captioning sponsored by cbs >> garrett: tonight a call for unity and action, the election received as the pandemic advances. president-elect joe biden prepares to govern, coronavirus cases rise and economic jitters increase. >> this is the time to heal in america. >> garrett: four days after the last ballots were cast, biden headquarters headquartersl wilmington delaware lights up in red, white and blue. >> horn honking celebrations erupt in several cities. president trump plays golf again, no word on a concession. though on twitter a new tirade and false allegations. vice president-elect kamala harris makes history. >> you ushered in a new day for america. >> garrett: plus america's allies recognize the president-elect, rivals watch for what's next. cbs news is in moscow.

also tonight covid cases surge nationwide. infections and deaths set new records. >> this is jeopardy. >> garrett: and we remember the amazing alex trebek. >> let us play jeopardy. >> garrett: a man with all the answers dead at 80 this is the cbs weekend news. >> garrett: good evening, everyone, i'm major garrett in new york. today president-elect joe biden attended mass and visited his son beau's graivment he also began work on his transition. tomorrow mr. biden only the second catholic to win the presidency is set to announce a coronavirus task force to prepare him for the work ahead. much has to be done. last week was the worst ever in terms of new cases, hospitals are stressed, the death toll keeps rising. biden's victory was in part powered by voters critical of

president trump's handling of the pandemic and his approach to public health precautions. the president's temperment also alienated voters in key states. today the president tweeted more false claims about fraud and theft of an election. he also played golf. the 210th such outing of his presidency, significantly the president continued to withhold a confession. -- con setionz, nikole kill onleads off our coverage. >> joe biden started off his first full day as president-elect attending church and visiting the grave of his de ceased son beau. it followed an historic night in wilmington where president-elect biden celebrated victory and vowed to unit the country. >> i pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide but unify. who doesn't see red states and blue states, only sees the united states. >> vice president-elect kamala harris marked the moment dressed

in all white, ascending as the first woman and the first black and south asian to ever hold the role. >> while i may be the first woman in this office, i will not be the last because every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities. >> celebrations erupted from the drive-in parking lot, to cities around the country. former president george w. bush congratulate pld biden and senator harris sunday. he said in a statement, though we have political differences, i know joe biden to be a good man. he also congratulated president trump on a hard fought campaign but noted this election was fundamentally fair and its outcome is clear. >> we stand together. >> the biden-harris transition team rolled out its website and new social media channelness as the president-elect ramps up effort this week. >> he will be making

announcements to the american people. >> the first, a new covid task force lead by former surgeon general vivek murthy and former fda commissioner david kessler. >> they're going to take the biden covid plan and they're going to turn it into policy and action ideas. >> cbs news learn president-elect biden is expected to unveil a series of executive actions to reverse some of president trump's policies on day one. that includes rescinding a travel ban on several muslim majority countries. reinstating the daca program and rejoining the world trade organization and the paris climate agreement. major? >> garrett: nikole killion, thank you. we all know the questions l president trump concede and if so when. paula reid is at the white house. >> good evening, major. president trump has not yet made any public remarks, though he was spotted earlier today at his virginia golf club. cbs news has learned some aids have been urging the president to speak out but instead he has

been on twitter. today asking quote since when does the lamestream media call who our next president will be. of course back in 2016 the media called the race for mr. trump. but with this race called for biden, the president's personal attorney rudy giuliani is digging in. he's vowing more legal challenges. but at this point it is unclear that any of that litigation would actually make a difference in the outcome. now inside the white house and campaign headquarter there are a lot of aids asking why there wasn't a better plan to contest the election. many blame the president's senior advisor and son in law jared kushner for not coordinating the legal strategy. and aides are also keeping a list of republicans who were not publicly supporting the president. including his very loyal vice president mike pence who aside from a fundraising call and a single tweet a few days ago, has not offered much public support. now aides also tell cbs news that the president will concede

the election after all of his legal options have been exercised and the final numbers reflect a biden victory. major. >> garrett: paula reid, thank you. california senator kamala harris is now vice president-elect after shattering another racial and gender barrier in american politicses. harris brings a number of firsts to the office. and lilia luciano has more. >> a historic win. >> while i may be the first woman in this office, i will not be the last. >> blasting barriers multiple times over. the first woman, the first black woman. the first indian-american woman. >> with no other place i wanted to be with my other fellow berkeley residents celebrating at her childhood home. >> the daughter of a jam akan born father and indian raised mother. >> when she came here from india at the age of 19, she believed so deeply in an america where a moment like this is possible. >> after her parents divorce,

her mom a prominent scientist moved the family to montreal where kamala went to high school. she graduated from howard, a historically black university. >> you can do anything and you can do everything. >> harris became the first black attorney general in california, aspiring to change the system fom the inside. in 2014 she married attorney doug emhoff earning her the new title mamala to her stepkids. >> i do. >> she became the second black woman elected to the u.s. senate, two years later running for the nation's highest office. >> the 56 year old trail blazer stepped into her new role dressed in suffragist white a nod to a hundred years of women gaining the role to vote. >> their determination and the strength of their vision, and i stand on their shoulders. >> lilia luciano, cbs news. >> the world has been closely watching the u.s. election wondering how a new white house will sift policy.

this was the sound heard in toronto, yesterday when the presidential race was called as canadians welcomed change and an expected end to strained relations. for america's rivals it is a different story. cbs's holly williams is in moscow. >> america has made its choice. and its choice is a man who rarely leaves his basement, who often doesn't know where he is. >> that's rt often referred to as a russian propaganda. >> four more years of georgia. >> america's adversaries including russia and china have portrayed the u.s. election as chaotic and american democracy as flawed. margarita simonyan is editor in chef of rt and told us russia is disappointed in president trump in part for imposing more sanctions but not opaimistic about his successor. >> one of the russian leadership

in your opinion think about the pros peck of a president joe biden. >> we know that whoever comes is going to be the same. >> from america's friends including israel, there was a normal diplomatic nice tees. the british prime minister bore is johnson was all smiles, even though joe biden has called him a clone of president trump. >> i look forward very much to working with president biden and his team on a lot of crucial stuff for us. >> and there were fireworks in india, celebrationsin the ancestral village of vice president-elect kamala harris. many around the world, perhaps even here in russia will welcome the return of a more predictable, more conventional american foreign policy when president-elect biden takes office. holly williams, cbs news,

moscow. >> garrett: with all eyes on the election the u.s. suffered its first week of the pandemic and saturday 130,000 new infections were reported. the most since the pandemic began. nearly 10 million confirmed cases have now been reported in the united states. more than 237,000 americans have died. adriana diaz has the latest. >> wisconsin's surge is pushing covid into new territory. through these doors madison's university hospital, which we visited more than twc weeks ago is expanding its covid care to an additional icu. wisconsin is one of 27 states that broke records for new daily cases this week. eight states have reimposed restrictions-- restrictions in contrast these 16 state don't have a mask mandate. and in missouri a poll worker who knew she had covid died on election night after working 15 hours as an election judge supervisor. officials say she had limited

contact with voters. then there is susan threeirons daughter all veela ramirez, the youngest person in north dakota to die with covid. >> she loved hanging out with friends, driving around listening to music, she loved tiktok. >> covid cases among native americans are three and a half times greater than among while americans, according to a cdc study from this summer. >> her mother became a covid patient her is of and was taken to another hospital. from there she recalled watching her daughter via video link when the screen went black. >> my daughter's heart stopped. i put the phone beside her, i told her i love her. i had to say good-bye. i have not seen her, not been with her to hold her. >> the native american was justr 17 years old. adriana diaz, cbs news. milwaukee. >> garrett: chances are if alex trebek played jeopardy mim self he may have well been a champion but we know for sure is

as an understated and clever host he was in a league all of his own. he died today at his home in los angeles. trebek was 80. here is nancy chen. >> this is jeopardy. >> for more than three decades as host of jeopardy alex trebek was a constant presence in millions of american homes. >> let's go to work rightñi now. >> trebek announced in march last year he had been diagnosed with cancer. >> just like 50,000 other people in the united states each year, this week i was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. >> trebek born in canada got his media start as a part time announcer for the cbc. >> in what part offed world would you find a wombat. >> alex trebek. >> he became host of jeopardy in 1984. his quick wit and dry sense of humor made him a television icon. >> what is sorry. >> i usually preside it with oooh sorry.

>> 27 minutes of jeopardy. >> the series trebek was famously portrayed and mimicked in popular culture. >> i will take the rapist for $200. >> that isxd therapist. not the rapist. >> when you make fun of someone like me and a show such as jeopardy, it means we've arrived. >> trebek hosted more than 8,000 episodes from kids to celebrities to champions. >> a jeopardy champion with $1. >> as he was receiving treatment for cancer, trebek spoke with jane pauley on cbs sunday morning. >> for 35 years i have enjoyed the success of the show but i have never really thought about the impact the program was having on american viewers. and i have become part of their lives. >> trebek takes new ep-- taped new episodes during the pandemic and through treatment but fans and even show contestants wishing him well. >> did you come up with the right one, no, what is we love

you attention a shall did shall alexñi thation is very ki. >> in a show all about the questions, trebek always had the answer. nancy chen, cbs news. >> straight ahead on the cbs weekend news, georgia now a battleground shifts the political geography. aye lesson from nevada as latinos explore all of their political options and later florida braces for eta after it crashes through central america.

>> garrett: think election season is over? not in georgia, kroafl the u.s. senate may hinge on the state's two runoff races with joe biden strong showing in the peach state the nation's political geography appears to be changing. here is mark strassmann. >> some breaking news out of georgia, it is a ruby red state.

>> republicans knew georgia would be a dog fight, president trump campaigned here two days before almost five million gorge begans voted. >> thank you georgia, go out and vote. >> keith faulk, an unemployed auto body technician voted trump. for decades white male voters like him turned georgia in a republican stronghold. >> i just never would have thought it would have been this close. >> georgia added one million voters since donald trump won this state four years ago. they're often younger, better educated, more diverse. exit polls show biden won 87% of georgia's black voters and 57% of hispanics. he won 56% of all college grads. and more than half of younger voters ages 18 to 434. -- 44, latasha brown a biden supporter profiled-- cofounded the group black voters matter. >> when i see i see potential and the possibility of what is happening. >> you are saying politically a new south is rising.

>> i'm saying politically a new south is rising. we are building a more reflective democracy. >> biden could become the first democratic presidential candidate to win this state since 1992. bill clinton, republicans are on notice, ruby red georgia is a thing of the past. mark strassmann, cbs news, atlanta. >> garrett: still ahead on the cbs weekend news, latino voters sway elections for both parties.

>> garrett: 32 million eligible latino voters made crucial differences in several battle groind states. for example latinos in clark county nevada helped joe biden secure victory in the silver state but they looked at their options, enrique acevedo is in loss ang-- vegas. >> the people of this nation

have spoken with nevada 6 electoral votes going to president-elect joe biden latinos in clark county, home to las vegas were crucial in keeping the silver state blue, an estimated quarter million latinos cast votes in nevada with nearly two thirds going for biden. an analysis by latino decisions found it was key for both groups. >> the latino community that we have been speaking to, they see that and they want to have a more vibrant economy, they want to reopen our economy and same with the children back to school, so they can go to work. obviously all done in a safe way but we have to have a path to reopening faster. they see the leader that wants to do that is president trump. >> white, latuno, asian. >> but the spons to the coronavirus tipped the scale overwhelmingly for biend. >> our state has been so highly impacted but latinos are disis

proportionately impacted. the latino community was concerned. >> latinos are expected to represent the second largest voting bloc in the 2020 election for the first time in history. enrique acevedo, cbs news, las vegas. >> garrett: next on the cbs weekend news, notre dame won the battle on the field but will covid make it a costly upset?

>> garrett: florida is bracing for another big storm tonight, eta is expected to be just shy of hurricane strength as it a approaches the keys and south florida. a foot of rain and possible tor add owes are forecast. eta role are roared through central america killing more than 100 people and causing widespread damage. two days after students at notre dame were warned about a covid spike on campus, a fumble. it happened after saturday's victory over number one clemson. thousands of fans stormed the field to celebrate following the irish's dramatic double overtime win. many including players, coaches

and fans were seen not wearing masks. >> when we return america has decided why it has been an election like no other.

>> garrett: finally tonight america has decided. yes, there are still votes to count but as former president george w. bush said today the outcome is clear. more than 145 million of us cast ballots during a deadly pandemic. a historic number and circumstances. supporters of president-elect joe biden are ecstatic. president trump supporters disappointed. courts and history will judge the allegations and evidence brought by the president. for the moment a concession and national reconciliation are delayed. we have witnessed and respected close elections before. richard nixon lost one in 1960 and won one in 1968 in 2,000, 537 votes in florida determined

the presidency. it took 36 days to resolve and required a supreme court ruling. al gore conceded and helped the nation and his supporters cope. >> tonight for the sake of our unity as a people and strength of our democracy i offer my concession. >> our current situation is quite different. we have close results in five states. a system to verify is working diligently and transparently, on january 20th in accordance with the constitution president-elect biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the united states. and kamala harris will become the first female vice president in u.s. history. no one knows what an inaugurate amid a pandemic will look like but we will be there. and we hope you will be with us. that's the cbs weekend news for this sunday, "60 minutes" is coming up. i'm major garrett in new york. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs

captioned and now at 6:00 from wind and hail in the bay area to low snow blanketing foothill highways. fall suddenly gets way to a blast of winter-like weather. >> and just across the golden gate bridge. pretty much was riding sideways the whole time. >> and that was all then. i want to talk to you about what's coming next. there's a frost advisory tomorrow morning for parts of the bay area. i've got to show you how low these temperatures will go. plus an activist travels to the other side of the country for a volunteer gig. tonight he tells us about witnessing democracy in action as a poll monitor. >> with history happening, i wanted to be a part of it and headed to my resume of life. >> i'm brian hackney. >> i'm juliette goodrich.

we start on the storm watch. the storm blowing in suddenly and strongly. in san francisco strong winds toppled trees in the presidio. in the east bay a sudden cloud burst made for dangerous driving on the freeways. >> part north in marin, hail in the mix. our john ramos shot this scene. katie nielsen shot that street in the county. we are seeing some snow here in the bay area. >> got down to about 3,000 feet here. but look at the top there, you can see the southern edge of the bay. that's how you get oriented. mount hamilton, the