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We are just one step away from a coronavirus vaccine, authorized for use by the FDA. Manuel Bojorquez is outside Pfizer's freezer farm in Kalamazoo, Michigan, which is one place where distribution will begin. President Trump is getting significant support from Republicans for a longshot lawsuit, asking the Supreme Court to reverse the election. New coronavirus relief spending is bogged down again...

A key FDA panel meets today to assess a coronavirus vaccine for emergency use, on the heels of the deadliest day yet in the pandemic. If the Pfizer vaccine is approved, the first shots could come within days. FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn joins us to discuss. Coronavirus cases continue to soar, as yesterday was the second-highest daily total since the pandemic began. Hunter Biden, the presiden...

The White House Coronavirus Task Force says the pandemic is now spreading faster and farther than ever and that more must be done to stop it. We're joined by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar. The Supreme Court has shut down one of President Trump's last attempts to overturn the election he clearly lost. The Justice Department says it will join the investigation into the controversial...

This morning, a 90-year-old woman became the first person in the world to take the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, outside of clinical trials. She'll be the first of millions, according to British government plans. The UK's rollout could be a model for other countries, including our own, where the FDA has yet to approve the vaccine. The White House is pushing back on reports the Trump administration turn...

Six-time Grammy Award winning singer Dionne Warwick joins "CBS This Morning Saturday" co-host Michelle Miller to discuss her sixty year career, her love for Christmas and using Twitter to connect to a younger generation of fans and artists. Warwick tells Miller what prompted her to tweet Chance the Rapper, The Weeknd and Taylor Swift. Plus, what she and Chance the Rapper spoke about when they fina...

Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey discusses his upbringing, the iconic movie line that launched his career and navigating the coronavirus pandemic with his family. Talking with "CBS This Morning" co-host Gayle King, McConaughey shares why he decided to write his memoir "Greenlights" now and how he hopes a divided nation can be brought together.

There are urgent new efforts to fight the pandemic, which Dr. Deborah Birx is now calling the worst event in American history. California is mostly back in lockdown this morning, with an order affecting 30 million people. The state recorded more than 30,000 new cases in a single day yesterday. Dr. Celine Gounder, a member of President-elect Joe Biden's COVID-19 advisory board, joins us to discuss....

The United States had more coronavirus cases than ever yesterday, with more than 217,000 new infections. Daily deaths are also far higher, with nearly 2,900 yesterday alone. President-elect Joe Biden is calling on Congress to break the deadlock on a relief bill for Americans hit by the pandemic. In a new interview, Mr. Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris also say they both plan to take a...

Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola discusses with "CBS This Morning" co-host Anthony Mason why he decided to re-cut the third film in The Godfather saga thirty years after it premiered. With a new beginning, ending and title, the new film titled "“Mario Puzo’s The Godfather: Coda, The Death of Michael Corleone” is finally a satisfying epilogue to the saga according to Coppola. The film wi...

Yesterday, the U.S. had the single deadliest day since the pandemic began, with more than 3,100 Americans dying from the coronavirus. That shatters the previous single-day record, set back in April. Hospitalizations are also at a record high, above 100,000 nationwide. The coronavirus vaccine is likely still months away for most Americans, while the UK has already approved the Pfizer-BioNTech formu...

The United Kingdom has become the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine. They say they're satisfied the vaccine has met 'strict standards of safety.' Pfizer says its 95% effective, with more than 43,000 people involved in the trial, and no serious side effects. In the U.S., we've just recorded the second-highest single-day death toll since the pandemic began as nearl...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says humankind is “waging a war on nature.” Guterres spoke with CBS This Morning co-host Tony Dokopuil about the fight against climate change ahead of a major address that he’s calling “The State of the Planet.” He explains why he's made climate change a priority, the UN's objective for 2021 and the significance of President-elect Joe Biden announcing the U.S....

CBS News has obtained a document from the government's Operation Warp Speed. Their goal is for at least 20 million Americans to start a vaccine regimen by the end of the year. The U.S. hits 28 days in a row with more than 100,000 new cases. A CDC advisory panel is meeting to vote on recommendations about who will get the vaccines first, once they're approved by the FDA. As the pandemic worsens, ma...

Karamo Brown, a former social worker in Los Angeles and star of Netflix's "Queer Eye" joins CBS News correspondent Jamie Yuccas to discuss his partnership with the Salvation Army to ensure families in need are able to have a Christmas this holiday season amid the global coronavirus pandemic. As a single parent, Karamo shares what it was like having to make the tough choices between paying bills an...

Moderna announced this morning that it's asking the FDA to give its vaccine emergency use authorization after it was found to be nearly 95% effective in trials. More than four million people tested positive for COVID-19 in November. Friday, we hit more than 200,000 cases in a day for the first time. We're joined by a member of President-elect Joe Biden's new Coronavirus Advisory Board, Michael Ost...

President Trump says he will leave office when the Electoral College confirms Joe Biden's victory-- but repeats unfounded claims of fraud. The former top cybersecurity official responsible for securing the presidential election, who was fired by President Trump, is speaking to 60 Minutes. COVID-19 hospitalizations reach a record high in the U.S. The holiday shopping frenzy kicks off at stores and...

The exploding coronavirus pandemic is upending Thanksgiving traditions. But millions of Americans are determined to celebrate, hitting the road at a time when health officials want us to stay home. More than 2,200 COVID-related deaths were reported yesterday, the highest one-day toll in more than six months. But many of us are listening to those doctors' warnings, AAA predicts a 10% decline in Tha...

There's been an alarming uptick in coronavirus cases, including more than 172,000 new ones yesterday. More than 2,100 people were reported dead in yesterday's 24-hour stretch, the most in a single day since early May. The pandemic has hit crisis levels in America's heartland. One hospital in Topeka, Kansas has had to turn a waiting area into hospital rooms for those without coronavirus because the...

Dan Price and his company Gravity Payments, a credit card processing agency for small businesses, gained widespread attention in 2015 when Price announced to his 120 employees that the Seattle based company was instituting a minimum pay rate over three years of $70,000. Five years into the policy, Price spoke with CBS News correspondent Mola Lenghi about the effects the idea has had and some unint...

The U.S. government has determined that President-elect Joe Biden is the "apparent" winner of the election, which means the transition process can formally begin. President Trump tweeted that he made the approval "in the best interests of our country." But later, he tweeted he would never actually concede that he lost. The president-elect is wasting no time in shaping his new administration, annou...

Moderna's president Dr. Stephen Hoge joins CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook to discuss the company's new coronavirus vaccine currently in clinical trials. Dr. Hoge shares what preliminary data is saying about the vaccine's effectiveness and what distribution of the vaccine will look like.

As family and friends contemplate how to spend Thanksgiving together this year in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, Dr. William Schaffner joins "CBS This Morning" national correspondent Jericka Duncan to offer advice on minimizing the virus of catching and spreading the virus. Dr. Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine and infectious disease at Vanderbilt University also explains how t...

Millions of Americans are going to extraordinary lengths to celebrate Thanksgiving, and many are waiting in lines for hours. People hope they will be safer with relatives if they test negative, but experts say it's not a sure thing. There are also massive lines for giveaways at food banks. And despite the pandemic, airports are still packed as millions take flights. Over the past three days, the U...

More than 187,000 new coronavirus cases were reported yesterday, a new record. We're also seeing increased deaths, more than 2,000 people just yesterday. The coronavirus task force held its first public briefing yesterday in months. It came as the CDC issued a blunt new warning, telling Americans not to travel for Thanksgiving. We visit one small hospital in Rupert, Idaho which is in a desperate s...

Four-time Grammy winner Sam Smith is back with an emotional and uplifting third studio album, "Love Goes," which delves into Smith's mental health, heartbreak and journey to self-discovery and love. Smith tells Anthony Mason about learning to embrace their non-binary gender identity, facing ridicule and bullies, and the courage it took to come out.