here's tom costello. >> reporter: moderna's challenge moving millions of doses of its vaccine via cargo carriers to every corner of the country for use the minute the fda gives the go ahead. that could come within two weeks. moderna's vaccine can be kept in a normal freezer while pfizer's requires arctic cold already pfizer is using united airlines cargo flights packed with dry ice t preposition millions of its vaccine doses while awaiting fda approval part of a massive distribution network now taking shape worldwide. american airlines also using empty passenger planes to rush supplies around the globe. inside the 787 no passengers and no suitcases. it is all cargo. making room for more medical supplies, vaccine, therapeutics and ppe. pharmaceuticals that require cooling are shipped in mobile freezers, the temperature constantly monitored. >> if the temperature drops by even a quarter of a degree the alarm goes off and our team is able to investigate what's going on and make sure the shipment is ready for the rest of the journey. >> reporter: a cdc advisory committee will meet tomorrow

with more on tha here's tom costello. >> reporter: the warning from the federal trade commission tonight beware of robo call scams suggesting that your apple icloud account has been hacked >> your icloud accounted is breached. >> reporter: or trying to trace a suspect amazon purchase >> an unauthorized purchase of $749 is being ordered from your amazon account. press 1 to connect with our customer support team >> reporter: scammers told retired police sergeant ron croll he had a $800 charge what did you think what was your first thought? >> it just seemed a little bit legitimat at first with the way they presented it. and everything like that >> reporter: but he quickly realized it was a scam and hung up when scammers sent this fake amazon email to wanda lee with a $6,000 charge, she called to give them a piece of her mind. >> you guys ought to be ashamed of yourself scamming people with this time of year with a pandemic going on. people losing their jobs and he hung up on me >> reporter: the advice from the ftc, don't press 1 to speak to a live person don't call any number a robocall pr

tom costello, nbc news, washington. >>> as schools try to stay open during the pandemic, testing is playing an increasingly important role including a test that's easy to take right in school. nbc's willem marx has more on this >> reporter: the push to keep kids in classrooms could be getting a big boost with covid saliva tests now available in a growing number of schools. each week as part of a government trial thousands of kids in britain fill small plastic tubes in seconds. with reliable lab results returned hours later. american students are trying it, too principal molly king introduced her connecticut school to the idea in september. >> we wanted to reassure our community that we were doing everything that we could to mitigate risk. >> reporter: nearby yale scientists tell us saliva tests are accurate and easy. >> when you really look at the lower limit, the saliv test is right up there with the swab based method. >> reporter: while experts say schools are not a major transmission point for covid more testing is seen as critical so labs in 25 states are now working to increase saliva

and now in its second day in hospitals across america tom costello has the latest >> reporter: tonight a second vaccine is likely just days away after an fda review confirmed moderna's vaccine is just as effective as pfizer's with 94% efficacy. apparently preventing symptoms and infection. like pfizer anyone getting the vaccine will need two shots. but moderna's vaccine does not require the deep cold that pfizer requires >> its cold chain requirements are actually less stringent in that it requires cold that's that of a freezer like the freezers we have at home. >> reporter: that should make it easier for smaller hospitals and clinics that don't have deep freezer capabilities with approval expected on friday, nearly 6 million moderna doses will start shipping monday. more pfizer doses will also ship. with 1,100 nursing homes getting their first doses. today more hospital staffers were rolling up their sleeves >> here's your vaccine card >> reporter: from a drive-thru in tulsa to boston to anchorage to jacksonville where we met oral surgeon dr. salam salman whose father works at pfizer

tom costello now on how it will all be shipped. >> reporter: as soon as the fda gives its emergency use authorization, "operation warp speed" will kick into high gear, rushing vaccin doses to every state and territory. general perna is the commander. how do you equally divide up the vaccines for all 50 states? >> so what we did is we went by population of all persons over 18 years old and then last week they were able to enroll their sites by locatio and quantities and so we know where it's going accordingly. >> reporter: the military has already laid out the distribution network with fedex and u.p.s. splitting the country in half. fedex takes the west u.p.s. takes the east. likely under police escort, trailers will leave pfizer's freezer farms in kalamazoo, michigan, and pleasant prairie, wisconsin, carrying special iceboxes headed to the fedex memphis hub and the u.p.s. louisville hub. then loaded on to cargo planes and eventually on to delivery trucks to every corner of the country. command centers will monitor the temperature of every shipment realtime. each vaccine box getting prio

tom costello has details. >> reporter: just as drug companies pfizer and moderna are pre-positioning vaccine shipments ahead of fda approval evidence tonight that hackers are targeting the critical supply chain that keeps those vaccines cold. a homeland security and ibm xforce alert of a fake email phishing campaig targeting executives and key global organizations, spoofed to appear as if it originates from a real chinese bio medical company. the ibm team says foreign governments are likely behind the hack, possibly russia, iran or north korea perhaps hoping to build their own supply chain or disrupt others >> if you're able to get into the cold chain you spoil a batch, there's potentials thousands and thousands of doses that are lost for people to be able to get inoculated. >> reporter: already massive cooling rooms are standing by in the supply chain network as vaccines and therapeutics receive approval they move through cooled distribution centers like this one to ensure that they remain viable. this is a shipment of remdesivir all ready to go. also tonight interpol has issued thi

lester >> tom costello tonight, thanks. >>> more than four weeks after the election still no concession from president trump, instead more defiance even as his attorney general disagrees with the president's unproven claims of widespread fraud we get more from kristen welker >> reporter: in a 46-minute video shot by the white house and without press in the room, the president doubling down on hi unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud. >> the mail-in voting scam is the latest part of their four-year effort to overturn the results of the 2016 election and it's been like living in hell. >> reporter: it comes just a day after his own attorney general broke with the president. white house press secretary pressed by nbc news. >> does he still have confidence in bill barr >> the president if he has any personnel announcements yo will be the first to know it. >> reporter: the white house is downplaying reports the president is increasingly focused on pardons multiple sources familiar with the matter say the president discussed possible pre-emptive pardons which are legal for some of h

lester >> tom costello tonight. and tom, the numbers speak to the urgency 15 million americans have now contracted the virus. the drastic increase in serious cases is overwhelming medical centers everywhere miguel almaguer has more >> reporter: still too early to know if california's lockdown will help. tonight the state is shattering a record threatening to cripple its own health care system nearly 11,000 covid hospitalizations the unfolding crisis sparing no region. the average icu at 90% capacity in states like new mexico, north dakota, rhode island, texas, and nevada. >> there's definitely signs of fatigue >> reporter: in reno at renown health they've put beds in a parking garage, but what they desperately need is staff. >> there are requests for traveling nurses, but every hospital throughout the nation are making the same requests >> reporter: with daily infections climbing since march the u.s. added 1 million new cases in just the first week of december during that same span nearly 16,000 americans lost their

with more here's tom costello. >> go ahead. any time you're ready. >> reporter: today the most high profile endorsement yet of the covid vaccine. the president-elect and jill biden getting their shots in delaware >> i'm doing this to demonstrate that people should be prepared when it's available to take the vaccine. there's nothing to worry about. >> reporter: nationwide a new front in the battle against a deadly enemy with more ammunition arriving in the form of a moderna vaccine fedex and u.p.s. delivering to the front lines. >> i'm very proud to be part of this historic moment. i'm thrilled. >> reporter: at baptist health in miami, the first doses arrived early this morning. chief pharmacy officer madeline kamajo taking delivery nbc's kerry sanders was there. >> what does this mean to you >> it is like they say, it's hope in a bottle >> reporter: across the country 6 million moderna doses and another 2 million pfizer doses are shipping this week >> excited to be the first one? >> sure. >> reporter: in san antonio, paramedics

here's tom costello. >> reporter: it happened in juneau, alaska ten minutes after receiving the covid vaccine yesterday, a health care worker rushed to the e.r. with a severe rash and shortness of breath. >> her heart rate was elevated and she had a red flushed rash over her face and torso i was concerned about an anaphylactic reaction so gave her the standard treatment of a dose of intramuscular .. receiving more medications, she is' stable now doctors said she had no known previou allergies unlike two people in the uk who also developed severe allergic reaction tonight caution from dr. fauci. >> if you have a history of a severe allergic reaction, you should either not take this vaccine, or if you do take it, take it in the context of a place where if you do develop an allergic reaction it could be readily and effectively treated. >> reporter: tens of thousands of medical workers have already been vaccinated this week most reporting no side effects. like nursing director johnny leonard at methodist hospital in houston. >> slept great last night. woke up this morning, came straight t

tom costello has the latest. >> reporter: already arriving at hospitals and clinics, ppe and syringes as they await pfizer vaccine deliveries >> just a little bitting a, the fda informed pfizer that they do intend to proceed towards an authorization for their vaccines. >> reporter: just yesterday the fda's outside advisory committee recommended emergency authorization. dr. paul offit voted yes. >> i think this vaccine is then going to roll off th assembly line, off the trucks, off the planes and into the arms of the american public no later than monday. >> reporter: the cdc is expected to issue its own approval this weekend prioritizing who gets the vaccine first. in group one-a, front line medical workers as well as residents and workers in long term care facilities group one-b essential workers like teachers, emergency responders food handlers and transportation workers. in group one-c, adults 65 and older or those with high risk medical conditions 50 million americans expected to be vaccinated by the end of january 100 million by the end of february. >> i do not have any informatio

tom costello investigates. >> reporter: the warning, beware of robocall scams suggesting that your appleccount has been hacked or trying to trace a suspect amazon purchase. >> an unauthorized purchase of $749 is being ordered from your amazon account press 1 to connect with our customer support team. >> reporter: scammers said they've had an $800 charge he quickly realized it was a scam and hung up. when scammer sent this fake email to wanda lee with a $6,000 charge, she called them to give them a piece of her mind. >> you guys ought to be ashamed of yourself at this time of year with the pandemic going on he hung up on me >> reporter: the advice from the ftc, don't press 1 to speak to a live person. don't call any number a robocall provides don't give out personal information. the ftc, amazon, and apple say if you suspect a problem with your account, call them directly on a number you know is legit. tom costello, nbc news, washington. >> good advice there. >>> when we come back, much needed proof there are still plenty of good people out there. >>> icstk around kfc gets finger lickin' f

nbc's tom costello was one of the people on board a short hop from dallas to tulsa and back. >> reporter: no plane has ever been ground for so long. for 20 months, the 737 max has sat on airfields around the world. but on wednesday, this max took to the skies, and american airlines demonstration flight from dallas to tulsa. the airline, eager to reassure passengers the plane is safe after the faa approved major upgrades and lifted the grounding last month. american's top max pilots say it's not the same plane that was involved in two overseas crashes, killing 346 people. >> the focus on that is to make sure this doesn't happen again. a redundancy is built in. control is never taken away from the pilot. >> you can control that side i can control this side. >> reporter: before it can fly, technicians must upload a software upgrade into the mcas system, and new requirements for pilots who fly the max. by the end of march, all 2700 american airlines 737 pilots will be cross trained on the max and need to go through simulator training. >> so it's a safe environment for pilots to get to practi

here's tom costello. >> reporter: the challenge, moving the vaccine to every corner of the country once the country gives the go ahead moderna's vaccine can be kept in a normal freezer while pfizer requires arctic cold they're using cargo flights packed with dry ice to pre-position massive doses american airlines is using empty passenger planes to rush supplies around the globe. >> reporter: inside this 787, there are no passengers. it's all cargo pharmaceuticals that require cooling are shipped in mobile freezers, their temperature constantly monitored. >> if the temperature drops by a quarter of a degree, our team is ready to investigate what's going on. >> reporter: a cdc advisory committee will meet to decide who gets vaccinated first. what is your biggest challenge in arkansas? >> i think our biggest challenge is going to be reaching those urban constituents that need the vooerng rural health care centers, rural hospitals. >> reporter: all the military will rush vaccines to every state and territory, each health department must get it to the most remote corners of the country. mode

lester. >> tom costello tonight.nks >>> the cdc has said that health care workers and nursing home residents should get the vaccine first, but a number of members of congress are facing some backlash after apparently moving to the front of the line. we get more from garrett hick. >> reporter: tonight a growing backlash as rank and file lawmakers begin to receive the scarce coronavirus vaccine. are they cutting the line ahead of frontline workers and the most vulnerable? iowa senator joni ernst who in december floated a theefrie that doctors were inflating death tolls for more money she declined to comment for nbc news. >> every one of those used for a congressman that hasn't been doing nothing and not on the front line is a vaccine not going to a nurse. >> reporter: former cdc director agrees. >> resident of nursing homes, staff of nursing homes and frontline health care workers should be at the front of the line. >> reporter: at 80 years old and second in line for the presidency, few question whether speaker nancy p

if approved as expected 6 million doses could ship next week tom costello, nbc news, washington. >>> i'm miguel almaguer as our nation plunges deeper into crisis, there is perhaps no state in more serious trouble than california after shattering the single-day record for deaths last week, more than 60 mobile morgues are now on stand-by. the governor activating the state's mass fatality program while ordering 5,000 body bags. there are few if any open icu beds in a growing number of regions for the exploding number of sick. >> my staff is getting exhausted. >> reporter: icu nurse martha navarro has been on the front lines as covid cases have spiked 110%. >> the most difficult thing for me is when you have to turn the families away, and i have to be the one that says, i'm sorry, you can't come to see your loved one. >> reporter: as california now tops 53,000 single-day cases, more makeshift hospitals are being built as beds fill hallways and lobbies in los angeles county, ambulances are waiting up to six hours to offload patients as overwhelmed regional hospitals reach a breaking point

more now from tom costello. >> reporter: tonight health experts fear a superspreader event is playing out in realtime as a million travelers a day fill airports nationwide. >> i don't have any preexisting conditions i'm thin, and i'm feeling confiden if i get covid that i'll survive. >> reporter: the most travelers since the pandemic began, despite official pleas to stay home to assure loved ones are alive next year, too many people say they can't stay away from family any longer. >> we haven't seen my two granddaughters and my daughter since last christmas, and they grow so much and we see them on skype. but it's not just the same thing >> reporter: 20 states plus d.c. have travel restrictions for new arrivals concerned about a more infectious strain of covid in britain new york mayor deblasio ordered anyone arriving from the uk to self quarantine sheriff's deputies will conduct verification visits. violators will be fined. >> if you violate quarantine $1,000 for the first day. if you violate any day thereafter $1,000 each additional day. >> reporter: with vaccinations continuing nat

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lester >> all right tom costello, thank you. >>> as the massive distribution effort gets under way a key challenge is storing the pfizer vaccine at a super cold temperature to keep it viable and that will put to the test something we have ha no reason to study before, the availability of dry ice. gabe gutierrez with that part of the story. >> reporter: tonight in michigan, it's a cold rush. how does it feel to be part of this now global supply chain? >> frightening but pretty amazing. >> reporter: brad pitman and samantha gazi run a small dry ice company here the wait for fda approval is daunting >> that's the uncertainty right now. we have calls from tri-state area, people waiting for shipments, they don't know exactly what days they're going to get it >> reporter: since the pfizer vaccine must be stored at 80 degrees below 0, across the country demand for dry ice is surging. >> temperature starts to go up rather quick so time is of the essence once this lid is off. >> reporter: pfizer plans to ship 100 million doses by the end of march inside these massive freezers each of pfizer's

i'm hallie jackson in washington along with our team of nbc news reporter, tom costello in washington, steve patterson in burbank, california, leigh ann caldwell on the hill and monica at the white house. tom, you're following the fda advisory panel the second in a week, this one is on mower it in a's vaccine candidate which looks like it's on the track for final approval. we spoke with somebody on that committee earlier this week, who said this may move a little quicker than what we saw for pfizer because some of the sort of nuts and bolts have been dispatched last week. is that what you're seeing so far? >> yes, they've already said so. they said this will move faster than last week's. this is the outside fda advisory panel known as v.e.r.b. pack. they will advise the fda should the fda authorize the vaccine. that is almost a slam dunk. this is the same technology that pfizer uses, the messenger rna technology. the concern is what happened yesterday with the health care worker in alaska, who suffered a significant allergic reaction to the vaccine. she immediately started getting flu

nbc's tom costello joins us now with the three things we need to watch. l news. that is, americans should start to see some financial help after congress passed this covid relief and stimulus plan overnight. here are the details. it's a $900 billion plan. it will be providing help to americans battered by the virus as well as the economic fallout. the package will give $600 direct payments to individuals and boost unemployment benefits by $300 per week. it will also include money for small businesses as well as rental aid and food assistance, and it extends the moratorium, we should tell you, on foreclosures as well. also this morning, great britain is essentially cut off from the rest of much of europe this morning, and even canada. that, after concerns of a mutant strain of covid-19 has really got the country greatly concerned right now. much of europe, as well, have cut travel ties to the uk. also cutting supplies to grocery stores, going into the christmas week. this new strain is not thought to be more deadly, but it can spread much more easily, up to

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joining me there is tom costello. tom, you know what really brought a smile to my face was when captain mills was talking about speaking with his fellow fighter pilot and just looking at each other, understanding what this flight was about, and they just looked at each other and basically expressed a big wow at all of this. it's hard to understate how significant this all is. how about you, what did you take away from that interview? >> reporter: i got a little choked up, because i think he represents the best of america in not only, as you mentioned, his service to the country, but in the military and now in this role as well, and we are so grateful to not only the role that they are playing today but the role they have played for many, many years. and you're right, this is a massive distribution effort that's underway. this is operation warp speed. now, the military is in charge of putting out the plans. it's up to the ups carriers, the fedex carriers to actually get it to every zip code in america by plane, as you s

nbc's tom costello has been following every twist and turn from the beginning, now following the fda approval process for us. shaquille brewster is in the olive branch, mississippi area, outside the 300,000 square foot facility handling moderna's vaccine distribution. mr. costello, we'll start with you. take us through what happens the minute moderna is approved. >> reporter: we are waiting for the fda to essentially give the green line, to allow for emergency use authorization of that moderna vaccine. yesterday the panel recommended approval. just like with pfizer, it's up to the fda to go ahead and approve the moderna vaccine. when that happens, we do expect the doses to start rolling. importantly that 20 million stat you cited, that would include both moderna and pfizer by the end of the year. next week we would expect the 6 million doses of the moderna vaccine to roll out. let's go through a quick list of similarities between the pfizer vaccine and the moderna vaccine. they are very similar actually. both will require two shots, the first one followed by a booster about three wee

nbc's tom costello was onboard. >> reporter: no plane has ever been grounded for so long.ields around the world. but on wednesday, this max took to the skies, an american airlines demonstration flight from dallas to tulsa. the airline eager to reassure passengers the plane is safe after the faa approved major upgrades and lifted the grounding last month. americans american's top pilots say it's not the same plane that was involved in two overseas crashes, killing 346 people. >> the focus on that is to make sure this doesn't happen again. the redundancy is built in, control is never taken away from the pilot. >> reporter: before it can fly technicians must upload a six-hour software fix to the automated mcas system attributed to both crashes. the faa requiring wiring changes and new requirements for pilots who fly the max. by the end of march all 2,700 american airlines 737 pilots will be cross trained on the max and need to go through simulator training. >> it's a really safe environment for pilots to practice and be trained on those types of events so if they do occur in

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nbc's tom costello is following all this for us. when we talk about the vaccine in this country, the big question is what is the government's plan to get the vaccines to the people who need them most? are they giving any kind of guidance as to how it might look li like. >> reporter: you're right to notice we have two different agencies on parallel tracks. the cdc agency today will be looking at who gets prioritized, separate from the fda advisory committee which meets on december 10th to decide whether to approve these two vaccines, moderna and pfizer from emergency operations. so parallel tracks. at a certain point, they intersect when the fda decides to provide approval. as for who goes first, we've said all along, medical professionals are likely going to be first. they've reiterated that again. that's not just front line doctors, nurses and paramedics. it's also going to be the people in the hospital who work with patients as well, orderlies, the food staff, the cleaning staff inside facilities. then they'll start to look at whe

nbc's tom costello joins us now. he's been following this. tom, good morning. these panels are nothing new, but this level of attention certainly is. what is exactly going to happen? how does this work, tom? >> this is really the brain tuft, as you alluded to, the brain trust of the vaccine approval process, mds, phds. they have an acronym verdict pack, that's the name or shorthand for the name of their committee. they job is to review the data from an outside perspective to see whether they agree this vaccine is safe. i talked to the chairman of this group, dr. arnold monto. he's been looking at vaccines and viruses for 50 years. so we talked about the process of approvaling this vaccine. >> is there anything here that gives you pause? >> not really. the data are so much better. the efficacy is so much better than what we expected. these things will be available and totally transparent so the public has no question about whether the vaccines are safe and effective. >> reporter: so the timeline here, we expect the fda will actually probably look at this outside

joining me now, nbc's tom costello and shaquille brewster. m, once this is authorized, millions of these doses could get out in the next week and coming weeks, correct? >> reporter: that's right. 6 million doses would ship -- 5.9 million if you want to be precise, would ship on monday. that's if the fda does in fact get the green light today. we expect this in the next few hours, maybe by the end of the day, that the fda will follow the advice of the outside advisory commission and issue an emergency use authorization for the moderna vaccine. here is what the fda said in a statement, it said it has informed the sponsor, being moderna, that it will rapidly work towards finalization and issuance of an emergency use authorization. the agency has also notified the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention and operation warp speed so they can execute their plans for timely vaccine distribution. the bottom line is, the fda, as they did with pfizer, signaling this is all but a done deal. here is how this is all going to shake out. 2.9 million d

nbc's tom costello is closely following the meeting for us. what's the latest at this hour? >> reporter: the fda says it has now, in fact, reviewed all of the moderna data and it does, in fact, seem to be accurate. that's critical because, as you know, moderna says its vaccine seems to be 94% effective against the virus. that's very similar to pfizer's vaccine at 95% effective or so. now they go through the rest of the process today. among the key questions that this outside advisory panel is asking right now is whether they have had any serious reports of adverse effects or adverse reactions. as you know, we had a case yesterday in alaska in which a medical worker who was varks nated within ten minutes developed a serious rash over her body and then shortness of breath. they had to put her in the er, administer epinephrine and she started recovering and then it started coming back again. they had to give her a secondep the icu overnight. she's now fine and is recovering at home. the question the panel wants to know is if moderna has seen a side effect similar to that with t

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for the news i'm tom costello in washington >> an alleged drug kingpin on the run for 35 years and nowed up he assumed the identity of a dead infant. here's the guy howard farley jr., 72 years old now, arrested while trying to board a private plane at his own private hangar at his own home in florida on tuesday. we hear drug kingpins do well. investigators say he was running a massive marcotte ticks operation that got busted way back in 1985 but they got everyone in that bust except him until today. federal agents found him after he applied to renew a passport he had been using for all those decades from an infant who died in 1955. he's been charged with passport fraud and that's it. won't face charges on the original drug case because that was dropped seven years ago. >>> the too tall bandit has struck again this. time robbing a bank in north carolina south of asheville. it's his 16th heist in 11 years according to the fbi this is he pulling off the latest job on black friday the fbi reports he's up to 6 1/2 feet tall. has a very deep voice and walks with a bit of a limp besides that,

john torez and tom costello, stephanie gosk, kerry sanders and meghan fitzgerald. dr. torez, i want to start with you and what we're watching across the line from where we are in d.c. at bethesda at the nih. dr. fauci getting the vaccine. talk about why it's so important for the public to see this, specifically when it comes to somebody like dr. fauci who is widely viewed as a nonpartisan figure. >> hallie, you're right. i think this is a huge important step to get that confidence, that trust up in the vaccine across the country, and we talked about this a couple months ago about how the trust level wasn't quite there. it seems to be building as time goes on. getting a big shot in the arm for the trust is somebody like dr. fauci getting it. he said earlier, this is a few months ago, that once the vaccine was cleared, he would more than happily get the vaccine because he believes in the safety and the effectiveness, and this is going a huge step forward in showing us he is essentially putting his money where his mouth is. he's getting the shot because he believes in it

nbc's tom costello with the details. >> reporter: a dramatic move from the trump administration to boost public confidence in a covid vaccine. vice president pence, his wife, karen pence, and the surgeon general, on camera receiving the pfizer vaccination. >> history will record that this week was the beginning of the end of the coronavirus pandemic. >> reporter: president-elect and dr. biden should receive their vaccinations next week. since president trump recently recovered from covid, the white house says he will get the shot when his medical team recommends it. at least 27 states are expressing frustration, claiming the administration is cutting their promised pfizer vaccine allotments for next week by up to 40%. >> where are our doses? what is holding them up? when can we expect them? i'm angry because this virus is raging on in this country. >> we're certainly frustrated that we won't be receiving the amount that we expected in the first wave. >> reporter: at first, the trump administration suggested pfizer's shipments were delayed, but pfizer responded, no shipments containing th

is tom costello. good to see you. so we have 145 sites, they will receive this vaccine, the packages, tomorrow. layout the details of this extraordinary rollout. first to securities, both for the vaccines, while they are in transit, and then for keeping them in their freezing cold condition. >> so you mentioned 145 sites tomorrow, 425 thursday, another 166 wednesday. and this is ambitious and there is a reason why. "operation warp speed" calls it d-day, he likens to the beginning of the end of world war ii. in this case hopefully thing of the end of this pandemic. and once it gets to individual states and territories, it is up to those local jurisdictions. so the health state department, county health departments, to all low indicate a all low indi crow sites. so we saw for example.low indic crow sites. so we saw for example. in colorado, they did a dry run. they landed an imagination box if you will at denver international airport, put it in an suv, drove that box up to vail and then put it in a cold storage unit to

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. >> reporter: a call to fortify defenses as countries seek to profit from a pandemic tom costello, nbc news >>> in california there could be a lockdown as beds become scarce there are over 1.2 million cases and in the past 24 hours over 22,000 cases our jake ward has more. >> reporter: good morning, frances. that's right california has seen an 84% uptick in cases in the last 14 days that's a record-breaking number and leads the nation governor newsom has added statewide restrictions including non-travel and gathering with family members it will be triggered if the region loses more than 15% of its icu capacity then we would go into this new expanded shutdown. at the same time the governor encouraged californians to protect their health, exercising outdoors, taking your dogs out for a walk, everything california is. but we're looking at new much more restrictive stay-at-home orders for the entire state for the next three weeks and possibly beyond. >> hopefully it will be just that thanks, jake. >>> we turn now to some breaking news out of houston, tngs, where police say they have busted