who they should vote for. paul: all right. remember, if you have your own hit or miss, be sure to tweet it to us@jer on fnc. thanks to my panel and thanks to all of you for watching. i'm paul gigot, hope to see you right here next week. arthel: we have reached another grim milestone in the covid-19 pandemic as 245,000 americans have been killed by the disease. this as the u.s. is entering a critical phase in the fight against the coronavirus. after officials reported more than 180,000 new cases yesterday. that is yet another single-day record and a 20 increase from thursday -- 20% increase from thursday. some states are ponding with some of their most aggressive measures yet with the holiday travel season right around the corner. welcome to "america's news headquarters," i'm arthel neville. hi, eric. eric: hello, everyone, i'm eric

shawn. the issue of travel advisory in california as that becomes the second state to hit more than 1 million confirmed infections. more than a thousand nurses are threatening to go on strike. icu beds gone in some states, and governors who for nine months resisted declaring a mask mandate, well, now they are saying wear a mask. charles watson live in atlanta with the very latest. charles? >> reporter: hey, eric. with the u.s. averaging about 140,000 daily new cases in the last week alone, states are increasingly pushing lockdowns. the governors of california, oregon and washington issued joint travel advisories on friday in an effort to get a handle on surging cases in those three states. what that means is that if you travel to any of those states, you'll be asked to self-quarantine for 14 days. they're also asking resident to

avoided all nonessential travel out of state and limit interactions to only people who live in their homes. >> the causes are no longer flat, the cases are rising, and they could, you know, they reach a point, and they can really rise rapidly. and that's what we're trying to avoid. and that's why you're seeing some scaling back in the state's tier system. >> reporter: now, about 1500 nurses in southeast pennsylvania are threatening to go on strike as soon as next week. the nurses work at three hospitals in philadelphia and its surrounding suburbs. the pennsylvania association of staff nurses and allied professionals which has about 8500 members say its nurses have been sounding the alarm for months as persistent and dangerous staffing issues have been sounding -- about persistent and dangerous staffing issues. and on mid the trump administration -- friday the trump administration said e close to 20 million americans could receive a vaccine by the end of the year.

that news coming on the heels of pfizer's announcement that early data shows its vaccine is about 90% effective. in the case of pfizer, their vaccine will need to be stored at very low temperatures and probably administered in two doses, so there's some real logistical questions about whether states will be able to handle the demand. eric? eric: great news about pfizer, but yes, there are concerns about whether it's practical and how to do that. we'll see. charles, thank you. arthel? arthel: meanwhile, northeast governors holding a virtual emergency summit on the coronavirus surge this weekend with connecticut's governor ned lamont in self-quarantine at home of after a staffer tested positive. meantime, new york governor andrew cuomo ordering new restrictions as he and president trump reignite their feud over access to the coronavirus vaccine. aishah hasnie is live in new york with the story. >> reporter: hi, arthel.

those emergency discussions happening all weekend long, likely happening virtually as a all of these states try to get on the same page with their new policies, especially those new restrictions happening here in new york. let's talk about those for a second here. bars, restaurants and gyms across the state now have to shut down by 10:00 every single night because the governor here says coronavirus cases are spreading primarily from these places. business owners, of course, are terrified that another total lockdown might be on the way. new york city's mayor, bill de blasio, in the meantime, warning hundreds of thousands of parents get ready for a possible shutdown of in-person learning as early as monday as the city's infection rate inches closer to that 3% threshold to close down classrooms. as you mentioned, governor cuomo has been busy trading shots with president trump over that potential vaccine. the president yesterday threatening to hold a a vaccine rollout in the state of new york, blaming the governor for

refusing to distribute a vaccine until his own panel of experts determine it's safe. president trump tweeting: the problem is, governor cuomo will delay using it and other states want it now. the governor was jumping on tv last night to try to explain to new yorkers and the white house that he would not delay it and then again on a call this afternoon. listen. >> having a vaccine available is worthless if americans don't trust the vaccine. so it's just a review on the fdaing process. it will take no additional time. we are ready now to receive the vaccine. >> reporter: and, arthel, we are expecting governor cuomo to talk again tomorrow. in fact, he teased that there could be a big announcement as well tomorrow. arthel? arthel: well, i'm sure new

yorkers and everyone else will be watching and waiting for that update. aishah hasnie, thank you. eric? eric: arthel, thousands of the president's supporters are rallying in washington today, and they cheered as they got a surprise this morning. the presidential motorcade made a lap around the massive crowd. he was off going to his virginia golf club to play golf. you're looking louvre right now at the supreme court where these marchers have ended up. it's called the million maga march, but that's not to the only group there. there are not a million people, but there are a lot of them. one of the reporters out there with them is rich edison live in washington with the very latest on what they're doing. hey, rich. >> reporter: good afternoon, eric. and those supporters were on their way to the supreme court when we spoke earlier today, they took a mile and a half walk through freedom plaza which is just by the white house around toward the capitol. now they're headed back towards freedom plaza. it's a good mile and a half walk, so plenty of chanting,

cheering and walking from these trump supporters. you can see them filing down here constitution to pennsylvania avenue. protesters started gathering this morning, as you mentioned, the president drove by on his way to go play golf this afternoon. this trump rally is the product of several groups and hashtags like women for trump, million maga march and stop the steal. supporters we've talked to from really all across the country. they're chanting four more years, usa, stop the steal, holding signs to count every vote, and many in the group are picking up on the president's unfounded claim that there was wide e spread election fraud and that the election was stolen. d.c. government and police say they're monitoring social media. the city has closed a poemer the around downtown -- perimeter downtown. just people on foot allowed, so a lot of these groups are not just walking on the main thoroughfares, but they've

fanned out across into the city. there have been a couple of instances where you've had supporters of joe biden or opponents of president trump, folks from washington, d.c. who have been going back and forth with the protesters. we personally haven't seen any violence, just a lot of heated language and rhetoric. there is a substantial police presence here in d.c. the mayor's office says the metropolitan police department, local d.c. police will be here, and they have been along with the federal police departments as well. eric and arthel, back to you. eric: all right, rich. we know trump supporters are passionate, we can see that there, but we do want to remind our viewers or that election officials across the nation say they found no evidence of widespread fraud or election irregularities playing any role in the election results. they say those claims of a supposed stolen presidential election is just not true. in a few minutes, we'll look at allegations about dominion voting machines and one of the top experts in the country says about that. arthel: eric, we'll look forward

to that. meanwhile, president trump yesterday making his first public appearance in more than a week to announce some positive developments on the coronavirus vaccine front. david spunt live from the white house with details on that. i think, david. >> reporter: good afternoon to you. unusual for president trump, someone that is in front of the camera usually multiple times a day, as you mentioned, we hadn't heard from him for eight days speaking in front of the camera. but today he played a round of golf at his club in northern virginia, now he is back at the white house right now, but still no sign of conceding or accepting defeat to president-elect joe biden who is expected to be inaugurated on january 20th. now yesterday in the rose garden the president gave a positive, successful update on operation warp speed and the good news, the president said vaccines will be available to the masses, widely available by april. while talking about the vaccine in the same breath, he singled out new york governor andrew cuomo.

listen here. >> he doesn't trust where the vaccine's coming from. these are coming from the greatest companies enough in the world, greatest labs in the world. but he doesn't trust the fact that it's this white house, this administration, so we won't be delivering to new york until we have authorization to do so, and that pains me to say that. this is a very successful, amazing vaccine at 90% and more. but, so the governor, governor cuomo, will have to let us know when he's ready for it. >> reporter: immediately after that sound bite right there, the attorney general, leticia james, in new york wrote dissemination of the vaccine takes place in the twilight of a trump administration and the president wants to play games with people's lives, we will sue and we will win. she continues, this is nothing more than vindictive behavior by a lame duck president e trying to extract vengeance on those who opposed his politics. the trump administration, arthel, continues to block a transition for the incoming

biden team. former white house chief of staff and four-star marine general john kelly out with a harsh statement that e says the president putting the country in danger because he's not allowing biden to receive classified briefings so he can hit the ground running. now, the trump team did drop a lawsuit in arizona, and it's important to note something that general kelly pointed out, that president trump does not have to concede, there's nothing that says he legally has to concede. but the process will continue as i walk into the white house, he probably can't hear it on television right now, but they are building the reviewing stand for the inauguration when president-elect biden becomes president biden on january 20th. so that process continues. arthel? arthel: okay. david spunt there live at the white house. thank you, david. >> reporter: thank you. arthel: eric? eric: just want to point out we had a little thing up in the corner saying saturday? it should have said friday. president-elect biden is meeting with transition advisers today

to go over potential cabinet picks. hillary vaughn is in delaware where mr. biden and his family are spending the weekend at the biden beach house. hey, hillary. >> reporter: hey, erik. well, progressives are not willing to settle for just pushing their policies on to president-elect joe biden's white house agenda. they are making it clear they want their people in positions of power. >> it's going to be an honor for us to lobby and champion these policies under a democratic president. look, we might not agree on everything, but we know these are democratic policies that our base and the american people will benefit from. >> reporter: the progressive change institute handing the biden transition team on friday a 400-name roster of recommendations. their cofounder saying this, quote: our assumption is that the transition wants to appoint good people, and so we are

making it easy for them to appoint good people by doing the heavy groundwork. while progressives are lobbying for equal representation in a biden/harris administration, biden's saying today on a bike ride he's making progress toward his cabinet. >> are you any closer to making a cabinet decision? >> yes. >> reporter: the sunrise movement, also a group of progressive activists, has its own wish list. they want him to choose congresswoman rashida tlaib as his -- secretary, but bloomberg reports the top contender for that role right now is former fed chair janet yellen. there is one contender the progressives are signing off on that apparently made it onto biden's short list, fox news is learning that senator chris murphy from connecticut is on the short list, someone progressives have signaled would be an okay option. we're learning that former ambassador susan rice and

senator chris coons are also being considered for that position of secretary of state. but, eric, other than a official statement from president-elect biden yesterday and a short bike ride today, biden has mostly laid low and stuck to closed door meetings, and and his team says he has earned a few days off at his beach house. eric? eric: a little colded today at the beach house. hillary, thank you. arthel: all right. well, president-elect biden will soon be working with his former senate colleagues including the republican leader, senator mitch mcconnell, pardon me. could their personal history and years of grid -- end years of gridlock on capitol hill, or will it be business as usual for the new administration? we'll discuss. ♪ who is usaa made for? it's made for this guy a veteran who honorably served and it's made for her she's serving now we made it for all branches and all ranks

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♪ ♪ eric: well, two senior u.s. officials confirm that before president trump fired him, former defense secretary mark esper warned that the dangers of pulling troops out too quickly if afghanistan. it turns out that esper's replacement is apparently going along with the president and signals a troop drawdown is coming there. lucas tomlinson has the details.

>> reporter: in his first message to the forces, new acting defense secretary crust miller sent what some are calling mixed messages about ending america's wars. quote: this war isn't over. we're on the verge of defeating al-qaeda and its associates, we must avoid failing to see the fight through to the finish. one paragraph later he said we met the challenge, we gave it our all, now it's time to come home. president trump fired his previous defense chief monday, two days before veterans day. esper had been in lock step with the president on a number of issues like diverting defense funds to build the wall, but esper didn't pull them all out of afghanistan, something the president has long desired. 3,000 americans are still in iraq, 4,500 still in afghanistan. he later led special forces during the iraq invasion. miller's new top adviserrer is retired army colonel douglas

mcgregor. in addition to wanting all troops out of afghanistan. now some good news in the fight against terrorism. "the new york times" reports al-qaeda's number two leader has been killed by israeli secret agents in iran, responsible for the attacks on two u.s. embassies in africa in 1998 illing hundreds of people. -- killing hundreds of people. the state department had a $10 million bounty on his head. lucas tomlinson, fox news. arthel: lucas, thank you. president-elect joe biden promised to unify the country in husband evictly speech last -- his victory speech last weekend, but he faces sharp divisions including on capitol hill. mr. biden has something his three pred e access e sores did not have, a long history with senior members of the senate including many republicans. anita kumar is here, politico -- you know what, anita? i need coffee right now. [laughter] politico's white house correspondent and associate editor, so i'm going to get

myself together, anita, for you especially. so, you know, how much will president-elect biden need to rely on existing relationships to break that gridlock in d.c.? >> well, that's really what he has going for him. the one difference we're going to see is that he has those relationships unlike his predecessors. i was just reminding myself that donald trump hasn't spoken to the house speaker, nancy pelosi, in over a year. they haven't had a conversation. but, you know, it's not just donald trump. remember barack obama often sent joe biden as his vice president to negotiate on capitol hill. he just didn't have a long, you know, tenure there on, in the senate and no real relationships there. so joe biden's known some of these people for decades including mitch mcconnell. he's really going to rely on those relationships with democrats as well as republicans. arthel: yeah, you make a good point there. i want to turn right now to internal party relationships. mr. biden has said that he will work with the more progressive democrats, potentially weaving

in some of their ideas. is this a feasible integration if the dems don't win the senate runoffs in georgia, thus, the senate majority? >> it's going to be really tough. remember that progressive wing of the party, as with we just heard, is already, you know, during the campaign was processing them to do more to be a little bit less moderate and take on more of their ideas. they got him in the white house or helped get him in the white house, they are going to expect him to deliver on some of those issues. if the republicans can keep the senate, it's going to be very tough to do that. so he's got to find issues that both sides can agree on, things like, you know, relief for coronavirus, you know, that bill that didn't pass, broadband, infrastructure that both sides agree on. and, of course, progressives are going to say what about climate change, what about gun control, things they have been waiting a long time to see, and it's going to be very tough. also these cabinet picks. they're going to want much more progressive cabinet picks and, you know, joe biden's going to

be having to look at this and say, well, what can i get through the senate particularly if republicans are still running it. arthel: well, i want to touch on that because our hillary vaughn was reporting on some of the names that have been floated out there, and two of the more progressive members of congress are on that list even though we don't know who will be confirmed. so if, in fact, would that be a way, anita, to say hey to the progressive end of the party, the democratic party saw, hey, i know you're there, we spoke before the campaign, now i'm the president-elect, i'm still watching you, we will try to weave things in here, but you've got to work we me because we can't just overturn everything, not that he even wants to -- >> yeah. arthel: but whatever changes he wants to maybe weave in, it's going to take a second to do that, like he said. >> yeah. the calendar's not on his side on the cabinet appointments because, as you know, the georgia's runoff not til january, january 5th. so he's got to spend the next couple months thinking about these cabinet pucks. we hear, obviously, he's going

to maybe announce some of them in the next week or two you said so he's got to look at that and consider, hey, it's going to be republicans in this charge and, of course, we just don't know. that's a very different pick than a democratic senate. so, you know, he's probably looking at both sides thinking, well, look, if i have a democratic senate, i can do this, if it's a republican senate, i could do that. but look at this georgia runoff. it's more likely, i think most people are saying that will end up still being in republican hands, the senate. so is he's probably really going to have to look at who will get through that and talk to mitch mcconnell about how that might go forward. arthel: listen, you can talk about climate change, it's important, i that, but the pandemic will be the most pressing item on the new president's agenda. i understand that his coronavirus transition team, they're meeting on possible ways forward. is so how does he tackle, the president-elect, how would he tackle requiring masks despite the politicization of them,

desperately needed coronavirus relief funding for millions of americans and gain the trust of americans so that the majority of us will get the vaccine, get vaccinated once the vaccines are available to the masses? so, again, a lot of really weighty stuff while trying to juggle a lot of political, you know, balls, if you will, and trying to put them aside, juggling them and putting them aside at the same time. >> well, i think he's probably going to have some luck with the coronavirus relief bill. i think democrats and republicans on capitol hill have said sort of after the election they'll look at doing that. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has said that. the tough thing for joe biden is going to be some of these restrictions he wants to put in. he wants people to wear masks, he wants people -- he wants certain social distancing and things to shut down a little bit. and, you know, few colleagues at politico talked to some of these governors, republican governors in different states and said, look, if joe biden says this, would you be willing to enact some of these policies because

it's really up to the states. so much is up to these state and local governments, and a lot of them pushed back and said, no, that's just not what we do here. take a different state, for example. so i think he's going to face a lot of pushback from some of these republican governors who are going to say, look, we hear what you're saying, but we want to do it our own way. and i'm really specifically talking about masks because that's been such an everyone us for joe biden. i think that's going to be very tough for some of these statements. arthel: the scientists, the doctors, the front-liners, they're saying, please, wear the mask to help us help you. let's try to get are through this -- >> right. arthel: it's kind of frustrating. >> and you're still seeing governors pushing back on that in some of these states where it's not mandated. so i think that's going to be probably the toughest thing he faces as soon as he gets in because, you're right, the number one thing he has to do is deal with coronavirus. arthel: anita kumar, nice to see you, thank you. take care. eric? eric: tens of thousands of the

president's supporters right now are out on the streets of washington, d.c. showing their support for the president, and some are echoing husband unproven claims -- his unproven claims that the presidential election was stolen. well, you've heard of the anyone onvoting machine systems and the president's charge that dominion machines switched votes for him to joe biden? did it? one of the nation's top computer election experts on that coming up. ♪ ♪ i'm erin. -and i'm margo. we've always done things our own way. charted our own paths. i wasn't going to just back down from moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. psoriatic arthritis wasn't going to change who i am. when i learned that my joint pain could mean permanent joint damage, i asked about enbrel. enbrel helps relieve joint pain, and helps stop permanent joint damage. plus enbrel helps skin get clearer in psoriatic arthritis. ask your doctor about enbrel, so you can get back to your true self. -play ball! enbrel may lower your ability to fight infections.

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allegations in just a few minutes. the fbi captures a fugitive who has spent nearly 50 years on the run. moses escaped custody while serving a life sentence for first-degree murder back in 1971. he was arrested in michigan earlier this year, and they were able to id him using fingerprints. and general motors recalling nearly 69,000 chevrolet volt cars after at least five chevy volts caught fire. the company says the problem is with batteries inside the electric cars, but they're not sure what exactly is causing those fires that have left two people with smoke inhalation and also damaged a house. arthel? arthel: eric, thank you. ♪ ♪ to politics now and on on georgia. they're hand counting every ballot to confirm the results of the presidential race there, and that counting is underway. meanwhile, the balance of power in the senate hinges on two senate runoff campaigns that are also underway in the peach

astronaut. the -- peach state. the two sitting republicans face challenges from reverend raphael warnock and jon jon ossoff. jonathan serrie has more. >> reporter: hi, arthel. what you see taking place behind me is the hand recount of ballots in fulton county, the largest county in georgia. but scenes like this are unfolding in all 159 counties in the state. election workers are counting each presidential vote by hand to verify the accuracy of the original electronic count by the state's new voting system. for more than a year, georgia election officials have been trying to reassure voters the new machines which cast both a digital ballot with a paper copy are secure and accurate. >> stand by that statement because it is the truth. we anticipate this audit will bear that out. and, yes, is there a risk involved in doing this?

of course there is. as i've said very plainly and clearly, human beings are a flawed part of this process. i guarantee you the numbers will be slightly different. >> reporter: slightly different, but they believe still within the current margins. this presidential hand tally does not affect georgia's two senate races which are heading to runoffs on january 5th. republican incumbents kelly loeffler and david perdue have launched a new series of attack ads against their democratic challengers. >> now we take georgia, then we change america. >> chuck schumer is trying to use georgia to change the senate majority and radically change america. >> reporter: bolsteredded by president-elect joe biden's narrow lead in this once solidly-red state, democrats rafael warnock and john ossoff are hoping to turn georgia's senate seats blue as well. both would have to win in order for their party to regain control of the senate.

>> in order for the incoming presidential administration to be able to lead us out of this pandemic and invest in economic recovery, we need to win these two senate races. >> so georgians are rising up in this moment, and i believe that they will show up because they know that come january 5th health care access is on the ballot. >> reporter: and, arthel and eric, with the balance of power at stake in the senate, there is some heavy spending already in these races heading to the georgia runoffs. they predict at least $200 million in spending but possibly as much as $500 million. back to you. arthel: they can spend all they want, but the folks have to show up to vote, so that's going to be the key. [laughter] right, jonathan serrie? all right. put your mask back on. >> reporter: absolutely. arthel: stay safe, thank you. [laughter] eric. eric: well, tens of thousands of president trump's supporters have taken to the streets right

now in our nation's capital assuring their support anding coeing the president's claims -- echoing the president's claims that fraud may have played a role in the election. officials and the government say that is just not true. some are pointing to voting machines from dominion voting systems, and they cite claims from the president himself that millions of trump votes were switched to biden on dominion machines. they're used in 28 states. but the company as well as election officials, election experts and the government all say it never happened. the homeland security agency's cyber division says, quote: there is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes or was in any way compromised, and the head of the federal election assistance commission said this this morning -- >> the reality is this was the most secure election we've ever had, and it was one of the most well-run elections we've ever had. and this is about facts and this is about truth. this is about respecting our

democracy, respecting our elections and focusing on what has really occurred. the american people made their voice heard, and when we with spread conspiracy theories and we don't back that up with fact, it has an impact. eric: with us now, someone who knows a lot about this, one of the most prominent election computer experts in the nation, jay alex haldeman, professor of science and engineering at the university of michigan who's studied these machines for years. professor, did dominion voting machines change any votes? >> well, no. there is absolutely no evidence, none, that dominion voting machines changed any votes in this election. and all the scientists like me have been warning for years that there are vulnerabilities in our election system as a whole, those vulnerabilities apply to every kind of voting machine, ask we have never -- and we have never claimed that any

particular election has been rigged by exploiting those flaws. that's an extraordinary claim, and there is at this point only pure speculation to back it up. eric: can these machines change votes? is it possible? is there a glitch that could not be detected? >> it would be very complicated to do that in an election scenario like the presidential election we just saw. states have safeguards in place that complicate that. our intelligence community and law enforcement are monitoring would-be attackers so that we can be tipped off in advance if they were to try to strike. so the most important safeguard this year is that all of the key states that it appears joe biden has flipped voted with paper ballots which are a kind of record that just can't be changed in a cyber attack.

eric: so what does that mean? explain that. people are saying, well, the machines change the votes, but the paper ballot is a paper trail. >> that's right, that's right. a paper a trail records the vote or's vote in a way that just can't later be changed. and as long as states go back and are have people examining enough of the paper ballots, we can verify that the outcome is as it seems. and that's exactly what georgia is doing now with this statewide hand recount. eric: the president tweeted this other day, let me read it to you. report: dominion deleted 2.7 million trump votes nationwide, data analysis finds 221,000 pennsylvania votes switched from trump to biden. states using dominion machines flipped votes from trump to biden. the claim is disputed but e twitter. yesterday he said tens of

thousands of votes, the election is rigged, he game in blames dominion. dominion says this is absolutely not true at all. what is your reaction, and what would you say to the president about those claims? >> well, there's just no truth to those claims. it's pure speculation, and it would be essentially impossible to change votes on the scale that's been claimed here. there are safeguards that exist between when you place your vote into a machine and when the results are reported. and what these claims are about, they're just based on looking at things that look very strange to some people in the reported numbers over time. but if a real attack had changed the reporting numbers, that's just so obvious to even that an attacker would be very, very quickly caught. and to allege that a company like dominion that not only sells these in many states

across the country, but hopes to sell future machines, would engage in an attack that they know they would be discovered doing, well, it doesn't make any sense. it's not a technically feasible claim whatsoever. eric: and finally, professor, some critics are claiming, well, dominion, they say it was designed by hugo chavez in venezuela, the software was developed for him, it was imported to america, that china and cuba are bemind it, and they're in ca can hoots with the democratic lobbyists who make money from this. the company says it is an american company, venezuela has nothing to do with it. what is your sense of this conspiracy theory? >> the bottom line is that whatever people believe about dominion the company, as long as we have votes that are recorded on pieces of paper, then other people -- that other people are checking in a way that can be publicly observed, everyone should be able to have confidence in the result. that's what's happening in georgia now, and with we need

all states to do that after every major election going forward. that's the major recommendation of computer scientists and election security experts. eric: professor jay alex haldeman of the university of michigan, professor, thank you, thank you for your insights on this, and we certainly will get back to you, because it doesn't seem like this issue will be going away. thank you. >> thank you. eric: arthel? arthel: well, eric, just a little more than 24 hours away from liftoff at cape canaveral on a historic launch. next, what makes this spacex mission and the astronauts on it so special? ♪ ♪ age is just a number. and mine's unlisted. try boost® high protein... -with 20 grams of protein for muscle health- -versus only 16 grams in ensure® high protein. and now enjoy boost® high protein in café mocha flavor. ♪here? nah.

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the launch is seen as cementing america's return to manned space flight with a diverse crew including japanese, african-american and female astronauts. here to talk about it is former nasa astronaut the tom jones. exciting, exciting. quite the impressive crew. their ride to space is the resilience crew dragon spacecraft. after launch, it'll take them eight and a half minutes to get to the office. tell us more about the mission, the work that lies ahead, and how long will it take to get the job done? >> well, arthel, this is a trip for six months to the international space station. usually, since 2011 we've been hauling our people back and forth on the russian soyuz rockets, so here we're finally going to completely commercial nasa-sponsored service to the space station not relying on the russians anymore. so this operational flight of the crew dragon with these four astronauts going to the space station marks a big milestone. as you said, resuming united

states launch activity. and it's an important capability for us to be out from under the russian monopoly. the crew goes up for six months, they dog their crew drag done -- dock their crew dragon spas station, it will stay with them x they'll join two russians and an american who are up there. for the next six months, we'll have seven people onboarding boosting the science capability of this space station. arthel: there was an engine abort during a launch in october. i understand the problem has been fixed since, and there has been an unpiloted test launch that happened, i think, nine days ago. tell us more about the issue and how involved was it to fix it, do you know? >> i do. nasa and spacex collaborated on finding out the cause of the pad abort, the aborted launch back in october. there are nine first stage engines called merlin engines on the first stage, and a couple of them had contamination, a flaky

coating that peeled off some of the pipping and obstructed a relief valve. well, they tracked down that contamination and removed a couple of engines on the flight that's going to take place tomorrow with the astronauts and made sure those engines were up to snuff. and then to add confidence, there was an unmanned satellite launch of a falcon 9 that was successful in early november, and then just last wednesday they fired up all nine engines on the crew transport rocket to make sure that those engines could crank up normally, and all the signatures of the start-up were normal, and now that rocket's ready to go tomorrow. arthel: very good. well, we have to say this is very crucial for the american space flight to be independent of russian space flight. do you expect more trips like in the future? like this in the futuresome. >> there's a whole sequence both on spacex in 2021 and soon boeing will have the starliner

in service as well, probably next summer sometime. so we'll have two ways to get independently to the space station in cause one of those goes down, we have the redun dancy there. and by having seven people onboard, we will have more science productivity out of the space station crew. and when you add one extra person, you can work 40 hours a week, essentially, on science while the other folks have to do maintenance as well as science. we get a big boost in product it in the remaining ten years' lifetime of the space station. arthel: very exciting, it is for me. i know it is for you, tom jones. >> yeah. i wish i was there to watch it tomorrow. arthel: good luck with the weather tomorrow. yes, thank you. >> thank you. arthel: okay s. and, of course, we're going to cover every moment of america's return to space, the crew one launch is scheduled for tomorrow night at 7:27 p.m. eastern. fingers crossed for the weather, guys. we're going to have live coverage right here on the fox news channel. we are back in a moment with more news. ♪

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eric: well, a united nations report details some new violations of the iran nuclear deal saying that tehran has moved a group of centrifuges underground. kurtty logan has more on this development in london.

huh, kitty. >> reporter: hi, eric. yes, iran has been breaching the limits set in that deal for some time now although it still does allow international expecters to monitor this -- inspectors to monitor this. the iaea says it's also enriching to a higher pure few than announced. this is apparently a response to the u.s. launching new sanctions. tehran claims, as ever, that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. of course, in that 2015 agreement iran had promised to comply to limits on its uranium enrichment program. now that's no longer the case, the other signatories including france, germany and the u.k. have tried to hold the agreement together. those countries insist it is still the best option that registrations have become increasingly strained. -- relations. president-elect biden has said he's open for the u.s. to rejoin that iran deal.

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arthel: state and local officials across the country are now imposing new restrictions as coronavirus cases surge heading into the holiday season. the u.s. reporting more than

180,000 new cases in one day for the first time happening yesterday. hello, everyone. welcome to a brand-new hour of america's news headquarters. i'm arthel neville. hi, eric. eric: hello, arthel. they'll low, everyone. -- hello, everyone. thank you for joining us. i'm eric shawn. some states are calling for more of aggressive approach to try to curb the virus as icu beds are running out in some states and some governors who resisted mask mandates for the last nine months now are telling their residents to wear a mask. meanwhile, new york governor andrew cuomo says he will hold an emergency summit with the governors of five other northeastern states to try to align on policies to fight coronavirus, that announcement coming as new york's bars, restaurants and gyms are being recorded to close at 10:00 p.m., private gatherings being limited even smaller in the state, and new york city mayor bill de blasio warns the city's schools could shut down next week.

charles watson is live in atlanta, the headquarters for the cdc. >> reporter: with more than 10 of .8 million confirmed cases and more expected as infections grow, officials move toward tightening restrictions. chicago enforced a stay at home advisory in response to surging coronavirus infections. the advisory will begin monday and will be in place for at least 30 days. mayor lori lightfoot urging folks not to leave their homes for anything other than essential needs. the city is also advising people not to have visitors in their homes and to avoid nonessential travel including for the upcoming thanksgiving holiday. >> if we do not step up and do the things that we know actually work to protect ourselves, to protect our families, protect people in our network, protect our colleagues, by the end of this year we will lose at least

1,000 more lives. >> reporter: and on friday, new mexico and oregon followed up with state-wide near lockdown restrictions that will last for at least two weeks. other states seeing rising cases such as new york haven't gone as far as a full lockdown but are imposing restrictions. governor andrew cuomo will hold an emergency senate over the weekend with governors of five other northeast states to align policies in an attempt to fight the pandemic. so eric, we are seeing more states join together to try to get a grip on the pan h pandemi. will that method of work? only time will tell. eric. eric: we're headed into a difficult winter, i'm afraid. charles watson, thank a you, charles. arthel. arthel: meanwhile, several pro-trump groups holding rallies in washington today, echoing the president's claim of voter fraud and urging him not to concede the election to president-elect

joe biden. to be clear, there is no proof that the results were fraudulent. rich edson is live in washington with more. hi, rich. >> reporter: hey, good evening, arthel. it all started here this morning, this is freedom plaza, right around the corner from the white house, right down the road from the capitol building where a large group of supporters, tens of thousands gathered earlier today, they walked down by the capitol and supreme court and now they're streaming back. they're still chanting and singing in some cases. it was a largely peaceful day of protesting and demonstrating here in washington, d.c., though metropolitan police department say they have made 10 of arrests related today's events. four were for firearm violations, one for assault on a police officer, one for no permit, two for disorderly conduct. they say they'll have the final numbers for arrests surrounding today later on and tomorrow. there were counter-protesters here, there were biden

supporters here, so there was an awful lot of verbal altercations. we didn't see much today that amounted to physical fighting. so what you've got now here is many folks protesting, gathering throughout the day. president trump did manage to come by earlier today before the main march started down the block, the mile and-a-half walk down there. many in the group are picking up on the president's unfounded claim that there was widespread election fraud and that the election was stolen. state governments in key swing states have reported wide enough leads for outlets to call the election. d.c. is monitoring social media throughout the day to make sure there wasn't any type of violence planned for today here in washington, d.c. there had been a solid police presence in washington throughout the day. you've got d.c. police department, also with the federal police watching throughout the day. it was a crowded day in downtown

washington, d.c., the crowd is beginning to fan out as this is finished here and the president is back at the white house. arthel: rich edson, thank you very much. eric. eric: arthel, president trump was touting progress on coronavirus vaccine during his appearance at the white house yesterday. you know, it was his first public remarks since he was defeated by president-elect joe biden. his campaign still pushing ahead with the legal challenges to the election even as the flurry of lawsuits have been hit with mostly setbacks in three key swing states. let's go to david spunt live on the north lawn on the white house with the very latest on the president's legal strategy. hi, david. >> reporter: hello. it is quite a large legal strategy that continues at this evening. at this point, the president does not seem any closer to accepting defeat or throwing in the towel. he's been tweeting more and more online that he either won the race or the election was rigged. twitter continuously is flagging these tweet as misinformation, saying that they are just not

correct information. elections officials in 50 of states are saying there was no sense of widespread fraud. but the battles in court continue. several states there are lawsuits right now, pennsylvania specifically, that's one the president has been heavily focusing on some of these lawsuits, difficult to trace because they're filed, eric, and a day or so later they're with drop. big cities, other municipalities on the list. in arizona, the legal team dropped a lawsuit after it was clear they could not catch up to president-elect biden's lead. in pennsylvania, the campaign is pushing ahead with an attempt to block the election results from being certified in the keystone state, although results will be certified on november 23rd. the campaign experienced three blows in that state recently, all dealing with the counting of ballots. the secretary of the commonwealtcommonwealth out witf news, she said she will not

order a recount or recanvas because biden's lead was that significant. last week attorney general bill barr put out a memo telling his u.s. attorneys to monitor and report any substantial irregularities with ballots. the washington post out with a report that 16 attorneys charged with monitoring irregularities found nothing substantial. president trump yesterday in the rose garden with good news, talking about covid relief and a potential covid vaccine. i want to put out the tweet he put out today. president trump out with a tweet says congress must do a covid relief bill, needs democrat support, need it big and focused. get it done. yesterday in the rose garden the president announced a vaccine would be available widely to many americans in april. those most vulnerable by december. eric. eric: david, at the white house, thank you. arthel. arthel: eric and david, president-elect joe biden is on his way back to wilmington, delaware after meeting with advisors today and spending time with his family at their

vacation home. we're still waiting to hear his pick for key cabinet positions which the president-elect says will come before thanksgiving. some names now making the short list of contenders. let's go to hillary vaughn, live in delaware with more. hi, hillary. >> reporter: hi, arthel. well, we were on a call with president-elect joe biden's transition team yesterday and while president-elect biden has said access to classified information would be useful but not necessary, now his transition team is saying every day that there is a delay getting access to this information is a national security risk. >> with every day that passes, it becomes more concerning that our national security team and the president-elect and the vice president-elect don't have access to threat assessments, intelligence briefings, real-time information about our of engagements around the world,

because, you know, you don't know what you don't know. >> reporter: while president-elect joe biden works to fill out his cabinet, he's weighing a big decision regarding the national security team today. fox news is learning one of the biggest decisions on the table right now is who to pick for secretary of state. fox news is learning a list of names on the short list, that a transition officials say are on it at the moment, at the top, former ambassador susan rice who former president obama is pushing as his favorite. rice not only has the foreign policy chops to be secretary of state, but she's already been vetted because she was on a list as a possible vp pick for biden earlier this year. also on the list, senators chris kuhns, a long-time biden friend and fellow delaware resident and also connecticut senator chris murphy. the transition team has been tight lipped about who are the top contenders for biden's cabinet.

they're up against a tight timeline, promising to announce picks before thanksgiving. biden's signal today while out on a bike ride that he's making progress on getting closer to a decision. >> are you any closer to making a cabinet decision? >> yes. [cheers and applause] >> reporter: and arthel, we are getting an idea of how a biden/harris administration would look different than a president trump administration, a biden official tells me that under a president biden, they will bring back the white house daily press briefings. arthel. arthel: and a dog is already going to be there too. so there you go. hillary vaughn, thank you very much. eric. eric: well, as for the president's legal push challenging the results in some states, a philadelphia appeals court has denied five lawsuits from the trump campaign alleging voting problems in pennsylvania. in fact, yesterday the trump lawyers were in court in

downtown philadelphia and in one case they admitted that they were not alleging any voter fraud whatsoever. legal experts now say the remaining trump lawsuits have little chance of success and are unlikely to change the outcome of the presidential election. brian llenas is live in downtown philadelphia with the latest on their progress. hi, brian. >> reporter: hi, eric. good evening. the trump campaign suffering a string of legal losses in pennsylvania yesterday. first, here in philadelphia, where a judge denying the trump campaign's effort toes out some 8300 mail ballots over what they called defects. the judge sided with the philadelphia board of elections that the mail ballots had minor technical errors and should count. some ballots had maybe missing signatures, others printed addresses, some foreof got to write in the -- forgot to write in the date. 9300 mail ballots were

postmarked by election day and arrived three days after. the judge rejected the effort toes out 592 mail-in ballots over voters failing to fill out information on the outer envelopes. next week is the trump campaign's biggest lawsuit to date. it is an attempt to convince a federal judge that pennsylvania's mail-in voting system is unconstitutional because it created an unfair, unequal two-tier voting system that lacked transparency and verifiableity. >> what we're seeking to do is enjoin the secretary of state from prematuring certifying the results before we can get a handle on where the involved tallies are and whether we can get an automatic recount. >> reporter: despite their efforts thus far, the secretary of state says there won't be an automatic recount because president-elect joe biden is currently leading at 0.9%. automatic recounts trigger when

the lead is half a percent or less. president-elect biden is up by 63,000 votes. legal experts say the trump campaign's legal arguments thus far, well, they've been a long shot. >> the best lawyer can't spin straw into gold. if you don't have evidence and you have to push an extreme and ououtlandish legal nearly, thers no way -- theory, there's no way to make that look good. >> reporter: none of the lawsuits in pennsylvania have not been claiming widespread voter fraud. they haven't shown evidence of that. they've been relying on election code technicalities and constitutional arguments thus far. eric: brian, thanks so much. arthel. arthel: there will be two dogs in the white house, once again. okay. georgia right now is the center of the political universe, two senate runoffs are well underway with millions of dollars pouring into the peach state.

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but we can't sign up for that here. yeah, but i'm just like warming up to those speeds. you've lived here two years. the personal attacks aren't helping, karly. don't you have like a hot pilates class to get to or something? [ muffled scream ] stop living with at&t. xfinity can deliver gig to the most homes. eric: well, election day may have come and gone but the race

for control of the senate continues. the current balance, 50 of 5 republicans, -- 50 republicans, 48 democrats. everyone is looking to see what happens in georgia. the results will determine whether or not the senate remains in republican control, or whether mitch mcconnell keeps his job to majority leader or it flips to the democrats and the job goes to chuck schumer. man, john, a lot on the line in georgia. a double senate contest, 51 days from now. what do you sunshine da-what do you think? what do you expect? >> this is fascinating. it will be a titanic battle over the next month or so as republicans rush in and democrats rush in to organize and try to win these two seats. right now it's 50-48. the democrats would need both of them. if they got both of 24e7 them it

would be potentially tie votes in the senate which kamala harris as the new vice president presiding over the senate could break, in favor of the democrats. the republicans only need to win one of those seats to maintain the majority. so the question is, who is going to have majority of the senate. and as a result of that majority, will president biden be able to advance his agenda, everything from taxes to immigration to regulation to international affairs, a lot of those approvals are going to have to go through the senate and he wants to have the senate onon-board. eric: you've got senator purdue and senator loeffler, they were campaigning together, putting up a united front, saying we're the firewall. you don't want the senate to go to the democrats, vote for us. the democrats are saying we're the firewall, we could tip the

senate. which group is more energized and jazzed by the stakes? >> i think both are. lindsey weiss has a piece on this on wsj.com right now about how the energizing is taking a place. the republicans are incredibly well-organized. they were onto this before election day, they could see this possibility. they began organizing for it, putting people in the field, knocking on doors. there's going to be some additional voter registration that can happen before the vote takes place in january. in early january. john ossoff, the democrat is running against david purdue, is going after the 23,000 young people who came of age and can now vote after election day, november 3rd. they didn't qualify before but they're now able to vote. so you're seeing that kind of microscopic focus on new voters, on people who perhaps didn't

turn out for the presidential election. stacy abrams' group, fair fight, has been tremendously effective in turning out the vote. so it's going to be a grass roots battle to get the most republicans or democrats to the polls for this and you've got two very well-organized parties, republicans and democrats, as the case is, in georgia that are going to be fighting that out. eric: president trump so far as we know lost the state. the recount is ongoing. but if the president did lose as it seems is what happened, does he go there and campaign? or does he go there and campaign say, hey, you didn't do the right thing by me but you can do it by the republicans or of does that boomerang back and energize the democrats? >> well, there you go. you've asked i think the operative question. is it good or bad for the president to go to georgia? does he want to? does he kind of care anymore because georgia went against him

in the presidential election and the electors are in biden's camp, you know, he lost the state. so is he really sort of interested in trying to galvanize anything anymore if the majority is going to be after he departs office on january 20. on the other hand, he's pretty good at energizing a base. and so i think that you see the senators there kind of eager for him to come down but so far, no word. rick scott, marco rubio, senators from florida, republican senators, have already come out and helped loeffler and purdue at rallies in their effort to get out the vote so you're seeing the republican organization galvanize around these dan cates and the democrat -- these candidates and the democrat organization doing so and little i don't think so of dollars -- millions of dollars being spent on this race.

in georgia, you'll see pretty much nothing but wall to wall democratic and republican ads. eric: they say it could behalf a billion dollars. quickly, you've got to go through christmas -- you've got to go through thanksgiving, then you have christmas and new years. are people going to go not again or are they going to go yeah, i'm going. >> the coronavirus, are people going to want to come out again? are they going to want to engage in politics with the coronavirus getting worse and worse or are they going to look at the worsening situation and be angry about the fact that this was mismanaged and the problem has gotten as bad as it has and perhaps that spurs people to come out and vote. it's unclear. and at this point it seems like you've got two horses that are pulling about the same and they're very extremely well organized and very much focused on this race because for the

republicans it's the house -- it's the senate majority. for biden and the democrats, it's controlling both chambers of congress and the presidency. eric: a lot of high stakes and another election to go, just when you thought it was over, as al pacino, they pull you right back in. >> they pull you right back in. eric: john bussey, wall street journal, good to see you. arthel: while house speaker nancy pelosi is largely expected to retain her gavel, democrats will be dealing with a slimmer majority after republicans flipped several seats this election. speaker pelosi also has to keep you're caucus united, amid growing divisions between progressives and moderates. chad pergrum has more on what the new congress might look like. >> reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi often uses the phrase know your power, so i posed that very question to the speaker today.

is there any way by having a smaller majority and what that means to the caucus and the house and your -- >> may i remind you that we have a president of the united states, we have a president of the united states. that is so h very important. >> reporter: that means pelosi's power is diminished. she's no longer the centerpiece of the democratic political universe. >> i think having a president of your party changes the dynamics. joe biden is going to be at the top of the ticket and representing us. >> reporter: pelosi says democratic losses aren't on her. >> do you accept any responsibility for the losses? >> i take credit for winning a majority. >> reporter: still, pelosi must grapple with internal divisions, kevin mccarthy said democrats veered towards socialism, conservative democrats believe liberal democrats nearly cost the party the house and progressives are doubling down. >> defunding the police in order to fund other areas has

people going apopeliptic. this is about a budgetary shift. >> reporter: democrats won the house in 2018 partly because of pelosi's power flipping seats in california. republicans reclaimed a number of those seats in the golden state this year, including a victory by a korean american congresswomanelect. >> when we stick to the issues and we try to work with residents and work for residents, i think we're going to keep winning. >> reporter: it's not even 2021 yet. the gop gains means that republicans are already looking toward the 2022 midterms and a chance to flip the house. eric: there's dire warnings from state and local officials saying that coronavirus is now spreading like wildfire.

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arthel: time for a look at some of the stories making headlines today. thousands marched through washington to show their support for president trump and protest the results of the election. the president has claimed without evidence that the election was stolen and has refused to concede to president-elect joe biden. the protest comes despite warnings from public health officials that the coronavirus is spreading dangerously fast. nevada's governor says he has tested positive for coronavirus and is now quarantining. the governor says he has no symptoms. nevada recorded a record high of more than 1800 new infections yesterday.

and central america is bracing for what could be its second major hurricane in as many weeks, forecasters say tropical storm iota could strengthen to a category 3 storm before making landfall early next week. iota is the 30th named storm of the atlantic hurricane season, breaking the record set in 2005. ♪ eric: minnesota is reporting more than 8,000 new coronavirus cases just today, that is a new record for the state. the most cases in a single day so far. the staggering numbers are taking a toll on the local hospitals. some say they are about to run out of icu beds. sarah danic from fox 9 minneapolis has the story. >> reporter: thursday's single day covid case record comes with several side effects. fuller hospitals and less

hospital staff. >> that puts a lot of pressure on your coworkers to try to give high quality care that we're known for in minnesota. >> reporter: more healthcare workers are becoming infected with covid, leaving those who are able to work being asked to do more with less. >> you have that larger patient assignment. there's less time that that nurse gets to spend with you and that one on one quality fair. >> reporter: a nurse union representative says at abbott northwestern they're being asked to increase nurse to patient ratios and do emergency covid charting. >> that's a concern for us that we're going to minimal charting, a huge safety concern. >> reporter: they're looking at options like contracting with traveling nurses and utilizing in-house programs to manage hospital volumes. the president of the nurse's union tells us she's hearing from anxious nurses all over the state. >> everybody has it now and so now you've got a situation where i feel like the whole union is

-- the whole state of minnesota, the nurses are in hyper alert. >> reporter: turner says one option might be for systems to spread out nonemergency surgeries, to keep more hospital beds open, she says something even easier is to wear your mask out in public. >> please, please, do it at least for the nurses and doctors and other frontline healthcare work he's that want to be there, if you need us. >> reporter: and they're reminding people tonight now is not the time you want to find yourself in a hospital for a non-covid related issue, warning folks there may not be enough hospital beds if we don't get the spread of covid under control. sarah danic, fox 9. arthel: do it for the nurses and the doctors, so they can help us. texas and california meanwhile hit a disturbing statistic this week, reporting more than 1 million coronavirus cases, this as the number of deaths from the virus is quickly rising. more than 1,000 americans are dying on average every day,

that's 50% increase in the last month. the resurgence of the virus comes at a time when many americans are preparing to celebrate the holidays. some health experts are sounding the alarm about family gatherings. dr. aashish jha joins us now, the dean of brown university's school of public health. we'll get to the holidays in a second. we've got texas and california making headlines today, just saw that report from minnesota, but it just seems like the bulk of the united states is a collective triage. what scenario demands the most immediate attention and treatment? >> yes, good evening, thanks for having me here. much of the country is aflame right now in terms of number of infections that are happening right now. we're identifying 150 to 170,000 infections a day. all the estimates i've made and others have made suggest we're probably missing two-thirds to three-quarters of cases.

there are probably 4 or 500,000 infections happening every day. and we're seeing it in the fact that hospitals are getting pretty full. so if you think about what are the priorities. obviously, we've got to keep hospitals from getting overwhelmed because we need hospitals not just for covid but for other things as well. and we've got to prevent deaths and the way to do that is to wear masks and avoid gatherings. that's what we've got to do right now. arthel: the holidays are upon us. should we gather as a family for thanksgiving? should we travel home for christmas? >> this is such a hard question. i'll tell you, every thanksgiving i see my family and my extended family, my elderly parents. we're not doing it this year. we're speaking to my spouse and kids. we're not seeing extended family, mostly because i want them around next year. i think travel to thanksgiving, large family gatherings are incredibly dangerous this year. i feel like we've let this virus get out of control and you now unfortunately we just can't afford to do that without

getting people sick. arthel: meanwhile, the number of deaths, the cases are staggering. but not every american has had a chosen counter with coronavirus or covid. so perhaps to them the pandemic is not so intestimony dating, i don't -- intimidating, i don't need to wear a mask, i don't need to social distance. how can doctors, the scientists, the frontliners convince that crowd to comply? >> yeah, i mean, look, you shouldn't have to have a family member die before you decide this is serious, right. and so you have to trust people who take care of you and those are america's nurses and doctors and what we're hearing from nurses and doctors across the country in every state n every region, is things are very, very bad. we're seeing lots of people dying in hospitals across the nation. and i think it's up to our political leaders and religious leaders to stand up at this

moment and tell people they've got to wear a mask. wearing a mask is a small thing you can do to protect yourself, your family, and your community, avoiding large gatherings. these are basic minimum things that everybody has to be doing right now. arthel: there is promising news about vaccines in our near future and the science relies on data but there's still unknowns. i want to know how encouraged are you about a coronavirus vaccine or vaccines availability, distribution, storage, training to administer it, where on the body you get the shot. you know, what's your wait and see position? >> yeah, so we are waiting for data. right now we've seen preeses and a -- press releases and a little bit of data. let's talk about the good news. the vaccines are coming and they look like they're going to be even more effective than i thought they were going to be and i expect, and again, don't know for sure because we'll have to see but i expect by january 1, two or even three vaccines might be authorized for use.

the challenge is that we've got to get a couple hundred million americans vaccinated. it's incredible logistical challenge. we haven't done all the work needed to make that happen. so it's probably going to take us three, four months, if everything goes very well, maybe longer, before a majority of americans get vaccinated. that's why we've got to hang on tight here. we can't let people die in the last days before things start getting better, under better control. if we can hang on for a couple months, things will start getting better. arthel: well, that is encouraging news. wrapping up here, i mean, how do the grim and alarming numbers -- you know, we know -- if i want you to take off your white coat for a moment, how does this sound to you as a person? you mentioned you have elderly parents who you're not going to see this thanksgiving because of the coronavirus and you want to just stick to your immediate family. i mean, how does this affect you personally? >> it's been awful.

i mean, it's been awful for me. it's been awful for everybody i know, the way people have been locked down. i've got three children. it's been awful for them. they've been mostly out of school for much of the year. the fact that we have let this pandemic get out of control, driven in part by all the misinformation out there, but also just we haven't taken it seriously enough. i think all of us are feeling the weight of it. the good news here is it is going to get better. 2021 will be meaningfully better. just that we're in a pretty tough moment right now. i think if we can hang on, do the basic things, i promise it's going to be better in '21. arthel: meanwhile, i wish you and your family good health and please stay safe. dr. aashish shaw, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. eric: better in '21. let's certainly hope so. thank you, doctor. world leaders are reaching out to president-elect joe biden as his team prepares to roll back president trump's america first policies. what they are telling him, next.

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prevagen. healthier brain. better life. eric: president-elect joe biden already making big foreign policy plans for his first days in office. we've been told he's been speaking with some world leaders, mostly u.s. allies, about reversing the course of the trump administration's america first policy. what is he telling them and what are they saying to him? let's bring in our next guest, dr. shockey, director of foreign policy studies at the american enterprise institute. are these calls just like congratulations calls, like we look forward to working together on our shared interest, have a full and frank discussion, come visit me on downing street or the office or are they more substantive on concrete issues? >> you have clearly read a whole bunch of diplomatic readouts of

calls, to have gotten the language so right. yes, they are mostly diplomatic congratulations and not very substantive. eric: so okay, i know that diplomatic, state department type language but this is something else. many of these people obviously know biden very well for many years, having been vice president, having been a senator. but the state department is blocking, we're told, the communications. it usually goes through state because you don't want any wires crossed. how troubling is that? what does that mean? what should the trump administration do to change that? >> well, the trump administration should permit the beginning of the transition process, so that the state department is aware of what's being said to president-elect biden and involved in the conversations. the reason that the american transitions is 10 weeks long is

to give a sense of stability and continuity and starting the regular transition process would help that. but i don't think it's a cause for major concern that the state department hasn't facilitated those exchanges because as i said, i think things are pretty pro forma at this stage. european allies are heaving huge sayingsighs of relief that somey will feel more comfortable to them than the trump administration. saudi arabia and israel and some asian allies are worried because they've had very good relationships with the trump administration and shared perspectives on the security of their regions. but most allies and even some adversaries like china are just doing the diplomatic thing and congratulating a newly elected american president. eric: let's take a couple of those.

china, how does the foreign policy of the united states change under joe biden versus president trump? >> i would be surprised if the centrality of china in u.s. foreign policy changes because what has driven a broad bipartisan consensus to get a lot tougher on china than the obama administration was is china's aggressive and destabilizing behavior. so i think a biden administration, it will do some things differently than the trump administration did but china will continue to be the major focus, i believe. eric: russia, vladimir putin, does biden start calling out vladimir putin the way president trump has not? >> the biden campaign and president -- and president-elect biden himself have said they're going to do so. i think it's probably significant that vladimir putin is the only leader of a major country who hasn't yet called to congratulate president-elect

biden. i think they're looking to bring in even more transparency in financial transactions from putin and other russian leaders and i think that will be deeply uncomfortable for the russians. eric: iran, the iranian nuclear agreement, which mr. biden supports and the president of course pulled out. >> yeah. it's hard for me to see. i understand that the biden administration will want to return to the agreement, but there is a lot that's changed since then. iran has enriched 12 times the amount of uranium they were permitted under the agreement and we've seen the asense of -- ascension of hard liners in central arenas of power in iran. they're going to have a presidential election in a few months. it's very likely that because u.s. withdrawal from the

agreement didn't produce -- the agreement itself and especially after america's withdrawal didn't produce the kind of economic relief that iranians were hoping for, i think it's emboldened more conservative anti-american factions in the iranian leadership. eric: doctor, thank you. next time we'll get to kim jong un who is still building his missiles, despite everything. >> that's correct. eric: he's not going away. all right. doctor, thank you. arthel. arthel: well, eric, the world's best golfers are hitting the links in augusta, georgia as the masters tournament gets underway. they're not the only ones teeing off this weekend. hear why many americans are picking up a golf club and trying out the sport for the first time. ♪

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arthel: many businesses have suffered during the pandemic, but golf is one of the exceptions. grady tremble from fox business network has more. >> reporter: it turns out, golf is the perfect sport for social distancing, whether you're playing on a simulator here at five iron golf or you're playing rounds outside. they also do equipment sales

here and this company as well as many others have been the beneficiary of the golfing boom during the pan he demick. take a look at the numbers. sales in the third quarter surpassed $1 billion for golf equipment. that's up 42% compared to the same quarter last year. and look at the pos most popular items, bags, irons and wedges. take a look at people golfingouts side. in the midwest, a huge month of september, thanks to the good weather, rounds played up 25% compared to a year ago, in some states up 45% in minnesota. tim nagle is the general manager at five iron golf. you guys have really benefited from the renewed interest in the game. >> it's great to see new people out here, growing the game, seeing people playing and practicing. >> reporter: a lot of people realized when the pandemic hit, i need a new hobby. have you seen new customers. >> we've seen many new customers. from junior kids, to people 85

years old. >> reporter: if you look at the rounds played outdoors, for the entire year, even accounting for the shutdown earlier this year, a lot of courses were closed from march through april and in some cases even may. but even with that, rounds played are up about 9% across the country. so this is one of those sports that is actually benefiting from what's going on. back to you. eric: thanks, grady. arthel, have you ever played golf? arthel: i'm pretty good if someone is coaching me along the way. i'm not off the training wheels, but i'm pretty good at it. thanks for joining us. jon scott is up next. bye, eric. -versus only 16 grams in ensure® high protein. and now enjoy boost® high protein in café mocha flavor.

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>> president trump says coronavirus vaccine could be widely available by april. as the u.s. continues to shatter records for any cases. causing state and local leaders to once again impose restrictions in hopes of curbing another wave of infection. good evening i'm jon scott and this is the "fox report." jon: yesterday, president trump talked up administration efforts to have a vaccine developed and districted quickly in his first public remarks since joe biden was declared projected win of the election while the pandemic remains at the top of president trump's post election agenda, so are the lawsuits his campaign has filed in several key battle ground states in an effort to