5 news. don't forget the news continues all day on cbsn bay area. ♪ good morning to you, our viewers in the west, and welcome to "cbs this morning." it's monday, december 14th, 2020. i'll gayle king with anthony mason and tony dokoupil. the first coronavirus vaccinations in america have begun. nearly 3 million doses are being delivered by trucks and planes all around the country. we'll have an exclusive look inside one hospital getting ready. >> pharmacy chains are preparing to get the vaccine to nursing homes, but there may be a hitch. how government documents obtained by cbs news show a possible delay. a moment of truth for president trump as the electoral college votes today on confirming joe biden's election victory. plus, violence flares over the second in clashes involving the president's supporters who still believe he won.

a big announcement in major league baseball. why cleveland's franchise is dropping the name it's had for more than a century, and what it means for the sport p. right now it means big changes. here's today's "eye opener." it's your world in 90 seconds. >> we're shipping 2.9 million doses of vaccine. so whenever they get them in arms, that's 2.9 million people getting vaccinated. >> the biggest vax naccination effort in american history. >> if more than half of americans didn't get the vaccine -- >> concerned by this level of hess tency that is not anchored in any facts. >> the u.s. death toll is nearing 300,000. >> for all the good news, the light at the end of the tunnel in the vaccine, the next number of weeks are going to be hell. >> the electoral college will elect joe biden to the presidency but president trump is not done in fighting.

>> four people were stabbed in washington, d.c., during confrontations between trump supporters and counterprotesters. >> police shot and killed a man after he opened fire during a christmas concert at a new york city cathedral. >> this man climbed on to the wing of a plane as it was about to take off. the man eventually fell and was arrested. >> and all that matters. >> sarah fuller, right through there! >> vanderbilt university kicker sarah fuller made history again. the first woman to score in a power five conference football game. >> the guys were super pumped up and encouraging. it was very exciting to get out there and finally do what i've been training for. >> on "cbs this morning." >> dr. fauci! >> no, stop -- stop throwing bras. >> kate mackinnon's dr. fauci returns to "snl" p. let's talk about the pfizer vaccine which is already being distributed in the united kingdom. >> yeah, we're doing this vaccine world war ii style.

we made england go in first. see what's what and then we swoop in and steal the spotlight. tom hanks will make ten movies about it and when it's over you can kiss any nurse you want. this morning's "eye opener" is presented by progressive. making it tease bundle insurance. >> that's a saturday night live kate mackinnon's dr. fauci and dr. birx standing there, too. what a weekend this has been. >> i know. >> i feel so excited today. >> from friday night to this morning. >> that's where we begin. note down this date. the first coronavirus vaccines are under way here in the united states. an intensive care nurse in new york was among the very first team to get the shot. we are seeing a picture of it there. 2.9 million doses are being distributed this week alone. initial shipments will reach 145 distribution centers all over the country. and that begins today. >> the vaccine can't come soon enough with the overall u.s. death toll expected to rise

above 300,000 in the next 24 hours. it's currently just over 299,000. our lead national correspondent david begnaud is at university of california davis medical center in sacramento. david, we understand the first doses could be given to health care workers there in just a matter of hours. how is the hospital getting ready? >> they thought they'd get the doses today but now it looks like they won't get it until tomorrow. they're still waiting on the tracking number and that's what hospital institutions around the country are doing. waiting on that fedex tracking number or u.p.s. tracking. we're downstairs in the pharmacy area. this is where the vaccines will go. more than 5,000 doses. negative 76 degrees celsius. you open it up and there it goes. you see the frost coming out. an impressive freezer already fired up ready to go. chad hatfield, the chief pharmacy officer, he's the guy waiting on the tracking number they thought was coming today but still hasn't gotten here. the first patient is on standby.

how do you feel about getting the shot? how are you feeling right now? >> i want to clap my hands. i am so excited. i've been waiting for this. >> reporter: eva teniola is anxiously standing by for that call which so many health care workers have been waiting for. she is going to be the first person to get the coronavirus vaccine at uc davis. >> as a caregiver, i witnessed like the worst. like scenario. that's why i've been waiting for this vaccine because i believe this will end this pandemic. >> reporter: she's doing it for the safety of her own family, including her son raphael. she's been told that when the call comes, they want her at the hospital in 30 minutes. >> what we have here is an amazing setup. it is basically an assembly line. >> reporter: dr. david lubarsky is ceo of davis health. >> every day matters. >> reporter: they plan to vaccinate 1,000 frontline workers every day, starting with

those who work in the emergency department. >> this is probably the most exciting day of 2020, maybe the most exciting day in the last 20 years. the number of people who are dying every single day is huge. and the vaccine is our way back. >> reporter: pfizer partnered with uc davis back in august to carry out their vaccine trial, testing the vaccine. these four people were all involved. none are aware of whether they got the real thing or the placebo, but jessica hallstrom and nicholeth santiago said they had symptoms that lasted a day or two. >> intense chills, nausea, headache, a lot of just shivering. >> reporter: for professor sanchez and dr. david cook, the side effects were minimal. >> what would you all say to americans who will watch this and say, you know, i don't want to be the first. >> so i get a lot of statements for my patients over the years saying, i don't want to be a guinea pig. especially my patients of color

and from communities that have historically have cause and reason not to trust health care. yet, i volunteered for this trial so you can take this vaccine and help turn the tide in your communities. >> reporter: dr. cook told us we were the guinea pigs so you don't have to be. this is it. this is the room where the vaccines will happen. socially distanced, of course. as for why uc davis is going so fast to start the vaccinations, they've had 800 workers get sick. 200 of them are actually out right now. and when it comes to actually that fedex tracking number, you know how they're tracking it? just like you track christmas gifts. put in that number and watch the plane fly. >> pretty big stocking stuffer. thank you, david. we're all looking forward to it. let's go to kris van cleave in louisville, kentucky at one of the massive hubs involving u.p.s. and fedex. good morning to you. >> good morning. i can tell you that some deliveries have already started on the east coast.

we're talking about delivering hope. plenty of room for hope on board this 747 freighter. it's the type of airplane that will be carrying some of this vaccine all over the country right alongside your online shopping and your christmas gifts for the vaccines that are being delivered today across america. they started their journey less than 24 hours ago in kalamazoo, michigan. cheers of relief sent off the very first shipment of pfizer's coronavirus vaccine as it left the company's michigan plant under u.s. marshal escort sunday morning. its journey to the american public started by semi and continued by air. >> today we shipped 500,000 doses. by the end of the week we'll have up to 2.9 million doses distributed in the u.s. >> reporter: u.p.s. flight 3477 carried roughly half of those first doses for americans. touching down at the company's louisville hub with captain houston mills at the controls.

do you feel like you were delivering hope? >> absolutely. it's going to make a meaningful difference in the lives of so many. >> reporter: the approximately 75 specially designed cold boxes, each carrying 50 pounds of dry ice and 20 pounds of vaccine, have gps and temperature tracking as the vials have to be kept at negative 94 degrees. moving through 155 miles of conveyor belt at u.p.s.' world port, the vaccine is sorted and loaded on planes bound for more than 30 cities with deliveries starting around 8:30 this morning. the entire logistics effort is tracked in realtime inside the company's covid command center. >> are these the most important shipments you guys have ever moved? >> absolutely. in my opinion, yes. >> reporter: wes wheeler is the president of u.p.s. health care. t. gets on the plane first, off the plane first. the drivers and pilots both know that they are carrying vaccines. >> reporter: to speed deliveries, the country has been divided between u.p.s. and fedex with vaccines going to all 50 states and u.s. territories as far as guam. fedex is also delivering its

first batch of vaccine today. >> this is going to be one of the most challenging public health distribution efforts we've seen. it's going to be hard to imagine this going off without a hitch. there likely are unanticipated issues that will arise when shipping that many vaccine doses all around the country. >> reporter: fedex tells us it has already made its first vaccine delivery on the east coast. we expect to see many more as the morning goes on as that priority overnight starts being delivered all over the u.s. we know here in louisville, a hospital is going to receive its shipment somewhere in the next couple of hours. they expect to begin vaccinating health care workers about an hour after it arrives at the hospital. anthony? >> amazing operation, kris. joining us is moncef slaoui from "operation warp speed." here's here to discuss the vaccine roll-out. a real turning point in the last 24 hours. you've been working on this for the last seven months. what does this day mean to you?

>> well, listen, it's an amazing day. extraordinary achievement by thousands and thousands of people at pfizer, biontech in the operation. amazing partnership between the academic science, basic science and research, funded mostly by taxpayer money. the ecosystem of biotechnology companies and pharmaceutical and the hhs department and department of defense, remarkable performance, frankly, and i hope the beginning of the end of this pandemic. it means a lot to everybody. and we're thrilled. we have a first vaccine and many more to come. >> we just heard one health official say it's going to be hard to imagine this going off without a hitch. are you confident the vaccine will get to the states and get into the right hands? >> we are as confident as one can be. we have rehearsed, tested, did

mock deliveries every single step of the process in order to make sure that we understand how it's working. we also have made sure, for instance, that the first 2.9 million doses of vaccines are de being distributed over three days in order to make sure if there are any adjustments we can make, we have an opportunity to make them. and, of course, you know, the unknown and unpredictable may happen, but we're prepared to deal with it as quickly as we detect it. >> what's your biggest logistical concern? >> i think the biggest concern is accidental loss of temperature control in, particularly with the pfizer vaccine. that's the biggest concern. the last mile delivery, inoculation of the vaccines into subjects. but i would say, regarding the operation, frankly, my biggest

concern is the level of hesitancy in the country. i really hope we're going to be able to change that. >> ultimately, when do you expect the general population to be able to get the vaccine? >> so i would say two things there. we think that within the first quarter of the year 2021, so by the middle of the month of march, we will have had enough vaccine doses to immunize at least 100 million americans. which is mostly the high-risk group. the elderly and frail, the health care workers, the first line workers. and by the end of the second quarter of the year, by the end of the month of may or middle of the month of june, we will have produced enough vaccine doses to immunize the totality of the american population. >> right. cbs has confirmed that president trump, vice president pence and other senior officials will be offered the vaccine. given the limited supply, do you support that decision?

>> i think all people that are involved in major direction of the country, frankly, should be vaccinated and protected. now specifically, each individual, they need to deal with their physicians and discuss to make those decisions. there are a very small number of doses. i would also say that one of the things that allowed the operation to succeed and go as fast as it did has been just the outside of any political debate, and i will close that conversation since we are here. >> congratulations. there's still a big mountain to climb on that but congratulations on a major turning point. >> thank you very much. >> it's great to see the vaccine on its way. moncef slaoui, thank you. >> if i may. i would just like to call on all of my fellow americans to continue to participate as volunteers in the clinical trials. it's thanks to the 77,000 people

that participated in the clinical trials for pfizer and for moderna that we have those vaccines. there are more vaccine trials ongoing. we know the vaccines work, and, frankly it may be one of the fastest ways to access vaccination is to participate in a clinical trial. thank you for considering that. >> thank you. thanks. >> have a good day. >> you, too. that was a very important note to add to this conversation. terrifying moments on the steps of one of this country's most iconic cathedrals. a man fired two handguns outside the cathedral of st. john the divine in new york just after a concert had ended. three officers at the scene returned fire and killed him. video of the scene shows the man was yelling "kill me" at the time. new york's police commissioner said, quote, by the grace of god, no one else was hit by gunfire. >> members of the electoral college meet today in all 50 states to officially declare joe

biden the winner of the presidential election. hundreds of trump supporters, however, rallied across the country on saturday to protest the results and some of those protesters clashed violently with opponents, particularly in washington. the president says his fight to overturn the election results is, quote, not over. even after more than 50 lawsuits have been withdrawn or dismissed, and the supreme court refused to get involved. ben tracy is at the white house for us. good morning to you. what does the president have for all of his efforts? >> not a whole lot to show. there's been no meaningful change to any of the election results, but a new cbs news poll does show a majority of the president's supporters do not believe that joe biden is the legitimate winner of the election. in the meantime, the president is not concerned that his claims of fraud are dividing the country. >> i worry about the country having an illegitimate president. that's what i worry about. >> reporter: joe biden won the election by more than 7 million votes, but that hasn't stopped president trump or his supporters who gathered in

washington, d.c., this weekend from continuing to say the election was stolen. some demonstrations turned violent with at least four people stabbed saturday night as pro and anti-trump groups clashed in the streets. d.c. police are investigating potential hate crimes against two black churches after black lives matter banners were torn down. on the eve of the electoral college vote, a new cbs news poll finds 82% of trump supporters do not consider joe biden's win legitimate. yet overall, 62% of the nation's voters feel the election is over and settled and it's time to move on. some republicans like senator lamar alexander say today's electoral college vote for biden should be the final word. >> it's very hard to say that joe biden is not validly elected after monday if all that happens. >> reporter: president trump is not moving on. >> they say i lost. i didn't lose. the election was rigged. >> reporter: yet the president continues to lose in court. now saying the u.s. supreme court chickened out friday night

when seven justices, including all three trump appointees, refused to hear a case to overturn the election results in several swing states. and tonight, after the electoral college vote, president-elect biden plans to address the country. his team says he will continue to reach out to the president's supporters. >> and to bring in those folks who may not support him, you know, they're disappointed in president trump not winning, but he's made the case that, you know, he's going to listen to them. >> reporter: today the 538 members of the electoral college will meet in states across the country to cast their votes. president trump expected to get 232 of those votes. joe biden expected to get 306. that will make him the official winner of the election. congress will then officially tally those votes on january 6th. tony? >> ben, thank you. ahead, a massive cyberattack targeting the treasury and commerce departments. why the federal government

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this is a kpix 5 news morning update. good morning. it is 7:26. i'm michelle griego . taking a live look at oakland international airport where the first coronavirus doses are set to arrive. california is getting nearly 330,000 doses of the vaccine and each person requires two doses. the state has a tiered priority list of who will get the vaccine and when. at the top of the list is acute care facilities, psychiatric and prison hospitals, dialysis centers and skilled nursing facilities, paramedics and emts.

uc davis medical center is preparing for those first vaccines. this is one of the ultra low temperature freezers where the vaccine will be stored. the medical centers set up this room to vaccinate healthcare workers. as we take a look at traffic right now, we have a bit of a snag. just as you get on the bridge itself, things are fairly quiet. not a lot of brake lights through san francisco right now. bay bridge toll plaza metering lights remain on. we have a bit of a backup beyond the parking lot. right now we are slow into the altamont pass. it is a quiet start to our day after the wet weekend that we had. looking at high surf and king tide. a high surf advisory until 7:00 p.m.

welcome back to "cbs this morning." pharmacies like cvs and walgreens will help administer the coronavirus vaccine first to long-term care residents and staff and eventually to all of us in the general public. now, walmart and sam's club are also preparing their pharmacies for the big rollout. their first doses left pfizer's michigan plant yesterday. staff and residents

are among that group. >> vaccinations can't happen a moment too soon, not a day too soon. >> reporter: dr. richard feifer is the head of genesis, one of the largest u.s. nursing home operators. >> genesis health care. >> reporter: genesis is working with cvs to get nursing home residents and staff at its more than 300 facilities nationwide vaccinated. >> tell us how you are coordinating with cvs to get vaccines to all of your people? >> cvs' job is supply chain. they're going to make sure the vaccine gets to where it needs to go. they're going to bring in the vaccinators and technicians. >> reporter: on "face the nation" sunday health and human services secretary alex azar seld as soon as the vaccines are received this week, they can be administered. but cbs news obtained two

documents from operation warp speed. the federal government's vaccine program. they make it clear vaccines can only be administered after december 21st, a full week from today. former fda commissioner dr. scott gottlieb suggested sunday that's likely because operation warp speed didn't obtain consent in advance from nursing home residents or their families to be vaccinated. >> it's a very costly delay. there's 50,000 new infections in nursing homes every week, probably more than that. >> reporter: more than 76,000 residents in long-term care facilities have died from covid-19. nearly 1,200 staff members. >> we trust that the vaccine supplies are getting out extraordinarily quickly. >> reporter: while some might see the use of cvs and walgreens to roll this out as really fast and efficient, you're cautioning that it could lead to bumps down the road? >> i guarantee you, it will lead to bumps down the road. >> reporter: dr. michael

wasserman is the past president of the california association of long-term care medicine. >> the federal government sort of handing the distribution of the vaccine for nursing homes to cvs and walgreens was not really well thought out. we're anticipating a lot of chaos in the process. >> reporter: last week l.a. county pulled out of the federal vaccine program, instructing nursing facilities to take on their own vaccine administration, a move wasserman encouraged. >> this really needs or a few

months, maybe even the spring or summer. >> all right, errol, thank you. the fbi and the department of homeland security have been asked to investigate a computer hack on several u.s. government agencies. the spying campaign went on for months. homeland security says it created an unacceptable risk. senior investigative correspondent catherine herridge looks at the top suspect in the breach. >> reporter: the hacks into the commerce and treasury departments are believed to be led by the russian government, and they appear to be related to a recently disclosed hack on prominent u.s. cybersecurity firm fireeye. fireeye said sunday it believed hackers were able to gain access to numerous public and private organizations around the world. by slipping malware into software developed by solar winds, an i.t. management company. solar winds products are used by hundreds of thousands of organizations worldwide,

including the military, the cdc, major telecommunications companies as well as viacom/cbs. in a statement the company's ceo said it is cooperating with the fbi, the intelligence community and law enforcement. "the washington post" reported the russia-affiliated hacking group known as cozy bear reached email systems in some cases. the group has direct ties to russian intelligence and was allegedly behind hacking attacks against the democratic national committee in 2015. and in july, the u.s., britain and canada accused cozy bear of attempting to steal coronavirus vaccine research. the kremlin this morning denied any involvement in the hack. we don't know how large the cyber attack was or what exactly hackers acquired in their breaches. late sunday the department of homeland security's cybersecurity arm ordered all federal agencies to look for any signs of potential compromise and disconnect or shut down certain solar wind products, anthony. >> very scary, catherine, thank

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cleveland's major league baseball team says it took the name indians in 1915 as a tribute to a native-american player. now after years of protest that name will be dropped according to "the new york times." the team did not dispute that report. jericka duncan looks now at the recent reckonig with the name some say is racist.

>> we're never trying to be disrespectful of the a disrespectful, and i still feel that way, but i don't think that's a good enough answer today. >> reporter: that was cleveland manager terry francona in july saying he believed it was time for his team to move forward from its long-time indians nickname. now it seems that time has come. >> we've been engaged in those conversations over the course of the last several months. >> reporter: two weeks ago team president chris antonetti confirmed his club had been re-evaluating its name, a process that appeared to begin shortly after the washington nfl team formerly known as the redskins dropped its name over the summer. following washington's announcement, cleveland released a statement pledging to keep improving on issues of social justice with its team name in mind. this isn't cleveland's first time confronting controversial parts of its team history. >> it feels really good that steps are being taken, that our voices are being heard. >> reporter: philip yenyo is

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covid makes me sad, she can't she her grandkids and all the rest. but having breakfast with vlad every morning makes me not so bad. so you're doing it for her, vlad. i think that's a wonderful reminder. >> what's her name? >> ann-marie becaucus but she goes by nona. >> what's remarkable is people are sending us snail mail, not just tweets and instagram dms which is really, really cool. if anyone is listening at the heritage harbor condos is listening, if they want to get to us on social media, they can let her know. >> she should be watching. >> here are a few stories we think you'll be talking about today. we're paying tribute to charley pride, country music's first black superstar. ♪ ♪ >> the country legend performed his best known hit "kiss an

angel good morning" at the country music awards just last month. he received the cma's life achievement awards. pride rose to fame in nashville in the 1960s after a failed tryout with the new york mets. starting with a single "just between you and me" he had 52 top ten hits between 1967 and 1987. he became the first black member of the country music hall of fame. charley pride died saturday of complications from covid-19. he was 86 years old. a couple of things to note. maren morris tweeted i don't want to jump the conclusions because no family statement has been made but if this is a result of the cmas being indoors, we should be outraged. the cma said they followd protocols by the city health department. >> he looked so good. >> sounded great too. >> it's just weird to see a month later. >> one of the purest country music voices you have ever heard. he became rca's best-selling artist since elvis press tee. 30 number one country hits.

>> from sledge, mississippi. that is his hometown. son of a share cropper who rose to become the first black country superstar. he will be missed. >> and as dolly parton said, charley, we will always love you. >> love her like a devil. >> there you go, gayle. mek hghan markle made a surprise appearance on cnn to honor everyday heroes. prince harry's wife said she's in awe of folks who have come together to help others. >> in a year that has been universally challenging for everyone, i'm inspired by the stories of compassion in our communities. across the country, people have put their own needs aside to come together and support the collective well-being of those around them. >> the dutchess went on to speak about the power of the human spirit. this is the first time we have seen her since she revealed she had a miscarriage in a "new york times" op-ed last month. she's talking about food insecurity and the heroes that

deliver food to people who are immunocompromised. she calls them quiet heroes. >> she was very powerful. her words are very powerful. it's always interesting when she chooses to speak and what she chooses to say. she's contributing a lot to the conversation these days. let's talk about art and why we need it. the washington ballet is getting creative to keep the magic of sugar plum fairies alive for christmas. the dancers put on a virtual performance of "the nutcracker" this year called "nutcracker tea party at home." the performers haven't been on stage since the pandemic hit in march and have done all of their rehearsing virtually. dancer katherine barkman told me the ballet has never been more important than it is now. >> it's a very important time as an artist because you really understand that you're bringing people to that very basic human joy. you know, from a very pure place by just the enchanting, you

know, holiday festive spirit. >> you can watch the 40-minute show on youtube. she told me we need art more than ever. we're not able to get it in the same way that we were able to get it before the pandemic, but they are still putting it on for us. >> yeah, but the first time you see it, though, it's really magical. however you get to see it, whatever way you do, highly recommend it. >> do so. >> yes, do so. ahead, the latest details on distribution of the covid vaccine. we'll talk to one of the people running the logistics operation for u.p.s. high comp science a. ♪ i joined amazon because i wanted to change education and i am impatient. amazon gives me the resources to change the world at a pace that i want to change it. ♪ we provide students stem scholarships and teachers with support. ♪ i'm a fighter and i'm fighting for all students. and then there's street smart. ♪

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are under way here in the united states. >> we are downstairs in the pharmacy area. this is where the vaccines will go, more than 5,000 dose, negative 76 degrees celsius. >> some deliveries already started. we are talking about delivering hope. there is plenty of hope on this 7 37 freighter. >> a remarkable performance frankly and i hope the beginning of the end of this pandemic. it means a lot to everybody. >> there has been no meaningful change to any of the election results but a new cbs news poll does show a majority of the president's supporters do not believe that joe biden is the legitimate winner. >> have you ever had one of those days where you feel like you are just not getting anywhere? look at this poor girl. that happened to her after the city was covered in a sheet of ice. >> what kind of shoes was she wearing? >> where was she going? is that important? i hope it's home. >> did you see that woman walking right by her?

>> give it up, girl. >> i mean 2020, she exemplifies all of that. >> how many hips do you have to break. i hope she's okay. >> the woman who walks right by. i think that sums up 2020 for a lot of people, too, i get it. welcome back to "cbs this morning," we begin with this. it is a big day. i know you have been hearing about it all morning. the largest vaksens nation effort in the nation is finally getting under way. the planes and the trucks will deliver 3 million dose was pfizerers vaccines this week. >> good news. just a short time ago an icu nurse in new york was among the first to have a shot of the vaccine in the u.s. there you have it. cheers indeed. sandra lindsey is her name. she received her dose at long island jewish medical center. our lead national correspondent david begnaud is at university

california davis medical center. what's the mood there? >> this is like the super bowl of medicine. you cannot over emphasize the excitement, the drama, the anticipation that is going into where are my vaccines. the chief pharmacy officer here at uc davis do you have a tracking number yet? >> not yet. we are waiting for it. >> when they arrive they are frozen. >> they are frozen. >> how do you get them ready? >> we thaw them for 30 minutes, dilute them and then they are ready for injection. >> easy breezy they have got people on call. the first person to get the vaccine, her name is eva, a registered nurse. >> i believe this is the solution to this sadness, this pandemic. like, i eyewitness like patients dying without any family. >> she wants the vaccine for not only her safety but the safety of her family. listen, right now, fed exand

u.p.s. are using cargo planes to make deliveries. they take the cargo plane to a distribution center. they deliver the vaccines. then they load the vaccines up onto the trucks and drive them to the hospital. shawn day before we go can you show the wide shot of the room. here at uc davis that is where the socially distanced vaccinations are going to happen. they are aiming to vaccinate 1,000 people every day. but as chad just said they are still waiting on that tracking number to plug it in and watch their plane fly. tony, back to you. >> thank you. for more on how all this works let's bring in u.p.s. health care president wes wheeler. he has been working with operation warp speed and pfizer and joins us from the u.p.s. command center in louisville. good morning to you. i want to paint a picture for viewers n. a typical december, u.p.s. is very busy. in this december with the pandemic shipping you are extra busy. lir on top of all of that the

fact you are shipping vaccines, something that's literally life or death. take us inside that command center, howr things feeling at the moment? >> we are very excited here of course. we had the first shipment of vaccines come in here last night. the captain flew the first plane in. we unloaded the plane. we distributed to our assort facility here and put all the rest of the vaccines out to the rest of the country outbound on flights last night. all the vaccines arephyte sitting at the market at the destination ready to be offloaded. >> i want to talk about what this moment in our history means. in february we were hearing this was going to be bad, the pandemic had no vaccine, no treatments. now we have that vaccine. what was it like for you, 40 years in this industry to see that plane land in louisville and know that the process had begun, the beginning of the end. >> i think the beginning of the end is the way to describe it. the way we felt, weary lated.

we have been working on this with warp speed for four or five months now. and all the lanes that we designed all the weeks and months with them, designing the right capacity to make sure we could do this during our peak season, it was an amazing moment for all of us. it brought chills for me. >> i bet. the hls on top of it all. what should people expect as you embark on this very complicated process? in a normal scenario it would be reasonable to expect that not every shipment would be successful. as the days and the hours stretch before us, should we anticipate -- do you anticipate hearing that some things have gone wrong? >> no. not at all. i think we described a couple of times, we have a special label, this has a blue tooth-enabled radio inside. every shipment of every vaccine that came from pfizer will have one of these labels on that box. it gives us visibility inside of all of our facilities in the

country. on top of that we are monitoring gps locations. so we have a lot of redundancy and we can see these vaccines. during the christmas season we have a lot of packages, 25 million per day. of course if vaccines are flowing through the same network but they are getting priority. as they come in, everybody knows they are first priority in our system. our pilots know they are flying them, our drivers know they are driving them. we can make sure even though the christmas packages are running that the vaccines will be running in a priority manner. >> how long are you anticipating doing this? how long have you prepared for -- the biden administration has said 100 million shots in 100 days. today is day one. but this stretches indefinitely for you at u.p.s.? >> we are prepared to do this for whatever it takes. i think we will be doing this for perhaps years. and you know that we -- we move the flu vaccines every year, 60 million vaccines per year. this is not new to us.

but the fact this is minus 100 degrees fahrenheit more or less makes ate little bit more challenging. but we are prepared to do this all the way through the season, whatever it takes. >> people may not realize -- >> we have orders coming in every day. >> you ship the flu vaccines, you also ship organs. the health care division is significant there, which you head. i know the fact this is happening in december is inconvenient logistically, you have so much more going on, but is it also significant to you that this would happen during the holiday season. >> of course. you can also imagine that we are delivering our own christmas present to the american people and to the world. i mean, the vaccine is the beginning of the end of this pandemic. we are very excited to do that. and the fact that it is at christmastime -- it wasn't planned that way, but here it is. and we are very happy to deliver, for everybody. >> it is a gift to the american people. mr. wes wheel e thank you very much. >> thank you very much. ahead we will talk to voting

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these two runoff elections will determine which party controls the u.s. senate. stacey abrams, a democrat and founder of the voting rights organization fair fight joins us now to discuss. good morning to you, stacey abrams. good to see you. big day in georgia too today as early voting begins. >> good morning. we're very excited. >> i was wondering about your excitement. listen, you had a record 5 million people who voted in georgia, turning this presidential election for the first time in a very long time blue. but this time president trump and president-elect joe biden are not on the ballot. so how in the world do you keep the momentum going? >> because covid relief is on the ballot. access to jobs, access to justice, and there's a very stark contrast between the candidates. we have kelly loeffler and david perdue who profited off of the pandemic, who refused to stand up to mitch mcconnell and demand action on covid relief as we head into a moment where georgians face 160,000

evictions. we've had 4.1 million job loss claims. one in four businesses, small businesses have shut down during this pandemic. david and kelly have done nothing. in fact they have done nothing but cater to mitch mcconnell and donald trump instead of fighting for georgia. but offyell woraphael warnock a ossoff will deliver on the promise of covid relief for gaens. they will make certain that communities of color that are facing a disproportionate effect of loss of lives and loss of livelihood that they will have access to the relief that so many people are desperate to have. but what's even more important to me is that the president of the united states, the incoming president, will have a balanced senate that he can work with to get things done instead of an avowed obstructionist like mitch mcconnell who has made it his pledge that nothing gets done while joe biden is in office. >> you make a good case for your two candidates, stacey, but everybody says the turnout is always low when we have these kind of elections and that it's

just an uphill battle to climb even with the candidates that you speak so highly of. perdue and loeffler still have a lot of support out there. >> of course they do. this is a state that's almost evenly divided. the presidential election was decided by fewer than 12,000 votes. but what's at stake isn't divisive. what's at stake is making sure we have relief for our communities. we know that people are taking this seriously. 1.2 million georgians have already requested absentee ballots. 1.3 million requested ballots during the november election. but what's so exciting is embedded in that number. of that 1.2 million, 85,000 of those applications for mail-in ballots come from voters who didn't vote in november and they are disproportionately voters between the ages of 18 and 29 and disproportionately people of color. when we start early voting today, we have every belief we're going to see a turnout unlike anything georgia has seen. we have the investment, we have the momentum. and what's so important is that

we have a mission. and that is to serve georgians by sending two real servants to d.c. >> vice president pence is urging republicans to not only vote early but vote by absentee ballots. that certainly is a big turn-around from what we had in the presidential election. do you think their strategy will work this time? will make a difference? >> i don't know. i'm not sure. i don't try to dissuade anyone from voting and certainly not from voting by mail. but donald trump has spent the last month doing nothing but undermining the electoral system in georgia. just last night he sent out another tweet undermining the system. and unfortunately we know that it has had an effect on certain voters. my belief is, though, that there are enough voters who want progress, who want good for their families, who are going to suffer through this season of cheer by trying to figure out if they can put food on the tail. and that's the kind of thing that we need to be talking about. we need to talk about what the future looks like.

the only way we're going to get to that future is if we replace mitch mcconnell and have two new u.s. senators who are going there not only to work for georgia but to work for a better america. >> well, the president, as you know, has not conceded the race, certainly hasn't conceded in georgia. republican officials are comparing his refusal to concede to your refusal to concede when you ran for governor of georgia. is that a fair comparison? >> not at all. let's begin with the fact that i acknowledged the legal sufficiency of the election. in my speech that was the first thing that i did. i refused to concede that a system that stole votes from georgians was legitimate. and the problem was i was right. we had four cases every single one of those cases was decided in favor of georgia voters. i never contested the election to make myself the governor. i contested the election to make certain that every vote was counted and every voter was heard as opposed to making up wholesale lies and pushing for a notion of widespread fraud that

has been dismissed by 58 different courts. >> stacey, i know that right now you're concentrating on this senate race, but listen, that's over in january. so what are your plans after that? will we see stacey abrams on the ballot for governor again in the next election? >> my focus is getting people to go to peachvote.com to make a plan to vote on january 5th -- >> i'm looking at you, stacey abrams. what does the future hold for stacey abrams. i know what you're doing now. >> the future holds making certain that we send jon ossoff and raphael warnock to d.c. to make sure we get good done. that's what i'm thinking about, that's what i'm focused on and that's my mission. >> thank you so much for your time. you've got a lot of work to do today. >> thanks, gayle. ahead, a man in las vegas goes for a walk, just a little walk. where? on the wing of a jet. what? and guess what, passengers were onboard and taking these pictures. what do you think of when you're looking at that?

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this man is in jail this morning after he climbed onto the wing of the alaska airlines jet in las vegas as it was getting ready to fly to portland, oregon. alejandro carlson allegedly jumped over the fence at las vegas' mccarron airport saturday. he was out on the wing for 45 minutes and was only captured after he fell off. the plane returned to the gate to be inspected. according to one report, police said the suspect appeared to be impaired. >> i'd like to think that he's impaired because no normal thinking person would do that. >> i'm confident he is impaired. >> it's just shocking to see. can you imagine if you're sitting on a plane seeing a guy? i wonder what you said, anthony, if he would damage the plane. >> it had to go back to the gate to be inspected. >> he's having a bad day to say the least. >> among other things. >> among other things. ahead, school districts

nationwide say there's been a big jump this is a kpix 5 news morning update. good morning. i'm len kiese. taking a live look at oakland international airport where the first coronavirus doses are said to arrive. california is getting nearly 330,000 doses of the vaccine and each person requires two doses. an effort to recall governor gavin newsom is gaining steam as organizers say they have collected more than half the nearly 1.5 million petition signatures needed to place it on the ballot. it is fueled in part by outrage over newsom dining with friends at a napa restaurant while telling state residents not to have social gatherings. i'm gianna in the traffic center. we have a split right along highway 4. westbound we have a

crash near leverage. traffic is slow coming out of antioch so keep that in mind if you are making the westbound commute over toward the east shore freeway. elsewhere, if you're working your way along the east shore freeway itself, we have a slow ride there as well. 23 minutes to the bay bridge toll plaza. things are looking a lot better once you get to the pay gates there. as you approach the area, a little slow over the upper deck heading into the city. the rain is gone and we have sunshine this morning. a live look over san francisco with our sunrise. plenty of sun through the day. daytime highs near-normal. mid to upper 50s to about 60 degrees this afternoon. we have a high surf advisory and a coastal flood advisory due to the king tides returning in a long northwest swell. for tomorrow, more clouds and then rain returns wednesday into thursday.

welcome back to "cbs this morning." it's time to bring you some of the stories that we call talk of the table this morning. tony gets to go first. >> i'm very happy to talk about and remember the great novelist john lecurehe died on saturday. a real british spy for about 15 years already became a writer, credited with turning the spy novel into high art. you will know his books because you know the movies. more than two dozen books, including "the spy who came in from the cold" and "tinker tailored soldier spy." in 2017 steve kroft interviewed him for "60 minutes." take a listen. >> up turned down literary honors, you've turned down a knighthood. >> yes.

>> why? >> in my own country i'm so suspicious of the literary world that i don't want its accolades and least of all do i want to be called commander of the british empire or any other thing of the british empire. i find it hemetic. >> i had to look up that word. >> what is it? >> it means causing vomit. >> that's what it means? >> that's what it means. so when you hear a man used a word like that, you think he must have been born fancy and stayed fancy. probably the most interesting thing about his auto biography his father was a conman. he's basically been on his own since 16 and invented the character you see before you. john le carre but said he's horrified about writing a memoir so don't expect one to be coming out of his papers. he said i've already constructed all the lies i'm going to tell. >> i now want to go back at look at that 60 piece. >> it's a two-parter and it is

fantastic. >> in so many ways he defined the cold war for us. it was through his novels that we understood what was really going on because it was such a mystery. all right. i want to remind people about a special benefit concert airing on cbs tomorrow night. play on will feature performances by some of the biggest names in music including country music star marin morris. here's a sneak peek. ♪ i just hope that i'm proud of the woman i was ♪ >> that's morris singing her big song. other artists performing include ll cool j, sheryl crow, bon jovi, andra day, many more. the concert will raise funds for the naacp legal defense fund and the -- legal defense and educational fund and why hunger. also performing john battiste, the band leader on the late show with stephen colbert.

machine gun kelly will also be there. i got to interview him at new york's apollo theater. >> look who else is there in the background. i recognize that guy. >> that's where machine gun kelly got his first big break more than a decade ago. that interview with machine gun kelly will air tomorrow right here on "cbs this morning." he of course had a number one album just a couple of months ago. "play on" airs tomorrow night at 8:00/7:00 central right here on cbs and cbs all access. as i have said, full disclosure -- >> i was going to say. >> i was going to say what's the last part of that? >> i'm one of the executive producer team and it's a great team. we spent months putting this together. we are so excited it's finally going to happen. >> i've seen how hard you worked on it too. i kekt wacan't wait to see it t night. congrats, congrats. we should wait to see it before we say congrats. >> it's really good. >> you've worked so hard, i'm really excited for you. entertainment giant tyler perry is my talk of the table today. why? he made a huge donation to the

legal defense fund for breonna taylor's boyfriend, kenneth walker. he donated $100,000 to the go fund me page supporting mr. walker. walker was with breonna taylor when she was kwiilled by louisville police in march. we spoke with mr. walker back in october. and he said police did not identify themselves before breaking down the door. walker responded by firing one shot and police then opened fire. now, one of the officers involved in the raid was shot in the leg and is now suing walker for what he calls battery assault and emotional distress. and i think when tyler heard about it, he thought it was outrageous, as a lot of people do. kenneth walker's attorney said to us that he is not convinced that kenneth walker even fired the shot in the leg because there was a lot of commotion, a lot of chaos. the ballistics report was inconclusive. there is a belief that kenneth walker was not the only one that had a 9-millimeter gun at the scene that day so it's a very confusing time. >> what i remember from your

interview is what a compelling witness walker was. >> just think about this, guys. the go fund me page were trying to get $100,000. i think when tyler heard about it it had maybe 500 or 1,000. he's now donated the whole 100,000. >> this is a lawsuit that he is facing. >> the police officer is filing a lawsuit against kenneth walker. we turn now to our special series school matters. we're looking at how the pandemic is affecting students' education. school districts nationwide say two to three times more students are failing classes this year. "usa today" recently spoke with students about the challenges they face because of remote learning. >> i feel like this online learning is really just affecting my grades and i'm really just -- forget about the grades -- not learning as much as i normally would on a normal year. i feel that it is so important to get education and when it's so hard to get it and learn

through this screen it really makes it difficult. >> it almost feels like i am learning material and just taking a bunch of notes and taking these multiple choice quizzes. the second i'm done with that quiz or test, the information just like -- it just slips off my mind. so i feel like i'm not really making any progress. >> we're joined now by sal khan, founder of the khan academy. the nonprofit organization offers free educational lessons online. sal, good morning. thanks for being with us because this has been a really tough year for both students and their teachers. both sides are struggling, i think, to get through this. what do you -- how can teachers at this point help students? as we said, so many of them have had a really tough time keeping up. >> yeah. at this point it's all about engagement. the stories we just heard, those students were having trouble feeling connected. we know there's multiple layers of stress in the world right now, covid being the top one, the economy.

there's a lot else going on. on top of that, students are expected to stay engaged while they're learning primarily in these cases through a screen. and so there's a couple of things. teachers -- they're doing their best job. it's a hard thing for teachers as well, but as much as possible pull them out of the screen, make the classes interactive. give time for kids to interact with each other, put them into these virtual breakout sessions, realize that the screen right now is students' main way to connect with other people socially. so use that class time, use a little bit of it to also get some social connection because that's more likely to drive students to real connection. and then when students are failing, which they're starting to do disproportionately, we need to give them extra chances. it can't be you got a c, a d, an f on a test and that's your final grade on your transcript. when you get back to school, you have to have a method to retake it. >> sal, do you think schools should reconsider giving grades at all this year? >> well, i don't think there's anything wrong with grades per se. it's always valuable to know

where you are. what i think schools really need to make sure, and this is something we've always believed at khan academy even before covid. if you got a c, a d or an f, that shouldn't be your final grade because then that gap persists and it becomes harder to learn advanced things. this is true before covid. now we know the situation is happening to even more students. when you get that c or d or f, it hits your self-esteem. there's a lot of evidence that it lowers your rate of graduating, especially if it's in a core class, and there's all these other stressors around so you should always have the chance especially in the circumstances right now that when we get back to normal or before we get back to normal, you should have multiple shots to try to improve that to a b or an a. >> on the subject of getting back to normal, one of the big obstacles to getting back in the classroom is teachers understandably don't feel safe there. that being the case, should they get vaccines that are now available on the early side rather than down the line? >> i'm a big proponent of that because we've seen over the last

several months that teaching is such a linchpin not just for kids to continue learning and being engaged like we just saw, but it's a child care issue, it's keeping other families from being able to engage, especially families that make lower income and can't afford other forms of child care. my wife is a physician and she just got a letter that they're going to start getting the vaccine the next month. i think teachers need to be in that first or second wave as well. >> sal, how do you deal with the problem of income disparity with kids? one thing that's very clear is that for low income and minority kids, they're less likely to have the appropriate technology they need for this and in many cases they were already behind and are falling further behind. that's a problem that's very hard for teachers to address through a computer. >> yeah, and what you just described has always been a problem that we've always tried to arctic late that we need to help fix. there's a lot of layers to this.

more resources to keep students engaged is even more important now. above and beyond what we just talked about, how you can run classes in a more interactive way. we're seeing some school districts successfully calling kids once a day for 30 seconds, even a minute, making sure they feel engaged. we also know things like the digital divide are a major, major irssue. 20, 30, 40% of some kids can't access right now. school districts can't find them right now. so when we get back to normal, hopefully sooner than later, it has to be treated like a disaster recovery. we have to figure out mechanisms to kill in kids' gaps, ways for them to do remediation. khan academy is working on that. i have a free not for profit program to give free tutoring. we have the capacity for several thousands of kids now. we need to do whatever we can collectively to make sure there's ways to fill in those gaps and they feel supported. >> that's a good analogy,

disaster recovery operation. thank you very much, sal khan, we appreciate it. ahead we meet a woman on a mission to empower single mothers. >> this is life-changing. this is transformational work. i tell people that all the time. this is not glitz and glamour, this is building people up. >> how she's helping change lives and today's ways of working may work differently tomorrow.

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this morning we want to tell you about a remarkable nonprofit group with a mission to help lift up single mothers and break down negative stereotypes. the woman behind this group is using her own experience to help empower hundreds of single black mothers. meg oliver has her story. >> put your seat belt on, son. >> reporter: once a month crystal edwards, a philadelphia element school principal -- >> all right, we are here. >> reporter: -- rents a u-haul truck and pulls up to this walmart. >> let's do it! >> reporter: her mission, to give back to single moms. >> oh, they love the pampers. >> reporter: through a partnership the store donates packed pallets of items from heaters and microwaves to barbie dream houses. >> listen, a barbie dream house, i never had one. my mother couldn't afford that. >> reporter: it all started when edwards found herself a single mom at 27 years old. >> right after you became a single mom after your divorce, someone made a comment to you.

what did they say? >> i was in a store and someone said here's another one, these children with no fathers. and i'm thinking to myself, wow, you don't even know my story. >> do you believe there's a perception that black women are the face of single moms? >> i absolutely do. biases and prejudices that did not reflect the hard work, the lack of access, the overwhelming sense of i'm doing this work by myself. >> reporter: the newly remarried mom of four set out to change the perception. in 2015, her nonprofit empowering single moms inc. was born. >> we're really focusing on getting women off of any type of government assistance. we do an assessment. where are you today and where are you trying to get to. and we partner and network to make sure that those women are able to reach those goals.

everybody has their number, okay? >> reporter: their distributions take place across pennsylvania, delaware and new jersey. >> we are going to be here until everything is gone. >> reporter: they advertise on social media, in church bulletins and through word of mouth. >> please get in the line. >> reporter: this day dozens lined up in the cold outside her elementary school in north philadelphia. she keeps a database of names and if they're willing to work offers a networking program with resources, helping single moms achieve education, housing assistance and employment. >> when you first met crystal, what did you need? >> i don't think it's a very of what did i need but just what didn't i need. >> reporter: 33-year-old sheinelanelle oaddams needed a that matched her daughter's school site. >> you just met her randomly. >> yes. >> reporter: with her background in mental health, crystal was able to get her a job as a classroom assistant at her

school. >> has she helped you get off public assistance? >> yes. now i'm completely off of that. >> reporter: crystal has helped more than 400 women. her dream is to raise enough money for a van for pickups and a small building to offer workshops and face-to-face counseling. >> this is life-saving work. this is transformational work. i watch the community and i tell people that all the time. this is not glitz and glamour, this is building people up. >> reporter: building people up to be their best. >> yes! hey! >> reporter: she has the best energy. now, at this one event more than 100 single moms received much-needed household items and even holiday gifts. crystal is in the process of following up with each of them to see how she can help them in other aspects of their lives. tony. >> meg, thank you very much. >> thank you, meg, for the introduction. i love everything about crystal edwards including her glasses. i like what meg said about her energy. just the fact that somebody would say something so

disparaging about you and know nothing about you just sort of sent her on another path. >> what i will say about fathers, though. crystal is right, we don't know her story or any of the stories of those women. but i do know there's a father somewhere behind that child. if they're not helping out like they should, maybe they should see that piece and see if they can do more. that's a reminder as well. >> crystal edwards is a formidable woman. i can see how she takes charge, i love it. >> thank you, meg, very much. we'll be right back.

we start off by saying it's a big day in the country. let's end that way too. i remember last week, tony, when you said you were feeling emotional about the vaccine coming. i didn't feel emotional until i looked at those trucks and all the operation it takes to get them going. >> and the plane landing. i mean this is a big accomplishment.

>> there's a lot of moving parts. there will be some kerfuffles for sure but generally speaking it looks very well organ ed and

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