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ron allen, steve powerson in los angeles, and mike memoli covering the biden transition from delaware as the president-elect prepares to take over the federal response to the virus in only 19 days. to all of you, happy new year as we kick off this year and kick off our coverage starting with ron. first, we surpassed 20 million confirmed cases here. give us a pulse of where we stand as a country right now as people wake up optimistic about what this new year will bring. >> 20 million cases. numbers that are still rising. and there are these bottle necks, the problems getting the vaccine out. the concern, of course, is that after the holidays end, now, certainly, as we move into the new year, that because so many people have defied the pleas by public health officials not to gather with family and travel, the numbers are going to continue rising in the short-term, and we could have difficult months ahead before we get to the point where millions of americans can get that vaccine. now, the campaign to vaccinate so many americans is facing a lot of trouble. so far there have been about 3

. >> joining me now from new york, nbc news correspondent ron allen, from los angeles steve pattersonr, an msnbc contributor and public health analyst. happy new year to all of you, good morning. ron, let's start with you and some of these headlines we're following this morning as the u.s. hits that 20 million mark in infections. >> reporter: well, yeah, that's quite a daunting figure and the death toll over 345,000 or so is also daunting. the other concern of course is that the vaccine rollout has been plagued by so many bottlenecks. a lot of vaccines getting out there but not getting distributed. the states and local authorities are having all kinds of problems. they're saying they need more resources from washington to get the job done. it's unclear whether that's going to happen. the new administration is saying they're going to do a better job of it. here's president-elect joe biden talking about that last night. >> i'm more optimistic about america's chances than i've ever been, and i've been around this for a while. we have the most productive workers in the world, we've now fo

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so you've got steve bannon who was an architect of the 2016 campaign facing fraud charges. he's a potential pardon. allen weisselberg. the trump organization faces investigations. will he issue a preemptive pardon for alan weisselberg? we just don't know, but we understand that something in the range of 100 pardons are coming. they'll come some time today, we think. not sure what time but he could issue pardons any time up until noon tomorrow when joe biden becomes president, guys. >> watching for those, john harwood. thank you very much. >>> let's go to wilmington, delaware, where president-elect biden will soon leave for washington. mj lee is there. good morning. before he goes, there is some sort of farewell event, is that right? what's being planned? >> that's right, poppy. this is joe biden's final day in wilmington, delaware, as president-elect. this is the city where he spent the last few months preparing for the transition, where he really finished out his 2020 campaign during the pandemic, so there will be a farewell event where we expect him to speak briefly and then he heads down to washington

allen ron, thank you >>> and supermarkets have remained a lifeline throughout this pandemic. but tonight, new numbers show just how widespread the virus has become among those who work there steve patterson on the risks for them, and for their customers. >> reporter: every day, they brave big crowds and long lines. this cell phone video illustrates the risk grocery store workers face just by being at work. >> i do not care about people's lives, you are inconsiderate. >> reporter: the union for retail food workers says more needs to be done to protect workers. >> you hear the cdc. they basically say the following to you stay away from enclosed spaces with large gatherings of people that's exactly what all these retail-food workers are going through, every single day. >> reporter: across the country, more than 20,000 grocery store workers have been infected or exposed to covid-19, including 145 workers sick at a costco in washington state. and in hard-hit la county, more than 850 tested positive in the last two months alone, with outbreaks at 137 stores, according to numbers obtained by nbc 4 los angeles. >> it's so busy and there's so many people, of course, we were bound to get

steve: a very busy morning. jacqui heinrich up on capitol hill. thank you very much. let's bring in fox news contributor lisa booth. let's also bring be in texas g.o.p. chairman, former florida congressman lieutenant colonel allenyou. so joe biden, as we have heard, is going to have something like 17 executive actions and orders on day one and to his base it's going to look like look at this guy. this something all presidents do the first day. is he just doing a lot of them. >> yeah, if you look at his priorities they don't make our lives better. they make our lives worse. and if you look at something like even the paris climate accord, president trump pulled out of it because he said you know what? i represent pittsburgh, i don't represent paris. enough to we have got a guy in the office who cares more about paris, even if you look at some of the climate proposals that he supports, they take us away from things like national guard which is the entire reason why we have been able to reduce climate emissions and become more energy efficient. what it does is ultimately sends jobs overseas while kowtowing to countries like china, even a priority of his he says that he wants to increase the minimum wage to $15. tha