♪ good morning to you, our viewers in the west. welcome to "cbs this morning" on this monday, november 30th, 2020. i'll gayle king with anthony mason and tony dokoupil. >> a potential big step forward in the effort to get a coronavirus vaccine to americans. officials warn of a wave of surges through the holidays. plus, why one nfl team played with a fifth string quarterback because of the pandemic. >> president trump makes wild, unsubstantiated election claims in his first tv interview since losing. and his fired elections security chief tells "60 minutes" there was no fraud. the new shape of shipping. huge expected sales numbers for cyber monday could mean backlogs

on delivery. why you want to give yourself extra time this year. life through the eyes of matthew mcconaughey. we'll talk to him about his new book and why, despite many ups and downs, he still feels pretty good. i can't do it like him, but, first -- all right, all right, all right. but first, here's today's "eye opener." no one says it like him. it's your world in 90 seconds. >> if your family traveled, you have to assume that you were exposed. >> it's going to get worse over the next several weeks. >> we may see a surge upon a surge. >> doctors bracing for another deadly wave of cases after the thanksgiving holiday. >> the next surge is expected just as a new vaccine arrives in the united states. >> the light is at the end of the tunnel but the american people to have to do the right things. >> president-elect biden and vice president-elect harris have announced an all-female communications team. >> wisconsin finishes its recount confirming president-elect joe biden as the winner. >> trump vowed to challenge the outcome in court. >> this is total fraud, and how

the fbi and department of justice, i don't know, maybe they're involved. >> i have confidence in the security of this election. i know based on what we have seen that any attacks on the election were not successful. >> a "star wars" icon passed away. actor david prowse who played darth vader in the original trilogy has died. >> vanderbilt's sarah fuller becoming the first female to play in a power five football game. >> and all that matters. >> the 2020 soul train awards. >> a lot of the veterans in the soul r&b and hip hop community made their way to the stage. >> r&b is not dead. we are forever. thank you. >> on "cbs this morning." >> the nail-biting finish against the carolina panthers. >> touchdown! >> let's go! let's go! that's a big time play. >> adam thielen having to watch from home. lived and died throughout that fourth quarter. >> 54 yards out. wide to the left.

and it's still good! >> yes! yes! yes! yes! you got to be kidding me. you got to be kidding me. >> this morning's "eye opener" is presented by progressive. making it easy to bundle insurance. >> welcome to "cbs this morning." at one point his son looked like, dad, is dad okay? dad's happy dance. >> covid made for a crazy weekend. a lot more about that later on. >> still very into the game. we're going to begin with this breaking news on a promising potential vaccine. moderna announced that it's asking the fda to give its vaccine emergency use authorization. it was found to be nearly 95% effective in trials. the company says the fda will likely need to discuss it on december 17th. more than 4 million people tested positive for covid in november. take a look at the spike there. that total, more than doubled any other month since the pandemic began in march.

friday we hit more than 200,000 cases in a day for the very first time. david begnaud is in los angeles. what's the situation there? >> well, starting today in l.a., you can't go to someone else's home to visit. you can't have people over to your home to visit unless they live with you. that's part of the new stay-at-home order which is the strictest in california and maybe anywhere in the country. the only gatherings that are allowed here in l.a. will be outdoor church services and outdoor protests. >> we're not going to stop living just because of covid. >> reporter: millions of americans were on the move again over the weekend. as people headed home for thanksgiving gatherings. that is despite weeks of warnings from state and local officials to stay at home. >> the travel that has been done has been done. >> reporter: the country's top health officials put on a united front sunday with their blunt assessment of what is coming next. >> we may see a surge upon a surge. >> we are deeply worried about

what could happen post thanksgiving. >> it's going to get worse over the next several weeks. >> reporter: as it stands now, 24 states set records for new coronavirus cases in the last week. while the u.s. reached about 180,000 cases per day. in new york city, despite a steady rise in coronavirus cases, mayor bill de blasio plans to reopen schools next week for kids in pre-k through fifth grade. he closed them almost two weeks ago when the seven-day average positivity rate hit 3% in new york city. now it's approaching 4%. but the mayor still wants to reopen schools after the thanksgiving holiday while increasing testing and requiring consent forms. meanwhile, the number of americans hospitalized with coronavirus is approaching $1 100,000. this doctor works in a covid ward at united memorial in houston and he's work forward the last 255 days straight. that's him in this photograph

taken on thanksgiving holding an elderly coronavirus patient who was alone and weeping. >> i'm telling him, look, everything is going to be fine because i understand what's going on for him. you don't know who you are talking to. so especially in the elderly, they get disoriented very easily. they get frustrated because these are people that at some point in time, they were used to being in control. so out of the blue you put them in a place where they are pretty much in prison. i felt the need to help this poor gentleman. i have to do it. >> the doctor told us that man is expected to make a full recovery. what you don't expect is violence when it comes to mandating masks. but that's exactly what happened in puerto rico and we have the video. a man who was traveling from the states to san juan was at the baggage claim at the san juan airport. he wasn't wearing a mask so a national guard soldier walked up and said, sir, you have to wear a mask here on the island. he refused to so they told him again. and then the man hauled off and

started punching the national guardsman. they grabbed him. threw him to the floor until the police arrived. the cops arrested him, and it all started because the man simply did not want to wear a mask. >> wow, david, you know, you go from that picture in puerto rico to the picture of the doctor holding the elderly man who was very afraid, which image do you want? thank you very much. we're joined by a member of president-elect joe biden's new coronavirus advisory board, dr. michael osterholm. he's an epidemiologist and director of the center for infectious disease research and policy at the university of minnesota. good to see you. always good to have you here. >> good to see you again. thank you very much, gayle. >> i'm so glad you're here. now we've got not one but two drugs who are going for emergency use authorization. why are you so encouraged by this? this sounds like great news. >> it is great news. i think we have a light at the end of the tunnel, but we have to get to the end of the tunnel. and that's what is really sobering today is the challenges

we have before we're going to see most americans having access to this vaccine. >> so here's a big question. has team biden started talking to team trump? because now we're going to have to figure out a way to coordinate all of this. have those conversations begun? >> the transition team is talking to the administration, to the senior leadership at the department of health and human services, and that's a really good thing. >> are you getting the information you need, michael? >> we are. we're getting information relative to, you know, what's being done. the challenge is what is being done is not nearly enough. right now i have a major fear that although these vaccines will start to become more available over the next several months, many americans won't take them because of the fear that there's some safety issues with the vaccine. we've done nothing to really reassure americans what these vaccines are, what they will do, how they will work, and why they are so important. >> what should we be doing? >> right now we -- >> now say good time to start

with the reassurance. now is a good time. >> i'm happy to do that and tell you these vaccines are going to make all the difference between dying from this virus and living and beating this virus. these vaccines are going to be very safe, relative to any other vaccines we use out there. these vaccines are going to likely be quite effective in the earliest days and all the rumors that there's something unusual about the vaccines that make them dangerous are not true. they are rumors. that's it. we have to reassure people. i'd be the first person in line to take this vaccine but there are others who need it more than i do right now. and that's the message we have to get out. in the black indigenous and communities of color, we have a lot of distrust. as high as 75% of these populations don't believe this vaccine is safe. we've got to give them the information so that they themselves can judge why they want to take this vaccine. >> if you've had covid, do you still have to get a vaccine, michael? >> yes, at this point we're saying go ahead and get the

vaccine again to make sure you have adequate protection. we believe that a clinical case will give you good protection, but we want to make sure. rather than try to distinguish who has and who hasn't had it, everyone will be in line for the vaccine regarding the recommendations coming from the cdc tomorrow. >> 100,000 people are in the hospital right now. as dr. fauci said over the weekend, we're in the middle of a surge. he believes there will be a surge upon that surge. how bad do you think the next few weeks are going to be? >> well, you know, it's at this point, tony, where -- or, it's really hard to say -- i meant to say anthony, thank you. in the sense that we look at where we're at, 200,000, just two months ago, we were at 40,000. we could go much higher than 200,000. i think what happened during thanksgiving is, in fact, a lot like 100-mile-an-hour wind now coming in to a very intense forest fire.

and we don't have a clue yet. could this go up another 50,000, 60,000 cases a day? it sure is possible. what i also worry about then is we're going to see the virus activity then slingshot into the christmas holiday season. and we have many more people who are going to travel for that. >> michael, a lot of people broke the rules. now they are going back home to families. we hear different things about quarantining. do you still have to quarantine for 14 days? what's the answer? and then we've got to let you go. what's the answer? >> no, not 14. at this point, i think if you say 10 days, maybe even 7 days, that will be more than adequate right now for what we need to do. >> all right. michael osterholm, thank you for being with us this morning. we heard from president trump over the weekend. his first interview since losing the election and he repeated false claims and conspiracy theories he frequently mentioned on twitter. he slammed some of his own appointees, including chris

krebs whom he fired. on "60 minutes" last night, krebs called legal efforts by the president's lawyer an apparent attempt to undermine confidence in the election. paula reid is at the white house for us. good morning to you. >> good morning, tony. over the weekend, the pennsylvania supreme court handed yet another loss to supporters of the president who are trying to overturn the outcome of the election. now nearly all of these lawsuits have failed. so president trump is taking his case to the court of public opinion. president trump says there is no amount of evidence that will sway his opinion that he won the election. >> my mind will not change in six months. there was tremendous cheating here. >> reporter: while he acknowledged for the first time that the courts are unlikely to overturn november's results, he continued making baseless accusations about the integrity of the election. >> this is a fraud against the american people. it's a fraud against the united states of america.

>> reporter: as such claims have been rejected by nearly every judge who has reviewed them, nearly two dozen cases afltd with the campaign have been dismissed, denied or withdrawn. the president also criticized the justice department, an agency he's relied on to pursue politically motivated investigations and lashed out at when they failed to deliver. >> this is total fraud. and how the fbi and department of justice, i don't know, maybe they are involved. >> reporter: republican congressman adam kinzinger dismissed the president's accusations of federal involvement as baseless conspiracies. the president also took aim at christopher krebs, the former top cybersecurity official he fired via tweet earlier this month. sunday, krebs dismissed claims of voter fraud. >> there's no foreign power that is flipping votes. there's no domestic actor flipping votes. i did it right. we did it right. this was a secure election. >> reporter: and explained one of the changes his team

implemented to ensure a secure election. >> paper ballots. paper ballots give you the ability to audit. to go back and check the tape and make sure that you got the count right. and that's really one of the keys to success for a secure 2020 election. 95% of the ballots cast in the 2020 election had a paper record associated with it. compared to 2016, about 82%. >> reporter: president trump claims that other world leaders have called him and told him they believed the u.s. election was, quote, messed up. we've asked the white house which countries made this allegation. they've not provided us with any names. anthony? >> all right, paula, thank you. the next president is facing an unexpected new difficulty as he assembles his new administration. mr. biden broke his foot over thanksgiving weekend. nikole killion is covering the biden transition in wilmington, delaware. how did the president-elect get

hurt? >> well, anthony, the president-elect's office says that he was playing with his dog major and slipped. a ct scan later revealed he suffered hairline fractures, but he did flash a thumbs up as he left the doctor's office sunday night. his physician says that he will likely wear a walking boot for several weeks. mr. biden also announced his new white house communications team. it is a diverse all-female group including several mothers of young kids, according to newly named press secretary jen psaki. kate bedfield for white house communications following a similar role in the campaign. this week, the president-elect is rolling out his economic team to sources familiar with the process, confirmed that he is expected to nominate janet yellen for treasury secretary. the first woman in history to lead the department. cbs news has also learned he is expected to nominate cecilia rouse and neera tanden as white

house budget director. both would be the first women of color to serve in those roles if confirmed. gayle? >> that's an amazing picture when you look at it all together. thanks, nikole. the president-elect will get the presidential daily intelligence briefing starting today. that will be the first time since his election. it comes at a tense moment right after iran's top nuclear scientist was apparently assassinated over the weekend. holly williams looks at the challenges a biden administration will face in the middle east. >> reporter: there's been an outpouring of grief in iran for nuclear scientist mohsen fakhrizadeh, gunned down in an ambush last week. iran's president hassan rouhani blamed israel for the killing on saturday, though israel hasn't commented. president rouhani said his country would take revenge in due time but wouldn't fall into a trap. that could be a reference to hopes in iran that president-elect biden will rejoin a deal that gives iran

sanctions relief in return for restrictions on its nuclear activities. president trump withdrew from the agreement in 2018. at this base in iraq, used by american forces to coordinate air strikes, they told us their threat level hasn't changed. the pentagon announced this month that troop numbers in iraq would be cut by 500 just before president-elect biden takes office. general ryan writeout told us it won't impact operations. >> i think we're capable. i don't think you'd see much of a difference, i guess. >> reporter: critics say it could give a boost to militia groups backed by iran that have fired scores of rockets at u.s. targets this year alone. and across the border in syria, the fight against isis still isn't over. this sprawling camp is home to more than 60,000 displaced people. on the ground, the 82nd airborne division is patrolling the desert. it's thought thousands of the extremists are still at large.

the point of these patrols is to stop isis from coming back and gaining a toe hold in villages like this one. lieutenant colonel val morrow told us that trying to persuade locals the u.s. will stick with them in the struggle against isis. >> we're not going away until they're gone is the bottom line. but following president trump's decision last year to open the door to an incursion by turkey into syria, some locals told us they are finding it harder to trust the u.s. tony? >> the situation will be monitoring. holly williams, thank you very much. ahead, the denver broncos played a game with a member of the practice squad in at quarterback. how a violation of the covid rules led to four other quarterbacks getting benched because of

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ahead, how taiwan escaped the worst impact of the pandemic and daily life returns almost to normal. plus, cher's connection to an el hant counties are going to join st. curfew. wroth went back to the purple tier over the weekend. starting tonight at 10:00, there's a stay at home curfew until 5:00 a.m. the 49ers may relocate for the rest of the season to arizona or texas.

that's after the santa clara county department banned practices and games for the next tree weeks due to covid-19. and from the traffic center, the good news is that the broken down center is gone. we have been monitoring that for the last 45 minutes. the bad news is that the damage is done. going through the toll plaza, you're looking at an 11-minute time ride. elsewhere, we have a slow ride at the bay bridge, but it's improving. the lights remain on. mary. all right. grab that big winter coat as you head out the door. bundle up for sure. we're looking at a cold start. we're in the 20s, 30 s and 40s. clear skies and chilly temperatures as we head in to the afternoon. mostly sunny skies and mild for the daytime highs. low 60s around the bay and mid to upper 60s this afternoon. we're going stay dry for the next several days and rough the weekend

fire and it's intercepted. >> welcome back to "cbs this morning." you've been watching kendall hinton yesterday throwing one of two interceptions against the new orleans saints. and it was a blowout. broncos lost 31-3. hinton completed just one pass overall, and if it didn't seem he was quite game ready, it is because he wasn't. he's usually a wide receiver and usually not in the nfl, on the practice squad. about a month ago was selling candy bars for a living. here is the back story, he became the starter on sunday by default after quarterback jeff driscoll tested positive for the coronavirus the week before and

then his backups, all three of them sent home, because surveillance footage showed the wearing masks or socially distancing. one of the backups drew locke tweeted an apology saying we let our masking slip for a limited amount of time, honest mistake but i'll own it. glad he's owning it. one of the safeties on the broncos said that he felt like the nfl was making an example of them. >> how so? >> because they could have postponed the game. and had people quarantine and played it later. but instead they forced them to go out with a fifth string quarterback who wasn't even on the squad, not even a practice squad a month ago. >> that's who i feel for. i do. i feel for him. >> he had not played quarterback since 2018 for wake forest. that's how long it had been. >> i think they should have gone with a retired john elway, pull him out of the anchor booth, put him on the field. i think kareem jackson, the safety who made that point, he's probably on to something. >> feels like it. >> note to self, wear your

masks, boys and girls. >> you might get a call from the nfl. on this cyber monday, did you know it was cyber monday? it is. the national retail federation expects e-commerce to grow 20 to 30% over last year. americans could ship 3 billion packages between thanksgiving and christmas. that's up 800 million from 2019. that's a lot of packages. shippers were already at peak capacity due to this pandemic. kris van cleave is at dulles airport, outside of washington, d.c. so here's the question, united is going to be helping with the vaccine distribution. will everything get there on time? they have packages, they got vaccine, they got lots to do. >> reporter: well, good morning, gayle. the short answer is no. millions of packages, potentially a day will be late, so you need to ship early. so for airlines, cargo has been a real rare bright spot. they'll pick up some of the surplus and that includes the vaccine. united already started flying the vaccine. they can store temperature sensitive things in rooms like the one behind us here, the

vaccine, of course, is going to be given top priority, holidays are not. elissa is starting early and doing almost all of her holiday shopping online. but worries about her gifts arriving on time. >> i feel like shipping this year is going to be a task, you know? i think people will get backed up. >> reporter: shippers like fedex have been at peak christmas shopping levels since march. the pandemic packed three years of anticipated e-commerce growth into just eight months. >> when you think about this holiday season, it really is a peak on top of a peak. >> reporter: ship matrix estimates shippers can handle around 79 million packages a day between thanksgiving and christmas. but americans are likely to send 87 million daily. that means 7 million to 8 million packages each day could be delayed. people need to be prepared for their packages to be late. >> some of them, yes. and they also can help by

ordering in advance and not procrastinating to the final week of christmas. >> reporter: and that's before shippers are also asked to deliver the coronavirus vaccine as soon as mid-december. fedex will use its fleet of planes for the vaccine, while its ground operations handle the bulk of the gifts. >> the vaccine distribution is the most important thing that we are preparing to do over the next several months. >> reporter: united airlines has added 8,000 cargo only flights so far this year. that's in addition to the cargo carried on passenger flights coming and going to more than 100 countries daily. everything from fresh fish to the u.s. mail and now the pfizer coronavirus vaccine. this is essentially a giant refrigerator and it is where united would put something that needs to be kept cool until it gets picked up by another shipper. this all pharmaceuticals here, waiting for delivery.

united's kate harbing. >> we recognize this is going to be the biggest distribution challenge for the airline. >> reporter: there is concern there is not capacity enough to deliver everything on time. >> it is a concern. and that's why we're preparing for all possible outcomes. and this is something not just united is preparing for, but the entire industry. >> reporter: shippers say that today and tomorrow will be among the busiest days between now and christmas. every monday leading up to christmas also very busy. so whether you're the post office, fedex, u.p.s., all the shippers agree on one thing. if you're going to send your gifts and you want to ensure they're there by christmas, they need to be mailed by december 18th. you have 19 days and counting. anthony? >> i'm writing that down, chris. thank you very much. 19 days. note to family, it is okay if my gifts are late. vaccine gets out first. >> that's right. >> everything to get that vaccine out. thanks, chris. ahead, we'll show you how

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in stark contrast to the u.s., taiwan has gone a remarkable 232 days without a single reported domestic covid-19 case.

daily life returned largely to normal on the island of more than 20 million people. but ramy inocencio reports on what that looks like in taiwan and how some americans are moving there. >> reporter: thousands dancing, deejays spinning, everyone covid and care free. taiwan hosted the ultra music festival this november. it is miami flagship show canceled because of the pandemic. the last time taiwan and its 23 million people reported a covid case was april 12th. that's why some americans have moved to taiwan too, like welly and dina yang. >> our friends in the u.s. are, like, i hope every day you realize what a great decision you made. >> reporter: the yangs are now rebooting their lives from los angeles to taiwan's capital taipei. their children now physically go to school. in california, it was all virtual. >> the kids were not in school for six months. i got emotional that first day when we took them. >> reporter: and dina is

battling breast cancer. >> i am immunocompromised, so even if school went back for the kids, it would not be wise to send them. >> reporter: in taiwan since september, the yangs have been free to move after a mandatory two-week quarantine. taiwan has been praised worldwide for its covid success, from january 3rd, screening air passengers from wuhan. defense starts on arrival, well publicized on national television. passengers cue up for health interviews, scanning qr codes to register names and phone numbers. social media posts show people getting sprayed with disinfectant. along with their bags, driven into a designated quarantine taxi to their quarantine hotel, a mandatory two weeks. meals are left outside the room three times a day. people who break quarantine can be fined more than $33,000. the authorities know based on your phone's signals, not gps,

to avoid major privacy issues. after the hotel, seven more days of temperature checks from home. the health department calls each day and then you're cleared. new covid flare-ups were quickly contact traced and taiwan has a national mask mandate beginning this week. this lawmaker says taiwan conquered covid with transparency. >> it is good for people, for our kids. >> reporter: at their new home, the yangs are happy to be in one of the safest places in the world. >> we just really learned to just appreciate every day and be grateful for every day that we have. >> reporter: and the yangs are self-employed, with family in taiwan. and that makes their transition from los angeles to taipei that much smoother. as for what taiwan did that really would be tough to do in the united states because of a difference in culture and a concept of personal freedoms. and as for here in china, what the government, the communist

party says, the people do. gayle? >> should all be taking notes. $33,000 fine will get your attention. that would not go over well here, however. thank you very much, ramy inocencio reporting from wuhan, china. ahead, vladimir duthiers will look at the walmart has cyber monday deals you don't want to miss. on november 30th, score online only deals like the 8 quart ninja foodi tender crisp, and save $100.

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>> you never know. we're glad he's okay. but that image of him getting out of that flaming wreckage is going to stay with me. we got another miraculous rescue, this one off the coast of florida. 62-year-old stuart bee found alive clinging to his capsized boat two days after he was reported missing. that's him, clinging to the tip of his capsized boat. a container ship located bee off cape canaveral and brought him aboard. bee's boat began filling with water late saturday night. after sunrise he spotted the container ship, waved his shirt to get the crew's attention. he's reported to be doing okay. look at that. >> wow. >> i'm surprised he can still walk. his arms, everything must be very, very sore. >> he had the beard going in. wasn't a full castaway beard. but still overnight in the dark -- >> he woke up in the middle of the night with his boat taking on water. >> you think about a capsized boat, you think you're clinging to the side, he's clinging to

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this is a kpix 5 morning update. >> it is 7:56. men who allegedly barricaded himself inside the building in san jose is now in police custody. officers blocked off jackson street in japan town last night as they worked to get the suspect to surrender. travel quarantines now in effect in santa clara county, new order requires people to stay home for 14 days after they return from a trip of more than 150 miles. that is in place until december 21st. san francisco's museums are

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it is over it is monday, november 30th, 2020. did you make it through the holiday? we shown so. welcome back to "cbs this morning," i'm gayle gayle, with tony dokoupil and anthony mason. surng upon a surge. the warning from dr. fauci about the next phase of the pandemic. plus we will ask hhs secretary alexei czar about that. and a mother and daughter share a powerful message about mental health and give others help. and matthew mcconaughey's journey. the actor explains how he keeps coolan the bumpy road of life in his new best selling memoir. >> bongos anyone?

he is very cool. first here's today's eye opener at 8:00. moderna announced this morning that it is asking the fda to give its vaccine emergency use authorization. starting today in l.a., you can't go the someone else's home to visit. you can't have people over to your house to visit unless they live with you. >> now is a good time to start with the reassurance michael. >> yeah. >> now is a good time. >> i am happy to do that and tell you these vaccines are going the make all the difference between dying from this virus and living and beating this virus. the supreme court handed yet another loss to the president trying to overturn the outcome of the election. so president trump is taking his case to the court of public opinion. >> the president-elect's office says that he was playing with his dog, major, and slipped. a ct scan later revealed he suffered hairline fractures. >> breaks free, and he's off. >> in college football, buffalo's jared patterson ran into the record books. >> touchdown.

five in the first half alone. >> he had eight touchdowns for a tie of the fbs regard for most touchdowns in a game. >> off to the races. jared patterson. how about touchdown number eight? it may be the toughest one of all, for 65 yards. >> eight touchdowns is a lot of touchdowns. >> a lot of football yesterday. we will start the hour with this. breaking news in the fight against the coronavirus. moderna says it's asking the fda today for emergency use authorization for its vaccine. the u.s. now has had more than 13 million reported cases of the virus. more than 266,000 people have already died. at least 4.2 million of those cases have been diagnosed in november. that's double the number from last month. covid-related hopizations are also at their highest point. over 100,000 people are hospitalized today. >> officials warn it could soon get even worse with what they

are calling a surge upon a surge after thanksgiving. here's white house task force member dr. deborah birx. >> we are entering this post thanksgiving surge with three, four, and ten times as much disease across the country. and so that's what worries us the most. >> in new york, the mayor announced some schools there will be reopening. he closed schools earlier this month due to rising case numbers. >> we are joined now by health and human services secretary alexei czar. secretary azar good to be with you this morning. thank you for joining us. we have got good news and bad news on the virus. the bad news is we are losing about a person to a minute to this disease. the good news is, there is help on the way. i want to stop there. the moderna vaccine emergency use application went in today. pfizer already put theirs in. how soon, what day of december could we see an actual shot going into somebody's arm in this country? >> a week ago pfizer submitted

their application for emergency authorization. then moderna today is going to be submitting w. fiz e we at the fda announced an advisory committee for december the 10th. if anything is on track, everybody proves out what it appears to be, we could be looking at approval within days after that. moderna is basically one week behind that. and general persona has said, from operation warp speed that we will ship within 24 hours of fda authorizing a. we could be seeing both of these vaccines out and getting into people's arms before christmas. >> let's talk about who is going to get it. talk to me about the priority. who gets it first? who gets it second? and so on? >> we are still running a very public process to seek the best scientific expert opinion here. we have at the cdc the advisory committee on immunization practices. they have been meeting with us to give us advise on whom based on the data that we have got on the vaccines and the state of the case, the epidemiology

around the country should we vaccinate first. that's going on still. i hope this week we will get clarity on their recommendations and the cdc director's views. be thinking people in nursing homes, the most vulnerable. be thinking front line workers as the first tranches of people that we will try to get vaccinated. >> the federal government will ship to the states. then you said governors will have ultimate authority about who gets the vaccine first. if you see at the federal level certain states where people are jumping the line either because they have money or connections is there something that's going to happen to stop that? >> again, we are not going to be shipping vaccine to the states. i want to be clear about that. we are shipping it through the normal vaccine distribution system. our governors are like air traffic controllers. they will tell us which hospital, which pharmacies, where they would like it to go. they will be determining which groups to be prioritized. i would hope that the science will be clear enough that the

governor also follow the recommendations we make to them and we will call out certainly any inequities and injustices that we see in our approach. i will be talking with all the nation's governor this is afternoon with our vice president. i have a lot of confidence in the governors to do the right thing here. >> half the population has said according to polls they may not take this vaccine. they are worried. what is our national streaming for educating the public about the safety of the vaccine and getting people to actually take the thing. >> we have a large public campaign in the works. i hope we will be on radio this week and on tv thereafter to educate people about the vaccines. one interesting thing, we have had to go back to the as we call it white boarding on these campaigns because the moderna and pfizer vaccines are so highly effective in these clinical trials. we have actually had to make some edits the our campaign

materials to take account of that. then the most important thing we are doing, we are keeping politics out of the process and we are making sure that everything is done through those independent checks in the system that you and i talked about so often. >> can you tell us more about the campaigns? they are so critical. i know you think that. the biden campaign things that, i would agree. what is going into the campaign? are they targeted particularly to black and brown populations, more vulnerable populations who are particularly skeptical about something coming through a federal process? >> yeah, there is a targeting there because there is a sad and sorry history in connection with some aspects of clinical trial research that happened in the past. that's why we have been so focused, very focused to ensure significant minority enrollment in the clinical trials. and the latest moderna information out today from the full clinical trial demonstrated 30% of those in the trials were from underserved kmuns.

we have a robust population that participated in the studies. i want the say as secretary thank you to everybody who participated in the clinical trials. you give us hope for the future because of these incredible vaccines that are now going to be coming. >> secretary, i don't want to second-guess you but you say you are working on a messaging campaign. wouldn't the time for the messaging campaign have been now and prior so while you are working on logistics, during that period start educating. >> tony, definitely not. we wanted to put campaigns out to educate people about the vaccine before the election. there was concern expressed about that. we held those campaigns back. you want to time it just right. you can't condition a market a month or two month before general vaccine ability. you won't have the effect. you want to time it right in sequence with vaccine availability so that you really have the call to action that will have the maximum effect.

no. the timing is right on. >> we hope it works out. alexei czar thank you. >> thank you. ahead we sit down with oscar winning actor and part-time philosopher matthew mcconaughey. >> sorry, i like that line. i want to be a part-time philosopher. how do i get that job. >> it is actually true. that's funny, tony. part-time floss for matthew mcconaughey about his new memoir. he reveals highs and lows in his

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part of our commitment here at cbs news of stopping the stigma around mental health, we're bringing you the story of a mother and daughter duo donating books to raise awareness.

sonja wasden and rachael siddoway co-wrote "an impossible life." before the pandemi, the pair travelled to libraries all around the country. dr. tara narula has been following their story and joins us now. good morning to you, tara. can't wait to meet them. >> good morning, gayle. we spoke to sonja and rachael right before the pandemic shut down libraries and halted travel. but that hasn't stopped them from sharing this message, mental health does not discriminate based on location, education or socioeconomic status. it can affect anyone. the mother and daughter story is one of love, hope and triumph. >> you just feel like you can't breathe. it becomes so painful that you know no longer see your children, your husband, and all that is left is just pain. >> reporter: sonja struggled with bipolar disorder for most of her life. you said you stopped looking at

death with sympathy and started looking at death with envy. >> yeah. i wanted to die. i was desperate to get relief of the pain and that's the only way i saw out. >> reporter: at 35, the mother of three was forced into a psychiatric hospital. >> my husband had hit rock bottom. and said this is it. we have got to get her in the hospital. and i refused to go. and the doctors asked me, do you have thoughts of suicide? and i said, well, of course, just like you do. and when he said, well, how many times do you think of suicide a day? i thought the average amount, just as often as you do. and so i was admitted against my will. >> reporter: was that the turning point for you in terms of starting to get on a road toward treatment? >> yes, yes. they started to give me medicine and that's when they made me face my diagnosis that i was bipolar. and i did. >> reporter: rachael is the oldest of sonja's children. did you know your mother was

sick? >> growing up all i knew was my mom was really fun. and then she would get really sad. we were all aware she tried to take her own life, but because we knew ultimately she loved us and we were best friends. i could see her as a person going through something hard and almost feel more compassion for her as my best friend, as my mother i loved instead of letting it be traumatizing. we all feel like we're this tight little army group that we're in a foxhole together and we came out stronger for it. >> reporter: together, the mother/daughter duo wrote "an impossible life," sharing their story of survival. >> at what point did you finally decide it was time to reveal your illness? >> after my attempted suicide, i was taken to the hospital where my husband was ceo, and a leading psychiatrist there told him never bring her back to this hospital again, take her where no one knows you guys and i felt ashamed and embarrassed and there was, like, almost a fire

that got lit in me of i am not going to hide anymore. the truth needs to be told. >> reporter: and they have gone beyond just telling the truth. before the pandemic hit, they traveled more than 32,000 miles on their own dime to 42 states and have donated more than 500 books. since then, they have mailed more than 100 books to libraries that have reopened. >> we're here to donate our story and to raise mental health awareness one local library at a time. >> reporter: they made something beautiful out of the pain. both for rachael and sonja's relationship. >> it was so healing. when i was 16, i found my mom's suicide note and i was really angry. i thought it was selfish that she would want to leave me and my entire family just like that. and after writing this book with her, i have a better understanding of the pain she went through. >> reporter: and for those who have read the book -- >> oh, my gosh. >> reporter: -- like kimberly gwynn who met sonja for the first time at brooklyn public

library. >> reading sonja's book was powerful in the sense that it enabled me to forgive myself. it enabled me to have more compassion for myself, for the mistakes i made because we don't choose this. the book helped me understand what my family members would have gone through, but most importantly it gave me hope. >> reporter: by offering hope, sonja found purpose in her suffering, to show readers what was once an impossible life is now a possible one. how are you feeling now? >> good. i have a beautiful life now. my marriage of 27 years is going strong. i have good relationships with all my children. i don't stay in bed all day anymore. yes, i have a mental illness and, yes, i have moments of pain and anxiety and difficulty. it is a life-long illness i have to manage. but i can have a life worth living too.

>> wow. >> sonja's father was diagnosed with bipolar disorder later in life and died by suicide. one of her sons was also diagnosed with bipolar disorder and is doing well. most important thing they told us is to keep talkingabout it, especially now when many feel so isolated or alone. if you or someone you know is in crisis, contact the national suicide prevention lifeline. >> wow, tara, such a powerful and important story. and you see the effect of people talking and coming out and telling their story, how healing it is for the person involved, for the family, and for anyone who read this book. >> but bravo to sonja, though, they go to her husband's hospital and said next time go some place where they don't know you, no, you can't do that to me. that was very powerful. helped a lot of people. >> thank you, tara. ahead, how a female college soccer star made history on the football field. that's coming up on "cbs this morning." we are at war with a vir

sarah fuller is about to put her right foot into a football, speaking volumes to women around the world. >> that is vanderbilt's sarah fuller kicking off to start the second half on saturday. she is typically the goalkeeper for vanderbilt's conference-winning women's soccer team. but she was added to the football roster after the team's other kickers were put in coronavirus quarantine. fuller wore the phrase play like a girl on her helmet, like that. and is glad to be an inspiration to others. take a listen. >> i've had, like, girl dads come up to me and they, like, you are inspiring my little girls and i want them to know that they can do anything. you're just proving that point. i think that has been the coolest thing. >> fuller did not get a chance to kick for any points. no field goals or extra points, because missouri lost --

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no celebrity chef had ever gone all the way to win a million dollars on that show. chang's friend journalist mina kimes gave him the right answer with the phone a friend lifeline, the prize money will go to the southern smoke foundation which helps people working in the food and beverage industry. you saw the pressure chang felt in this because if he didn't -- if he didn't have the right answer, that million dollars would have gone down to $32,000 and he wanted the money to help people in the restaurant and the food and beverage industry who suffered so much. >> i know. i was watching. i was watching last night. at one point jimmy kimmel said you and your metallic testicles, not sure what that means, but he said if he hadn't gone for the million, he could have had a guarantee of $500,000. >> he which had won. >> already won. >> but he was risking it. >> if he lost, he would have gone down to $32,000. i'm glad he did it. >> he knew what that would mean to people. >> go david chang, it was great. >> that certain metallic body part is a call back to his job

at "the man show." >> i didn't know what that was. >> i want to talk about very creative use of cardboard. as you know, big events all across the country have had no spectators because of the coronavirus. what we have been seeing in baseball games and other events is cardboard cutouts of audience members. you know the ones, usually people, sometimes people have funny faces, sometimes eating food. over the weekend i caught the national dog show in philadelphia, the westminster dog show and appropriately enough they had cardboard cutouts of doggies. the cutest thing ever. >> that's great, yeah. >> isn't that lovely? these are fans who usually watch at home with their pups or if they're lucky get a seat in the stands so they sent in a picture of their doggies. >> do you normally watch the dog show? i don't picture you and katy watching the dog show? >> we're big tv people. the parade usually, a thanksgiving tradition. >> is it? >> in our house we leave the parade on and then the dog show

comes up and you start -- >> start watching, oh, the dogs are cute. i like that. my talk of the table is oscar winner matthew mcconaughey. do not call him matt, i'll tell you why later who can now add "new york times" best-selling author to his resume, number two yesterday. his new book "greenlights" is a revealing look at the 51-year-old's life pieced together in parts from decades of his diary entries. he says it is not a traditional memoir, not an advice book, he calls it a love letter to life. >> the whole book is really, you could say, it is about relationships. >> yeah. >> my relationship with my family, my relationship with my career. my relationship with myself, my relationship as a father, my relationship with my dreams. >> this happened to me the other day. i was in the car and when the lights are synchronized and you hit every single green light, that is such a great feeling and it made me think of you. >> greenlights are the things in our life that say, yes, they affirm our way, they approve us, a pat on the back, a hug, an

atta boy, there you go, girl. >> good job. >> pass go, here's 200, yea! >> for nearly three decades, greenlights helped matthew mcconaughey pilot his career, from its modest beginning. >> matthew mcconaughey. >> to a level of fame and success reached by very few. at one point you were thinking about being a lawyer, not thinking about acting. >> i was in a blue collar family, you get a job you work your way up the company ladder. >> what was that call like when you had to tell your dad, i think i want to go to film school? >> he paused, quiet. i'm sitting there, bead of sweat going down the back of my neck, ready for the explosion. are you sure that's what you want to do, son? yes, sir. well, don't half ass it. working for the city. >> working man? >> the support from his dad served as rocket fuel for mcconaughey, who worked his way on to the set of a small 1993 movie "dazed and confused."

it was his first film role. never gets old to me. i don't know if it gets old to you. you say those three words and you're not thinking they're going to be iconic at all. >> all right, all right, all right. >> that line, it is off screen. it is -- you hear the words -- >> i know. >> i'm driving the car. so -- >> exactly. >> in the middle of the movie, people go, are you tired, i'm, like, no, that's why. that's first three words i said in a -- in my first night on a little summer job, that for all i knew that was going to be it. >> i look at "dazed and confused" and think it had to be one of the best parts of your life, but also as you write about in your book, you lost your dad five days into the shooting. >> the fact that my dad got to be alive for me to start what became a career and wasn't a one off hobby or fad is a little bit of grace that i -- >> yeah, yeah. i marvel too at your candidness about -- you did say it is about relationships. your parents had a very how shall we say volatile

relationship. >> my mom and dad, you know, divorced twice, married three times. their relationship was like a hurricane in the pacific ocean. my dad would go, hey, boys you tell me -- when i go, i want to be making love to your mother. and he said it. he would slough it off like -- and if he didn't do it. relatively that's the greatest way you could go. making love to the person you love the most. >> unlike his parents, mcconaughey's own marriage to camila alves in 2012 brought some stability. he recalls a pivotal moment early in their relationship while on vacation. >> i'm really feeling, you know, like in eighth grade again, that -- >> what a great feeling, yeah. >> oh, man. and nervous, but beautiful nervous and i said what would i have to do to lose you? and she had a drink in her hand, a glass, and when i asked her, the drink was halfway to her

mouth, and nice sip, not a rushed sip not a dry sip, good sip, and she goes, that's easy. and i'm over here to the left and she turned and looked at me in the eye and goes, change. >> change. >> i'll clap for her right now. >> you called my bluff? >> you bet i am. >> at one point you become he's a rom com guy. you decided i'm sick of doing a rom com. i'm sick of doing it. >> at this point in my life, i'm the go-to rom com guy. >> i love you. >> and making great bank. i like doing them. they're easy. the audience is loving them. but couple of things are going on in my lifetime. i'm falling in love with camila. and we have a newborn, levi. the work that i wanted to do were certain dramas. and those were not being offered to me.

i shed many a tear going, what am i doing? what am i doing? i'm going to tell hollywood no thank you to what i'm so thankful for. >> and hollywood seems like out of sight, out of mind kind of town. >> i would call my agent and go, anything? he goes, buddy, hadn't even heard your name in a month. >> ouch. >> as soon as i go -- i'm going to look into becoming an orchestra conductor or play music or become a teacher. as soon as i fully committed, i'm, like, i'll leave it, done, hey, matthew, are you there? yeah. it's hollywood calling. 20 months, where have you been? we forgot you existed. we think you're a new great idea, "lincoln lawyer," "paper boy", here they came. i said this is what i've been talking about. let's go.

>> your first job was as a hand model, it could have gone differently. let me see your hands. >> not bad, huh? >> not bad. not bad. if you had played your cards right, you could have been a hand model. >> haven't chewed my nails since because that talent agent said, you got great hands. if you quit chewing your nails, i might be able to make you money on those. >> and you're funny too. >> never out of style. >> thank you, matthew. >> i enjoyed that. thank you. >> you better press leaving meeting because i'll keep talking. >> i'm doing it. i'm out. i'm out. >> press leaving meeting. >> i love that you included that. >> yes. when you talk about part time philosopher, we were talking about success, what does success mean? he says it is an answer you have to ask yourself, it is an answer that can change over time, but whatever it is, don't choose anything that will jeopardize your soul or hurt your character. i love that. >> i love his father's advice,

when he said he wanted to -- >> don't half ass it. >> he did this book based on 35 years of diaries. 35 years. >> i'm impressed he kept diaries. >> he went in a place all by himself out in the desert, he found something from '91, ten goals in life, become a father, after his dad died, wanted to be a father more than anything, find and keep the woman for me, he did that. win an oscar for best actor, that's item number eight. and number ten, just keep living. i just -- i was -- i don't know him, but i was so smitten with him because he really does think outside of the box. he loves what he does. he's very grounded. a lot of talk about him going into politics. he didn't say no to that. i think he's intrigued but -- >> that would be really interesting. >> he could play every character in a debate. >> his house rules, don't lie, don't say i can't, you don't hate and you answer to your name. his name is matthew. when he was a kid, somebody called him matt and he answered to it, his mother appeared out

of nowhere, threw him on the ground and said your name is matthew, you're not a doormat. don't let anybody call you that. to this day, he won't answer to that. >> if he were interested in politics, he would be a texas -- >> texas senator, texas governor. people are talking. >> ted cruz. that could really shake up texas. >> i think so too. >> great storyteller too. >> he is. he is. >> all right, ahead, how the most trafficked mammal in the world, the pangolin, could hold a clue to protecting us from the coronavirus. didn't even know what it was. >> i didn't. i thought it was a typo.

in our series "eye on earth ," we're looking at an african animal that has been around for millennia and may hold answers on how to beat the coronavirus. tomorrow marks one year since the first reported case in wuhan, china, the pangolin is an endangered species prized for its unique scales that are used in traditional chinese medicine. they may have been hunted to the verge of extinction, but our debora patta shows us there is a front line face in south africa to save this fascinating creature. >> reporter: there are millions of years old, solitary, usually nocturnal, and completely harmless. but here in africa, hundreds of

thousands are poached every year, almost to extinction. >> if you take rhino, elephant ivory, perlemoen, combine it all together, multiply it, pangolins exceed that. >> reporter: pangolins are coveted for their scales which are used in dozens of traditional chinese medicines under the false belief they have healing powers. they have no natural enemies in the wild, their only predator, humans. conservati conservationist ray jansen works with police as they move in on a group of poachers. caught red handed. >> looks like a large male. >> reporter: they thought jansen was a wildlife trafficker who wanted to buy their pangolin. instead, the six men were booked into a nearby police station. they face up to ten years in jail for illegally possesing an endangered animal.

the pangolin, optimistically known fortunate, was rushed to the wildlife hospital where a veterinarian and her team tend to his injuries. but she's doubtful he can be saved. >> hey, buddy. >> reporter: despite years of medical training, she feels helpless. >> suffering for some stupid scales, it is nothing. there is no medicinal value. >> reporter: the animals are sold for around $10,000 on the black market. jansen's aim is to save as many as he can by going under cover as a buyer, once poachers have sent him proof of life, he lures them to meetings where the police are waiting. but very few pangolins survive the trauma of the ordeal. for those that do make it, there is a special haven. 250 miles away at the pinnedia game reserve, a handful of

pangolins have been released into the wild, constantly monitored with tracking devices. the head ranger quickly realizes something was wrong with this pangolin, rescued over eight months ago. >> that back left leg is swollen. >> reporter: the minor injury will be treated by a vet the next day. pangolins were initially identified as one of the prime suspects in passing on the coronavirus to humans. but their unique immune system has evolved over millions of years and could also contain answers to defeating the pandemic. scientists in vienna have been studying why the pangolin is able to carry the virus without getting sick. >> i think it is important that we put a lot more resources to understanding these animals. and obviously to our benefit because they do, i think, hold answers to our own health. >> reporter: very little is known about pangolins in the wild, but the new studies have

shown how important they are and that the future could be tied to ours. for "cbs this morning," debora patta, phinda game reserve, south africa. >> i've never seen it or heard of it. what is the vegetable that starts with an a. >> artichoke. >> i was thinking about that too. >> it looks like that. looks like that. >> that didn't come to mind. okay. >> creepy looking. >> okay. i like them. i think they're -- >> you do? >> i think they're really cool. >> i don't want anything to happen to them, but i'm a little creeped out. >> all right. you're watching "cbs this morning." we'll be right back.

before we go, a tribute to first responders as one of the highlights of this year's white house christmas decorations. this is the last chance, of course, for first lady melania trump to trim the trees and hang the stockings.

we got our first look at the decorations this morning. the theme is "america the beautiful." >> nice. beautiful. >> that's pretty. >> nice way to pay tribute too. that never gets ole. >> ready

this is a kpix 5 news morning update. good morning. and men who police say he barricaded himself inside of the building in santa rosa is now in custody. officers blocked off jackson street late last night, as they were to get the suspect to surrender. a fully over a face mask, police say that a man refused with a mask on. officers arrested him for disorderly conduct. today construction begins on the twin peaks subway tunnel

. they will update searches and lights. the effort continues until february. ♪ here's a look a look at the bay bridge. for your monday morning commute. if you're getting ready to get out the door, you should be good to go. in fact, most of the bay area bridges are pretty quiet right now. as well as the main freeways. ♪ to 22 minutes. and one-to-one, for the most part all clear. like a look at the golden gate, no delays in both directions. san mateo looking good as well. it is chilly start to our today. we are in the 30s and 40s for many locations this morning. with mainly sunny skies out there. as we head through our afternoon, we're looking at mild temperatures and mostly sunny skies. low 60s around the bay. mid to upper 60s in lent this

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