| | | | | | | Presented By Instagram | | | | Axios AM | | By Mike Allen · Nov 26, 2022 | | 🏪 It's Small Business Saturday. - Smart Brevity™ count: 1,191 words ... 4½ minutes. Edited by Donica Phifer.
🐦 Situational awareness: Elon Musk said "Yes" when asked on Twitter if he would support Ron DeSantis for president in 2024 — reiterating a past nod to the Florida governor. - Musk said he "(reluctantly) voted for Biden over Trump" in 2020: "My preference for the 2024 presidency is someone sensible and centrist."
| | | | | | 🇨🇳 1 big thing: China's COVID storm | | A makeshift hospital being built Tuesday for COVID patients in China's southwestern megacity of Chongqing. Photo: CNS/AFP via Getty Images A new COVID calamity is hammering China, with a surge in infections prompting a return of lockdowns, including in some manufacturing areas that supply the West. - China reported a record number of infections this week, amid lockdowns and mass testing that are fueling unrest and darkening the country's economic outlook. Schools in Beijing returned to online teaching.
Why it matters: In addition to the human misery for the world's most populous country, the effects will be felt around the globe, Axios China author Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian reports from Taipei. - Supply chains are likely to be disrupted, causing prices to rise in an already rocky global economy.
⚡ Breaking: Rare protests broke out today in China's far western Xinjiang region. Crowds shouted at hazmat-suited guards after a deadly fire triggered anger by prolonged COVID lockdowns, Reuters reports. - "End the lockdown!" shouted protesters in the Xinjiang capital Urumqi, where an apartment fire killed 10.
What's happening: The moment of truth for China's zero-COVID policy has finally come. - Either party leaders will need to plunge much of the country into draconian lockdowns, as we saw at the beginning of the pandemic — or they'll decide it's time to learn to live with COVID.
Epidemic-control workers drive on a nearly empty street in Beijing's central business district on Wednesday. Photo: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images 🥊 Reality check: China's doctors have warned Xi Jinping that the healthcare system isn't prepared for the huge outbreak likely to follow the easing of strict anti-COVID measures, the Financial Times reports. - Chinese-made vaccines aren't as effective compared to those made in the U.S. And China has worrisomely low vaccination rates among older people.
- But the number of cases in China is actually still very low for anywhere but China.
🖼️ The big picture: "Zero COVID" restrictions have damaged the economy and undermined people's trust in government. - That's a stark about-face from the height of the pandemic. Then, many Chinese people felt the tight central control had protected them better than any other governance model in the world.
- But it's that very model that has plunged China into its current predicament. Xi tied his reputation, and the party's legitimacy, to the success of "zero COVID."
🔎 Between the lines: Chinese leaders made a huge, politically motivated mistake. They resisted the import of Western-made mRNA vaccines (including Pfizer and Moderna) for citizens. These vaccines were only recently made available to foreigners. - That's likely because of Beijing's big vaccine diplomacy push: Chinese officials touted their own vaccines as the best and safest.
Share this story. |     | | | | | | 2. ⚖️ Fla., Calif. worst on FBI crime reporting |  Data: FBI. Chart: Tory Lysik/Axios Visuals Florida and California had the lowest percentages of law enforcement agencies turning over crime data to the FBI last year, Axios' Russell Contreras reports. - Why it matters: National violent crime data in 2021 was severely compromised because around 40% of law enforcement agencies nationwide failed to report their crime data.
🧮 By the numbers: An Axios analysis of FBI data released earlier this year found that only two law enforcement agencies out of Florida's 757 submitted 2021 crime data to the FBI. - Only 2% of California's law enforcement agencies turned in crime data.
The other side: Texas, the nation's second most populous state, had one of the best reporting percentages. The Axios analysis found 84% of the Lone Star State's agencies submitted crime data. Between the lines: Art Acevedo, a former Houston and Miami police chief, told Axios the lack of reporting is because of technological challenges in getting on the new system. Share this story. | | | | | | | | 3. 🚁 Miracle rescue | | Screenshot from U.S. Coast Guard video That hand next to the green cross on the frame belongs to a man in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana on Thanksgiving, frantically waving to Coast Guard rescuers after he went overboard from a cruise ship. - He apparently had been in the water for hours.
The 28-year-old was reported missing at noon Thursday while the vessel, the Carnival Valor, was heading to Cozumel, Mexico, AP reports. - According to Carnival Cruise Line, the man was with his sister at a bar on Carnival Valor Wednesday at 11 p.m. and went to use the bathroom.
- His sister reported him missing the next day, after he didn't return to his stateroom.
The Coast Guard launched search and rescue crews Thursday afternoon, and alerted nearby ships to be watchful. - Coast Guard Lt. Seth Gross said a cargo ship later saw a person in the water about 20 miles south of Southwest Pass, La., and the mouth of the Mississippi River.
Gross said the man confirmed he was the missing cruise ship passenger after being hoisted into a helicopter about 8:25 p.m. Thursday. - "He appeared to be suffering from mild hypothermia, shock, dehydration, but his condition overall appeared stable," Gross told WWL-TV.
Watch the video. | | | | | | | | A message from Instagram | | Explore 30+ Instagram tools helping teens have positive experiences | | |  | | | | Instagram's tools can help parents keep their teens safe on social media, help teens see less sensitive content and help them spend less time on our platform. Because teens' experiences on Instagram should be positive and supportive. Explore our tools and set them up today. | | | | | | 4. 📷 1,000 words | | Photo: Susan Walsh/AP President Biden walks with his grandson, Beau Biden, yesterday in Nantucket, Mass., where the family is spending Thanksgiving. | | | | | | | | 5. 💰 What's selling | | A Best Buy in Chicago yesterday. Photo: Jim Vondruska/Reuters Adobe, which analyzes U.S. e-commerce data in real time, says Black Friday set a new record for online sales ($9.12 billion). 🎮 Adobe's flash report says yesterday's hot sellers included (not in order): - Drones, smart speakers, smart TVs, digital cameras, espresso machines, gift cards, Dyson (Airwrap for hair care + vacuums), chairs (for office and gaming), gaming consoles, video games (including Pokémon Scarlet, Pokémon Violet, NBA 2k23 and FIFA 23) and toys — including Hatchimals, Squishmallows and Funko Pop!
- Also on the list: Fortnite, Roblox, Bluey, Disney Encanto, and Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5.
- Plus Apple Watches, AirPods and Books.
🗞️ How it's playing ... Today's Chicago Tribune front page | | | | | | | | 6. 🧐 Cyber Monday starts ... today |  | | | Illustration: Rebecca Zisser/Axios | | | | Black Friday sales started in early November. So it won't surprise you that Cyber Monday specials start today. Why it matters: It's all part of retailers' effort to encourage shoppers to spend earlier, with sales spread out from the traditional chokepoints, Axios' Kelly Tyko reports. - Charles Redfield, EVP and chief merchandising officer for Walmart U.S., said: "Black Friday has evolved over the years from a single day to an entire season."
Go deeper: Kelly Tyko's guide to Cyber Monday deals. | | | | | | | | 7. 🏈 NFL's record Thanksgiving | | Vikings QB Kirk Cousins + wide receivers Justin Jefferson (No. 18) and Adam Thielen (No. 19), celebrate a 33-26 win over the Patriots in Minneapolis on Thursday. Photo: Matt Krohn/USA Today Sports via Reuters This was the NFL's most-watched Thanksgiving ever, with a total unduplicated audience of 138 million across three games, the league announced. - Average viewership: 33.5 million per game — a Turkey Day record.
The audience for the three games — Buffalo Bills at Detroit Lions, New York, Giants at Dallas Cowboys and New England Patriots at Minnesota Vikings — broke the previous record of 126 million, set in 2016. - The late-afternoon game on Fox (Cowboys 28, Giants 20) drew 42 million viewers on TV and digital — the NFL's most-watched regular season game on record.
| | | | | | | | 8. 🍟 Parting shot | | Photo: Charles Sykes/Invision/AP Ronald McDonald floats oh-s0-close to these Manhattanites during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. | | | | | | | | A message from Instagram | | Instagram's daily time limits can help teens spend less time online | | |  | | | | Parents can help teens spend time online more intentionally with Instagram's daily time limits, which lets them say how long their teens can spend on the platform once supervision is set up. Set up daily time limits and explore 30+ tools that can help teens have a positive experience on Instagram. | | | | 📬 Thanks for starting your holiday weekend with us. Please invite your friends to sign up to get their daily essentials — Axios AM, PM and Finish Line. |  | | Are you a fan of this email format? Your essential communications — to staff, clients and other stakeholders — can have the same style. Axios HQ, a powerful platform, will help you do it. | | | |
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