we love it. thanks for watching kpix 5 news this morning. remember you can always watch the ♪ good morning to you, our viewers in the west. welcome to "cbs this morning." it's monday, january 4th. happy new year. did you miss us? we missed you. i'll gayle king with anthony mason and tony dokoupil. extraordinary push by president trump. hear how the president tried to pressure a georgia official to find votes to help him win. >> the spiraling covid crisis gets even worse after a busy holiday. we show you why vaccine distribution has fallen far behind schedule. >> an exclusive cbs news investigation. are doctors protecting their own at the expense of patients? we'll reveal how state medical boards often look the other way when it comes to malpractice. and the new year brings new co-hosts on "the talk." we'll talk with amanda kloots

about how they're getting ready for their big role. it's a big day for them. but first, here's today's "eye opener. "it's your world in 90 seconds. >> all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes. >> president trump was caught on audio pressuring the georgia secretary of state to change the election outcome there. >> it was a bald-faced, bold abuse of power. >> on capitol hill, the 117th congress was sworn in. >> nancy pelosi was re-elected as house speaker. >> the pastor is dead and two others wounded after a shooting at a texas church. police say the suspected gunman was on the run from authorities. >> we're looking at a capital murder investigation here. >> the president is again disputing the number of coronavirus deaths. >> the numbers are real. we have well over 300,000 deaths. we're averaging 2,000 to 3,000 deaths per day. >> the u.s. has set a record for

air travel during the pandemic. >> and it could mean yet another spike in cases weeks from now. >> all that. >> a professional surfer being hailed as a hero for rescuing a drowning woman. >> he swam through a 15-foot swell to reach her. >> and all that matters. >> wild finish between tennessee and houston. >> game tied with 18 seconds left. >> titans kicker. >> hit the upright and bounced through. >> you can't make it up. you can't make it up! >> on cbs this morning. >> oh, my god. oh, my god. >> customers at a rooftop bar in nashville could barely believe what they were seeing. two people casually walking to the edge, jumping off. >> they're gone. oh, my god. >> and i don't know about you, brook, but i am not that brave to do that. >> no. >> this morning's "eye opener" is presented by progressive. making it easy to bundle insurance. >> welcome back to "cbs this morning." you feel a little better when you feel they did have a

parachute. >> i kwwas a little jarred. >> it's a new year. we're still here. >> happy new year. >> we're so glad to be here. did you miss all of us? i missed everybody. >> i did, yeah. >> it's great to be back. >> it is great to be back. my suit is a little tighter. i think i ate a little too much over the holiday. >> elastic is a very good thing. a stunning phone call where president trump is heard pressuring officials to overturn the election that he lost. cbs news has obtained audio of the president asking georgia's republican secretary of state, mr. raffensberger, to, quote, find thousands of votes that he would need to win. >> of course, it's only the latest in a months-long effort to pekeep power against the wil of the american people. ben tracy is at the white house. some democrats and legal experts say this could be criminal behavior. what exactly did the president say on that call? >> reporter: in this remarkable phone call, the president does vaguely threaten the state election officials, implying

they could be prosecuted for not doing what he wants. and president trump says he wants georgia to address his claims ahead of the runoff elections there tomorrow. >> there's nothing wrong with saying that, you know, that you've recalculated. >> well, mr. president, the challenge that you have is the data that you have is wrong. >> reporter: in a stunning phone call this weekend, first obtained by "the washington post," president trump pressures georgia's republican secretary of state brad raffensberger to find enough votes to overturn president-elect joe biden's win. >> biden has received 16. >> reporter: ending the state's 16 electoral votes to him instead. >> so, look, all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes. so tell me, brad, what are we going to do? we won the election and it's not fair to take it away from us like this. and it's going to be very costly in many ways.

and i think you have to say that you're going to re-examine it. >> we have to stand by our numbers. we believe our numbers are right. >> reporter: georgia has now counted their ballots three times. declaring mr. biden the winner each time. the trump campaign has failed to prove any of their allegations in court and there is no credible evidence of fraud. on the phone call, the president continued to make allegations that have been debunked. >> mr. president, the problem you have with social media, people can say anything. >> no, this isn't social media. this is trump media. >> reporter: president trump baselessly accused raffensberger of a cover-up and threatened he and his general counsel may be in jeopardy. >> you know what they did and you're not reporting it. that's a criminal -- that's a criminal offense. and, you know, you can't let that happen. that's a big risk to you and to ryan. your lawyer. that's a big risk. >> reporter: some republicans are concerned the president's claims of fraud in georgia will undermine faith in tuesday's runoff elections potentially

costing his own party control of the u.s. senate. vice president-elect kamala harris campaigned for democrats in the state sunday and sharply criticized president trump. >> it was a bald, bald -- bold abuse of power by the president of the united states. >> reporter: with concerns that president trump may try to remain in office after january 20th, all ten former living secretaries of defense, including the two that served in the trump administration, wrote an op-ed saying efforts to involve the u.s. armed forces in resolving election disputes would take us into dangerous, unlawful and unconstitutional territory. now today president trump, vice president mike pence and president-elect joe biden will all campaign in georgia. anthony? >> ben, thank you. the president's actions are splitting the republican party on capitol hill. at least a dozen gop senators are vowing to challenge president-elect biden's win on

wednesday citing baseless conspiracy theorys about the election. as nancy cordes reports, other republicans say the move is dangerous for democracy. >> this is so obviously beyond the pale, is probably not even the way to describe it. >> reporter: republican adam kinzinger joined legions of democrats sunday condemning the president's call to georgia's secretary of state. >> it's fundamentally an effort to overthrow the government of the united states. >> reporter: the controversy did not appear to deter the dozen senate republicans and many more in the house who plan to contest the electoral college results in a joint session of congress on wednesday. >> we've seen in the last two months unprecedented allegations of voter fraud. >> reporter: texas senator ted cruz is now leading the push for an emergency ten-day audit of election returns from six states citing public mistrust in the results. but its mistrust senators themselves have stoked with baseless claims of fraud.

>> there is voter fraud. we had one witness talk about 42,000 people voting twice in nevada. the other issue -- >> just because you had somebody say it doesn't make it true. >> reporter: on sunday as members of congress were sworn in, some republicans tried in vain to talk their colleagues out of the plan. nebraska's ben sasse. >> this is bad for the country and bad for the party. >> reporter: maine's susan collins. >> it's time for us to move on. >> reporter: wyoming's liz cheney, the third ranking house republican, argued the move would set an exceptionally dangerous precedent. >> but vice president mike pence blessed the effort sunday. he will preside over wednesday's joint session which could last all day. >> we're going to spend a lot of quality time together on wednesday. >> i'll be there. i'll be there, sir. >> okay. >> we'll get through it. >> reporter: in the midst of all of this, california's nancy

pelosi narrowly won her bid for re-election as speaker of the house in what could be her last term in the house. and this was a nail-biter because the house majority in the -- is now razor thin for democrats after november's election. she needed 214 votes. there were some defections from democrats but she managed to pull together 216 votes. gayle? >> that's right. in the end, she was holding up the gavel. chief washington correspondent major garrett joins us. good morning to you, and happy new year. always good to see you, major. where to begin. let's start with that phone call. it's another jaw-dropping moment from the president. but you know, i think he likes these jaw-dropping moments. but what is the end game here? >> gayle, the end game is patently and dangerously obvious. the president wants to exert whatever fleeting power and pressure he still has within the confines of the white house. in any direction he can apply it

to change the outcome of this election. that is clear. the president's motives are clear. he wants to stay in power. and he wants to use whatever tools he can find, whether it's suggesting criminal prosecution of secretaries of state like brad raffensberger who won't do what he tells him to do, find me a precise number of votes to overturn the election in one swing state or meeting with state legislatures from michigan or trying to talk to the people in pennsylvania to overturn the election that he lost. the president cannot cope with the fact that he lost this election. whether or not he believes he won it or not is immaterial. that belief does not comport with reality but he's abusing and using power to overturn something he can't cope with. >> right. >> the constitution doesn't create space for that in our republic. and republicans who watch this and stand idly by will be participating in the weakening of that republic and the constitution that protects us from these kinds of abuses or attempted abuses of power.

>> that leads me to the next question. i get it, major. i know what the motives are but the numbers simply aren't there. that's why i wonder why he keeps continuing to try to do this. it's baseless. it's been proven wrong time and time again, yet he continues. let's talk about the republicans. kudos to brad raffensberger who seemed to fact-check the president in realtime when he was on the phone call. he did not bend. but what are the republicans saying about this? we have some going along with the president, but there are many others that just say this is not right. what happens? >> i said on this program about two weeks ago that if this continued, you could be watching the pulling apart, the breaking up of the republican party as this country has come to know it. i believe that process is only accelerated in the last four days. republicans have a choice to make. do they believe in the constitution? do they believe in federalism? federalism means states run the election as the constitution stipulates, and do you believe in facts? and do you believe in verifiable elections conducted with the

most transparency ever, which is what this election was? or do you believe in the personification of a republican party under one person and one person only, donald trump. do you believe in grievance? do you believe in conspiracy theories? do you believe in baseless allegations that cannot stand up in court? if you do, then you are part of that new republican party. and it's dividing before our very eyes. >> and how do you think it's going to affect the race in georgia, major? the president is going there tonight. so is joe biden. on one hand he says it's fraudulent, that there's corruption. on the other hand he's say hey, everybody, vote. >> right. everyone go out and vote because everything is at stake except this election is corrupt in the beginning. the mixed message there is so clear and so obvious and so contorted. i've talked to many republicans who were down there. they're nervous about the outxhf this election. they still think there's a net favorite republicans could eke these out but they know what the president has deprived them of. a clear, concise message. re-elect the republicans, be a check on joe biden.

president trump hasn't allowed that to happen. >> major, we've got to go, but does the president face any legal consequences because he was clearly putting pressure and clearly, it seemed, to be abusing his power. >> it's close, but probably not just because it's a hard case to prove in court. >> all right, major garrett, thank you very much. the new year is not slowing down. the unprecedented spread of coronavirus. the death toll in the u.s. passed 350,000 over the weekend after the deadliest month so far. covid-19 took the lives of more than 77,000 people in america in december alone. this morning, britain began giving out the new oxford/astrazeneca vaccine, but it is not likely to be available here for weeks. and the pace of vaccinations in the u.s. is lagging far behind demand. our lead national correspondent david begnaud is at a hospital in alhambra, california, just east of los angeles. good morning. >> good morning. welcome back from vacation. we're at alhambra because the

l.a. times reported they were using the waiting room because they were out of bed space. i want you to hear from the director who said this. because of the toll this is taking on the staff, he said it's a full-on category 10. it's like world war ii, he said. it's not the volume of patients. it's the intensity and the sickness of those patients. >> attention, to help stop the spread of covid-19 -- >> reporter: los angeles, tampa, portland, scenes of packed airports across the country. exactly what health officials were desperate to avoid. >> it's terrible. it's unfortunate, but it was predictable that we were going to see the number of cases that we're seeing now. my concern is that it could get worse over the next couple of weeks. >> reporter: packed new year's eve celebrations like this one in new york city also have authorities concerned. in los angeles, which is under lockdown, police officers raided at least six illegal parties on thursday night that they called

potential superspreader events. meanwhile, the situation at some l.a. county hospitals has grown so dire the u.s. army corps of engineers was scald in to help with oxygen shortages. >> these buildings and facilities were not designed to have 100% icu for people on oxygen. >> reporter: on a separate note, the country's vaccine rollout is struggling to keep up. in both texas and florida, seniors waited in line for hours to get their shots. >> it's been a long wait. they should have been better prepared. >> while in tennessee, some people waited overnight only to be turned away. according to the cdc, more than 13 million doses have been distributed in the u.s. but only 4.2 million have actually been injected into people. both fall short of the federal government's goal of 20 million by the end of december. moncef slaoui, the head of "operation warp speed" says it's up to the states, not the federal government, to effectively distribute doses.

>> i don't think we are able to identify exactly which long-term care facility or which cvs store should be getting more vaccine or less vaccine. that has to be done with people that have granular knowledge of their population. >> reporter: tell that to the mayor of los angeles where a new covid case is reported every six seconds. he blames washington for the lack of coordination. >> washington went on vacations while they didn't pass a relief bill for seven or eight months. we could have been training out of work folks and students to be ready. we knew that the surge was coming in the winter. >> reporter: the head of "operation warp speed" is floating an idea that could stretch the vaccine doses that they have. apparently they've been in talks with the fda and drug company moderna. they are looking at taking the vaccines they have and halving them, giving half doses to people ages 18 to 55. apparently there's data showing that half doses trigger an

identical immune response full doses. if they give people half doses moving forward, that would give more doses for more americans. we'll see if that pans out p. david, thank you. breaking news this morning on julian assange, the wikileaks founder accused of revealing u.s. classified information. elizabeth palmer is in london where a judge has just ruled in his case. elizabeth, what can you tell us? >> good morning. yes, well, the verdict was a surprise. it prompted a huge cheer among assange's supporters outside the central criminal court. the judge's verdict says that julian assange will not be extradited to the united states to stand trial on mental health grounds. she says that he's depressed, he's despairing and that conditions in u.s. jails, which she described as oppressive, could make him a serious suicide risk. if extradited, he would have faced 18 counts, one of computer

hacking and 17 espionage charges. all relate to classified documents he published on the wikileaks website relating to the afghan and iraq wars, along with thousands of confidential diplomatic cables. although she did block his extradition, the judge rejected his defense. essentially which hinged on the fact that he maintained he was protected by freedom of speech laws. theoretically if he was found guilty, he could have faced more than 100 years in jail. in spite of that verdict, though, assange did not walk out of court a free man. instead, he was remanded straight back into custody because the u.s. legal team announced they are going to apply -- they are going to appeal, probably as soon as this week. so this case is far from over. gayle? >> all right, elizabeth palmer reporting from london, thank you. ahead, how independent pharmacies are helping people in many rural communities get c

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welcome back to cbs "this morning." and an exclusive thcbs news investigation reveals many doctors who cause their patients harm are not facing discipline offenders. according to national stiatistis less than 2% of doctors account for more than half of all malpractice payments. meaning a small number of physicians are responsible for a big problem. for our year-long investigation shot just before the pandemic, jim axelrod went to indiana to examine what many in the field told us. state medical boards are protecting doctors instead of patients. >> i'd never seen that much activity in a room after a

surgery. something medically just wasn't right. >> reporter: jeremy payne is describing spinal surgery. his 46-year-old mother regina bruce had in 2008, after she'd been rear-ended in a sccar accident. at the same hospital his father in to a spinal procedure. telling us the surge hadn't a problem. >> during the surgery he got sick. >> reporter: who got sick? >> the doctor. >> reporter: were you looking at each other, what it's going on >> we're like, yes. are you serious? >> reporter: both operations contacted by an orthopedic surgeon and the surgeries left jeremy payne's mother with her left leg paralyzed and his father with nerve damage. >> proceeded probably to have seven more surgeries trying to correct the nerve damage. >> reporter: what is your feeling as your mom and your dad aren't quite right after surgery? >> you're second-guessing what's

just happened. >> reporter: thomas cox and regina bruce both reached medical malpractice settlements with the doctor and neither fully recovered. both turned to opioids to manage pain and later died. >> the pretty bad people can get away with what they have in these situations. >> reporter: people? >> doctors. >> reporter: doctors are licensed by state medical boards. panels made up almost entirely of fellow physicians. we spoke with more than 100 malpractice lawyers spread out over all 50 states, and heard the same thing over and over. medical boards do a good job weeding out doctors who have broken the law, but when it comes to malpractice, when doctors injures their patients, medical boards often look the other day. we dug through stated and court records and found the doctor lost his surgical privileges at to indiana hospitals after his practice fell below the standard of care and concerns raised

about his honesty and truthfulnesses. he lied about losing privileges to the indiana medical board. then there are the malpractice suits. >> the doctor settled five suits over more than a decade. most of any orthopedic surgeon in indiana in the last 20 years. i don't know if you're aware of this or not. >> had no idea. >> reporter: are there dangerous doctors practicing in easy in indiana? >> absolutely. >> reporter: tina bell is an attorney in indianapolis. involved in cases against the doctor but agreements in court keep her from discussing him. >> we have almost, like, this cloud of secrecy around the medical profession. >> reporter: is it possible to get into trouble and still maintain your license? >> absolutely. >> reporter: bell worked both sides of the street. she spend more than a decade representing doctors and hospitals before moving to patients as a malpractice attorney. >> reporter: is the medical board protecting patients or protecting doctors?

i would say protecting doctors. >> reporter: you're telling me a doctor can make a mistake three, four, five times and it doesn't affect their license? >> those are the doctors that worry me, and those are not the doctors that i'm seeing getting reprimands from the medical licensing board. so there is a gap where they're falling through the cracks somehow here in indiana. >> reporter: we wrote to the doctor asking for an interview but never heard back. >> producer for cbs news. >> reporter: our producer found him where he's practicing. in florida. >> i have no comment. >> reporter: you had a discipline action in florida about operating on a wrong hip that we saw? >> no. that's not true. >> reporter: that's not true? >> no. i have to go. i don't know what you just said. >> reporter: we got our information from the department of health where records show that since relocating to florida, the doctor has been sanctioned three times, including for operating on a patient's right hip instead of

his left. his penalty -- a fine of $7,500. >> as you might imagine, we had a bunch of questions for the indiana medical board. after declining our request for an interview, we caught up with the doctor who serves as the chairman maof that board. you'll want to see that tomorrow morning. >> we look forwar to seeing that. a great piece. advice for people who want to check out their own doctor before a surgery to know if there are problems? >> actually one of the central points we get into tomorrow morning. how difficult that actually is. >> all right. looking forward to that. jim, thank you. >> very well-played, jim, when the doctor says i don't know where you got your information. you said, i'll tell you exactly the department of health. scary tough. >> all right. coming up tomorrow. ahead, more on the battle against covid. how independent pharmacies are leading vaccine distribution in small towns all across the country, and a reminder.

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pharmacy is leading the way. >> taking care of patients is the ultimate goal of a community pharmacist. >> reporter: a pharmacist, brought back home to magnolia, texas, where the population is just over 2,000 people. >> does it make it extra special knowing this is where you grew up and you're moving back to your hometown? >> it's heartfelt. >> any kind of allergic reaction. >> reporter: at beginning of the pandemic he stepped up to make hand sanitizer for those on the front lines and now stepping up again by distributing 500 doses of the moderna vaccine. >> we have great relationships with our community. so able to make sure we're able to get the patients in on a timely manner is a challenge. >> reporter: texas is currently vaccinated group 1b, in this state is residents 65 and older and people 16 and older with medical conditions that could put them at risk for severe illness with covid-19. >> i survived 2020.

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alibaba business empire. ic kicked into high gear after being behind the times of government regulators. >> bizarre and scary. >> very scary. gave a speech end of october, suggesting the chinese were stifling innovation. a week later summoned by chinese authorities and now vanished. >> no joke. >> sort of like jeff bezos going missing. how big of a deal, and brig ig bill na billionaire. >> vanished on his own or something nefarious? >> hard to know. in the past in china people disappear and then come back. sometimes sentenced to prison when not in the public eye. >> jeff bezos saying, don't put my name out there! >> just talking about the wallet size, inner its. business taerappearance. >> worth $50 billion. >> exactly.

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♪ that will wake you up. start whistling. monday, january 4th. welcome back to "cbs this morning." aim gayle king with tony dokoupil an anthony mason. how president trump tried to get a georgia official to find him votes to wing the state. the coronavirus vaccine rollout is much slower than promise. surgeon general jerome adams will join us. talking the talk. new co-host amanda kloots on her exciting new gig. >> first today's eye opener at 8:00. a stunning phone call where president trump is heard pressuring officials to overturn the election that he lost.

>> the president does vaguely threaten the state election officials implying they could be prosecuted for not doing what he want. >> what is the end game here? >> the president wants to exert whatever fleeting power and pressure he hill has within the confines of the white house cano change the outcome of this election. >> california's nancy pelosi narrowly won her bid for re-election as speaker of the house. the head of "operation warp speed" is floating an idea that could stretch the vaccine doses that they have. taking the vaccines they have and halving them. they trigger an identical immune dose as full doses. >> finds them another three. got it. 62. >> steph curry on fire. career night. >> he was cooking. on one, doing one -- [ speaking foreign language ] >> get him.

>> aaagh! >> steph curry's cream for "i did good." >> what a night. >> congratulations. 62 points. i feel we hit 62 path points hitting here. you know it's a good vacation when you feel it's time to come back to work. >> i've never been happier to wake up. >> i don't know about that -- >> i'm excited about this year. >> listen -- >> 2021, big change supply felt it too. i feel it's going to be a good year. that's what i feel. >> point taken. >> see, we're glad to be here with you people out there watching us this moment. we'll begin with this. some democrats are calling for a criminal investigation after a new phone call involving president trump. cbs news has obtained a recording of the call in which the president repeatedly urged georgia's secretary of state brad raffensperger to help overturn joe biden's win in the state. keep in mind this call went on for over an hour. the president asked raffensperger to, quote, find the votes he would need to win georgia. >> all i want to do is this, i

just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state. so what are we going to do? i only need 11,000 votes. fellas, i need 11,000 votes. give me a break. you know, we have that in spades already. >> during the call raffensperger fact-checks the president and says the's results are correct but mr. trump falsely claims raffensperger is somehow breaking the law by not helping him. >> you know what they did and you're not reporting it. that's a criminal -- that's a criminal offense and, you know, you can't let that happen. that's a big risk to you and to ryan, your lawyer. that's a big risk. >> there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud or of systemic errors in georgia's election, some republicans in congress plan to object to biden's win when it's set to be

ratified wednesday. meanwhile the u.s. set another record for coronavirus cases over the weekend topping 20 million overall and the rollout of the new vaccine is not keeping up with the need for them. people waited in line for hours at this site in texas to get shots and other people were camping out overnight in florida after some say they were turned away because of the limited supply. health care providers remain overwhelmed by the pandemic. so far only 4.2 million americans have been vaccinated according to the cdc. keep in mind far short. the trump administration's original goal of vaccinating 20 million americans by the end of december. the u.s. surgeon general vice admiral jerome adams joins us now a member of the white house coronavirus task force. dr. adams, thank you so much for being with us. >> good morning. >> as you heard tony just say the trump administration said that 20 million people would be vaccinated by the end of 2020. we are at about 4.2 million people.

why is this taking so long? >> well, let's be clear here. what we've consistently said is that we would have 20 million doses available and "operation warp speed" has delivered on that. i want to level with people. we're three weeks into the largest vaccination program in united states history and any public health official you talk to, i ran a health department but ask tony fauci, we had a conversation about this. when you look at h1n1 under a different administration we knew this was going to take time to increase. and we're seeing it rapidly increase and 72 hours before the previous report, you had 1.5 million vaccine doses that were reported in three days so that means 500,000 a day. we are ramping up and it's important for the mrna people to understand that because they have sacrificed so much. they need hope. i want people to understand that less than a year after sequencing this virus, we have 15 million to 20 million doses of vaccine available and we should be -- we should be

hopeful about that while acknowledging that we've got to do better and we're going to keep doing better and i promise you, you'll see in the next two weeks these numbers increase substantially. >> you look at israel which is a much smaller country but 10% of israel is already vaccinated and 40% of people over the age of 60 so i'm wondering, the states are suggesting it's a federal problem. the trump administration suggested it's a state problem. where do you see it lying? the. >> answer is yes, i ran a state health department. a lot of the authority lies at the state level. you need federal support. you need state participation and you also have to take into account vaccine hesitancy and had governor dewine say 60% of the nursing home workers in his state wouldn't get a vaccine so we've got to work on all of these things and we really are working on all of these things together. you've got to understand that some states are using all their vaccine, other states haven't even used 25% of their vaccine

that's on the ground so what we're doing at a concrete manner is looking jurisdiction by jurisdiction from a federal perspective and will start moving them around so they can be appropriately utilized. you also talked in your teaser about other things we're looking at like potentially having the dose. we'll let the science lead the way. we'll make sure we're getting as much vaccine to as many people as possible and getting it into arm. >> so do you see a potential solution in delaying the second dose as some people are suggesting or even having the first dose or do you think science eliminates that as a possibility? >> well, i think again we need to let science the lead the way. tony fauci said he doesn't think it's appropriate to eliminate the second dose or push it back at this point but looking at having the dose and, again, in we double the number of doses but still not uptick it's not going to make a difference so have to deal with uptick and hesitancy in the quarters where that matters and increase avaluability in the places that will matter and we're working on

that and see that happen today. we have a governor's call where we'll talk to the governors and always said tell us what you need and we will give it to you and when you actually question governors directly very few will tell you that they aren't getting what they need when they ask. many of them call me and i've responded immediately and pick up my phone 24 hours a day. >> i know you've spoken out about the hesitancy in the black community and minority community about taking the vaccine and now a survey shows a third of essential health care workers also have hesitancy about taking the vaccine so how do you plan to address this? what do people need to know again about this vaccine? >> gaeyle, hidden within what yu said is the fact that the health care workers least likely to take it are health care workers of color who are harder hit by this virus and so we're continuing to acknowledge that the concerns that they have based on tuskegee and real harms

that have happened in the past and harms happening right now in this country. when you look at indiana at the black doctor who unfortunately passed away due to covid-19, these things are happening now. we acknowledge them and have to answer people's questions honestly and npr had a great story about a chair key woman hesitant to get the vaccine. she asked her question. she got them answered and in a passionate and meaningful way and decided to get the vaccine and then we're engaging with trusted influencers and talked to one of your friends, miss oprah winfrey about what we could do and she mentioned that tyler perry will help promote vaccine confidence, that she wanted to work with me to help promote it. we want people who have influence in communities to use that influence and get people the facts they need so they can make an informed choice. >> oh, okay. you talked to oprah. i couldn't reach her on the phone. i -- >> she was busy talking to the surgeon general. >> i see. i know your wife has been hospitalized for her issues with

cancer and prevented you from seeing her because of covid restrictions. how is she doing and what's your message to people who have to take these precautions because you couldn't see your own wife? >> she's stable now. she's back at home getting treated as an outpatient so we're very grateful for that but the message i want people to take home is that even if you aren't worried about getting covid and a lot aren't because you're 00 times more likely to know someone who recovered from it than to know someone who's died from it. but people need to be concerned regardless because cases turn into hospitalizations and it means that i can't visit my wife in the hospital. it means that if you have someone getting in a car wreck who you know they may not have a bed in the hospital for you and this has implications beyond covid so, please, wear a mask, wash your hands and watch your distance, get your vaccine when you can. >> surgeon general jerome adams, thank you so much for being with us this morning.

>> thank you. happy new year. >> you too. ahead we'll speak with the new co-host of "the talk," amanda kloots and will tell us how

much more news ahead including a list out that ranks the top risks in the world in the new year. plus, a brother and sister are taking action after they noticed a lack of representation in one popular activity.

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a new annual report released this morning reveals the top global risks for 2021. every year the group, a political risk research and consulting firm ranks the top ten geopolitical risks we are likely to face in the new year. the report says, let's go in reverse order. third greatest risk is climate change. second is the long-term effects of the coronavirus pandemic. and it says that the greatest

risk is political polarization right here in america and the way it could affect joe biden's presidency. ian bremmer, president and founder of eurasia group and joins us now. ian, good morning to you. theserisks you point out in the report, based and size and likelihood of them happening. typically focused towards businesses and governments. boil it down to pev day american lives. i begin there. you say joe biden's presidency will be a "asterisk" presidency. first of its kind. what do you mean? >> like a-rod or roger clemens, barry bonds, put an asterisk over it, oh, that record doesn't count. almost half the country will see joe biden as not a legitimate president. this is playing out right now with, i mean, not just president trump but you've got ted cruz and majority of republican elected officials in the senate and the house that are saying that they're going to vote against the will of the people,

the will of the electors in the united states. that's unprecedented. this is a time when you really need the u.s. government to be functioning well, because we have this massive crisis. you have a need for the government to legislate, to respond, to deal with the needs of the average american. the country's not been this politically divided in our lifetimes. it's not been this economically unequal. that really, given the size of the u.s. economy globally, it's impossible not to have that as risk number one this year. >> you say in the report, the most powerful also the most divided and unequal country on eth certainly amongst the industrialized democracies. second year in a row something happening in america occupied the top position, the top risk in the world. what does that say about the trajectory of our country? >> well, i started the firm back in 1998. the u.s. had never been on top before, and that's because

historically political institutions in the united states were stronger. they were seen as much more legitimate, but when you think about the ability of the americans to stand up for our system, the average american does, indeed, think that the institutions are increasingly rigged against them. that representative democracy doesn't work. i would make the argument today that the average chinese believes more in the china dream, because of the expanse of the middle class there, than the average american believes in the american dream. that doesn't mean people want to live in china. they'd much rather live in the united states but no one around the world says i wish my political system would run like that. that undermines the ability of the united states to provide leadership on trade. o or to lead by example around the united states. makes a lot more difficult for those of us here. digging more deeply into the

report. number six, global data reckoning. you mention something there about foreign adversaries getting personal data on americans or people in other countries and then blackmailing's can you expand on that? >> sure. i mean what we know is that over the course of this last year, the russian government has been involved, been inside of hundreds of institutions, both the u.s. government as well as private sector, and were grabbing all of that data. we don't know what they're planning on doing with it, but we know they're vastly adversarial to the united states, our citizens and our government. >> do you think it could result in -- >> there's a reason why. rep grinder? the app allowing men to hook up, in the united states ux in tand chinese company was going to buy it and stopped them from

national security purposes. a feeling a lot of people in congress on that app for example. we don't want the chinese government having that data. >> wow. >> when the foreign adversary gets private data that's a problem. right? we don't want that. >> also you mention in a seconds on cybersecurity that china has a super computer may make eventually passwords obsolete? not much time, but that worried me. >> well, the fact that -- quantum computing in ai believe that's potential to get rid of all crypto security, and the fact of the ma th matter, two sr powers in the u.s. the u.s., china. not used to have the parity with another big country out there. it's a challenge. >> people need to be concerned. ian bremmer, appreciate it. we're worried. be right back. you're watching cbs "this morning."

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great song. welcome back to cbs "this morning." talk about ourselves, but other things. anthony, you're first. >> i got birthday wishes for the world's oldest living person. that would be, turned, get this, 118 years old on saturday. she lives in southwestern japan. tanaka born back in 1903 nearly a year before the wright brothers first powered flight and says her secret to longevity is eating delicious food, and the part i love, studying. >> ah. >> likes eating chocolate and drinking coke, you would not necessarily be a recipe for long life. according to a nursing home where she lives she wants to

live to be 120. >> oh, ms. tanaka. >> fascinated by these stories. a question how long the human body can actually sustain itself. well, in this case, a long time. >> i love 1903, anthony. went to cbs to pick up a prescription. they ask you date of birth. i said 12-28-54 the guy goes, wow. is that bad? i wish i would have said 1903. mine is attention single people! if you were swiping right yesterday you were not alone. the first sunday of the year is called "dating sunday" because typically, listen to this, busiest day of the year for what? dating apps. the most signups matching and here's why according to one relationship expert. because most breakups happen between thanksgiving and christmas. >> really? >> yep. after that people searching for new companionship especially valentine's day around the corner. i don't know. looking january 1st, valentine's day? no. ain't happening's 2020 a

record-setting year for dating apps. singles are convinced that 2021 will be the year for them to find love. >> got to be hopeful. got to be. >> listen, i definitely believe, if i could do a dating app and people didn't know it was me, so help me god i would do it. i saw an intervie with one woman that said i believe this is the year i'm going to find someone. a miracle but i believe in miracling. i'm taking that attitude. i believe in miracles, too. >> why do people break up between thanksgiving and christmas? don't you want a date for those holidays? >> surprising to me, too. >>they don't want to go another year and say, starting fresh. let's go. >> all right. >> let's go. hope you all are not on dating apps. >> yeah. we are not. been a long time. >> all right. tony dokoupil? >> bird watchers, flocking to the park for a bird of colorful colors.

taken by a photographer, mail painted bunting in the national historic park known for many colors. how could you not be known? looked like that, commonly seen in the south but made a rare trip into maryland and the ambassador there called the sighting exceptional and noted on the popular birding site ebird. a big deal. sounds like an email that i write. >> vlad is probably -- >> i know. on the ebird site. so -- doubled the number of people who went out to check, to go to that park in a given day. on a cold and rainy day as well. >> i get it. i get it! mark your calendars, because today's the day when the cbs his show "the talk" returns this afternoon. two new faces at the table starting this afternoon. amanda kloots and elaine wealth

ro welteroth. kloots you know former broadway dancer and radio city rockette turned celebrity trainer and business owner. elaine welteroth, badass award winning journalist and judge on "teen vogue" and on "project runway." very busy girls. thanks for taking the time. congratulations to you both. does it feel like the first day of school? elaine, go first? >> totally. 100% feels like the first day of school, except we're going to see gayle king on zoom from your living room. >> going to be there. yes. >> very surreal. i picked out an outfit i hope you love. i thought about you. >> we spend so much time picking out the first day outfit. amanda, how are you feeling? we are always cheering you on. how did you both get the news and your reaction, amanda you start. how are you feeling today? >> i am feeling so great. i barely slept, because i also

had those first day of school jitters but am so excited for today. i think it's going to be so much fun and i think the five of us are really going to bring unique perspective to "the talk." >> yeah. elaine, listen, you've sat in a couple of times and know exactly how it works, but i hear there's a funny thing when you told your mom the news. i liked this story. >> oh, my god. >> that you got the job at "the talk." did you think i was pregnant? >> oh, no! >> i know. now, listen -- as a mom who's

hoping for a pregnancy one day, i can't imagine that your mom was a little disappointed when she heard you weren't with baby yet but had to be very excited you got this job. because this is -- you're going to be great at this elaine. what did she say? >> thank you so much. no. the funniest part of that video now hearing it back is hearing going, no, no.e background no, no! it was like he was watching this train wreck happen slowly. but my mom was my first call. she is like my best friend and i'm sure watching right now, and squealing that that video was just shown, but she was -- she definitely thought i was announcing my pregnancy, which is not -- that's not happening. but she was so excited to find out that -- that i got this incredible opportunity, and, you know, she was watching during the times that i guessed hosted. she's a huge fan of the show. she loves all the ladies, and she was thrilled when she found out that, not only that i got the job but that amanda got the

job. a big fan of amanda's as well. my whole family, super excited about this new chapter. >> we all fell in love with amanda, because you know, all followed your journey. lost your belo new co-host helped you. wondering how you're coping? in july i remember we talked to you, still, i have to say, hard to believe. i wonder how you're doing? >> you know, every day is a different day, gayle. the journey of grief is something that i'm learning a lot about, and i'm just taking one day at a time. and on hard days i just try to get through those days, and on happy days i try to celebrate them, and, you know, one day at a time. that's how i'm looking at it, but i'm so excited to start this job. start this journey, and have a new family to go to every

morning. i feel, honestly, i feel so lucky, and i feel so lucky to be working alongside elaine now, too. i love her. and i just, i can't wait to go to work every morning. >> yeah. i love what you said, amanda. you do have a new family. you have so many people who are willing you on, cheering for you and werencan't wait to see you sitting at the table. what are you all looking forward to? the secret of "the talk," people come, shire experiences, expo themselves warts and all. are either of you worried about that? >> i'm not. >> go ahead, amanda. >> i'm not. i think -- it's wonderful to live a very honest life, and to share those things that make us imperfect, because everyone has those imperfections, and it's what makes us stronger people. >> uh-huh. >> so i'm excited to show those, and those cracks, and then fill those cracks with things that we

learn from the other ladies, and things that we learn from our audience. >> yeah. the audience is key. elaine? >> yeah. no. absolutely. i think amanda said it really well. i think especially for women who i think there's something really powerful that happens when women give themselves permission to tell their truth. i think it gives other women permission to tell their truth, too. for me, every morning when you come together with these women, and especially during covid. you know, quarantined without having this live studio audience, it really feels like an intimate safe space with familiar faces, warm women who create this really comfortable environment to share, to be honest, and there's this sense that everyone's perspectives are valued, respected. we're here to learn from each other, to support each other and i think in a moment like this

it's a really -- it's a really important thing to see modeled. >> yes. >> on television. especially at a time when a lot of us don't have those close physical connections that we're so used to, and we aren't able to see our girlfriends and our family members. so i feel like we're able to create that connection hopefully with the audience but we certainly feel that together on-set. even in the short time i've had opportunity to be on the show. so i feel really comfortable sharing. i've already embarrassed myself. put some of my secrets out there, somehow they got me to share that i fell asleep during "black panther" which is insane. and i had never shared that with my friends. so, no. i think we're going to be ourselves. we're going to be transparent, be authentic and that's what we're all excited to do. >> that is the secret sauce that makes it fun, guys. so happy for you both. listen, 2020 was such a crappy year for so many on so many levels and for so many reason,

but there were bright spots. thinking, optimistic about 2021, even though a lot of the same issues, starting off with you guys i think is a really great, great note for all of us. so congrats and see you this afternoon. what to wear? what to wear? sue see you a lot later on. cheering you on always, watch them on "the talk" weekdays starting today at 2:00 eastern, 1:00 sen tram acentral and spec here on cbs. ahead, how a brother and sister are changing the puz's business after they struggled to

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use less from 4 to 9 pm to keep california golden. sales soaring during the pandemic as families try to stay busy as home. until recently the industry was missing a critical piece. how one brother and sister duo took action after they discovered a lack of representation in puzzles. >> there it goes. >> reporter: it takes sharp attention to detail to put together puzzles. something william jones and erica chambers have been doing since they were kids growing up in north texas. >> i really love to look at the detail of every piece. you see the strokes of the brush. >> reporter: there were a lot of little pieces. every winter they'd tackle bigger challenges, from 250 to 500 to 1,000-piece puzzles.

>> pull them apart and spend a lot of time with our own friends doing our own thing. this was the thing that got us together. >> reporter: even after al the tabs were connected they felt the puzzles were still missing a piece. >> a lot of our puzzles we had been picking were, like, simpso mout. nothing like us, people of clor. >> reporter: sparking an idea which became puzzles of color. a small business started during the pandemic. corporate offices in erica's garage. the pandemic has not paused their puzzle production. >> push it through here. hit the little green button -- sometimes it sticks on to the board pretty good. whoa! there it is. there you have a puzzle. >>reporter: puzzles of color finds artwork depicting black culture created by artists of color and puts them on puzzles

like this kwanzaa puzzle titled "to be loved." >> did you of think that your art work would be kind of a new expression for people of color? >> i was squealing, oh, my god. somebody put it together and enjoyed it! it's rewarding just knowing that people can interact with it in a way that is -- different than just going to a gallery or seeing it online. >> reporter: daryl hill just bought one of the puzzles for his 3-year-old son micah. >> do you like doing puzzles? . yeah. >> reporter: daryl let's micah be a kid but feels it's also important for his son to see other people who look like him when he plays. >> with the puzzles that i bought, it looked like somebody that looks like him. you know? as he's growing up, i need him to know that he's represented in culture. >> reporter: erica and william are ramping up production, and hope their small business can fill a missing piece in a bigger

cultural puzzle. >> it's all about that representation. you don't feel like an "other." you feel like you are part of the world that you live in. >> 500 to 1,000 pieces at a imtooants exactly. uh-huh! >> 500 pieces of culture. >> reporter: for cbs "this morning," omar villafranca, little elm, texas. >> great story. >> bravo! eric and william, give yourself a round of applause. you don't really think about it when you're -- i used to buy puzzles all the time as a kid and you don't think -- i remember as a little girl first time i got a black doll i didn't want one. i thought, ooh. it's different. you don't want to be the other. the fact they are now showing puzzles of culture, what are they called? >> puzzles of color. >> puzzles of color, so important. >> it's great they're doing it, but i love even more the pictures are awesome! >> yes, yes, that, too. and the concept. >> on a related concept, i didn't know that's how you made puzzles. put it through a machine, mixes

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