kentucky health news. >> thank you, governor. you said you had asked cvs and walgreens to work through the holidays. how are they going to do that? and the second question, the positivity rate was a pretty big jump, one of the biggest i have seen. an indicator of lots of contacts and infections over christmas? gov. beshear: so we have not gotten a definitive answer from walgreens or cvs, but we will provide it once we do. i strongly encourage them to say, yes, we want to save lives. this is a once in a hundred years pandemic, and if the answer is yes, we will have -- if the answer is not yes, we will have another conversation. but we really need them to do it. now, the question on the positivity rate is a good question. i think the answer is we do not know. i think the 7% we got to over a couple of days was testing or not testing during the holidays. it could well be more infections that we are seeing coming off of gatherings. i just think it is going to take a little bit of time to figure out which one it is. i mean, i will say

and i am talking in kentucky. it i visited kentucky and i talked to the people there. they have suffered a particular opioid crisis. i'll never forget talking to a football coach and told me that a bunch of the kids on his football team were living with their grandparents are unconscious because of the opioid epidemic. in other words for people in kentucky, the people in new york, people in vermont are hurting. they need help. ... ... they're looking to this institution. they're lookingowto congress in the house to provide things . now looking to the senate, they're looking to senator mcconnell after all is said and done, after all the legalese and i'm going to be introducing legalese in a mmoment it comes down to one thing: senator mcconnell disagrees with the proposal that senator schumer and i are making. that's fine. democracy has the right to different points of view. i resolved to have the debate on thefloor with center mcconnell about this legislation . all that we are asking is give us the opportunity to vote up or down on whether or not working families in thi

. >> kentucky governor andy beshear gave an update on his state's response to the coronavirus pandemic. asked the governor about the state's plan to administer the vaccine, prepare for the holidays, and the federally funding package. this runs 30 minutes. 4:00 onhear: it is tuesday. we will get through this and we will get through it together. today will be the last update we coming lateristmas in the week. i want to start by asking everyone to make that additional sacrifice and do their part to keep their christmas celebrations small. with the rest of the country on fire with hospitalizations escalating and most every other state in kentucky, we are seeing a stabilization that is protecting the lives of our people and we want to make sure that we continue to plateau or even decrease cases as we move toward this vaccine. how we do christmas and new year's, those celebrations are going to be so critical to protecting as many kentuckians as possible until we can get this vaccine disseminated, so i'm asking every kentuckian, please, keep it small. family.oing to in my it will be brittany

vaccines are scheduled for january 9 at the western kentucky medical center. centerton veteran will soon follow thereafter. this is a facility where we kept covid out until mid-october. then it took 34 of our veterans sacrifice for our country. this is a very special thing to see. vaccinations occurring at long-term care facilities. we would like to share these photos. first the ethics nursing and rehabilitation services in louisville. spring ind, boone boone county in union, kentucky. these photos are so exciting to see. long-term care residents account for 66% of everyone we have lost due to covid-19. our program is well underway to make sure we get every resident and every staff member vaccinated. this is a great step forward. but it's going to take time. so for these residents were veterans -- who are veterans, for everyone around you, continue to wear masks, continue social distancing. let's make sure that we protect one another until we ultimately reach the level of immunity that we need to hear in the commonwealth and across the country and the world. o

kentucky's ag writing this: "in kentucky, one can work out at the gym, attend a wedding, sent his orday care or preschool, college students can attend classes, but all of kentucky's religious schools are shuttered. now, justice brett kavanaugh is asking kentucky's governor, democrat andy beshear, to respond to the high court by 4:00 tomorrow afternoon. so far, the governor's attorneys insist that executive order does not infringe on religious freedom. >> the governor is determined to take the right steps to solve our increasing surge of covid-19. we now have 117 counties in the red zone. >> martha: here now, kentucky republican attorney general daniel cameron. general cameron, thank you for being here. explain to everyone with the legal argument is here, why these christian schools are treated differently than other private organizations across the state. >> well, look, martha. i think the question is pretty simple. it's the one we put forth in front of the supreme court, which is canning governor used his executive powers to infringe upon the first amendment rights that we all hold

san bernardino is unlike eastern kentucky in that eastern kentucky didn't have some economic crisis. it wasn't some business that went away. just kind of always been poor and as the rest of the world has goning wealthy their povertier is more extreme by comparison. san bernardino was a place that had a big chunk of the aerospace business and those jobs and that just didn't last there for various reasons, and they weren't able to find a way to get to another place; to make something else happen. and again i think there's only so much city governments can do on that front but what they can do is do their job reasonably welsh they weren't doing in san bernardino where there's open prostitute on the streets and a general sense of decay and disorder and lawlessness. and the idea that there's going to be some sort of blue ribbon commission composed of these idiots that's going to imagine include turn these places around is i think just preposterous. >> i remember driving through a town called ford heights in cook county, southern -- south of -- southern suburb of chicago, and majority blac

[laughter] he said eastern kentucky story, what do you think?i got in the car and went and that is the appalachia story. something like that. people like that and it's fun for me to show something like that. i don't really go into it saying this is the story and reduce right and this is what i'm going to do, i just want to have people in mind. i've done it in a number of different pieces, there are some similar pieces out. opiate and heroin addiction in which i spent a lot of time talking to people. people who sell drugs, i let them talk about their lives. that's another story, it is not a world i went into knowing a lot about. probably no more about addictions and things that go along with it more than most people do, certainly more than i want to. you don't really know what it is like to run that in new orleans unless you have done it. often i'll go into these interviews with a bag notion in a couple of open questions about what i want to talk about. >> have you found a sense of connection with people you listen to write about even if you thin

it's unlike eastern kentucky in that it didn't have some economic crisis. it's just always been poor and then the poverty seems more extreme. san bernardino on the other hand is a big place that had a lot of those jobs and it didn't last there for various reasons and they were not able to find a way to get to another place. to make something else happen. i think there's only so much that the city governments can do on that front but they can do their job recently well and then there's the dk and disorder and lawlessness. the idea that there's going to be some sort of a blue-ribbon commission composed of these idiots is going to turn these places around i think. >> i remember driving through a town called ford heights south of the suburbs of chicago and majority black population and i came around the bend and saw that everything was shut, every business, the projects, and i just remember they had a ford plant and to just everything being gone. there's like a george romero movie where you pull up and see these places that have fallen into such disarray spare.

joining me, kentucky's democratic governor andy beshear. thank you for joining us today, governor.ple in long term care facilities account for 66% of the deaths in kentucky and they're first in line to get vaccinated. take us through exactly how you're planning to roll this out. >> we expect to begin vaccinating individuals here in kentucky this coming tuesday. and that is incredibly exciting. all across this country, we have been at war with this virus. while we still have a long way to go, victory is in sight. so now what we have to do is we have to prioritize this vaccine for those that need it most. for us, per capita, our deaths have been a lot lower than most other states. but our long term care community has been hit really hard. 66% of all of our deaths here in kentucky due to covid-19 have been in those facilities. so we will be one of the first if not the first state to activate the cvs/walgreens plan to vaccinate members of the long term care community from acute nursing homes all the way down to assisted living. our goal starting on tuesday is to get that entire populat

that is the democrat from kentucky. as i mentioned, we will be talking with his hometown mayor a little bit layer in this program on "balance of power" on bloomberg television and bloomberg radio. ♪ the usual gifts are just not going to cut it. we have to find something else. good luck! what does that mean? we are doomed. [laughter] that's it. i figured it out! we're going to give togetherness. that sounds dumb. we're going to take all those family moments and package them. hmm. [laughing] that works. david: christine todd whitman served as the 50th governor of the state of new jersey before she went on to head the epa. she has also been very involved with an advisory panel taking a look the elections to make sure they were done properly and every vote counted. we welcome christine todd whitman. welcome for being with us. tell us about this group. i was not familiar with it before. christine: it is a nonpartisan -- it is made up of attorneys generals, members of law enforcement, people like me thrown in, but people who

upon landing in kentucky, they were unloaded for sorting and will fly out tonight, bound for more thanes by morning. allowing vaccinations to start as soon as monday. >> the vaccines, they will get the first priority on the aircraft and on the package car when it goes to the final destination. >> pfizer expects to ship 20 million doses this had month. health and human services secretarial exazar on face the nation defended the pace of the roll out. >> why the decision to not be more aggressive out of the gate. >> we are being very aggressive, we are shipping all that we have and holding back a reserve for the second dose. >> starting tomorrow, u.p.s. plans to drive much of the vaccine shipments from michigan here to kentucky and then distribute it out by plane to cities across the country delivering it within 24 hours from when it left the pfizer plant in to people's arms in an hour after that. >> chris, in louisville, kentucky. thank you. pfizer developed this vaccine in record time. today, shipments began rolling out of the company's production facility near kalamazoo, michigan, we a

tennessee, west virginia, although most in eastern kentucky. >> explain a little bit about that bridge crossing the bridge and connecting the bridge not just writing a story and reporting a story but incorporating storytelling into your report and maybe talk a little bit about as you talk to these people and listen to these people and get to know their communities, how much storytelling is still alive and part of their culture? when you interview people that are not professionally in the business they are always a little bit hesitant. it's like a trip to the principal's office. would i find is the dirty little secret of journalism is that it's kind of easy people like to talk about their lives and what's going on in their history and perspective on things and generally if you will let them talk and listen to them and not try to force them into a particular line of conversation or narrative, he a lot of journalists do that unfortunately where they structure them in such a way that it serves a preconceived notion of what the story is as they go in. one of the things i came to like in the

leader that 10 out of the 25 counties in the united states of america are located in kentucky. so many of my colleagues the majority leader might want to get on the phone and start talking to working families in kentucky and find out how they feel about the need for immediate help in terms of the 2000-dollar checks for adults. they have a strong feeling that the people of kentucky will respond differently than the people of vermont. this i last poll that i saw it, 70% of the american people say that they wanted and needed that type of help. this discussion frankly is not just about the economic struggling of working families in this country and instant not just the massive levels of income and wealth inequality, it's about democracy. what we have to do here on the floor with senators schumer and senator mcconnell we have to talk in legalese the united states senate language and count -- sounds compensated the average person but all that senator schumer and i are asking of thejo majority leader is a vy simple request, allow the members of the united states senate to cast a vote.

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it is the senior senator from kentucky as well. he has decided that we will not get a vote on the house measure to increase the payments to $2,000 a year. make no mistake, there is only one way to bring this relief to the families of america. it is to pass the bill already enacted by the house of representatives, a bill which received 44 republican votes in addition to a substantial number of democrats, only two voting no. 44 republican votes joined with the democrats to call for this measure which many are decrying on the floor here as class struggle or whatever their argument might be. there is no other measure including senator mcconnell's alternative which has any ghost of a chance to help the families of this country with this $2,000 benefit. the only thing that will do it, the only one thing that will do it is this bill that has already passed the house of representatives. the house has recessed. when they're going to return is uncertain. they certainly don't have the time to work through the regular order of business and con

in kentucky, we can do better. mr. speaker, i rise to talk about the ongoing investigation within the house oversight committee among oversight republicans. the minority, republicans, have requested several hearings unfortunately chairwoman maloney and the majority house democrats are uninterested or unwilling to comply. so we've taken it upon ourselves to inquire and pretty much open up investigations with our staff, with our investigators, and taking data from our whistleblowers and different stakeholders with each investigation. we currently have caught a situation before the election in california where, with the cares act, there was a part called the help america vote act that allocated funds for different states to educate voters on how to vote. in other words, to educate voters on where their precincts are and how to fill out an absentee ballot. things are -- that are perfectly legal and that the federal government should fund and the state government should administer. but what's in the rules, something that a

>> diaz: kris van cleave in louisville, kentucky, thank you.developed this vaccine in record time. today shipments began rolling out of the company's production facility near kalamazoo, michigan. cbs' manuel bojorquez is there. good evening, manny. >> reporter: adriana, good evening. with the first doses already on the way, the next shipment of nearly two million doses is being prepared tonight at this pfizer facility, set to depart tomorrow. pfizer's vaccine rollout is a first for the u.s., but the initial amount will cover only a fraction of the front line medical workers who are first in line to receive it. mike mcdermott is the company's president of global supply. when can most americans get this shot? >> yes, so today we shipped 500,000 doses. by the end of the week we will have up to 2.9 million doses distributed in the u.s. but you are right, there is a here isp to be done in terms of a scale-up to be additional equipment that is being delivered and installed over the coming months here in kalamazoo, michigan, but also in our facilities

but kentucky also knows hopeis s insight. our state workers are standing by and the key logistical centers that will play a role in sending vaccines all around the country. people are hurting but they are ready to finish the fight. congress shouldn't keep them waiting literally months ago. so, compromise is within reach. we know where we agree. we can do this. so let's be about actually making a law. >> mr. president, thank you. i rise today to talk a little bit about what'sbo happening in nevada. last week i had the opportunity to be home and i went to one of our food banks in east las vegas just before thanksgiving. the mobile food bank is one of the food pantries throughout thr state of nevada and this particular one is run by three square. i arrived around 8 a.m. in the morning to a line of cars waiting at the site and sometimes it gets so long the police have to direct traffic around it. they line up at 3 a.m. the food pantry doesn't even open until seven or eight in the morning but they were there at y safe from the pan

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of kentucky n behalf of the u.s. house of representatives and the citizens of kentucky's first congressional district, i ask my me in ues to join congratulating curtis on his retirement and thank him for his of honorable service to the farmers and ranchers of kentucky. farmers and american farmers are better off today as a result of curtis hancock's service on their behalf. wife, maryis and his elizabeth, the very best in the come.to r. speaker, i rise today to honor jay mathney for being barkley hairman of the authority board. e'll see the ongoing construction of the new terminal at the airport which has already been closely involved with the project. the roject has been called airport for our future, and i the right person to see this project through its 2023.led completion in due to west kentucky's proximity of he other major airports st. louis, louisville, and nashville, this terminal will and bring e flights numerous economic opportunities to the region. i'm proud of the multiple that have worked together from t

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or dependents would get $600 each this is money that's got to be paid back but republicans like kentucky congressman brett guthrie we're concerned about overspending and that the bill should be more targeted to people. >>income has lost her job people have been financially damaged by covid to the republicans were pushing back on the bill as well as or a senator roy blunt iowa, senator chuck grassley and utah senator mitt romney arguing against the plan we can't you know have free money the republican majority senate could consider whether or not

each children or dependents would get $600 each this is money that's got to be paid back republican kentucky congressman brett guthrie was one of more than 100 republicans who oppose the plan. he says he's concerned about overspending and says payments should be more targeted at the people. >>income has lost her job people have been financially damaged by covid the bill now heads to the republican controlled senate where most senate republicans are pushing back missouri senator roy blunt iowa, senator chuck grassley and utah senator mitt romney have all said they

yesterday my home state of ten -- of kentucky experienced yet another dreadful record-setting day. kentuckians also know that hope is in sight. our state's workers are standing by at the u.p.s. port in louisville and the public in northern kentucky, kilo just -- key logistic centers that are play roles in the distribution. they're ready for this fight. congress should not keep them waiting for reinforcements that should have arrived literally months ago. so compromise is within reach. we know where we agree. we can do this. let me say it again. we can do this. and we need to do this. so let's be about actually making a law. the presiding officer: without objection. a senator: mr. president, thank you. i rise today to talk a little bit about what's happening in nevada. last week i had the opportunity to be home, and i went to one of our mobile food banks in east las vegas just before thanksgiving. ms. cortez masto: a mobile food bank is one of our food pantries throughout nevada and this one is run by three square. i arrived around 8:00 a.m. in the morning to a line of cars waiting

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shannon: to summarize your filing with the supreme court you say kentucky can go to matinee and movieheater, workout in a gym or gambling parlor shop at work. attend a wedding, all kinds of things can happen but essentially any religious school in kentucky is shutters, teachers can't show up. why the different treatment? >> that is the point. there really isn't. this is an attack on our most fundamental constitutional rights, freedom of religion, the rights of parents and religious schools to inculcate their faith and religious teaching to their own children so what is the evidence the government can bring forward to over all this in this case to overcome that. they have offered none, no science, no data. it is irrational. gyms are open, strip clubs are open, horse tracks are open, gambling partners are open, religious schools are band. think what is happening on black friday the retail stores were open, crowds everywhere. that is our client, but our clients can't have 12 kids socially distancing with temperature checks and all kinds of protections in a school, the governor in this ca

learn more at phoenix.edu >>> i would enjoy having some kentucky bourbon with mitch mcconnell.on't know what his preferred drink is. >> president obama wondering what the senate majority leader likes to drink. perhaps it's an aged kentucky bourbon, so coveted that at one time 200 bottles worth $26,000 of it were stolen and for about a year and a half authorities couldn't catch the thief. the crime making international headlines and joining us now someone who knows all about this special kentucky bourbon. wright thompson senior writer at espn and the author of "pappyland, a story of family, fine bourbon and the things that last." first things first, who was pappy van wingcal? >> he started the distillery on kentucky derby day and people still consider that to be to gold standard. he's the enzo ferrari of bourbon and his grand son, julian van winkle still makes the whiskey today. so this is about four years of running around and drinking whiskey with julian. it was a tough job. >> hey, this is willie geist. i love this book. so my full disclosure, i grew up in new jersey knowing

jason smith got the first vaccination in kentucky. the vaccine is going to 636 distribution points. kits have already been sent out to administer the shots. that moderna vaccine is up for approval thursday, with the potential of delivering an additional 20 million doses by the end of the month. dana, back to you. >> dana: thank you, mike tobin. we have edward lawrence live at tampa general. that's one of the first five hospitals in florida chosen to receive the vaccine. hello, edward. >> reporter: hey, dana. it's the second person in the united states under operation warped speed to get the vaccine happened here at tampa general hospital. she's a nurse who works with covid patients in the emergency room when they come in. she said the hospital has no idea how many doses they would get here at the hospital. they ended up with 19,500, all of them going to those front line team workers. >> it's the entire team. it's not just nurses and doctors. it's the entire team who are serving our -- who have the most patient touches with people who potentially could be infected with covid. >> repo

elizabethtown kentucky, good morning. elizabethtown kentucky. jerry in houston, texas, republican line. >> don't know how people can say they know what is going on when they haven't watched what is going on, but watching c-span earlier they talk about democrats are going we need to count everybody but they are representing what they see as a disenfranchised district but they don't see what the trump administration is doing and congress was discussing was when you talk about people who can vote and who should be represented to vote, illegal migrants and foreign nationals aren't allowed to vote in our election so why is it when they talk about the census and apportionment they are including those in the vote? why are they including illegal migrants, congress hasn't passed any legislation, we concern ourselves with people who can vote, those being legal citizens of the united states. you have a sense is that a total count, okay. do with apportionment, nothing. >> host: ray in aurora, colorado. >> caller: i'm a registered libertarian, this is the cl

this ups plane took the first batch to kentucky. hanna helped unload the shipment. >> it feels like i can finally do something about these problems instead of just staying at home, it feels great. >> health care workers are expected to start receiving vaccinations today. >> it's our moon shot. our generations man on the moon. to think of it any other way is to do it a disservice. >> pfizer will ship 2.9 million doses this week. >> the primary emotion i feel is hope, which is something we haven't felt in months. >> that comes amid the pandemic darkest days of hospitalizations and more than 2,000 deaths a day. >> we are seeing hopeful signs around the nation but you are seeing accelerations in the east coast and west coast. >> yesterday, california reported more than 30,000 new cases and more than triple than one month ago. >> it has been ramping up over the past couple of weeks and more quickly over the past several days. >> starting today in new york city, indoor dining is banned as the city tries to slow the spread. >> in virginia,

in kentucky they finished voting as well, commonwealth of kentucky has 8 electoral votes. watch this. >> the electors for commonwealth of kentucky cast 8 electoral votes for donald trump for president of the united states and 8 electoral votes for michael r. pence for vice president of the united states. thank you all for attending today. this concludes our ceremony. chief justice, please leave the -- >> you have kentucky, several other states moving along relatively quickly, jake, we are watching it all unfold. it is not until 5:00 p.m. eastern hour when california will cast its electoral votes, then it will all be official. biden and harris will have over 270. >> and we are not watching because we anticipate there won't be any surprises. we believe the electors will vote the way the voters wanted them to, which is to say that president-elect biden won. we are watching because never before in modern history has any u.s. president so attacked the foundations of democracy as is going on right now. there's a debate, dana, abby, about how fragile is our democracy. i happen to

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it is the senior senator from kentucky as well. he has decided that we will not get a vote on the house measure to increase the payments to $2,000 a year. make no mistake, there is only one way to bring this relief to the families of america. it is to pass the bill already enacted by the house of representatives, a bill which received 44 republican votes in addition to a substantial number of democrats, only two voting no. 44 republican votes joined with the democrats to call for this measure which many are decrying on the floor here as class struggle or whatever their argument might be. there is no other measure including senator mcconnell's alternative which has any ghost of a chance to help the families of this country with this $2,000 benefit. the only thing that will do it, the only one thing that will do it is this bill that has already passed the house of representatives. the house has recessed. when they're going to return is uncertain. they certainly don't have the time to work through the regular order of business and con

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definitely don't try to do this at home with his ashland kentucky man is going viral for bringing the heat while clearing out his driveway from snow and outright but it works this is timothy brown and he used a flame thrower as you can say to melt the snow. >>on his driveway and why is he dressed like that he is saluting the character of cousin eddy from the movie national lampoon's christmas vacation where nothing but that white bathrobe socks slippers and a half and drinking a beer and drinking got complete the picture there. a good worked all right, take a last look at weather. you guys, yeah, definitely i guess youtube sensation right now right, i mean that is that is quite the shot but. >>we're going to see some major changes coming our way as we've got a series of storms likely to affect the bay area's we get in this new year so they didn't want to stay tuned for that outside tonight. skies cleared out going be another one of those cold nights that has been not unusual when those storms kind of roll on by the bay area bringing some light rain in the bay area from that now behind

same in kentucky, i guess? >> it's the same in kentucky.re exactly right, that's the huge difference between democrats and republicans in how to handle this crisis. democrats are calling here in washington today for trillions of dollars in more stimulus, and republicans simply want us to safely reopen the economy. we have the vaccine that will begin being distributed all across america in a matter of days. i think the light's at the end of the tunnel but with these democrat governors we are just setting our economy back even further and digging a hole that's going to be hard for a lot of small businesses and workers to get out of. stuart: congressman, thank you very much for joining us this morning. we always appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you for having me. stuart: sure thing. let's move on to los angeles. they have announced more restrictions. the announcement came just overnight from mayor garcetti. i will call the restrictions draconian. give me the list, lauren. lauren: yeah. i will add to that confusing as well. mayor garcetti ess

taylor was a 26-year-old shot by police when officers entered her louisville, kentucky, home, in march on a search warrant. the artist behind the sculpture says this setback only strengthens their fight against racism. >> we're not scared of you. this person has made this a bigger story than it ever was before. and we can remake it and we have solidarity. you can't stop us. >> carson plans to repair the bust, this time coating it in bronze to make it more resistant to damage. if you'd like to donate to his cause, you can find the link at our home page at abc7news.com. >>> some traditions are going to live on for new years. times square is indeed happening. but this won't be the celebration we're used to seeing. the one big change being made this year. >>> and i'm meteorologist drew tuma. clouds are streaming in this evening as rain returns tonight. we'll have the latest timing on jack hired me to tell you about his bagel breakfast sandwiches with bacon or sausage. jack i thought you hired me to be the spokesperson! why choose one when you can have two? my 2 for $5 bagel breakfast sandw

worl port air hub in louisville, kentucky >> reporter: tonight shipping giants nationwide ready to roll out pfizer's covid-19 vaccine the next 24 hours crucial. the first doses moving from a pfizer plant in michigan to fedex and u.p.s. hubs like memphis, tennessee, and louisville, kentucky before going out to 636 locations nationwide u.p.s. mostly covering the east coast while fedex primarily covers the west >> it's historic i mean, this is a monumental event i believe as a company it may be our finest hour >> reporter: richard smith is the regional president for fedex americas, covering every domestic delivery he says the company's using real-time tracking to follow every vaccine shipment from start to finish >> there is a distribution that's essentially broken down into different states, different metropolitan areas will go to fedex versus u.p.s but we're prepared to deliver from anywhere to anywhere on a time-definite basis overnight. just as we do every day out there. >> reporter: u.p.s. using a similar strategy >> we can be very agile in how we handle any kind of shipments coming i

joining me is agreeing fisher, mayor of louisville, kentucky.r fisher, according to your city's first chief equity officer, the black poverty rate in louisville is nearly three times that of white residents. black home ownership is nearly half of their white peers. same with the median income family level. how does this declaration of racism as a public health crisis begin to undo these metrics? with ms. taylor's death still driving protests in the country, including me, what does this mean for police reform efforts in your city? >> thanks for having me, reverend a. what it means is intentionality. you cannot sweep racism under the rug. this country has done it for far too long. america failed in 1968 with the kenner commission and we have an opportunity not to fail and take on these challenging issues that you spoke about that lead to this undeniable fact that a black persona largely low-income community versus a white person in a largely affluent community that, black person is going to live 10 to 12 years shorter than the white person. it's a

each children or dependents would get $600 each this is money that's got to be paid back republican kentucky congressman brett guthrie was one of more than 100 republicans who oppose the plan. he says he's concerned about overspending and says payments should be more targeted at the people. >>income has lost her job people have been financially damaged by covid the bill now heads to the republican controlled senate where most senate republicans are pushing back missouri senator roy blunt iowa, senator chuck grassley and utah senator mitt romney have all said they oppose the plan we can't you know have free money the senate will have to take up the bill before the end of the week or it will have to wait until next year and a new congress. >>in washington raquel martin. >>and this just in the house has voted overwhelmingly to override president trump's veto of the national defense authorization act that sets the stage for would be the first veto override of his presidency. house members voted 322 to 87 in favor. well above the two-thirds needed to override his veto. the senate which is expecte

morgan chesky joins us from louisville, kentucky >> reporter: good morning, frances. hundreds of flights come in and out every single day it was one in particular on sunday that gave everyone pause, bringing the first dose of the vaccines to stop covid-19. the jet shuttered to silence at 12:54 p.m. making a perfect landing at louisville's airport. lifesaving covid vaccine the plane taxiing to a special hangar with precious cargo >> no disruptions and we're very excited. >> reporter: u.p.s. president watching the historic moment each box packed with 50 pounds of dry ice >> we will unload the aircraft here in louisville, put it into the sort facility and it will be taking off this afternoon on destinations throughout the country. >> reporter: one of those helping, high school senior henna elby whose part-time job became personal. >> a lot of teachers were diagnosed with the virus it forced us to keep working and coming in every single day >> reporter: u.p.s. and rival fedex delivering vaccines to 145 sites nationwide back in louisville, we met the man behind the mission

it's good to see you i had -- i really thought kentucky was going to do kentucky or louisville fan ientucky was going to do it the other day. >> you see my red and black chair, i'm a louisville fan. i route for kentucky on every other day. we finally got them. >> that was really close it was really close. see that one basket went in and out. >> hung on the rim, could have gone either way. >> all right, congressman, thank you. >> take care >> we'll see you, mike >>> coming up, we kick off "squawk's" billion dollar plus club, companies that beat the odds and went unicorn despite the pandemic or increased their evaluations in the midst of it as we head to break, check out shares of at&t wonder woman 1984 scored the best domestic box office opening of the pandemic over the weekend, but at $16.7 million that is low by historical standards. at&t says half the retail subscribers on its hbo platform viewed the movie on chris ntmas day. stay tuned you're watching "squawk box" on cnbc ♪ you can go your own way it's time you make the rules. so join the 2 million people who have switched to xfin

the young woman shot and killed by lease serving a search warrant in kentucky back in march. the apparent theft comes days after the sculpture was vandalized. as rob roth tells us, the artist is vowing to re-create it. >> reporter: first, it was vandalized. now, here in this public square in downtown oakland, the new sculpture honoring breonna taylor is gone. it is missing from its pedestal. >> the races return and remove the remaining bust. this is what is here now. >> reporter: the artist fears that the buses been destroyed as part of a campaign of opposition to the black lives matter movement. >> this proves that this was not a one off event. this was a coordinated effort to underline the movement. we are not going away.>> reporter: he began filling the pedestal with a temporary concrete block on tuesday. install the ceramic sculpture in mid-december as a tribute to breonna taylor, the 26 rolled african american woman shot to death by police inside her louisville, kentucky apartment during a botched raid last march. the artist wanted to show support for the black lives mat

kentucky, ain democratic caller. are you opposed or and support of bigger stimulates -- stimulus checks? -- in: i am in report, support and they probably will end up passing the deal. am i still on? host: ok, wanda in pennsylvania, republican. what do you say? i want to respond to the fellow who said the people with social security do not need it. we have people bringing us food, and i have to give money and pay them. we don't get much. we are not living high off the hog here. we are lucky to have money to pay our bills with the little bit we get. some people get extra. maybe they have worked for a big pension, big company and get a lot of money. we get the bare minimum and that is the way most elderly are living. host: connie in california, independent. caller: good morning, greta. i just wanted to ask this question. on this stimulus, didn't pelosi oppose it at the beginning until the election was done? and on the stimulus money, there are people -- i've seen poor people just around, what do you call it, lying down

i participated in a forum at this speed museum in leuven -- and at, kentucky. when they proposed a forum looking at the statue issue they had a very large confederate obelisk in front of the museum, which is on the campus of the university of louisville. it has since been removed but the question is, how can we put up something that not honors that absent statue but richmond -- but led to another step to going up. led to another statue going up. richmond is known by its monument avenue and many controversies have surrounded i remember well when the statue of arthur ashe went up and the controversy over was it a good thing, was it a bad thing, was it artistic was a political was ? and i think the best discussion of that was done by the late absolutely great tony horwitz in his book confederates in the attic. when he looked at these questions of how it was debated locally. we have a new statute and equestrian statue with african-american mounted and with beautiful precision going up in that city. in our particular town of san antonio, we have a statue that was es