. >> y gavin newsom nombró a alex, como el secretario del estado, el puesto vacante de kamala harris,n inglés) . >> hijo de inmigrantes alex padilla a sus 47 años, se convierte en el primer senador latino de california, lo que le da otro nivel de representante a hispanos, sus padres emigraron de méxico, criando su familia en pacoima, su padre era cocinero de comida rápida, su madre limpiaba casas, asistió a escuelas públicas, se graduó del instituto de tecnología en massachusetts, después en una de las universidades más prestigiosas del país, fue activista en la juventud, lychó cotra el crimen después fue elegido miembro del concejo municipal de los Ángeles, padilla el 2006 fue elegido en el senado de california, expandió la educación, demandando control de armas, como secretario de estado, defendió intensamente el programa de daca, y el de3recho al voto, ocupará el escaño hasta el 2022, cuando tiene que repostularse . >> y sobre la noticia que captó la atención de muchos, tenemos diversas reacciones a continuación . >> Él será una grna parte del futuro del país, representándonos en c

paola: acerca de la nominaciÓn de alex padilla como nuevo senador de california. duro para la comunidad afroamericana perdera la Única mujer representante de esa minorÍa los estados unidos. el gobernador gavin newsom nombro esta tarde al reemplazo de alex padilla como secretario de estado en california. es la asambleÍsta demÓcrata por san diego se convertirÁ en la primera afro descendiente en o puesto. san francisco registra 20,976 contagios por coronavirus. durante la pandemia han muerto 176 personas contagiadas. en el sistema de salud de san francisco hay 127 pacientes hospitalizados con sÍntomas de coronavirus. contarÁ con pruebas adicionales de coronavirus en la misiÓn. informÓ la alcaldesa london breed. marÍa antonieta mejía tiene los detalles. marÍa: las por las adicionales de coronavirus se estarÁn ofreciendo en un sitio muy accesible en el ilÍcito latino de san francisco. la intersecciÓn de misión y la calle 24. esta temporada de fiestas puede serun 90 peligroso para la mayor propagaciÓn del coronavirus. para tratar de parar el avance del mortal virus,a pa

alex: no hay ningÚn problema que no se pueda resolver.e conoce las necesidades de su comunidad y tiene un compromiso, alex; el compromiso de ayuda familias y protegerlas, no daÑarlas. espero ser parte de las acciones. alex: cuenten conmigo, los escucho . voy a hacer el campeÓn de su batalla. socorro: en una conferencia virtual abierta al pÚblico, el gobernador de california hizo oficial el anuncio del nuevo esto de alex padilla como senador de california en el congreso. llegarÁ a washington en medio de una rÁfaga de crÍticas, luego de otorgar un contrato de educaciÓn para el electorado de $35,000,000 antes de las elecciones de noviembre a una firma vinculada a la campaÑa de joe biden. cuando el gobernador gavin newsom enfrenta fuertes crÍticas y una posible destituciÓn por el mal manejo de la pandemia. el prÓximo dÍas, alex padilla serÁ parte de una clase a cnet de latinos que irÁn a washington con la llegada del gobierno de joe biden. incluirÁ al fiscal javier becerra,elegido como secretario ♪ ♪ hugo: amigos, vayamos a lo relevante en "c

>> reporter: hey, alex. so congress did give themselves an additional 48 hours to come to agreement on covid relief legislation. so that's a sign that they think they only need until sunday night to get things done, but there might be some snags, we just heard from a republican member of senate leadership, john thune. he said votes could slip into monday. so it might take a little longer, but senate majority leader mitch mcconnell was just on the senate floor saying, it is time to get things done. let's take a listen. >> we've had productive discussions this week. i appreciate it the good-faith spirit that characterized my talks with democratic leader, speaker pelosi, leader mccarthy. secretary mnuchin. the american people cannot feed their families or pay their bills with congress' good-faith discussions. they need us to act. we need to conclude our talks, draft legislation and land this plane. >> reporter: democrats agree this plane does need to be landed but say there is one outstanding issue caused by se

you are right, alex. after the first shot, about 10 to 12 days after the first shot we start to see immunity present in people who received the first injecti injection. it's up to about 52% risk reduction compared to people who did not get the vaccine getting mild, moderate or severe covid. to be clear, the vaccine does not stop you from getting covid but reduces risk if and when you get you reduce the risk of getting hospitalized or having mild, moderate covid from it. some protection. the 95% numbers we've talked about and really excited about you need that second shot 21 days from the first one. yes, you do get some immunity after the first one. >> you have heard heard predominantly after the second shot is when people will have some adverse effects. are you at all concerned there there be folk whose say, look, i got the first shot. i'm just going to cut out of getting the second shot. what does that mean for the herd immunity? >> absolutely. number one, it has just a downstream effect if more and more

alex: gracias a ustedes, sÍganse cuidando.re las importancias de alejandro y becerra quienes harÁn parte del ♪ andrea: el presidente electo joe biden conforma su gabinete, entre sus nominaciones estÁ la de javier becerra para el departamento de salud, hablamos sobre este tema, vamos con mÁs. reportero: javier becerra nos fiscal general en california y defensor incansable de el obamacare, ha mostrado con creces de lo que se necesita en el paÍs para salir adelante, vamos a saludar a alguien que lo conoce muy bien, lo -- luis gutiÉrrez, buenas tardes, en este momento tan crucial para la vida de estados unidos, la vida literalmente de este paÍs. >> estÁ sumamente cualificado, mira los otros nombramientos, no quiero criticar a los otros pero simplemente cuando uno se inspira por lo suyo, sin exageraciÓn, 24 aÑos subió a travÉs los escalones de liderazgo en washington y lo veo como el procurador general del estado, ha unido otros estados de defender obamacare, de defender los inmigrantes, Él sabe como trabajar con otros, vamos a ser

a juggling act indeed, alex. especially when you error josh talking abo -- hear josh talking about the barriers at the biden team tries to enter the white house. biden painted a bleak picture the other day of the economy. we know the economic recession is so inextricably tied with the ongoing pandemic. biden made that point repeatedly. you cannot begin to get the economy on track without first dealing with the coronavirus. biden dealing in short and longer-term steps here. short-term saying the first 100 days of his presidency he wants to see americans wearing masks to try to stop spread of the virus, we know has only gotten worse and we expect to continue to worsen unfortunately as we see the cases potentially climb after people traveled more for the holidays. then the longer term. 3w50 3w50 3w50 biden's team trying to figure out how to roll out a plan, fiscally and localities, needed the resources to officially put the vaccine out there. all amid biden putting out new staffing choices and looking ahead to a lot

not just holidays, alex.t was the house under the democratic leadership passed the h.e.r.o.e.s. act, called for $3.4 drillitrillion economic aid. came down to $2.2 trillion before the election. when trump and mnuchin claimed they were okay with $1.8 trillion. nancy pelosi refused to budge to $1.8 trillion then but mitch mcconnell stuck a $500 billion. mcconnell was the block then, he's being the block now. republicans in the senate, shameful behavior. going home for the holidays. if we get a deal, a minuscule, paltry shameful deal. the richest country in history of the world. what's the point of being that if you can't house people, can't employ people, can't feed people? hunger in this country at record levels. poverty at record levels in this country and people told to pake due with a one-off $600 check and republicans say look at the deficit after passing trillion dollar tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires? >> is there nobody in the state of kentucky that's suffering or something? what is it about m

or on alex padilla later in the broadcast.the justice department is suing walmart for its role in fueling the country's opioid epidemic. the lawsuit accuses walmart of filling thousands of invalid prescriptions, failing to report suspicious opioid prescriptions, and pressuring employees to fill orders quickly even when they were not written for valid medical purposes. some 450,000 people have died from opioid overdoses in the past 20 years. in tacoma, washington, the immigration advocacy group la resistencia is reporting guards at the northwest detention center have threatened a hunger striker with forced feeding. victor fonseca, an asylum seeker from venezuela, has been on hunger strike for over a month, protesting the ice jail's dangerous conditions during the pandemic and demanding prisoners with underlying medical conditions be released. fonseca is currently awaiting deportation. he he is speaking from prison at the start of his hunger strike. >> what do i have to lose? i have already lost everything. i lost my freedom, my

secretario de estado alex padilla serÁ prÓximo senador del estado.o bajar la guardia para evitar contagios de covid-19.[noticias univisiÓn 14 6:00 p.m.] presentadora: buenas tardes. gracias por acompaÑarnos. presidente donald trump anunciÓ que no firmarÁ proyecto de ley de alivio econÓmico por coronavirus a menos que se modifique. mandatario pide al congreso que enmiende el proyecto que aumenten de 600 a $2000. muchos de los aliados se han manifestado en contra de aprobarlo. a las 11:00 p.m., la creaciÓn. secretario de estado alex padilla se convertirÁ en el primer senador latino en la historia por california. es el instante en el que responde emocionado al anuncio del gobernador quien le pide que reemplace a kamala harris en el senado de estados unidos. es el primer latino hijo de inmigrantes mexicanos. su papÁ era empleado de un restaurante y su madre enviaba casas. nuestra colega carla nos tiene el anÁlisis completo. ambos coincidieron que representa esperanza para la poblaciÓn latina. gobernador nilson anuncio es nombramiento. >> fue un nombramie

alex never even told his mom what he did until recently.l, i didn't tell her about the marijuana until we were, like... -legal. ...completely legal, because, yeah, i got like -- my mom's like your typical jewish mother. yeah. she literally would have parked herself in my driveway, you know. -you're not going. locked herself to the gate, you know. "you're not doing this anymore!" if you're watching, mom, relax. your son has come a long way since he headed west 27 years ago. we've already passed a couple greenhouses. this one we planted yesterday. okay. what's it cost to put up a greenhouse like that, $50,000? you're looking at about 50. the feds may say it's illegal, but the county is happy to collect its share. so how do they tax you? they're taxing us on square footage right now. lemonis: honeydew has more than 250,000 feet of growing space and a tax bill to match. you got to pay half up front, so they split it in two installments just like your property taxes. whether you are growing or not? whether i pull this crop off or not, i paid the

>> reporter: yes, that's right, alex.rump went to high school just over the mountain here, he went to new york military academy. this is his second time coming to west point this year. back in june he came here and spoke at graduation. this will be his fourth consecutive army/navy game. he's the tenth sitting president to have attended this incredible rich tradition-filled rivalry. we're going to walk over here, alex, and you're going to see the only other attendees at today's game, the corps of cadets and then off to our left you'll see the midshipmen and this is rare for them to all be here. as you mention, traditionally played in philadelphia every year. every person on the field today will have been tested for covid-19 before entering. these young cadets and midshipmen have been living in essentially somewhat of a bubble environment. they've been on coast and now they're excited to get some normalcy back. for the first time, it will be played here at west point since 1943 and it's so much more than a game. these young

>> thanks for having me back, alex.hought the jobs report yesterday was seriously disappointing. and a little bit scary. but it wasn't unexpected in the sense that the virus is the boss. we're talking about how do we control the virus? that's the same thing as how do you help the economy? that's the number one rule of virus economics. i always say, you want to help the economy, got to stop the spread of the virus. so what we've seen is we had a catastrophic collapse in the spring. it was bouncing back at a pretty rapid rate and it's apparently fully stalled out. and so if we continue at the rate of job creation we had last month we'll be more than three years before we even get back to where we were before this started, and if it keeps slowing at the rate we just saw last month, we will never get back. so i think the president-elect is saying all the right things. he's trying to do what we need to do. which is, a., control the virus. b., get relief to people until the vaccine is ready, that we're not going to get thrown

alex? >> i tell you, we call them heroes for good reason by that description. thank you so much, kathy park, for that. >>> joining me now, msnbc news contributor natalie azar and dr. madad, an infectious disease doctor here in the city. dr. madad, your reaction of what's going on in massachusetts, what we heard from the two reporters there, and also emergency rooms filling up again. is this worse than it was in the spring? there was a los angeles times headline that hit my phone as i was going to sleep. it kept me up because it, indeed, said this is worse than what they predicted. >> that's absolutely correct. if you just look at the number of hospitalizations, this has tripled in the past couple of months, and the worst part of all of this is that we haven't even hit the peak. so when i talk about the peak, this is when you have the highest number of deaths, and we haven't hit that yet. we'll probably get to that from mid to late january, which means until that point, we'll be breaking record number of cases, deaths and hospitalizations. we haven't even starte

and the family make each week for his own treatment. >> what alex has done has been amazing.unity's given us, it's really been a blessing to our hospital and to our patients >> what do you think >> good. >> reporter: they're now at 5,000 gifts. >> we were kind of planning on it getting big, but we weren't planning on it getting this big. >> reporter: lifting the spirits of other kids going through tough times. >> even during a pretty challenging time for us, to say the least -- >> and the world. >> it's truly been a blessing to see that come to life through a 9-year-old boy's eyes. >> and here's the best part, alex plans to continue that toy drive even after the holidays. i was pressed to be a part of a similar event when i works in phoenix called "big night hope." there's nothing more inspirational, especially this time of year, than people helping people. >> you see it in their faces for those giving and receiving as well more power to alex we are rooting for him and hope he gets healthy as wel >>> birthdays today, "24" actor kiefer sutherland turns 54 "everybody loves raym

>> well, alex, yeah. i actually got goosebumps watching the initial rollout segment, because this is such a historic day. and i think it's really critical to get health care workers vaccinated, effectively, safely. have good uptake with them so they can turn around and recommend it to others. i'm sure we'll have hiccups. this is obviously something we've never done anything like before, especially with dry ice and ultra cold frozen temperatures. but we're going to work through this, and, you know, this, as they said, is the beginning of the end and it's really important that health care workers have a good experience getting this vaccine. they're confident in it, trust it and turn around and recommend it to others. >> yeah. thank you so much for your vigilance and perspective on all this. appreciate that. >>> for all of you throughout this hour as vials are packaged for shipment as the trucks roll towards hospitals, as the vaccines, in fact, reach the first patients, we're going to bling it to you on this

>> reporter: right, you are, alex.e every else, pared down the village at bryant park because of the pandemic. still familiar iconic items, though, here. the ice rink behind me. of course, empty. zamboni out resurfacing the ice. normally the ice rink sees 500. paring it down to 200 and you need a reservation. i hear a hard to come by now. also over here, we have three christmas trees. normally would have one big 40-foot tree. here we have three smaller ones to reduce crowd size and sorcia distancing. local vendors here but fewer of them. from 175 booths to now 60 booths. still local business owners tell me all of the other events they would normally sell their stuff at have been canceled this year. they're at least grateful for this. let's listen. >> i've been really touched by the number of repeat customers i've had come through. it's been, like -- really nice. >> if i'm lucky, i will break even, and i have my health and i'm grateful for that. >> reporter: two perspectives for thru. rinks open through january 3rd. >>

>> good to be with you, alex, and the short answer is, no. it's not attainable and candidly unfortunately not acceptable. i didn't expect to get to 20 million when we saw that the federal government was really just kind of facilitating the states getting vaccine access and then every state left to their own devices without much infrastructure or support even though they've had plans in the making several months. so, alex, short story is that we still have a lot of health care professionals and long-term care nursing home residents and workers waiting for vaccine. it's not going to happen in six days and also has to do with the complex storage requirement that both of these authorized vaccines has around both a theme for the next several months as many americans will try to find out when is their place in line? it's not going to necessarily be even across the united states. >> i'm curious, dr. azar, your take on the goals set by "operation warp speed" positive try to get to to the 50 million doses by end of january. and, in fact, try to get to

alex? >> all right. adrian in chicago, encouraging to see that vaccine setup already in place. >>> i want to bring in dr. margaret hamburg, a former commissioner for the fda under president barack obama. thank you for joining us. we now have this huge undertaking that our correspondents have been talking about. this huge -- this massive and complex distribution plan to get that pfizer covid-19 vaccine around the country. but at the same time, we're still seeing deaths. 3300 people on friday. hospitalizations and new cases. with the vaccine in place, how quickly do you think things can turn around and numbers will start to drop? >> well, it is just an historic moment to celebrate that we have this vaccine, that will soon be going out to people and can make a difference. but it will take time. you know, there's going to be a limited supply. it's going to go first to those that have been identified as the highest priority in terms of risk for disease. but it's going to take us, you know, at least through th

welcome to "weekends with alex witt." we have breaking news as capitol hill right now is poised for several showdowns, this headed into the last week of 2020. topping the list, the $900 billion coronavirus relief bill on top of the spending package which still sits unsigned on the president's desk. the president once again at his golf club with the livelihoods of millions of americans hanging in the balance. two pandemic unemployment programs have now expired, programs that would have been extended in this bill and other critical lifelines are days from ending. president trump doubling down on new demands for higher stimulus checks, tweeting $2,000 plus $2,000 for other family members, not $600. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle today expressing their frustration over the situation. >> nuif you want to make it $2,0 checks, negotiate that from the beginning. let's have the discussion after this bill is signed because right now we're at a point where people are left out in the dark. but to play this old switcheroo game,

in the era of prop 187, its aftermath, alex padilla won a seat on the l.a.y council when he was just 26 years old. he represented the neighborhood where he'd grown up, where his dad worked as a short-order cook, his mother worked as a house cleaner. within a couple years alex padilla became the youngest ever l.a. city council president. he went on to serve as a state senator, won statewide office as california's secretary of state. as of today in a state that's now solidly blue, latinos comprise about 40% of the state's population, alex padilla learned today he'll become california's first ever latino u.s. senator. i'm very pleased to say that he joins us now for his first national tv interview since being tapped for that senate seat today. mr. secretary, thank you for being here. it's a real honor that you took this time to be with us tonight. >> hello, thank you, rachel, for this opportunity. a big day. a lot of work to do. what better way to start than right here with you, rachel. >> you and i are exactly the same age. we're both california kids. you went

join us after the break where alex will discuss with alsa mcdonald the former m.p. and leader of the social democratic and labor party the contribution of the late john hume to peace and northern ireland with the then. continuity for change this is what's being asked when considering a potential fine for policy truth made a point to undo obama's legacy when fighting do the same to trump's like this or is this all only for continuity drives foreign policy not the op you think in the long . run. john hume was korda sippin of the 1998 nobel peace prize but the victim both and both received both the gandhi peace prize a martin luther king award he is the only person to see the 3 major peace awards alex examines how he earned those accolades with former leader of the s.-t. o.-p. don't know. also we got a welcome back to the. thank you i guess always approach religion a pleasure to work with here now listen let's stop all in the seventy's of the speaking to david blake not some of the coming of thomas need a mile of the german businessman that was a period where we were n

nueva cepa del coronavirus puede ya estar en estados unidos (hablan en inglés) un senador latino, alex reemplazará a kamala harris en el senado, siendo el primer senador hispano en california . >> una familia hondureña lleva el espíritu navideño a su comunidad que fue devastada, tendremos más de esta muestra de espíritu navideño, pero tenemos la amenaza de donald trump que puede poner en peligro los cheques de ayuda (música) el presidente donald trump amenaza por echar por la borda meses de negociaciones por el paquete de estímulo económico. exige cambios con un amplio apoyo bipartidista , calificó el plan como una desgracia y dijo que no lo firmará tal y como está, esto pone en alerta a millones de estadounidenses que sufren la crisis de la pandemia y se preguntan si tendrán el cheque de ayuda, cristina londoño tiene la información . >> así es, buenas noches, la amenaza de cancelar los cheques que esperan millones de estadounidenses salió de la nada, vía twitter en un mensaje de 4 minutos de presidente trump en que pareció confundir el presupuesto nacional y el plan de estímulo del co

join us after the break where alex will discuss with allison macdonald the former m.p. and leader of the social democratic and labor party the contribution of the late john hume to peace in northern ireland we see that. what happens when people lose trust. in the central banks and the bad so we're going to find out. we're segregated all the way by social class. people also in poverty by 1st place if you're born into a poor family if you're born into a minority family if you're born into a family that only has a single parent that really constrains your life chances people die on average 15 years old if you're born into generational poverty. it's a. fight every day she you meet your needs and the needs of your family. john hume was korda sippin of the 1998 nobel peace prize but the victim bo and those received both the gandhi peace prize on the martin luther king award he is the only person to see the 3 major peace awards alex examines how he earned those accolades with former leader of the s.-t. o.-p. allister mcdonald. donna welcome back to the show thank you i guess a

welcome to the alex armature. thank you both very much the week of the vaccine the last load being the approved arm deployed in the united kingdom 2 more coming out of russia of the spook vaccine has been ruled out a trailer seems to have not one but 2 of art students saw chris murphy over the man who predicted at the start of the year that the pandemic was coming on this program could you know tell us it's coming to an end. i hope so i think this is a wonderful triumph for science isn't it here we are less than a year after we 1st discovered this virus existed and we've got the genetic code we've understood it's biology and now scientists have invented not one but possibly 40 different vaccines there are 3 which are nearing the finishing line in the u.k. and this is really exciting and not just really exciting science but really exciting medicine these things look to be very very effective let's hope they're really really effective in the really long term but for now if we can carry on this trajectory then yes i

>> i always have concerns, alex. it's congress. i mean, we should have had this done months and months ago. right now the very final text is being resolved, and then that will go to congressional offices. it is always the case here that any one senator who has some concern can slow us down, so, you know, look, i'm committed, many of us are committed to not leave until we get this deal done. that could stretch out a few more days. but every signal is that we have finally addressed every last issue, and we should finally be delivering this relief. i continue to hear day and night from delawareans anxious to know whether there is going to be relief for those facing eviction, relief for those relying on the food bank, relief for those who are unemployed, support and help for small businesses. this bill will do that, but it's not everything we need to do. we will need to come back and do another relief bill early next year. >> yeah. anxious news anchors are also asking you those questions. i'm going to pose this one to you. yes, you sai

the release of this video, looks like the campaign has already started. >>> is california senator, alex padilla is ready to keep fighting for us. >> reporter: the coalition of black women strongly advocated for harris's position be another black woman.

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alex plans to continue the toy drive even after the holidays. >>> that is nbc "nightly news. i'm kate snow. stay safe and have a great night. s. >>> right now at 6:00, cases mounting across the state and the bay area. tonight icu bed availability getting dangerously low as we head into the holiday week. the news at 6:00 starts right now. good evening, everyone. thanks for joining us. i'm terry mcsweeney. >> and i'm anousha rasta. as hospitals across the state are pushed to the brink tens of thousands of new cases are being reported. in the last 24 hours california added nearly 44,000 new cases, and our positivity rate is now 11.8%. that's up more than 3% in the past two weeks. 272 more californians lost their lives to the virus. icu availability continues to fall. as a whole the bay area has juls 12% of icu beds still available. most of the bay area is in red, which fewer than 15% of icu beds open. san francisco, napa counties they're doing a bit better. they're in the orange. and we've got alameda county in the yellow with icu capacity hovering at 30%. >> from the surge in c

why northern island to stolen a march on scotland but 1st alex that your emails i'm to messages. well lots of reaction to last week's show all with professor look at neil of the college dublin and dr chris smith of cambridge university they were talking about covert vaccines and also about what they call the common sense christmas and that's been drawn into sharp relief this week with the dramatic joint declaration from the british medical journal and the health service journal to politicians about the consequences of the proposed christmas relaxation but on the vaccine issue terry says there would be with these fantastic scientists chris and particular manages to get complicated messages across in a way that's easy to understand norma johnson reminds us that $4000.00 people a day cuddly dying in the u.s. going up every day i think a vaccine is very necessary i'm jordan says now where did you get your own for norma johnson i'm on the side of the ocean that's about 2300 a day but that is still too many short martin sounds a lot of skepticism he says norma johnson you won't find ma

alex? >> ann, thank you. >>> new data from the state shows california is about to go over 2 million cases of the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic. that includes more than 39,000 new cases in the past 24 hours, and more than 23,000 people with covid-19 have now died in our state, including 361 deaths since yesterday, which was the second deadliest day in the state during the pandemic. >> well, the state advisory committee met today to talk about what groups should be next to receive to the coronavirus vaccine, if it is approved for healthcare workers, right after healthcare workers, i should say. it is expected to include essential works in education, and food and agriculture, including grocery store workers. it also includes people over the age of 75. >> and the consideration, as well, of persons who are 65 to 74 years of age, with medical conditions or disabilities that place them at high risk of severe covid-19. >> officials predict there will be enough doses to vaccinate that

alex: son as they are able to vaccinate.ealth commissioner in south carolina said we will be using the vaccine, not storing it. charles: workers cheered as trucks carrying doses road out pfizer manufacturing plant. the doses will arrive at 145 distribution sites on monday with more to come but as the pandemic continues to get worse, health experts are concerned the vaccine won't have an immediate effect. >> we are still going to see spread, so people can't let up. we cannot succumb to pandemic fatigue. charles: cdc director redfield says he expects the first dose sis to be administered to people as early as monday, gillian. gillian: charles watson in atlanta, georgia, thanks so much. leland: hunter biden investigation, investigations plural has uncovered an e-mail in 2017 that raises new questions about hunter biden's business dealings with the ukrainian national gas company and this is his taxes were told are under criminals investigation. jacqui heinrich in wilmington, delaware with more on this new e-mail, hi, jacqui. rep

>> it does seem to be realistic, alex. the reason is, is because what is happening now is that leadership is talking about all of these issues with their members. we know that earlier in the afternoon treasury secretary steve mnuchin and kevin mccarthy had a conference call with their members going through the legislation. and house speaker nancy pelosi is on a conference call with her leadership team also going through the details of what is in this bill. because, let's be honest, alex, these members do not have a lot of time to digest a $900 billion bill combined with a $1.4 trillion government funding bill that they're going to have to vote on in just perhaps a few hours if things do come together as quickly as people are saying. and that is a really hard pill for some of these lawmakers to swallow not being able to read the details and go through the minutia of this legislation themselves having to take the word of their leaders. and so there is a lot of explaining that has to be done from leadership to their members a

and china sort of technological race that we're saying alex. so so what we will see melissa is we will see more and more r. and d. be shifted under the military industrial complex so stuff that might have been happening you know r. and d. that might even save the place exclusively companies and maybe universities and specialists to sions you will see more of that being shifted under the military got a sort of if you will. demetrius angle lockets and alex capri thank you so much for joining us. according to recent studies pakistan has the highest rate of deforestation in asia with losses of natural woodlands almost doubling in the last 2 decades experts warn that the country risks losing all its forest within the next 50 years now a new project has been launched to repair some of the lost and anyone can join the effort. in the mountains above islamabad new forest is being sown the bulls running down on the slopes here contain pine seeds and hopes for a green a future. throw and grows both the project's name and the simple instruction for anyone

. >> con la emoción a flor de piel alex padilla el mejor senador a nivel estatal en california . >;>argo trabajo, y las largas jornadas que ahora se cristalizan en este momento . >> no solamente fui yo, fue su madre también, que ahora trabajó también, dándole bendiciones . >> hijo de inmigrantes, la preparatoria fue testigo . ,>> dando el salto a la capital del país . >> es un gran representante, siendo un representante . >> el 2015, se convirtió en secretario de estado, como senador estatal . >> y con el amigo que va pronto en el próximo, alguien capacitado . >> y documentó la participación en el receso, .- >> y el futuro, del país representado en california . >> sentirse orgulloso . >> y bueno pues, sin duda, en california se componen el 40 por ciento de la población estatal conversando en las oportunidades de hacer entrevistas, saben de dónde vienen . >> estamos aquí con el nuevo senador . >> es un día emocional, para la familia, . >> hacer unas preguntas, esperaba que le preguntaran, y con los hispanos en méxico, y cuando, el encuentro, y que va a ser el próximo senador, y intent

alex hales making 35 for syd ney busy.second highest score of the day. big hitting, eventually bowled. 0liver davies hitting 48 from just 23 balls. they posted 209—8. the renegades came nowhere near it in reply. alex hales in the end took the catch that ended the innings and a bit of revenge, the innings and a bit of revenge, the man who bowled, hales removing. and finally, anthonyjoshua and then joejoyce have won heavyweight medals for great britain at the last two olympic games and both times frazer clarke was the man to miss out on a place. but the 29—year—old believes his time will finally come in tokyo next year. that said, he's been telling our 0lympics reporter nick hope that at one stage during lockdown, when the games were postponed, he did think about abandoning his dream. i don't know what i did in my past life, but, you know, someone has had it in for me! i knew if it was going to happen any year, it was going to be the year i was going to go to the olympic games. how have you coped? not well. it's been difficu

in a county and in a car a welcome back to the alex salmond show. to be here with you again. this christmas drama and process. going to be the end of it one way or another even when ben ben bones and hawkman me at midnight will that be the last time we have this sort of crunch talk and an hour standoff in brussels well i think we all hope so and it looks as if that might be the case i mean the u.k. is prepared to go out with no deal of business people have been this point sell many times before everyone's going to be heartily glad to see the back of it reacts sick and tired of breaks and we're sick and tired of all the rouse you know we just like to get on with the living globally which is what we've been doing for hundreds of years but they're going to come from our i remember you that you would have a fancy pro unit pin you had one of this cute tory ministers who is prepared to stand up for britain's place in europe and what's happened you know a born again breaks a t.m.o. . that was then of this is now yes you're absolutely right and i stuck to the archive polemics in 1904

. >> alex padilla will be appointed and sworn in as the next u.s. senator from california, serving out the remainder of senator harris' term. that will take us off the air on this tuesday night of christmas week. with our thanks for spending this time with us on behalf of all my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. >>> someday we will gather up all the news stories, all the segments, all the drafts, scripts and the carefully prepared questions for our interview guests. and we'll gather up all those things that got torn up and thrown away one hour before air time because of nights like this. someday we will do a whole show -- we will do a year of shows that's all the stuff we had to throw away because of this president. it'll be like a visit to a parallel universe where there isn't a virulent chaos agent running the federal government of the most powerful nation on earth. but that is what we've got. and while he's still there on nights like this, we throw out what we planned to talk about and we roll with the punches. so, here comes th

it's alex. >> we hadn't given him a hug in a year.t been able to see him in person in a year. >> yay. >> i love you guys. >> it was so wonderful to get that hug that we had waited for. >> reporter: do you remember what you said to him? >> i love you. i love you. >> let's go home. when's the next flight out? >> come on, let's go home. >> it was so emotional. we were all so excited. we finally got to take dad home. >> reporter: home to texas, but for how long? fred was only out on bond. he still was charged with murder and had the threat of a retrial hanging over his head. >> we were extremely hopeful that they could change their minds and decide not to go forward again. >> and we were really hoping for that. >> reporter: more than just hoping. in fact, the family actually met with prosecutors and lobbied against another trial. did that weigh into whether to go to a second trial at all, the fact that this entire family, leslie's family included, did not want a trial? >> absolutely. we have to consider their position. we have to consider

>> alex: you know, that is a great question. by the way, it looks like excess deaths in britain. we don't have very good data concerning real-time on how the death looks in the u.s. but in britain, calculating almost on a daily basis. and not just covid but death overall. i and it looks like in the spring, you could say, well, the amount of covid deaths really with excess factors, there is extra deaths happening not counted as covid right now in the u.k. there are fewer excess deaths the number of covid deaths being reported. which suggests what people, you know, people call a systemic is happening. an amount of things happening and people classified as covid deaths, you know, when something entirely and just happen to have a positive test in their past. so we went by the standards the u.k. is using to justify this, it looks like it is not necessarily justified. if you look at hospitals, there is really just in the u.s. no evidence of raw hospital overrun. yes, some stress locally but the same in the u.k. so how it is to decide

i'm alex marquardt. "cnn newsroom" continues right now with ana cabrera.. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> your live in the "cnn newsroom." thanks for joining me. i'm ana cabrera in new york. today is the day. americans long burdened by this pandemic can look to freight trucks on interstates and airplanes overhead and see relief in action. the first batch of a coronavirus vaccine is now being transported to hundreds of facilities across all 50 states. the cdc director has just given the green light to the pfizer and biontech vaccine and it's the last step in this approval process. it means the first vaccinations could begin for the country's most vulnerable and for health care workers on the front lines as soon as

going if after the break we're alex will discuss with alpha macdonald the former m.p. and leader of the democratic and labor party the contribution of the late john hume to peace in northern ireland with feeding. seems wrong. wrong just don't call. me the world yet to see how this thing comes to. and in again trying to trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. what happens when people is trust in the family and the central banks and now that they're going to find out. john hume with korda sippin of the 1900 nobel peace prize the paper timbo and those received both the gandhi peace prize on the martin luther king award he is the only person to see the 3 major piece awards alex examines how he earned those accolades with former leader of the s.-t. o.-p. alistair macdonald also we've got a welcome back to the show thank you i guess always a privilege and a pleasure to work with here that wasn't what let's start in the early seventy's of this speaking to david blake not so but the the coming of thomas need a mile of the german bu

then you got sanofi there called johnson and johnson you know noble acts and then as you mentioned alex there's the russian one which seems ages and that's only one so so one prediction is by the middle of next year that maybe as many seem to use in the european union of course the pandemic was not the only big story of 2020 that is that small matter of a president election and we had a range of experts commenting on the ups and downs. of the presidential campaign the president from fear to say is not my not the whiskey overhears a doting defendant jenna ellis or be anthropologist we davis season the trump presidency the end of the american leader. one of the biggest issues that the campaign is working on right now is election integrity we filed lawsuits in a wide variety of states act to make sure that the protections and the safeguards around the ballot box are secured for every voter and so regardless of who any one person is supporting it is a fundamental protected right and cripple idjit in america to be able to cast a ballot for those who will represent us and seventies lawsuits a

and alex padilla taking the empty u.s. senate >>> tonight, the news coming in late today, reports pfizer is now in talks with the u.s. government to providen thes of millions of additional doses of the vaccine. and that new variant of the virus. they're now testing for it here in new york. all of this as the nation now marks the deadliest year in american history. we're now seeing an average of more than 2,600 american lives lost every day. as concerns mount tonight over that new variant of covid. the testing in new york and the new steps from some airlines to test passengers for flights from the uk to the u.s. but don't, dr. anthony fauci saying we must assume it's already here in the u.s. as he gets his own vaccine shot before the cameras. and that news tonight, pfizer reportedly nearing a deal with the trump administration for more doses and what we know so far. >>> hospitals tonight under growing pressure. we have an alarming look inside. and now, the fears that the millions traveling for christmas will lead to another

our thanks to barry and alex and jane we will jane wells good morning, everybody. it's 8:00 a.m. in california and 11:00 a.m. on wall street and "squawk alley" is live. >> good tuesday morning. welcome to "squawk alley." i'm jon fortt withing canni car. google is over hot water in the power over the diblgtal advertising market and now allegation that's they've been work together quietly to maintain that power they may not be dead after all reuters out with a report saying that self driving car may be just three years away. julia, to talk first about this advertising thing, google and facebook that has to be what comes to mind when you by this two powerful companies potentially even talking about the power on regular basis. that's a new potentially significant rink will in this conversation about big tech. >> certainly and big tech is really facing so much scrutiny right now from an antitrust perspective. we think about the way that google dominates search and the way they have so much power in terms of youtube they control the machinery and the way so much advertising is sold onl