i was frank friday, professor of sociology antony webber, political commentator unavoidably health penny policy analyst and former n.h.s. tracked chapman. thank you so much. well done to an agency has blasted the u.s. over a bill that could jail those involved in sports except in the u.s. domestic leagues want it described as double standards on a freepost for professional unclench athletes in america. duping agency wishes to understand why this legislation excludes vast areas of u.s. sport in particular, the professional leagues, and all college sport. it is not good enough for american sports. why is it fine for the rest of the world? washington's rolled out its latest offensive in the war on performance enhancing drugs. it's called the rod shank of act, the rather chink of anti doping act of 2019 which strengthen the integrity of international sports competitions by imposing criminal sanctions on certain persons involved in international doping fraud conspiracy. the act would green light washington for legal action against doping conspirators in games involving american players and it

but hope is on the horizon frank holland is here with this morning's top headlines. good fridayorning, frank >> good morning to you and you are right, the u.s. set a few record, covid-19 hospitalizations are up nearly 50% in the last two weeks as the u.s. once again set a new single date case record yesterday and also reporting 2,000 deaths yesterday alone. it is forcing california to impose a statewide curfew between 10 k p.:00 p.m. to a 5:0 p.m. this as the task force says that the u.s. is prepared and pfizer is expected to file an application to the fda for emergency use authorization for its vaccine as soon as today with moderna soon to follow. still, infectious disease expert dr. fauci is telling americans remain cautious. >> i've used that metaphor that the calvary is on the way. if you are fighting a battle and the calvary is on the way, you don't stop shooting, you keep going until the calvary gets here and then you might even want to continue fighting. >> and this morning shares of noiser and moderna are up, moderna up about 3%. >> frank, thank you very much. yesterday

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frank holland. >> this is what black friday used to be about shoppers rushing big box stores for deals. >> there's no way this year i would go near the stores. >> instead of waiting online for door busters this holiday season gabby is shopping online for her two kids. >> social distancing, i cannot imagine, is going to happen on black friday, and i just need to be safe for myself, for my family. >> reporter: online shopping from black friday to small business saturday to cyber monday is forecast to surge more than 35% over last year. the avalanche of online buying is expected to create major delays for shippers like fedex, ups, amazon and the post office. 7 million packages a day will have delayed delivery according to one estimate. as many as 700 million all around the world won't make it by christmas according to another. with supply chains so overwhelmed you should pick your presents as soon as possible according to the chief marketing officer of fedex >> we've also seen coming in from overseas that there is some inventory constraints, so if u you see that special gift you need, purchase it now

you have the issue of maim-in ballots continued until friday shepp, over to you. >> frank collins innia, thank you. >>> an update from the white house, mercedes schlapp tweeted there are people in the white house waiting to hear from the president. now the white house pool has been called in, in anticipation of an event, should the president come to the microphones, we will take you there live first, though, mellissa, the counting continues. >> the counting continues especially in the battleground state of pennsylvania. we want to bring in former governor of pennsylvania and dnc, frank rend el, thanks for being with us tonight. >> sure. >> nbc deemed this race too early to call. are you ready to call it how is it shaping up in your view >> well, there were 2.4 million mail-in ballots sent to the different counties of that, 1.6 million were democrats. only 555,000 were republicans. so, i think democrats will carry the mail vote by somewhere around 950,000, 900,000 votes. donald trump is running about 700,000 sloetsvotes ahead. so i think the democrats should win by 200,000 votes when

northeast of south africa, also seeing some showers along the spoils of friday, looking pretty wet, say for a good part of angola. frank assessments, if other can public opinion pieces betrayed by social media platforms after november 1 would be different cultures. if you believe that there corrosive to our democracy, one obvious solution is to break from an informed opinion. look at checkers, don't go anywhere. the protesters aren't going anywhere, either. it's ability to get revolution. in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines. who is it? that's really out there on the street inside story or now just 0. 0, 0 come back here watching our just let's recap those headlines now. u.s., president elect joe biden plans to reveal more of his cabinet choices within hours . the head of a government agency responsible for the transition to power is finally acknowledged by then as we have current winner of the election. the international air transport association had predicted the industry is on track to lose more than $150000000000.00 by the end of next year. the number of passengers has plunged from 4 and a half 100000000

exactly >> and that process will just be beginning when the new round of ballots come in up until friday. >> franko back to frank repeatedly throughout the day. we will be hearing more on this. first let's get to our first biggest of the hour to talk about the markets and the post-investing landscape we have mario gabelli of gamco you've been looking at a way to figure this out. the idea of a blue wave you had been gaming through. now what do you do >> we look at the landscape and economic landscape with a microscope and telescope obviously all of your individuals that are talking about the election have compounded and accumulated knowledge. from my point of view, i take that same telescope, same microscope and look at individual companies yesterday we had 28 companies talking about the auto industry. what's going on with the consumer why are they taking personal transportation as opposed to mass transportation. why are they living in the cities from the elections point of view, you have a balanced structure that's terrific. we then have to step back and say, okay, what does that mean for the econ

friday. back over to you >> frank, i don't know, are you a diy guy, frank i'm a little bit of a diy guy, i'mi learned how to put an above the store microwave in i'm definitely a diy guy because i don't want to pay extra. >> tell me something, i do a project and it's three trips to the home depot, minimum. it's always three trips to the home depot to get it right sometimes i use my local hardware store, shout out to wise hardware if pelham for that, but listen. >> reporter: we're doing shout outs, steve? >> i can't get my brain around, frank, buying home depot stuff online, like a drill or some of the other stuff you go to home depot for. what am i missed here? >> i don't think you're missing anything i think a lot of people will still come to the store. we have seen it here in south carolina, and home depot, they're expecting a good number of people to come to the store, and something they saw in q3, the number of transactions and the average spend by customer increased by more than 10% for both, and they are saying on this black friday and throughout the holiday peak, they expect that trend

frank? >> you know the holiday peak from black friday to new year's days are not traditionally a great timery yeiers like ex and ups and ahead of a trucker shortage, there will be an estimated 200,000 fewer drivers, delay in training schools and older drivers retiring that may not seem like a lot, but nearly 4 million truckers in the u.s. major trucking companies have warned about rising rates and hiring and retaining drivers westerner enterprises, a trucker for walmart, said it is already raising the cost for retailers >> if the shortage of truck drivers persists, it is one of the things that drives rates >> and demand for delivery vans and tractor trailers also spiking. fed ex and ups have been clear saying that shortage is not affecting them, but it will have an impact on e-commerce on margins. >> you would think it would be the most wonderful time of year for these players, but in the past we have seen shipping delays impact stocks because of massive disappointment if mike didn't get that game console about an hour ago and that happened on a widespread basis across america, that could b

frank. >> reporter: good morning to you. we are here outside of a home depot and we've seen steady traffic on the black friday and picked up overs of the retailer nearly doubled from the march lows as more and more americans invest in the home or buying bigger homes in the pandemic and the company is preparing for a record black friday. there's double digiten creases year over year and in response home depot said to increase staffing by double digits for curbside delivery and pickup in store and traditional in-store shopping to manage this holiday peak many retailers warned of inventory shortages. and also issues with delivery. emery campbell said home depot is creating a gift center online and in stores for best sellers, focusing on volume over variety. >> you use the number of items and buy deeper if traditionally, we would have ten drills, we would then buy instead of ten we may buy eight and buy a lot more of the drills to have more product for the entire season. >> reporter: and last quarter home depot reported an 80% increase in the online shopping and 60% picked up in store or delivered by curbside into a car. the compan

friday results were good. comps were good. no guide for q-4 frankolland has more on it hey, frank >> hey, guys shares of best buy down right now even after that blowout quarter we talked about. a lack of guidance as well as headwinds with shipping costs and supply chain issues weighing on the stock when you look at the digital business that, was a bright spot 40% of on line orders are picked up in store. they got a big boost from prime day and starting black friday sales earlier. emphasizing a push towards share from store right now we have over 400 stores that are enabled with that capability. and for same day delivery, we expanded our portfolio to include partners like shift and rody and we also just recently started working with instacart for the same day delivery. you see the company really focusing on delivering from its own stores not only with traditional carriers but with its own partners the company is piloting a reconfiguring of the stores, something we've seen from the retailers. the he said in this pilot, best buy reduce shopping areas f

conference not clear right now what the topic is >> frank, this has been those uncounted votes that are coming in, even today, tomorrow and up until friday, those are at the center of a big legal case that was sort of left undecided by the supreme court a week or two ago. >> reporter: well, tyler, the decision that was made is that they can be counted as valid up until 5:00 p.m. on friday. the real controversy about that is, there could be ballots that come in after election day without a postmark as long as there's no, you know, clear evidence that it was mailed after election day, those can also be counted. that's one of the sources of controversy here earlier today the secretary of state of pennsylvania said that the state is preparing for legal challenges to their election, with not only the attorney general but outside counsel. so, this could become a very legal situation in the near future >> frank holland, thanks very much kelly? >> tyler, pennsylvania is just one of the states still too close to call. already today the trump campaign says it will request that recount in wisconsin and said it will also file suit in michigan. the t

frank sinatra. mr. obama says music has played an important role throughout his life. >>> a house fire hit very close to home for an oklahoma police officer. he responded to a call to the fire on fridayuse on fire and his children were trapped inside. hunter mckee of our oklahoma city affiliate kw tv tells us what happened. >> reporter: in this video captured from a home across the street, you can see the glow from the flames as his police unit is seen driving up. as he made his way inside his wife lorrainea told me he had saved his sons. >> he threw a tv through the back glass door to get the kids out. >> reporter: he managed to pull his sons, 14-year-old thomas and 7-year-old a.j. to safety. >> even if it's your family or not or strangers, going into a burning house is not natural. it's not normal. you really have to have the guts and the bravery to do that. >> lorena said she left the house 50 minutes before the fire ignited. she was told an electrical issue may have sparked the flames. she said what her husband did to save their children is nothing short of incredible. >> my heart dropped to know that he's a good dad and he does do a lot for them. he does a lot for the city. >> r

friday, similar temperatures. we go on into saturday. come sunday, the temps will be near the mid twenty's. something of a break coming through his this area, platen frank just makes its way through the bite. further north it is generate dry . it's hot, allison 42 as well. that warmth, also extending into queensland western parts of new south welsh. i was across the far north, top tends towards cape york peninsula, wanted to shout, that was a fast pace, but not too much to speak of sydney $33.00 celsius, noticed some west of weather coming into the south island of new zealand. and we got some what's a weather also pushing towards japan over the next couple of days, turning a little drier in china. there are some showers and eastern parts of china through the sea of japan, some wet weather, some wintry weather that will push its way towards honshu turns, increasingly cloudy. we'll see some snow significant snow fall over the mountains there, but not too bad. sheltered by the mountains in tokyo with the top temperature 60 degrees. in afghanistan, the taliban is renowned for its violent repression of women. now a new deal with the u.s. could see the group

friday. we have a good forecast for you. their quality should clear up as well with this. it is funny i was sitting watching this as frankterally, if you sit and watch his mountain it gets darker and darker, the sun is setting so rapidly, this time of year, the civil twilight comes quickly. live this is how we are on the sidelines. it is trying to do life .6 hours last six hours of the satellite. you can see sort of a jet stream, from in this? here is the date. that is a pretty advantageous situation to be. we will continue to see things pulse through our area. not to of the night, friday that we see anything that could ring as summer rain. some significant rain. the idea that the jetstream is that far south is really important this time of year. when we were dealing with the dry and the fire concerns, the jetstream was up here. you don't get arraigned when the jetstream is up there. clouds outside right now. those clouds, sacramento, parts of the east bay, they will be around. it will clear up tonight it will be cool. we have a freeze warning in effect for the north the values. not a frost advisory, it is a freeze warni

on friday the post-election ballots are kept separate in the meantime, and they will again be counted after all the ballots that are received by election day have been counted shep >> frankilly, back to him as breaking news warrants now, for some analysis back to larry sabato who is with us from the university of virginia center for politics. on pennsylvania you've seen the trend today. what are you seeing? >> well, the trend is very favorable to joe biden i think the president still has enough of a lead, tens of thousands of votes so that we should be very careful you're being careful nbc is being careful i hope others are as well. there's a big gap there, it can be closed with what's remaining outside and, remember, all votes have to be counted what do we say every election. all votes matter all votes must be counted. and people have forgotten already, i guess, why there are so many mail-in ballots. there's this thing called a pandemic and many people decided to vote early to make sure their vote got there particularly with the problems in the post office, that's why there's such an overload of mailed ballots they have to be counted. laws were changed to make it easier

back after gains of more than 7% this week pollster frank luntz will tell us why the georgia senate race may be to be blame >>> and it is jobs friday, the october employment report due at 8:30 eastern time. it is november 6, 2020 and this special edition of "squawk box" begins right now. >>> good morning welcome to "squawk box" on this jobs friday. i'm like repressing some of the other stuff because it is just -- i'm becky -- no, i'm not becky quick. was i supposed to read this? >> i'm ron burgundy. >> i'm ron burgundy along with joe kernen and -- no, i'm joe kernen, becky and andrew is here u.s. equity futures have paired their losses to some extent. but it has been a big week let's get to the state of georgia where joe biden took the lead early this morning and i guess that is one of the advantages of being here it would have happened in the middle of the night, but it happened as we were sitting here contessa brewer is joining us with more. >> joe biden now leads by 917 votes. let's show you the state map at this point, the counties that have come in red and those that are coming in blue we guilot a big boost from clay county la

frank. >> hey, good morning to you, brian. i appreciate the christmas-themed introthere. here is the bad news more than $10 million will be spent shopping online this black fridayn 39% increase year over year but still only the beginning of an extended holiday peak and extended shipping log jam cyber monday all expected to see huge sale spikes of 35% or more and that's only going to add to the strain on capacity for carriers like fedex, ups, amazon and the postal service shopping right now >> the industry overall will have a little bit more delays. we've also seen coming in from overseas that there is some inventory constraint so if you see that special gift you know you need under that tree, i would definitely purchase it now. >> and right now forecast for 86 million packages to be shipped each day, but u.s. networks, they only have capacity for around 79 million. that leaves as many as 7 million a day that could be delayed. and globally forecast have as many as 700 million gifts just not arriving by christmas. back over to you >> all right frank. hold on. can we do something we never do, the post office. they get crushed the butt of jokes. last night a postal