On abc9 news this morning. Jessica rae good morning and thanks for joining us on this friday. I am lukas voss in for jessica rae us on this friday. I am lukas voss in for jessica rae. Days after president obama announced exececive actions aimed at reducing gun violence. The president took his pitch on the road. He participated in a town hall meeting at george mason university. And argued his reasoning for the increased restrictions. Reporter karin caifa has a more. president obama the way it is described, is that we are trying to take away everybodys guns. In his first town hall event in 2016, the president debated the second amendment. And the gun violence gripping the nation. He stood in front of supporters critics and some familiar faces including Gabby Giffords the former representative who was shot five e ars ago and her husband retired astronaut mark kelly. mark kelly husband of Gabrielle Giffords gabby and i are both gun owrs. We take gun ownership very he never owned a gun and
Vaccine last week. This as Vice President mike pence said he will take one on camera tomorrow morning. President trump said he will not get one. Well tell you why. We begin with the fda Panel Meeting right now. Dr. Sanjay gupta joins us. Here in effect a second option, the Moderna Vaccine developed along with nih. As theyre meeting to discuss this, does it have advantages, perhaps, beyond just storage needs . I think that thats probably the biggest advantage right now. We are learning more about these vaccines overall in terms of what they can do. One of the things that came out about the Moderna Vaccine, they did release some more data showing there was some evidence that it could also degrecrease likelihood that people become infected. People may not realize this, but the vaccine for pfizer they say it dramatically redeuuces the likelihood that you would get sick from covid, which is important. But there wasnt evidence it could prevent infection as well. Moderna has that. But thats a
Deaths of young people this year. More on that in a minute. There are also developments on a stimulus deal on the much needed help for americans with weekly jobless claims set to be released within this hour. Were going to begin with the pandemic. Joining us now cnn chief medical correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta. Sanjay, with he talk about record deaths. More than 3,500 reported overnight. I think i hope people had a chance to watch alisyns interview in the last hour to get a sense of what one death means. One death is a tragedy and were talking about record numbers that just keep on growing overnight and you have the White House Coronavirus task force really warning us that it could get even worse. That states are not doing the things that they need to do to stem this tide. What do we need to know this morning . Yeah. I mean, that was a really powerful interview and im so glad that you did it because, you know, i think these numbers sometimes i know that they are just washing over peopl
Twoweek lockdown. Its because of a new variant of the virus that he says is up to 70 more infectious. Well have the details on everything regarding the pandemic in just a moment. First, we want to bring you cnns new reporting about a Tense Exchange in the oval office. Sources tell cnn there was a contentious meeting at the white house friday where staff argued over highly controversial ideas to overturn the election. Cnns Jeremy Diamond has the details. Reporter while President Trump isnt just publicly refusing to accept the results of the 2020 election, he is also privately still grasping for ideas and ways to possibly overturn the results of the 2020 election. Sources telling cnn that those ideas were floated during an Oval Office Meeting that the president held on friday that grew heated and ugly at times, according to our sources, as two people, two allies of the president , pushed some really deranged ideas about overturning the results of the election. Those two people are sydney
Cox, along with these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. The a officials testify on its new abortion surfaces policy, implemented after the Supreme Court struck down roe v. Wade. The policy provides Abortion Services to pregnant veterans and the aid beneficiaries. When their lives are at risk or in cases of rape or incest. They testified before the House Veterans Affairs committee. Are they meeting platform hosts ready to begin . Yes. Mister chairman, are you ready to begin the hearings . Yes. Taliban these begin the clock countdown. Five, four, three, two, one. Good afternoon. I call this hearing to order, as president , without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. The Committee Procedures for remote hearing remains the same. If you are experiencing connectivity issues, please make sure you or your staff contact our designated technical support, so those issues can be resolved immediately. If you wish to have a document i