nasdaq, to give you context we only needed 100 points and change for the dow to clock in a new record. [closing bell rings] we have done it. that is doing it for the claman "countdown." that is it for me. jackie deangelis pick it up "after the bell." jackie: record closes for the dow, nasdaq and s&p as well. s as we await for the vote in the house on 2000-dollar relief checks for american workers. i'm jackie deangelis in for connell mcshane. i will it is time for news at this hour. fox team coverage, hillary

vaughn in wilmington, delaware. chad, kick it off with you. reporter: house of representatives will start debating providing $2,000 stimulus checks this is something that the president demanded not in the bill he signed last night. keep in mind the reason they only went for $600 for that proposal because president trump and republicans said nothing about this. many republicans opposed any stimulus checks whatsoever, among them mo brooks, republican from alabama. >> someone has to show me how we will pay for it? before we go into debilitating, insolvency, bankruptcy that will do great damage to our country. reporter: comments of brooks reflect angst of many republicans over direct payments of $2,000. the question how many republicans are suddenly willing to align with president trump tonight? the house rushed the bill to the floor in exchange for a quick turnaround you need 2/3 vote to

pass the bill. unclear if they have the votes or if it will go anywhere in the senate? >> it is up to the senate. every senate democrat is for it but unfortunately we don't have the republicans on board. today i am telling donald trump don't just talk about it, act. these senate republicans have followed you through thick and thin. get them now to act and support the 2000-dollar checks. reporter: also tonight there will be an attempt in the mouse of representatives to override of president's veto of the defense bill. you need a 2/3 vote to override a veto. there were 335 yeas on the final version of the defense bill. that is well above the 2/3 threshold. the question tonight whether or not republicans will vote to sustain the veto. president trump vetoed nine bills before this one. he has never had a veto

overridden. jackie, there have only been 111 successful veto overrides in american history. back to you. jackie: chad, so much to get into there. i want do ask you this for those 2000-dollar checks the president wants to see a cut in the wasteful spending s there any chance at all somehow things get reshaped. to con schumer's con comments for republicans to to get on board. >> there is recisions bill. these are not that rare are. the president sends late winter a bill what he wants to spend money on. ' recisions bill is cancellation request. congress would have to move a bill. they have to pass something through the house and senate. nita lowey expressed no interest in doing so. even if there was interest both house and senate there is probably not time to do that

during the remainder of the president's term. jackie: chad, thank you so much. you are such a wealth of knowledge. great reporting. fight for the controlled of the senate entering the final days as president trump announces plans to hold a rally in georgia the night before the crucial runoff. rich edson is with the president in west palm beach, florida, rich? reporter: good afternoon. what we're looking at here is the president just with the last few days of his holiday trip here to florida, but he is looking to events happening next week. one of those is of course the georgia runoff. the president will get involved. he tweets, on behalf of two great senators, senator david perdue and kelly loeffler, i will be going to georgia monday night, january 4th, to have a big wonderful rally. so important for our country that they win. both georgia senators are up in a special election next week. republicans need at least one of those senators to win to maintain control of the senate and provide a major check on the

incoming biden administration. in a joint statement regarding the president's signing that funding covid relief bill, the one chad mentioned they wrote, both senators wrote, thanks to president trump's leadership, covid relief is on the way to millions of georgia families and businesses that need it most. over $47 billion has gone directly to georgia's families, farmers, front line workers, schools, hospitals, more help is on the way. the president is pushing to up the relief checks in that bill from $600 to $2000. democrats largely support that. congressional republicans resisted spending more money. democrats in this georgia senate race seized on that divide. jon ossoff running against david perdue, wrote, quote, house democrats are voting for 2,000-dollar relief checks today. donald trump supports it. senator perdue when will you commit to 2,000-dollar relief checks for georgians?

this election is not coming up this tuesday but the next, january 5th. jackie: we're all waiting with bait the breath. rich edson thank you so much. here now john bussey, "the wall street journal" associate editor. let's talk about the stimulus package t caused a big rally on wall street. new records on all three indices. the dow looking potentially 31,000 on the neck top here that will come to americans needing the money, john. the assumption is they will spend that money. your thoughts? >> assumption is they will spend it. some americans are saving it because because they are concerned on the future, how long unemployment checks will last. they are trying to make the best of direct payments. savings rates are up. what happens next, big issue for the markets. is there going to be additional spending? are you going to see a congress willing to do that? you know some of the resistance, the headwinds congress will be

facing now regardless of what happens in the georgia election, there are a lot of republicans in the senate very concerned about the budget deficit, 3.1 trillion in the last fiscal year. that is 15% of economic output. it is a record. three times what it was in 2019. the biggest budget deficit since wartime, world war ii wartime. so they're worried about the rising budget deficit and whether or not some of the republicans, some of the democrats also worry about whether or not spending downstream on the coronavirus crisis is really where the effort should be or whether you need to be spending more money and more attention and more leadership on what has happened upstream, guiding people to wear masks. guiding people to socially distance. not travel as the health officials have asked people not to do, not go to mar-a-lago, not go to veil for skiing vacation. there is debate in congress over where the energy should be spent to bring the coronavirus to heal

than economic activity will speed up. jackie: john, when president biden, president-elect, pardon me, when he was campaigning on the campaign trail relying on congress to pass a stimulus bill for now, saying that would be one of his first points of business when he takes office for inauguration day. do you think the president-elect will go after $2.3 trillion package that we just received, is going to prioritize that? to your point of spending when so many are worried about the deficit? is that what we need to do just to keep the country up? >> i think you're going to see a big push on the front end of that pipeline, getting a consistent message out of the white house about what we as citizens need to do to stem the virus and that is to wear masks. that is to reduce travel and to not create proximity which is where the, where the virus flourishes, when there is

greater density of people. so you will see that discussion. you will see also discussion about additional spending this is a 900 billion-dollar program for the virus, specifically, the remainder of the number you cited for just keeping the government open. that was the other issue here that got delayed because the president was, was angry about, they're not being funding to investigate the election which was illegally decided in favor of president-elect biden. there were other issues involved here. the delays were not good for those seeking aid but i think you will see, you will probably see additional spending requests by the biden administration. jackie: to your point about containing the virus part of it obviously is the vaccine being distributed and everybody getting one. our thoughts we may not see that until maybe mid next year or so. meantime you're talking about redirecting funds and trying to work on the human side of this.

a lot of it is within our control with respect to travel and all these restrictions. do you think that the states and specific cities, for example, new york city will, you know, continue to tamp down because people are not taking the personal responsibility to act per se in the right way, to continue these lockdowns, to continue these shutdowns with an iron fist? >> i think that you're going to see communities throughout the united states having to do that because individuals are not taking the responsibility to do as much they can to reduce proximity, reduce density and, and reduce the number of infections going into hospitals which are overloading the hospitals and killing doctors and nurses because we are not doing enough at the front end to address the virus. so i think that the cities and states, the last thing they want to do is lock down. it damages their own economy. it damages the tax receipts. they can't pay for things like

teachers and firefighters. they don't want a lockdown but they're forced into that position by the fact that the virus continues to spread. and the numbers are undeniable. jackie: we'll continue to watch it. john bussey, thank you so much for your time today. >> a pleasure. jackie: moments ago president-elect joe biden delivered remarks following a briefing on national security and foreign policy. the president-elect also announcing his support for the 2,000-dollar direct payments to americans. hillary vaughn live in wilmington, delaware, following the latest there. reporter: hi, jackie. well this briefing with president-elect joe biden's national security team has been several weeks in the making. they have been coordinating the transition between the trump administration and the biden administration and part of that was slightly delayed by the gsa ascertainment, essentially putting their access to classified information in limbo but now they have it and president-elect biden thanked his team today for their

patience and perseverance throughout. >> done it all under incredibly difficult circumstances. first of all the delays ascertainments in a few cases obstruction from the administration. reporter: today biden also signaled a 180 shift away from president trump's america first foreign policy which he criticized as kind of america alone and argued today for a more collaborative approach. biden mentioned climate change as a national security threat that cannot be solved with just one country and also talking about how other countries need to get involved to help crack down on china on trade abuses saying getting the global community on board gives the u.s. double the economic leverage. >> done it all under incredibly difficult circumstances dealing with the protocals, delays, ascertainments and a few cases

obstruction from -- [inaudible]. reporter: on president-elect biden's day one agenda, cybersecurity, vaccine distribution biden says he is learning details about solarwinds problem but they are looking on solutions to better secure the american people from cyberattacks. he talked about the southern border. president trump turned a national security issue into a humanitarian crisis saying he wants to quickly process asylum-seekers but being careful in doing that in the middle of a pandemic. also talked about how he heard from the director of fema today and signaled that they will play a key role getting the vaccine distributed quickly and effectively. jackie? jackie: hillary, did the president-elect specifically weigh in if he supports an amendment to the spending bill to bring those stimulus checks up to the $2000 mark?

reporter: yes he was asked about that on his way out of the event today and he does support the 2000-dollar checks amendment for every american in the spending bill. it is not up to him to sign off on that but it does signal some agreement between what president trump wants to see and what he, president-elect biden also wants to see. they both want 2,000-dollar checks to every american. jackie: it's a lot of money for a family of four, $8,000. a lot of people are struggling the at the same time you have to think who will pay for it. hillary, thank you very much for that reporting. appreciate it. meantime nashville left reeling after an explosion tore through the city's downtown injuring several and damaging 40 businesses there. we'll speak with one business owner about what she saw and how she plans to recover some losses on top of the pandemic. plus some areas across the united states that are also experiencing the biggest covid spike are facing a new hurdle

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jackie: "fox business alert." fox's chad pergram is reporting that the house is now debating the bill to provide 2000-dollar direct stimulus checks. we'll bring you any breaking headlines on that as we get them this hour. meantime we're also following what happened in nashville on christmas day. it is reeling from that christmas day many bomb explosion. many people and business owners are picking up the pieces what was lost as officials are investigating the motive for the attack. joining me betsy williams, a nashville resident and landlord. she also owns music city suites. betsy, you were one of the first to hear, feel the explosion and call 911. tell me what that was like. >> it was terrifying t was confusing. i didn't know, we weren't sure what to do. hearing the what, i don't know whether they were actual gunfire, you know, automatic weapon, gunfire, that repeated

three different times or if it was, that was a recording. then of course the sound starts, voice starts out of the rv that was parked across the street saying, for us to get out. that we needed to evacuate now. a bomb was in this vehicle. this vehicle will explode. that was repeated several times. and, and then, that went on probably 15 to 20 minutes. it is hard for me to know exactly how long. you start galloping around trying to figure out what you're going to do. and then when the "countdown" started that when she said, when the voice said, you have 15 minutes to evacuate and that, then you have 14 minutes to evacuate. and so, yes, that was harrowing and we gathered up my cat, my family, and we went down the elevator.

went out of the back way because we didn't know if there was a active shooter perhaps on the street. we just didn't know. and then we went up the street to the garage where i parked my car and got in that and went across the river and saw, sat over at nissan stadium and, you know, just sat there for 20 or 30 minutes when the explosion didn't happen, i drove back over the bridge and came down second avenue where we viewed the explosion and the fireball that went above the at&t structure that was there and of course the explosion, and it was, it was like nothing, i have never, i have never seen anything like that. jackie: wow. >> i hope i never see it again. jackie: that is, that's unbelievable. i can't even imagine the fear and panic you must be feeling as you said as you're going through these emotions. you're hearing you have 15

minutes before there will be an explosion. you're sitting there waiting for it and it doesn't actually come. you finally did see it. obviously we're dealing with what the move tiff was here, why this happened and all the loss that is being incurred in the city of nashville as a result of it. you're a landlord there. many of your businesses were impacted by this. what happened when you went to go survey the damage and look at the aftermath? >> oh, we haven't seen anything. we haven't been allowed to get down there because you know the fbi has this marked off as a investigation scene and the one-time that i did actually see what was, the building was i did drive down first avenue when we came back down there, the bomb had exploded and i turned, went back down the same way we had left from, going back in the direction of the back of our building and the garage and i did get out and take a couple photographs of the back of the building where the windows were

blown out. the street was completely covered in glass and debris up and down the street that was 6:34 a.m. i took the photographs. i believe the bomb went off at 6:28 or 6:30, i heard two different times on that. and you know the funny thing about it is that we had our christmas tree set up in the apartment that was on the top floor up there where i lived. of course my apartment was on the front but we also have all the apartments. my sister was visiting and so we had our christmas thing. we brought that up for the month of december for family use. i had it all decorated and my tree was still standing and still lit at 6:34, you know. jackie: betsy, it is difficult because you guys have been hit by the coronavirus pandemic as well with shutdowns, the lack of tourism as well, so as we're moving out of 2020 so many people are ready to say good

riddance to this year, it feels like it won't let up with respect to the bad news that we're getting and now nashville will be plagued with this before recovery can start. >> well you know one portion of nashville will be plagued with this we're all plagued wit, hit with it in terms of our hearts, how we feel. that is one thing but you know, this explosion is confined to this one particular area. nashville is still going to be hopping and jumping in 2021. people are chomping at the bit to come back and i want them to come back. even if they can't come stay music city suites 166 second avenue north, i want them to come back to nashville to refuel our restaurants and our hotels and our other short-term rental properties and everything. you know we need business here. jackie: absolutely. >> it has been a very tough year. you know, in our business was on

a trajectory, an upward trajectory starting along in about may. we had some reservations before then of course, but, starting may, you know, it was starting to pick up. people were feeling safer about travel. but you know, we, we spent the last day 1/2 in the a heart-wrenching thing of actions of canceling reservations and refunding money. it is not just a matter of canceling reservations. we also are refunding thousands and thousands and thousands dollars. so the impact of this financially is pretty devastating but i'll tell you this i'm also very positive about moving forward, about the responsiveness of the people here, about insurance coming through. about you know, design teams and structural engineers. we've had companies like gresham

smith partners here in nashville offered services for structural inspections. jackie: betsy, we had so many guests from nashville on all of you that have been impacted by this. you are resilient and shown that resilience. that is remarkable. so good to hear you're being supported. we're happy about that. woe wish everybody well as you find your way back through the pandemic and now through this. thank you so much for your time today. >> thank you. thank you so much for your attention to nashville. we appreciate it very much. jackie: take care. a new record during the covid era. tsa screening nearly 1.3 million travelers on sunday. that is the most since the pandemic began in march. sunday of course the sixth day of the christmas rush that saw screenings exceeding one million people a day. still it is only half of the volume seen last year. ♪

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♪. jackie: a once in a generation political opportunity to reshape the uk trade relations with the european union. the ambassadors from all 27 eu countries green-lighting the post-brexit trade deal. now the uk parliament expected to vote to approve the brexit deal on wednesday. fox news's benjamin hall is in london with those details. reporter: jackie, four 1/2 years after the uk voted to leave the eu, with just four-days to go until the transition period ended eu ambassadors today met and unanimously approved the deal agreed on christmas eve. what that now means is that the two sides have avert ad cliff edge a hard brexit. what they have in its place is vast free trade deal, no tariffs, no quotas, full access to each other's market. even though britain is out of eu single market and customs union. prime minister boris johnson has argued any short-term disruption caused for example, by new regulations and restrictions at the borders will be worth it because the uk can now set its

own rules, strike trade deals around the world. it is no longer beholden to the european court and it controls its own immigration. the deal however does not cover the uk's huge financial services sector. that is something the eu would love to poach. there is a complicated arbitration process in place now to insure both sides ad here to a level playing field on rules and regulations so the uk doesn't undercut the eu in the future. and the deal also angered british fisherman who the uk government had promised to protect. under the deal the eu will give up a quarter of fish is catches in uk waters far less than the 80% they demanded. that will be reassessed in five years. the british parliament will ratify the deal on the uk side. that is considered just a formality. on january 1st the uk embarks on a new future outside of the eu. jackie. jackie: benjamin hall, thank you so much for that report.

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♪. jackie: well, 'tis the season of returns. shoppers are expected to return twice as many items as they did last year. it is expected to cost companies $1.1 billion according to a software company that manages online returns for hundreds of brands. here is adam lashinsky, fox business contributor and business insider columnist. it is always great to see you. let's talk about the returns for a second. why are people returning more items as they did last year? is it because we shopped online as a result of the pandemic as a result we couldn't see and touch things and make sure sizes were right? >> i think it is that and

everybody other reason online shopping is just so easy. i read, as you did too, there is credible evidence, i will click two instead of one and return the one i don't need. so you know, it is so easy to get it and relatively easy to return it. now the retailers are going to have to deal with that. jackie: they're trying to make it easier because of the pandemic. they don't necessarily want a flood of shoppers at the stores with the items so they're processing these things a little bit faster but there are shipping issues. shipping costs that come result of that as well and the retailers are bearing the brunt of it. >> this is another example how we're seeing the total reordering of all of retail there is good for them. they necessarily don't have to have a big store f they don't have a big store that's good. own the flipside i know retailers counted on people returning things and browsing the store, maybe i need that thing on the sale rack. they will not get any of that with this trend. jackie: the point-of-purchase.

i've been subject to it many times. adam, there is also consumer brands are adapting the to the changing times we just lived through. from the quick lunches to beard self-cutting quits, companies like proctor & gamble, general mills, kraft heinz are investing in new products that are catering to the stay at homeworkers. you are at home right now. tell me when your office says you can come back will you do some sort of program where you do a little more homework than you used to because it worked out so well? >> i obviously can relate to the part about gillette for example, people having new beards, right? we'll see if it lasts. i personally am not going back to an office. i know that for a fact because i don't have one. i believe it will be somewhere between zero and 60% of people will not go back to offices. you know i say that sort of half jokingly. zero to 60 is a very wide range. what we do know is some percentage of office workers

will not go back to the office. these brands are trying to react. but it is like a classic pace of uncertainty. they just don't know. jackie: they don't know. they don't know for the ones who do return how long it will take, when we'll all be vaccinated. so many unknowns at this point. there is also another interesting phenomenon, adam. that is the new wave of tex exodus we've seen from silicon valley. it is putting austin, texas, in this interesting city. the city may not be able to handle the arrival of everybody that wants to come there, apple, tesla, oracle. your thoughts on why they were leaving the states they were previously in to flood and head to texas? >> they're all leaving from california. i lived in northern california more than 20 years. i know exactly what they're going through. i've been through several business cycles in san francisco. the congestion gets terrible. the government can't keep up. the people are not necessarily so nice anymore. so that is what austin's going through. austin will be okay.

i also think, well, i have two thoughts. one, austin is not going to be the next silicon valley. austin will be austin but no other of these cities is going to be what silicon valley is, no matter how bad it gets for silicon valley. i also had a political thought -- jackie: why do you say that. if enough companies leave, silicon valley won't be silicon valley not at least as we know isn't. >> i totally get it but there is a volume gain. there are prominent companies moving to austin. some are old silicon valley companies. there are prominent venture capitalists, there is a good university there. for everyone ever those there is 100 startups, 100 megacap, sorry, a big important handful of megacap companies in silicon valley. there is stanford, berkeley and so on. i think the volume is too great. it will look bad for a while but it would take years to erode that lead. jackie: we'll be watching closely, adam. it is really interesting to see how this all plays out. we were talking a little bit

earlier on a previous show how you see people, not just companies fleeing blue states. they're heading to red states because of quality of life. because there is no income tax in certain cases yet taking their blue votes with them to the red states. >> yes. that is exactly the other point i wanted to make about austin. austin is already had this reputation as you know, the liberal island in this conservative giant state but it is getting to be a bigger liberal island. for other reasons. texas already was becoming closer and closer to being a red-blew balance. i think that is totally right. as austin gets to be a bigger tech center, these relatively socially liberal, relatively economically conservative tech people flooding in will continue to tip that balance. jackie: adam lashinsky, great to see you. if i don't see you happy new year and happy 2021. >> okay. jackie: lori loughlin release from prison.

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♪. jackie: so close yet such a long way to go as the first priority group health care workers, nursing home residents, are getting the covid-19 vaccination across many states many americans are still looking for clues when it will be their turn. our own bryan llenas is live from new york trying to find the answer to that question. bryan? reporter: yeah, jackie. it's the big question in everyone's mind. before we get to that i just want to touch on the new strain of the coronavirus that is making its way throughout the united kingdom. today a new restriction put in place requiring all travelers from the uk into the u.s. including americans to provide a negative covid-19 test within 72 hours of departure. that is in response to that new variant of covid-19 that has proven to be more contagious but there is no proof it is causing anymore serious harm than the original virus.

today admiral bret ger-eir says the new strain is likely in the u.s. though there isn't hard proof it is yet. he also said he believes the vaccines out there right now will be effective against this new strain. this includes astrazeneca which said today its vaccine is effective against the new strain of covid-19 and could be authorized for use in the uk this week and distributed there as soon as next week. but back in the u.s. so far 11.5 million vaccines have been distributed nationwide and more than 2.1 million doses have been administered. here's the admiral. >> even with just the vaccines we have right now we still expect that any american who wants a vaccine can be vaccinated by june. that is really very exciting. that means a couple hundred million people being able to be vaccinated by that time.

reporter: so june 2021 any anyone who wants it can be vaccinated this is the cdc's 1-a of the roll out. residents, health care workers, residents of long-term health care facilities receive the vaccine first. then 75 years old and front line essential workers those like that. then those aged 65 and older. all other essential workers like construction and bank tellers this group includes people with the high-risk medical conditions of any age that have those conditions. bottom line though, jackie, that all down to your individual state as to whether or not you get the vaccine, when you get the vaccine. for instance, florida and texas are prioritizing the every derly more so than the occupation you may have because they believe they're most at risk obviously based on the data that we've seen.

jackie: bryan, talk about june for a second. this notion that anyone who wants the vaccine can get it. is there concern out there, younger populations, people not that careful right now which is helping contribute to the spike you know what, i will not get the vaccine? reporter: there is in the sense we know what is driving up the number of cases, the 200, the 200,000 cases we're getting a day now are young people. now, but i think the important thing here is that really they want to stress that it is the early derly and those with those health conditions that make those at risk. it is most important they get vaccinated because ultimately those are the people that are finding themselves hospitalized and those are the people largely dying from this virus. so yeah, young people are going to decide yes or no if they will get. ultimately they are spreading the virus but if they get the elderly and front line workers and people really at high-risk first there is less concern about the young people.

jackie: right. protect the vulnerable and then if it continues to spread we can talk about that at a later date. bryan llenas, thank you so much. appreciate that reporting. we're also watching rural areas of the country because they are lagging behind on the vaccine rollout. some small towns experiencing the biggest spikes of the virus and they have yet to get access to doses of the vaccine. jeff flock is in rockford, illinois with more on this story. jeff. reporter: at a long-term care facility. as bryan was mentioning these are the people that are most in jeopardy and in places like this, this is rockford, illinois, this is a place called heritage woods, long-term care, assisted living. residents of this place are most in jeopardy but it looks like they will be waiting for a while to get the vaccine. we've been talking to jackie o'keefe who is the administrator here, it will be another month at least? >> that is what it is looking like. they did start the rollout with long-term care however it is looking like a four to six-week

rollout. so we don't have a date yet. reporter: sometime in february. if you look at the numbers, jackie, it is elderly most in jeopardy. deaths so far as november 24th, 100,000 plus deaths. that is 40% of the deaths. your residents here, they're scared. >> they are. they're scared and they're lonely and, they're also really anticipating having that glimmer of hope of starting the vaccination process. reporter: have you got a message for, as we reported, each state is different in terms of how they roll things out. have you got a message from the governor of this state or those in charge what they ought to do? i mean a month is a long time. >> it's a really long time but i have talked to different people in the health department and really we're just waiting for the pharmacies to be able to roll out to assisted living. reporter: yeah. but i can hear you would like

that to be sooner rather than later. the, thanks to the folks at heritage woods, particularly for jackie to give us opportunity to talk to residents today. you, jackie, we have talked to multiple people. all say they want this vaccine. there are no vaccine deniers here or covid deniers. they want to get vaccinated, maybe get a shot at normal life again. jackie: vulnerable populations need it. jeff, thank you so much for that great report. appreciate it. "fox business alert," reuters reporting that nancy pelosi says the house will pass the bill later today increasing stimulus checks $2,000 if the house cannot pass the bill with short debate and 2/3 majority, will pass it under simple procedures requiring a simple majority. we'll be right back

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♪ ♪ jackie: california preparing for more lockdown orders as the state tops 2 million cases. this coming as one celebrity hangout spot being accused of planning a secret new year's eve party. fox's william la jeunesse has more. >> reporter: the governor said that stay at home order will continue indefinitely because the metric, of course, is icu bed capacity which must exceed 15%. now it is 0 in the regions i mentioned, not improving. e.r.s are overflowing, 70% of ambulances are being diverted from the nearest hospital, and statewide 1 in 20 californians are testing positive. >> it's really up to the public and what they're going to do over the next couple of weeks as to whether or not we're going to push our health care staff to presidentially dangerous levels. that's -- potentially dangerous levels.

>> reporter: dr. walker wants everyone to stay home for new year's, contrary to plans at this beverly hills restaurant, an invitation for an underground party saying, quote: we're considering taking reservations for a new year's eve dinner inside. please let us know, if there's enough interest, we'll secure a reservation. please keep this discreet but told your friends. somebody told friends at city hall which killed the part. health officials fear more spikes are likely to happen tied to thanksgiving, 1.3 million people at the airports, jackie, back to you. jackie: keep it discreet but tell your friends. ironic messaging. william la jeunesse, thank you so much. it was a banner day for the markets. the dow jones, the s&p 500, the nasdaq all hitting record highs, the dow up more than 200 points today. this on stimulus optimism if, that's what wall street was waiting for. but it will also keep its eyes

on georgia and split government and a couple of issues as we head into the new year. that's going to do it for us and "after the bell." thanks so much for watching. ♪ ♪ gregg: good evening, everyone, i'm gregg jarrett sitting in for the vacationing lou dobbs. federal investigators are searching for a motive in the christmas day bombing that rocked downtown nashville. police say anthony quinn warner blew himself up in the explosion that injured at least three people and caused major damage to nearby homes and businesses. there are reports this evening that warner's pair now e ya over 5g technology could have contributed to that attack. also the dow, the s&p 500 and nasdaq all jumped to record highs after president trump signed off on a