a new pandemic life line for struggling america. congress finalizes a long awaited stimulus bill with a midnight deadline looming. a second vaccine shipped out, distributed by moderna, and there were short falls. >> record rampage, hospitalizations and deaths surge across america, california consider s rationing health car. and britain warns of a fast spreading new strain. >> we cannot continue with christmas as planned.

>> a surprise thank you for a santa in a different suit. ♪ later the nutcracker adapts keeping a holiday tradition on point. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> good evening, there's breaking news as congress says it's finalized a deal for a new economic relief package. also, a cdc advisory group said today, first responders, teachers and grocery store workers should be next to get the coronavirus vaccine. reinfor reinforcements on the front, a second vaccine from moderna, on its way to all 50 states and the covid numbers still staggers. 196,000 cases reported, more

than 317,000 have died and experts are predicting that cases have not yet peaked. but as we come on the air, there's hope tonight that a new round of long delayed economic help could can soon be on the way to americans. cbs's chip reid has the latest at the white house. chip? >> well, good evening, leaders of both parties on capitol hill say they are confident that within a mart of hours, they will pass a hamtha massive covif package and then get it to the president for signature. >> more help on the way. moments ago in consultation with our committees and superintendent and house, finalized an agreement. >> those words are what millions americans have been waiting for. a covid relief package that congress has been talking about but failing to act on since march. the bill is expected to include $600 stimulus payments to individuals.

$300 a week in supplemental unemployment benefits. $15 billion for if athe airline that could be used to rehire furloughed workers and among other thing thes there will be money for distribution of covid vaccines. public schools, small businesses, and money to help feed the hungry. >> congress plans to attach the covid relief package to a $1.4 trillion spending billion that needs to be passed by midnight tonight to the avoid a partial government shut down. if they miss that deadline, they will have to pass another shorttime fix. as for president trump, he has been on the edge of the negotiations tweeting after midnight, get it done and give them more money in direct payments. congress is getting it done but so far appears to have ignored his advice about direct payments. the president did not appear in public today, but in a radio interview, he did not mention the covid relief package.

and made clear that he is still fix ated on overturning the election. >> we have uncovered a voter fraud, the greatest voter fraud in history. >> but dozens of court have thrown out lawsuits challenging the election 54 a failure on provide evidence. chip, you mention that the stimulus payments will in all likelihood be $600 per person. who is receivingthe payments? >> let's look at the numbers here. the $600 payments had go to individuals making less than $75,000 a year and couples making less than 150,000. and keep in mind that children are included, so a family of four would get four $600 payments totaling $2400. and people making between 75,000 and $99,000 a year would get something, but less than that $600. and keep in mind, there could be some minor changes overnight but that is the basic plan.

>> all right, chip reid, for us at the white house tonight. thank you. >> more vaccine help is on the way. the first shipments of the nation's second vaccine began shipping on out today from a memphis area distribution center. that is where we find erol barnett. >> reporter: the cdc confirming tonight, tennessee has the worst covid cases in the country. but numbers are up everywhere, so, the roll out of the moderna vaccine a week after pfizer's is really a second shot of hope for us all. roughly 6 million doses of the moderna vaccine. carefully packaged with dry ice, in to temperature controlled boxes, rolling out for distribution. compared to the pfizer vaccine, moderna can be stored in standard refrigeration and it has a longer shelf life, 30 days. allowing it to reach deeper in rural areas of the country. this is the newly approved vaccine arriving at fedex's world hub, from here in

tennessee and a u.p.s. facility in can ckentucky, it will be sh to all 50 states from here. both vaccines are in high demand, requiring two shots. more than 172,000 americans mostly front line wokkrkers is received the first. there's been lodgistical issues. the head of operation warp speed took responsibly for more than a dozen states receiving fewer pfizer doses than expected. >> please accept my personal apology, if this was disruptive in your decision making. >> dr. avery know land received a pfizer vaccine because of the damage he saw the virus inflict a are -- it's like playing russian roulette, there's no way to predict it. >> goal for nationwide vaccination is early fall of

2021. >> still a long road ahead, this weekend, some 265,000 wreaths were placed in graves in arlington national cemetery, it happened at indiana's fairview cemetery too. it's part of of the wreaths acrosser america, to place wreaths at veteran's graves at some 2100 locations in all 50 states. now to a special santa, in the spirit of the season. u.p.s. driver anthony gaskin has delivered countriless packages on his route throughout the troubled times and he did it with a smile. so this past week, neighbors surprised anthony by line are the street to show their appreciation and as you can see, anthony got emotional there. >> the cbs overnight news will be right back. ♪ .

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♪ ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> in a sudden turn today, the british government warned that a new strain of the virus is quote, out of control. it's also been identified in italy. several european countries have now restricted travel to the uk, this is london's heathrow airport tonight as people rush to leave as tough new rules are enforced. cbs's elizabeth palmer is there. >> reporter: with the clock ticking toward lockdown, central london's oxford street was mobbed on saturday night. with crowds making the most of last chance christmas shopping. by morning, all nonessential businesses were shut and they

will stay that way until it at least the end of the month. just last tuesday, prime minister boris johnson promised families would be allowed to get together over christmas. >> we don't want to as i say, to ban christmas to cancel it. and i think that would be frankly inhuman. >> fast forward to saturday. and an bankrupt u-turn. >> i must tell you with a heavy heart that we cannot continue with christmas as planned. >> reporter: the sudden policy change focused on the south of england as hospitals reported a surge in covid patients. infected by a new more contagious strain of the virus. to protect the health services, the government ordered londoners to stay home, and outlawed people even visiting family and friends over the holidays. that was two much for the mobs who rushed to catch trains to reach loved ones elsewhere in the uk, before the deadline

fell. at midnight last night. the good news is that this new strain of coronavirus although it does spread faster doesn't seem to make people sicker. and it does look as if the vaccine will work. but european countries are definitely nervous and have begun to ban travelers from the uk outright. elizabeth, palmer, cbs news, london. >> and in this country, the virus has been both in a siege and in a surge as we reach christmas week. hospitals and food banks are overwhelmed, in los angeles, somebody dies of covid every half hour. cbs's lilia luci a ano has more. >> reporter: the holiday rush is on o millions travelers defying cdc warnings to stay home. tsa screening more than 2 million flyers since friday. and over 80 million peep are expected to hit the road. this as the covid surge is crushing records and hospitals. the nation's epi center

california, where more people are dying now than in any other point in the pandemic. worse yet, in l.a. county, somebody dies every half hour. those on the front lines considering the unimaginable. ra . are a tm-- >> if you are in a car accident, have a heart attack, have a stroke, we may not have a bed for you. >> icu capacity is at mere 2%. ambulances are waiting seven hours to get patients to the er, 19 states reporting record hospitalizations this week. former fda commissioner dr. scott godlieb told takes the nation, infections will not peak until january. >> after the infections peak, we will continue to see deaths start to increase for another three weeks. >> despite the danger, people standing in long lines for last minute holiday gifts. and an estimated 150 million shoppers on saturday alone. >> you can pick stuff up and price stuff and go from one store to the next store. >> a risk too high for those fighting from the front lines.

including er nurse, marsha santini who was infected. >> we have to take care of -- i can't talk. we have to take care of one another. >> many more of those front line workers are getting caught in the astonishing spread of covid, right now, it's believed 1 in 80 people in l.a. county is infected. >> for us in los angeles tonight. thank you. as the pandemic continues its deadly assault this season, typically defined by joy, it's increasingly defined by grief. here is cbs's michael george. ♪ >> a bell at washington's national cathedral, tolling 300 times. one signal for every 1,000 people in this country who have died from covid-19. charlie jackson, an army veteran was lost on may 17th. >> i took him to the va hospital

and that was my last time seeing him aalive. >> his wife was unable to be with her husband for the last three weeks of his life. she said thanksgiving was painful. >> it was horrible. we did what we could to get through as a family and when we sat down for dinner he would normally bless the food and carve the turkey and he was not there to do any of that. and it's just unfair. >> with the holidays upon us, vaccines offer accidedistant hot the pandemic rages, claiming more lives every day. >> everybody greaves whether they think they are or not. >> sharon stouffel is a bereivment counselor. >> everybody talks about the affect that the isolation and the restrictions has had on them

processing theirgraphy. >> the pain is also economic. so many americans struggling to provide the basic essentials. like food and housing. >> people going through this now, are experiencing something different than anybody ever has in the past. >> laura jackson and her family are moving forward. >> christmas, my brother leaves on christmas day. so i will have to wake up and he will not be there, and we will have to muster up energy to go through the holiday without him. >> each one of the 300,000 leaves a family behind. grieving and remembering. >> michael george, cbs news, new york. >> still ahead, in rome, teachers are taking attendance outdoors in monumental classrooms.

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maids offer guests hand sanitizer and temperature checks. passers bay brooklyn can catch a hip hop fusion from outside the studio windows. in arkansas, it's little rock's main street and in miami, people watch while socially distancing outside. >> we have all expense and little revenue. >> she heads the ballet, the first to stage the nutcracker in 1944. this year, they are offering a streamed past performance with interactive features. >> the future will, you had know, look back at this moment and it will not be about revenue, it will be how you connected with your community. >> ticket sales from the nutcracker make up half the season's overall revenue for many ballet companies that help fund the rest of the year. and now, with most stages still dark, some like the ballet center here are finding new

collaborations. they model items up for auction as they twirl around an empty gallery and in new york, american ballet theater collaborated with lg, to film one of the nutcracker's most famous scenes. >> whether you are a kid or adult, i hope it brings everyone warmth and holiday cheer. >> a reminder of cherished traditions. even in a year keeping people on their toes. nains chen, cbs news, new york. >> what a nice way to start the holiday week. well, that is the overnight news for this monday, for some of you the news continues, for others, check back later for cbs this morning and follow us online, any time, at cbs news.com. reporting from the cbs broadcast center

♪ this is the "cbs overnight news." good evening there's breaking news as congress says its finalized a deal for a new economic relief package. also, a cdc advisory group said today, first responders teachers and grocery store workers should be next to get the coronavirus vaccine. reinforce pts on that front began rolling out today, a second vaccine by moderna, now on its way to all 50 states. and the covid numbers are still staggering. 10096,000 infections reported saturday. 17.5 million people in the u.s. have been diagnosed with covid-19. more than 317,000 have died.

and experts are predicting that cases have not yet peaked. but as we come on the air, there's hope that a new round for long delayed economic help could soon be on the way to americans. cbs's chip reid has the latest at the white house. chip? >> reporter: well, good evening, leaders of both with parties on capitol hill say they are confident that within a matter of hours, they will pass a massive $900 billion covid % relief package and send it here to the white house for the president's signature. >> more help is on the way. moments ago in consultation with our committees the four leaders of the senate and the house finalized an agreement. >> reporter: those words are what millions of americans have been waiting for. a covid relief package that congress has been talking about but failing to act on since march t the bill is expect examined to include, 600 dollars stimulus payments to individuals.

$300 a week in supplemental unemployment benefits. $15 billion for the airlines that could be used to rehire furloughed workers and $14 billion for public transportation. among other things, there will be money for distribution of covid vaccines. public schools, small businesses. and money to help feed the hungry. >> congress plans to attach the covid relief package to a $1.4 trillion spending bill that needs the to be passed by midnight tonight to the avoid a partial government shut down. if they miss the deadline, they have to pass another short-term fix to give them more time to negotiate. as for president trump, he has been on the periphery of the negotiations tweeting after midnight, get it done, and give them more money in direct payments. congress is getting it done, but so far, appears to have ignored his advice about direct payments. the president did not appear in public today, but in a radio interview, he did not mention

the covid relief package. and made clear that he is still fix ated on loafer turning the election. >> we have uncovered the voter fraud, the greatest voter fraud in history. >> but dozens of courts have thrown out the challenge can to the election, for failure on provide evidence. >> the stimulus payments will in all likelihood be $600 per person. who will actually receive the payments? >> well, let's look at the numbers here. the $600 payments will go to individuals making less than $75,000 a year and couples making less than 150,000. and keep in mind that children are included. so, a family of four would get four $600 payments totaling $2400. also, people making between $75,000 and $99,000 a year would get something but less than that $600. and keep in mind, that there could be some minor changes overnight, but that is the basic

plan. >> all right, chip reid for us at the white house tonight, thank you. >> more vaccine help is on the way, the first shipments of the nation's second vaccine began shipping out today from a memphis area distribution center. that is where we find erol barnett. >> the cdc confirming tonight, tennessee has the worst covid cases in the country. but numbers are up everywhere. so, the roll-out of the moderna vaccine, a week after pfizer's is really a second shot of hope for us all. roughly 6 million doses of the mod heer moderna vaccine, carefully packaged in to dry ice in boxes rolling out for distribution. compared to the pfizer vaccine, moderna can be stored in standard refrigerators and it has a longer shelf life. 30 days, allowing it to go deeper in the rural areas of the country. >> this is the newly approved vaccine, arriving at fedex's world hub, from here had in tn

the -- in tennessee, it will be shipped to all 50 states. >> both vacs are indemand. requiring two shots. mostly front line workers have served the first. there's been logstical issues. the head of warp speed took responsibility for more than a dozen states receiving fewer pfizer doses than expected. >> please, accept my personal apology if it was disrupt i hiv your decision making. >> this doctor took the vaccine because of the damage he has seen it inflict. president joe biden's pick for surgeon general said the realistic timeline is late summer, early fall of 2020 for

nationwide vaccination. >> a long road ahead. thank you. in a sudden turn today, the british government said that the virus is out of control. it has been identified in italy. several european countries have restricted travel to the uk, this is london's heathrow airport tonight, as people rush to leave as tough new rules are enforced. cbs's elizabeth palmer is there. with the clock ticking toward lockdown, central london's oxford street was mobbed on saturday night. with crowds making the most of last chance christmas shopping. by morning, all nonessential businesses were shut and they will stay that way until at least the end of the month. just last tuesday, prime minister boris johnson promised families would be allowed to get together over christmas. >> we don't want to as i say, to do ban christmas to cancel it, and i think that would be

frankly inhuman. >> fast forward to saturday. and an bankrupt -- want abrupt . >> it's with a heavy heart that i say we cannot continue with christmas as planned. >> the policy change came as hospitals reported a surge in covid patients. infected by a new more contagious strain of the virus. to protect the health services the government ordered londoners to stay home, and outlawed people, even visiting family and friends over the holidays. >> that was too much for the mobs who rushed to catch trains to reach loved ones elsewhere in the uk, before the deadline fell at midnight last night. >> the good news is that this new strain of coronavirus although it does spread faster, doesn't seem to make people sicker. and it does look as if the vaccine will work. but european countries are definitely nervous and have

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♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news". welcome back to the "cbs overnight news," christmas time in the pandemic is leaving us with the holiday blues. we are bound to brighten your morning and we go to london, to chat with a beetle, paul mccartney. >> reporter: just before the interview, paul mccartney was joking around. but 50 years after the beatles, got a whole studio here. he is still constantly composing. and not let willing a pandemic

get in the way. ♪ most people in lockdown have been making sourdough bread, paul mccartney makes an album. >> and the other thing that people have been doing is cleaning out the closets. that is a bit of what that was. i just started to clean out the cupboard and it was like, what about the song last year that i started but never got to finish? let's have a look at that. i should finish this. ♪ >> reporter: it so happens that sir paul mccartney who is 78 years old now has more interesting cupboards than most of us and enough fixings to create a new record. mccartney 3, released friday. >> welcome to the studio. ♪ >> reporter: it's a sort of diy album. it helps that mccartney has his

own recording studio near his farm hin england and has had practice. ♪ his biggest hits in a few note. ♪ ♪ hey jude >> put those all together and turn them backwards and we have got it. >> reporter: for mccartney 3 he was not only songwriter but producer. and played every instrument. >> it's not like working with a band because i know what i want to hear. and i don't even have to tell anyone. i just said, let's do drums. i will sit on the drums and i will think, well, okay, i will want to -- so, it's all in my head. ♪ >> reporter: the result is an album critics have called experimental, free-wheeling and a playful gem. ♪

>> reporter: do you miss the feedback in a session working with a musician? >> no, it's a different kind of thing. i sometimes will ask more of my engineer, what do you think? or the guys may have a suggestion. and i had will say, no. >> reporter: if making a record is different now, so is talking about it in the era of covid. >> i don't want to give it to anyone. i don't want to get it. and when people sort of say, i don't want to wear a mask. it's fringing on my civil liberties, i say, no, that is stupid. >> reporter: beth oth of us had covid tests before our meeting and mccartney has done no other inperson interviews. the camera crew ran things remotely from another room. with his wife nains across the atlantic, he was living on his farm in england recording and spending what he calls rock down with his daughter mary and four of his eight grandkids.

some evening, at dinner time he played samples for them. >> so this was a bit of fun grand dad had in the studio. >> reporter: is this the real sir paul mccartney? do you feel it's the authentic you that comes across in a way that a more highly produced album would not? >> could be true. could be true, actually, yeah. >> reporter:it follows two other solo albums, both were initially criticized, though later earned praise. ♪ >> reporter: for a guy who has been inducted in to the rock and roll hall of fame twice and has 20 grammy awards, we found him still almost awe struck by the process. >> i just start on either a guitar or pea an iano and i'm j meddling about. oh, that is pretty good, i love it so much because you start with nothing and then suddenly after a couple of hours you have

got a finished song. and that's like, wow. and that's still amazing to me. >> reporter: in what way? >> like a magician pulling a rabbit out of the hat. ♪ >> i dreamed that song. and i woke up and there was a tune in my head. i thought, that was magic. i didn't believe it was mine for the first couple of weeks. >> reporter: what did you mean? >> i thought it was an old song that i heard somewhere. maybe from my dad's generation. >> it's just in your head. >> somebody is going to go no, that is from westside story. no, but never ever found what it was and in the end they said it yours. >> ladies and gentlemen, here are the beatless. >> reporter: during the 60s with beatles writing partner, john lennon, they turned out 300 songs. >> we never had a dry session. came in, sit down and by 3 or 4 hours later we had a song.

looking back on it, wow, how lucky was that? could it be skill? it was always fun. we are used to it and after the first 50 songs we had written together, we knew how it was. oh, so, you know, it was something i brought in. and i would do the first couple of lines and he would just follow it on. ♪ it started it's getting better all the time. >> reporter: george harrison, the beatles skyrocketed to fame from humble working class roots. in liverpool england. can you believe what you did so many years ago. still translates still resonates and still a gold standard today. >> it is pretty crazy, i

remember when i was a kid, when the beatles, another of my cousin, they said, can do you think any of your songs will be standards? and i said yeah. >> reporter: you think you knew? >> i didn't know, i guessed. i had a feeling that the stuff that we are writing was memorable. >> what is it about the music that touches people so deeply. >> reporter: it's the structure of the song, there's no spare stuff is that should not be in there. it's the exact amount of stuff that should be on that record. and i am amazed, it keeps going. i'm amazed. >> reporter: i have heard that somewhere. >> good idea for a song. ♪ >> reporter: maybe i'm amazed was on his 1970 solo album,

mccartney. the first of his trilogy that marked his separation of the beatles, they split up citing artistic and business differences. john lennon went on to have his solo career until he was shot and killed in front of his home, exactly four decades ago this month. i wonder how he would -- how it is processing it? >> it's very difficult for me, i occasionally i have thoughts. every day, it's that bad. >> reporter: do you sometimes? >> not every day. there's times when i just have memories and think, oh, my god, or it's just so senseless. sfwloo do you think he still would be writing and producing and like you are? >> yeah, he was showing no signs of slowing up. you know, he was still making

great music. the question is, would we have ever got back together again? >> reporter: what's the answer. >> we don't know. >> we were friends. that was one of the great things about out. in a way, i would not be surprised if i find out that i was in denial. it's too. >> reporter: mccartney said he has dreams about john lennon and thinks about him when he writes? what happens when you are in if car and a beatles song comes up, do you turn it up, turn it off. >> turn it up, turn it up, sing along with it. it takes me back to the session. reminds me i remember when johns was there and ringo was there, and we did this one. yeah, it's great. it takes you right back, sort of flash back. ♪ >> reporter: the new ideas for melodys he records them on his

phone as a voice memo. i wonder how many hits are still sitting in your iphone? >> i don't know. ♪ >> i wrote it once summer's day, and i got the beginning of it. ♪ i thought, that's okay. i will record it. i will finish it some day. i said to myself, no, what have you got? you don't have anything on. sit here and finish that bloody song. >> reporter: it turns on out in lockdown, paul mccartney produced not just a record, but a reminder for the rest of us. which, no surprise, he put stressballs gummies have ashwagandha, an herbal stress reliever that helps you turn the stressed life... into your best life. stress less and live more. with stressballs.

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elevator up to the sixth floor. it's one shine ay new toy that will not fit under the christmas tree. six years in the making the life sized robot celebrating a sensation, often compared to star wars and star trek because of the devoted fan base and out of this world cultural impact, it's one of the most lucrative media franchises on earth. it's figureens and snacks rake in 10s of billions of dollars. without the massive support, the nearly 60 foot, 25 ton steel and plastic would topple over. it looks like a robot, but inside, it's a mechanical system. the challenge was making it look like a gondom, that means giving the humanoid as many joints as possible for a life like range of motion.

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we end this half hour with a holiday classic, the young people's chorus from new york city perform the classic felice navidad. ♪ .

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ wow, hard to believe that song turned 50 years old, well with, that is the overnight news for this monday. for some of you the news continues, follow us online any time at cbs news.com. reporting from the cbs broadcast center in new york city. ♪ ♪

it is monday, december 21, 2020. this is cbs morning news. deal reached. congress is expected to vote today on the stimulus package. what it means to the average americans after months of gridlock. new strain, new concern. a more contagious form of the virus is spreadin in the uk. wrong home raided. chicago police handcuffed an innocent woman in her home. new fallout after the body cam video is released. good morning.