>>as kareen wynter reports now even with the lingering legal battles biden continues to build his white house staff. >>with additional cabinet nominations expected today president elect joe biden already delivering on a promise to build a diverse administration. he just me janet yellen as treasury secretary a move that still requires senate confirmation but would make allen the first female in this position she tweeted this morning recovery hinges on restoring the

sres mike i'm going to get you to respond to kareen she time and kareen ok it's almost as if kareen channeled let him in east was about to say to people who want to pull the flat life not a movement he she is this is what she told us and then resume you actually don't call myself an ally is that something that you are right apps instead i say that i'm practicing anti-racism and so that's an internal process where i am trying to be humble about is the 1st and most crucial thing to be humble and to be willing to learn from people of color who are the experts i constantly trying to do the best myself with my white fragility of right and sadness so that's the internal piece and then the 2nd piece of practicing anti-racism is of course to dismantle white supremacy which exists in every institution in the united states up to and including the federal government yes and i learnt the a practice that she uses because in your therapy in your work you then each people from different communities how to practice could you give as. good friends you want to support that movement any single practice that the

>>again now as kareen wynter reporting for us tonight, vice president pence is set to get the vaccine. it. 05:00am tomorrow morning. our time and we'll carry it live right here on the kron 00:00am morning news. >>still ahead state officials have activated a mass fatality program as record breaking ♪ no, no no. let's show 'em how it's done, becky g. ♪ it's the brand new chicken dance song uh ♪ ♪ get down heat it up like a sauna ♪ ♪ spin around one time if you wanna ♪ ♪ wings up stretch em out put it on 'em ♪ ♪ get up now ♪ get down uh ♪ cluck cluck when you hear the sound uh ♪ new chicken dance new chicken sandwich my juicy, thickest fillet yet. my cluck sandwich combos. only at jack in the box. >>well tonight fda approval of a second coronavirus vaccine can help the u.s. turn the corner in the fight against the pandemic and for many states it can't come soon enough in california health officials say they are simply running out of beds, the state reported 379 coronavirus deaths today that's the most ever in a single day. more than a 1000 californians have died from the virus in the las

and that was kareen wynter reporting for us as for the 100 biter investigation the u.s. attorney for delaware's office. >>has declined to comment on the case. i take a live look outside right now from our sutro camera looking downtown san francisco, gorgeous shot there as always our chief meteorologist lawrence karnow here is with us to tell us about a change in the weather pattern. yeah, big changes coming guys who had almost spring-like weather. the last couple days some record breaking high temperatures today will start to cool down a little bit. >>more cooling on the way still got a couple high clouds up above it will be the winds that are the big story tomorrow. those winds could whip as we head toward tomorrow afternoon, cold front moves by high pressure starts to build in behind it and there you go talk some 20 maybe some 30 mile an hour gusts around parts of the bay area tomorrow so be aware of that temperatures going to feel a little bit cooler too although that wind blowing it will feel exceptionally cool especially near the coast 57 degrees golden gate park, y

>>kareen wynter has details on both. >>or does like you're in need who need relief now. >>so i've been urging our congressional republicans to work on a bipartisan emergency pack is now time is running out with cases rising an american suffering that's the message president like joe biden delivered to small business owners yesterday in this virtual meeting many crippled by the economy and in desperate need of assistance biden urged congressional leaders to quickly pass a stimulus bill a bipartisan emergency package we want to get a bill done at the same time we've been trying to talk with the speaker. i think she's becoming more open. then she has in the past president trump during a ceremony at the white house this morning was asked why he hasn't conceded especially following attorney general william barr's recent statements to the associated press that the justice department has not uncovered any evidence of widespread fraud in this election isn't done anything so he has a look. >>when he looks he'll see the kind of evidence right now you're seeing in the george it. >>

today this has battleground states complete recounts requested by president trump's legal team as kareenynt with the lingering legal battles biden continues to build out his white house staff. with additional cabinet nominations expected today president elect joe biden already delivering on a promise to build a diverse administration. >>he just me janet yellen as treasury secretary a move that still requires senate confirmation but would make allen the first female in this position she tweeted this morning recovery hinges on restoring the american dream with the country facing great challenges right now more historic presidential picks over the weekend with biden selecting a communication staff comprised of all women jen psaki as white house press secretary kate bedingfield tapped as white house communications director and 4 of the 7 leading roles going to minorities. a closer look at biden's economic team shows a controversial choice for director of the office of management and budget neera tanden a selection that sparked criticism from progressives and conservatives still unclear is bi

>>that was kareen wynter reporting vice president elect kamala harris is set to get her vaccine next week president trump tweeted about the rollout of the moderna vaccine calling it a very smooth. the distribution effort. it is unclear if he plans on getting vaccinated. >>we're tired or exhausted. >>still to come as covid cases soar across the state nurses are seeing much needed relief. what is being done and why some say that's still not enough. >>and the effort to recall governor gavin newsome continues the number of signatures volunteers collected it try and force a recall election. ♪ no, no no. let's show 'em how it's done, becky g. ♪ it's the brand new chicken dance song uh ♪ ♪ get down heat it up like a sauna ♪ ♪ spin around one time if you wanna ♪ ♪ wings up stretch em out put it on 'em ♪ ♪ get up now ♪ get down uh ♪ cluck cluck when you hear the sound uh ♪ new chicken dance new chicken sandwich my juicy, thickest fillet yet. my cluck sandwich combos. only at jack in the box. >>less than 2 years into office governor newsome is being forced to defend his job a petition to oust

kareen wynter reports. >>with additional cabinet nominations expected president elect joe biden already delivering on a promise to build a diverse administration. he just me janet yellen asked treasury secretary a move that still requires senate confirmation but would make allen the first female in this position she tweeted recovery hinges on restoring the american dream with the country facing great challenges right now more historic presidential picks over the weekend with biden selecting a communication staff comprised of all women jen psaki as white house press secretary kate bedingfield tapped as white house communications director and 4 of the 7 leading roles going to minorities. a closer look at biden's economic team shows a controversial choice for director of the office of management and budget neera tanden a selection that sparked criticism from progressives and conservatives still unclear is biden's choice for who will head the cia. the department of defense and attorney general with some reports

>>with less than a month left in office president trump is issuing more and more pardons kareen wynter has the latest. >>we need to sign this bill now frustrations running high and time running out with the fate of the pandemic relief bill hanging in the balance after president trump suggested he may not sign this legislation. the president contends there's not enough funding for families and small businesses affected by the pandemic demanding an increase in those direct payments for american families from 600 to $2000. democrats who agree these payouts should be higher introduced a bill today on the house floor to boost to those amounts to $2000 per person. but some gop leaders objected countering instead with a motion to and foreign aid spending in the bill on we will i will be talking to the speaker and to the members of the democratic caucus. >>term and exactly how we want to move forward. but we're not to let the government shutdown nor are we going to let the american people down democrats say in the meantime with so much uncertainty looming this christmas eve. president trump sh

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>>that was kareen wynter reporting for us tonight the house will return to washington on monday to vote on next options. >>the federal government says that more than a million americans have been vaccinated against covid-19 so far and that's sort of the initial goal of vaccinating 20 million people by the end of this year. federal officials say that the lag is likely caused by a variety of factors, including the logistical challenge of starting a new program and hospitals just being too overwhelmed with covid patients more than 9 million doses have been shipped to hospitals across our country and are ready to be administered. >>california health officials are still trying to determine who will get the next round of vaccines after frontline medical workers. they say it will include people like lee who work in education and childcare emergency services and agriculture as well as folks 75 and older. after that people who work in critical manufacturing industrial commercial facilities and transportation would be in line. also in that group people between the ages of 6574 in people who are h

>>i was kareen wynter reporting for us this evening. there are already indications of challenges for some of biden's nominees spokesperson for republican senator john cornyn said neera tanden who we saw in the piece there stands 0 chance of being confirmed because of disparaging comments she's reportedly made in the past about republican senators. the news continues with a covid-19 vaccine. still ahead how it will get distributed here in the bay area. >>plus millions of americans of course travel for the thanksgiving holiday despite health warnings not to do so. >>one bay area county plans to enforce the quarantine policy when people get back home. >>an investigation is underway in the east bay after students from 3 different high schools attended several holiday parties possibly spreading the >>this is you know kind of a sobering reminder to our community that that we need to be responsible and take this seriously. >>kids like to party right teenagers said over the thanksgiving break many may have exposed students to the virus in pleas

>>as we're facing surge of coronavirus cases kareen wynter has the latest from washington.ricans like you're in need who need relief now. >>so i've been urging our congressional republicans to work on a bipartisan emergency package is now time is running out with cases rising an american suffering that's the message president like joe biden delivered to small business owners in this virtual meeting many crippled by the economy and in desperate need of assistance. biden urged congressional leaders to quickly pass a stimulus bill a bipartisan emergency package we want to get a bill done at the same time we've been trying to talk with the speaker. i think she's becoming more open. then she has in the past president trump during a ceremony at the white house was asked why he hasn't conceded especially following attorney general william barr's recent statements to the associated press that the justice department has not uncovered any evidence of widespread fraud in this election. he hasn't done anything so he has a look when he looks he'll see the kind of evidence that right now

>>kareen wynter reports. >>the bill they are now planning to send back to my desk is much different than anticipated following months of political wrangling by congressional leaders over the next covid really felt lawmakers finally approved a 900 billion dollar package that in part offers financial relief to many americans and small businesses but on tuesday president trump who now has to sign off on the spill took aim at washington leaders by blasting the steel i'm asking congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low. >>$600 to $2000 or $4,000 for a couple. i'm also asking congress to immediately get rid of the wasteful and unnecessary items from this legislation and just send me a suitable bill the president suggested otherwise he may veto the economic relief bill among his other complaints in this video he tweeted out last night was that the bill provides too much funding to foreign countries and not enough americans democrats had pushed for a larger payout to struggling individuals and bus

>>kareen wynter has the story. >>in an event televised live from washington. president mike pence along with his wife, karen and surgeon general jerome adams received pfizer's coronavirus vaccine today, the vice president thanking the medical staff and telling the press i didn't feel a thing. well done and we appreciate your service to the country president trump has not yet received his vaccine and hasn't held any public events to address the huge roll out, but he did tweet this morning writing. thank you to the great men and women a fedex and u p s for driving through the storms this week to deliver millions of doses of the vaccine across the country. 2 great american companies. congressional leaders along with supreme court justices are also expected to soon receive vaccines on thursday the fda advisory panel recommended approval of the moderna vaccine. so that fda approval for emergency authorization for use could soon be announced which would produce the country's second covid vaccine. the vice president adding upon arrival will be in a position to ship 5

>>kareen wynter has the story. >>in an event televised live from washington. president mike pence along with his wife, karen and surgeon general jerome adams received pfizer's coronavirus vaccine today, the vice president thanking the medical staff and telling the press i didn't feel a thing. well done and we appreciate your service to the country president trump has not yet received his vaccine and hasn't held any public events to address the huge roll out, but he did tweet this morning writing. thank you to the great men and women a fedex and u p s for driving through the storms this week to deliver millions of doses of the vaccine across the country. 2 great american companies. congressional leaders along with supreme court justices are also expected to soon

build support with the public and immunity by getting the coronavirus vaccine and the coming days kareen wynter has the story. >>this week america witnessed the beginning of the end of the coronavirus pandemic. >>vaccine is being administered in every state in the union. >>vice president mike pence campaigning at a rally georgia for the 2 republican us senate candidates facing a runoff on january 5th. >>vice president pence will receive pfizer's covid vaccine on friday. president elect joe biden is expected to get his vaccine next week pfizer's a vaccine was given emergency use authorization from the fda last week doctor anthony fauci the nation's leading infectious disease experts suggested this week that the country's top leaders, including the president should be vaccinated as quickly as possible. president trump tweeted over the weekend that all white house staff should get doses later in the program, the presidentelect see on wednesday but i want to get out of the line, but i want to make sure that we demonstrate to the american people. >>it is safe to a we working on that plan righ

first criticism think kareen is our respect c. if my production has already started here let's take a sputnik the is a too short adenovirus based effects of exene the difference between sputnik v. and some other international code 19 vaccines is this vaccine is a human based one not an animal so what's a vaccine it's an engineered virus lacking the gene for representation therefore it's unable to in fact what it does is serve as a vehicle for coronavirus proteins over 3 weeks a patient receives 2 different jobs to form antibodies and disease resistance the vaccine consists of 2 different shots it's a quite complex task in terms of production because you have to manufacture 2 vaccines as opposed to one in the remind me of a scene is being told here that it's being done this particular line for jay says $6000.00 times but our living says he's 1000 doses per hour as each bottle containing 5 days is called by few minutes to be boxing day said my before taking a coronavirus vaccination everyone is examined to make sure they're healthy

family ties a federal investigation is now underway into the finances of biden's son hunter but as kareen wynter reports the president elect is pushing forward on building his cabinet. >>at a time when president elect joe biden's efforts have been centered around assembling his new administration the focus has now shifted to controversial allegations he repeatedly faced and refuted on the campaign trail his son hunter biden's financial affairs and whether he engaged in any corrupt business deals. there's no truth. >>it is charges in the taxi is me my son 0 hunter biden is now the subject of a justice department investigation looking into some of his chinese business dealings and tax affairs biden on wednesday said he's taking this matter very seriously and is confident the quote a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate. >>that he handled his affairs legally and appropriately the presidentelect confirmed more key nominations as it continues to build his cabinet susan rice has been tapped as the director of his domestic policy council rice served as a national s

obviously kareen jean-pierre she's there in communications so with the most sanders a lot of people are upset that they are not you know leaving communications that neither of them is actually the white house press secretary but as you and i both know white house press secretaries rarely last all 4 years so whoever you have now more than likely won't be there next year and it goes down the wrong and they elevate more people i think that there's much to be said about waiting a little bit and seeing how this goes the other thing that i think is interesting is that. you have legacy organizations that are all that always push democratic elected officials a lot more than they ever will republicans and i think that if you were the average black voter the people who actually turned out for him their issue isn't as much representation as it is are you going to do the things that you promised the black community whether that comes from somebody who's a black face in that office or not they want to make sure that you know hood is treated as it should be so that housing availability is where it ne

her name was kareen west, but she changed her name because she was painting with the boys in the forties to participate and felt she would have a better chance if she had a masculine name. her works are amazing. people don't really know much about her, but she was real innovator. her work is amazing. that's my lincoln. now, i wonder how many people here know janet sable. probably nobody, right? he is from ukraine. she came here to the states in the forties. she was a painter, she was a housewife, she was a mom, she had five children, i think five boys, and she started painting with the kids. actually, her son had paint -- a paint set and she started painting with his paint set. what she does is she, there is janet, she starts flattering paint. if you look at the date on that painting, the date on that painting is 1945. well, peggy guggenheim discovers her. actually, her son gets peggy guggenheim to her studio at her house. she paints in her living room. she then offers janet a show, and janet english isn't that good, but peggy guggenheim, who has a gallery, is mesmerized by her work. so

that means we are now kareening toward an almost unthinkable number this christmas week. a crisis now on the verge of a horrific new milestone. by the end of the week, it is likely that 330,000 americans, roughly 1 in 1,000 americans will have died from covid-19. for the 5th time in the u.s., deaths climbed higher than 3,000 on tuesday. it was the second deadliest day of the pandemic. california is on track to be the first state in the nation to hit 2 million cases. >> it's so bad here that if our state was its own country, we would be ahead of the uk, india and germany in terms of the number of new infections. so, this situation is dire. >> reporter: the little relief that could be on the way to americans is now in jeopardy with president trump casting doubt on the future of a $900 billion stimulus bill in a surprise stimulus bill. >> i'm asking congress to amend this bill. >> reporter: the government strikes another deal to purchase 100 million more doses of the pfizer vaccine. nine days after the first shots in arms, just over 1 million doses of the pfizer doses have b

>>and that was kareen wynter reporting for us tonight, the vice president is scheduled to get his shot and 05:00am our time we're going bring it to you live. on our morning show. >>mayor eric garcetti says he's quarantining after his 9 year-old daughter tested positive for covid-19. the mayor says his daughter got tested after showing symptoms on monday. he says their symptoms are mild both the mayor and his wife tested negative for the virus are city announcing that he will be not be joining rather the biden administration. all right we'll be taking a look now at our 4 zone forecast little bit. >>cooler out there tonight and drier kron four's chief meteorologist lawrence karnow joins us now with a look ahead, yeah that was a fun storm last night coming through the middle of the night and then showers kind of tapering off early this morning to night. well we're seeing the aftermath now we've got that nice cold air in place, it's very dry outside the temperatures. it's going to get very cold tonight so bundle up get extra lot of the fire were for a chilly one tonight down to freezing in

a federal investigation is now underway into the finances of biden's son hunter but as kareen wynter reports the president elect is just pushing forward on building his cap it. >>at a time when president elect joe biden's efforts have been centered around assembling his new administration the focus has now shifted to controversial allegations he repeatedly faced and refuted on the campaign trail his son hunter biden's financial affairs and whether he engaged in any corrupt business deals. there's no truth. >>it is charges in the taxi is me my son 0 hunter biden is now the subject of a justice department investigation looking into some of his chinese business dealings and tax affairs biden on wednesday said he's taking this matter very seriously and is confident the quote a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate. >>that he handled his affairs legally and appropriately. the presidentelect confirmed more key nominations as he continues to build his cabinet susan rice has been tapped as the director of his domestic policy council rice served as a national sec