started off with some story about the struggle in new york city in police violence that helps us see where we are today in the city. very happy to be here with you. was civil rights in new york. the story of police totality they are clearly by the 1930s and 40s. they will deal with the police violence that is in state violence. african americans wer targeted right from the beginningf policing. it is an important part of that story. how they organize to confront police brutality. 1930s and 40s. and so on. one of the stories that comes to my mind it is is the one in 1964 where you have the rebellion. after a 15-year-old james howell a junior high school student was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer the police officer of course says that the young man have a weapon it was much heavier to confront this child. people began to organize the killing. and eventually there was conversation with the police a few days after the killing which did not take place in harlem. they begino organize and they have the upper right. they were frustrated with t way that they were treating him. it

agree with you, we've been trying to get kids back in school throughout the country and we work in new york city to do it, but we have to get community spread down now. >> martha: i've got to leave it there, new york governor andrew cuomo melting down at a press briefing this week when a "wall street journal" reporter asked to clarify confusion over who holds the authority to shut down the city's schools and here's what he said. >> first of all, let's try not to be obnoxious and defensive in your tone. because you're 100% wrong. >> martha: that was just the beginning, howie kurtz joins us

i spent most of the pandemic in new york city, and as of today, new york city public schools, the biggest public school system in the entire united states is closed. alert.aised a high statistics are coming out around the world and that seems to be overwhelming markets, not the vaccine news. manus: absolutely. as you put it, tokyo is on the next highest alert level. what about the equity market? discombobulated, my favorite word of the week. how do they look? annmarie: we did see a stark downward trend yesterday when we found out about those new york city public schools, wall street closing lower. that is bleeding into asia with deeper losses in tokyo. those have started to turn back. equities to the downside across the board. european futures are looking negative, down .7%. the dax on a precipice of newly erasing and wiping out all the losses for the year. it doesn't look like that will happen today. the yen is a haven. more virus restrictions are overshadowing progress toward a vaccine. berlin became the latest epicenter protest in europe over policies to stem the pandemic with police u

remember new york city is in the middle of a battle. we are at 3%. our neighbor new jersey is unfortunately at 8%. chicago is at 16%, the third biggest city. we cannot let this challenge deepen. we also need to take hard from the fact that we have helped off the second wave as well as we have so far. there's still more work to be done. that is why we will need additional restrictions. that is what we are going to need most -- more people to participate even more. everyone get tested. everyone pay attention and ask on those four core precautions. it will make a difference. so we have a challenge. we are going to fight back this challenge. let me go over today's indicators. number of people, gender patience today, 114 admitted to hospital for suspected covid cases. we still see our hospital system doing well. the confirmed positivity rate continues to go up. it is at 43.8 6% among those patients. 70 average of reported cases, 550, today's is 1212. again, much higher than we wanted to be. number three, percentage of people testing citywide positive for c

although as you say last spring, new york city was the epicenter of the pandemic in the united states. is new york expecting to see that again? well that is exactly the feel right, so they don't want history to repeat. and remember the dire situation. the city was in hell, the hospitals were above capacity at the time. i'm sure you also remember the couper trucks that were used as mobile morgues. so those pictures really went around the world, so there was a lot of suffering for the new yorkers makeshift field hospitals in central park. and we could see that again potentially. but the plan, of course, is to avoid exactly that by acting decisively and early enough this time around there and johns hopkins university has now put the death toll in the united states at 250000 people. what is that going to mean for the situation in the rest of the country? well, in the rest of the country, the situation is in part a lot worse than in new york city. in fact, sometimes even very chaotic, if you look at the midwest of the current current epicenter of the pundit, i think in the united states, s

the new york city local partnership, they say about one-third of the small business new york city won'te able to reopen, because of the pandemic, and, according to an amex survey, american express, started small business saturday. they need to do better this holiday season than ever before just to survive into the next year. there are things that new york city is doing for small businesses. an interest-free loan. unfortunately this place doesn't qualify. you have to be in a low to middle-income zip code, which they're not. allowed to use sidewalkty pl tds to show merch tyce. the o mer dice. here's what the owner has to say. >> four months to cover. four months no sales and then the whole year at least 50% down. so -- you know, every corner that you cut is not, is not deep enough a cut. so you're doing whatever you can, but it cannot be enough. >> reporter: you know, she is one of the lux lucky ones. she says her landlord has been very kind, lowering rent, she realized she's one of the lucky ones. how are things going so far today i asked? they're good. covid good. not as good as they wa

cbs' mola lenghi is going to lead off our coverage from new york city. od evening, mola. >> reporter: well, good evening, norah. as you mentioned, new york city public schools has canceled all in-person classes beginning tomorrow. that's after the city has reached a 3% positivity rate. now, you remember, it was just eight weeks ago that public schools here reopened. today, students received a less- than-24-hour notice about tomorrow's closing. as you can imagine, leaving working parents in an incredibly tough spot. a painful about-face for new york city. >> we do need to close our schools for the coming days. no one is happy about this decision. >> reporter: new york city was the first major city to reopen schools this fall, and the decision to close is not sitting well with the parents of the nearly 300,000 children affected. >> school is closing tomorrow for an undetermined amount of time. >> why? >> reporter: this woman has a first-grader. >> it's really disappointing for parents who are constantly scrambling. every day it feels like we're waiting for

although as you say last spring, new york city was the epicenter of the pandemic in the united states. is new york expecting to see that again? well, that is exactly the feel right, so they don't want history to repeat. and remember the dire situation. the city was in hell, the hospitals were above capacity at the time. i'm sure you also remember the cooler trucks that were used as mobile morgues. so those pictures really went around the world. so there was a lot of suffering for the new yorkers makeshift field hospitals in central park. and we could see that again potentially. but the plan, of course, is to avoid exactly that by acting decisively and early enough this time around there and johns hopkins university has now put the death toll in the united states at 250000 people. what is that going to mean for the situation in the rest of the country? well, in the rest of the country, the situation isn't part of a lot worse than in new york city. in fact, sometimes even very chaotic, if you look at the midwest of the current current epicenter of the pun, demick in the united states, s

agree with you, we've been trying to get kids back in school throughout the country and we work in new york citywe have to get community spread down now. >> martha: i've got to leave it there, new york governor andrew cuomo melting down at a press briefing this week when a "wall street journal" reporter asked to clarify confusion over who holds the authority to shut down the city's schools and here's what he said. >> first of all, let's try not to be obnoxious and defensive in your tone. because you're 100% wrong. >> martha: that was just the beginning, howie kurtz joins us on what unfolded between the reporters and the governor after that. >> it did start with that straightforward question asking the governor would new york city's schools shut down the next day -- the governor snapped at the reporter and proceeded to give him a televised lecture. >> what you're talking about, what are you talking about? you're now going to override -- we didn't already. that's the law, an orange zone and a red zone, follow the fac facts. you're confused. >> i don't think it's obnoxious at all. >> i don't really

david lee in new york. >> sandra: joining us for more on the school shutdown in new york city miranda devine. the cover of the "new york post." here it is, no class is the headline this morning. clueless cuomo and deblasio close schools hurting kids and parents. you watched that news conference yesterday, miranda and you see the governor and the way he responded to fair questions coming from that "wall street journal" reporter, parents are confused. what is happening here, miranda? >> well, unfortunately new york is saddled with two extremely bad leaders. we put the dunce cap on both of theme and they deserve it. the way they've handled this pandemic from the beginning has been appalling. the nursing home deaths that the governor presided over are a terrible blight on this state. now to be closing schools based on no science, it is just at a 3% case rate, not positive rate, not death rate, 3% case rate when even the world health organization says you don't have to do anything until 5% is simply caving into the teacher's unions because when the schools initially opened late, that was t

and here is the cover of the "new york post" yesterday singh city. "new york post" classic.d reporting to prison today the fashion designer will start serving five month prison sentence in the role in the college admission scandal. that couple admitted to paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to get their daughters into college claiming they were crew recruits. began serving two month sentence about a month ago. in new york in nevada, churches and synagogues are asking the u.s. supreme court to end state limits on in person religious services. jonathan moore theologian, former priest and fox news contributor. how are you doing, jonathan? good day to you. >> hey, doing well, bill. thank you. >> bill: talk about standing. what case ar they trying to make here during this pandemic? >> yeah. well, governor cuomo made what i think was an extraordinary and extraordinarily bad decision in which he said in red zones he is referring to brooklyn in this case. in these red zones no more than 10 people can be in a church at any given time. and the diocese of brooklyn is saying to the

centers of cities as electoral capital -- new york city will be back -- intellectual capital -- new york be back. with the great news from pfizer vaccines,a and the that will be terrific news. new york city will be back after getting to the dark days of 2020 and 2021. tom: patrick foye of the mta. things youat the 47 and i could talk about. the mystery to me is the mystery of the fed summer 16th meeting. events -- december 16 meeting. lisa: the question is if there will be guidance about the asset purchases they have been taking. are they going to extend the longer-term bond purchases at the proportion of that overall portfolio. what will be the reasoning? we are looking at a bleak scenario but what does that do when you have a 10 year yield at 0.857%? today what to push it down further? are they concerned about high heel -- high yields are? continental a great europe and u.s. distinction, there seems to be a distrust in america about throwing income replacement money to people. don't like to do that in america. do you agree with me? event inkind of like april and may, but now we are lik

deploying a lot of our testing capacity towards the schools under this new model. >> reporter: new york citys not alone. in-person classes have recently been suspended in all or parts of michigan. south dakota, georgia, indiana and new mexico. suspensions are planned in philadelphia and a large kansas district. while plans to reopen schools have been delayed in las vegas and chicago. here in new york city, rates of transmission inside schools have remained very low since schools reopened eight weeks ago. but the rate of spread outside of the classroom is an important part of school safety. according to american federation of teachers president randy winegarden. >> in new york city, should be credited for doing what no other major school system did which was to reopen in-school instruction for kids in a safe way. but having a community spread the way it's now going all across the country, schools are not impervious to that. >> reporter: the white house coronavirus task force is not advocating for the closure of schools because, as of right now, the data just doesn't suggest the virus is reall

all over, as you say, last spring, new york city was the epicenter of the pandemic in the united states. is new york expecting to see that again? well, that is exactly the feel right, so they don't want history to repeat. and remember the dire situation. the city was in hell, the hospitals were above capacity at the time. i'm sure you also remember the cooler trucks that were used as mobile morgues. so those pictures really went around the world. so there was a lot of suffering for the new yorkers makeshift field hospitals in central park. and we could see that again potentially. but the plan, of course, is to avoid exactly that by acting decisively and early enough this time around there and johns hopkins university has now put the death toll in the united states at $250000.00 people. what is that going to mean for the situation in the rest of the country? well, for the in the, in the rest of the country, the situation is in part a lot worse than in new york city. in fact, sometimes even very chaotic, if you look at the midwest of the current current epicenter of the pun, demick in the

i mean, i think they're overwhelmed everywhere, and i think the idea that you have new, what new york city went through in march is now every cross, all 49 other states as are new york city, where i am now. i think we learn fast. we've been through things like 911, the world trade center bombings. we do recover quickly. we do learn from our mistakes, and we do adapt. so i think right now we're managing and it's not as bad as it was in march when the bombs are much higher. now we're pushing somewhat like a 2nd wave, but it's now think about what's going on in march. the better at taking care of it, but also mixed in with the usual emergencies that we used to see before copenhagen, like car crashes and gunshot wounds and heart attacks. and they didn't go away with indeed, of course, with the winter approaching. there's great concern about that increase in numbers, and perhaps we're seeing it not just in the u.s., but globally as well. i mean in terms of what you'll seeing, how are patients presenting themselves when they come to hospitals? are the symptoms sort of pretty severe and then how

and this town said: not today. ♪ >>> kelly, that news on the new york city schools closing again temporarilyave iing. >> i thought your interview about those apple chips this morning was phenomenal. >> there's good news, at least for apple. >> exactly exactly. i just said i was a pc, now i'm a mac. no, the other way around anyway, i'll have to go back again. we're out of time. jon, thank you for joining us today. that does it for us, everybody "closing bell" starts right now. >> it certainly does welcome to "the closing bell." i'm wilfred frost along with sara isen. the dow down more than 100 points further positive news on pfizer's vaccine helped sentiment early, but we since faded during the session new york city said it's temporarily closing in-person schools as cases surge in the city and around the country. that has stay-at-home stocks like

uche blackstone has treated thousand of covid patients and has two boys in new york city public schools it safe to send students back to school in new york city? >> i do think right now it is safe. they're going back in smaller cohorts. they're wearing masks, as are the teachers. >> reporter: the struggle stretches across the country. nationwide, more than 40% of students are currently attending schools that are virtual only. >> we're not out on the streets, though. i can say that's better... it's still hard. >> reporter: especially for parents like miss dennis, who didn't want us to use her first name. she and her three children are homeless, living in the apostle shelter in newark, new jersey, with a spotty internet connection, remote learning is nearly impossible. >> they have their moments. sometimes they break down and, you know, it's not ideal. it's not ideal for anyone. it's difficult because to move forward, you have to work. but with remote learning, it's difficult for me to work because i don't have anybody to watch the kids. >> reporter: here in new york city, the they invest

breaking moments ago, new york city schools, the largest school district in the entire country with more than 1 million students will close effective tomorrow. let's start there. cnn's alexandra field is following the new york city school closures. she is live for us. we know mayor de blasio just dropped the news and this is effective immediately, alex. >> reporter: immediately, brooke. and, look, this is a big step back for new york city, which had really beat back from such a difficult spring. the reason this is happening, the city has hit a 3% positivity rate. that is high enough to trigger alarm in the city, but it is a relatively low number compared to what we are seeing nationwide. take a look at the rest of the country, and we are moving alarmingly in the wrong direction by nearly every measure. we were warned it would get this bad and that it will get even worse. the daily death toll on tuesday at its highest number since may. 1,707 lives lost and the state reporting its sixth highest number of deaths today. >> two or three weeks from now, we're going to see 3,000 deaths a day. >

new york city schools. t we could be headed into a deep freeze, as president-elect biden had warned. meanwhile, some good news on the trade front. the u.k. and canada may be close to inking a new agreement. that will be seen as good news. earlier today, prime minister justin trudeau spoke with bloomberg. for meas been a priority and for us to make sure there is a seamless transition for canadian investors, british investors, and we are very optimistic that will happen. kate is with us now for more on this. it is important that a deal be put in place. how important is it, how seamless will the transition be from the old agreement to the new one? kate: it is certainly very important for both countries, based on the size of the trading relationship. the total trade value of 2019. for the u.k., canada is the fifth largest trading partner. for canada, the u.k. is its wealth of largest trading partner. there is also an historical link between the countries. candidus is seen as a natural ally of the u.k. this is cl

a second lawsuit filed in new york city as parents demand schools reopen. son learning has been shut down in the nation's largest school district since thursday. new york city councilman joe borelli is fighting the legal battle and he joins me now. good morning. good to see you. >> good morning. jillian: have you received any sort of response, any productive response? >> no. look, we're still waiting for the hearing on the first lawsuit. this lawsuit, however, we opened in federal court and we hope to have a hearing on this one within 10 days. but as people alluded to, even governor cuomo is now coming around to saying that -- questioning why new york city would decide to close public schools anyway. we had a system where if there was an outbreak, a cluster in the schools, on the few times that that happened, the school would be closed temporarily. that actually seemed to have been working. the doe was doing a good job of keeping schools relatively safe, relatively covid-free and relatively well ventilated. it's unfortunate they decided because of an arbitra

. >> there are a lot in new york and new york city nervous about what could be coming. ew york, governor cuomo talking about it. how are we seeing people respond to the one time epicenter in new york? >> that's a great very important question. up until a couple hours ago i had a pretty clear answer for you. right now, where i'm standing is kind of unclear. let me show you a tweet that came from the mayor this morning saying how the city has not crossed the 3% threshold in the 7-day averages of infection rate required to keep the schools from shutting down. all week last week the mayor said if that 3% number was crossed, schools would immediately close to in-person classes once again in new york city. then, just a couple hours ago, governor, on a press call with reporters said something different. the governor said, maybe schools could test their way out of shutting down. if inside the numbers are lower than 3% those schools can stay open. we don't really no which one of those two things will turn out to be what happens next. we reached out to the mayor's office for his r

then new york city headlines crossed on top of the mta news around the subway. earlier today, you had these two negative headlines. of course the second one being that schools are shutting tomorrow until at least after thanksgiving on the 3%, seven-day rolling positivity rate here in new york city, at least according to the mayor's office. it looks like the governor may have had a different number. in any case, schools are shutting. and i believe in addition, governor cuomo earlier was talking about the possibility of the orange designation at some point in the near future if that 3% rate really is hit. that would mean the likes of restaurants and gyms close. so, initially stocks wavered and then you can see a pretty decent selloff at the end of the day. the worst day for the dow. we usually do not look at the dow, but this was the index that was really hit the most in about three weeks. so investors really taking this virus news seriously. the first time i can remember over the last couple weeks if not months where it seemed there was a connection between inves

decisions based on the accuracy of the data. >> i think it's important what he said, the state of new york and city of new york both squarely fall in the health care conservative philosophy. there is no doubt about it. when you look at the history of coronavirus in the country, new york city and new york state have been amongst the most cautious data-driven, science driven entities, jurisdictions in the whole country. both of our standards are interpreted with a very focused approach to protecting people's health and safety. hours are particularly conservative, as the commissioner pointed out. state and city have followed the same path, and a lot of other places have not. go ahead. if you are talking about more stringent standards, you did say more testing in the schools. rollthat mean you would back -- the rolling number would have to be lower than 3% for you to bring the schools back, is that what you are saying? >> that's not what i'm saying. i appreciate the question. a biggertand there is in this problem -- bigger problem in this country affecting us. our schools have been extraordinarily safe

who has spoken and written about this a lot, particularly "new york post" cool lumpist carl -- carol markowitz. the equity gap in new york cityncellor say equity is important to them, as they have the whole time, they are covering up their tracks. the school chancellor in new york city is trying to get rid of state tests so we can't find out what kind of disaster the school year has been for so many students and black and latino for so many low income students and people that don't have the correct equipment to survive a school year. i think there is no bigger inequity some kids going to school and other kids not going to school. we have schools 10 miles away from the new york city in the suburbs open, full time, every day, basically normal exempt for the masks. we have private schools in new york city that are open but not public schools. charles: think of, it is amazing. private schools are open. the rich folks have the pods where they can gather the best teaches to give individual attention. it boggles the mind. this 3% threshold, it is such arbitrarily low number compared to the rest of the country. what do you think is d

is about to begin. ♪ stuart: yes, that is new york city. ke me out, as we say, perfect setting for this story. new york's governor andrew cuomo just lost it on a reporter after he asked a question about whether or not schools are open in new york. just watch this. >> first of all, let's try not to be obnoxious and offensive in your tone. if by the states numbers , you hit 3%, the schools close. what you talking about? you are never going to override-- we did it already. that's beaumont! orange zone and red zone , follow the facts! then you are confused. >> parents are confused as well. >> no, they are not confused. you are confused. read the law. stuart: i will answer the reporter's question, public schools in new york city are closed to today. students are back to remote learning at least through thanksgiving. it's appropriate we bring in doctor matt mccarthy who speaks for the medical community this morning. doctor, you disagree with this closure of new york city schools. >> i do. at the optics terrible. the bars and agendas in new york ci

before the official election day today now there has been a report from the new york post about people who showed up in new york city to vote . to vote in the place of people who were deceased and that would be electoral fraud now those reports have surfaced however it's pretty clear that new york state's electoral votes will be going to joe biden so that shouldn't impact the results overall but this is one report from the new york post of some some incorrect activity taking place now a federal judge recently ordered the u.s. postal service to inspect some processing facilities in swing states so that inspections going to take place one of the key places that will be affected is pennsylvania now pennsylvania there will be a major major postal processing facility where ballots are being sent and processed that facility is being inspected so as a result we won't be getting our results of from this postal facility for up to a few days there will be a delay in pennsylvania's results and pennsylvania is a key swing state now donald trump has already weighed in on this during his scheduled visit to the republican national

new york. i am committed to new york city. i love new york city. t marathon south will be an option for our employees. where people travel to and where people work and what business willl has done as a result not necessarily benefit new york city in the next couple of years relative to places like charlotte, atlanta, nashville, miami. issue, asat is a tax well i imagine. guest: the billionaires are leaving new york city. they are going to tax friendly states. some of the crime in the city which is very unfortunate, i think hopefully that will correct itself. and policy will be put in place to return to normalcy. that is unfortunate, because covid is a lot to deal with and when you deal with safety in the streets it's a consideration. vonnie: you mentioned you have done a lot on health care recently. i am curious as to what parts of health care? is it covid related? when people will get back to doing what they should have been doing during this time? guest: we love the health care sector. before the fires are announcement -- before the pfizer announc

largest school district in the country. 1.1 million students, 1800 schools and as of this morning, new york city public schools are closed down once again. students going back to remote learning after the city recorded a 3% positivity rate. here is how the mayor explained the decision. >> we have to fight back the second wave. our schools have been a safe, extraordinarily safe, we got to keep it that way. we can't just stand pat with a strategy that worked before when conditions are changing. we need to reset the equation. >> joining me right now, new york city councilman, mark lavene, the chair of the health committee. thank you for coming on. this was not unexpected, he set the standard we knew that. but this is still a major blow and a well known er doctor in new york city put it this way. should parents drop their kids off at the bar, indoor restaurants or the gym, all of which are still open? how does this make sense? >> kate, these priorities are totally backwards. yes, new york city is in a second wave and cases are rising fast. we have to act. but schools should not have been the first t

new york's governor andrew cuomo earlier this morning on "morning joe" with his reason why new york city'she mayor of new york city, mayor bill de blasio. what is the positivity right now? >> we are fighting back a second wave in new york city. it's amazing what new yorkers are doing. on friday alone, 75,000 people came out to get tested, and that's really helping us to manage the situation. the latest information we just got now our seven-day average positivity is 2.77%. we just got that information now. new york city public schools are open today. they will be open tomorrow. and if people keep doing what they are doing, coming out for the testing, wearing those face coverings, there is a real chance here we can fight back this second wave. >> and where are you on keeping schools open? are you and the governor aligned? >> yeah, we've had some really good conversations about this. what you played there in that clip, mika, i think reflects the conversation. look, we set a standard of 3% to keep faith with our families and with our educators and our staff. we said, look, after everything thi

it's been really difficult. >> reporter: in new york city, mobile testing sites are set up. en island has the highest positive test rates in the city with multiple neighborhoods approaching 5%. why are we seeing the surge now? >> so, if you think about it, this is when you would start to see some virus activity, flu-like activity. people are starting to go indoors. >> reporter: in new jersey, the surge is worse, announcing this week its highest daily case total since april. >> if i don't get elected tomorrow because of what we do in newark, then i don't care. >> reporter: newark mayor ras baraka enforcing a 9:00 p.m. weekday curfew for parts of the city for at least the rest of the month. >> my family lives here. my friends live here. six police officers have died. >> reporter: as a curfew goes into effect for parts of newark tonight, new york city is preparing for statewide restrictions. starting tomorrow, all gyms, bars, and restaurants must stop in-person service by 10:00 p.m. norah. >> o'donnell: meg oliver, thank you. at least four people have died and dozens rescued aft

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and protests over the shutdown of new york city schools. ose are some of the headlines on the morning newsstand. "the new york times" reports new york city parents are angry and frustrated with the mayor's decision to shut down the nation's largest school system again. dozens of families protested outside city hall yesterday. mayor bill de blasio shuttered all classrooms to curb a surge in coronavirus cases across the city. with positive tests topping 3%, he says he had to stop in person learning. >> parents have been completely left out of the process. we have no seat at the table. >> i can't see my friends and play with my friends and learn and do a lot of other stuff. >> the mayor says other businesses will likely have to be shut down again in the next two weeks to curb the spread of the virus. >>> "usa today" says legendary notre dame football coach lou holtz tested positive for the coronavirus. holtz who is 83 years old, says he doesn't have a lot of energy as he recovers from the virus. since he retired from coaching in 2004, holtz wor

new york city closing its public schools as of tomorrow. jon taffer, hospitality expert and host of "bar rescue," known for -- failing restaurants and pubs. you have just opened a new restaurant. how are you opening a restaurant and addressing all of these challenges? jon: we started creating taffer's tavern two years ago when unemployment was so low that the restaurant industry could not find employees. that is how much things have changed. we had an industry-wide issue with finding employees. we went on a quest to change the casual dining model with computerized cooking systems and creating a kitchen of the future. that is how we started. when covid came about a year ago , we realized we have the safest kitchen in the world because it has virtually no contact. it is computerized and high-quality products. we developed the taffer safe dining system, compartmentalized outgoing food and transactions, created an exceptionally safe environment with hand scanning equipment, with all these technologies. when we finished, we had the most covid fr

there is a lot of angst and concern here in new york city. ou can see behind me, the bank behind me has been boarded up. there is plywood being put up around shops in the city on the main avenues. macy's has been boarded u because there are fears they could -- there could be protest as the results come out. depending on what donald trump says. >> protest feared. donald trump says he has -- i think it is his point of view -- a special relationship with new york city. most do not share that point of view. there are still some trump supporters among the president's entourage in what he calls his hometown. >> yes, there are. in new york city, they are mainly in staten island. he has a staunch base their of blue-collar workers who support him. also people working in law enforcement. police officers, firefhters, they tend to vote for trump as well. they seem to be continuing to support him. on the whole, new york city really is blue and so is new york state. there are also some republicans who hold their noses and vote many of them, they might like

the first black mayor of new york city. the barber's son elected in 1990. rom college. he sought to brig dignity and decency to a new york who previous mayors has been known for harshness. and to a city that was being ripped apart by racial and religious lines. with black and jewish and korean communities in a state of constant war. it was the new york city depicted in do the right thing. in 1989. the year the central park five lost liberty for a crime they didn't commit. the murders of griffith in 1986 and mobs of young white men in 1989 made howard beach known for young black new yorkers. we knew not to set foot in the neighborhoods if we valued our life. he brought a genuine concern for the poor and homeless to a city that faced a crisis of both. on the day after famed tennis champion arthur ash announced he was hiv positive. he named the city's first coordinator for aids policy. who himself was hiv positive. the virus tore through the gay community nationwide, following years of neglect by the reagan administration. he welcomed a newly freed man dell l.a

those numbers ticking up even here in new york city. right now to bars, restaurants, businesses, gyms, not yet tlest. b at least. a big change. students are told to stay home. about face in new york city. the largest school district in the country shutting its doors tomorrow. >> i want to affirm as much as we are unhappy today that this moment was reached, we are resolved to keep fighting. that is what new yorkers do j. t >> reporter: numbers move in the wrong direction nationwide. the daily death toll on tuesday at its highest number since may. 1,707 lives lost. six states reporting their highest number of deaths on a single day. >> if you're alarmed at the 1,700 deaths today, two or three weeks from now, we will see 3,000 deaths a day. >> reporter: demand for tests is fueling long lines for massachusetts all the way to illinois. hospitals are dealing daily with record setting numbers. scotland county hospital in missouri is so stressed it is willing to accept volunteers with health care experience. >> we could use any cna or nursing a

father of 2, a mom of a child receiving special services in new york, new york city waitress and mom thank you for being here for this important conversation. a single mom of two kids, your younger daughter has type i diabetes, what are your concerns? >> my concerns are she won't the learning correctly. i am not a teacher, at home when working to disrupt. >> same to you. your son is in occupational therapy. is that hard for you to do outside the classroom making sure he gets everything he needs? >> it definitely is. occupational therapy twice a week or speech therapy twice a week, i'm trying not to allow him to fall behind more so than he is already. school keeps shutting down and he's at a young crucial age by receiving these in person services. >> you have two kids as well, a family therapist. i'm curious on the personal and professional commute personally what your kids are up against but also professionally. i am curious if you had an uptick in people coming to you because they are having a hard time with it. >> both my kids are online. not far from new york a couple cases, my da

. >>> plus, new york city shutting st. louis down the head of the teacher's union in new york will be here to weigh in. >>> let's check on futures mike santoli tracking the margaret as always meg tirrell with the latest on pfizer's vaccine and bertha comes has the latest on what president trump just announced. mike santoli, let's start with you. >> not disturbed so far by the news last night about the treasury pulling the funds from the fed. if you look at the pattern here, it is about a flat week as well. trading just below the highs we hit on monday. before that, the previous monday again, we are basically hovering around where we were a of the the highs in september her we used to talk about here this sort of phase where you would go sideways v a brek out, come back. this is a prolonged version of that so far, where you had this breakout above, and then down again. it is also tough to see here but thing are coiling up in this last ten days into this cone sometimes that means indecision, digestion. it can break either way

atlanta in georgia in the passion thank you so from the south of the united states let's go to new york city and join it gabrielle is on the he's on the phone from downtown new york what's going on there again. one more celebration that's what's happening in new york city right now there are thousands of people out on the streets of new york city in various parts of the city in group we are currently with a group of black wives' matter protesters they started in times square with celebration. chanting biden harris. holding up signs that now they have walked more than 30 falk's out of times square and we're with them the whole time and it's been remarkable seats because as they're walking through. the streets of new york city people that are in their businesses people that are in their apartments and people that are having late lunch at outdoor patio as are all getting up and clapping chanting and cheering them on as they move down through that city. it just shows you how important that young people were in this election the black lives better movement that was really fueled on the streets by

new york? >> new york is a very large city, new york city is a very large city. new york state is a very large state and we have to look at how to operatalize the yin vaccine and to get supplemental staffing from the military offsets the needs we have. new york state is bracing for a potential second wave and so a lot of attention and staffing is going to go that side and volunteer groups and with the military personnel made available they would be strategic where they putt them and you have a vaccine now, you need the people to help facilitate the vaccinations. we need to do that and better plans in place for community engagement. it is another thing to start inoculating individuals. >> do you feel like many cities are in that second wave now? >> i believe so. we have seen an uptick in cases, all bracing for additional surges but i think that given the strategy of new york state in place hopefully we'll do more measures, interventions to ensure that we don't get to where we were in april and may. that would certainly be a really bad moment for new york if we were

and in a sign of the worsening emergency across this country, new york city tonight, the original epicenter, suddenly making the call to close public schools, turning to remote learning for now. governors across the country imposing new restrictions tonight. we are now averaging 160,000 new cases a day in this country, in the past week alone. that's the worst we've seen since this began. and that stark new number tonight. more than 250,000 lives. many hospitals and front line workers say they're near their breaking point. nearly 77,000 people in the hospital with covid. and that's a record. and the mayo clinic in rochester, minnesota, tonight, reporting more than 900 staff have tested positive in just the past two weeks. this all comes amid news of that pfizer vaccine tonight. what they now plan to do by friday. and what we've learned about the vaccine and our seniors. we have it all covered for you tonight, beginning with abc's stephanie ramos right here in new york. >> reporter: tonight, in a sign of this worsening emergency across the country, new york city, the original coronavirus epic

the announcement comes less than a week after new york city closed all public schools. for many new yorkers it's another sign that the city could be returning to its darkest days, more than eight months into the pandemic. so here's the big picture. it is grim, and it's getting worse. of course if we all follow the fauci, wear our masks and stay distanced, limit contact with each other, we'll make it to the vaccine. the science is clear, now it's up to us follow the fauci >>> the transition begins. now we know how that happened. nbc news now reports that president trump's closest advisers, especially his daughter ivanka, met with him yesterday and urged him to stop blocking the biden transition, the reason, in order to protect his brand and stop taking a massive pr hit it seemed to work. president trump has refused to take any questions from reporters for 21 days in a row now since the election he did drop by the white house briefing room today to talk about the stock market but left after one minute >> thank you very much, everybody. thank you

the new york city police department confirms he died of natural causes. dinkins made history as new york city's first black mayor. in his inaugural address he referred to new yorkers as a gorgeous mosaic. he served from 1990 to 1993 amid racial unrest and soaring budget deficits. his death comes two months after his wife joyce died. he was 93. >>> and now to the latest on the oxford covid vaccine developed by astrazeneca. it's said to be up to 90% effective, but clinical trials also showed that it may stop people from spreading the coronavirus. >> we may have the first vaccine that's been shown to protect against severe disease, clinical disease and against asymptomatic disease. >> the first oxford vaccines could be given in the u.k. starting next month. that's also the same time line predicted for pfizer and moderna here in the u.s. between all three drug makers we may see more than 5 billion doses produced. this comes as the number of daily covid cases hit 169,000 in the u.s. yesterday. that's according to johns hopkins university. nevada begins a three-

industry and large corporations and wall street should actually dip into their coffers to help new york city. we're actually in a 10000000000 dollar shortfall and there's many things a financial sector can do. one thing is to redefine the stock transfer tax, which would actually give new york $13000000000.00. but also a lot of people are talking about is almost like, well tax that cities could assess a small one percent tax on large corporations, but over a 1000 employees. that would really help even better corporations, like amazon, or google or facebook. if they can even voluntarily put a tax on themselves to help the cities where they have headquarters. make creative and use that, use that fund to help help people help cities with p.p., e. i, you know, you know, when one thing is to have a 3 y., 5 for all the school kids in new york city. there is many, many things that, that the wealthy can do. no, and of course studies are now showing that the pandemic, a very deep in a inequality at how concerning is that? well, it's actually very disturbing and actually thank you so much for bringing

i'm here in new york city. let's get smarter. we are one week out from thanksgiving, and there are hundreds of thousands of americans that are facing the awful reality of a holiday without a loved one. maybe more than one. over a quarter million americans have now died from coronavirus. on wednesday alone, we got word of more than 1800 deaths, the most in four months. maps from the white house coronavirus task force show how the number of cases has exploded across the nation in recent weeks. in fact, we've seen half a million cases in the last three days alone. meanwhile, the man in the white house, the president, donald trump, has not said a single thing. and get this. a new estimate from infectious disease experts say the official case count doesn't even come close to telling the whole story. because it only includes people who have actually gotten tested. the experts say the real number of people who were infected and potentially contagious is probably over 3 million. in other words, 1 in every 100 americans. so while we wait