high ♪ ♪ the best part of wakin' up is folgers in your cup ♪ this morning, new hope as the pandemic explodes in record-braking ways. moderna's vaccine shows promise. the pandemic has caused millions of americans to manage through economic hardships, and now with theholidays starting next week, a greater focus to help those in need. hurricane iota slamming the coast with 185-mile-an-hour winds. a dangerous police chase ends with an incredible crash and it's all caught on camera.

overnight, spacex got one step closer to making space travel more affordable "early today" starts right now glad to have you with us i'm frances rivera. >> and i'm paul gehrke so far more than 11.2 million americans have tested positive, and around the country positivity rates are soaring kansas, south dakota, and iowa are all above 50% while idaho and wyoming are 40%. >> the highest daily total in california since the beginning of the pandemic began. governor newsom is calls for an emergency, rolling back the reopening. more than 1 million children have been infected, and last week alone, a record of nearly

112,000 have been diagnosed. >> the trump administration have come up with a deal with walgreens and cvs. >> there's optimism as a second vaccine appears to be more successful than imagined >> reporter: announcing its potential covid vaccine is 94.5% effective, drugmaker moderna says if granted emergency operation by the fda, it would roll out doses as early as december, its clinical trial with 30,000 participants finding no significant safety concerns. >> what does this mean for americans at home? >> it means some hope that we are going to beat this thing and we're going to beat it sooner rather than later. >> reporter: moderna now joins pfizer who just last week reported their vaccine is 90% effective. >> we have enough vaccine doses between these two vaccines to m

immunize them in december. >> reporter: phase 1 a includes high-risk americans like health care workers and first responders, and there's currently not enough doses for them phase 1 b covers those with underlying conditions like seniors in nursing homes phase 2 covers 30% to 35% of the population and includes fraughtline works, people in the food industry and teachers phase 3, 40% to 45% of the population includes most young adults and children and phase 4 protects everything else. >> our goal would be by the second quarter to have enough vaccine to get everyone who wants to be vaccinated >> reporter: details and dates remain unclear

moderna's vaccine did not study children, who it will test next. questions remain over vaccinating pregnant women and infants. the u.s. government hopes to provide the vaccine free of charge there's also optimism where it could be distributed at drugstores where people could have easy access to it. despite travel warnings in some states, there's concern about college students heading home and spreading the virus nbc's blayne alexander has more. >> reporter: you've heard health experts talk about the concerns that with the holidays coming up, the best course of action is stay home, not go visit your family, stay in small groups a number of experts are concerned about college students, likely leaving campus, traveling home, and possibly bringing the virus home to their loved ones at the ian vertz of pittsburgh

students are sheltering in place after a recent spike in covid cases. in massachusetts, cases are always on the rise at colleges students and teachers are being urged to stay on campus. experts fear hundreds of thousands of students who travel home could spread the virus to their family if students are going to travel home for the holidays, what should they start doing five days before? >> at least quarantine >> reporter: get a test as close to detar purr as possible, wear a mask and eye covering and stay masked and isolate for 72 hours and test again is many schools are offering exit testing in new york all 140,000 students at suny are required to test

before leaving the campus. some schools require the exit test before students can enroll next semester. >> now that i've been getting tested consistently, i feel safe my parents feel comfortable with it. >> reporter: even the best precautions, experts warn there is no way to be certain and say the safest choice, stay apart. frances, many of the students are choosing to go virtual for the remainder of the semester. they're not returning to the campus until the spring semester, sometime in january or possibly february, and many schools are requiring students to test before they come back to campus. >> that's some tough choices families have to make. blayne, thank you. ♪ president-elect joe biden is turning to outside experts on national security as the trump administration continues to block a proper transition.

the president-elect still isn't receiving classified intelligence briefings, so in lieu of them, atransition official tells nbc news that biden will meet with diplomatic intelligence and defense experts today to help him prepare for day 1. our capitol hill correspondent tracie potts joins us with the latest tracie, no government officials are expected at that briefing. >> no, paul. these are outside experts as you noted, and the pressure is growing growing for the trump administration to include president-elect biden and vice president-elect harris as a senator, harris already has the security clearance that she needs to be part of the briefings, but the trump administration, specifically the jane real services administration, has yet to sign off on that. also they're putting together a covid relief plan, a vaccine distribution plan.

they're trying to figure out how to get these vaccines out to millions of people by next spring, and biden is saying it would be easier if the trump administration cooperates. >> what do you see as the biggest threat to your transition right now given president trump's unprecedent attempt to disrupt and delay a smooth transition of power >> more people may die if we don't coordinate, if we have to wait until january 20th to actually become operational. that's a shame, but maybe that's the only way to get it done. >>. >> reporter: the president also considering withdrawing troops from afghanistan and other countries before he leaves office he's getting some pushback on that even from some of his closest allies on capitol hill like senate majority leader mitch mcconnell who said terrorists would like nothing more than to have u.s. troops go back home.

paul >> thank you very much we'll see if it influences joe biden when he takes over. now the military is ordering a troop to withdraw from afghanistan. they're expected to be sent home by january 15th, five days before joe biden's elect inaugurati inauguration. the brieaneonna taylor case be closed but the saga continues out. in an interview with the "associated press," a woman who remain s annaonymous believes te police investigation was incomplete and the police want to close it up she felt there should have been more charges and the police went in there like the o.k. corral, wanted dead or alive. james heaps was accused of

sexual abuse as part of the class action lawsuit, more than 6,000 patients of heap's have filed. monday marked the deadline for submitting claim in the boy scouts' bankruptcy case. the organization which faces hundreds of lawsuits alleging decades-old sex abuse by scout leaders filed for bankruptcy back in february in a statement the boy scouts said in part we're devastated by the number of lives impacted by past abuse of scouting it will lead to a compensation fund to pay out settlements to abused survivors whose claims are upheld. big tech in the hot seat again. jack dorsey and mark zuckerberg

are scheduled to testify the ceos will explain their mishandling. some republicans are accusing the companies of anti-conservative bias. it will be interesting to see how many changes they made leading up to the election stick around afterward. >> yeah. let's turn to the life-threatening storm hammering central america right now, that same region still trying to recover from hurricane ateta. it's made landfall again hurricane iota made landfall at nicaragua as a category 4. meteorologist janessa webb is tracking it for us janessa, good morning. >> good morning. it's moving across the area striking as a cat 4. two weeks apart we've seen two major hurricanes and right now sustained winds are still roaring in this area we still have a cat 2 storm,

105-mile-per-hour winds in the west it's a very slow movement of 9 miles per hour the national hurricane center is forecasting a storm surge along with 25 to 30 inches of rain this storm system will start to dissipate going into this afternoon, but unfortunately this system stillisay if you're in new york city, you're going to see a little more cloud coverage, winds still brewing across northern new england. and hurricane season ends in 13 days, but we do have another system coming our way. i'll show you that coming up. >> milking every last bit of the season. ahead, a method to march

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in today's fop stories, hate crimes in the united states have risen on the highest level in more than a decade according to data from the fbi. there were 51 hate crime murders in 2019, which includes 22 people killed in the shooting at the walmart in el paso, texas, targeted at mexicans the data shows there was a rise in religion-based and hispanic-based crimes while crimes against african-americans dropped slightly.

a police chase ended in a crash with the vehicle they were chasing ending up slamming in a pole the truck lost control speeding down the highway and hitting a light pole and catching on fire. a medical helicopter took the injured driver to the local hospital still no word on his condition it's still not wanted why the vehicle was wanted by the police. >> thankfully he didn't hit anyone else. the pandemic has created an economic hardship. as the holidays approach, the places families normally turn to now face enormous stress here's rehema ellis. >> reporter: at this food bank in milwaukee, people are lining up like never behafore. >> we're making ends meet but not with the food bill. >> reporter: retired with an

11-year-old daughter, cindy glick says the pandemic forced her husband out of work. >> how hard is it to keep food on the table >> it's a challenge i never hoped to have to face. >> reporter: sherry tussler have sounding the alarm. >> i'm afraid in jab there's not going to be in food. >> reporter: there was a report of almost 23.8 million with food insecurity texas has seen long lines strep up to three miles. in california, one bank included a 125% increase. in new york workers are scrambling to provide turkeys for thanksgiving. >> the calls are coming in and people are desperate. >> desperate but grateful. >> i'm glad there are places i can turn to. >> reporter: and hoping the help will still be there even after the season of giving rehema ellis, nbc news.

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