in august of 1676, phillip was taken and killed and thus ended king phillip's war. this was no victory for the english. because for decades to come, they would be paying for this conflict. the war was by no means over for the next century. there would be indian conflict after indian conflict throughout new england. and worst of all, from the standpoint of plymouth, it would be absorbed by massachusetts bay and in the years after the war, new england, which had been remarkably independent of a mother country, throughout the first half century of the 17th century, there would be a royal governor. and thus would end an era in new england. by fighting this war of annihilation with the native people that had been stood by their side for so long, the children and grandchildren of the pilgrims had destroyed their forefathers' way of life. when you take the arc of the story, from the "mayflower" to its -- to king phillip's war, you begin to see that, you know, when i was a teenager, in my cynical teenage years in the '60s and '70s, i began to look at the pilgrims as irrelev

. >> and i'm phillip mena. a third wave of uncontrollable coronavirus spread is gripping the country. health officials continue to urge americans not to travel for thanksgiving, but errants just had their busiest weekend since before the pandemic began. nbc's blayne alexander joining us now from atlanta's airport. blayne, good morning. >> reporter: phillip, good morning to you of course we've heard those warnings from health officials, from the cdc for days now not to travel many not listening and has dr. anthony fauci concerned about what thiscould like like after thanksgiving a direct and dire warning to travellers like these already packing airports ahead of the thanksgiving holiday. >> when you get in a crowded plane, you're in a crowded airport, you're lining up, not everyone's wearing masks. >> reporter: friday and saturday the tsa processed more than 2 million passengers, the highest two-day total since march. she travelled from dallas to new york laguardia airport. >> the think that surprised me more th

phillip?> all these months later, worse than ever. >>> president trump is laying th biden up 4.5 million in the popular vote nbc news already projected a win for the president-elect in pennsylvania the latest count puts him up 45 votes. georgia is too close to call but looks blue arizona also too close to call president trump trails by about 15,000 votes this morning the biden transition team is already hard at work focused on tackling the pandemic nbc's ali vitali joins us with the latest good morning. >> reporter: good morning. president-elect joe biden leading the charge on the coronavirus. the first day and he's already putting in place a task force with more than a dozen experts in science and public health to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. this comes after months on the campaign trail when his entire pitch to voters hinged on tackling the pandemic in order to get into other crises like the economy. now that he's president-elect, he's showing this is a key priority for his administratio

alison phillips has been the editor of the daily mirror since 2018.t time we spoke, you were just the editor of the mirror. since then your remit has broadened, for which congratulations. you're now editor in chief of the daily mirror, the sunday mirror and the sunday people. just tell us what it like running a seven day operation at the moment? it is really exciting, it has been an incredible year for news and i think what has been most interesting is seeing how much readers have come back to news. i think there is always that slight concern in journalism that one day you are going to run out of stories or one day there will be nothing that people want to read and there has been so much doom and gloom, i think, across the industry over recent years about people turning away from news for a whole host of reasons, but this year with the pandemic we have seen our numbers could digitally the numbers are the highest numbers we had ever seen and in print as well, obviously we took a bit of a hit at the beginning of lockdown, but they had virtually all come

. >> and i'm phillip mena. fresh off the news that pfizer's covid vaccine is 95% effective, just hours ago astrazeneca released its own optimistic findings phase two shows that the vaccine is safe and it's generating an immune response. sara harmon of nbc is joining us from london. what have we learned about this vaccine? >> reporter: hi, phillip it's billioning are encouraging on the vaccine front this morning we're waking up from great findings from astrazeneca. this is a phase 2 trial. it was published in the medical journal ""the lancet." it's producing am immune response in older adults we know that's important because most adults are at risk for the virus, both for complications and risk of death. we know when it comes to formulating vaccines, older adults are the most difficult to produce that result in this is very encouraging however, it's only a phase 2 trial. unlike moderna and pfizer who earlier this week introduced phase 3 results, this is still the middle phase it is encouraging, though, because s

. >> reporter: the woman who called police to the scene was julia phillips -- melvin's longtime girlfriend. >> she was worried that melvin was dead. she said she didn't know what it happened. >> reporter: investigators told julia the devastating news -- melvin had been murdered. was that a jolt, melvin roberts, the victim? >> yeah. melvin's not the type of a person to be a victim of anything. >> reporter: melvin was the longest practicing lawyer in south carolina. he had defended both the rich and poor for 55 years. >> he almost sounds like a small-town celebrity whether he liked it or not. >> the thing about melvin is he was into everything. >> reporter: so influential, the street where he lived was named after him -- roberts avenue. a true renaissance man devoted to his family. >> he was everything to me. he was my best friend. he was my mentor. >> reporter: melvin had two sons -- david and ronny. >> he was instrumental in making me into who i am. >> reporter: the three men shared an unusually strong bond. >> dad, david, and myself. it was our normal routine to have lunch every day. >> r

. >> i'm phillip mena. on the eve of the election, both candidates are launching one last blitz joe biden is holding events in ohio and pennsylvania. a tremendous amount of americans have already voted casting a record breaking 93 million ballots and it could cross the 100 million mark once this weekend's numbers are tallied up the president is trailing his democratic rival by 10 points according to the latest nbc news wall street journal national poll nbc's tracie potts is joining us from biden's hometown of wilmington, delaware busy day for both candidates >> reporter: a really busy day, phillip. good morning, everyone biden is staying close by. president trump, all over the place today. he will be in michigan, in wisconsin and north carolina, pennsylvania not far from here, but last night he started out with a rally in must-win florida. the latest "new york times" sienna poll shows president trump behind 3 percentage points in florida, within the margin of error, making that a tight race. he held a midni

. >> and i'm phillip mena. as we begin this holiday week, a lot of americans seem to be shrugging off warnings not to travel despite health officials urging people to stay home for thanksgiving, about 2 million people passed through airports on friday and saturday nbc's lindsey riser joins us from new york's laguardia airport. lindsey, good morning. >> reporter: phillip, saturday saw 984,000 people going through u.s. airports. friday saw nearly a million, so clearly even though right now the cdc is warning against holiday travel, not everybody is listening. here at laguardia we've seen a steady stream but nowhere near some of the scenes we're seeing play out in some other airports across the country some images people elbow to elbow, people, no room for social distancing. this is the backdrop right now the u.s. is at 12 million cases and we went from 11 to 12 million in just a matter of five days, so experts are worried that with so many people traveling there is going to be cross-contamination of sorts here in

. >> and i'm phillip mena. after one of the busiest travel days since the pandemic began, stern warnings from health officials against a post-thanksgiving spike. the national outbreak has been devastating, with the number of cases surpassing 4 million this month. that's more than double october's count. there have now been well over 13 million americans infected as travel hit peaks across the country, our blayne alexander is tracking the latest from atlanta's hartfield-jackson airport. blayne, good morning. >> reporter: well, phillip, good morning to you the thanksgiving holiday is now officially in the rear view mirror so millions of americans are making their way back home this past seven-day period is the busiest stretch of travel since the start of the pandemic and now health officials warn that could mean a very difficult december millions of americans are taking to the skies and the streets, headed home after thanksgiving travel something health officials pleaded with the public not to do now those same e

phillips. many of us have been working on the frontline for months.ed out and exhausted. i promised my husband that tomorrow is my first day off since february. a lot of us are really burnt out, and i don't know how to express how frustrating it is to see people taking action that are dangerous to themselves and families and knowing that i am not sure when dr. phillips caring for patients and i am going to be on call in the hospital for new year and to know this is what we are facing is very sad. >> take the day off. i know you and your husband are great cooks. dr. phillips, the mayor of denver had to apologize and cancel the trip of his own advise on traveling. governor cuomo and newsom facing backlashes for their behaviors and plans not matching their description. everyone thinks yeah, i have one and i know better in this one case than the science is telling me. >> well, i think this is a great point. this is a test to a couple of things. one, we are all humans and want to be with your family. i know i want to be with my family right now. i have two

phillip? >> just waiting to pull that trigger though thank you so much. >>> let's turn now to the trump campaign side of this fight. joining us is rehema ellis the results are getting tighter by the hour. what more are you hearing? >> reporter: they are getting tighter by the hour. one thing we can tell you is the secretary of state here in pennsylvania has said that the counting is going on furiously in fact, one of the commissioners of the election commission said they're counting like crazy in this build behind me it's a little dark in the lobby area, but don't let that be a sign of what's going on. on the other side where the actual count is under way, they've been working on three eight-hour shift, non-stop essentially, trying to get these ballots out, these mail ballots counted. they suspect something will happen today, that according to the secretary of state who on thursday said the counting is coming in exactly the way they hoped it would, and they hope to hear something later today o

. >> and i'm phillip mena. the transition will begin to a presidency half a century in the making joe biden is the president-elect, securing the office that's eluded him twice nbc news projected his win in pennsylvania on saturday, pushing him past the threshold of 270 electoral votes and his margin of victory could further widen as the final votes are tallied. biden continues to hold the lead over president trump in georgia and in arizona biden and kamala harris will hit the ground running today, laying out their transition strategy as well as announcing a coronavirus task force nbc's tracie potts joining us now from capitol hill with the latest tracie, plenty of challenges lie ahead for the president-elect. >> reporter: lots of challenges, phillip. good morning, everyone those challenges begin with getting certified election results. because the trump campaign has made it clear that they will roll out a new set of challenges, legal challenges to the results, starting today. but the biden team is already focus

and phillips 66 says they cannot comment at this point. the utah coal company never got back to us. >> we are talking about the deepwater terminal in richmond, but did in oakland just go through a similar situation not long ago? >> that is correct. the city passed an ordinance to stop a new terminal being built at its port. that has been taken to litigation as well. and the people behind the coal terminal and their project managers and packers have just won an appeal this summer.>> thank you andrea. >>> a ruling in the case of a former uc berkeley employee known as the norcal is now facing life in prison for a string of crimes. a jury convicted him of 46 counts of sexual assault and kidnapping. prosecutors say henine women and six northern california cities between 1991 and 2006. every assault had the same mo, women tied to a bed for hours with their eyes taped shut. one of his victims was attacked in her vallejo home in 1992 but she fought back. she stabbed him in the four head. >> there is something that will never go away. but he's goin

>> his name is phillip walton. he is an american farmer kidnapped in neighboring niger earlier this week by a raval gang. heft rescued this morning by the navy seals who parachuted in. five of the captors were killed but none of the americans was injured. >> garrett: this has been the worst week for the u.s. since pandemic's start. infections now number more than nine million. this is just two weeks after hitting the number eight million. today, the death toll topped 230,000. michael george has the latest. >> reporter: the coronavirus crisis is intensifying. infections, hospitalizations, and deaths up across the country. >> washington state has not given up in controlling this virus. >> reporter: on friday, for the first time since july, washington state declared more than 1,000 cases. >> the second wave that we've all been worried about is here. >> reporter: oregon governor kate brown's state reported 600 daily cases for the first time on friday. this, we a minneapolis e.r. physician reminded his community how cov

trucks full of petroleum coke and oil industry byproducts, driving by the phillips 66 refinery. from here, they are transferred onto ships, headed for asia, burned as fuels. a thriving business that richmond residents say is happening at the expense of their health. >> obviously i don't like it. >> reporter: dahlia and her mother were among the thousands of residents that tried to stop coal shipments through the town. >> these train cars travel through residential areas in richmond. >> bad for the environment, not just the pollution of the town, but basically the pollution of the world. >> reporter: pushback from residents resulted in a new city ordinance, that phases out the storage and transportation over three years. we have learned that the terminal along with the utah coal company that exports the kolkata and phillips is t6, which exports the petco, are looking to overturn the ordinance. they claim among other things, that it violates their constitutional right to free commerce. >> the fossil fuel industry decided they didn't like the band and challenged it in court, so now

. >> and i'm phillip mena. >>> the breaking news overnight, joe biden has flipped arizona. in the past it seemed as wide as the grand canyon the state's 11 electoral votes puts biden's lead at 290 to president trump's at 217 putting more pressure on president trump to concede minutes after arizona was called t president tweeted, quote, biden did not win. he lost by a lot and that earned him not one but two twitter information warnings and now all eyes are on georgia where a full hand count is under way. >> this has been another record-breaking week in the war against kroez. over 159,000 cases were reported on thursday making it the ninth day in the row cases have surpassed 100,000. and it's after texas passes the 1 million mark california now joining that list the alarming data comes as the mayor issues a stay at home advisory, telling people to go out for essential emergencies. >>> just as many people have turned to online shopping, a new study shows porch pirates have stoelden $5.4 billion in stolen packages over the past year. >>> infected nurses who are asymptomatic are

this was really the first strike against me and my task that phillips gave me. because the list of dates that go on for pages, have a full copy here but i cannot reproduce it for the screen. on the right-hand side is a list of dates taped in august of 1963. so those corresponding with lodges for world meeting with kennedy in the oval office. we can see the qualities of the best i could make it, the dates skip right over the farewell meeting with kennedy and august 15, 1963. in other words according to bob woodward and the official logs of the kennedy taping system there was no recording made of the meeting. but i was not ready to give up yet. again comics friends with the nixon tapes showed me sometimes you can still find other clues. so if you could please advance to the next slide. you know, many writers over decades better known than me and more than a few famous vietnam era journalists have been over this long before me. that's her like a good starting point after striking out with the coverage i found in the "washington post" to see whether writers before m

deputy john phillips had a personal stake in cracking the case.t reassured him that we will figure this out. >> whatever happened here is really within your family? the law enforcement family of the county? >> yeah, we know everybody. we know everyone's extended family and kids. >> and they also know something about the guy next door. they had been bapeeking across e bashed wire. at 1:00 that afternoon. deputy phillips and a team of investigators were ready to confront the neighbor. ever since the first deputies arrived at sunrise, they'd been peeking across the barbed wire. just how dangerous was this fussing neighbor? >> we got strapped up. we're all ready. ready for business. >> reporter: marty was in the backup car, while deputy phillips and a partner drew line-of-fire detail -- approaching brian tate for an interview. >> he's our prime suspect. it's very possible in all of our minds that he just shot and killed lisa. >> reporter: as the phillips team walked slowly up to the tate house, marty and the chief deputy provided cover in the driveway

. >> i'm phillip ma. we're beginning what is usually one of the busiest weeks of holiday travel this year health officials are pleading with americans to stay home as covid cases surge to record levels. despite the warnings, airports just saw their busiest weekend since the pandemic begin nbc's blaine alexander joins us from atlanta blaine, good morning. >> reporter: phillip, good morning to you we have heard those warnings from health officials, from the cdc for days now urging all-americans to stay home, not travel this week, but scenes from airports around the country show that many people are not listening and that's got dr. anthony fauci now concerned about what this could look like after thanksgiving a direct and dire warning to travelers like these already packing airports ahead of the thanksgiving holiday. >> when you get a crowded plane, you're in a crowded airport, you're lining up not everybody's wearing masks. >> friday and saturday the t processed more than 2 million travelers, the highest tw

rivera >> i'm phillip mena.ople across the bay area are waking up to new covid-19 restrictions. santa clara county among the most severe. why there are many questions surrounding this new travel policy. plus -- >> to find that out while we're getting on a plane and no one to tell us, it was extremely disappointing. >>> no place like home, but what do you do when you don't have one anymore. why the future of the 49ers home games are in limbo due to restrictions. >>> a chill in the air lingering across the bay area. just how long our morning temperatures are

"early today" starts right now ♪ >>> good morning i'm phillip mena. >> good to be with you i'm francesivera on the evening of the election both candidates are launching one last battleground blitz. the candidates will make their last stand today president trump will headline five rallies across four states while joe biden is holding events in ohio and pennsylvania. a tremendous amount of americans already voted, casting a record-breaking 93 million ballots. and it could cross the 100 million mark once the weekend's tallies are complete helding into election day the president is trailing his democratic rival by ten points in our latest nbc news/"wall street journal" poll nbc's tracie potts joins us live from biden's hometown wilmington, delaware tracie a busy day ahead for both candidates. >> reporter: very busy day let's start with the president who was in five states yesterday. another busy day today rallies set up in michigan, wisconsin, north carolina and pennsylvania but he's starting the day in florida with a midnight rally, flouting coronavirus restrictions in his home state, pul

i'm mark phillips in london. >> and that's the "overnight news for this friday.ting from washington, i'm catherine herridge. >>> it's friday, november 27th, 2020. this is the "cbs morning news." >>> ready, set, shop. today is black friday. and while many are heading out to stores, online shopping could see a major boom thanks to the pandemic. >>> superspreader concerns. while many stayed home this thanksgiving, we still saw some of the busiest travel days since the pandemic started. how the coronavirus made the holiday look different this year. >>> not ready to concede. president trump answers questions from reporters for the first time since the election. but again refuses to accept the results. what he said about if he'll leave office come january. >>> good morning. i'm tom hanson in for anne-marie green. black s

phillips, you talked about the danger to secret service agents in that vehicle.t service agents having to quarantine. this obviously was preventable or at least some of that was preventable. >> yes, you would think so. you know, this joyride the president took was completely unnecessary. what we know about the coronavirus and its transmissibility is it is a factor of distance and time. while there are always the need of secret service to be close, when someone has got a deadly infectious disease, that could be minimized, particularly in the location where he was. in order -- for him to put those officers and those agents at risk by going on a completely unnecessary trip is just a true abedication of his leadership. and a pattern of him using his people as a political end. >> and as a member of the president-elect's covid advisory board, how concerned are you abe t about the position the country will be in january, and how is informing what you and the advisory board are doing now? >> anderson, we are looking at a couple of really tough months ahead. i think part

guests patricia showing you're a regional counsellor for the national rally party in france chris phillips a former head of the u.k. national counter-terrorism security office. chief executive of the ramadan foundation in the u.k. thanks very much for making the time especially on a sunday to speak to us today patricia can we kick off with. 'd the french president's stance on islam has sparked anger throughout the muslim world we've seen many images of that i put it to you that they're standing up for free speech and then there's simply provocation that history suggests will only lead in one direction is his plan perhaps well intentioned but actually a danger to french citizens. i think that the president the french president was very right to confirm that we stand for a secular state and for the freedom of speech might i also add which is very important if you want to understand the bait that's going on in the secular state of france religion is seen as an opinion it is an opinion as you can have an opinion of many other things in society and it is treated as an opinion and this is what a

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. >> and i'm phillip mena. coronavirus continues to break grim records u.s. broke another record in daily new cases with more than 135,000 yesterday, and with icus at the brink, hospitalizations reached an all-time high with nearly 62,000 in one day, but whether we fretover to visit our relatives this thanksgiving, our own dr. anthony fauci has his own information. >> he says the information is impressive and the fda can use the improved emergency. >> by the time we get to the end of november, we should have doses available for those with highest priority. >> but storing its is complicated. >> we anticipate it, although, there are logistic challenges that it will be done successfully. >> will you take it? >> if they look at this data and say this data is solid, let's go ahead and improve it, i promise you, andrea, i will take the vaccine and i will recommend that my family take the vaccine. >> after president trump's comments when a crowd recently shouted fire fauci, fire fauci. >> don't tell anybody, but let me wait until a little after the election. >> dr.

has prompted the public health department to impose restrictions on indoor activity kron four's phillipe djegal explains when the amended health order goes into effect. >>tailing back to get back on track to seeing this increase in cases 400,000 is disconcerting candice anderson is chair of the contra costa county board of supervisors. she agrees with the public health officers decision wednesday to restrict recently expanded indoor activities as a preemptive measure to slow the spread of novel coronavirus once we made it to that that rate orange here that we were all so excited about we're finding that our case count is rising since the county moved from the red tier into the orange tier of the state's blueprint for a safer economy during the covid-19 pandemic last week covid-19 hospitalizations and infection rates are up making it likely the county will revert back to the red tier if the cases continue to climb all of the science is showing that you're more likely to acquire infection if you're indoors and you're having the droplets exchange spread upon you on election day 40 people we

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. >> and i'm phillip mena. the coronavirus is pushing emergency rooms to the brink a shocking 144,000 new cases were reported just yesterday the situation is so dire that in some states -- that in north dakota they're letting health care workers who have tested positive for the virus continue working, treating covid patients because there's just such a shortage of staff. the state is struggling to care for those with coronavirus our gabe gutierrez gives us a glimpse at an icu that's under siege in the west. >> reporter: phillip, new covid cases in minnesota have jumped by 125% in the last two weeks we got an inside look at one of the covid icus here in minneapolis this covidicu is busier than ever among them, 36-year-old kelly meager, hospitalized for a month and a half she was on a ventilator less than a week ago. >> i felt miserable. i knew i had covid from the very first day i had symptoms, but i kept getting worse and worse i just kept feeling sicker and sicker. >> kelly loves her family, job as a gymnastic

i'm phillip mena. >> glad you're starting the new week with us i'm frances rivera joe biden is the president-elect securing the office that's twice eluded him before. nbc news projected his win in pennsylvania on saturday pushing him past the threshold of 270 electoral votes. his margin of victory could further widen as further votes are tallied. he continues to hold a lead over president trump in georgia and arizona. biden and kamala harris will hit the ground running today laying out their transition strategy and announcing a coronavirus task force nbc's tracie potts joins us from capitol hill with the latest tracie plenty of challenges lie ahead for the president-elect. >> reporter: big challenge, and the biggest is probably this virus, frances, that has infected more than 10 million americans and killed more than 200,000. the president-elect says that will be the focus of his transition especially today. we've already got a layout of what his day is going to look like it starts with a briefing on covid- covid-19. >> folks, our work begins at getting covid under control. we cannot repair the ec

. >> and i'm phillip mena. joe biden is building steam as the final votes are being talated. the former vice president is expected to pick up 253 to president trump's 214. biden has earned more votes than any other presidential candidate in history he's leading in the vote count by over 3.5 million. the several battleground states are coming down to the wire. pennsylvania is too close to call biden has narrowed the president's lead in the critical keystone state and officials are still counting votes from several of the bluest and biggest counties. >> biden has counted the blue wall he is the projected winner in wisconsin. the outcome there could depend on a potential recount and/or official confirmation of the vote count and nbc news has declared biden the winner in michigan georgia is on a razor's edge this morning as its outstanding votes there are tallied. >> mr. trump has launched a legal bat toll try to stop vote counting in pennsylvania and michigan also stating a challenge in georgia and demanding a recount in wisconsin for its part, the biden campaign says it's ready

>>phillipe djegal all kron 4 news. >>and the north bay where it was the first day of school for some students in sandra fell and has been 53 days since students were in the classroom, learning. today that sandra fell unified school district allowed k through 2 students back to school with safety protocols in place such as you're wearing face masks and keeping doors open. this district says next week grades 3 through 5 will return in a hybrid model and it forecast the grades 6 through 12. we'll stay distance learning for the rest of the year. also in the north bay, a private school in marine county is shut down in person learning due to reports of students attending parties without wearing masks. officials with the branson school say that the campus is going to be closed until further notice. this decision was made after they learned about multiple halloween parties where the students were not socially distancing or wearing masks. students have branson had been asked to sign a code of conduct agreement agreeing not to h

. >> and i'm phillip mena. on what's normally a very busy travel day, the country is facing a pandemic and extreme weather. dangerous thunderstorms rolling a i cross tacross the south ovet at least one apartment building was also ev evacuated there have been power outages after winds ripped down trees and power lines. coming up, meteorologist bill karins will tell us what more we can expect from holiday storms >> president-elect joe biden sat down with our lester holt. he revealed what's on the agenda in the first 100 days in the office. >> tell us about day 1 in the white house and your first 100 days what are your priorities going to be? >> some of it will depend on the kind of cooperation i can or cannot get from the united states congress, but i'm going to make a commitment in the first 100 days i'll send an immigration bill to the united states senate with a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented people in america ly also be move dog away with some of the, i think, very damaging executive

"early today" starts right now >>> good morning i'm phillip mena. >> glad you're with us on this crucial day. i'm frances rivera the rallies, onslaught of campaign ads all led to this election day in america. it was a clean sweep in new hampshire for joe biden picking up all five votes. today roughly 71% of the votes have been cast today president trump will hold an election night event at the white house while joe biden will continue campaigning in pennsylvania nbc's tracie potts will join us in wilmington where biden will watch the results come in. tracie, this is it. >> reporter: this is it and we are here at biden headquarters, the stage, the monitors set behind me for his drive-in rally that could happen tonight, could happen later depending how the results roll in. it was a whirlwind last full day for the candidates with president trump logging nearly 2,500 miles in a day, landing for his final rally in michigan where he arguing he will easily win the state that he narrowly won in 2016. >> we're going to win the state of michigan so easily. we're going to win it like last time, but

thanks for waking up with us i'm phillip mena. >> and i'm frances rivera.s continues right here on nbc stay right here for results. ♪ ♪ come to me ♪ run to me ♪ do and be done with me ♪ cold cold cold ♪ don't i exist for you ♪ don't i still live for you ♪ cold cold cold ♪ everything i possess ♪ given with tenderness ♪ wrapped in a ribbon of glass ♪ time it may take us but god only knows ♪ ♪ how i've paid for those things in the past ♪ ♪ dying is easy it's living that scares me to ♪ ♪ death ♪ i could be so content hearing the sound ♪ ♪ of your breath oh yeah ♪ cold is the color of crystal the snowlight ♪ ♪ that falls from the heavenly skies ♪ ♪ catch me and let me dive under ♪ ♪ for i want to swim in the pools of your eyes ♪ ♪ don't you know it's ♪ cold cold cold ♪ cold cold cold [cheers and applause] >> kelly: all right, all right, all right! welcome to "the kelly clarkson show," everybody. give it up for my band y'all! yes! that upright bass, kyle. so let's talk to the person who requested "cold," vicki from fresno, california. so why do you love this song

hayden phillips, he and john had their work cut out. we worked closely together in the run up to the b.b.c. charter renewal and hears it were managed to enable the government to agree to a charter set, which was after years of tension was a sort of peace treaty. it was very important person in terms of the acceptability of the b.b.c. within government. oh, we couldn't stand him in new risks and couldn't stand him because he was shaking things up and he was a pain in the bombing. lots of different ways. but that's great. and cheap and who's to recognize is when the beautiful world was going, had it not been for bert in the b.b.c. would not be worried whose today? george bush is by all accounts, willing to stop side to help his ally and friend, their weapons of mass destruction is going to fall apart. on the the 1st director general of the 21st century, greg dyke was a controversial appointment. greg dyke was all smiles this morning when he heard a dog brought construct top job as a form, a donor to the party in power, new labor during hi

phillips 66 said it can't comment. the utah coal company never got back to us. >>> california public utilities commission will hold a vote on autonomous vehicles. a proposal allows companies to apply for permit to provide passenger transportation services, charge fares, offer shared trips. the board is expected to hear from san francisco county transportation and muni officials before the vote. >>> let's get a check on the road and see how the morning commute is going at 5:17. >>> good morning. it's getting busy especially for the ride into the altamont pass. we had a trouble spot west 580 at north flynn. it was blocking the left lane, everything off the freeway. that's the good news. however we are seeing a line of red. traffic will take a few minutes to recover from the earlier spot. 43 minutes from 205 to 680. it is changing quickly as you head into that commute. the positive news, if you are taking east shore freeway, all clear. no delays yet on highway 4 and 101 out of south bay, so far, so good. i checked on cond

>>in hayward phillipe djegal all kron 4 news. >>still ahead a new medical study investigates the flu shot and the coronavirus we'll explain how getting the flu shot could actually benefit you if you test positive for covid and the 2020 election was filled with historic first for l. >>g b t q candidates. closer look at some of those milestone victories and what makes him so significant next. >>martin jenkins made history this week by becoming the first openly man to serve on the california supreme court. jenkins born and raised in the bay area received his law degree from the university of san francisco law school back in 1980 and practice here in the bay area and many different capacities. he identifies the greatest challenge of his life as being year for lgbtq candidates who made historic first across all levels of government indeed there are more incoming lgbtq elected officials who will represent communities across america. >>than in any other time in history kron four's ella sogomonian has a closer look. >>out bringing pride

. >> joining us to discuss the moment, abby phillip and kaitlan collins. i go through the numbers every day, they depress me. it is a sad statement. we don't hear from the president about them at all. we hear from dr. fauci. we read some excerpts from the coronavirus task force report from the white house, talking how dire the situation is. kevin liptech, this is part of his report. trump demonstrated little interest in adding more to his schedule. people familiar with the matter said. few aides raised the idea because of his dark mood and preoccupation with his loss. he is spending mornings watching television, arriving in the oval office in the evening. he goes between the office and dining room, equipped with large televisions, newspapers and magazines are strewn across the table. we know he likes to watch things that tell him he is great. is he paying attention to the idea, he is still president for two months, and the country is in a ditch. >> and that's the concern, that he's just checked out of this, not paying attention as much. he did provide the

like many countries, the united states faced critical ventilators shortages, while phillips was selling to higher priced commercial versions of the same ventilator around the world. so they never have to fill is order that she really loved for this to happen and helping humankind. instead, the group prioritize the work and overseas and it's only been recently that the department of health and human kind of the, let's renegotiate, it is thing order. but it has been course to eventually there's a higher price. and that renegotiation that lindsay mentioned it resulted in the you s. government ordering $43000.00 of the commercial ventilators in april at 4 times the original price. in late august, the remainder of the order was cancelled only after a congressional committee raised questions about the expenditure. but disaster capitalism can also be less direct and more obscured from public scrutiny. like who stands to benefit from some taxpayer funded bailouts. take the u.s. airline industry, which had its request for a $50000000000.00 bailout approved by the u.s. senate in march. while the

juliet phillips was there. day his family worried would never come. at one point during his battle with coronavirus, gary was given just a 10% chance of survival. it felt like i was losing part of myself. i was actually grieving. i was crying going to bed, i was crying when i woke up. i have always had somebody there, all my life i've been part of a pair. so the thought of losing that other part is unthinkable. gary's recovery has been a long one. today is all the more special, though, as he will get to see his new granddaughter penny in person for the first time. i feel very overwhelmed, like, just so excited, because it'sjust been so long. obviously he's not actually met penny properly yet. so he can finally meet her. he has never held her. so obviously that is exciting. and itjust feels incredible, it is amazing that he is finally coming home. it isn'tjust gary's family cheering on his homecoming. jenny and kate cared for him throughout his time in oldham hospital. it is lovely to be here today to see him ma

we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment with nigel nelson and jo phillips.

. >> and i'm phillip mena. this is it less than 24 hours now until election day the candidates will make their last stand with barn-storming blitz. president trump will headline five rallies across four swing states while joe biden is holdi holding events in ohio and pennsylvania right now the president is trailing his democratic rival by ten points but the race is much tighter in key battleground states including florida, which could prove to be a must-win for the president. he's trailing biden by three points in the sunshine state, according to the latest "new york times"/sienna poll, which is within the margin of error. overnight he flouted a coronavirus curfew in miami-dade county and held a midnight rally with his supporters. sparking some controversy after suggesting he may fire the nation's top covid expert. [ crowd chanting "fire fauci, fire fauci, fire fauci ] >> don't tell anybody, but let me wait until a little bit after the election i appreciate the advice. i appreciate it. no, he's been wrong a lot