>> you know. >> disney will good morning, america. after fighting on the front lines for months, health care workers rolling up their sleeves to get the first doses of the covid-19 vaccine. [ cheers and applause ] icu nurse sandra lindsay, one of the first recipients in the country, joins us live as the nation races to distribute potentially life-saving doses. hospitals overwhelmed with a record number of patients. the united states with more than 300,000 lives lost to the pandemic. dr. fauci joins us with what we can expect in the critical days and weeks ahead only on "gma" this morning. president-elect joe biden calls for unity after the electoral college certified his win. >> the courts sent a clear signal to president trump that they would be no part of an unprecedented assault on our

democracy. >> president trump refuses to concede but top republicans now congratulating biden. barr bows out. attorney general william barr resigns with less than a month left in office, after falling out of favor with president trump for acknowledging there was no widespread fraud in the election. triple threat. that groundbreaking vaccine distribution effort, the record-breaking surge in online shopping and all eyes on the major winter nor'easter on the move, threatening 55 million people. how all three could delay your holiday deliveries, and why you shouldn't wait another day to send those gifts. also this morning, many are firing back on behalf of dr. jill biden, including michelle obama, after that op-ed calling for the future first lady to lose doctor from her title, and why the editor is not backing down. christmas tree crunch. the real deal behind the spruce shortage if you're pining for

one, and how to make sure yours doesn't end up looking like this before the big day. ♪ i get knocked down but i get up again ♪ and monday night thriller. >> and here comes lamar jackson. >> the ravens quarterback leaving the game and then returning with two minutes to go for an epic come-from-behind victory, stunning the cleveland browns in the final seconds. >> how do you like that? we do say good morning, america. that was quite a game. >> that was a great game. probably the game of the season so far. oh, yeah. >> you've heard it here. >> i don't know if that means anything. >> but you heard it here. but we really want to talk about who is truly incredible. and those are health care heroes, they've been on the front lines since the pandemic began and now first in line for this moment.

you're looking live at the university of pittsburgh medical center where health care workers there are getting their shots. >> and we are going to hear from new york icu nurse sandra lindsay, there she is right there. the first person in the u.s. to receive the pfizer vaccine yesterday. she is standing by. the u.s. is racing to get those distributed at a critical time, a record 110,000 people are currently hospitalized with the virus here in the u.s. another 193,000 new cases reported on monday. now, more than 300,000 american lives lost to the virus. over 17,000 in just the last week. >> we will hear from dr. anthony fauci on the vaccine and also on the future of the country in just a few moments. but first, t.j. holmes starts us off at the university of pittsburgh medical center with more. good morning, t.j. >> reporter: hey, good morning. it really is something to see, guys, to be here to see someone actually being administered this vaccine we've been talking about for so long. this hospital, upmc children's hospital, is one of a number across the country that got a

special delivery yesterday, 975 doses of the vaccine, and immediately started to administer that vaccine and now these health care workers with just a prick in the arm are getting a new suit of armor. from hope to reality, after fighting on the front lines for months, american medical personnel getting their first jabs of the covid-19 vaccine. icu nurse sandra lindsay in new york among the first recipients in the country. [ cheers and applause ] across the country medical personnel who have been battling the virus nonstop taking part in historic vaccines from florida and louisiana to texas and colorado. >> i feel safer about coming home to my family at night after having this vaccine. >> reporter: new york city emergency medical doctor, dr. derosa like so many others have been treating covid patients. got his shot monday. >> i hope that this continues, this momentum to lead to people to really who are maybe on the

fence on getting the vaccination to make that decision to realize how important this is. >> reporter: west virginia governor jim justice becoming one of the first top elected officials to receive it. >> this is an achievement in this country beyond any you could ever think of. it's as safe as it can be. >> reporter: also getting one, 96-year-old margaret clessons. the world war ii vet becoming the first va patient to get the vaccine. but a reality check. "operation warp speed" hoping that more than 50 million americans will be vaccinated by the end of january with access for the general population by march. doctors hoping to reach herd immunity by summer but also complicating matters they still don't know how long the vaccine will last. for millions it's still a race against time and getting the vaccines to everyone who wants them can't come soon enough. on monday, the u.s. passing 300,000 deaths. 17,000 in the past 7 days, 101 fatalities an hour. across the country hospitals overwhelmed with new record highs and families in mourning like scott carpenter who lost

his wife toni to covid last month. >> if it saves a handful, it saves 10%, 20%. man, if that's your family member that gets saved, i am so thankful you did not have to experience what me and my children have experienced because it is the worst feeling in the world. >> reporter: it really is something to see these being administered. so this is an emergency physician here. she is getting the vaccine. so i want the viewers to see what's going on. you see those syringes sitting there. the doses come and they have to be kept in a freezer. so they're kept in this freezer and they had to be pulled out this morning and had to be thawed, put into the syringes and now that simply goes into her arm. now the syringes here that have the vaccine are only good for the next six hours. they gave us a specific time. 12:05 that they're only good until. doctor, what is this like? you have kids at home. you've worked at this hospital

for 13 years. in a pandemic. to finally have that shot in your arm? >> i'm so grateful and hope for what this means for our community and for this country. >> you can go home and feel a little safer. you have kids at home. you don't want to take anything home. >> i have three little ones at home, a husband and grandparents and i'm really glad that we have this now so that we can better take care of our families. >> thank you for letting us be here to be a part of this. this is history, robin. we've been covering this pandemic all year. to see a vaccine going into somebody's arm is a little chilling to be honest with you, but they are grateful for it. >> kind of her to let us share in that moment. t.j., thank you. joining us now is the new york nurse who was among the first in the country to receive the vaccine yesterday. sandra lindsay, you saw her getting the shot there yesterday. she's joining us live this morning. so how are you feeling this morning after getting the shot? >> good morning, robin, and thanks for having me on. i feel great and just to put

that in perspective, on a scale of one to ten, the pain at the injection site is a one and my temperature this morning was 98.1. no pain, no feeling of tiredness, no malaise, just feeling great. >> no muscle aches, no side effects whatsoever for you? >> no muscle aches. no side effects for me. >> very glad to hear that. well, first of all, let me say thank you. thank you to you and your colleagues for your tireless efforts there on the front lines since the very beginning. and you volunteered to take the vaccine because you said you wanted to be an example for others. can you explain more what you meant by that? >> yes, i volunteered. i am a leader in the organization and so i think it was incredibly important for me to lead by example like i do every day and to just inspire people and to give hope that

finally healing will take place around the world and just to show people that i'm grateful for their sacrifices and to send a message to people who might be on the fence that they should trust the science. they should trust the science. listen to the experts. ask questions. connect with their health care providers and to feel comforted knowing that the vaccine is safe. what is not safe is contracting covid-19. >> that is not. we know that for sure. but can you share a little bit more along those lines because there is hesitancy. you realize that. i heard that even some members on your staff were saying they wanted to wait just a few weeks. they want to get it, but want to wait and see in a few weeks. so you know the hesitancy all across the country. how do you continue to ease the fears that some people have about the vaccine?

>> so, to continue to share my experience, share what inspired me to take the vaccine, to share what i have seen on the front lines, what my team and i have been through for the past -- since march, to share those experiences with people so they know that it's real and hopefully that will change minds. i already have people coming to me or emailing me, texting me to say how much i have inspired them to take the vaccine. so that was my reason and i hope that just continues to resonate with more people. >> well, you inspire us by the work that you do each and every day. we appreciate it very much. saw you on the front pages in the new york papers and well deserving of your work and thank you so much. blessings to you. >> thank you, robin. >> all right, take care. george? >> thanks, robin.

we are joined now by dr. anthony fauci. dr. fauci, thanks for coming back again this morning. so we're seeing these first vaccines being administered as the country mourns more than 300,000 lives lost, 17,000 in the last week. how do you make sense of this moment? >> well, you know, it's bittersweet, george, because we are still in a terrible situation with the numbers that you mentioned, the deaths, the hospitalizations, the number of cases. and yet, we're really now starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel that is going to ultimately get us through this. we know we're going to be able to put this behind us, but in the meantime, we still have a struggle ahead of us. so we've got to get people vaccinated as quickly and as expeditiously as we possibly can until we get that herd immunity, as we say, which will require in my opinion about 75% to 80% of the population getting vaccinated. but in the meantime, we have to adhere to the public health measures in order to blunt the acceleration of these terrible

numbers that we hear every day. >> as you know there's still a lot of skepticism about the vaccine. i was just talking to a couple members of our crew here. the basic question is, how can we be sure it's safe when it was developed so quickly? >> you know, george, that's a great question. the speed was not at all at the sacrifice of safety. the speed was the reflection of extraordinary advances in the science of vaccine platform technology. to be able to do things technically in months that sometime ago, five, ten years ago may have taken several years. in addition, the extraordinary investment -- when i say investment, i'm talking hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars in getting the vaccine ready to be distributed as soon as it was proven to be safe and effective. so people understandably are skeptical about the speed, but we have to keep emphasizing speed means the science was extraordinary that got us here.

>> president-elect biden has named you his chief medical adviser. you're still serving with the current administration. how do you straddle these two worlds, and are we seeing the cooperation we need to see on production and distribution of the vaccine? >> well, we can do both because the goal is the same, george. i mean, my goal as a physician, a scientist, a public health official -- you know, we were very deeply involved and still are with the development of the vaccine, with the development of new drugs, with the policy about getting people out there like i'm speaking with you, encouraging people to abide by the public health measures. that's not going to change. i mean, the thing is going to be the same. we still have a lot of problems out there. we still have a great challenge. so i don't see any conflict at all. >> the biden team says that president-elect biden will take the vaccine in public when you give him the green light. should that happen right away? >> i believe so, george. i mean, this is a person who very soon will be the president of the united states.

the president -- vice president-elect kamala harris will very soon by the vice president of the united states. for security reasons, i really feel strongly that we should get them vaccinated as soon as we possibly can. you want him fully protected as he enters the presidency in january. that's my strong recommendation. >> what about president trump? he's already had the virus. should he take the vaccine? >> you know, if he were asking me, i would recommend he do that as well as vice president pence. you still want to protect people who are very important to our country right now. even though the president himself was infected and he has likely antibodies that likely would be protective, we're not sure how long that protection lasts. so to be doubly sure i would recommend that he get vaccinated as well as the vice president. >> dr. fauci, thanks for your time this morning. >> good to be with you, george, thank you for having me. >> a lot of information about

the vaccine right now. >> especially about how quickly it was put out and his explanation to it and that has been -- many people are wondering. there is a clear explanation as to why. >> and you can trust him. >> without a doubt. thank you, george. now we're going to turn to president-elect joe biden who's calling for unity while addressing the nation last night after the electoral college voted to formalize his victory in the november election. mary bruce is in washington with the very latest. good morning, mary. >> reporter: good morning, michael. well, with his victory now cemented joe biden is reaching out, not just to his supporters, but to those trump voters who may believe the president's false theories that this election was somehow rigged. biden last night speaking directly to them and laying out the facts. he's saying it's time to turn the pages on this divisive chapter and start to heal. with his victory official now president-elect joe biden is looking ahead to the hard work of uniting the country. >> we the people voted. faith in our institutions held. the integrity of our elections

remains intact. and now it's time to turn the page as we've done throughout our history. to unite, to heal. >> reporter: biden offering his strongest condemnation of president trump's baseless efforts to try to overturn the voters. >> they sent a clear signal. >> reporter: officials from both parties defended the integrity of the election. >> they knew this election was overseen, was overseen by them, and it was honest, it was free and it was fair. they saw it with their own eyes and they wouldn't be bullied into saying anything different. it was truly remarkable. >> reporter: all eyes now on republicans who by and large have refused to recognize biden's victory. this morning, some top republicans are starting to face the facts. >> are you now prepared to call biden the president-elect? >> i mean once somebody gets to 270 -- i understand they're voting right now.

but i think that's the process we have, yes. >> reporter: republican congressman paul mitchell has had enough, declaring he's leaving the party over his colleagues' refusal to accept biden's win calling it, quote, disgusting and demoralizing. in state capitols across the country the electoral process playing out as it should. but the president, still backed by some of his staunchest allies, is not acknowledging his loss vowing to keep challenging the election outcome. now, biden says he is starting to hear from some republican lawmakers and he told supporters last night that seven mostly senior republicans have reached out to him to say they're looking forward to working with his incoming administration. so biden seems to think the tide is changing but while privately republicans may acknowledge biden's win, many republicans are still wary to do so publicly and to break with president trump. michael? >> thank you so much for that, mary. i know you're sitting down with vice president-elect kamala harris today. >> yeah, i'll be heading out there in just a little bit.

and there's so much to discuss with her about, especially on the heels of the electoral college confirmed result, george. >> it's all official right now. we are following a lot of other headlines this morning including holiday shipping triple threat. there is a monster storm on the way and why you don't want to wait another day to send gifts. the backlash over the columnist writing dr. jill biden should drop doctor from her title. michelle obama one of many who has something to say about that. but first let us go to ginger. good morning, ginger. >> good morning, robin. wednesday afternoon through thursday morning impacts felt from north carolina to massachusetts. the heart of it, allentown, harrisburg, pennsylvania, morristown, new jersey. what does that mean? i'll tell you in a bit. your local weather in 30 seconds. first the tuesday trivia sponsored by dick's sporting goods. sponsored by dick's sporting goods.

good morning. i'm abc7 news meteorologist mike nicco. partly cloudy today. we have hazardous conditions along our beaches through at least tomorrow and our next storm is going to give us a good, quick soaking tomorrow night. it's a 1 on the storm impact scale. tonight, some upper 30s in our inland valleys. low to mid-40s for the rest of we got a lot of news ahead. stay right there. we'll be right back.

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on that russian cyberattacked involved not just the treasury and commerce departments but also, homeland security and national institute of health and accuse the russians of hacking into the emails and communications of top government officials. update on keyontae johnson. remember we saw that he collapsed in the middle of a game. the university of florida says he is following simple commands. his father said he reminds in critical but stable condition. the cause of the collapse still unknown. >> our thoughts are with him. first, millions are in the path of that major storm headed for the northeast threatening to disrupt an already overworked shipping industry, as carriers try to move the first doses while keeping up with higher than usual holiday demand and our transportation correspondent gio benitez has the story. >> reporter: experts tell us that your packages may still arrive late and that's because you have three major events

happening all at once. this morning, the trifecta of challenges for shipping companies from coast to coast. an unprecedented vaccine distribution effort, record-breaking shipments and now that massive winter storm hitting the northeast. do you think we've ever seen a shipping season this busy? >> no, i -- not in my lifetime and not that i can imagine. >> reporter: today is the last day to get your ground shipments out in time for a christmas delivery but supply chain expert tim craft says even that may not happen. the pandemic creating a massive surge in online shopping. so you're looking at a more than 40% increase just in online sales? >> just in online, that's a massive increase as compared to the traditional 15, 15% increase we typically see. >> reporter: an estimated 3 billion packages will be delivered this holiday season dramatically more than last year's 2.2 billion. both u.p.s. and fedex had already suspended money back guarantees for on time delivery.

the companies collectively hiring 170,000 more employees to get through the ship-a-thon. now all eyes on that major nor'easter affecting more than 55 million people. u.p.s., which has been shipping 34 million packages a day, telling abc news our in-house meteorology team continues to monitor the weather and we'll make contingency plans to route the packages around the storm. >> get your packages out now and prepare yourself. the reality is, there's probably going to be some packages that either you sent or that you ordered online that just aren't going to be there on time for the holidays. >> reporter: if you miss today's ground shipping deadline your best bet is to select that more expensive air shipping option but, again, i can't stress this enough, that does not guarantee that your packages will arrive on time. michael. >> no guarantee, gio. thank you so much. we'll bring back ginger for more on the major storm and what

to expect. hey, ginger. >> hey, michael, it has already started. utah on the highways seeing four to five inches of snow and that low pressure system also dropping up an inch around denver. making the roads quite slick. it's going to get its life together and that means the coastal storm will grab a bunch of moisture and energy and head right up the appalachians. i really want you to know it's different for every city. so pay attention here. washington, d.c., snow starts around noon but a short window and changes over to a mix or rain, then philadelphia, new york city it's late afternoon through evening when it starts. that rain/snow line will be so close and that could cut down totals especially south. so if you're in delaware, maryland, southern new jersey you're getting cut down on totals. the heaviest snow looks like northern new jersey into parts of pennsylvania, the poconos certainly, north of new york, say newburg to hartford, connecticut, that's where you see the heaviest totals wednesday night through early thursday morning into new england. don't forget, george, this comes

with wind gusts up to 50 miles per hour. so we'll keep an eye on these totals going into the thursday morning time period. >> we know it is coming. thanks very much. we turn to president trump who announced his attorney general william barr is resigning after a controversial tenure. our chief justice correspondent pierre thomas is in washington with the latest. good morning, pierre. >> reporter: george, good morning. bill barr came into the trump cabinet a true believer and thought the president had been treated unfairly in the russia probe and was no fan of the mueller investigation. he was a true believer in the power of the chief executive trying to help the president wherever he could leading his critics to say that he was acting more like the president's personal attorney than the nation's chief law enforcement officer but in recent weeks the relationship grew tense with barr announcing that the justice department and the fbi did not find the kind of evidence of wide-scale voter fraud that would change the outcome of the election. that directly contradicted the primary messaging of president trump and then it was revealed

that barr kept secret an ongoing investigation of hunter biden. despite intense pressure from the president and ultimately republicans, sources say that he did not do what the president wanted him to do 100% of the time so it was time to go, george. >> pierre thomas, thanks very much. we now have that fallout from that op-ed about incoming first lady dr. jill biden. saying she should drop the title doctor because she is not a physician. many calling the article sexist and now former first lady michelle obama is among those who have something to say about that. rachel scott is in washington with more on this first. good morning, rachel. >> reporter: robin, good morning. she does and so do so many other women this morning. the opinion editor for "the wall street journal" is standing by publishing those words calling it fair comment but many are saying what was written about dr. jill biden would have never been written about a man. this morning, women are rallying behind dr. jill biden, speaking out against that controversial op-ed calling for her to lose

the "doctor" from her title. it was this opinion piece in "the wall street journal" that triggered the backlash. joseph epstein writing a wise man once said no one should call himself a doctor unless he has delivered a child. epstein referring to the future first lady who has a doctorate in education and two masters degrees as kiddo, asking, any chance you might drop the doctor before your name? dr. jill biden sounds and feels fraudulent, not to say a touch comic. former first lady michelle obama saying those comments strike to the heart of what women have been hearing for years sharing on instagram, we're all see bag also happens to so many professional women. whether their titles are doctor, ms., mrs. or even first lady, all too often our accomplishments are met with skepticism, even derision. hillary clinton firing back. her name is dr. jill biden, get used to it, and the soon-to-be second gentleman doug emhoff writing, this story would never have been written about a man.

northwestern university where joseph epstein had once given lectures saying in a statement, they are firmly committed to equity, diverse, and inclusion and strongly disagree with his views. the daughter of martin luther king jr. noting her father was a nonmedical doctor as well. online women with doctorates adding their titles to their twitter handles to stand in solidarity with biden. >> there are many things in the world we can argue and debate about and there are two or more sides of but whether we should denigrate women for their professional achievements, that is not a point on which we can argue. we should all be able to agree that the time for that sort of prejudice is long gone. >> reporter: even after all the pushback, "the wall street journal's" opinion editor defended publishing those words saying, the outrage is overwrought because whether you agree or disagree, mr. epstein's piece was fair comment. and as for dr. biden, she tweeted this message, together we will build a world where the accomplishments of our daughters will be celebrated, rather

than diminished. and dr. jill biden's team has labeled that op-ed sexist and disgusting and calling for it to be taken down. guys. >> wow. >> i mean, come on. >> yeah. but "the wall street journal" is defending their right and saying they're not going to take it down. >> hmm. >> you know, but really it's -- -- >> who needs it? >> do you give it oxygen by talking about it? do you give it energy but you do have to bring attention to it in saying this is outrageous. >> she earned the degree. >> she earned it. >> i mean i got an honorary and i call myself a doctor so -- >> there you have it. >> i didn't earn it. i'm just saying. coming up, christmas tree crunch. why you can't find one in some areas. the important steps to make your tree last through the big holiday.

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christmas just ten days away and demand for trees is soaring making them hard to find during this pandemic. janai norman joins us now with tips on how to get a good tree. >> reporter: if you're looking to get a christmas tree the week and a half left, it could be slim pickings at tree farms like this one that have sold hundred, they only have a few dozen left like this one and two more tree farms up the road all sold out. this was something during the pandemic families were looking forward to trying to get those trees early.

♪ oh christmas tree oh christmas tree ♪ >> reporter: they're the classic symbol of the holiday season. >> there it is. >> reporter: christmas trees, whether large and luscious and full of green needles, or small and bare. >> it's not bad at all really. maybe it just needs a little love. >> reporter: but this year it's harder than ever to get your hands on one. >> where is your christmas spirit? >> reporter: the pandemic increasing freight costs of shipping trees as demand is at its peak leaving some empty-handed and pining for that perfect tree. at boyd christmas tree farm in north carolina, darren nicholson says they've been sold out of trees for more than two weeks. >> if you got them, it's like having gold. >> reporter: but the reported shortage in trees began long before the pandemic. >> typically seven to ten years to grow a tree from a seedling.

it's about, you know, six inches tall to a tree ready for your home, so a grower has to make the decision almost ten years out. >> reporter: while supplies may seem low the national christmas tree association assures us trees are available. >> some places might have run out but we know there are trees out there. >> so where there is a will there is a way, janai, but buying your tree early means you have to care it for longer. leyla learned it the hard way, she's one of our writers. she bought it before thanksgiving and she lost all the needles so the question is, how do you keep your trees alive and looking good all through the christmas season? >> george, when i saw that video of her tree i felt really bad for her and her family. this starts before you get the tree. as soon as you get it cut the trunk so your tree can get as much water as possible. you've got to make sure it's away from direct heat or sunlight so a space heater or radiator has to be a good distance away and i'm someone

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♪ something big i feel it happening ♪ george and george. stephanopoulos talks to clooney about "midnight sky," quarantining with the kids and how clooney really feels about turning 60. and wonder woman is almost here. this morning, gal gadot joins us live swinging into "gma" as we say, good morning, america. let's see, weaver a double dose of george, you talking to george clooney and we have gal gadot talking about "wonder woman 1984." >> coming up in just a few. ten days to go until christmas. what does that mean? >> cookies. >> no question about that. pati jinich will be here with her cookie surprise this morning. can't wait for that. first, a lot of news to get to starting with the health care workers who have been battling this pandemic on the front lines. now those heros are making history as some of the first

people to get the vaccine in the u.s. let's go back to t.j. holmes at the university of pittsburgh medical center. good morning again, t.j. >> reporter: good morning to you. they got 975 doses here delivered to this hospital. levi is an advanced patient care technician. he is about to get his while missy and ray wait in the wings. this upmc children's hospital one of a number of hospitals that got a very special delivery yesterday. from hope to reality, after fighting on the frontlines

nurse one of american medical personnel getting the first jabs of the vaccine this morning. sandra lindsay in new york among the first recipients in the country. [ applause ] >> and you volunteered to take the vaccine because you said you wanted to be an example for others. can you explain more what you meant by that? >> yes, i volunteered. i'm a leader in the organization and so i think it was incredibly important me to lead by example like i do every day, and to just inspire people and to give hope. >> reporter: across the country medical personnel who have been battling the virus nonstop taking part in historic vaccinations. for millions it's still a race against time and getting the vaccines to everyone who wants them can't come soon enough. on monday the u.s. passing 300,000 deaths, 17,000 in the last seven days, 101 fatalities an hour. across the country hospitals overwhelmed with new record highs. "operation warp speed" hoping that more than 50 million americans will be vaccinated by the end of january with access for the general population by march. doctors hoping to reach herd immunity by the summer but also complicating matters they still don't know how long the vaccine will last. >> the basic question is, how can we be sure it's safe when it was developed so quickly? >> you know, george, that's a great question. the speed was not at all at the sacrifice of safety. so people understandably are

skeptical about the speed but we have to keep emphasizing speed means the science was extraordinary that got us here. >> reporter: i want to get back to levi now rolled up his sleeve. you work in the emergency department here. this is a moment kind of in history but we're delaying you getting pricked in the arm and building up some suspense here, but we've all been waiting a long time. what does it feel like sitting here about to get it? >> it's incredible. it's surreal. like to be able to feel a little bit safer every day when i go to work to take care of patients and deliver the best care possible. >> you go ahead and give him the prick. i'm going to keep talking to him here. you said you haven't seen your parents in how long because you don't want to put them at risk? >> about eight months so it's been roughly eight months since i've gone home to see everyone just because it's not worth, you know, spreading the coronavirus and getting others sick and putting anyone at risk. >> there it is. he's got a prick in the arm. we've been going through it and

he's even got a mickey mouse band-aid. we didn't stage that but he has his band-aid there. they'll start vaccinating hundreds here over the next couple of days just getting the first few in but this is going to be what we see around the country for the next several weeks. those vaccines are actually going in arm, george. >> no question about it, t.j. president-elect joe biden expected to get the vaccine soon and he is calling for unity while addressing the nation last night after the electoral college voted to formalize his victory in the november election. mary bruce has the latest. >> reporter: with his victory now official president-elect joe biden this morning is looking ahead to the hard work of uniting the country. >> now it's time to turn the page as we've done throughout our history to unite, to heal. >> reporter: biden offering his strongest condemnation yet of president trump's baseless effort to overturn the will of the voters. >> the court sent a clear signal to president trump that they would be no part of an unprecedented assault on our democracy. >> reporter: all eyes now on republicans who by and large have refused to recognize biden's victory. this morning, some top republicans are starting to face

the facts. >> are you now prepared to call biden the president-elect? >> well, i mean once somebody hits 270 -- i understand they're voting right now but i think that's the process we have, yes. >> reporter: republican congressman paul mitchell has had enough declaring he's leaving the party over his colleagues' refusal to accept biden's win calling it, quote, disgusting and demoralizing. president trump backed by some of his staunchest allies is still refusing to concede and acknowledge his defeat, instead, he is vowing to keep challenging the election results. george? >> okay, mary, thanks very much. coming up we have the men of "the bachelorette." they're going to tell all. what they say to tayshia and who they think will get the final rose. plus ten days til christmas. how to save on shipping and give your packages the best chance of getting delivered on time. wonder woman gal gadot is going to join us live. come on back.

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♪ chilly, bright day in new york. welcome back to "gma" and, robin, you're heading down to washington, d.c. >> i'll sit down with vice president-elect kamala harris to talk about what she believes the administration, the biden/harris administration can accomplish and how they plan on handling the pandemic and you'll see it tomorrow on "gma." but don't have to wait that long for "pop news" with lara. good morning, lara. >> good morning, robin. looking forward to that and looking forward to sharing this with you. we're going to begin with jennifer lopez. thanks to her we can confirm that this year's new year's

rockin' eve will indeed be rockin'. yes, we can exclusively report ms. jennifer lopez will headline the 49th annual dick clark's new year's rockin' eve hosted by ryan seacrest. according to producers the singer and dancer will give a performance that will surely help you forget 2020 just moments before the ball drops in times square. there will also be performances by billy porter and cyndi lauper, the dynamic duo heintz "kinky boots" and will welcome jimmy allen to the stage for the first time. it's all about music. 5 1/2 hours of live performances are planned and can you see it all right here on abc. starting at 8:00 p.m., december 31st and before that one of the performers and our friend billy porter will join us live on "gma" the morning of december 28th. you do not want to miss that. also this morning, a dionne warwick update.

the music legend is maintaining her status as reigning queen of twitter now making music of it. the 80-year-old making her twitter debut on social media -- on the site twitter with seemingly logical and funny questions to singers like taylor swift, chance the rapper and the weeknd. it not only got their attention but made her the subject of a very "saturday night live" sketch. here's a look. >> welcome to the dionne warwick talk show. maybe you know me from my music or maybe you have heard that i just discovered twitter and these are actual tweets i tweeted out. hi, chance the rapper, if you are very obviously a rapper, why did you put it in your stage name? i cannot stop thinking about this. or this, how to send a tweet to snoop dogg. did i do this correctly?

>> well, chance the rapper and the weeknd both loved it. they both tweeted back to dionne, and now get this, both have agreed to partner up with ms. warwick on a new song written by dionne's son damon elliott. >> i am so excited i can't tell you. i can't contain myself. the weeknd has agreed to join chance the rapper and i on our song "nothing's impossible." >> we just proved it right here. her son saying a portion of the proceeds from that song will go to a charity that supplies food to those in need. this unlikely but amazing trio say they're set to record the song soon because after all, that's what friends are for. yeah. i did it. >> ba-dum-dum. >> it's tough to an audience of one who doesn't speak but anyway

we move on to oprah winfrey playing santa claus on social media surprising a few unsuspecting twitter users with her generosity, it started when aspiring deejay jamir davis announced on twitter that his computer had broken so he would not be able to share his gift for awhile. well, guess what, next thing he knew santa oprah surprised him with a brand-new laptop to keep the tunes coming and another user known as the black cow girl who runs a charity that gives books to kids in need. oprah heard about her, she made a donation and encouraged others to follow suit. black cow girl's response to oprah's kindness says it all. she writes, i'm not even going to pretend like i didn't pass out and there have been other acts of kindness and apparently she's not done yet. a rep saying keep an eye on oprah's account. it's safe to say there's more coming from twitter's new santa.

and with that, i bid you adieu and send it back to you in the studio. >> we'll be watching. >> got to love oprah. >> all right, lara, thank you so much for that. now to our "gma" cover story. last night's explosive episode of "the bachelorette" with the men who got sent home telling all about what it was like behind the scenes. mona kosar abdi has the details. >> reporter: it was an episode high on drama. >> noah, you create this drama every step of the way. >> personally i think you're intimidated. i'm sorry you can't express how you feel. >> tayshia shedding tears. while eliminating four suitors including blake and noah. >> first thing i learned about myself i give this weird condescending smug look to the camera. i never knew that. >> i'm glad people saw the real side of me, every single side good or bad and call me weird do or whatever you want you know what you have in me now and i'm happy with that. >> reporter: the feud between

noah and bennett one of the biggest story lines right up until the end. >> i just thought that was kind of weak and also knew once he did that i was going to go home. >> for bennett, i felt like he would go out of his way to be condescending. >> i lean towards noah's side in the end but maturity isn't defined by age and so i was on noah's side for a lot of things he did in the house and continue to stand on that side. >> it's like hit me that i sent an amazing man home. >> reporter: the remaining contenders brendan, ivan, zac and ben. >> i think it's zac. >> zac probably makes the most sense when it comes down to it. >> reporter: tonight tayshia will meet with the families of the final four men but it won't happen how you expect due to covid restrictions. it will be the families this time traveling to the bachelorette bubble. >> mona, thank you so much. i'm going with zac as well, right, "the bachelorette" continues tonight at 8:00 p.m. george?

>> okay, michael. just ten days to christmas. if you want gifts to arrive on time this may be the last day for ground shipping. we put u.p.s., fedex and the postal service to the test with a shipping challenge. becky worley has the details. >> reporter: 'tis the season to ship and the shipping options seem endless. priority, ground, express, oh, my so we set out to do a holiday shipping challenge. my producer sending me three surprise presents, each in their own boxes. from these three popular carriers, fedex, u.p.s. and the u.s. postal service. at each location we asked for the least expensive option, the tally on costs fedex and the u.s. postal service were both a little more than $15. no extra cost for boxes. at u.p.s., shipping was 12 bucks, a box wasn't included so the total came out to nearly $20. we let the shipping elves work their magic. all nine packages from the three different carriers traveling from new york city to my home in oakland, california. first to arrive, the u.s. postal service delivered in four days

as promised. fedex came a little later the same day. is this jingling? and u.p.s. is arriving when it said it would two days later. i wonder what she sent me. i need a toys for tots gift. wipes, i need those. thanks? while we shipped presents the first week of december experts say even more packages are being delivered now. >> you are going to have more delays as you get close story c >> reporter: the best way to save and get it there in time? ship early like now. all three carriers list today, december 15th as the cutoff for ground. also byob, bring your own box. as we saw some carriers charge you for the box depending on the shipping option you pick. this sweater, though, george, i'm assuming this is my abc holiday gift so really you shouldn't have. no. you shouldn't. >> put a lot of thought into that one, becky.

okay. than, very much. >> let's go to ginger. >> thank you, george. and i want to start you out with pictures out of oklahoma just south of tulsa where they had one of their biggest snows in seven years in any month so pretty incredible to have that five inches sticking around making it feel like the holidays. you know it's coming to the northeast and mid-atlantic but what i didn't mention was asheville, boone, roanoke all worried about a mix to even a quarter inch of ice so we'll good morning. i'm abc7 news meteorologist mike nicco. partly cloudy today. we have hazardous conditions along our beaches through at least tomorrow and our next storm is going to give us a good, quick soaking tomorrow night. it's a 1 on the storm impact scale. tonight, some upper 30s in our inland valleys. low to mid-40s for the rest of

now we have an absolutely wonderful guest joining us. she is back in the title superhero in the new movie "wonder woman 1984," let's not wait any longer. please welcome, ladies and gentlemen, gal gadot. she is here on "gma." the crowd goes wild. >> yeah. >> wonder woman. that's wonder woman. getting up and joining us. good morning to you. >> how are you guys doing? >> we are doing great. especially now that we get to spend a little time with you. so i want to ask you something but first i want to play a little bit of a video because you and kristen wiig, you hit it off. you made the song you made a video. let's take a look. ♪ sometimes we run and jump in the air ♪ ♪ simone biles we flip our

hair ♪ ♪ we are friends and we like science ♪ ♪ we feel comfortable in total silence ♪ >> very creative, gal. was it an instant connection between the two of you? >> yes, yes, yes. you know, watching this i'm thinking to myself oh, my god, people are going to think we had so much time off on set which is so not true. but honestly we had a great connection and kristen is just an amazing human being, she's fun and funny and loving and she has the biggest heart and we clicked. >> you can obviously see you clicked in the movie. we'll talk about the movie right now. "wonder woman 1984," the early reviews are great. they say this is the movie that we need at this time. what about this movie you think makes people feel that way? >> what about the movie? i think that the fact that the movie is about hope and about love and i think that we always aspire to have these values in our lives.

and i think honestly, you know, it's just a huge -- it's a huge movie and it's so entertaining and fun and i think we've been missing movies for a long time. >> we sure have. so let's give everybody a look right now. >> let's do it. ♪ >> we won't be doing that today. ♪ >> aaagh! >> oh, that mall scene was something else. i wish we could have shown how -- you are a superhero to so many little girls and especially in that mall scene there was a little girl i wanted people to see and how she reacted when she

saw you. your two daughters got to see mommy in action on the set watching you film. what was it like for them to experience that with you? >> it was great. it was really, really great. first of all, it was a very familiar environment for them. they know the cast. they know patty. they know patty's family. it felt like a second home for all of us. but at the end of the day they come and they see me work, you know. but i just -- yesterday, last night they showed mia one of the trailers, mia is my little one she's 3, 3 1/2 years old. she asked -- she said, oh, my god, you can fly? [ laughter ] i mean, too early to share and then you have to explain it's just not for real. but they're very excited and they're very proud. >> no doubt they are proud of you and this is your fourth time playing wonder woman. so i'm curious.

this is a very physically demanding role. the stunts are incredible. does it get easier each time? >> no. [ laughter ] it gets harder every time, i think, you know, from one movie to the other. we raise the bar higher and higher, but this was by far the hardest movie i've ever got to film by far. >> can you tell us what is it like to work with patty? she is a wonderful director. no pun intended but just talk about the connection you have with her. >> she's the best honestly. we just talked about kristen and now we're talking about patty and i feel like i got so lucky with this project. patty and i also we clicked from the very first time we sat down and talked and we very much see eye to eye as far as the way we see life, what we believe in, our set of values, everything.

she is like -- other than the fact that she is a super brilliant, talented filmmaker and she's the most amazing visionary i've ever got to work with, she's just a great human being and a great friend and i really love her. so i'm super lucky with this one. >> many people use those same characteristics to describe you, gal gadot. thank you for always being so kind. thank you for being here. wishing you all the best. i got to say she's got the best shot of our guests. i don't know, the backdrop and everything like that. of course she would. you expect that from wonder woman. "wonder woman 1984" will be in select theaters and available on hbo max on christmas day. coming up we're serving up some sweet treat, 12 days of christmas cookies. right back. ♪ christmas cookies. right back. ♪

good morning, everyone. we have new developments to share with you. breaking news out of the south bay. two earthquakes were recorded less than seven miles outside of morgan hill just before 7:00 a.m. this is according to the u.s. geological survey. they were about a minute apart. the first was a 3.5 and the second a 3.6. people reported feeling them all the way in san francisco and i felt a little bit of that here in the studio. i want to tell you about new developments in oakland where in-person classes are not going to resume as soon as first respected. the school addidistrict said itl push back the start date. they haven't given a new date but they plan to reopen schools

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a quick soaking. we'll have another update in about 30 minutes. you can always find the latest at abc7 news. ♪ ♪ ever and ever as ♪ forever and ever as the man said welcome back to "gma" live here in times square. we are counting down to christmas. ten days? that's it? that's all that's left. many people getting into the holiday spirit with their decked out trees. we asked you to share your photo using #gmaseeyourtree. >> check this one out from flushing, michigan. why have one when you can have three? you see them there. loves the christmas forest. >> that's a big living room. andrea from burlington, new jersey, created a christmas village under her tree. a mini winter wonderland. >> keep sending us your christmas photos using #gm

#gmaseeyourtree. we love to see your tree. >> so we'll go from the trees to the cookies. time to count down to christmas with our 12 days of cookies, let's go to our advent calendar and see what kind of cookies we're making this morning. >> what you got? what you got? >> we have bizcotela vestida. okay. and here to show us how to get it done is chef and host of "pati's mexican table" pati jinich. how are you doing? >> good morning. i'm doing really good and so happy to be here with you making cooki cookies. >> well, we're happy you're here and to help us make cookies because we all love cookies and today is day four of our 12 days of christmas cookies and this morning's theme is nine ladies dancing. so why this cookie? >> well, you know, this is a dressed up cookie. bizcotela vestida loosely translates to lady or flower that's dressed up and as can you see the cookie, it has a flower

shape and it's all dressed up because you can dress it up in glitter, you can dress it up with sprinkles, with shiny sugar and then aside from dressing it up you stuff it and make it like the twirling dancing skirt. >> how do you make the dough for this cookie? >> so to make the dough it's super simple. i had my butter i beat with sugar, eggs, vanilla. then you beat it until it's creamy and soft and alternate with flour, baking soda, milk and sugar just like this. a little bit of a mess. but then you add it all in. i have a swap for you of course. this is what the dough looks like. the dough is super soft and very easy to work with. you can make it ahead of time but if you make it the minute you are done you can start working on it. so it's a very accessible dough and make little balls like these, because making these flour shapes is very easy, you

make a ball and then you flatten it and just with any scissors, even your kid's school scissors, you cut five little cuts. very simple. you don't have to be precious about it. it's so easy. you just press like this. then you choose what you want to decorate with. i have here like silver colored sugar. then you just go like this and then it doesn't matter if the shape isn't perfect. it will still look beautiful when it bakes. it ends up like this. you put them in the oven at 350 for 30 minutes and then once you have the cookies and you can play with the sugars and you can mix and match, you add cajeta. have you tried cajeta? >> we just did. >> we just did. it's delicious. >> absolutely delicious. >> it is mexico's version of dulce de leche and as you can see, it's like sticky, gooey.

it is very caramely and then you squeeze it like this and then you have the dressed up twirling skirt for christmas or for any day really. >> it's beautiful. >> and delicious. >> and delicious. >> and that is sticky. got stuck between my teeth. that's hard to do. >> that says a lot. >> i know, i know. and then you can play with the shapes and play with the sprinkles and filling. if you don't have cajeta you can use jam. you could use peanut butter. so it's a fun cookie to make and it's a fun cookie to eat and then it'll stay for days and days outside crumbly and inside soft and it gets even softer. >> a great cookie to make. a great cookie you can do with your family. get the kids involved and everything from the shapes to putting the cookie together and, pati, we appreciate you this morning. thank you so much and make sure you guys, you watch "pati's

mexican table" on pbs and check your local listings for that and get this recipe on our website, goodmorningamerica.com. and tomorrow david rose, he is sharing his cookie recipe. coming up, pro golfer hailey morris' inspiring story, plus george clooney tells us about his new movie and will talk to george about that. george times two.

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we're back with an inspiring rookie pro golfer haley moore. she has grabbed headlines for her story, how she overcameverce bullying to achieve her dream and we'll talk to her live in just a moment. first take a look at her story. haley moore a golf legend at the university of arizona is now one of the most exciting rookies on the lpga tour but her success did not come easy. she struggled with bullying and low self-esteem for most of her life. she was called fat, ugly and more. and the golf course didn't offer an escape. towering over her competition at nearly 6 feet tall and easily overpowering other players, her peers' resentment almost made her quit the game she loved. >> it was very hard. i didn't really want to play this game anymore. i was just very depressed. >> but she was able to block out the negativity and realize her

dream of becoming a professional golfer. >> just putting it aside and just focusing on what my main goal was to get on the pro tour really just helped me and motivated me from it. >> reporter: now haley is using her lpga status and platform to inspire kids to embrace their authentic selves. >> people can be cruel, but they can also be kind. i learned what makes me different, makes me stronger and true confidence comes from within. >> indeed and haley moore joins us now live. and haley, been looking forward to meeting you. thank you very, very much for your time and i have to say, i admire you in so many ways. i didn't realize you started playing golf when you were so young and how much you loved it, but i did hear about how in school how you were bullied. how did that impact you? how did that affect you, haley, at a young age? >> hmm, yeah, i was -- i was very lost at one point.

i just really did not know what to do. i was just -- i didn't know what to do with my life and it was ndrd and i was just grateful toa lohase friends who knew what i was going through and what my friends could see what i was dealing with at school and everything like that. and so now i'm just grateful for everything and am excited to just be out here and playing on the professional tour and just ready to share my story and everything like that. >> not many people can say they've made it to the pro level. you are a professional golfer, young lady. and i know that means a lot to you. you have a lot going on. and why did you decide that this was the time, you know what, i'm going to share my story, now is the time to do it? what made you decide that? >> yeah, i just -- i knew just

kind of going through college and winning the national championship i knew my next step after i graduated was being a professional golfer. and the story had really hit a break when i won the national championship and was going to come into my pro career. and when i had gone on to the lpga they had known about my story and wanted to do a drive on campaign feature and everything like that and that was going to be the perfect time because it was my first year on tour and just for them to get to know me and everything like that. and so i'm just -- yeah, i'm just grateful and everything. >> i'm glad people are getting to know you. you have some young fans. we'll hear from a couple. this one is sara. she has a question for you. >> you have inspired so many little girls and i'm one of your biggest fans. how does it feel to be an inspiration to so many? >> it feels awesome to be an

inspiration. many people today, kids still go through bullying and i figure if i could find a way to stop it and everything like that -- it's just not right to do. i hate seeing people struggle with their life and i just feel like, if i tell my story and get -- just tell my story to them, they can definitely hopefully try to have a goal or something in life that they want to -- have a goal in life that they want to do and be able to achieve and everything like that. >> like what you've done, being a pro golfer. and now question for you,

>> what is the number one goal you live by to keep smiling? >> this was kind of -- wow, that's great. this was kind of a -- i just kind of made up my own. i had a really great slogan when i was growing up of dream, believe, achieve so i had a dream of making my way to the lpga tour and to do that i had to believe in myself and if i had obstacles come in front of me which i did, i knew that i just had to keep fighting and be strong in myself to get over it and one i did, i would be able to achieve it. and so now here i am playing my first year on the lpga and everything and just living my dream and everything. another just -- stuff kids struggling or still struggling today just don't let other people judge you by how you look, if you talk different or if you look different than any other boys or girls, just you be you, everyone's born different so don't let someone else control your life.

>> be you. dream, believe, achieve. and you are a perfect example of that. haley, thank you. i know this won't be the last time we're talking and but glad that we had this chance to meet and for your inspiring words. you take care. happy holidays, merry christmas. >> thank you for having me. thank you. >> you got it. seeing the palm trees in the background just kind of as cold as it is here in new york. let's get now to ginger. ginger? >> yeah, this is not palm tree weather that creates something as gorgeous as this. tonya took that one, that bubble frozen. you know that the cold air is one of the big ingredients that is going to be necessary for that snowstorm. so what's it going to feel like by friday morning after the storm is gone? it's going to feel like the teens or single digits. look at augusta, maine, 14 will be the feels like with icy roads good morning. i'm abc7 news meteorologist mike nicco. 9 hours, 42 minutes of high clouds and sunshine with temperatures in the mid to upper 50s most of the afternoon

now to george clooney. his new film "midnight sky" was shot before the pandemic but it does hit the mood of the moment. we spoke about the challenges directing and starring at the same time, quarantining with twin toddlers and his hope heading into 2021. in the "midnight sky" clooney plays a lone scientist hunkered down in the artic in the year 2049 trying to contact a crew of astronauts and warning them about returning to earth after a mysterious global catastrophe. this seemed like an incredible challenge to direct. >> it was. well, you know, we started in iceland and we were out on a glacier and it was 40 degrees below zero and wind gusts of like 70 miles an hour and we're all stuck together with string so that -- because when the gusts come in you can't see yourself. can't see five feet in front of you. it was crazy. >> unidentified child, 7 or 8, she's alone. somebody has to come back. >> i know this movie was shot before 2020 but in so many ways it seems like the movie for the

moment. >> after we wrapped, the pandemic hit and it became clear and clearer as i was editing that the real heart of this story is that it's our inability to communicate with one another and our inability to be next to each other and us doing an interview from here instead of shaking your hand and saying hi. >> as we approach the final three weeks of what has been about the most unusual election year in my lifetime at least, what are your big thoughts about it? >> i think we look at things sometimes in the present. we think, okay, it's never been this bad. but we forget we had a civil war. you know, we forget the violence in '65 and '67 and '68. you know, we've got a vaccine on the way and i'm very hopeful for the upcoming years. >> how did you get through months of quarantine with toddlers in the house? >> well, you know, i drank

mostly, george. i drink. that's how you get through it. you know, the tough part is what we all go through. i can't be with my mom and dad and my sister in kentucky, but here at the house i've got an amazing wife and two funny knuckleheads that make me laugh and i get to wake up with them every morning and put them to bed every night. >> and action. >> reporter: 2021 a big year for clooney. he turns 60 this spring. robin and i all turned 60 this year. i think i'm a few months ahead of you. we looked at each the other day and said we can't believe it. >> can't believe it. you know, every year you keep moving that needle like going, well, 40 is not so bad. and, you know, 60 is the new 50 and -- but 60 is a number. it doesn't bother me because i don't know if you feel this way, george, but i always feel like, you know, the other version is dead. >> what's the alternative, right? >> there's not much we can do about it. you look -- you still look like you're 15. so, you know, you're very lucky but and robin does too. it's me. i'm your portrait of dorian

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we're back with amber riley. when singing she goes by the name riley and she recently released her debut ep. good morning, amber. >> good morning. >> great to see you. we're excited. we are excited because you're going to perform your new hit "bge" which stages for big girl energy. tell us what that means to you. >> big girl energy is literally just taking care of business, doing what it is that you need to do to get through your day,

get through your year, taking care of family, taking care of friends, it's about being a boss and i really wanted to do a song for all my women out there that are exuding that big girl energy. >> we just saw a little clip of your video. you were talking. that's your fiance, deshaun, you cast him in your video and you know what, we are excited because you're going to perform right now. >> yes. >> off her debut ep, "riley," which is out now this is "bge." ♪ i got that big girl energy i got that hood that's still in me ♪ ♪ that's why he hates, hates to love me, big girl energy ♪ ♪ got that hood that's still in me sons of sonix ♪ ♪ this ain't the weekend, it's time to move on, yeah ♪ ♪ you tell me i'm warm, yeah, but when you're leaving ♪ ♪ you're getting too comfortable say i'm the best thing that you ever seen, yeah ♪

♪ but i told you, i'm good alone you think i didn't mean it ♪ ♪ tell me what you thinking ♪ yeah ♪ tears would flow, you'd watch me while i'm asleep ♪ ♪ let it go, that's life, life, life ♪ ♪ tears would flow, you'd watch me while i'm asleep ♪ ♪ let it go, that's life, life, life ♪ ♪ i got that big girl energy i got that hood that's still in me ♪ ♪ that's why he hates, hates to love me, big girl energy ♪ ♪ got that hood that's still in me, that's still in me ♪ ♪ you say i go too hard on you but if i give my heart to you ♪ ♪ you gotta love this masterpiece, you gotta love every part of me ♪ ♪ off the deep end, sinkin' more to hold ♪

♪ not what you're thinking, put back on your clothes, you thought ♪ ♪ big girl energy i got that hood that's still in me that's why he hate, hates to love me big girl energy ♪ ♪ got that hood that's still in me got it for you, baby ♪ ♪ i got that hood that's still in me uh-huh, no ♪ ♪ no, big girl energy got that good, good hood, baby ♪ ♪ tears would flow, you'd watch me while i'm asleep while i'm asleep ♪ ♪ let it go, that's life, life, life ♪ ♪ you got the right one now ♪ big girl

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>> announcer: live, breaking news. >> two earthquakes were recorded outside of morgan hill just before 7:00 this morning. the first was a 3.5, the second a 3.6. also, we are just minutes away from the first round of vaccinations here in the bay area. san francisco general hospital will inject the first doses at 9:30 this morning. the hospital got about 2,000 doses. here is mike with our forecast. >> thank you. hi, everybody. it's going to be dry all day today. but we have king tide coming up at 11:04. there could be flooding and we have dangerous surf through tomorrow. we'll have some scout showers until the evening and overnight hours where we'll get soaked. it's a 1 on the storm impact scale. thank you. it's time for "live with kelly

and ryan." we'll be back at >> announcer: it's "live with kelly and ryan!" today, the star of "wonder woman 1984", gal gadot. and 'tis the zooming with your parents. and a holiday christmas dish for "live's family cooking week." and writer and host amy cohen returns as kelly's cohost. now, here are kelly ripa and andy cohen! >> kelly: good morning, everybody. it's tuesday, december 15th, 2020. filling in