garrett . a call for unity and action. president elect joe biden plans to govern. >> this is the time to heal in america. >> four days after the last ballots were cast, biden headquarters in 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 tiraid and false allegations. >> vice president elect kamala harris makes history. >> you ushered in a new day for america. >> plus america's allies recognize the president elect. rivals watch for what is next.

cbs news in moscow. covid cases are surging nationwide. infections and deaths set new record. >> this is jeopardy. >> we remember the amazing alex trebek. >> let us play jeopardy. >> the man with all the answers dead at 80. ♪ this is the "cbs overnight news." good evening everyone, i'm major garrett in new york. today, president elect joe biden attended mass and visited his son's grave, he began worker 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 alienated voters in kay 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 concession. nicole killian in delaware leads off the coverage. >> joe biden started off the first full day of being president elect by going to mass and visiting the grave of his son. it followed a historic night in wilmington, where president elect biden celebrated victory and vowed on unite 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 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 parkingla ining lot to around the country. former president, george w. bush congratulated biden and harris. he said though we have political differences, i know joe biden to be a good machbl he congratulated president trump on his 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 the website and new social media channels as the president elect ramps up efforts this week. >> he will be making announc

announcements to the american people. >> the first a covid task force. >> they are going take the biden/covid plan and they are going to turn it in to policy and action items. >> cbs news has learned 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, rescinding the daca action, and rejoining the -- >> will trump concede and when, paula is at the white house. >> reporter: the president has not made public remarks, he was spotted earlier today in his virginia golf club. some aides have been urging the president on speak out, instead, he has been on twitter. today, ask canning quote, since

when does the lame stream 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 is vowing more legal challenges but at this point, it's unclear that any of the litigation will make a difference in the outcome. now, inside the white house, and campaign headquarters, there's a lot of aides asking why there was not a better plan to contest the election? many blame the president's senior adviser and son-in-law jared kushner for not coordinating the legal strategy and aides are keeping a list of republicans who are not publically supporting the president. including his very loyal vice president mike pence. who aside from a fundraising call interest and a single tweet a few days ago has not offered much public support. now, aides tell cbs news, that the president will concede the election after all of his legal

options have been exercised and the final numbers reflect abide -- a biden victory. >> thank you, senator harris is now vice president elect. hair brings a number of firsts to the office and lilia luciano has more. >> reporter: a historic win. >> while i may be the first woman in this office, i will not be the last. >> reporter: blasting barriers multiple times over. the first woman, the first black woman. the first indian american woman. >> there's no other place that i wanted to be with my other fellow berkley residents celebrating in her childhood home. >> reporter: the daughter of a jamaican born father and a indian born mother, raised kamala and her sister. >> she believed so deeply in america where a moment like this is possible. >> reporter: after her parents

divorced, her momma 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 could do everything. >> reporter: harris became the first black attorney general in california, aspiring to change the system from the inside n2014, she married touy eied atg imhoff, and was the second black woman elected to the u.s. senate, two years later running for the nation's highest office. >> you could be president. >> reporter: the 56-year-old trail blazer stepped in to her had new role, dressed in white. a nod to 100 years of women gaining the right to vote. >> their determination and the strength of their vision and i stand on their shoulders. >> reporter: cbs news, los angeles. >> the cbs overnight news will be right back.

♪ this is the "cbs overnight news." >> the world has been closely watching the u.s. election. wondering how a new white house will shift policies. 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's a different story. cbs's holly williams is in moscow. >> america has made its choice and choice was a man who rarely leaves his basement and often know where he is. >> that is rt, often he referred

to as a russian propaganda outlet. >> america's adversaries, including russia and china have portrayed the u.s. election as chaotic and american democracy as flawed. margarita is editor and chief of rt and told us that russia is disappointed in president trump, in part for imposing more sanctions. but not optimistic about his success or. >> what is the russian leadership in your opinion thinking about the prospect of a president joe biden? >> they know that whoeve many coulds is going to be the same rules. in the 20 years it's never better. >> joe biden -- >> from america's friends including israel, there were the normal diplomatic niceties. the british prime minister, boris 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. >> reporter: and there were fireworks in india. celebrations in the ancesteral village of vice president elect harris. nation -- holly williams, c sbmpt news, moscow. > with all eyes on the election, the u.s. suffered the worst woke of the pandemic. saturday, 130,000 new infections were reported the most since the pandemic began nearly 10 million confirmed cases have been reported. more than 237,000 americans have died. adriana diaz has the latest. >> reporter: wisconsin surge is pushing covid in to new territory, through the doors

madis madison's university hospital which we visited more than two weeks ago, is expanding the covid care to an additional icu, wisconsin is one of 27 states that broke records for new daily cases. eight states have reimposed restrictions, in contrast to the states they don't have a state mask mandate. leaving mask wearing up to do individuals. 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 limit willed contact with voters. then, there's suzanne three irons daughter. the youngest person in north dakota to die from covid. >> she loved hanging out with her friends and driving around and listening to music and she loved tiktok. >> covid cases among native americans and alaska natives are 3.5 times great man among white americans. her amerimother had become a co patient herself and she was taken to a hospital.

she recalls watching her daughter via video link when the screen went black. >> i told her i love her and i said goodbye. not being able to see her, touch her, hold her. >> reporter: the native american was just 17 years old. cbs news. milwaukee. chances are if alex trebek played jeopardy himself, he may have been a champion. but he was in a league all of his own as a host. he died in his home at 80 years old. here is nancy chin. >> this is jeopardy. >> for more than three decades as host of jeopardy, alex trebek was a constant presence in millions american homes. trebek announced last year, that he was diagnosed with cancer. >> just like 50,000 other people

in united states this year, this week i was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. >> he was born in canada and got his start as a part-time announcer for the cbc, and became host of jepcky in 1984, his quick wit and dry sense of humor made him a television icon. >> i usually precede it with oh, oh, sorry. >> of course, it's 27 minutes of jeopardy. >> the serious trebek was famously portrayed and mimicked in pop culture. >> i will check the rapists for 200. >> it's therapist, not the rapist. >> when you make fun of somebody like me and a show like jeopardy, it means we have arrived. >> trebek hosted over 8,000 episodes. >> a champion with $1.

>> as he was receiving treatment for cancer, he spoke with jean pauley. >> for 35 years, i enjoyed the success of the show and i never thought about the impact that the program was having on american viewers. and i have become part of their lives. >> trebek taped new episodes in the pandemic and in his treatment. with fans and show contestants wishing him well. >> did you come up with the right answer? nope. >> in a show all about the questions, trebek always had the answer. nancy chin, cbs news. >> think election season is over? not in georgia. the senate may hinge on the two run-off races. the state is appearing to be changing. >> breaking news out of georgia, it's a ruby red state. >> republicans knew dgeorgia

would be a dog fight. president trump campaigned here two days before almost 5 million georgians voted. >> thank you, georgia go out and vote. >> reporter: keith, an unemployed autobody technician. voted trump. for decades white male voters like him turned georgia in to a republican stronghold. >> i would never have thought it was going to be this close. >> reporter: the voters are younger, better educated and more diverse. exit polls show biden won 87% of georgia's black voters and he won 56% of all college graduates and more than half of younger voters 18-34. tasha brown founded the group, black voters matter. >> when i see georgia, i see the

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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. we cast balloted in a deadly pandemic. a historic number and circumstance. president elect joe biden voters extatic, and those that support donald trump, disappointed. we have witnessed and respected close elections before. richard nixon lost one in 1960 and then won one in 1968.

in 2000, 537 votes in florida determined the presidency. it took 36 days to resolve and require 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 different. a system of verifying ballots is is working dill againstly. here is a simple is truth. on january 20th, president elect biden will be sworn in as the president of the united states. and kamala harris will be the first female vice president in u.s. history. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later for cbs this morning. find us on online at cbs.com and join me for my podcast, the takeout.

reporting from new york, i'm marriage garrett. ♪ cbs news, original reporting. ♪ ♪ this is the "cbs overnight news," good evening everyone, i'm marria -- joe biden attended mass and visited his son's grave, he 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 every -- worst ever in terms of gnu cases. biden's victory was powered by his approach to the virus.

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 concession. nicole killian in delaware leads off the coverage. >> reporter: jioe biden started off his first full day as president elect, attending church and going to the grave of his son. it followed an historic night in wilmington. where president elect biden celebrated victory and vowed to unite the country. >> i pledge to be a president who seeks to not divide, but to 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 do 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 congratulated mr. 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 f d fundmentally fair. the biden administration will be announcing to the american people -- >> the first, a new covid task force, led by a former surgeon general, and former fda

commissioner, david kesler. >> they will take the biden covid plan and turn it in to policy and action items. cbs news has learned that president elect biden is expected to unveil a series of executive actions to reverse some of president trump'ses policies on day one. that includes rescinding a travel ban on several muslim majority countries. reinstatedi reinstateding the daca program, and rejoining the paris climate agreement. >> nicole, thank you. we all know the questions, will president trump concede and if so, when, paula is at the white huse. paula? >>. >> reporter: evening, president trump has not yet made public remarks the though he was spotted earlier today in his had virginia golf club. now, cbs news learned that some aides have been urging the president to speak out but instead, he has been on twitter. today, asking quote, since when does the lame stream 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 is vouing more legal challenges but at this point, it's unclear that any of the did it -- any of the litigation will make a difference in the outcome. in campaign head quarters, there's aides asking why there was not a better plan to contest the election. many blame the president's senior adviser and son-in-law jared kushner for not coordinating the legal strategy. and aides are keeping a list of republicans who are not publically supporting the president. including his 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 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 ar. >> senator harris is now vice president elect. harris brings a number of firsts to the office and lilia more. >> reporter: a hit i can win. >> while i may be the first woman in the office, i will not be the last. >> reporter: blasting barriers multiple times over t first woman, the first black woman. the first incidentan american woman. >> no other place that i wanted to be with my other fellow berkley residents celebrating in her childhood home. >> reporter: the daughter of a jamaican born father and i haddan -- and indian born mother raised kamala and her sister. >> she believed so deeply in a moment like this being possible. >> her momma scientist, moved the family to montreal where kamala went to high school.

she graduated from howard, a historical black university. >> you can do everything and you can do anything. >> she became the first black attorney general? california, aspiring to change the system from the inside. in 2014, she married her h husband, earning the title mamala, she was elected to the sent and then two years later, running for the nation's highest office. the 56-year-old trail blazer stepped in her role dressed in sufferageist white. >> their determination and strength of their vision and i stand on their shoulders. cbs news. los angeles. 32 million eligible latino voters made crucial differences in several battleground states. for example, latinos helped joe biden secure victory. and they looked at their options. we are in las vegas.

>> the people of the nation have spoken. >> with nevada's six 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 2/3 going for biden. and an analysis by the research group, latino decisions found the economy was key for both groups. >> the latino community that we be speaking to, they see that and they want to have a more vibrant economy. they want to reopen the economy. and they see the leader that wants to do that is president donald trump. >> white, latino, asian. >> reporter: but the science of the coronavirus tipped the scale. >> our state has been so highly impacted the latinos are disproportionately impacted. it's not getting better. >> latinos will represent the

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this is the cbs overnight news. >> i'm major garrett in new york, thank-ss for staying with us. president elect joe biden is wasting no time gathering the reigns of political power. at the top of his priorities is getting control of the pandemic. today, he will unveil his plan of attack. we look at the week in american history and what may come next. i pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide but unify. >> is it really all over is? >> we have to stop treating our

opponents as our enemies. they are not our enemies. they are americans. >> reporter: after a wild week of waiting. president elect joe biden delivered his victory speech in wilmington, delaware. >> this is the time to heal in america. >> this is a major fraud on our nation. >> reporter: president trump has not called to congratulate biden. he has not conceded defeat. he continues on to cry foul. >> but ultimately i have a feeling that judges are going to have to rule. sfwl >> what we don't know. >> the president is going to keep fighting the results in court and not proceed. >> whether a litigious president unwilling to go down without a fight will get his wish. >> so we will go to the u.s. supreme court. >> reporter: what we know was what we saw for ourselves. >> this will be the most

important election in the history of our country. >> this is the most important election in our lifetimes. >> reporter: the candidates framing the stakes. never mind the threat of coronavirus, we saw long lines at polling places. ballots cast in numbers demonstrating how intensely republicans and democrats both believed that the course of our democracy was indeed on the line. voter participation was the highest in a century and the outcome. >> well, it's extraordinary, and what is extraordinary is despite a pandemic, a great depression level of unemployment, huge turmoil, and an impeachment before that, you have ended up seeing the partisan divide as deep as rooted as ever. journalist fareed zakariah, is the author on the "ten lessons for a post-pandemic

world. what the pan democrat is has revealed, perhaps more than anything else is that we are really two runs. >> reporter: so, no real movement across the ideological divide. think world war i trench warfare. advances and retreats measured in a few feet. when have you seen plywood, think about it for a second, after an election day. >> new york's times square, bored up. and an unscaleable wall round donald trump's white house. armed protesters. describe an emotion you felt this past week, anxiety? fear. of what might happen. >> you know, 50 years ago, and i move to the u.s. from lebanon, i never thought i would be

concerned about violence, conflict, and even bloodshed in this country. he heads the conflict resolution program at the carter center in atlanta. >> look, what i have seen around the world is far, far, more violent bloo, and destruct i have. conflict and civil war. we are not there. we are not there. but nonetheless. that is not to say that we should not be concerned. i think americans should be worried about the fabric of our society really track which you aring. we have of not crossed that line it has not fractured yet. we are not far from the line seeth. >>s in the nights, that can happen here. could it? >> hypothetical cally, yes.

>> at 10:36 washington time, donald trump on route from the white house to his virginia golf course tweeted this. >> cbs news predicts that joe biden has within selected the 45th president of the united states. >> within an hour, news organizations, including cbs, called the election for joe biden. and kamala harris. >> we can the did it joe. you are going to be the next president of the united states. and a national street party erupted reduce the united states. >> voter fraud! >> not celebrating the roughly 70 million americans who voted for president trump. how many of them no longer trust the legitimacy of the process. such as this man in georgia,

echoing the president's words. >> it was like they were waiting to see how many votes trump had and they counted the rest to make sure that biden had just enough. >> what is the long-term cost to our democracy, a widespread doubt. >> our work is hard. for those who didn't vote for me, as those who did: let this grim era of demonization in america gun to end here and now. >> how likely is it that joe biden will convince nearly half the eelectric tore alek to did electorate that he is their president too. >> what presidents say in the battle matters. it's time for our better angels to prevail. >> i'm not going to be a

polly-annie here, it's going to be hard. one of the hardest things we have had to do as a republic chmpt is to tone things down. >> long-time political commentator. job number one for joe biden, it looks like but also for the impress and the courts, and for us as citizens is to thirg ofig ways to reach out and start conversations. >> what the chances of had that happening. >> they deserve a minimum wage of $15 i will ask the huge corporations and the super wealthy to pay their fair share. >> the issues that biden campaigned on, can pass. but likely only if they flip the senate. president elect biden's agenda will hit a red wall there. by the name of mitch mcconnell.

you know the same mitch mcconnell who set out to make barack obama a one-term president. the same mitch mcconnell who sabotaged obama obama's preem court. they are setting the stage to potentially steal an election. >> for a moment, the gop still sounds like the party of trump. but -- >> i don't think you can under estimate the incredible power that a president has in setting style for the country. just look at what donald trump has done. i think, that if you have a different president setting the tone, there's things that will change. >> the dozens and dozens of executive orders and regulatory roll backs that president trump signed in to affect. with the stroke of his pen. joe bead inplans to start undoing them. on day one.

january twentieth. you are going to start paying your fair share. >> he is expected reengage with the world, allbeit a warier world. >> people have seen this backlash in america. to it's engage. in the world. it will not be able to forget it. joe widen will come and demonstrate that there's two americas pt he can manufacture aggressively and intelligently, it will not change the fact that people have seen that other america and they know it's liking there. maybe dorm ant for now. but it could can rear its head again. >> tonight, the whole world is watching america. >> trying to read joe biden and kamala harris, after their historic victory.

biden won with more votes. 74 million and counting than any american president, ever. >> while i may be the first woman in this office. i will not be the last. >> harris been the first woman, the first person of african-american and asian decent. and the first child of immigrants to be elected vice president. >> every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities. >> it's time to put away the harsh rhetoric. lower the temperature, see each other again, listen to each other again. and to make progress. >> what's a the take away from this messy, sometimes ugly election be. it's really healthy for us to see who we are and where we are. >> good news. according to noted hard vart university historian, daniel

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. the 2020 presidential election made history in many ways. jane pauley of cbs sunday morning has a look at the numbers. >> reporter: the presidential vote will total well over twenty-one 45 million. the largest in history. and it's still growing. more than 100 million were cast early. double the 47 million early votes. a projected 66.3% of eligible voters turned out. up sharply from 2016. that is the highest percentage of eligible voters since 1907. but it's also far short of the all-time largest share of voters to turn out. more than 82% in the bitterly

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alex trebek was the face and voice of jeopardy for 37 seasons. we look back on his life and career. >> it's a show with questions. and the man with answers is alex tr are ebek. >> a host who spent most of the show off camera. let's go to work right now. his no nonsense voice clearly reading the screens as the contestants race to answer before the buzzer. >> that would be newcastle. his quick wit and dry sense of humor made him an icon.

>> i usually precede it with oh, oh, sorry. >> his voice echoed through tv sets all over the world for more than three decades as the host of jeopardy, if you asked him, he would insist he is not the reason people watched. >> it's a good show, it satisfies one aspect of humanity and that is your need at a gut level to compete. >> and trebek made competition a life-long career. >> in what part of the world do you find a wombat. >> he first hosted a high school quiz show in canada in the 60s and then a dozen more. before hitting his own daily double 20 years later. >> they called me up one day and said, we are going to syndicate jeopardy, would you like to hostity it? and i said, are you going to pay me? had and they said, yeah. and i said okay. >> trebek was born in canada, he paid his way through college at the university of ottowa, he

made answers as questions pop culture. and was mimicked. >> i will take the rapists for 200. >> that's therapists. not the rapists. >> when you make fun of someone like me and a show such ask jeopardy, it means we have arrived. >> the show thrived, he hosted more than 7,000 episodes from kids to celebrities to champions. >> a jeopardy champion with $1. >> some won litittle and one wo it all. jeopardy collected dozens of emmys and trebek was horned numerous times. a husband and father of two, a dedicated putter with a love for fixing up his home. he was a staple in afternoon tv. >> and left will us humming a tune as unforgettable as the

host. in hollywood, cbs news. that's the overnight news for this monday. it's monday, november 9, 2020. this is cbs morning news. president-elect joe biden. the former vice president is laying out his top priorities after being projected the winner of the presidential race. the world reacts. the result isn't sitting well with everyone. some of america's rivals have portrait the elections. and operation warp speed. a top military leader talks his biggest fear once there is a vaccine. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. we are going to begin with prid