Nation to formally authorize a covid19 vaccine rollout begins next week, and the world is watching. Plus, Chinas Mission to the moon new images of the first Lunar Landing in more than 40 years. Announcer live from cnbc global headquarters, the facts, the truth, the news with Shepard Smith. Good evening more progress and more set backpacks on this, the 266th day of the pandemic. There is now a cure. Pfizers vaccine approved in the United Kingdom here in the United States the cdc slashing its quarantine guidelines now just ten days, or seven with a negative test for people exposed to covid but the virus is not going away. Its getting much worse. A warning tonight from the head of the cdc. December and january and february are going to be rough times. I actually believe they are going to be the most difficult time in the Public Health history of this nation. White House Coronavirus Task force telling states we are in a very dangerous place as covid cases and hospitalizations rise. In a re
Denied bail and a former lawmaker fees into exile in the latest blows to the citys prodemocracy movement. And a really good beginning with the Coronavirus Crisis and the growing list of countries reporting soaring infection rates and deaths governments around the world are struggling to contain a new wave of cases in the worst affected country in the United States 2804 deaths were recorded on wednesday america is close to passing 14000000 cases in total italy has hit a new record with 993 deaths in one day thats higher than the peak of fatalities in the 1st wave in the middle east infections of surprised 1000000 in iran the country is reported almost 50000 deaths as governments race to approve vaccines the United Nations and Global Health officials have warned against fast tracking the process itself to the u. K. Authorized use of the pfizer biotech vaccine on wednesday and as fears of vaccine misinformation grow social media giant facebook and instagram say theyll start removing posts
Were up, and then lifted nicely at the pfizer announcement, 1. 11, up 12. We are near dow 30,000. To me, the clarion idea is that the vix is peeling away the fear , the volatility that is out there come up with a vix at 22. 01. Jonathan wejonathan have been doing that since the election, and the move got a big boost of the pfizer news from last week. The final efficacy rating, and the number is decent. Lisa 95 , better than the initial read last week of 90 . S is the mark on brands this is the more comprehensive data. Of over 65, so preventing illness. An incredibly good display here. The interesting thing to me is that we are not seeing more of a reaction in markets. It is already baked in, and in fact, you are seeing bond yields a little lower on the day. They are just flirting with this idea that longterm, we are not changing the scenario, even with this incredibly good news. Equity futures are elevated on the s p 500. A big move in the equity market. We stayed elevated over the las
More month of this 2020 saga guys, lets killer fingers. Crust i mean it is the month of course where we get all the lights up in typically good feelings abound so i hope thats absolutely what we do have its also a month that we get some chilly weather and were going to be starting off the month that way some chilly conditions this morning and tomorrow morning will be much the same you can see all the sunshine that we have up above in San Francisco or stitcher tower you always looks good even in those foggy morning, sometimes you get the blanket down below. Radar shows rain and snow up to our north up in washington and oregon. But we stay dry thats the way weve been for over a week now the for the week ahead of us too as we begin december temperatures today eventually rise into the 60s. Were out of the 30s for most of the inland east bay where we spent the morning even san jose dropped into the upper 30s. Santa rosa, youre still at 38 saint helene at 34 early elsewhere in the bay area e
Distributed, how will be it done. All of this at a time were hearing about four 45 minutes from now president elect biden and Kamala Harris will detail their own economic plan. What theyre calling their Building Back better plan. I dont know what that means but they have got a lot of union heads there as well as the chairman of gm, the chairman of microsoft, the head of target. Again, virtually, if not in person. So well be monitoring that. When that comes up about an hour 45 minutes from now. Meantime more on this excitement around moderna and what it poses to offer right here. Jackie deangelis own that. Jackie. Reporter good afternoon to you, neil. The vaccine news certainly fueling the markets today. 94. 5 efficacy. That is what moderna is saying. We had excitement from pfizer and biontech last week. The market is saying we would expected or less efficacy. This is a really important number. People are wondering what happens next. How do i actually get the virus, excuse me, the vacci