here in savannah, tourism is the game.ion dollar industry and it took a massive hit and covid began in march. i have to look at how small businesses are catering to travelers during this time. >> reporter: the lush city of savannah, georgia is one of the most beautiful places in the south, tourism's economic lifeblood. only 144,000 people live here but roughly 14 million visit annually, representing $3 billion in revenue. there are a variety of ways to see the attractions here. trollies, river boats, even horse-drawn carriages. >> the horses in savannah are so iconic, it's just part of the city. >> it's a good city. tourism is what lights it up. >> reporter: but thanks to the pandemic, tourism became one of the first industries to buckle in savannah, initially bringing small businesses to a full stop. carol marshall owns carriage tours of savannah. >> i think our last day of operations was around the 18th or maybe the 16th of march, and that is prime time, spring is prime time here in savannah. compared to last year, it's

spring is primetime in savannah.ps of 100, 50 people, like we would typically. >> reporter: president and ceo of savannah riverboat cruises. >> this past year, fourth of july holiday weekend, we did have one cruise that got close to 500 passengers. overall, the business has been a little better than 50%. we haven't made any money, but we haven't lost a lot of money. it's very important to us to keep our staff and our crew together. >> reporter: savannah is a beautiful city. it's one of my favorite cities in the united states. it's steeped in history. it's a majority black city. as a port, it played a major role in the atlantic slave trade. walker curates a walking tour called footprints of savannah. that history plays a big part in it. >> between the richardson era, i've been doing this walking tour for 11 years. i'm a life learner. i didn't want to stop learning about the history or the people. when people say to me, "we want an african-american history tour," i say, "nope, this is an american history tour." what ha

morning. >> morning >> hey, savannah, hoda, good to see both of you.pitching wins, other statistics of great players who were segregated out of the majors will now count just the same as the traditional big leagues. the commissioner calling it a long, overdue recognition, 100 years after the original negro national league was founded. >> satchel paige warms up his pitching arm. >> reporter: satchel paige, josh gibson, cool papa bell for years, it wasn't the talent of these athletes but the color of their skin that kept them out of major league baseball, along with its hollowed record books now, no longer wednesday, commissioner rob manfred announced major league baseball is, quote, correcting a long-time oversight in the game's history, by recognizing the negro leagues as a major level of professional baseball that means 28 years of statistics, like home runs and rbis from the seven major circuits we know collectively as the negro leagues, will carry the same weight as ones hit by babe ruth and barry bonds. hank aaron is one of the legends who played i

savannah, back to you. >> all right.washington, negotiation for a second big covid package. our white house correspondent kristen welker has that story. good morning, kristen. >> yes, time is running out. the lawmakers are negotiating to fund the government and provide covid relief. the government shuts down tonight, and they are likely headed to a weekend session, and they are close, but critical details to be hammered out, and staff worked overnight to try to get that to happen, and as it stands the bill is roughly 900 billi$900 billion and direct payments to americans likely around $600, and weekly insurance benefits of $300 and billions to fund struggling businesses and vaccine distribution. so what is not in it? direct aid to state and local governments and no direct liability protection for businesses. the bottom line, a deal to get help to millions of americans in desperate need of help set to expire soon. >> yes. thank you, kristen. >> you are caught up on the news but not the boost. >> as any parent with a teena

i'm in the city of savannah that has a mask mandate and this is a river walk. there will be members of the public, people here so i'll be keeping my mask on for the whole show. >>> i want to bring in a professor of microbiology at baylor medicine. you'll remember dr. hotez was with me one week ago today as we watched the unrolling of that pfizer vaccine, putting it on trucks and those trucks going out. dr. hotez, right below you on the screen right now, you're seeing moderna facility in which the vials are being packed in a freezer room, into boxes, then another room, and it goes on to trucks. within the next couple of hours, we'll see trucks rolling out from this plant to memphis, tennessee, a fedex hub. there's some differences about this drug, which makes it almost as important as last week to watch this drug going out. >> yeah, absolutely, ali. and we're going to need, actually, several vaccines in order to vaccinate a significant percentage of the population. so the first one, of course, is the pfizer/biontech vaccine. this is the moderna vaccine. these ar

savannah?miguel, thank you. >>> now to the latest on how and when a vaccine could be distributed here in the u.s. federal agencies, states, and health care facilities are now gearing up ahead of a possible approval as soon as next week. nbc's stephanie gosk has got more on that. stephanie, good morning. >> reporter: savannah, good morning. the announcement from the british government that it had approved the pfizer vaccine probably came as a surprise to some people in this country. the fda still considering its authorization. the agency says it is going line by line through the data, working day and night. they've scheduled public hearings on the vaccine for december 10th. the hope is that a transparent process will help bolster public confidence in the vaccine. pfizer's coronavirus vaccine now on the move in europe, with the uk set to receive the first doses next week. officials there urging patients amid an unprecedented public health mobilization effort. >> it will inevitably take some month

>> not at all, savannah. fda is known around the world as the gold standard regulatory agency for authorization or approval of products our people, our scientists are world class. they're mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, grandparents. they understand all that's happened during the last ten months we've also been there with the american people, and we understand the urgency we also have a very solemn promise to the american people our job is to assess the safety and efficacy and do that well. we have shrunk a process that normally takes months into one that's taken weeks i have 100% confidence in them, and the american people should, as well. >> i was thinking of you this morning. you were appointed and installed into the office, became fda commissioner one year ago exactly. one year ago, we hadn't even heard of the coronavirus one year later, we're on the eve of approving one, maybe two, maybe more vaccines. what's going through your mind on this occasion >> well, it's a really important day for the -- fo

savannah? >> erin, thank you. >>> we do have a lot more to get to including the presidential transition. more than a month after the election, more republican leaders now recognizing president-elect biden's victory and signalling it is time for president trump to abandon his challenges to the results. nbc white house correspond has the latest. good mornings, kristen. >> good morning. president trump will hold a cabinet meeting later today. it comes as the pressure is mounting, as you say, on the president from his own party to face the facts and accept the outcome of the election. >> reporter: this morning growing pressure on republicans to acknowledge a political reality. after the senate's top republican majority leader mitch mcconnell congratulated president-elect joe biden for first time since the election. >> as of this morning, our country has officially a president-elect and vice president-elect. >> reporter: the two speaking by phone tuesday. >> i had a conversation with mitch mcconnell

savannah. >> peter, thank you. dr. anthony fauci is joining us to talk more about the first meeting with the president-elect and where things stand with the virus and the vaccine. dr. fauci, as always, it is good to see you. >> thank you >> we are now faring worse than many feared that we are seeing more deaths than ever before in this pandemic, and more hospitalizations and cases, and i think about us talking back in march and april. is this worse than even you had feared >> well, i think that it is at least as bad as i had feared, savannah, and we are in a precarious situation, and there is certainly light at the tend of the tunnel with the vaccine, but we are not there yet. so we have to intensify our public health measures to try to blunt this trajectory which is significant. it is a combination of things. it is a combination of getting into the winter, and people spending more time indoors, and combination of the holiday season, and people doing the normal wonderful things of congregating at meals with friends and

savannah. >> erin, thank you very much.ning us now, some of the very first health care workers to be vaccinated. dr. mark conroy, dr. megan and an emergency medicine nurse on the staff at ohio state university's wexner medical center. good morning to all of you. thank you for being with us. >> good morning, savannah. thanks for having us. >> my first question is the good doctor's question. how do you feel? does your arm hurt? did you have any side effects from the shot? >> i feel great. i slept like a baby last night it was just the first night of a little bit of relief during this entire pandemic, so i think i felt great >> it was just like getting my flu shot every year. my arm is sore it will get better in the next day and then i'll go back to being my normal self >> my first question was how do you feel my second question is how do you feel, nate what does it feel like emotionally to know that you've got the vaccine and that we are at a turning point in this pandemic >> it's definitely a very promising and optimistic fe

for those and other reasons, the british withdrew to savannah and the low countries. but the following year, may, 1780, the richest city in america, charleston, south carolina, and inside the city the only american army and the south surrendered to a strong british expeditionary force. and from there, from charleston -- the british regulars and provincial regulars marched up the santee river and established bases of communication and supply. also a major base of camden in the backcountry. down here in orangeburg and all the way out to the far back country and 96 where they established a very strong base and across the savannah river and augusta. to understand to what worked in the south is to be aware of what the americans and the key to success to control of the backcountry where at least 2/3 of the white population lived. lord cornwallis it took over the command of the south after the fall of charleston put pen to p aper on this issue. "keeping possession of the backcountry is of the utmost importance. indeed, the success of the war in the south depends totally upon

our friend savannah sellers is joining us this morning.good morning. always good to be with you. first up for you, i've got chadwick boseman and his final performance now out on netflix. he stars alongside viola davis in "ma rainey's black bottom." in just 24 hours reaction has been pouring in. one fan tweeted truly one of the best performances i've ever seen. i really believe chadwick boseman gave everything he had to that character. another added chadwick boseman in "ma rainey's black bottom" what a final performance. the late actor also won best supporting actor at the new york film critics circle. >>> next up, you guys, i've got cardi b for you and she's doing a bunch of things she's never done before in a new series called cardi tries. first up, ballet. >> have you done ballet before? >> well, i used to be a stripper. >> okay. >> cardi's teacher was none other than legendary choreographer, actor and director debbie allen. cardi also plans to try out stunt car racing and basketball. you guys, also being a kindergarten teacher, which so

you know, savannah, it's such an important point. when you hear the exciting news about vaccines, you can get the sense of, wow, it's over we don't have to worry anymore this is the most dangerous period of the pandemic our hospitals are filling up hospitals are looking at something called crisis standards of care, and this is something we talked about in the spring it's what do you do when your hospital is full how do you share resources to make sure people can get treatment? but in addition to people with covid not being able to get in, think of people who are having chest pain, people who have diabetes that's out of control or someone who feels a lump in their breast and needs to get that evaluated for cancer. when our hospitals are full, it's not just people with covid who suffer it's everybody so, we have to double down on wearing masks and keeping apart. if congress doesn't provide support to people, then there are millions of people who are going to have to go to work even if they've been exposed, even if they feel sick. >> dr

[applause] thank you so much, savannah, and savannah book festival. c-span, trinity united methodist church and by sponsors. it is really great to be here. as you know, i'm here to talk about my latest book, "blood brothers," about the strange friendship between sitting bull and buffalo bill, with kind of a corollary appearance from annie oakley. and i'm going to read a few excerpts and talk about my journey through this story, and then take some questions for you all for afterwards. first, i want to talk to you a little bit about how i came to write this. very strange, very strange story about a very strange friendship. sometime ago, while working on my book "mustang: the saga of the american horse in the wild west," i learned about a strange and heartbreaking moment that had transpired outside of sitting bull's cabin while he was being assassinated during an ambush. a horse was tethered to a railing and at the sound of gunfire, he started to dance, trained to do such a thing while he was in the wild west. buffalo bill posey famous spectacle, of whic

vice president pence here very soon in savannah. tomorrow in valdosta, georgia, the president will be urging supporters to support purdue and loeffler 32 days from now. the combined spending of all four candidates, campaigns and outside groups, more than $300 million. >> and going higher. thanks, griff. outside the governor's mansion. keep an eye on the trump campaign. they're asking a judge to overturn the election results for delay certifying that state's electors. they claim to have proof of fraud. jeff paul has more in carson city, nevada. >> bill, we're standing by, waiting for some sort of decision to possibly come down today from the judge here in carson city just outside the courthouse. sort of downtown area. obviously both sides, dems and republicans on both sides anxious to hear what that judge decides. so are trump supporters. they were out here in full force yesterday carrying signs, flags, chanting, honking their horns and republicans and democrats squared off inside the courtroom. the judge listened to both sides to ma

every deem better to be savannah sits at his computer working on his passion 3 d. animation his self produced bleeps raise awareness for issues like sanitation nutrition and cultural history here you from your back. to suck eggs from. foodies village my guess. is tough to see out of the country if. you want to see this country i'm proud to let it. live here and change it we can do individually if you don't have to be mental in a big company to do it every 100 something indios feast to gradually bring that cheese. i just want to get away. from the polar opposite to the bahamas for my sake that is supposed to. be. music videos i away for savannah and money since the pandemic started his been producing clips to help fight against the current virus such in the sufis and come pick the fire from death to fire a skunk and tell your buddy make you sick i mean isn't is a medium which is very easy to cuisine and you find people relating to people from all the people or the people you distilled that they have it we are free agents enemies and basie so in terms of spreading th

>> savannah? >> well, i am not proud, but it is "paw patrol." keys' "underdog. that happens to be haley and hope's songs, and so that got lots of repeats. >> okay, craig melvin. >> so for all of us i think it is our kids' top picks. this is dellano's song. you remember this one? no surprise, right?" i believe. >> 30 seconds left, al bring us home. >> no surprise, elton john, "philadelphia freedom. >> we hear it from your dressing room, babe >> and thank you coming up. need gift ideas for the guys in your life? jill is here our week of holiday steals and deals rolls on, baby, after your >>> good morning. 8:26. i'm marcus washington. developing for you in san mateo county investigators are looking at possible foul play in the death of a man found along skyline boulevard and highway 92 in redwood city. authorities found the man's body along the side of the road. it may have been there for some time. mike inouye said it should remain closed through noon today. >>> new for you this morning a santa rosa man is recovering from burns after a fire ripped

gabe, good morning >> savannah, good morning.s will begin rolling out of here. this morning, we got a new statement from the head of the fda to pfizer saying the ancient will rapidly work toward finalization and issuance of emergency use authorization, leaving no doubt this vaccine will be approved the question is exactly when this morning, after the fda advisory panel's vote, anticipation is building here at pfizer's largest plant just outside of kalamazoo, michigan along with another facility in wisconsin, the site is preparing to roll out the historic vaccine across the u.s >> we expected vaccine rates and rollouts of vaccines and studies to take two to five years in the best of situations this is six to nine months this is like star trek this is amazingly fast >> health care workers will be among the first in line. >> is this the beginning of the end of the pandemic? >> i sure would like to hope so. >> the staff at nearby w. med is preparing these super cold freezers for some of the first doses of the vaccine this vaccine col

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good morning, savannah. >> good morning. it is a historic day already in the pandemic the first doses of a coronavirus vaccine administered in the uk overnight. >> it's a program that's offering hope to the rest of the world and could provide valuable information to health officials here in the u.s. in a moment we will have a live interview with the man who's helping run it but we do start our coverage with nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engle at the hospital where that first shot was just given. hey, richard, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the vaccine rollout has begun. it started here at this hospital north of london this morning in this very clinic in fact the first person to receive the vaccine was a 90-year-old woman originally from northern ireland. she's doing fine at 6:31 this morning, margaret keenan, who turns 91 next week, became the first person ever given a tested and vetted covid vaccine outside of trials. in the uk, they're calling her patient a. >> it was fine it was fine. i wasn't nervou

miguel, good morning. >> reporter: savannah, good morning. here in los angeles the city has seen more covid cases in the past week than it did in all of october. just a staggering number. the state now has more than 10,000 people hospitalized with coronavirus. that spike is why right now 85% of the state's residents are being asked to stay inside unless absolutely necessary. overnight, over 33 million californians ordered to lockdown as coronavirus cases across the state soar and the number of available icu beds fall. >> we need to do everything we can to stem the tide. >> reporter: the three-week order, now in place for much of northern, central and southern california, prohibits in-person dining and gatherings, restricts all store capacity to 20%, and shutters salons, playgrounds and museums. the rules met with pushback from some small business owners. angela markson owns a restaurant in sherman oaks, california, where a movie company set up a dining area just from her space where she's not allowed to serve. and going viral. >> i'm losing e

. >> reporter: savannah sinquah grew up on the crow reservation, some 40 miles outside of billings, and was hised mostly mother. >> not having both parents in the household really affected, you know, my self-esteem, myce confidevel, some of the stuff i've seen like family members that were thrown in jail or prison, or other stuff that ve seen was like physica abuse. i actually lost track of how many family members i've lost to wrecks or drinking or overdosing. with adults not being around there's a lot of things that have happened to me. u know, i am a sexual abuse survivor as a lot of us are, but that's not something that's really spoken about. >> reporter: savannah says many b the hardships experienc children on the reservation today, are the result of trauma that goes back generations. vast stretches of sinquah'sce ors' lands were taken away by the u.s. government. other injustices, she says are at the root of so many problems native country.ce around the when savannah learned about"ve e childhood experiences" for the first time, it was a wake-up call.t >> i fke somebody had turned t

i've been to savannah river, to los alamos. it seems to me over the last 30 or 40 years, 30 years, starting with the whole pit production thing falling apart in colorado which is a long, complicated story of how that came to be, there's just been a series of missteps within the way the nnsa has modernized this. i will temper those comments because i know people -- i will get letters over that one, but to say that it is possible congress did not play the most productive role. the thing that really sticks in my craw on this basic competency issue is the savannah river site. that is pretty close to white collar crime. all right? we came up with this idea that -- and, look, i think savannah river is important, maintaining the sites and the expertise is important. their mission shifted. they were looking at losing a lot of jobs, so how can we keep them. one of the ideas was, and we have this plutonium floating around that we would like to do something with. cool. and i confess, i was on the committee. i didn't know a lot about this

i've been to savannah river, i've been to los alamos, i've talked with this many a lot. it seems to me that over -- with them a lot. it seems to me that over the last 30, 40 years starting with the pit production in colorado, which is a long, byzantine story, there's been a series of missteps within the way the nnsa has modernized this stuff. now, i will temper those comments because i know people -- i will get letters over that one. but to say that it is possible congress did not play the most productive role in this. because the thing that really sticks in i my craw on this basic competency issues is the savannah river site and the mocks facility, okay? that is pretty close to white llar crime, all right or? you know, we came up with this idea, you know, look, i think savannah river is enormously important. maintaining these sites and the expertise that they have is important. their mission shifted, they were looking at losing a lot of jobs, so how can we keep them going. one of the ideas was, and also we had all this plutonium floating around, so wouldn't it be great

afternoon football today, tuesday, december 1st, 2020 >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with savannahhrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> hey, everybody, welcome to "today." so happy you're joining us on this tuesday morning. >> we've got a busy one ahead. including just ahead, a first live interview with chris krebs, the official who ran the elections cybersecurity efforts. his office declaring november 3rd the most secure election in american history, and then he was fired by the president over twitter. we're going to get his take on everything that went on before the election, how he knows it's secure and what's happened in the month that's followed. >>> let's begin with the coronavirus. new developments on several front to tell you about, with two drugmakers now waiting on emergency authorizations for their vaccines today a cdc advisory committee meets to decide who should get the vaccine first. but any encouraging news comes with new warnings that the nation is on the verge of a grim holiday season when it comes to cases and hospitalizations nbc's tom

the uva club of savannah cohost the event and provided the video. this is one in a series of conversations on the cold war, 75 years after began. >> good afternoon welcome to this virtual program on the cold war and popular culture. i am stan deaton with the georgia historical society and we are pleased to partner with the uva club of savannah. this conversation, the last of three with esteemed faculty is part of the historical societies festival, it's focused on the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the cold war. our guest today is grace elizabeth hale, she is the commonwealth professor of american studies and american history at the university of virginia where she specializes in 20th century cultural history, the history of the south and popular music. she is the author of three books, all critically acclaimed, her latest is entitled cool town, how athens georgia lunch the alternative scene and changed culture published by the university of north carolina. she is the author of the nation outsiders, how the white middle class with film love wit

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savannah and hoda are taking some well deserved time off. we are glad to have kristen welker in this monday morning. how was your weekend? >> it was a lot of eating and we have so much to get to this morning. including the overnight developments on the frightening details from nashville. >> the bracing news overnight on a new round of coronavirus relief, after days of opposition to a bill his own aides negotiated, president trump seems to have relented and he has signed that package into law. >> garrett haake has the very latest, including what it all means for your wallet. good morning to you. >> with the stroke of a pen, president donald trump reversed course, freeing up hundreds of billions in pandemic aid, ending a last-minute crisis of his own crease. >> reporter: president trump ending with a pen what he began with a video message last week. >> it really is a disgrace. >> reporter: the president signing into law a $2.3 trillion spending bill, funding the government through september and unlocking $900 billion in coronavirus-related aid

and he really reaffirmed that and reiterated that today with savannah. when savannah pressed him, show your work, he said, look, the work is the fact that we're dealing with paper ballots, that's one of the reasons why there's so much confidence in these election results. and he defended his tenure. take a listen to what he had to say. >> i'm a lifelong republican. i've served, as you pointed out, in two republican administrations. i served with honor in the trump administration. and i will always be thankful to president trump. when you enter federal service, you pledge an oath to uphold and defend the constitution from threats, foreign and domestic. country over party. >> andrea, i've reached out to the white house, the trump campaign, to joe digenova, to get their response. so far we haven't heard back. but again, this is being taken very seriously, not only by chris krebs, but by other quarters here in washington, as it does come as president trump is trying to undercut the election results. as you pointed out at the top of the show, taking aim at ar

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time for a little popstart and savannah sellers is joining us this morning.obama and jimmy fallon. the president was fallon's guest on "the tonight show" last night. the pair covered plenty of ground. let me tell you, from the president's love of music to life at home with malia and sasha during the pandemic. >> we go through cycles, they love you, they think you're terrific. they get to around 12, they think you're a loser. by the time they come back to you and in this case, you know, sasha is now 19, malia is 22, you know, they suddenly like you again. they're interesting and they're smart and they're funnier than you are. >> presidents, they're just like us, right you guys? he also talked about his new book "a promised land." >>> next up we've got drew barrymore. the actress turned talk show host gave a behind-the-scenes look from inside her wardrobe closet on instagram specifically sharing a bit of a wardrobe malfunction that actually a lot of us can relate to these days. >> well, let me keep it real with you. yeah, that happens. i have to have like a bra

>> savannah and hoda, thanks >> it's a cherished tradition for me to be with all of you and it gives me a chance to give christmas blessings to everybody. savannah, how are you kids okay >> thank you trying to remind them of the reason for the season, not the gifts under the tree >> you hurry up to get home and be with them how is al doing? is he all right? >> al is a-okay. he's just off framewright here, and he's back in business. >> hi, al, good to see you >> thank you so much >> our love and continued prayers to you, al good to see you. >> thank you you, too >> cardinal dolan, you know what was interesting, we were looking back to last year at this time and the message you had for 2020, and we asked you what people should be focused on in 2020 and you said, connection with people i mean, we had no idea of knowing what was ahead >> you're a prophet, too >> well, we sure miss that this year when you think about it, with the message of christmas, how important connection is and pope francis has been emphasizing that, so god wanted to be connected with us so much that he became one of

anthony fauci sat down with savannah guthrie on "today" show to talk about the numbers and surge. he says this surge is expected to continue over the next few weeks as the numbers we are seeing today don't yet include cases from folks gathering over the thanksgiving holiday. >> it may be a little bit of a blitz, savannah, but we don't expect to see the full brunt of it between two and three weeks following thanksgiving, so i think we have not yet seen the post-thanksgiving peak. that is the concerning thing. the numbers in and among themselves is left arming and likely we will see more of a surge as we get two to three weeks past the thanksgiving followed. >> reporter: dr. fauci said everybody needs to do what they can to slow the spread and stay safe as we approach another holiday. he says those large kroulecrowd to be avoided and everyone needs to wear a mask and key in reducing the covid numbers. another piece of information. ucsf is one of seven hospital groups in the state of california expected to get that vaccine first when it becomes available. as we move forward with the

and every single time she pulled through, every single time. >> savannah, your sister is coming homehristmas will now be a holiday that we can forever cherish because of her. >> reporter: starting life so small and beating the odds rehema ellis, nbc news. >> sending our best to the aarons and ellie mae. that is nightly news for this uesday. thank you for watching, everyone i'm lester holt. please take care of yourselves and each ♪ there something on my mind mama won't somebody please ♪ ♪ please tell me what's wrong ♪ you're just a fool in love ♪ you know i love a man you can understand and it such a comma command ♪ ♪ i must be a fool ♪ because i do everything he wants me to, ♪ tell me one more time

the georgia historical society and the uva club of savannah hosted the event, which is one in a seriesconversations about the cold war 75 years after it began. i am sean deaton with the georgia historical society, and it's our pleasure to partner on this program with the uva club of savannah. this conversation is the first of the three with esteemed university of virginia faculty, part of the historical society 's georgia history festi

georgia historical society and it's our pleasure to partner on this program with the uva club of savannah. this conversation is the first of three with the university of virginia faculty part of the historical society georgia's history festival which this year is 230 cussed on the 75th anniversary of the cold war. with me today is dr. hitchcock the professor of history at the university of virginia. dr. hitchcock is the author of several books on the cold war most recently the age of eisenhower, america and the world in the 1950s. welcome and thanks for joining us. >> thank you very much. good to be with you. looking forward to a

and every single time, she pulled through, every single time >> savannah, your sissy's coming home withever cherish because of her >> reporter: starting life so small and beating the odds rahema ellis, nbc news >> beautiful story >> got a little dusty in here for a second >> yeah, i can see why amazing. >>> an elementary school principal in north carolina went the extra mile for his students. he dressed as an elf on the shelf on their last day of the semester it is the second year the principal has morphed into an elf for his students during the holiday season he's even dressed as the conductor from the polar express. principal vaughn said that he just wants to bring a smile to people's faces, and i think this year it's genius to do elf on the shelf, because you're not supposed to touch him, right another way to ensure that they stay far away from him >> i feel like we need that stuff more now than ever, too. >> those educators, they've just been incredible this entire time >> bravo to all of you thanks for watching "early today. i'm paul gurky >> and i'm phillip >>> as much as we try t

particularly in cities like savannah for the time they've been in office. that being said, they touted this as being the cure-all, and then they can't make it happen. i think that georgians are already keen on their pmp performance. i think georgians are turning out in record numbers to express disapproval for what they have already done. and i think this complicates things even more on one end. on the ere end, it makes things clearer to republicans and independents that obviously we have senators that cannot represent us appropriately in washington. >> mayor johnson, thank you for your time this morning. we appreciate it. >>> still ahead, amy klobuchar will join me with her reaction to the president's last-minute co-vid relief package. why she calls it an attack on every american. >>> first, experts say it's best to stay home for christmas. a lot of folks are heading to the airport. we'll take you to the busiest one in the world next. world ner what you need. wow. that will save me lots of money. this game's boring. only pay for what you need. liberty. lib

the georgia historical society and the uva club of savannah cohost of the event, which is one in a series of conversations on the cold war 75 years after it began well. >> i'm sounding with the georgia historical society and it is my pleasure to partner in this program with the uva club

many, many thanks for your christmas gift, the capture of savannah. again, driving home the fact that christmas, santa claus, is part of the union cause. now, this not only establishes that, it's also -- the civil war is the time when you start to see this tradition of linking christmas with the u.s. military. and that tradition continues on to this very day, as i will talk about in a little bit. now, fortunately the war does come to an end, unfortunately lincoln doesn't get to enjoy it very long. but nast does want to commemorate the fact that the war has ended and he wants to tie it into christmas. but now he's doing it in a slightly different way, or actually a significantly different way. it's no longer christmas is no longer promoting the cause of the union, it's promoting the cause of reuniting the nation. and that is what you see in this cartoon. first of all, you see santa claus front and center. he's looking bigger and jollier than ever. and at the top, to give it prominence, you see the children, enjoying their toys. then below you see famil

savannah? >> thank you, tom, very much.or even though she earned. anne thompson has more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. jill biden famously punched a bully in the nose to defend her sister. this morning she finds herself at the center of another fight that she didn't pick this time with an op-ed columnist who questioned her use of an academic title. >> i have always loved the sounds of the classroom. >> reporter: she's known as dr. b. to her students biden earned her doctor of education from the university of delaware in 2007. >> teaching is so much more than a job to me. >> reporter: but in a wall street journal op-ed this weekend, the author called on biden to stop using title, addressing her as madam first lady, mrs. biden, kiddo, and any chance that you might drop the doctor before your name and it sounds a little bit fraudulent and if not a touch comic. epstein wrote no one should call himself doctor unless he has delivered a child. for the record, jill biden gave birth to a child and she also delivered this

club of savannah. william hitchcock, take you so much for coming on here. the book which he has right behind him, it is called the age of eisenhower. america and the world in the 1950's published in 2018. thank you so much for coming on. stan: i really enjoyed your excellent questions. -- prof. hitchcock: thank you so much, i really enjoy your excellent questions. >> american history tv is on social media. follow us at c-span history. >> next, on real america, we take you back in time for a 1932 update on the fight against disease. man against microbes is a metropolitan life insurance from that sketches three years of progress in american ealth. it begins with a 1665 plague outbreak and ends expressing hope that science may one day onquer polio and cancer. >>

. >> fauci there my colleague savannah guthrie, this as we just broke a single day record for covid-19 deaths again. we lost more than 2800 americans to this virus on thursday. and a new cdc projection says we can see up to nearly 20,000 covid-19 deaths in the week of christmas alone. we'll start on capitol hill where speaker nancy pelosi is expected to give us an update on where things stand for another round of coronavirus relief at any moment. garrett, let me start with you. we know that nancy pelosi finally spoke to mcconnell yesterday. mcconnell using language that, while it may seem understated when people read it, it's pretty significant for him. he's very careful with his words. where do things stand at this hour? >> for those of us who consider ourselves mcconnell code breakers, or at least we try to be, the idea that he and speaker pelosi are southwested in getting an outcome, suggest we're in a serious negotiating phase. for months they've been accusing each other of essentially operating to score political points and not taking the pandemic seriously enough. the fact that t

he still picked savannah for where he chose to do that rally. do you see any reason why, any sign of republican momentum in your city. >> absolutely not. savannah is a beautiful place. 15 million visitors come here a year. i can understand why he would want to come here. the reality is that where we are, erin, at this point in time is we're getting tired of the juvenile tantrums of the president of the united states. the votes have been counted and counted and counted. and yet it's the same result. yet we keep finding ourselves in the same place. certainly what you said earlier, although brian kemp and i have had very significant, substantial policy differences, particularly around wearing masks, i don't appreciate the president of the united states calling our governor these types of names. we're trying to get beyond that at this point in time. >> i know no one is surprised, but i mean, you know, for a sitting president to call a governor a moron in that job is really absurd. so, dan, today we learned that america first action, which is the pre

leader in his community throughout his work with numerous organizations, including a foundation, savannah area chamber of commerce, and the university of georgia alumni association. i'm thankful for his years of faithful service to georgia power and his community and i wish him and his family the best as he begins his retirement. congratulations, my friend. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i seek unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, i rise today to congratulate the piaa on seeing through a successful fall season for pennsylvania high school sports in spite of the many challenges. we have some great sports teams in my district of pennsylvania, and i'd like to highlight a few. north spartans won a well deserved football district championship at the conclusion of a undefeated season. palmyra's field

savannah often visits communities at the outskirts of the capital. it gives him ideas for his stray sheens of characters in his wake they come here to. look at their livestock see how the live see how their life goes for their morning t.v. food and see how it's begun to fall make decisions without me she says vanny carr is currently working on an upcoming 3 d. t.v. series so highlights the challenges facing young people in rural communities kind of like kind of like broccoli kind of kind of i kind of like kind of like. a lot of noise. and that's really cool as a speaking integrated 3 d. animation not as good as adult about's very cute dog so i'm not going to compare myself to about one but i stopped where we needed for today paramor to stay safe the pandemic and that set to be with us for many more blocks so for me. well today will leave you with a small. i have a 3 d. i got it. cut. as long as the managers do not go today nothing would change you know the banks. and so watch the language of the bank the money. speaking the truth global news that mat

in a solid earth near savannah democratic activists julius hall is volunteering to convince voters to cast their ballots. voter turnout might decide this runoff especially among african-americans you know on. campus and they are trying to get there by the get out and vote. we got you on our list as a democrat we've been behind so long. in this country. and so when you get a sense of you're own the raz and things are happening where we're there is some inclusion and then you get a clown that takes office for 4 years which is donald trump now we get rid of him and we feel like we can start over again. pressure is mounting on john ourself in the final days of his campaign but his supporters keep dreaming of his victory. and back with all of our salat in the studio he's in washington oliver you were down there in georgia we just saw you met the candidate you met a supporter but george a very republican state but a weeks ago to this election how are also of chances looking. well william it looks like a very close election perhaps of the likes of the presidential election or even closer but