chattanooga is sing its share all of this, unfortunately.y berke is the mayor, and he joins me now. mayor berke, thank you so much for being with us, how are things in chattanooga and what is your greatest concern right now? >> the greatest concern is the really difficult times thatwe e going to see over the next 60 to 90 days as more pele are indoors, as we continue to see the holiday seasonlay out, and what is going to happen there. we're seing deaths escalate here on a very large basis. and we have to ncbe crned for our hospital capacity as we move >> i want to get to that. but you do have a local mask mandate in place there. what else are you ing to contain the spread there in your city. >> well, really have restricted powers for city mayors. so thre aren't additional measures that i can put in place, for the most part we're talking about cpaigns and public statements.te but the sts a whole has preemed local mayors from making those kind of adjustments. so we really have to rely on state policies. and onorhe inftion front, you know, peop

chattanooga. telling you?nt line workers >> well, every week we have a meeting, a task force meeting that has theheads of all the hospitals as part of that. what i hear every week is our employees are stressed. they're tired. they're really worried about what is going on. and the issue is not about the number of beds or space, it's always about personnel. do they have e people that they need to serve the covidt patient en on top of that, all the other sick individuals they're eing. >> i know that you and other state officials have been encouraging people not to gather beyond their immediate families. but with christmas around the corner, is that message sinking in. and if not, why? >> well, i hope so. and i am going to keep sayingsa that me. i'm going to live that message. but i do think that there are mixed messages that people get from seeing policies that don't restrict that kind of movement. we also see from the, again from the top, from the president of the united states on down, different kind of message

traffic jam in chattanooga, tennessee this line stretched nearly a mile the cdc says testing before and after air travel can reduce the spread of the virus, so the agency recommends testing one to three days before your flight, plus another test three to five days after travel in addition to seven days at home many states now require a negative test or self-quarantine after arrival. dozens of airports across the country are offering covid testing to travelers, including right here at laguardia. there is a site set up where passengers can walk through without an appointment the testing is free and they find out the results in 48 hours. guys, back to you. >> kathy, thank you very much. >>> it's hard to avoid travel, especially when everyone wants to get home, but warning here. >> we've heard it time and again with those warnings. >>> let's take a look at weather and how it's looking for the holidays nbc meteorologist bill karins is here with the forecast >> good morning. great to see you guys. the week ahead starts quiet and gets active by christmas eve and christmas day. we're starting o

and in chattanooga, tennessee, this line stretched nearly a mile. the cdc says testing before and after air travel can reduce the spread of the virus. so the agency recommends testing one to three days before your flight, plus another test three to five days after travel, in addition to seven days at home. many states now require a negative test or self quarantine after arrival. and there are dozens of airports across the country offering covid testing, including right here at laguardia. there's a site folks can go through, get tested without an appointment and get the results within 48 hours. kate? >> kathy park, thank you. more news tonight out of congress. a stimulus deal, just minutes ago, that would put money in the pockets of americans desperate for the relief amid the covid crisis. when could they expect to get it? >> reporter: pandemic pain. illness, hunger, job loss, financial hardship for millions. congress insists covid aid is coming. >> at long last we have the bipartisan breakthrough the country has needed. >> reporter: the $900 billion

thousands of people, look at this, lining up for vaccinations in chattanooga, waiting hours in their cars. traffic backed up for four miles. from one state to the next, calls now growing to pick up the pace. here's abc's ellen lopez. >> reporter: tonight, thousands in miles long lines waiting hours on new year's eve in tennessee to get the covid-19 vaccine. >> a lot less fear. a lot less anxiety and just a lot of hope. >> reporter: the long awaited vaccine is finally here. but states are now struggling to get those live-saving shots into arms. >> they don't have the people. they don't have the funding and there isn't an overarching plan that we really need to ensure that we get this done quickly. >> reporter: in arizona, out of the more than 300,000 vaccines the state has received, only 18% have been used. vaccination sites in florida overwhelmed. calls for the national guard to come in and help. some people say they can't get an appointment. >> i have to call more than 200 times, nothing. >> reporter: operation warp speed now crawling. only 2.7 million vaccinations recorded. far sho

my mom is from chattanooga and my dad is from arkansas. this is the food i grew up eating. it was while i was researching that book on the history of soul food that african-americans who have cooked for our presidents started popping up in my research. once i finish that book, if i could find enough stories to cobble together a story about the presidential chefs, i'm going do it. i was able to do that and write this book. i'm a lawyer. this is not to disparage attorneys, but it just wasn't for me. i was going to open up a soul food restaurant in denver. then a law school classmate of mine called me up out of the blue and said, adrian, i'm working on this initiative in the white house. do you have any friends who might be interested working on this initiative? i'm in my office in denver. she's in d.c. tell me more about the initiative. it was called the initiative for one america. it was an outgrowth of president clinton's initiative on race which had this wild idea. if we talk to one another and listen, we might realize that we have a lot more in common than what divides us

but i have two southern parents, my mom is from chattanooga, tennessee, and my dad from arkansas, so this is the food i grew up eating while i was researching that book on history of soul food that african-americans who have cooked for our presidents started popping up in my research, so i said once i finish that book, if i could find enough stories to cobble together a story about these presidentialships, i'm going to do and fortunately i was able to do that and write this book, the president's kitchen cabinet. so i'm a lawyer by training. and didn't -- this is not to disparage any attorney in the audience, but it wasn't for me. and i was going to open up a soul food restaurant in denver and then a law school classmate had of mine from georgetown, law school called me up out of the blue and said, adrian, i'm working on this initiative in the white house, do you have any friends who might be interested working on this mission. so i'm sitting in any office in denver and she's back in d.c. so tell me a little bit more about initiative that was called initiative for one america, it was

the university of tennessee at chattanooga hosted the event and the video.ledfirst panel is newspaper coverage of epidemics. we did this chronologically, i believe, as we look at epidemics is fromfirst speaker the university of toledo. i hope i haven't mangled your name. newspaper poems and cholera

library specialist at the chattanooga public library, she said that she is currently reading your bookshe is so blessed to hear even more of your story. she said i would like to hear the language my mind while reading. in an effort to connect more with the characters i would like to ask if you could please transfer me the very word of part of maine, ma ci which means cat in the bosnian language for those who may not have read your book yet. amra: thank you for that question. another question i also get is why the book titled the cast that i never named. it is sort of name in the story. [speaking in native tongue]. and just to provide context, i encounter. [speaking in native tongue]. as a refugee and started coming into my city just before my hometown. and besieged by the army. and he refuses to sort of leave my family, she follows me from our unit and have to be honest. very honest in the book as well. nobody really wants cast in the household. she didn't want a pair of the. my family did not have enough food for ourselves alone another living being. i was attacked by german shepherd

so for the chosen ones, the lucky few, places like atlanta, chattanooga and upstate new york, that's where we anticipate the majority of the precipitation to be snowfall. a white christmas there. along the east coast cities, it looks like there is a major rain event. let's talk about where we will 100% dpaguarantee the snow. the spine of the rockies, a couple feet of snow over the next several days. look at the northern great lakes and along the spine of the appalachian in the to northern georgia. that's where the potential far white christmas exists. we'll cross fingers, hold thumbs, we want the forecast to verify. christmas eve, you can see the thunderstorms advancing east through the day on christmas. that's going to make travel conditions difficult for anyone who decides to travel during this pandemic, but, of course, that will lead to reduced number of people not only in the air but also on the ground, because of the rough weather that's going to move through. let's talk about what's happening tomorrow. the change of seasons officially becoming winter in the northern hemisphere.

you may have seen video of that nurse in chattanooga yesterday passing outet cold after getting her shotu may have seen the press conference on tuesday in san antonio where a health care worker received a fake vaccination on camera.he he got the needle in the arm, but he didn't actually get a dose. the hospital conceded that's what happened but never explained it. so it's fair to have questions. you are not a conspiracy nut for wanting answers. on the other hand, rushed development and a clumsy rollout do not fully explain many people'sta reluctance to take ts drug. the worry goes deeper than that, because concern isn't simply the vaccine, it's the people in charge of the vaccine and their basic moral rottenness. americans understand many of our leaders don't care about them, they don't care about human beings in general. they're religious fanatics who worship money, power, wokeness. whether their policies help or hurt individuals doesn't seem of great interest to them. these are the people who with emremove police from poor neighborhoods because it made them feel less guilty about their

>>in nolansville never heard of it heading for chattanooga heard of 5.8 4 almost billion gifts have been delivered. that's fall trail trillion. well, how are these but said on his way it looks like it's snowing there that's just in effect but. abrasive we'll figure that out for us. but we'll track santa as he is now in the u.s. not here in the bay area obviously just yet but it's it will come now looking forward to him but he's made a lot of headway last time we checked is over in greenland hustle. >>all right still ahead at 8 a high honor for the nation's top infectious disease expert, one east bay city is celebrating doctor anthony fauci plus tracking your side effects after getting the vaccine. how the cdc. >>is asking >>the cdc is asking covid vaccine recipients to download an app to help track any side effects they might experience there's an app for anything this one is called v safe you see it there to post a. >>keep your info confidential one doctor who received her first dose last week of the vaccine says. she hasn't felt any side effects but she has been using the app and repor

of revenues is $200 million, you have 60 going 90 i look a company in chattanooga, i like gen corp, i like a company in cambridge, massachusetts, grace construction products, 70 odd million shares, $23 stock. the reason i like it is starboard just put nine people on the board there's seven people on the board. they're going to sell it what is it worth is it worth 35 selko in switzerland is a leader in that area and this is a company somebody can buy under it those are some of the names. case/new holland, they have a new ceo and they're going to split it up into trucking and agricultural equipment and construction equipment there's a lot of companies that have been overlooked and ignored. i think they'll continue to do well in that infrastructure. inland water transportation, makes the barges, companies that make rail equipment. i like gatx, a rail equipment supplier that's been around 120 years. the stock is 80 with 34 million shares nice, small midcap stock >> i don't know what -- i don't know what your secret sauce is, mario, and i'm not asking you to share it here like colonel sand

the chattanooga choo-choo? >> oh, yeah.this anything go. you square up to your opponent, and you tap dance like this. >> and you hit them on the head with a tambourine. >> jimmy: i want to show everyone a clip from the movie here is kristen wiig in "wonder woman 1984," take a look at this >> hey jake. jake, hi, can you -- hi, i know, walk much? the latch of my -- >> good morning. >> hi, thank you >> diana prince, cultural anthropology and archeology. >> barbara minerva, geology, gemology, lithology and part-time cryptozoologist. >> oh, wow >> kept busy in college. sorry, it's these heels, you know just stupid. scientists don't wear heels. >> sometimes we do >> right >> have a nice day >> the heels are cool, i like those, animal print. [ applause ] >> jimmy: "wonder woman 1984" will be in select theaters and imax on christmas day, what a christmas present. it will be available the same day on hbo max more with kristen wiig when we come back. stick around [ cheers and applause ♪ waiting for presents that might not arrive? thi

>> hey, from chattanooga, tennessee. >> i love that town. what's going on?> caller: i'm one of the young robin hood investors you mentioned. thank you for sticking with the little guy >> thank you i was all over today trying to figure out i don't want to hurt the little guy. i don't want him to get in our out. i want him to own stocks like doordash and get that big gain i don't want to lose that opportunity for them >>. >> caller: on lmnd, the stock shot up 30% over the past six days thanks to bullish wall street estimates i think the company has a lot of disruptive long-term potential within the insurance market, but i'm wondering if you think it's too expensive to buy now or i should wait for a pullback >> tej, great question and i have been a huge fan of lemonade i read an article online goldman sachs has been displaced by reddit. there is so much hype in it right now. i liked it at 50 can i like it as much at 100 i just can't i just can't i can't like it as much. i feel like calling my mommy mom, i can't like it as much it's just doubled. like it's a lem

we had an unfortunate event n chattanooga not too long ago, where a people, d the f.b.i.led it an act of terrorism immediately. but what is upsetting is that we're not consistent. there is a double standard in how we treat crimes. and we shouldt , regardless of the faith or the color of the perpetrator. it is thcrime we should focus on and we should treat it all the same. >> nawaz:hen it comes t investigation, which they say is ongoing, and they're searching for any possible motive they can ind, what is ithat you and other nashville leaders and resident wantwantto see happen next? >> we want to see the investigation lead to where we actually know whatw appened. and do we stop something like this from had ening again. ve a conversation about how do the police deal with things like this. i'hoping that this tragedy allows us to have a conversation about what people in the black and brown commbeity has talking about, which is the double standard. i'm hoping that all ofa this -- it iagedy, but i hope we have the opportunity to start having a conversation on how do we deal with

some 270 people have worked on my senate staff, as i ntioned, in jackson, nashville, tricities, chattanooga or in washington,d.c., with the persal staff or theelp, education, labor, and pension staff, or the rules committee or the appropriations cmittee or at the senate republican confence. it's a lot of places to have a lotf sta. 153 women, 117 men. ou staff has also benited from the work of 433 interns. interns usually stay with us one to three months, and they have some real work experiees while they're here. and they're pretty good. in fact, 30 staff members, that's 11% of our staff, began their work in our office as interns. our staff has experienced some great personal joys. we've celebratethe birth or adoption of 30 babies over those 18 years. just as i met myife honey while we wereorking in the senate some of our staffs met their spouses while working on our staff. including mackensie burt and paul mckernan, virginia ppner and bobby mcmillin, laura hef letter and john herzog. we have experienced profound sorrows. some lost parents, nursed seriously injured children, been through the

contractor who was later killed by military officials of in 2015, two military installations in chattanooga, tennessee, were attacked by a gunman who killed four people before he was shot by police. there have been investigative reports about all of those shootings and there have been recommendations after each one of those reports -- in each one of the reports and everybody shook their head and said, we've got to do better. we can't continue to allow this to happen. but what we see from the pensacola report that we just received just recently is that many of those relations were never followed, especially with regard to planning, training, and assessment of response plans for situations just like the one that occurred in pensacola, florida. that is simply inexcusable -- inexcusable. we have young men and women every year, every day, every week, every month that volunteer to put their lives on the line for this country never dreaming that there life may be put on the line within the security of a confine of a united states military base on u.s. soil, not overseas, not as part of some overse

firefighters bringing cheer to a children's hospital in chattanooga.en santa needs a little help this time of year. >> now and again. >> that's right. >>> we continue with hope and hesitation surrounding the covid-19 vaccine. recent surveys finding black americans expressing high rates of concern about getting vaccinated. the naacp hosted a virtual town hall last night hoping to overcome those fears featuring the african-american doctor at the center of one of the biggest vaccine breakthroughs. t.j. holmes is here with more this morning. good morning, t.j. >> reporter: good morning, and the community most impacted by covid, least likely to take the vaccine. to understand it you have to go back to one of the ugliest chapters, where the government deceived and then allowed black men to suffer and even die from a disease. so now there's a desperate effort under way to get the african-american community to trust the science and the response is oftentimes, yeah, but we remember the history. a new push this morning to help african-americans in particular und

the university of tennessee at chattanooga hosted the event and the video.alledfirst panel is newspaper coverage of epidemics. we did this chronologically, i believe, as we look at epidemics is fromfirst speaker the university of toledo. i hope i haven't mangled your name. newspaper poems and cholera epidemics in 19th-century new york city. >> great, thank you so much. powerpoint that i sent along. there is. first, i would like to set my timer so i don't go over. i would like to start by at theg all of the folks utc communications department for making this symposium a reality. these are important issues and topics that we can discuss and we should be discussing now. could we go to the second slide? sure, i see if the second slide is up, i'm just going to continue. similaritiesious between the years 1866 and 2020. divided bye u.s. was the civil war. at the same time, the threat of a foreign virus that medical professionals and city officials struggled to control changed the lives of millions of americans. year, as the recent presidential election laid bare c

host: william, chattanooga, tennessee. do you have a question about the vaccine registry?aller: i am skeptical. i have crohn's disease and other conditions. i have been fine this whole time. fast how they rolled this out, but i do trust the science. the public ishow -- it is time to move on. trump lost. you are riding the wagon we have been riding the last four years. once explain what happens that takes place with vaccine registries. guest: that is something many of us have been waiting behind the scenes to try to get everything ready. let's take a hospital for example. they start vaccinating. that information will go into their system that they have utilized and that information immunizationto the information system in that jurisdiction in the state will take that information and one file.ed into that file will be uploaded into the cdc clearinghouse. off thewill strip personal identifying information and all of the different jurisdictions that have been administering vaccines will be compiled and by tomorrow morning, will be able to look out there and say, ok, this is ho

the fact that it was in a busy downtown district, look, i'm from chattanooga not nashville, but i'vele come and go. i understand -- i mean, everything, i'm curious as to when the rv was there. how it got there, what the photographs and what the pictures and the video is saying in terms of, listen, i bet you a dollar to a dime that there is already security. and they will find out when they arrived. >> leland: i want to interrupt you one second. we understand the fbi is officially leading the investigation, which tells you something of what they believe. you are the first person we have talked to who has actually been to this area. i've been to nashville before but i don't think i've walked this strip second and commerce. you see the river along and those where houses are dozens and bars and restaurants. very importantly in this situation, the bars and restaurants in nashville are open during the pandemic, especially on christmas and christmas eve. based on just sort of your experience down there, you can only imagine that if this had happened 12 hours before work 12 hours later, we w