ayman? >> let me ask you really quickly.bc has put together this animated map that shows the dramatic death toll over the course of this year. here are the numbers. we'll put it on the screen. 292,000 dead, and an independent gloenl health research center projects that the dealt toll in the united states will unfortunately surpass 500,000 by march. >> reporter: it's incredibly sobering. one tool we have to keep people out of the hospital and potentially keep them a little healthier is monochrome antibodies. regener regeneron, eli lilly, meant to act like your body's natural immune reaction to the virus. they're meant for people infected but not sick enough to be hospitalized but at high risk for complication, people with underlying health conditions, type two diabetes, sickle cell disease, chronic kidney disease. here is the problem. demand is far exceeding the supply. i spoke with a physician in alabama who treats outpatient covid patients. he estimates he only has access of one -- those monochrome antibodies to treat 1% to

again, he didn't get anything here, ayman. he signed the bill because it would have been a cal a.calal calamitous situation if he had not. >> jake, i think the words you're looking for is lame duck presidency, for $600. jake, let me ask you quickly, the president's team helped negotiate this bill, then the president obviously himself decided, as you mentioned, he didn't like it, that he withheld his signature for several days before giving in. is there a strategy here, is there any game plan whatsoever, have you gotten any insight from any of the sources you've been speaking to as to the long term objective? >> no, of course not. there's no long term objective here. he said he wasn't going to do something. he said he had problems with the bill. and then he signed the bill as is. so there is no objective here. he didn't get anything on the other end. if he signed this bill when he got it, it would have been the same result, ayman. and i don't understand it. republicans on capitol hill don't understand it. he says he's going to

i'm ayman mohyeldin in for craig melvin here in new york. we are breaking horrible new records with this pandemic. just this morning the total number of reported covid-19 cases in the united states surpassed 14 million. that is after a record setting 24 hours on multiple fronts. our health care workers are reminding us once again that each number we talk about is an american life. >> i can understand and i can describe the sound of a zipper on a body bag. i can describe with great detail the odd and very ugly color of purplish gray you turn when your body is suffocating. for me, whereas i can't understand the numbers, i can understand the humans behind those numbers. >> let's get you caught up on the facts at this hour. the u.s. reported nearly 205,000 covid-19 cases wednesday. that is a new single-day record in this country. by nbc's tally wednesday marked a daily record for covid-19 deaths in our country. current hospitalizations topped 100,000 for the very first time. states, they are doing what they can to contain this virus. los angeles

i'm ayman mohyeldin in for craig melvin. with november behind us, new warning signs of what could be a very dark winter. more than 4 million cases in the month of november alone. that is the total for november alone. the closest we've come before that, july and october, with half of that number. more than 1.9 million cases apiece. it has our nation's medical workers pleading for help once again. >> i've seen more people die in the last seven days than i've talked to my own family members. >> just the added numbers of having the covid patients has been hard to comprehend. >> the physicians, scientists working tirelessly. believe them. trust in them. trust the science. >> so here are the facts on this pandemic at this hour. today moderna and pfizer ask european union regulators for fast-track approval for their vaccines. today here in the u.s., a cdc advisory committee will meet to decide which americans should get the vaccine first. right now 45 states are experiencing a percentage increase in covid-related deaths from over t

ayman? >> all right, monica alba live outside the white house. we should note president-elect joe biden also waiting to get his vaccination per the advice of dr. anthony fauci. when that is actually made available we'll let you know. >>> as the electoral college is meeting to formally cast its vote for president we go live on the ground in two states where votes are being cast. and later this hour we're going to speak with one elector who actually wore a bulletproof vest to the vote. we'll tell you why. >>> plus this scene in london where the next phase of the vaccine rollout is under way. you're watching msnbc. ♪ [ engines revving ] ♪ it's amazing to see them in the wild like th-- shhh. [ engine revs ] for those who were born to ride, there's progressive. introducing the new sleep number 360 smart bed... now temperature balancing, so you can sleep better together. save up to $700 on new sleep number 360 smart beds. plus, 0% interest for 48 months and free delivery when you add a base. ends

ayman?> all right, richard engel, thanks for that report. >>> congress is still fighting over the details of a new covid relief bill just days before members pack up for the holiday recess. we are live on capitol hill with the very latest on the progress being made. you're watching msnbc. i'm searching for info on options trading, and look, it feels like i'm just wasting time. that's why td ameritrade designed a first-of-its-kind, personalized education center. oh. their award-winning content is tailored to fit your investing goals and interests. and it learns with you, so as you become smarter, so do its recommendations. so it's like my streaming service. well except now you're binge learning. see how you can become a smarter investor with a personalized education from td ameritrade. visit tdameritrade.com/learn ♪ >>> congress is set to pass a one-week continuing resolution in order to prevent a government shut down this friday, according to three sources familiar with the matter. gives a b

>> yes, ayman, thanks for having me on. honest with you, i'm just incredibly frustrated with this situation. it's not like we didn't novak see know vaccines were coming. not like this is a surprise we have to vaccinate people. early october, secretary azar was saying we'd have 100 million doses by december. that got ramped down to 40 million, now 20 million, we're going to miss the 20 million. vaccine allocation isn't the goal. it's getting people vaccinated that makes a difference. and it really is becoming obvious that the administration didn't think through what needed to happen beyond just getting the vaccines to states. there's a lot of work between getting the vaccine to the state and getting the vaccine into people's arms. >> i mean, ultimately, is that why you think the vaccines are not getting into people's arms, from where you sit, what you see, why are we in this mess? >> yeah, there are two sets of reasons, right, one is we have just not got any money to states to set up a vaccine infrastructure. you can't vacci

but as you said, ayman, this attorney says, well, look, he has talked about bombmaking. you're police, you have the suspect's attorney saying he's interested in bomb making. that should be a concern. it doesn't appear for an investigatie ivive effort beyon this. were think any subpoenas to determine if he was purchasing bomb-making supplies? really serious questions. >> let me ask you about a question that is lingering right now. are we any closer to finding out the motive behind this attack? >> i think so. i think every single day gets us closer to that. more interviews are occurring. i think we'll end up with a process that takes weeks, as the fbi says, it's going to be kind of an amalgamation, a mish-mosh, not a clear definitive answer. >> thank you, my friend. >>> meanwhile, the louisville police department is taking steps to fire two overs are officers from the breonna taylor case. they plan to fire debitive joshua james, and the lawyer for top cosgrove said he received notice. she was killed nine months ago during a raid on her apartment where police didn't find an

i'm ayman mohyeldin in new york. it's noon on the west coast where we're awaiting a major announcement from the governor of california who is talking about drastic actions to stop the spread of the coronavirus in his state. yesterday the united states had a record 2,777 deaths worse than during the first peak last spring. a record 200,000 positive tests bringing the total number of u.s. cases to more than 14 million. it took just six days for the u.s. to record another million new cases after it took 99 days to reach that first million. the number of cases have doubled since september 24th. it is also exactly one month since election day and president trump continues to demand the results be overturned just 24 hours after his attorney general said the justice department found no fraud. the president posted a 46-minute propaganda video to facebook. the media was not present for those remarks. this afternoon the president said william barr was wrong. >> well, he hasn't done anything. so he hasn't looked. >> do you stil

>> no, ayman, really not.s a subtle kind of percentage for risk reduction here and there, in certain populations but overall, no. these are incredibly highly effective vaccines, very similar profiles. they both use that same messenger rna technology that does not interfere with human dna. the good news about moderna, which i'm going to be in that hopeful lucky batch that gets vaccinated with moderna, but the good news is that it can be taken out of the freezer and stored in regular refrigerator temperatures for up to 30 days, which makes it easier to distribute in clinics and pharmacies around the country. >> lucky you, getting that vaccination. new reporting from "the washington post" alleges mark meadows tried to cover up the covid outbreak in the white how. in fact, meadows threatened to fire white house medical unit doctors if they helped release information about new infections, according to one official. of course, we've all seen publicly how many people, just a staggering number of people at the white h

ayman? >> kerry, thank you, my friend. >>> and new details about the man authorities say was behind the christmas bombing in nashville. police were warned over a year ago he was making explosives in his rv. the latest on that front. >>> but first, it's widely being seen as a gift from president trump to benjamin netanyahu. an american who spent 30 years spying for israel is allowed to go to tel aviv. staying home? get delivery! so many ways to get footlongs contact-free! subway. eat fresh. >>> new developments in israel as the trump justice department has allowed a convicted spy to leave the u.s. and go to israel. he was welcomed by the prime minister, the 66-year-old sold military secrets to israel in the 1980s, and was arrested in 1985 after trying to gain asylum. he pleaded guilty. his espionage was so damaging, he was sentenced to life in prison. it was a decades-long sticking point between the u.s. and israel. the u.s. justice department decision to let his parole term go unrenewed was

i'm ayman mohyeldin. we're following breaking stories, including the latest pick for president-elect joe biden's cabin. >>> we're also following the cyber security and infrastructure security agency is warning an attack is more wide than previously known and the federal government is facing the nightmare of purging the kremlin from its systems. congress is launching an investigation. we'll speak with one of the leading reporters on this story. >>> meanwhile fda could soon vote on whether to recommend an emergency use authorization for the moderna vaccine. more than 230,000 new cases and 3,300 americans died yesterday. the cdc now projecting that it could reach 391,000 deaths by january 9th. that's about three weeks from today. we're witnessing an economic split screen. nearly 900,000 people filed for unemployment last week. that's the highest number since early september. while the s&p 500 hit a record high in anticipation of a covid relief deal. joining us now mike memoli with the biden transition team i

>> ayman, we got off to a rocky start with vaccination. we have not been vaccinating at nearly the rate that we need to be. the president-elect has promised that we would be vaccinating, administering, 100 million doses in the first hundred days. so that means 1 million doses per day. we haven't yet reached that many in a week. a million doses in a week yet. so we really do need to pick up the pace in terms of vaccination. one major roadblock is that we need health care providers to administer those vaccines and right now hospitals are full. icus are full. we need all of our health care workers taking care of sick people and we don't really have a lot of slack available to help administer those vaccines. >> how do you scale that up, dr. gounder? what is your recommendation for the incoming administration, if the capacity at these hospitals is simply not there because we're inundated with these numbers and overwhelmed with these numbers. how do you physically scale that the up to the number that you want to get to, which is a million vaccin

hundred million vaccinations for americans in the first 100 days of his administratio administration, ayman. >> we're going to look at some of the challenges later on in the program. this is a holiday week like no other. we expect the president-elect to speak tomorrow. talk to us a little bit about this week ahead, what could we hear from president-elect joe biden tomorrow? >> reporter: most of the time we've seen the president-elect in public, it's for the announcement of his cabinet officials. we've seen that pace pick up just in the last two weeks from once a week, maybe see him make the announcements, to multiple times a week. this event tomorrow is not necessarily going to be an announcement of any additional cabinet nominations. there are some big ones that we're still waiting on. but this will likely look like what we saw in the run-up to thanksgiving, an address to the country in a holiday week to remind everybody what's at stake here. reminding that as he's put so often, we're in a dark winter. it's important for americans to continue to behave in accordance with what scientists ar

>>> good afternoon, everyone, i'm ayman mohyeldin here in new york. any moment now president-elect joe biden will make his first campaign stop since the election, rallying for democratic senate candidates in georgia. we're going to bring that to you live when it happens. >>> meanwhile, president trump rallying against the georgia republicans who defied his efforts to overturn this election. retweeting a post that georgia's governor and secretary of state will soon be going to jail. >>> and with less than 36 days left in his term, attorney general william barr is stepping down from his post. raising questions about what will come in the final days of the trump justice department. i'll discuss it with the senate democrat poised to lead the judiciary committee next year. all of this as biden and the senate's top republican are making plans to meet. >> so as of this morning, our country has officially a president-elect and a vice president-elect. so stotoday i want to congratul president-elect joe biden. >> congratulations. we disagree on a lot of things,

ayman, thank you very much. ali velshi, let me go to you. you're in texas and some similar challenges to what ayman was describing and some different issues, as well. you were talking to officials about what to do especially in rural areas where the logistics of keeping this vaccine cold is important and the importance of convincing skeptical communities to take it. what have you learned on the ground? >> texs sias is the second most populous state but really a country. the geographic diversity and here in houston this is home to the texas medical center. the biggest hospital complex in the world. it's a number of hospitals together, hospital system. but they are getting, they got the coronavirus vaccine today. 19,500 doses came to houston and san antonio and dallas and austin. they're going to get another 75,000 doses or so tomorrow. another 100,000 through the course of the week. now, of the 224,000 doses coming to texas, houston is getting about 59,000 of those and they will not start putting them into people's arms until wednesday. when

>> thanks for having me, ayman.ot good essentially so in the emergency department we are there to see critically ill patients, patients with severe complications from covid, heart attack, stroke, stabilize them and get them into the icus where they need the close monitoring, numerous monitor, ventilation, many, many things that are time consuming. because the icus are full the patients stay in the emergency departments for hours or days and we have limited physicians ickes limited nurses, and so, although we take care of the patients in the emergency department to the best of our ability that is not a place for them to be when they're that sick. the longer the patient in the emergency department setting that needs to be in an icu the poorer the outcomes and the longer the length of stay in the hospital. >> the projections and models we have been seeing, they tell the story that it is a strain on the hospitals and will continue in the weeks ahead going from the thursday surge into the christmas and holiday surge. wha

in fishing in winter they have muskrats and ayman. you know you need and said they share a lifelong friendship with you you. know my. legal view most. of the shares. they have different views on climate change. you know i don't believe it period nothing's changed everything's the same as i was with the keys. yet just months before the banks of the permafrost behind me in its house melted causing an entire lake to slide into the column a river but. there are billions of lakes like that where the water flows in or out that's normal it is just and it doesn't have any effect on nature. on my life yes but not on nature. of says that long ago some people refused to believe the earth was round today some refused to believe climate change is happening or it simply doesn't bother them. russians don't fear global warming they'll say we're looking forward to it and preparing for war the europeans americans north africans and asians must sound the alarm among those already feeling the negative effects of global warming. to see months and is to re

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i'm ayman mohyeldin here in new york.uge winter storm is bearing down on the nation's capital, where the president just wrapped up his first cabinet meeting since may, believe it or not. and congress nears a deal for a badly needed pandemic relief package. here's what joe biden said earlier today. >> the stimulus package is encouraging. looks like they're very, very close, and it looks like there will be direct cash payments. but it's a down payment. >> biden's own party does not appear to be on the same page when it comes to the size of the direct payments to americans. >> it wouldn't be more than $1,200, but i think it will be in the $500, $600 range. >> it's a much smaller amount than the country needs in this moment. >> is something better than nothing? will you support it? >> we're not there. my job right now is to keep pushing for more. >> there are nearly 17 million coronavirus cases, and 305,000 deaths so far. i will speak with a mayor who

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i'm ayman mohyeldin in new york. we're expecting joe biden to receive the covid vaccine this hour.ghest ranking official to get the shot after vice president mike pence, speaker of the house nancy pelosi and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. still notably absent from that list, president trump himself. and right now hospitals across the country have two vaccines available, moderna is shipping out doses of its vaccine. the company is hoping to send 20 million doses to hospitals across the country in the coming weeks. we're going to have a check on that. but amidst all of this optimism surrounding the vaccines comes new alarm from across the ocean. more than two dozen countries have shut down all travel from the united kingdom after a they discovered a new mutation of the covid-19 virus. scientists say it could be as much as 70% more transmissible. here at home we're also keeping an eye on capitol hill where lawmakers are on the verge of passing another round of coronavirus relief. a vote is expected this

ayman mohyeldin is next. with rashida tlaib about the president's push for bigger stimulus checks. that's after the break. or bigger stimulus checks that's after the break ♪ sanctuary music (kids laughing) ♪ upbeat tempo ♪ sanctuary music it's the final days of the wish list sales event sign and drive off in a new lincoln with zero down, zero due at signing, and a complimentary first month's payment. >>> good afternoon, everyone, i'm ayman mohyeldin in new york. we are keeping a close eye this hour on capitol hill after president trump sparked new chaos over the covid relief package. democrats say they are happy to renegotiate for the larger stimulus checks that the president is asking for, but it is unlikely they will be able to get republicans on board. all of this as time continues to run out. it has been nine months since congress passed the c.a.r.e.s act. americans are in desperate need of financial help. more than 800,000 people filed jobless claims just this last week alone. and the virus continues to

i'm ayman mohyeldin in new york.g office president-elect joe biden introduced the man to be his defense secretary. retired general lloyd austin. but biden asked congress to grant a waiver so that austin could take that job. >> i would not be asking for this exception if i did not believe this moment in our history didn't call for it. it does call for it and if i didn't have the faith i have to ask for it. i believe in the importance of civilian control of the military. >> when i concluded my military service four years ago, i hung up my uniform for the last time and went from being general lloyd austin to lloyd austin. it is an important distinction. >> we also have breaking news from the pentagon where in the last hour the officials expect 44,000 doses of pfizer's vaccine in the coming days

i'm ayman mohyeldin in new york.'re awaiting a major announcement from the governor of california who is talking about drastic actions to stop the spread of the coronavirus in his state. yesterday the united states had a record 2,777 deaths worse than during the first peak last spring. a record 200,000 positive tests bringing the total number of u.s. cases to more than 14 million. it took just six days for the u.s. to record another

i'm ayman mohyeldin.aking stories, including the latest pick for president-elect joe biden's cabin. >>> we're also following the cyber security and infrastructure security agency is warning an attack is more wide than previously known and the federal government is facing the nightmare of purging the kremlin from its systems. congress is launching an investigation. we'll speak with one of the leading reporters on this story. >>> meanwhile fda could soon vote on whether

i'm ayman mohyeldin in new york. president trump has fewer than seven weeks left in office. we're getting brand new reporting about who president-elect biden is considering for top posts in his administration including the secretary of health and human services. since we came on the air yesterday, another 2,300 americans have lost their lives. yesterday roughly one person dying every 30 to 45 seconds. in a few minutes we'll speak with a member of the biden coronavirus advisory task force about the way ahead. this as a new report from the white house coronavirus task force warns that risks from the virus is at a historic high. we're at a very danger place and public health officials should alert states directly. all the while president trump refuses to accept the election results. nbc news has also learned the president has discussed pardons for family and close associates. joining me now jeff bennett with the biden transition team in delaware. monica alba and pete williams. monica, let me begin with you. tell me what we know about these presidential exit plans including skip

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i'm ayman mohyeldin in thor craig melvin at msnbc world headquarters in new york.ight from the fda. it could come at any time today. that means we're on the verge of seeing vaccines being shipped across this country. just in the last few hours, the fda has informed pfizer buy i don't know tech that it will work toward finalizing and issuing an emergency use authorization for its vaccine. hhs secretary alex azar says this morning we could see people getting as vaccinated as soon as monday or tuesday of next week. in this hour i'll be talking to a doctor who played a key role in pfizer's vaccine trial in getting us to this moment. first, this comes as we're getting horrific new reminders

i'm ayman mohyeldin in new york. you're watching the unveiling of key cabinet positions by president-elect joe biden. you just heard tom vilsak and marcia fudge is about to take the podium. >> to my family, my friends, my sorority sisters and constituents, i thank you for the opportunity to join in remarkable team and work on behalf of people in every city and community, to serve all those who are struggling and looking for the fair shot we all deserve. when i think about the enormity of the task ahead of us, i am reminded of the book of matthew where it is written foxes have holes. birds have nests, but the son of man has no place to lay his head. there is dignity and grace within every woman, man and child in this nation, including those who live on the outskirts of hope. those who work hard, but still struggle to make it work and those who have no place to lay their head. it is one of the highest responsibilities of our government, to see them, to see their dignity and to lift them up. i remember the feeling i had

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i'm ayman mohyeldin in for craig melvin.ehind us, new warning signs of what could be a very dark winter. more than 4 million cases in the month of november alone. that is the total for november alone. the closest we've come before that, july and october, with half of that number. more than 1.9 million cases apiece. it has our nation's medical

i'm ayman mohyeldin in new york.a is set to grant emergency approval for moderna's coronavirus vaccine, many of the nation's leaders are being vaccinated against the virus. the biden transition team says president-elect joe biden and his wife jill will get their shots on monday. house speaker

back to you, ayman. >> thanks.emergency physician and managing director of opportunity labs, the former pandemic and emerging threats coordinator during the obama administration. great to talk to you again. let's talk about what we just heard. a surge on top of a surge on top of a surge. how much worse is this going to get after the christmas holiday? >> after the thanksgiving holiday, we saw quite a significant uptick in cases. and already it looks like the travel population is about 30 to 40% higher than what we saw around thanksgiving. so my concern is that we'll see something that looks like twice that amount coming back into the e.r.s in seven to ten days, an unfath wiomable volume. >> and it is backing up what joe biden said, our darkest days in this fight are ahead of us, not behind us. you used to work for the hhs. the cdc said more than 1 million vaccinations have happened over the last two weeks and more than 9 million were distributed nationwide. why is there such a gap between these numbers, between who

i'm ayman mohyeldin ayman mohyeldin in new york. 47 days before inauguration day, the brutality of theeasing, with the u.s. once again setting new records on a daily basis, according to an nbc news count, more than 205,000 new cases were reported on thursday. the virus also taking the lives of another 2800 americans. that is just shy of the 2977 americans killed on 9/11. add to that the nearly 101,000 people who are now hospitalized. the university of washington, and its model, now predicts that if things stay as they

>>> good afternoon, everyone, i'm ayman mohyeldin here in new york.president-elect joe biden will make his first campaign stop since the election, rallying for democratic senate candidates in georgia. we're going to bring that to you live when it happens. >>> meanwhile, president trump rallying against the georgia republicans who defied his efforts to overturn this election. retweeting a post that georgia's governor and secretary of state will soon be going to jail. >>> and with less than 36 days left in his term, attorney general william barr is stepping down from his post. raising questions about what will come in the final days of the trump justice department. i'll discuss it with the senate democrat poised to lead the judiciary committee next year. all of this as biden and the senate's top republican are making plans to meet.

i'm ayman mohyeldin in for craig melvin here in new york. morning the total number of reported covid-19 cases in the united states surpassed 14 million. that is after a record setting 24 hours on multiple fronts. our health care workers are reminding us once again that each number we talk about is an american life. >> i can understand and i can describe the sound of a zipper on a body bag. i can describe with great detail the odd and very ugly color of purplish gray you turn when your body is suffocating. for me, whereas i can't understand the numbers, i can understand the humans behind those numbers. >> let's get you caught up on the facts at this hour.

i'm ayman mohyeldin ayman mohyeldin in new york. 47 days before inauguration day, the brutality of the coronavirus pandemic shows no signs of easing, with the u.s. once again setting new records on a daily basis, according to an nbc news count, more than 205,000 new cases were reported on thursday. the virus also taking the lives of another 2800 americans. that is just shy of the 2977 americans killed on 9/11. add to that the nearly 101,000 people who are now hospitalized. the university of washington, and its model, now predicts that if things stay as they are, nearly 539,000 americans could die by april 1st. the model suggests that a universal mask mandate could save nearly 68,000 lives, which is why president-elect joe biden says that he will be making a request of the american people once he takes office. watch. >> i'm going to ask the public for 100 days to mask. just 100 days. to mask. not forever. 100 days. and i think we'll see a significant reduction if we, if that occurs, with vaccinations and masking, to drive down the numbers considerably. >> and just last hour, the "washin

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palestinian health officials say that ali ayman abu aliya died after being shot with live ammunitionng a protest in a village near ramallah. europe's largest airline lufthansa has warned that tens of thousands of additional jobs are under threat as it scales down its flying schedule and fleet numbers to levels not seen since the 1970s. 30,000 staff lost theirjobs in 2020, despite a german government bailout worth $11 billion. in a letter to employees, lufthansa said the ongoing pandemic made it "harder than ever" to predict how quickly any recovery might come. for a second weekend running, there've been violent demonstrations in paris. riot police used tear gas to disperse protesters who are opposed to a draft law protecting french officers from being filmed on duty. 0ur reporterjohn johnson has more. horns blare. this was the scene on the streets of paris on saturday as peaceful rallies over a controversial draft security law turned violent for a second consecutive weekend. 0fficers fired tear gas and a pocket of demonstrators set cars and barricades on fire. shop windows were smash

palestinian health officials say that ali ayman abu aliya died after being shot with live ammunition happened during a protest in a village near ramala. votes are being counted in a parliamentary election in kuwait. like many others, the poll has been overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic. it's the first election in the country since the new emir, sheikh nawaf al—ahmad al—sabah, took office in september. infected voters were allowed to cast their ballot at five designated polling stations. the world's first mass coronavirus vaccination programme is under way in russia. doctors are using the sputnik v jab, which was cleared for use by president putin, even though it hasn't yet completed its trials. our moscow correspondent sarah rainsford has more. this is one of the moscow clinics that is now rolling out russia's sputnik vaccine to the population. first of all, doctors, medics generally, health workers, teachers and social workers have been invited to receive the vaccine. now, sputnik v is still in an experimentalform — mass trials for its safety and its efficacy are still under w

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i'm lindsey reiser in for ayman mohyeldin.ng down. a record-breaking 125,000 americans are in the hospital with coronavirus. a dire scenario for health care workers around the country. just in the last hour, president trump returned to washington, skipping his annual new year's eve party in palm beach. it does not appear to be related to this ongoing health kriecris. the white house offered no explanation as to why the president cut his vacation short. senator josh holly said he would disrupt the certification of president-elect joe biden's victory. on that very same day thousands of the president's supporters are ex

faith that the treatment he's undergoing revives the son and brother they know that asha going to ayman al jazeera miami beach. thousands of refugees and migrants are spending christmas in shelters along mexico's border with the u.s. many have been waiting for months for their asylum cases to be processed delayed further by the pandemic and they hope a new president may bring some good news in the new year john holdren. he's the line separating the u.s. from mexico it's been a slow train coming for those who want to cross it legally and the pandemic has made things worse with u.s. immigration courts closed for months. there are thousands of migrants stuck in mexico to meet them open to process their asylum requests the u.s. has put them in a plan called m.p.p. which means they have to weigh in mexico while they were silent process plays out even though they're from other countries. get out don't flip brazil he says because of the threat of violence erupt in border city what is 10 months ago this still waiting for his 1st court date. made a thematic it was for march 14th of this year but

i'm ayman mohyeldin in new york. president trump has fewer than seven weeks left in office.ing brand new reporting about who president-elect biden is considering for top posts in his administration including the secretary of health and human services. since we came on the air yesterday, another 2,300 americans have lost their lives. yesterday roughly one person dying every 30 to 45 seconds. in a few minutes we'll speak with a member of the biden coronavirus advisory task force about the way ahead. this as a new report from the white house coronavirus task force warns that risks from the virus is at a historic high. we're at a very danger place and

. >> yeah so as you mentioned ayman army and marine corps vet.e fi fund has helped me in three significant ways. it's helped me with transition and i never factored in the challenges and i couldn't ask for help. my belief system was that i had to be strong and that was a sign of weakness if i asked for help. the sempre fi fund help me pay for my bills while i was on for two months in an inpatient for two months. they also helped me most recently, had the service dog as a disabled veteran and i lost my job and with covid it was difficult to find another job. it was a guarantee that until i get that on my feet if there's an emergency to help with food they are there. laura: i want to get the pardon of returning back to civilian life. we have heard stories of people coming back from service and experiencing, sometimes it doesn't happen right away but you experienced the need for help and that's what happened to you. how did you get hooked up with them? >> i was going through a medical board when i was active duty and i was linked -- there was a semp

. >> so far, no side effects, ayman. feeling great. was a really sort of special experience. i think there's a lot of work that goes into making these sorts of processes run smoothly. i think the hospital did a great job. the line ran really smoothly. we checked in, they validated our credentials, we went straight to the vaccination station. we had a chance to ask any questions, got vaccinated, and were observed for about 15 minutes afterwards. for people who were there, there was a sense of gratitude to the scientists who have labored to make this a reality. and there is a sense of humility, i think we're humbled that we're part of the first tier. i want the american people to know we're going to go out and try to take care of them. >> and from what has been published so far about moderna's vaccine, how do you expect the meeting to go tomorrow? >> i think it will be very similar to the pfizer one, with one exception. pfizer was looking to approve for ages down to 16, and one dissenting vote. moderna is only seeking approving for folks

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i'm lindsey reiser in for ayman mohyeldin. it's the final day of 2020, a grueling year that's been defined by the coronavirus crisis. even as we say good-bye and frankly good riddance to 2020, the pandemic is showing no signs of slowing down. a record-breaking 125,000 americans are in the hospital with coronavirus. a dire scenario for health care workers around the country. just in the last hour, president trump returned to washington, skipping his annual new year's eve party in palm beach. it does not appear to be related to this ongoing health kriecris. the white house offered no explanation as to why the president cut his vacation short. senator josh holly said he would disrupt the certification of president-elect joe biden's victory. on that very same day thousands of the president's supporters are ex president elected to flood the streets of washington. just after the house voted to override the president's veto on a national defense bill, senator majority leader mitch mcconnell has all but closed the door on the presiden

>> no reax at all yet, ayman. and the white house is pointing to the fact that the bill has not even made it to the president's desk for him to veto or to sign because it is still going through the enrollment process. but it's not like the president and the white house don't know exactly what is in this bill, it is online for anyone that wants to go read all 6,000 pages of it and it's not like the president is spending his time trying to hash out a new agreement with congress. i was thinking babt to about president obama, he was on vacation to hawaii, he averted a real crisis before he headed back to vacation. president trump threw a grenade into this situation and then skipped town. here in west palm beach the president just wrapped up a trip to his golf course and now he is back at mar-a-lago. >> to that point we can die sect all of the miss takes that happened along the way with the president negotiating this deal through his secretary of the treasury and then acting like he doesn't know what's in it and why it