way more insecure about capabilities. testing was not as proficient and robust. ultimately it was very simple, are you going to die, stay in the hospital or send you home as quickly as possible? everything else didn't come back to the emergency room. they sat it out. they baited. there was a lockdown. now we know so much more how to take care of this. we know how to isolate, screen, know how to treat it better.

we just know so much more, more confident about taking care of covid-19 patients. now it is complicated. everyone has so much crisis fatigue this is coming. they don't care. heart attack, belly pains. they're drunk. they want a sandwich. call 911 for 1000 different reasons pre-covid. they're mixing in with the 50 or 60 patients an hour come in for routine covid-19 testing because they want to get on a flight or see family. emergency rooms are fast. people think of lines outside of urgent care centers. it is complicated. we're running around with our heads cut off. we're more tired. 7:00 p.m. line is gone but now it is different now, different beast. connell: you guys must be exhausted. we've said it over and over but like you said, 7:00 p.m. applause is gone. thank you for your service. thank you for your work. glad everything went well with the vaccine. we want 100 push-ups out of you

tomorrow morning not one less, right? dr. calvin sun with us. there he is flexing after the vaccine in new york city. we're talking about testing a little bit there. right aid partnering up with the cdc to administer covid vaccines providing over a million tests to communities. the news coming after the pharmacy reported a 12% increase in revenue in the third quarter, driven by growth in the retail pharmacy services and segments. so that is rite aid partnering up with the cdc we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ still warm. ♪ thanks, maggie. oh, alice says hi. for some of us, our daily journey is a short one. save 50% when you pay per mile with allstate. pay less when you drive less. you've never been in better hands. allstate. click or call for a quote today.

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the recommendation to the fda, and the fda would approve it, presumably, for emergency use. we're also following the situation in georgia quite closely. investors on wall street seem to have one big question, who's going to win in the highly anticipated senate runoffs? vice president mike pence today campaigning for david perdue and kelly loeffler. he was in atlanta as control of the senate is on the line, and that's huge implications for everything from fiscal stimulus to tax policy. jonathan serrie's live with the latest. >> reporter: hi there, connell. the vice president making two stops in georgiaed today headlining rallies at airports in the cities of columbus and macon. today marks his fourth visit to the peach state since the november election as he tries to shore up support for a republican firewall in the u.s. senate. >> we need david perdue and kelly loeffler to get in the way of open borders, socialized medicine, a green new deal or packing the courts.

[cheers and applause] >> reporter: both incumbents face well-funded democrats who campaigned with president-elect joe biden earlier this week. today ossoff met with voters in the small south georgia town of americus. >> solar and wind power structure -- infrastructure to make georgia the number one producer of clean energy in the south, create jobs while we do it. >> reporter: early voting for the january 5th runoff is already underway. a federal judge has declined efforts by liberal voting rights advocates to immediately reinstate the registrationses of nearly 200,000 voters purged from the rolls because of inactivity. meanwhile, the secretary of state announced researchers from university of georgia will help his office examine random samples of absentee ballot envelopes to look at how well the counties are verifying signatures. connell, back to you. connell: thank you, jonathan serrie. and a quick note, "after the

bell" is planning to broadcast live from georgia in early january because of the importance of these senate runoffs. thanks for watching today and every day, i'm connell mcshane in new york. we'll see you back here tomorrow. ♪ lou: good evening, everyone. the question tonight is, just exactly who is in control of the u.s. government. as i am speaking to you right now, we know that a number of countries are carrying out ongoing cyber attacks against various agencies and full departments of the u.s. government. the united states is under a full and ongoing assault but at least three nations -- by at least three nations. of russia is suspected of car arelying out the most devastating cyber attack in american history, and it is apparently getting worse by the