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searching across america the u.s. surpassed 11 million covid cases on sunday as more states enact stricter lockdowns and warnings ahead of thanksgiving. president trump's twitter storm ramps up first sunday admitting joe biden won the election and then taking it back. at around midnight tweeting, quote, i won the election. spacex launches into the history books with a successful lift-off and space flight for four u.s. astronaut as they hurdle their way to the u.s. international space station at this very moment.
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shepard smith will introduce you -- a blustery weekend for many. welcome to monday, november 16th "early today" starts right now grad you'lad you're with uss monday. >> the country reaches yet another grim coronavirus milestone as state officials scramble to contain the amendment. the virus is spreading at alarming rates we have now surpassed 11 million infections that took just seven days to add a million. before that it took ten days for the country to go from nine million cases to ten million and two weeks to go from eight to nine million these are the scenes playing out across the country as hospitals are overloaded with covid patients at least 15 states have increased restrictions our megan fitzgerald has the very latest. moelggen, good morning >> valerie, good morning to you. acrosby the count
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across the country we are seeing states scrambling to contain the virus. the u.s. adding a million new infections in the last week alone, pushing total cases to 11 million and forcing more states to crack down. the governor of washington, latest to tighten restrictions after daily cases surged to a record saturday. >> now we're facing a third wave that is trending to be more dangerous than any we have seen before >> reporter: washington state now banning indoor service at bars and restaurants businesses like gyms will close for four weeks and prohibiting personal gatherings indoors with anyone other than your immediate household. and colorado also hitting a record number of single day cases and hospitalizations more than a dozen new counties inching closer to a lockdown while the governor there is warning against holiday gatherings, comparing thanksgiving dinner to russian roulette. >> you wouldn't do it with a gun, and you shouldn't do it with a virus >> reporter: in illinois
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residents are stockpiling items as officials threaten a statewide lockdown. >> we got to stay in and protect our families >> reporter: chicago's mayor lori lightfoot already issuing a 30-day stay at home advisory the nation's top infectious disease doctor warns americans should expect even more state restrictions ahead, but a nationwide lockdown is doubtful. >> everyone is sensity to what we call covid fatigue. people are worn out about this, but we've got to hang in there a little bit longer. >> reporter: in nebraska where some hospitals are already full, front line workers pleading with the governor and the public to do their part. >> we have not had to turn any patients away as of yet, but we're really approaching a breaking point here. >> reporter: the message coming as the cdc predicts up to 35,000 more deaths in the next three weeks. a warning for los angeles once praised for its response to the virus now reporting its highest number of infections since the
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summer surge. >> this virus could get so bad it doesn't matter how well you prepared >> reporter: a tidal wave growing every day. nationwide hospitals are near or approaching capacity here in los angeles the mayor says that if cases continue on the current trajectory, hospitals could be overrun by christmas. back to you. some scary numbers, meagan thank you. well, meanwhile, overseas france is on the precipice of its own grim milestone as it inches toward the 2 million mark our matt bradley is following that for us. >> france is about to pass a really grim milestone, the 2 million mark in terms of number of cases of covid here in this country that's why we heard from french president emmanuel macron coming 2 1/2 weeks into this second nationwide lockdown. tweeting that the next couple of days will be decisive in terms of what the government decides to do. we are starting to see a glimmer
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of hope. the number of actual cases per day is steadily going downwards, but the number of deaths is still very high, not as high as it was in the spring the number of icu beds occupied is well more than 90%. that is adding a lot of stress to the health service here that's why we could hear in the next couple of days whether the country is willing to take the pain of an overloaded health care system or still more economic punishment from a further second lockdown. matt bradley, nbc news, paris. spacex and nasa have successfully launched a new era of space travel. four astronauts are on their way right now to the international space station as spacex begins its new role of providing an out of this world taxi service for nasa here's nbc's jay gray. >> 3, 2, 1, 0. ignition lift-off >> reporter: a burst of fire as the falcon 9 rocket pushes away from pad 39a at kennedy space
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center. >> roger, 1 alpha. good speed "resilience". >> reporter: launching a new era in space travel. >> stage one throttle down. >> reporter: nasa's commercial crew program in essence chartering flights to the international space station on a rocket and in a capsule built by spacex, a private vendor. >> we are now going into basically operational missions that are commercial in nature, where nasa is a customer >> and separation confirmed. >> reporter: crew dragon's flight to the iss will take close to 28 hours. three nasa astronauts and a fourth from japan's space agency on board will spend six months on the station >> for nasa this crew one mission begins a continuous rotation of flights from ksc to the space station and clears a path, officials say, for future and further flights. but the first stop is the international space station late monday night jay gray, nbc news, kennedy space center
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president-elect biden's coronavirus advisers are expected to meet with companies working on vaccines this week. on sunday morning president trump took a very brief step toward admitting matt tthat he t the 2020 election before recanting, quottweeting, quote,i won the election. >> reporter: the president's veneer of election denial cracked when these words jumped out, he won. a concession by tweet. building on this friday verbal slip. >> whatever happens, who knows who the administration will be i guess time will tell. >> reporter: seen as progress by arkansas republican governor asa hutchinson. >> good to actually see president trump tweet out that he won i think that's a start of an acknowledgement. >> reporter: but that was short lived. 92 minutes elapsed and the president blasted out this i concede nothing. we have a lodge way to go. long way to go a backtrack boosted by trump
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advisers. >> the president is not conceding anything. >> far from it what he's saying is more i guess you'd call it sarcastic. >> reporter: they also called out clashes and violence with injuries to trump supporters and more than 20 arrests in washington following a saturday trump rally urging the president to keep up his legal fight against the biden victory. joe biden was seen leaving church in delaware as his incoming chief of staff said a formal transition is needed >> if the president's prepared to begin to recognize that reality, that's positive donald trump's twitter feed doesn't make joe biden president or not president the american people did that. >> reporter: president trump spent his day at his virginia golf course. while he claims election fraud without evidence, ohio's republican governor says it's time to move forward >> joe biden is the president-elect. and that transition for the
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country's sake is important for a normal transition to start through. >> thanks to kelly o'donnell for that report. some wicked weather roared through several states on sunday in the new york/new jersey area, tornado warnings were issued for half a dozen counties in and around new york city heavy rain and damaging winds downed trees and knocked out power to an estimated 100,000 customers before 10:00 p.m in ohio a reported 100,000 residents were also left in the dark due to a storm which also caused damage to the roof of a high school. meanwhile, a cleanup effort is under way in white county, arkansas, an an ef-1 tornado ripped through the area. one woman was seriously hurt and at least three others suffered minor injuries i certainly heard that weather last night that wind was wild >> let's get a check of your monday forecast with nbc meteorologist janessa webb janica, good morning >> and good morning, ladies. good to see you both good morning, everyone man, it was a strong cold front
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that ripped through the area over 280 reports of wind damage and we're going to continue to see that number go up. you can see across the northeast that front is still lingering across northern new england. should be pushing out by this afternoon. now, we do have the development now of hurricane iota just transitioning into a cat 4 storm. this is going to be devastating for central america. just two weeks ago dealing with a cat 4 system already th's a looat and still blustery conditions. upper midwest, fargo today, a high of 33 ladies, we're over the severe weather, but we'll take a look at that week ahead coming up. >> all right looking forward to it. janessa, thank you. so a live interview with a
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politician on british television was blown off course when strong winds interrupted the segment. >> and it led to mass demonstrations excuse me. this is -- the equipment is falling over the umbrella -- >> so he's handling it okay. that was john ashworth, a member of parliament who was on sky news talking about the country's response to the pandemic when the wind nearly blew away his umbrella you see the monitor there that was knocked over and other lights as well you know, he's chuckling he's dealing with it good thing he didn't get hurt. >> i thought he was going to have a mary poppins moment hanging on to that umbrella. >> could easily happen. >> what a pro. coming up on "early today," there is new proof against rising accusations of voter fraud. we'll tell you why residents louisiana have nicknamed an area cancer alley and what they plan to do about it.
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leading the news, an update on a report we brought you last month on residents of an area who have nicknamed cancer alley in louisiana who were suing to stop another plant from being built there. they claim the factories were spewing cancer-causing agents into the air the army corps of engineers has suspended the permit for the new plastics plant, saying more review is needed. president trump's accusations of voter fraud continue to be debunked. 11 alive in atlanta confirmed two of the four georgia voters that the trump campaign accused of fraudulently voting while dead are actually alive. one of the two accused voted using her married name and says she has always voted under that name while the other shared the same name of someone who died but had a different address, birthday, zip code and was entitled to vote. it was an emotional reunion between a father and son deputy sheriff clint thomas from
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"nbc nightly news" kids edition is a show for young viewers to help them understand the world today. watch it on nbcnews.com, youtube, the nbc news app or stream it on pea ccock. a special operation that will hit 700 miles per hour. here's cnbc shepard smith. >> reporter: it's one of the most extraordinary fighter jets ever built capable of taking off and landing vertically hovering like a helicopter it packs serious power top speed more than 700 miles an hour it's a c hairier jet, formerly part of the british royal navy the pilot doing the barrel
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roles, he's a u.s. marine. >> in its normal mission, it can carry missiles, bombs or fuel. >> reporter: retired lieutenant colonel art nolls says the net's always been one of his favorites. so much so he pulled the trigger and bought one. >> this actually belongs to myself and my wife my wife owns half of it. and she's very quick to point that out, that she lets me use her half of the airplane. >> reporter: colonel mostly fly it is in air shows, but in his next mission, instead of guns -- well, i'll let the colonel explain. >> we're going to put two external fuel tanks on this airplane one on each side that have been specially modified to carry three oak barrels with bourbon. >> reporter: yeah, bourbon the bad newsy mission the brain child of the colonel and another vet. >> i was talking to art. he owns a hairier jet. i own a distillery there's the imamagic right ther. >> reporter: this corn farm where retired navy rear admiral
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scott sanders turns the crop into spirits he's got barrels and barrels of it even storing some below deck on the "uss constellation" in baltimore harbor it got the vets thinking >> hey, we ought to age some here in the hairier. let's put some in the drop tanks and let's go 700 miles an hour and see how the pressure affects the taste of the bourbon in the yolk >> this nose cone goes on here we'll seal them up have two of these fuel tanks and then we're going to put them on a hairier jet and fly them up to 15,000 feet. >> reporter: why you ask >> because it's crazy. >> reporter: and maybe they say, maybe the pressure at this altitude might well make the bourbon taste better. >> so that liquid's going to push into the wood it's going to get a lot more flavor out of the bourbon. that's the theory. we'll see what happens. >> reporter: testing that theory will not be cheap. >> this airplane uses 1.2 gallons per mile
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it will burn a gallon every two seconds when i'm in the hover. you cannot pour it out of a five-gallon bucket as fast as what this engine will convert it into heat, thrust and noise. >> it's very expensive and my partners say idiotic. >> reporter: the colonel says he's donating his flight time. the plan sell the 700-mile-per-hour bourbon at a price tag of around $145 a bottle. >> what this is about is the charity, what we're doing it for. >> all the sales will go to the semper phi fund. >> reporter: and america's fund, that's the nonprofit supporting combat wounded and critically wounded members of the armed forces. >> i like bourbon and a lot of people that do a lot of people say, you know? i get a good bottle of bourbon and a good story to tell. >> reporter: it's a great story, colonel, and a great cause, too. for cnbc, i'm shepard smith. >> what a crazy story. you can catch "the news with
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they've had a pretty good run. in this area over the past couple of decades. now the pass goes to meyers and it's behind the line of scrimmage. he's going to throw. high school quarterback he was and burkhead will make the catch in the end zone. on a first -- >> nail-biter in rainy massachusetts on "sunday night football" where cam newton and the patriots did all they could to get back to their winning ways against the ravens. the offense stalled in the fourth the patriots take it 23-17 in arizona, kyler murray needed a hail mary in the final seconds to beat the bills, and
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his prayer was answered in the form of deandre hopkins. making the incredible catch and traffic and pulling it down in the end zone buffalo had just taken the lead less than 30 seconds earlier, but hopkins and the cardinals will rip from them arizona pulls off the incredible win, 32-30. and the 49ers went into new orleans looking for the upset, but the saints rebounded early alvin kamara ran in one from the goal line to tie it up and caught one from drew brees to take the lead soon after brees would leave the game with a rib injury, but even with jameis winston under center, kamara kept rolling. and in miami, the dolphins improved to 3-0-2 at the helm with tua at the helm this nifty throw to durham smythe late to win, 29-it 1
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. on the final day of the masters, dustin johnson swung his way into the history books johnson capped off his win in the tournament with a 4 under par sunday and winning the masters by five strokes. his last day propelled him to 20 under par for the tournament, making him the first golfer to shoot 20 under in masters history. tiger woods finished 19 strokes behind johnson awarded the champion with his first green jacket this is johnson's second major victory. his first since the 2016 u.s. open all right. now to the 2020 "e!" people's choice awards that happened on sunday night demi lovato took live to the stage to host. she looks great blonde jennifer lopez gave an inspiring speech while tyler perry received high praise adds the people's champion of 2020 and encouraged fans to value their worth. and most importantly, the show paid tribute to local and real-life heros around the country with the people's heros
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covid surge. there is virtually no place in america where the coronavirus is not seeing a growing number of illnesses. as the u.s. soars past 11 million positive cases a new era of space travel has taken flight with the launch of the latest spacex ship, now hurdling four americans towards the iss. i won the election that's what president trump tweeted around midnight. as his tweet campaign continues to hold on to his job. and today president-elect joe biden plans to ramp up his coronavirus plans with just 65
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