azar: let me ask general perna. have been working hard with the jurisdictions to make sure that the plan provides details to that end. you mentioned that pfizer comes in a package of 975 doses per tray. modernity comes in at 100 doses per trade. that is only a constraint because of what we have to do to maintain it at a right temperature for stability. you can break down both vaccines. you can pull out quantities of what you want to execute and normalthem from 2-8, refrigeration and execute them within five days. that is the key. , the the planning specified execution that we are counting on. these states have been working this. one of the reasons that we asked and brought walgreens and cvs in is because they know how to break this down and do small quantities for importing groups. we worked very detailed plans with them. we are collaborating that with the jurisdictions to make sure that no vaccine is wasted and wet when they go to immunize -- when they go to immunize, they have the right techniques and procedures t

azar says 40 million doses could be available by the end of the year it's 2 shots per person. >>so that would be 20 million people we believe could be vaccinated secretary azar tells me the vaccine is expected to go first to health care workers. the elderly and essential workers. >>initial results show the vaccine to be 95% effective in preventing infections. the beginning of the end of the pandemic started with the leadership of president trump on friday, the white house celebrated the work of operation warp speed for the pace of the vaccine creation you wouldn't have a vaccine of a word from me for another 4 years on capitol hill house speaker nancy pelosi urged americans to continue taking precautions against the virus wear a mask social distance and cation paul also pressing republican leadership to pass her proposal for a covid relief bill if we do what is in the heroes act. >>in this regard. we'll be ready for the vaccine with production plans to continue throughout the winter azar says the vaccine could be available for free to all americans by this spring hope and help

and human services secretary alex azar v. he outlined what he said would be the distribution scheduled for pfizer and other companies experimental vaccines. not have been approved yet. pfizer said that monday it's vaccine is over 90% effective in preventing the coronavirus. acretary azar says pharmaceutical giant is ramping up to deliver 20 million doses monthly by the end of november. president trump is continuing to fight the results of the election. on twitter today, the president wrote, we will win. the president has senate majority leader mitch mcconnell in his corner. he says the president is within his rights and has no obligation to accept projections based on vote counts that joe biden won the election. another shakeup at the pentagon. james anderson, a top policy advisor has resigned. it comes one day after president trump fired mark esper. not give a reason for his resignation. a vatican investigation to x cardinal theodore mccarrick has found bishops, cardinals, and popes downplayed or dismissed reports that he se

we're pleased to be joined on this occasion by secretary of health and human services, alex azar, and administrator of centers for medicare and medicaid services, seema, thank you both. and thank you all for being here. i appreciate it. the unprecedented reforms we're completing today are the direct result of the historic drug pricing executive orders i signed in july. statutorily we had to go through a very long process and we got it done. i was very proud to have gotten this done. we were pushing it very hard. as we did with the vaccines and other things. the first action will save american seniors billions of dollars by preventing middlemen, famous middlemen, they call medicarem ripping off patients with high prescription prices. currently there are high discounts in the price of prescription medicines, including rebates to medicare part d plans last year alone. yet often middlemen stop those discounts from going to the patients, which is what we're interested in. not the middlemen. who need it the most. so the patients will be getting the benefit instead of these very wealthy indi

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health and human services secretary alex azar on this move forward. moderna touting its vaccine that's 95% effective and does not need to be kept in a subzero freezer. all that coming up. plus, later on in the program, the head of pizza hut will tell us about business in a covid world today. a check on the restaurant industry. he'll reveal the company's latest menu expansion and the brand new product that has hold out in a matter of hours. but first, let's take a look back at some of the week's big movements in this e -- moments in this week's edition of the talkers. watch. tell us about your experience this morning on the pfizer drug. >> i had two doses in august, one in early august, one in late. minimal side effects, but i'm feeling great, and i'm feeling very confident. maria: how do we control health care costs? that's one of the most important issues, i agree with you. >> it's a critical issue, and neither party has a brilliant answer. it's the hardest issue, ironically given the 12 years of battle over the affordable care act, ironically, that

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[indiscernible] secretary azar: well thank you, mr. president. what an extremely exciting day for american health care. on top of the news that you just made today, pfizer will be filing an application for an emergency use authorization with the f.d.a. for their covid-19 vaccine that appears to be 95% effective. within weeks we can have a decision from f.d.a. and within 24 hours of that, we will have started distributing millions of doses of safe and effective vaccines to begin protecting our most vulnerable across america. you know, the president mentioned his passion for getting drug prices down and i can tell you, i've seen that firsthand. when i became secretary in january, 2018, the very first meeting we had in the oval office was to put together our plan for tackling drug prices. it was the number one priority the president said, for us getting drug prices down. in that meeting we came up with the idea for most favored nation status. and for ensuring that the discount prices that big pharma was giving to middlemen would get passeded on to a

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health and human services secretary alex azar will be here live in the 8:00 a.m.uss the vaccine and its progress. meanwhile, president trump is set to announce two new rules to lower drug prices in the united states later today. the plans have been a signature pledge of the president since 2016. one rule dubbed most favored nation would pressure medicare to lower prices for high cost drugs, the other rule limits rebates paid to middlemen in medicare. meanwhile, joe biden is announcing he made one of his first choices for his cabinet, but he's keeping things secret for now. >> well, look, let me try to take them one at a time. you'll soon hear my choice for treasury. i've made that decision. we've made that decision. and you'll hear that either just before or just after thanksgiving. number one. and you'll find it is someone who i think is -- will be accepted by all elements of the democratic party. progressive to the moderate coalitions. maria: as you heard first on this program, wall street is betting on former federal reserve vice chairman roger ferguson as top

azar to fire him. he could.x azar is an attorney, professional with a long career behind him. would he really and hopefully ahead of him, would he want his epitaph to read alex azar, the idiot and coward that fired dr. fauci, smartest guy in the room. i imagine not. in the middle of a pandemic. and to take it a step further, could president trump get rid of azar, collins, put in stooges to fire fauci? that's possible. if it were any other president, i would say no way that will happen. with president trump, when he gets into one of his childish baby like temper tantrums, he does weird things. i wouldn't put anything past him. brianna? >> let's hope the urge wears off. we'll see. elizabeth cohen, thank you so much. >>> the president defending his supporters that surrounded a biden campaign bus on the interstate, slowing it to 20 miles per hour. staffers on the bus called 911 as they were fearful. now the fbi is investigating. >>> stores across the country are boarding up, bracing for possible unrest after the ele

alex azar laid out this plan through operation warp speed. it means getting syringes and ppe to a distributor to make sure it will get to the pharmacies or public health clinics. that's the plan. will it work. that's why we are interrupting up the hearing for just a minute to bring in health secretary alex azar. we should make a moment to celebrate the innovation of the scientists here in america and the partners these companies have. >> absolutely. president trump deserves the credit for basically conceiving of the possibility, the vision we could get a vaccine within a year. instead we have it within 10 months. these are not just any ordinary vaccines. thanks to operation warp speed and the effort to scale up manufacturing and run 30,000 plus clinical trials, these are over 90% effective vaccines. this is big news. >> dana: it is. you have the 2 companies and maybe more will have effective vaccines. how do you figure out a way to mass produce enough? 10 million doses is not enough to get everybody taken care of? do they pool resources and s

azar.ents have made great efforts to put the well being of their people first. yet some groups protested, refusing to keep their distance, marching against travel restrictions, as measures that governments must impose for the good of their people, taking the position that they restrict freedoms. he talks about finding the common good, how important, dr. az azar, is it to hear this message today? >> i think it's incredibly important, yasmin. i've always said there is this tension between, you know, your civil liberty and your civic duty. and the politicization of this, of masks and, frankly, all of the behaviors that we have been encouraging and endorsing from the beginning, is so, so unfortunate. i wish that people could really just acknowledge and recognize that we're all in this together. and the sooner we all start to behave sort of collectively in this manner that is really meant to protect ourselves and protect all of those around us, the sooner we can get back to our normal. new norma

. >> health and human services secretary alex azar with a distributed timeline for the vaccine sayingle to all-american scientists, and joining us with these developments, dr. nicole saphier. thanks for being here. for folks at home to take a look, pfizer will deliver 20 million doses of the vaccine each month. this is the time i laid out by the h h s secretary, this will go to the most vulnerable citizens. by january healthcare workers and first responders, by march to april, how significant is this news? >> this is great news. operation warm speed is not just research and development. a huge part is manufacturing and distribution. pfizer putting forth safety data which we anticipate will be done in the next few weeks but hhs secretary alex azar very encouraging by saying he anticipates 20 million doses to be available in november and another 20 million each month, differing from what pfizer said which was 15-20 million by the end of december but possible they are working together and by working together they will get more out and alex azar said that, enough for all americans march t

leave it there. >> all right, secretary azar. thank you.e have a difference of opinion, clearly, but we thank you for your time this morning. >> president-elect joe biden says president trump's refusal to concede is a debilitating danger at this time in the pandemic. he spoke after a video conference with republican and democratic governors and vice president-elect kamala harris. he said his lack of access to key information could damage recovery efforts and cost lives. biden also said he discussed a nationwide mask mandate with the governors and insisted he does not intend to shut down the economy. >>> president trump's hopes of overturning vote totals in this election suffered a major setback in the state of georgia after a recount by hand. president trump lost narrowly to president-elect joe biden. despite that, mr. trump is ramping up his unprecedented efforts to get a second term. yesterday his personal lawyer rudy giuliani held an extraordinary news conference making unsubstantiated claims of fraud. weijia jiang is at the white house

they plan to distribute 40 million covid-19 vaccine by >>health and human services secretary alex azarays the department is preparing to quickly deliver vaccines to states as early as december 11th that's 24 hours after the fda is scheduled to discuss pfizer's request for an emergency use authorization. our washington dc correspondent anna worried or nikki has distribution details. >>hope and help are on the way health and human services secretary alex azar says enough covid-19 vaccines for 20 million people will be distributed by the end of this year if all goes well, we could be distributing the vaccine soon after december top aides are said on tuesday that once the fda approves pfizer's emergency use request. the department is ready to ship 6.4 million doses within 24 hours then. we hope administration could begin as soon as the product arrives azar says they've been conducting tests shipments to ensure everything goes smoothly local hospitals, doctors offices. >>local pharmacies such as cvs and walgreens 4 star general gus perna says the vaccines will be distributed in priority wav

that is the headline that comes from alex azar. it goes on to say that schools, workplaces, and airlines are not vectors of the spread. that is the position of the health secretary in the last minute. tom: i think it will be analyzed throughout the day. maybe we can talk to peter hotez about that. but to me, the timing of vaccines is sort of like goldilocks and the three bears were snow white ash not snow white, red riding hood. how many times are we going to hear this? how many times does a guy one? there's going to be a vaccine for old people by january? lisa: red riding hood? what? jonathan: i don't know. lisa: i'm lost. [laughter] i can't keep up. tom: i'm sorry, it was "frozen." jonathan: ok. luckily, an expert, dr. peter will of baylor medicine, be joining us so we can put questions to him on this program on bloomberg. tom: ♪ let it go let it go ♪ karina: with the first word news, i'm karina mitchell. state and federal election officials are rejecting president trump's claims of widespread voter fraud. they say that last week

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but alex azar today made it clear, he has no intention of cooperating until the white house acknowledges joe biden as the president-elect. and this is a fully grown man, the man in the cabinet with oversight over our health, scared to death of crossing his boss, in a nation with a quarter million dead. >> so we have made it very clear that when gsa makes a determination, we will ensure complete cooperative, professional transitions and planning. we're about getting vaccines and therapeutics invented, and get the clinical trial data, and saving lives here. >> new data from pfizer shows its vaccine 95% effective. they will soon ask for emergency distribution. and trump remains laser focused not on the pandemic, but on his effort to somehow overturn the results of the election. today, his campaign decided to spend $3 million for a partial recount in wisconsin. a state trump's projected to lose by over 20,000 votes. his campaign wants recounts in democratic strongholds of michigan county and dane county. biden beat trump in milwaukee county by 40 percentage points. he lost dane county by ove

it is something secretary azar has been emphasizing for a long time, too. >> also think about it, itkind of monday morning quarterbacking because no one knew in the beginning if you sent kids back to school if they were going to wear masks, socially distant, if it was going to spread. i understand that. this time around there seems to be some data saying that, or can follow the guidelines and can actually go back to school. they should be in school. so secretary reich you tweeted about this earlier saying europeans are responding to the latest outbreak by closing restaurants, bars, and other businesses but keeping schools open. the u.s. is mostly doing opposite. americans are arguing about how many people can work out at the gym while kids are stuck at home. has the u.s. approach been wrong headed shall i say all along? >> we haven't done a very good job. put it that way. if you compare the united states in the spring when it was the first time that covid was surging and now when the resurgence is larger in many respects the united states has come in behind almost everybody else in t

secretary azar, thank you for joining us.s is a dire forecast from the cd, the virus seems to be running rampant right now. tell our viewers what the trump administration is doing right now to get the numbers down. >> wolf, so what's really important is we want to change that trajectory. we change that through our individual behaviors by washing our hands, watching our distance, wearing face coverings. and it's important as it's gotten colder outside we need to stay out of settings especially like restaurants and bars, places you might take your mask off and let your guard down and household gatherings with neighbors and family members. we're seeing so much transmission there because you don't wear your face coverings and let your guard downs. western europe is seeing exactly the same phenomenon, people are tired, they're sick of the community mitigation, the masks are wearing on them, so to speak. europe right now is experiencing 45% higher per capita cases per day than even the united states is. but we want to turn this aro

we joined by alex azar and administrator seema.you all for being here appreciate it. the unprecedented reforms we're completing today are the direct result of the historic drug pricing executive orders i signed in july, statutorily we had to go through a very long process and we got it done i was very proud to have gotten it done. we were pushing it very hard, as we did with vaccines and other things the first action will save american seniors billions by preventing middlemen, famous middlemen they call them, from ripping off medicare patients with high prescription prices. currently drug companies provide large discounts on the price of prescription medicines, including nearly $40 billion in rebates to medicare part d plans last year alone, yet often they stop the discounts from going to the patients, which is what we're interested in, not the middle men, who need it the most so the patients are going to be now getting benefit in stead of these very wealthy individuals. patients pay very high prices for many years, though we broug

alex azar says this morning's news is a game changer. >> here we are ten months from the date when this virus hit our shore and we have a second 90% plus effective vaccine for the american people. this is really a historic day. >> this vaccine news could not come at a more crucial time in this country. nearly 70,000 people were hospitalized with the virus yesterday alone, more than ever before in this pandemic. 15 states are reporting record hospitalizations, state and local leaders beginning to roll out measures to try to slow down the virus' spread, including some red state governors. let's get to correspondent elizabeth cohen with more news on the vaccine. great news in the span of a few days. tell us in particular how the moderna one works. >> mo der -- ma der nahas the efficacy and they don't seem to have side effects. and thirdly, for moderna, they don't need any special freezes you can use the freezes that are already in pharmacies and doctors' offices. let's talk about the clinical trials. we heard about challenge trials happening in the uk. that's not what this is. they didn't

alex azar noted there is no contact between his team and biden's. >> why isn't it appropriate now?> george, gsa has to make a determination that a transition is in effect. that determination has not been made. my focus here is on vaccines. >> reporter: azar said he is waiting on general services administration to sign off and dr. anthony fauci said he is concerned one hasn't started yet. >> it's like passing a baton in a race and you don't want to stop and give it to somebody. you essentially want to keep going and what transition is and certainly make things more smoothly if we could do that. >> reporter: as trump holds up the transition, fauci said he has not attended a coronavirus meeting in months. >> the last time physically the president was at a kaylee hartung kaylee hartung task meeting was several months ago. >> reporter: we are now learning the president is expected to issue a formal troop draw-down for iraq' afghanistan and something the president has promised for several years now. but in the last two months of his time in the white house, we are told that the pentagon

health and human services secretary alex azar.g us. >> thank you, trace. >> gillian: the legal battle over tough covid state-led restrictions is now pitting religious freedom against public health. the supreme court is also now weighing in. also president trump is going after the governor of georgia. we'll talk about the potential fallout for those two key senate runoffs ahead. >> president trump: they had judges making deals and they had electoral officials making deals like this character in georgia who is a disaster and the governor has done nothing. absolutely nothing. i'm ashamed that i endorsed him. another bundle in the books. got to hand it to you, jamie. your knowledge of victorian architecture really paid off this time. nah, just got lucky. so did the thompsons. that faulty wiring could've cost them a lot more than the mudroom. thankfully they bundled their motorcycle with their home and auto. they're protected 24/7. mm. what do you say? one more game of backgammon? [ chuckles ] not on your life. [ laughs ] ♪ when the li

developing story that we're following for you this morning health and human services secretary alex azar says the department is preparing to quickly deliver vaccines to states as early as december 11th that's 24 hours after the fda is scheduled to discuss pfizer's request for an emergency use authorization. our washington correspondent and worth were nikki has details. >>hope and help are on the way health and human services secretary alex azar says enough covid-19 vaccines for 20 million people will be distributed by the end of this year if all goes well, we could be distributing the vaccine soon after december top aides are said on tuesday that once the fda approves pfizer's emergency use request. the department is ready to ship 6.4 million doses within 24 hours then. we hope administration could begin as soon as the product easer says they've been conducting tests shipments to ensure everything goes smoothly local hospitals, doctors offices, local pharmacies such as cvs and walgreens 4 star general gus perna says the vaccines will be distributed in priority waves the initial push will

so, elizabeth, secretary azar says the first doses could be rolled out by christmas. obviously, health care workers are priority number one, but when can, you know, more regular folks like us get the vaccine? >> okay. so, brooke, if by us you mean we're under 65, we're not health care workers, we don't have any big underlying medical issues, we're not essential workers, we're not police officers or firefighters. likely, we won't be able to get a vaccine until the end of april at the earliest. first, they have to give it to all those groups that i just mentioned. if you're not in one of those high-risk groups, again, probably starting to be able to get vaccinated at the end of april, but it might not be until may, june, july. >> and how will it be distributed? >> so, this vaccine is being distributed to sites in every state, and so the way that it's going to work with this first batch from pfizer and moderna is it goes out to specific points then can be given to people. the one from pfizer needs to be kept at a super, super low temperature, so that one will likely be g

they've done it i think precisely because of what secretary azar was emphasizing, that, you know, the mental health problems for kids that are stuck at home and all the scariness of the disease and everything is something that i think teachers, professional teachers could deal a lot better with than parents who are trapped in the little house with their kids for month after month. so i do absolutely think that schools should be open. but i think secretary azar, it's something he's been emphasizing for a long time, too. >> yeah, also, i mean, think about it, though. we are monday morning quarterbacking here. no one knew in the beginning if you sent kids back to school if they were going to wear masks, if they were go to socially distance, it would spread. there seems to be some data, they're saying, that kids do -- or can follow the guidelines and they can actually go back to school, which they should be in school. so, secretary reisch, you tweeted about this earlier. you said europeans are responding to latest covid-19 outbreak by closing restaurants, bars and other businesses, but ke

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natalie azar. dr. azar, thank you for joining us on this.hings like that since you always make it so clear for many of our viewers. it's pretty troubling, right, hearing the story we just heard from valerie, that a lot of folks who are working at these nursing home clinics with people who are the most vulnerable, that we saw the most deaths for, especially in the east coast area in early spring when we had the early surges, don't have ppe to protect themselves. that's startling to see, especially so late in the pandemic. then we hear numbers from approximately 100,000 deaths per day. we increase by a million cases every week, and it seems like that's not slowing down. >> reporte >> no, definitely not, yasmin, and i think right now we're at about 4 million cases out of the total 13 million cases that happened in the month of no novemb november alone. granted, we were not doing near the amount of testing we're doing now, but these numbers are concerning and always important to add that they do correlate with hospitalizations and deaths. your p

alex azar will join us live in the next hour to weigh in.h leaders are apparently discouraging fellow democrats from taking a job in president-elect biden's cabinet. the "new york post" reports party leaders like nancy pelosi want them to stay put so they can maintain their majority in the house. one source says majority leader stoisteny hoyer to not approach their members. pelosi's team denies the claims. spacex's resilience capsule launches nasa astronauts to the international space station on historic mission. >> 3, 2, 1, 0. ignition, blast off. >> the capsule taking off last night on falcon's nine rockets. four astronauts including three americans will arrive at the iss tonight for a six month mission. vice president mike pence and the second lady watched the rocket take off. back to you. steve: it was pretty. ainsley: those stories are so fascinating. thanks so much, jillian. 5 million votes are being recounted right now in the state of georgia as the state hopes continue to still confidence in their election. doug collins is leading th

secretary alex azar. great to talk to you tonight. thank you so much.appy thanksgiving by the way. >> same to you, thank you, john. >> john: president-elect joe biden meets with the top democrats in congress and gets a warning from bernie sanders and later some of the week's biggest headlines boil down to what some we in the business call the best soundbites. you don't want to miss that. >> cuomo, what the h are you doing? please don't do this to us. >> did you all watch my cousin vinnie? i need to preach and practice. >> i don't call an accident. [inaudible] it's time for the ultimate sleep number event on the sleep number 360 smart bed. can it help with snoring? i've never heard snoring. exactly. no problem, and done. don't miss our weekend special. save 50% on the sleep number 360® limited edition smart bed. plus, free premium delivery when you add a base. ends monday. >> john: president-elect joe biden on his 78th birthday held his first meeting since the election with the top democrats in the house and senate. that meeting comes as one of the leade

we are pleased to be joined on this occasion by secretary of health and human services, alex azar and of center for medicare and medicaid services. thank you both. thank you both. thank you all for being here. appreciate it. the unprecedented reforms we're completing today are the direct result of the historic drug pricing executive orders i signed in july, statutorily we had to go through a very long process and we got it done. i was very proud to have gotten this done. we were pushing it very hard. as we did with the vaccines and other things. the first action will save american seniors millions of dollars by preventing middlemen, famous middlemen they call them, from ripping off medicare patients with high prescription prices. currently drug companies provide large discounts on the price of prescription medicines, including nearly $40 billion in rebates to medicare part d plans last year alone. yet often middlemen stop those discounts from going to the patients which is what we're interested in, not the middlemen, who need it the most, so the patients are going to be now getting th

natalie azar. thank you for joining us on this. always appreciate that. like the dog howling in the background of any live shot. makes it better especially when you're talking about something like the covid crisis we're dealing with in this country. i want to take a deep dive into what is ahead of the next couple days while i have you and what americans are facing with regards to the thanksgiving holiday. talk me through the big risks that so many americans are taking right now in choosing to travel going to see their families, getting on airplanes and showing up, moving across state lines when you have different levels of cases throughout the country. >> yeah. yasmin, i think the backdrop of this is really this concept of your own risk tolerance. lindsey was interview these folks, we didn't hear the sound. but before commercial we did. i want to live my life, i'm not that concerned about my life. it's not just about you the individual traveling. you have to think about the chain of transmission. you may not be worried about your own health but you may un

so, hhs secretary alex azar went even further than dr.he talked about a vaccine timeline while speaking on the "today" show earlier. watch this, sir. >> we have anticipated that we will have enough vaccine by the end of december to have vaccinated our most vulnerable citizens in nursing homes and otherwise and by the end of january enough for all health care workers and first responders and enough for all americans by the end of march to early april to have general vaccination programs. >> dr. ramirez, how optimistic are you? >> well, i think there's certainly cause for optimism, ayman. i think your piece before this covered it really well. this is really a revolution, you know, the way we've approached vaccines compared to prior efforts. but i think, you know, secretary azhar ma azar makes a good point. there are a few steps to take care of. we have to look at actual production capacity, that's something pfizer is not publicly disclosing. secretary azar may know more about that than the general public. we have to produce all the doses an

let me start off with what we heard from secretary azar. do you agree the planning has been 100% transparent, as he puts it? >> well, i think our ability to run through newspaper reporting and informal back and forth with people at the state and local level, information does go back and forth there. that is where the effort is being implemented. that conversation is critical. what we haven't had is the kind of higher level orchestration aspect of where they think they are in their current plans for rolling out a vaccine and where their problem areas are for access and distribution. conversations will begin. they will happen quickly. i'm not raising alarms yet, but the need for that dialogue to begin is urgent. >> can you talk more about the specific things, the specific things that you would be done and the team the advisory board would be doing if you had the transition process moving forward. >> well, i think it mostly has to do with understanding exactly where the trump administration feels the response is at this time. they have spent a

health and human services secretary alex azar standing by. but first, alex perez in chicago with the very latest. >> reporter: good morning. that good news on the vaccine front comes as cities and states across the country are reinstating restrictions hoping to get a handle on the growing number of cases. this morning, breaking news on the coronavirus vaccine. a sign of hope. moderna announcing its vaccine could be up to 94.5% effective. the company planning to ask for fda authorization in the coming weeks. >> vaccines really are on the horizon. in fact, we now have real data in large phase 3 trials showing that they are safe and effective at preventing covid-19. >> reporter: the announcement this morning coming after cases across the u.s. topped 11 million. that's 1 million additional cases in just a week. north dakota's governor implementing a mask mandate and michigan's governor suspending indoor dining and ending in-person learning at high schools and colleges. >> we are in the worst moment of this pandemic to date. the situation has neve

griff: azar says some could receive the vaccine by the second week of december. >> 2020 election donald giving the green light for a president-elect joe biden's transition process to begin as his legal team faust to carry on with election lawsuits. >> lauren blanchard in washington as the key announcement of the administration, what is going on? >> good morning, the formal transition process from a trump pencil biden harris administration has begun in washington even as donald trump hasn't conceded the race just yet. he tweeted our case strongly continues, we will keep up the good fight and i believe we will prevail nevertheless in the best interest of our country i'm recommending the gsa administrator and the team do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols and told my team to do the same. the gsa announcement came just after michigan voted to certify the election results for joe biden as did philadelphia but the trump team legal fight continues. a third circuit court has agreed to review a lower court decision to throw out a lawsuit asking to delay pennsylvania's certifi