new restrictions as the coronavirus outbreak intensifies. infections accelerate out of control, hospitalization hit a new record, states and cities cracking down. >> we need to hold this pandemic down until the calvary arrives. >> also president trump golfs, silent on the crisis, still tweeting he will not concede. supporters react. >> this is another attempt to try to defeat him by illegal means. >> and in the streets, president-elect joe biden attends church and stays focused on a transition. >> lift off.

>> plus resilientence for four astronauts that blast off on a historic mission. >> at the masters a spring time class classic, it's a new fall winner. >> and a new museum tells the u.s. soldier story. >> i'm looking at everything from the past to the present. >> good evening, this is "cbs overnight news." today. nearly two weeks after the election president trump acknowledged president-elect joe biden's victory in this tweet, he won, and quickly took it back in following tweets. america now confronts two dilemmas a president who refuses to accept his defeat and and out of control. new infections surging, on

saturday more than 163,000 new cases were reported and deaths totalled more than 1300 yesterday. first breaking news from kennedy space center. >> ignition. lift off. >> there you go tonight four astronauts lifted off aboard a spacex rocket on a historic mission. what an experience. >> got to tell you, that was really something to see, it was especially spectarin killed both his dad and

mom. >> he wishes he can bring her back. >> cbs news los angeles. >> heartbreaking, thank you. any calls for president trump to allow for orderly transition but most republican

remain silent or support the baseless accusation about election fraud. >> reporter: president trump spent this sunday golfing and tweeting up a storm, early this morning writing this about president-elect joe biden, he won because the election was rigged. critics and some reporters took that to mean mr. trump was finally admitting he had lost. >> i expect joe biden to be the next president of the united states. it's good actually to see president trump tweet out that he won. >> but the president soon followed with a another tweet stating he, biden, only won in the eyes of the fake news media. i concede nothing. rudy guiliani heading the team challenging the election results totality fox news mr. trump is not backing down. >> is the president in this tweet conceding this election? >> no, no, no. far from it. what he's saying more, i guess

you'd call it sarcastic. obviously he's contesting it vigorously in the courts. >> several lawsuit filed by the president and supporters have already been dismissed by the courts an the election oversight team and homeland security found this election is the most secure in american history. >> that's just the reality joe biden won this election. >> chief of staff said because mr. biden would be president during a pandemic the transition must be seamless, includes giving the biden team access to the people working on a vaccine. >> we now have the possibility, we need to see if it gets approves of a vaccine starting in december, january. our experts need to talk to those people soon as possible so nothing drops in the change of power. >> he said scientific advisors with the biden transition team will start meeting this week

with drug company that's are working on vaccines. jamie? >> chip, thank you. the cbs overnight news be right back. . >> stage one. throttle down.

>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." we turn now to the biden transition. the president-elect is forging ahead even as the trump administration continues to block access to key agencies. we are now joined by nicole,

how's he kicking off the week. >> reporter: monday president-elect biden and vice president-elect harris will deliver remarks on the economy and long-term plans for the country. earlier today the president-elect went to church and also met with his transition advisors and got in a little biking at his beach home where he told reporters he's getting closer to making decision about his cabinet. >> do we have a timeline on that transition? >> reporter: transition team says likely within weeks and several biden long-time advisors will get top roles in the white house. as for the cabinet many names have been tossed around for various positions including bernie sanders for labor secretary, earlier in an interview the vermont senator wouldn't talk about talks about biden about the transition but is in touch with him and will do

whatever he can in any capacity to help working families. jamie in. >> thank you. now to augustaa, the best golfer in the world finally won the greatest tournament in the world, dustin johnson smoked the competition at the 814th ma-- 8 th masters and we were there. >> dustin johnson put it all together this week in record fashion with the lowest total score ever. started the day ahead by four. he's had a history of friterring away leads in big tournaments not today he slammed the door shut byrding three of the last sixirdying three of the last six holes. the field was no match for the machine-like play of johnson. he closed out a dominating performance on 18.

big embrace from his fiancée paul evena, daughter of hockey great wayne gretzky. finally they pulled out the extra large green jacket for 6'4" johnson who was moved to tears. >> i've got a great team who -- jesus -- who gives -- i can't even talk. >> johnson will be back here at augusta national to defend his title in just five months that's because after this year's covid delay the masters is expected to return to its traditional week in april. >> negative 20 sound more like wind chill than golf score. democrats and republicans remain far apart to help americans and on wall street the recovery seems to be in full swing. >> hopes of coronavirus vaccine

helped the dow on a week of record high. federal reserve chair powell said to bankers we're not going to back to the same economy. >> the economy will not fully recover until people are confident until it is safe to resume with crowds of people. >> restaurants owners are struggling, one in six, about 100,000 restaurants are now closed permanently. shawn kennedy from the national restaurant association says business owners are surviving week to week. >> too many are going to say it's done, they've had it and they'll have to give the keys back to the bank. >> but the housing market is booming. in maine those selling are seeing more buyers than listings. but that's not helping the long-term unemployed over 3.5 million have been unemployed for

six months. it's higher for people of color, many struggling to make ends meet. there's trouble ahead and no help from washington, federal programs to help provide aid are set to expire next month. >> illinois govern j.b. pritzker. >> the people, businesses, landlords, workers, states and entrepreneurs of this country are in deep, profound pain. >> low-paid and public-facing workers are bearing the brunt. over 6 million food service employees lost jobs this spring. with oregon with two-week freeze on businesses governor kate brown has been managing expectations. >> i know it's really, really hard but unfortunately it's a necessity right now. >> cbs news new york. >> a lot more ahead on cbs overnight news. >> the climate crisis, why

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wildfires raging and extinction world leaders are together to help biden to protect the planet. >> european union remain ready. >> we have a collective role to address the climate challenge. >> now there's considerably more hope. >> environment lawyer gerard and team at columbia university have tracked more than 160 roll backs of environmental regulations under president trump. >> there were hosts of actions trump took to encourage fossil fuels and discourage renewables i think we'll see reversal of that. >> mr. biden will rejoin paris climate change agreement to slow warming and proposed $2 trillion plan to move the u.s. to clean

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on d-day, 1944. here in afghanistan. >> you used real soldiers to pose for these figures? >> absolutely. they can show their families what it was like. >> the sergeant of the 2020 u.s. army soldier of the year was overwhelmed. >> i'm looking at everything from the past to the present i'm like dang this is what i chose to join. >> one of the most prized items a sword carry in 1814 at fort mchenry. the battle that inspired the star-spangled banner. that same year congress directed the army to preserve its history and now more than 200 years later the u.s. army has a national museum to call its own. fort bellview, virginia. >> that's the overnight news for monday. for some of the news continues. for others check back later for

cbs this morning. and follow any time online cbsnews.com. >> good evening, today nearly two weeks after the election president trump acknowledged president-elect's victory in this tweet he won, and quickly took it back in following tweets. america now confronts two dilemmas a president who refuses to accept his defeat and and out

of control. new infections surging, on saturday more than 163,000 new cases were reported and deaths totalled more than 1300 yesterday. first breaking news from kennedy space center. >> ignition. lift off. >> there you go tonight four astronauts lifted off aboard a spacex rocket on a historic nasa mission. mark is there, and mark, what an experience. >> got to tell you, that was really something to see, it was especially spectacular against the night sky here in florida. let's take a look. the falcon 9 reusable rocket blasted sky ward with nine engines inside the first stage at full power generating 1.7 million pounds of thrust. everyone knew this was milestone moment for spacex, test flights are over, this was it's first regular operation flight. first time since 2011 the space agency knows it has a reliable american taxi to the iss again.

>> it will take this crew a little more than a day to reach the space station. now orbiting 260 mile as above earth. docking should happen 8:00 p.m. pacific time. spacex and nasa have to hope the rest of the mission goes just as smooth as the lift off. >> what a moment. let's hope for that. mark, thank you. now to covid crisis. the virus is surging everywhere. confirmed infections in the u.s. have surpassed 11 million death toll topping 246,000. cbs reporter has the latest. >> reporter: new covid infections are skyrocketing across the country. icu and morgues at capacity. mobile units deployed in texas. new crack downs tonight as americans battle pandemic fatigue. >> we need to hold this pandemic down until the calvary arrives. >> washington governor inslee

today ordered restaurants and gyms and other businesses to seize indoor operations starting tomorrow night. also beginning monday the hard-hit navajo nation will have to reinstate a stay-at-home order, no visitors be allowed. >> we'll do everything in our power to keep people safe. >> hospitalization in the country at a record high of more than $69,000. than 69,000. north and south dakota lead the nation in highest death rates. cbs chief medical correspondent. >> we're clearly headed in the wrong direction. >> the pandemic feels like a wildfire, it keeps spreading why is that happening? >> imagine if you had a football game with 50 different coaches. we need one national game plan. and if people often a local level want to call audibles than fine. >> if everything goes according to plan with the vaccine when will we be back to normal? >> people need to know it won't be suddenly back to normal. it will be a gradual change over 2021. when you start taking the

vaccine it will take months for it to really kick in. >> the largest school district in the country new york city won't shut down tomorrow after all the, st all with more than 200 people each in these clubs. and panic buying and toilet buying and cleaning products disappearing from store shelves. el paso lori burnett lost her husband, brother, and four friends to covid. >> i turn on the news and see the numbers it's like a shot in the gut. >> and in san antonio this boy is turning five in a week but neither parent will be there, covid killed both his dad and mom. >> he wishes he can bring her back. >> cbs news los angeles. >> heartbreaking, thank you. >> there are new calls today for president trump to allow for an orderly transition but most republican remain silent or support the baseless accusation about election fraud.

>> reporter: president trump spent this sunday golfing and tweeting up a storm, early this morning writing this about president-elect joe biden, he won because the election was rigged. critics and some republican supporters took that to mean mr. trump was finally admitting he had lost. >> i expect joe biden to be the next president of the united states. it's good actually to see president trump tweet out that he won. >> but the president soon followed with a another tweet stating he, biden, only won in the eyes of the fake news media. i concede nothing. jake guentzel who is rudy guiliani heading the team challenging the election results told fox news mr. trump is not backing down. >> is the president in this tweet conceding this election? >> no, no, no. far from it. what he's saying more, i guess you'd call it sarcastic. obviously he's contesting it vigorously in the courts.

>> several lawsuit filed by the president and supporters have already been dismissed by the courts an the election oversight team and president's own department of homeland security found that this election is the most secure in american history. >> that's just the reality joe biden won this election. >> ron claim named by president-elect joe biden to be chief of staff said because mr. biden would be president during a pandemic the transition must be seamless, includes giving the biden team access to the people working on a vaccine. >> we now have the possibility, we need to see if it gets approved of a vaccine starting in december, january. our experts need to talk to those people soon as possible so nothing drops in the change of power. >> he said scientific advisors with the biden transition team will start meeting this week with drug companies that are working on vaccines. jamie? >> chip, thank you.

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>> announcer: this is the cbs overnight news. >> from los angeles, thanks for staying with us. with millions of americans about to hit the road for the thanksgiving holiday health officials are warning of another possible spike in coronavirus infections. now reports on how some families are taking precautions. >> reporter: a social distancing thanks game early for laura douglas's family celebrating in october. >> the numbers are rising very, very sharply and even having it this coming weekend we'd feel

threatened about getting together. >> there were fewer guests and visitors separate tables and masks worn. allowed the family to be together but not too close together. >> my mother is a cancer patient so she's at high-risk and we knew there would be no way to spend time with my parents if we didn't figure out something that was very, very different. >> reporter: this year will be different. aaa newly released travel forecast expects up to 50 million will travel down at least ten percent from last year. 95 percent will drive as people opt for last-minute trips and stay closer to home. >> right now it's really determining the factor if people decide to go or stay. the number of covid cases as they increase and looking at state restrictions. >> aaa believe flyers will drop 48 percent but airlines gearing up for biggest stretch since the

pandemic. and cdc warning household gatherings will be reason for concern. >> it's a big concern because again when people mix from higher prevalence of covid to lower you raise the level at low covid places. >> former cdc director freeman. >> unfortunately because so many people may get together during thanksgiving at a time when covid rates are so high we might see explosive spread through the month of december and december holidays would become a very un-merry christmas. >> we know millions of people are going to gather for thanksgiving and cdc urges people to keep it small to small group of close contacts ideally who live in the same area you do and cdc recommend keeping a mask on when are you not eating and try to be outdoor, if you are inside open windows to increase ventilation. and stay out of tight or cramped

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>> almost four years after he left the white house. former president barack obama is ready to talk. he's been looking back about his memoir. >> president of the united states, take us to the day when you walked in. >> you know inauguration day is a little bit about everybody else, it's a little bit like your wedding, you're so busy trying to make sure you're doing everything right and everybody is where they're supposed to be that you can't catch your breath. the first time i walked in as president by myself and sat at the resolute desk, i think you feel a reverence for the office.

president lincoln i believe said if you weren't religious before you got in office you were on your knees after. >> president barack obama entered in a recession if not a another depression but as he tried to get help from congress encount encounter hostility. >> how do you deal with that? >> part of what i describe is how early that destructionist attitude starts, it started day one, we were trying to pass the stimulus package people were losing jobs and homes and economy was collapsing. at the time i thought all of the economists agree this is what we need they'll give cooperation and we didn't get any. >> the american recovery and reinvestment act eventually did pass with just three republican

senators voting yes but the die was cast as the president then set out to over haul the health care system opposition to his agenda increased and addressed congress in his first year in office, the hostility was startling. >> one of the big examples many saw as disrespect you're laying out the affordable care act joint session of congress and congressman south carolina yells in the middle of your speech, you lie, i heard a audible gasp. i looked at you, you know we could see veins in your head on the side. i'm wonderful everying what did you think in that moment? what did you want to do? what did you do? >> i write about this. >> that's why i'm asking. >> i'm shocked and my initial instinct was let me smack this guy on the head. what's he thinking? >> not true. >> instead i said that's not true and i just moved on.

>> of. he called after to apologize but as a point out in the book he saw a huge spike in campaign contributions to republicans across the kuchcountry who thought he did something heroic. >> now barack obama can look back on successes and failures. came into office with high expectations both as black president and at 47 one of the youngest. >> a lot of folks expected now we're in post-racial america because we elected this young, progressive president and now suddenly we're going to eliminate inequality and immediately going to have universal health care and climate change legislation, immigration and criminal justice reform, all of the things i wanted to get done. but what i understood very early on the federal government headed by the president is an ocean liner not a speed boat. ten or 20 years from now the

work you've done may be appreciated as having been good and helpful but at the time it can feel like wow this isn't happening fast enough. >> president obama's successor was donald trump. some seen mr. trump's victory in part as a backlash to the obama presidency. >> donald trump often raises eyebrows when he says he's done more for black america and people of color. >> it does raise eyebrows you're correct. >> i've done more for the african-american than any president since abraham lincoln. >> do you take that as an insult to you? >> no. >> or the work you've done? >> i think it's fair to say there's many things he says that i do not take personally or seriously, although i think at the can often be destructive and harmful. >> president barack hussein obama comes in. >> whether he took things personal or not barack obama emerged front and center in the last month of his former vice

president joe biden presidential campaign. >> trump care s about feeding his ego. joe cares about keeping you and your family safe. >> was it personal for you? >> it wasn't personal. >> you didn't have an i had it moment? >> truth is everything i said i was stating facts. >> you have a president who wants credit for the economy and zero blame for koeftd. >> i was not a person saying bleach is a way to solve covid. i wasn't doing a routine, i was repeating words i heard. it's not my preference to be out there. i think we were in a circumstance in this election in which certain norms, certain institutional values that are so extraordinarily important had been breached, that it was

important for me as somebody who had serve in that office to simply let people know this is not normal. >> this election is over. >> while joe biden waits to assume the presidency, president trump continues without evidence to challenge the election's outcomes. >> they're trying to steal an election. >> many of mr. trump's supporters continue to stand behind him. >> 72 million people voted for donald trump. what's that say about the state of this country? >> well it says we are still deeply divided. the power of that alternative world view that's presented in the media that those voters consume, it carries a lot of weight. >> are you worried about that? >> yes it's very hard for our democracy to function if we are operating on just completely different sets of facts. >> but as clear as we sit here today we're not going to have a peaceful transition.

i think about john mccain calling. george and laura bush welcoming you to the white house. >> couldn't have been more gracious. >> i remember you inviting donald trump to the white house. >> he concedes the country succeed. he doesn't seem to have taken a page out of the play book what's ought stake. >> joe biden will be the next president and kamala harris will be the next vice president-elect. >> but he's getting support from other members of the republican party who are not challenging him. >> that's been disappointing but has been par for the course during these four years. they obviously didn't think there was fraud going on because they didn't say anything about it for the first two days. but there's damage. because what happens is the peaceful transfer fehr of -- transfer of power, the notion that any of us who attain elected office whether dog-catcher or elected president

are servants of the people. it's a temporary job. we're not above the law. that's the essence of our democracy. he doesn't need my advice. i will help in anyways i can. i'm not planning to suddenly work on the white house staff or something. >> no cabinet position for you? >> there's probably some things i am not going to do because michelle will leave me, she'd be like what, you're doing what? >> the goal of the foundation. >> what he is doing these days, running a charitable foundation, designing presidential library in chick, and long with michelle producing for netflix. gone are the trappings for office such as president motorcade instead barack obama is discovering simple things. >> i'm in the car. in the backseat. i'm looking at the ipad or something and suddenly we stop

and i'm like what's going on. there's a red light. there's a car right next to us. some kids are eating a burrito or something in the backseat. oh, back to life. you can

a woman from upstate new york decided she needed a break from the constant political drama on television and she changed the channel and ended up saving a life. steve hartman found the story on the road. >> reporter: of all the choices, all the places you can click, all of the videos you could surf, why would anyone settle on a sleeping pig? >> it had to be one of the least interesting things on the internet. >> yeah she's not putting on a show or nothing. >> but it was also the least stress of the -- stressful. >> reporter: with political tensions roaring all she wanted

that friday night was a boring animal live stream. unfortunately her desire forever drama-free programming came to a crashing result after the pig knocked over a heat lamp, buried it in straw and set the barn ablaze. >> i started freaking out. >> if that wasn't enough. >> i was the only one watching. >> the only one in the world who knew what was happening. >> which is what made my heart sink, like, there was nothing i could do and it was terrifying. yeah. >> laura tried calling the farm but no one answered. she even tried 911 what were they going to do, she lived 80 miles away, that's why, deep down laura knew it was hopeless but she kept trying different numbers anyway. >> would you believe. >> they busted in. >> she finally got in hold of the farmer just in time. >> i started crying, this was a lot. he was holding her like you could tell how much he loved

those animals. >> this week laura travelled to june farms to meet the farm manager josh vicks. >> thank you. >> yeah. >> josh had cared for that pig named ethel since it was a piglet. >> definitely inspiring there's others who feel as much love and affection towards these animals then herself. >> and edgel has emerged from the ordeal completely unshaken and the farm promises the first piglet will be named laura. >> never thought i'd have a pig named after me. i'll take her. 'll take her. >> why not. >> as a reminder most people are heroes just waiting for their moment. >> hi girl. >> steve hartman on the road near albany, new york. >> that's the overnight news for

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