we'll have a report from cedar rapids. thank you. arthel?hel: meanwhile, president trump with another defiant tweet on the election this morning just hours after he appeared to admit defeat for the first time. all of this as his administration continues to stonewall president-elect joe biden's transition into the white house. we have fox team coverage on this. jacqui heinrich is live in wilmington, delaware, with the president-elect. but first, we go to david spunt live at the white house. hi, david. >> reporter: good afternoon. president trump not at the white house, he's golfing at his northern virginia club. but at this pointless still refusing to concede, however, via twitter in classic president trump mode, he tweeted this morning and came awfully close to conceding when referring to president-elect joe biden. want to read this tweet, he wrote, quote: he won because the election was rigged, no vote watchers or observers allowed, vote tabulated by radical left, privately-owned company which couldn't even qualify for texas. the president

in 1979 the body of michelle martinko was found in her car in the parking lot in a mall at cedar rapidsen stabbed multiple times and the murder baffled investigators for decades. there was a break in the case using dna technology. >> reporter: it is a classic 48 hours murder mystery with a young, beautiful blonde in cedar rapids, iowa, go to the mall at christmas time. she leaves the mall and guessed her car and was brutally attacked and killed. there were many suspects involved but detectives cannot seem to figure it out. it takes almost 40 years and the father and son detective came to finally break open the case. >> find out the identity of the prime suspect 148 hours airs tonight at 10:00 p.m. on kpix 5. >>> three young friends put their heads together to serve those less fortunate during the pandemic. >>> sharon chin shows you the students trading in laptops for clippers and razors in this week jefferson award winner. >> reporter: vincent and eddie set up a weekly barbershop at the race baptist church in san jose serving dozens of people that stay at the church shelter, or that com

more than a thousand homes destroyed in the town of cedar rapids, alone. that's a thousand families we met one of them on the road to recovery. >> a powerful wind storm ripping through the midwest. 140 miles an hour gusts tearing through neighborhoods. destroying homes meteorologists call it a derecho, and as we wreaked havoc, families from iowa to indiana, braced for the worst. >> i'm just thinking that pray to god that the house doesn't cave in. >> thankfully, the rooch stayed sturdy on the miles family home in cedar rapids. but when the couple and their three daughters emerged from the basement after the storm had passed, disbelief. >> we went out the back door, and it literally was like we were walking into a whole different world. >> while family and friends came together to help, nothing could be done to salvage their 2,000 squarefoot 100-year-old house. >> the insurance adjuster said start paking things up you can't stay here, and that was the end of any quick answers. three months later, virtually zero progress has been made on what's left of their

places like amarillo and cedar rapids, you are basically flipping a coin. can a tool like this help people assess the risk they're willing to take? >> you know, i think common sense should tell us what risk -- are you willing to take a 15% chance with your mother or your father or your grandmother or your grandfather? i think those risks are too high. and there's great news. the news about the vaccines should encourage us that, during the course of the next year, we are going to get our lives back. we can do this. we have to be able to do this. >> yeah. andy, thank you for speaking truth to the viewers. i appreciate it. i'll see you soon. >> all right. >> we'll be right back. but each wish is special and unique, just like the kid behind the wish. for children fighting critical illnesses, wishes are life changing. these children and their families face unimaginable pain, but wishes give them hope. these wish kids have incredible imaginations. that's why when hunter wished to be a dinosaur, we at make-a-wish knew we had to go big to turn hunter's wish into a

here is the front page of the local paper in cedar rapids, iowa.owa, again, hits record of covid-19 patients. that's the hospitalization graph you there climbing up their front page. ohio, just like iowa, it's going to be a fight between trump and biden in ohio. the front page of the cincinnati paper today. the virus is raging.ru ohio sets a record. in indiana, mike pence's home state where the republican ticket expects no problem at the presidential level. do they believe it in indiana when they say nobody dies from covid? when you get covid, you get better. it just goes, away. it's just the j greedy, scammin nurses and doctors that are faking deaths. do they believe that? orat do they believe the front page of the "indianapolis star" today? what 4,000 deaths looks like as 4,000 indiana residents are now dead from covid. in hard-fought minnesota, see at the top there, the kind of obscuring even the name of the paper. the brainer dispatch. the headline for that story is we were hoping we would never get to this point. it's a point that all school k

. >> reporter: she and her husband now live in cedar rapids, where she says they are feeling deja vu from new york city in april. >> what we were facing back then, at least one death per hour in every hospital, that's what we're seeing in iowa now. >> reporter: as iowa climbs the ladder of the nation's worst covid-19 hotspots, health care workers are hitting their breaking point. >> this pandemic has done them physical and emotional damage or given them fatigue that i can't even describe. >> reporter: fatigue only being half of the problem. >> a level of depression that you can't really describe. >> reporter: yesterday, the polk county health department warned of shortages, saying, "staffing is one of the biggest challenges facing polk county hospitals. we are seeing an increasing number of medical staff out with covid-19 or isolating at home, and because of this, adequate hospital and clinic staffing remains an issue for our community." >> it's just not going to be enough. we just don't have the capacity. soon enough, we're not going to have the capacity enough to support the amount

dubuque, cedar rapids. and ashley hintz the republican won a a tv anch state representative. over abby finchenauer, second youngest woman elected to congress and generally votes ag moderate butd as being a radical part of radical democrats. tagged with this idea that she also didn't support pbeice use she supported police reform. she will not be returning. let's look at anotonhe florida. carlos jimenez in florida 26 we're talking about miami dade he had a big advantage. he's the mayor of miami dade. er but we seee this margin with powell, this is about the turnout of hispanic votes. and what republica feel sure is a backlash against the idea that democrats may be moving into a socialist direction. and let's lookt one more that is still pending. this has been mcadams race in utah the democrat. right now outpaced just barely by burgess owen who i a former nfl player. we're going to be watching this closely. and if you look at e house full 217, 218 they need to run the house. but they will be down by less amna: maybe ale more races to call. >> a couple more dozen races and new y

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he joins us live by skype from cedar rapids good to have you with us. so biden has pretty much outlined a lot of the key appointments and nominees. how do you think that's going down? thank you for having me personally foremost, i'm incredibly excited by the cabinet that president elect biden has nominated so far. i think it's an incredibly diverse group of individuals with a lot of experience take. mr. blinken, for example, has over 26 years of experience in diplomacy and government, a nominee to the united nations to be the investor to the united nations, has over 30 years in the foreign service for united states. so i think after 4 years of having our federal bureaucracy hollowed out by the trumpet, ministration, it is incredibly exciting for me to see that experience and leadership and confidence. let me jump in there and say that what would you say to the critics who say what they represent inside is the continuation of, i mean it's, it's very, very difficult to see how they can come up with fresh, new thinking. these are very much institutional in

earlier this year covid hot spots are more widespread general mills taking me its two biggest plants cedar rapidsof those, bed baskets and working to keep those places open the question is for how long with the cases spreading across this country >> talking to ford last night and the fact that they didn't think they'd have to shut factories again. we forget in march and april, no one had testing at scale or even the motion that this could be a pandemic i wonder if you think it is just not apples to apples versus the spring >> that's what i found i would also say the food plants had remained open even during the spring now they are in better shape as cases are rising, the head of the supply chain said from general mills, they need to ensure the plants are not the cause of the spread. they are seeing more people calling out sick and encouraging people to stay at home if not feeling well a lot of these companies are doing testing and social distancing what we are told is that in factories, that can be done. so far, so good. that is the hope they've learned those safety lessons and a lot more invento

some reports of these calls were coming from the cedar rapids area, but not just iowa.tates reporting these robocalls as well. neighbors nebraska had reports of similar calls. in michigan, there, too, warning people to ignore those calls. some southern states as well. it's clear this is targeted amongst a number of different states here. the fbi is reportedly investigating. we haven't heard he they think is behind it. those who received the calls told cnn they felt it as a kind of voter intimidation especially on election day. >> when every vote counts. martin, where you are in des moines what have you seen in terms of turnouts and lines and who is turning out? >> reporter: first of all polled opened at 7:00 a.m. could be a long day. close at 9:00 p.m., central time. of course, 10:00 eastern time. it's been extremely busy at this particular polling place. many polling places throughout the state reported long lines when the polls opened. lines quickly dissipated. here there isn't a line, kind of in an afternoon lull but steady and just voter after voter. hundreds someti

and in amarillo and cedar rap s rapids, you're flipping a coin.his tool help people assess the risk? >> i think common sense should tell us that, what risks -- are you willing to take a 15% chance with your mother or grandmother or father or grandfather? i think the risks are too high. and the news about the vaccines should encourage us. during the course of next year, we're going to get our lives back. this is not going to be forever. this is a short period of time. we can do this. we have to be able to do this. >> yeah. andy, thank you for speaking truth to the viewers. i appreciate it. i'll see you soon. >> sure. >> we'll be right back. your experience matters. at university of phoenix, students with relevant life experience and eligible transfer credits save on average $11k and 1 year off their undergrad degree. see how much you can save. shower your pets with $gifts and goodies. tthis week at petsmart. get a $10 petsmart bonus card when you spend $50 or more. and enjoy free same-day delivery on petsmart.com powered by doordash. let the season

cedar rapids, 70,000 votes 92%. i want to go back again. hillary clinton has 58,000 votes.in the cases where the democrats need to do well, joe biden is getting more votes because of the higher turnout than hillary clinton. but just look. an interesting thing to look at the so-called pivot counties. this is trump 2016. trump, 2020. trump 2020 still a lot of red. back in time, watch all the blue. this is obama 2020 the. more pivot counties than any state. 31 counties, 31 of the iowa counties. look temperature. a change in 2016 and we're not quite gun the 2020 count. joe biden took a few back but nowhere near the bulk. we're not done with the count but we're up to 84% of the count there. there's a lot of red but remember, it is incomplete. >> in arizona, look at this. 76% of the estimated vote is in. biden has an impressive 207,000 vote lead. 56% to 45%. 11 electoral votes in arizona. in nevada, still very early. only a few votes have been counted. trump has the lead, less than 1% of the vote is in for nevada. we'll watch nevada closely. arizona is a key battleground state. >

we also have a national czech and slovak mnuchin in cedar rapids, iowa. that museum helps to educate americans about these events i just talked about and most importantly to teach them about the importance of never giving up on fighting for freedom. i yield the floor -- i yield the floor. mr. mcconnell: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: last week the country and the world received some really great news that we've longed for quite a while to hear. a major american drug company, together with their german partner, announced that their candidate for a covid-19 vaccine appears to be at least 90% effective in trials. that is 90% -- 9-0 -- 90%. dr. fauci called these preliminary results extraordinary. another expert called the news, quote, as good as you could hope for. of course, tests and trials are ongoing. the f.d.a. will perform its own thorough review which will include analyzing months of safety data. the american people should rest assure there are appropriate and necessary measures to assure the safety and effic