the boston's fenway park was ready to open today. here is gabe gutierrez >> reporter: a mass vaccination site here on the third base concourse. >> my niece from concord called me at 7:30 said there is an opening at 8:50 at fenway park >> reporter: massachusetts started allowing seniors 75 or older to get the vaccine so many states complaints over the online system. robert brock is a healthcare worker >> it was impossible to find the appointment. it was not smooth. >> reporter: 15 million doses delivered. 32 million administered. >> it is like buying a lotteryet >> reporter: a new cdc order takes in effect requiring masks and planes and trains and buses and rideshares the south african strain first found in south carolina is in maryland the u.k. strain is now in 33 states there is some encouraging news new cases at nursing homes have declined >> nursing homes have been a top priority, as their vaccination number goes up it drives some of the infection as well. >> reporter: this site is closing down and new york city is shutdown tomorr

hundreds rushing to boston's fenway park to get their shots before the storm. hundreds of flights grounded tonight. rob marciano in the middle of the storm. ginger zee with the new timing tonight, as this system now continues toump sn and bngdagin >>> also tonight, concern over this. and now the warning about what we could soon see here in the u.s. when the uk variant likely becomes the dominant strain here by march. and what dr. anthony fauci is now saying tonight about the importance of getting that shot, if the u.s. has any hope of stopping these variants and keeping them from changing to get around the vaccines. >>> tonight, the meeting at the white house. president biden and ten republican senators discussing the president's $1.9 trillion covid relief plan. he wants $1,400 checks for most americans, money for vaccinations. help for small businesses. what the republicans are now proposing. so, will this be bipartisan or will democrats go it alone? >>> former president trump's impeachment trial. a week before his senate trial begins, the former president's l

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this is fenway park. the iconic home of the red sox. you see this long line now of people getting vaccinated, many of them 75 and older. this is the first day that seniors 75 and up can get vaccinated here in the state of massachusetts. as you mentioned, a senator told us it's like the wild west. they have been having trouble getting some of the vaccine appointments ready to go by signing up on the website. some of the people we spoke with say the process here at fenway has gone very smoothly. they got the this morning. they rushed over here. officials here say that they plan to get about 500 people vaccinated today and ramp that up eventually to more than 1,200 and hopefully they hope to do more. >> we have coordinated with the state. we only ramp up inasmuch as already those vaccines have taken -- have been taken into account. we're not worried in terms of accessibility of the vaccine. >> reporter: again, people 75 and up getting vaccines today. you can see they plan to finish that up by 1:00 today. the weather is affecting things her

appointments booked out in a matter of hours for the first week here at fenway park.appointments made available every week. starting with about 500 vaccinations a day and plan to scale up to about 1,000 and then on to 1,250 a day. as for what happens when it's time to play baseball here? well, the ceo and president of the red sox says he homes they'll be able to do both at the same time. maybe vaccines in the morning. baseball at night. >> reporter: i'm pete muntean at reagan national airport. the transportation security administration is requiring now that you wearing a masks starting here at security, but also it says throughout the entire transportation system. public and commercial. that includes planes, trains, buses, boats, taxis and ride shares. also here in airports and at transportation hubs. all goes into effect 11:59 p.m. tonight and those violating the rule could face civil penalties. a big shift, new administration and new policy. the trump administration famed to act on any sort of transportation mask mandate. >> thank you to my colleagues for those repo

. >> let's get to alexander field who joins us inside of fenway park with more. looks like a lot of folks still there. >> reporter: snow doesn't get in the way of a lot here in boston and there is no plans to shut down this vaccination site. they asked to come earlier and they did. there is a long line because every vaccine is opened for. they opened up for the first time last week and all of the appointments filled up within a matter of hours. they'll be releasing new appointments every week and they expect those to book up again in a matter of hours. this will serve an urban and diverse population. they believe that concentrating the supplies is an effective way to do it and the numbers bear that out. they start with 500 vaccinations today and next week ramp up to about a thousand people a day and 1200 beyond that and what happens when it comes time to play baseball. we asked the ceo of the red sox and here is his hope. >> we'll do both. we'll see what the state and city tell us. if they would like us to keep going, we're happy to do that and work it around the

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here at fenway park, home of the red sox, another kind of opening day. part of the third base concourse will be transformed into a mass vaccination site the goal is to get, eventually, from about 500 shots a day to more than 1,200. >> reporter: this morning, a race against time to vaccinate more americans new and highly contagious covid-19 variants spread nationwide. >> we are going to see something like we have not seen yet in this country that hurricane is coming. >> reporter: the third case of the south african strain, first detected in south carolina, was found in maryland over the weekend. officials confirmed the patient in baltimore had no history of international travel and likely contracted the virus through community spread two other variants from the uk and brazil have already been detected in the u.s., with more than 460 cases of the potentially more deadly uk strain spreading across 32 states >> the fact is, the surge that is likely to occur with this new variant from england is going to happen in the next 6 to 14 weeks. >> reporter: though t

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hundreds rushing to boston's fenway park to get their shots before the storm.s of flights grounded tonight. rob marciano in the middle of the storm. ginger zee with the new timing to

hundreds rushing to boston's fenway park to get their shots before the storm.s of flights grounded tonight. rob marciano in the middle of the storm. ginger zee with the new timing tonight, as this system now continues to dump snow

. >> reporter: but they still played ball at boston's fenway park, the city's largest vaccination sitethey opened an hour early to get ahead of the storm. we were there when an ambulance came to the rescue of this medical transport van stuck carrying a dialysis patient. the larger vehicle led the way through near whiteout conditions getting the patient to safety. a mo in addition to new jersey, there are nearly four dozen counties in new york that are still currently under a state of emergency. it doesn't look like relief is coming anytime soon as at least another 4 to 6 inches is expected overnight throughout the region, norah. >> o'donnell: mola lenghi, thank you. as mola mentioned, for millions, the storm is far from over. let's get the forecast from cbs's lonnie quinn. so lonnie, give us the forecast. >> reporter: all right, norah. it started with the storm in california. it made its way through thein oh8 inches in spots he thcitytseln queens picked up 17 inches. just west of new york city in new jersey, 27 inches. so how much more do we pick up? the storm is not over, like you sai

from this parking lot at disneyland to fenway park, home of the red sox, to lord's cricket ground in u.k. where empty spaces that once filled us with joy now fill us with hope. robyn curnow, cnn, atlanta. >>> well, people across the united kingdom stopped what they were doing yesterday to give captain tom moore a huge round of applause. the world war ii veteran died on tuesday. the nation recognized him for becoming a symbol of hope with his simple, inspiring walk that raised millions to fight the covid pandemic. just watch. >> i encourage everyone to join in a national clap for captain tom. captain sir tom moore dedicated his life to raise money and achieving more in his 100th year than any centenarian. he knew what he wanted to support, it was and is the nhs. >> we're doing such a magnificent job for us all. >> reporter: he cheered us all up and he embodied the triumph of the human spirit. as captain tom repeatedly reminded us, please remember, tomorrow will be a good day. >> and may he rest in peace. thank you so much for your company. i'm rosemary church. "early start" is next. y

. >> reporter: i'm alexandra field at fenway park in boston, massachusetts.nother kind of opening day. it's being turned into a mass vaccination site. people eligible to receive the covid vaccine here in massachusetts can sign up for it. ballpark the latest that are opening their doors to people runway. they will ramp it up to about 150 a day. >> i'm pete monday munteen in washington. president biden is getting help. the department of homeland security issued what is called a determination of national emergency. the tsa enforces mask wearing at security check it points and, quote, throughout the commercial and public transportation system. the cdc order impacts anybody on a plane, train, bus, boat, taxi or ride share. also in airports and other transportation hubs. it goes into effect monday at 11:59 p.m. >>> thanks to all of our correspondents for those reports. >>> the u.s. vaccine rollout has stumbled as we all know. the situation is much, much worse in brazil. the country with the second worst outbreak has issued a fraction as many vaccine doses as the yo

alexander field joins us now from inside the great fenway park. alexander, how are officials able to get a site of this size up and running when others like new york's yankee stadium and city field are having trouble. how are they manageing? >> yeah, look, this is a different kind of opening day. they have been telling us what they feel they need is a combination of the supersites along with the smaller sites. a very different story from new york at times. mayor deblasio saying he doesn't have the site but in massachusetts, they have been dock it for sometime. they opened it up for vaccines back in january. they have ramped that sight up to offer 16,000 weekly. they decided to open up this site today. they say it will serve a more urban population. they have 8,000 a day. they are starting at 500 a day today. this is could eto'o the plan. they are aiming on every thursday to open up the slots and allow people to book then. that will help them to insure that they have the supply in their coiffeurs to meet the demands and they do plan to ramp up from

. >> reporter: fenway park boston, now a vaccination site. but when baseball starts?'ll figure it out. it's too important. we've got to get everybody vaccinated. >> reporter: elsewhere in the northeast, weather is also getting in the way. >> those that were scheduled for today or tomorrow in state-run facilities, they're going to be pos postponed. >> reporter: meanwhile exodus of officials from new york state's health department, some pointing at the governor's behavior according to five sources who spoke to "the new york times." >> when i say experts, in air quotes, it sounds like i'm saying i don't really trust the ex experts, because i don't. because i don't. >> reporter: here is the hope. after nearly two months, there are finally fewer than 100,000 americans in the hospital right now fighting covid-19, but -- >> variants remain a great concern and we continue to detect them in the united states. >> reporter: that more contagious strain first found in the uk now spreading here, fast. >> cases of this variant have now been detected in 32 states. >> reporter: so fro

. >>> before the snow hit, boston's fenway park was transformed in to a mass vaccination site with monday as an opening day. weather concerns originally had the site closing early but it stayed open in the afternoon. people being vaccinated were grateful that the new site is available. >> i feel like i have more protection, you know. it makes me feel good to know that hopefully this will stop the spread. >> sign operators expected to get close to their original target of having 500 doses given on the first day. >>> time now is 5:09. closing the digital divide. >> still ahead, the million dollar competition kicking off today with the goal of getting more students connected. >>> after a wet start to the day with some light showers this morning we are looking at things beginning to dry out for us as we head through the afternoon and even seeing a little bit of sun later today. >>> and we have a trouble spot on the roadway for your ride into san francisco and we are dealing with slick surfaces. we will have your top traffic trouble spots. >>> and another shot of the bay bridge from a differen

this storm threw a curveball to the official launch of covid-19 vaccines at fenway park. ballpark is now a mass vaccination site available to all of those currently eligible in the state. those with appointments today are being urged to come early and many appointments can be rescheduled. other vaccine sites are closed today and also working to reschedule appointments. this is expected to be a lot of snow for this storm. there's spots across the state they're keeping an eye on. some getting 15 to 20 inches of snow. we'll see. back to you. >> martha: thanks. molly line in beautiful newton, massachusetts. so with the vaccinations as molly just reporting on ice essentially across the northeast today, so too is the plan under the biden pentagon to give shots to terrorists at guantanamo bay as millions are waiting in line. peter king sounds off of an un-american and inexcusable idea. we'll talk to him next. sentyx w. cosentyx can help you look and feel better by treating the multiple symptoms of psoriatic arthritis. don't use if you're allergic to cosentyx. before starting, ge

from this parking lot at disneyland to fenway park, home of the red sox, to lord's cricket ground inhe uk. where empty spaces that once filled us with joy now fill us with hope. >>> chinese new year 2021 will look very different compared to prepandemic spring festivals. the holiday that was a mass travel superspreading event last year is significantly scaled back this year. but as david culvinnar shows us, some in china are still getting into the spirit of the season. >> reporter: strolling the aisles of a shanghai grocery store, vicki wong is stocking up ahead of the most important holiday in china, the chinese new year, or spring festival. traditionally, the holiday marks the largest mass migration of humans each year. in china, major cities empty out as hundreds of millions travel back to their home provinces. but last year's outbreak in wuhan coincided with the start of the chinese new year and made for a perfect storm. packed train stations like this one in beijing combined with a rapidly spreading virus. this year, the government urging, in some cases even ordering people, not

. >> fenway park now a vaccination site. >> we'll figure it out.e have to get everybody vaccinated. >> elsewhere in the northeast, a massive winter storm is getting in the way closing many sights in new york. >> it is very dangerous out there. >> here's the hope. after nearly 2 months there are finally fewer than 100,000 americans in the hospital right now fighting covid-19. but -- >> variants remain a great concern and we continue to attack them in the united states. >> that more contagious strain in the u.k. spreading here. >> we're more likely to see regionalized epidemics in the country. the two biggest places are southern california and southern florida. >> reporter: and all across the united states from midnight monday, you have to wear a mask on mass transit. some localities are actually easing restrictions like here in los angeles. outdoor dining is back with restrictions, but it's back. nick watt, cnn, los angeles. >>> well, the united kingdom is taking steps to limit the spreads of a covid variant first found in south africa. it's already

. >> reporter: but not at boston's fenway park. >> i'm surprised by how emotional it was walking in here this morning. >> the new mass evacuation site can eventually process more than 1,200 people a day. just under 2% of the u.s. population is now fully vaccinated. johnson oimp janson's one-dose vaccine which shows a slightly lower efficacy rate of 72% in the u.s. could seek emergency use authorization in the coming days. >> i don't think we should be put aback by the fact that there was a difference in the initial number of any kind of efficacy because there's a lot more protection than just preventing getting infected. we want to get people out of the hospital, and we don't want people to die. >> reporter: hospitalizations dropping below 100,000 over the weekend for the first time in two months as january became the deadliest month yet for covid. masks mandatory for travelers across the country starting at midnight as more transmissible variants spread. >> cdc has been working on multiple fronts to adapt and understand these variants. >> the variant first detected in the uk now identif

vaccination efforts across the region today with the notable exception of a mass vaccination site at fenway park boston where the state started vaccinating seniors 75 and over. despite problems with the rollout of the vaccines like limited supply, "new york times" is pointing out there's plenty of good news on the vaccine front. david leon heart writes, quote, all vaccines with public results have eliminated covid-19 deaths. they have also drastically reduced hospitalizations. there's no quarreling with that. with us, dr. steven sample, e.r. doc at memorial hospital in jasper, indiana, also happens to be a volunteer clinical faculty member at indiana university school of medicine. doctor, one of the reasons we're always proud to know you is your service to the guard. i'd like to begin there. your international guard unit was deployed post-insurrection to washington. what was that experience like for you? >> good evening, brian. that experience was exactly what i hoped it would be. it would boring, boring, boring. we packed all of our stuff. we went to d.c. and we sat around on our butts for a we

sports stadiums being used, fenway park in boston, yankee stadium here in new york.eligible and what is the turnout like? >> reporter: good morning, jim. that is right, yankee stadium, perhaps the broncos most iconic landmark will be known for something else. this is a mass vaccination site open to only residents of the bronx. it is by appointment only, you also have to bring proof that you are a resident of the bronx. so you have national guard going along the lines and people have been lining up now nor about two hours before the site opened at 8:00 a.m. this morning. now national guardsman are going down the line making sure they have appointments and residents of the bronx and separating people who need help getting appointments. this is a site open from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. monday through friday. there are 15,000 appointments available this first week. we're told that today there are only about a thousand and they'll be ramping that up. that is a site that is very important for city officials when it comes to fairness and equity. they want to make sure they co

we got involved to enable mass vacks nation at gillette stadium, fenway park, reggie lewis track andoston. and the challenges really were that the planning only got underway maybe the week before christmas for enabling this kind of mass scale that we're now hitting. so the good news is people have had six weeks, eight weeks of getting these operations up and running. we're now past two million vaccinations a day that hit the peak over the weekend. and -- and we are well on our way to reaching 100 million vaccines in arms by 100 days. but we have to move even faster because of the mutant strains that are spreading that you mentioned. >> yeah, how concerned are you about those? one of them might be more contagio and one of them might be more deadly. it seems that we're in a race before time before the variant truly spread. >> yeah, we have across the world tens of millions of active infections and a very large base of infections here that become a petri dish for lots new mutations. some of those mutations, one from the u.k. one from south africa, one from brazil, these are more contagi

attractions into vaccine distribution centers, one will open at yankee stadium on friday while fenway park, home to the boston red sox, started offering shots this week. >> we expect fenway will ramp up to over a thousand doses a day next week. >> most states continue to reach new milestones. illinois this week vaccinated more than 65,000 people in a single day, the highest number yet. soon even more will get it everywhere thanks to a federal program with walgreens and cvs aired in the coming days, the retail pharmacy giants will begin helping boost supplies to long-term care facilities. >> about 6500 pharmacy locations nationwide starting late next week. >> progress many americans will take in the throes of a pandemic, a pandemic which has already killed close to 441,000 people in the u.s. now many find themselves tangled in the logistical web of how to get access to the shots. >> i'm just trying to find out if there is a plan for somebody to come to the home bound to vaccinate them. >> scientists are monitoring new variants of the virus which may force some of the vaccine manufacturers t

: and this storm is throwing a curveball into the official launch of covid vaccines at historic fenway park available to all those current eligible. health care workers, first responders and residents 75 years old and up, those with appointments today are being urged to come in early. appointments can also be rescheduled. some other sites, though, are closed for the day, and they are also rescheduling. there are some spots in the state that could see 15, 18, 20 inches of snow and big concerns about some of the heavy and wet snow causing power outages. connell? connell: all right, molly. molly line up there in boston. i'm connell mcshane in new york, thanks for joining us as we wrap up our hour of coverage where there was the weather, the markets, the politics and everything else. i'm going to go shovel some snow, i guess. i see you back here at the same time tomorrow. have a great night, everybody. ♪ ♪ david: good evening, everybody, i'm david asman sitting in today for lou dobbs. lou, like millions of other americans this evening, has been affected by a massive snowstorm. what you're looki

. >> reporter: fenway park boston now a vaccination site. but when baseball starts? it's just too important. we have to get everybody vaccinated. >> reporter: elsewhere in the northeast, a massive winter storm is getting in the way, closing many sites in new york. >> it is very dangerous out there. >> reporter: here is the hope. after nearly two months, there are finally fewer than 100,000 americans in the hospital right now, fighting covid-19. but -- >> variants remain a great concern, and we continue to detect them in the united states. >> reporter: that more contagious strain first found in the uk now spreading here, fast. >> we're likely to see regionalized epidemics with this new variant. at two places in the country right now are southern california and southern florida. >> reporter: so as of midnight tonight, wolf, you've got to wear a mask on mass transit everywhere in this country. but meanwhile some localities are easing restrictions. we just heard southern california might be a hot spot for a variant surge, but in los angeles, outdoor dining is now back wi

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york, vaccination sites are up and running again after that snowstorm forced cancelations boston's fenway park also back in play. the massachusetts governor, charlie baker, says the stadium will eventually administer 8,000 shots per week and missouri, which ranks in the bottom three for vaccinations, now changing its strategy to speed things up. in st. louis, here's nbc's dasha burns. >> reporter: missouri will be allocating the majority of doses to places that can vaccinate 5,000 people a week. 53% of the state's doses will go to hospitals like this one behind me here, sms health st. louis university hospital. speaking to health officials here, they tell me the real change we're going to see here is more consistency. so far they haven't known week to week how many doses they're going to get this hospital system hasn't seen a shipmentin 2 1/2 weeks so this new system is going to change that. the one thing it's not going to change is supply, which is still the number one bottleneck in this whole thing i want you to hear from the head of the st. louis metropolitan pandemic task force on the issu

be sure, but worth noting the yankees finished second once again behind the red sox which opened fenway parkorth noting? >> it is worth noting. it shows the yankee bias we have in all of our reporting. athena jones is live in the bronx. this is good news for new yorkers. >> reporter: good morning, john. it is good news. this is something that many in the city have been waiting for. city officials hoping that it will be a game changer when it comes to getting more vaccines to more people more quickly and more equitably. this mass vaccination site, one of several they're planning to open across the city. this site will be open from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.. it will only serve bronx residents. and there will be 15,000 appointments available during the first week of operation. and this is exclusively for residents of the bronx who are eligible. people like health care workers, people over 65. people who work in restaurants, taxi drivers, rideshare drivers and the like. officials decided to focus here on the bronx because it is the neighborhood that has the -- the borough that has the highest rate

do i want to go to fenway park, for instance? do i want to go to gillette stadium. exact dates and how many slots are left. and then a big button, click here to sign up. it's just the simplest process in the world. how long did it take you to design this website? >> so, as you mentioned, i'm taking care of my newborn right now, so when he's sleeping, i work on this. i've been working on it for about three weeks. i would say i've put in 40 hours, total. >> okay, and was it difficult to do this for you? >> yeah, so even though i work in web development and athena makes electronic health records and things like that, so i'm used to making complicated software that's hosted on the cloud, this is my first time making a complicated website myself. the hardest part about it is that every website has availability information, i have to kind of tell my computer how to read that website like a human. so that's where all of the man hours went in. so for all of the massachusetts-sponsored sites, i had to write something that said, okay, here's how you read this website, and for

these mass vaccination sites, these were in the works in many cities, in boston, they opened up fenway park, gillette stadium is also an area in which they're using for mass vaccination sites. we know the president is mobilizing the defense production act to support hubs like, for instance, yankee stadium. how important is it to have facilities like this in the vaccine rollout? >> hi, yasmin, good afternoon. it's incredibly important, but i think what aaron said is critical also. it's no not just setting up the mass vaccination sites but it's having the community participate in the awareness, because we also know that these stadiums can be sitting there, like fenway was, with unused appointment slots. if people don't know what's happening, and don't have an easy way to access it, it doesn't work. so, it has to be kind of the two things together, community participation and support and these -- the infrastructure inside the community. >> can we talk about johnson & johnson? we know that they requested emergency authorization from the fda for its single shot, which is amazing news, obviously,

paused for today and tomorrow the storm threatened to delay opening day of vaccinations at boston's fenway park though officials say it will remain open, at least for now. >>> cnbc's contessa brewer with more on how the storm has delayed statewide vaccine efforts. >> reporter: the wind whistling, snow blowing and vaccination appointments canceled up and down the eastern seaboard in at least 11 states the nor'easter canceled some covid-19 vaccine cli clinics, six mega sites shuttered in new jersey. rhode island closed all three of its regional senators today. philadelphia opened only one of its city-run sites in massachusetts, the winter weather disrupted the rollout of phase two of vaccinations and the opening scheduled for the reggie lewis center in boston postponed. new york shut down at least five mass vaccination sites and half a dozen pop-up clinics new york city canceled all appointments through tomorrow. >> the storm is disrupting our vaccination effort and we need to keep people safe. we don't want folks, especially seniors, going out in unsafe conditions to get vaccinated. >> reporter:

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paused for today and tomorrow the storm threatened to delay opening day of vaccinations at boston's fenway park, though officials say it will remain open at least for now. cnbc's contessa brewer with more on how the storm is delaying state vaccine efforts. >> reporter: the wind whistling and snow blowing and vaccination appointments cancelled, up and down the eastern seaboard in 11 states, the nor'easter cancelled some vaccine clinics six megasites ut sherred in new jersey rir all three centers. philadelphia opened only one site in massachusetts the winter wrkt disrupted the rollout of phase two vaccinations and the openings in reggie louis center in boston postponed. new york shuvt down five vaccination sites. and new york city cancelled all appointments through tomorrow. >> the storm is disrupting our vaccination efforts. and we need to keep people safe. we don't want folks, especially seniors going out in unsafe conditions to get vaccinated. >> reporter: some pharmacies and hospitals were dolling out shots for those who could get there. mass transit ground to a halt. in new jersey a systemwi

in boston, the storm forced the new fenway park vaccination site to limit its hours, and in new jersey all vaccination megasites were shuttered. well, the vaccination appointments that were cancelled due to the weather will be rescheduled here. as you can see in just a couple of days on that electronic billboard. while we can expect a little more snow today it does seem like the worst is behind us. >> all right, mola, thank you very much. >>> we have a touch of good news on covid, new covid deaths and deaths are finally going down nationwide after a devastating spike in january and yet conditions in many hospitals are still harrowing, including for medical workers who are on the front lines of the suffering, our lead national correspondent david deg nabegnaud is at a california hospital this morning where health care workers are also working on themselves, it includes the mental health of the doctors and nurses providing care. david, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning to you, tony. look the stress and grief these frontline workers are going through the immeasurable. a lot o