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cnbc's karen cho is here to report on the largest trade deal for china and excludes the united states. the meeting happening now could reveal whether the tokyo olympic games could take place or be postponed again. i'm frances rivera. >> i'm valerie castro. a team of four astronauts safely lifted off and are on their way to the international space station as we speak. this mission marks the new era where spacex will happen nasa. tom costello joins us from the kennedy spa kennedy space center tom, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. a phenomenal experience yet again as we watch the spacex falcon 9 rocket topped with the space ship that the crew has dubbed resilience. lifting off the pad at 7:27 eastern time a perfect, perfect evening launch here into the night sky

coming up the entire east coast of the united states accelerating before finally dropping off its various stages well on its way now to intersecting with the international space station hoping to meet up with the space station about 11:20 or so tomorrow evening so it's going to be a good 24, 27 hours until meeting up with the space station. here's what makes this mission so important this is nasa handing over a real mission, not a test flight, a real mission now to the private sector, spacex spacex entrusted with the lives of four astronauts carrying them up off of the pad and well on their way now to the space station and this is what nasa is all preparing for, really handing over this job going to the space station to the private sector, spacex and boeing. nasa now wants to focus on going long, returning to the moon, maybe eventually going to mars the spacex track record right

now is absolutely phenomenal having had a very good test flight this last summer with two astronauts and now a real mission, four astronauts safely on their way to the space station. really a very good morning here at the kennedy space center. valerie, back to you. >> we wish that crew a safe journey. thank you. the country reaches yet another grim coronavirus milestone surpassing 11 million infections in the past week. it took ten days to go from 9 million cases to 10 million and 2 weeks to go from 8 to 9 million. as they scramble to contain a pandemic we're in minneapolis dealing with delays in test results. good morning. >> reporter: frances, good morning. minnesota reported 16,000 new coronavirus cases on sunday, and even that number might be low because health officials say there's a lag in testing data. they've been trying to ramp up testing in this state, including a new saliva testing at minneapolis airport.

testing can only go so far without extra labs to help process it i spoke to them about the challenges in getting up a new lab. >> unfortunately without a national strategy on testing, each state has had to develop and compete with each other to build testing capacity we recognized z early on that we had to diversify and we had to make sure that we had it based here in minnesota. >> reporter: health officials tell us the tests are coming back at a 15% positivity rate. the governor implementing new guidelines such as ten people or less for indoor and outdoor gatherings and restaurants and bars closing at 10 p.m fran ses >> cory, thank you. just days from now college students from across the country will start traveling home for thanksgiving break there's concern they could be bringing covid home too. nbc's blaine alexander looks at the extreme ways they are looking to keep students and

families safe. >> reporter: it was a semester of scenes like these that health officials blamed for outbreaks at colleges nationwide now experts worry that hundreds of thousands of students spanning across the country for holiday break could bring the virus home for the holidays. >> we want them to remember as they go home they'll be going to a different environment. they may be going home to families where there may be elderly relatives and we want to make sure they go home without the virus. >> reporter: at cornell university officials are urging students to stay on campus but for those who do travel, they are offering exit testing. sophomore caylee zong is one of them she just got tested today. both she and her parents worry about her making the trip from new york home florida. >> i'm going to be isolated in my room, minimize contact with them for a while i want to be safe. i don't want to put them in

danger. >> reporter: at the university of arizona the school's president, a medical doctor, says while they offer testing students are responsible for doing more. >> create a bubble create a small area that you operate in over the holidays so the smaller number of people you interact with, the better. >> reporter: across the country more measures. north carolina's health department is shipping nearly 75,000 covid tests to schools statewide. in new york, suny mandating a negative test before students leave campus at cornell and other schools, if students leave and refuse to test first, they cannot come back. >> what is the safest course of action for students this holiday? >> starting now they need to limit themselves to essential activities only which is going to class, getting food, going to the doctor and exercising outdoors. >> reporter: for some students no matter how home sick, it's not a gamble worth taking.

>> my family is older. >> we'll probably do zoom call or face time. >> reporter: staying cautiously connected in a holiday season like none other. as coronavirus cases surge across the country, dr. anthony fauci is warning that a delayed presidential transition is a danger to public health saying it would be better if his team could start working with president-elect joe biden. we're joined by nbc's tracie potts. the biden team would like to see more cooperation. >> reporter: right, frances. they are meeting this week, we're told, with pfizer and with other drug makers about covid vaccine, not only pfizer but others that are close to developing a vaccine but the roadblock seems to be meeting with the government with those officials in the trump administration who are already working on not vaccine development but distribution how do you get the vaccine out to everyone? that's the key question that they -- the biden team says they need to be involved in right now

because they're working on the same thing and it's not happening. president-elect biden's chief of staff, ron klain telling "meet the press" why he thinks those meetings need to happen soon >> joe biden's going to become president of the united states in the midst of an ongoing crisis that has to be a seamless transition we now have the possibility, we need to see if it gets approved, of a vaccine being given in january. we need to make sure nothing drops in the change of power on january 20th. >> reporter: all of that, of course, hinges on president trump accepting the election results, authorizing the government to work with the transition we're starting to see some movement in pennsylvania the trump campaign has dropped a key part of their lawsuit that says hundreds of thousands of ballots were illegally canvassed without them watching. they have dropped that part of

the lawsuit. the lawsuit continues and the hearing happens tomorrow frances? >> tracie, thank you. michigan's governor announced new restrictions as covid cases spike in that state. white house coronavirus advisor dr. scott atlas reacted by tweeting, the only way this stops is if people rise up governor gretchen whitmer responded on cnn. >> we know that the white house likes to single us out here in washington, me out in particular i'm not going to be bullied into not following reputable scientists and medical professionals. >> some of the new restrictions in michigan include no indoor dining at bars and restaurants and high schools and colleges will be fully remote the changes start wednesday and will last three weeks. former president barack obama spoke about the delayed transition he told cbs the stalling does damage to the idea that elected officials are servants to people who are not above the rules. he was asked if he had any

advice for president-elect joe biden and here's what he had to say. >> he doesn't need my advice and i will help him in any ways that i can. no, i'm not planning to suddenly work on the white house staff or something. >> no cabinet position for you, mr. president? >> there are some things i would not do because michelle would leave me she'd be like, what? >> mr. obama said he decided to get out and campaign because he saw certain values breached and he wanted people to know this isn't normal. time to get a check of your monday forecast with nbc meteorologist janessa webb good morning, janessa. >> good morning. that front is going to make its way off shore. that's good news the bad news, we have a major hurricane stirring up across the caribbean about to make landfall later on tonight across hon door ras into nicaragua now a cat 4 storm. this is devastating for this

area just 14 days ago he was dealing with eta, a cat 4 that directly hit that area. right now just in the last half hour sustained winds have picked up to 145 miles per hour at landfall this is potentially going to be near as. the feel like temperature, near the freezing mark. still the colder air in place in the midwest. duluth in the 40s. ladies, we'll take a look at that week ahead coming up. >> check in later. thank you, janessa. an emotional reunion between deputy and son. >> he surprised his son during a

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a global event amid a global crisis despite the coronavirus pandemic, japan and the olympic committee are determined for the 2021 summer olympics in tokyo to take place this week more details are expected to be revealed on how the japanese capitol will pull it off. >> all right hopefully we can have more information on that as they're going to be meeting and the olympic committee will be discussing more on what will happen with that. now to the people's choice awards it aired on sunday here's a look at one of the many

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