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Doctor urges Americans to cancel holiday travel

The U.S. has recorded its single worst daily death toll since the beginning of the pandemic, and health officials say the number of infections and deaths will only continue to rise, in part due to the delayed effects of Thanksgiving travel. CBS News correspondent David Begnaud reports on new safety measures being implemented by local officials, and Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider, an internal medicine physician at California Medical Center, joined CBSN to discuss what action needs to be taken to mitigate spread, and what obstacles health care workers are facing.

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Italy to start COVID vaccinations in January

Italy plans to roll out Pfizer's COVID vaccine for widespread use in the country starting in January. Also, dozens of gunmen in Brazil effectively took an entire city hostage overnight in a brazen bank robbery, and the U.N. announced it's signed a deal with Ethiopia to allow unimpeded humanitarian access to parts of the embattled Tigray region. CBS News foreign correspondent Chris Livesay joined CBSN AM with today's headlines from around the world.

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Pelosi backs smaller stimulus proposal

After months of holding out for another $2 trillion dollar coronavirus stimulus package, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is backing a smaller plan in an effort to move things along before key programs expire this month. CBS News political correspondent Ed O'Keefe and Politico White House correspondent and associate editor Anita Kumar join CBSN's "Red & Blue" host Elaine Quijano to discuss the likelihood more aid could be coming before the end of the year.

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Doctor on CDC's shorter quarantine period

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Americans need to quarantine for seven to 10 days after being exposed to the coronavirus, a decrease from its earlier recommendation of 14 days. The outbreak in the U.S. has gone from bad to catastrophic with nearly 2,600 people dying from COVID on Tuesday, the country's second-highest single-day death toll since the pandemic began. Dr. Teresa Murray Amato, chair of emergency medicine at Long Island Jewish Forest Hills hospital in New York City, joined CBSN to discuss.

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