Reporter neil, good afternoon to you. Start with astrazeneca. That is the top headline. It is covid19 vaccine as you mentioned having a good immune response in older results this is a phase two trial. Heefficacy will not be done untl they resume phase three trials you mentioned pfizer around biontech, they will file for their emergency approval with the fda form for the covid19 that tells us they are on track for the timeline they promised. Johnson johnson ready to have its vaccine ready for approval by february of 2021. Like i said, a bunch of different choices here. New york city in a little worse shape. Public School System is shutting down as of today. The stiffs Public Schools are taking a break, excuse me, because the coronavirus test Positivity Rate of 3 has been at that level for a seven day rolling average. It was reached on wednesday. The decision impacts over a Million Students and their parents and the city is trying to manage these cases and the weight that is placed on th
Lower access to quality treatment when they are infected, and tragically, higher mortality rates. One in 1000 black americans have died from this virus. This is a staggering statistic, and 57 of black adults, 46 of latino adults know someone who has died or been hospitalized by this disease. Folks, we have lost more than 220,000 lives in this virus already, but this administration has given up. Over the weekend, the white house chief of staff, mark meadows, went on television and admitted that they wave the white flag and declared surrender. He said, we are not going to control the pandemic. The American People deserve so much better than this. Look at what happened last night in omaha, after the trump rally ended. Hundreds of people including old americans and children were stranded in subzero freezing temperatures for hours. Several folks ended up in the hospital. Its an image that captured President Trumps whole approach this crisis. He takes a lot of big pronouncements, he makes a
Joe biden good afternoon, everyone. Let me say to the press, im going to make a short statement here and going over to vote with my wife. I will be happy to take your questions after i vote. I just completed another Public Health briefing with my team of Public Health experts. We looked at the latest reported data and how it indicates that we are on an upward slope of a bigger wave of confirmed infections than anything we experienced to date. We talked about what actions would be needed to turn this around and how we made worse by the administrations declaration of surrender to the virus. We discussed the vital importance of wearing masks, protecting yourself, protecting your neighbors, and to save around 100,000 lives in the months ahead between now and just after the first of the year. This is not political. Its patriotic. Wearing a mask. Wear one. Period. We focused on the way this virus is hitting communities of color much harder, particular black, latino and native american commun
First, were talking tact weather. So lets get the latest on the Power Outages happening in the area. Put your dwoes us on Facebook Live right now and well try to answer them as well. Is red flag warning is in effect until friday afternoon this fire danger is forcing pg e to warn n customers wherever except francisco and morin for now that there might be these shutoffs. They say theyre expecting any power shutoff to first start around 6 00 p. M. Tonight and others would start in stages after that. Power likely wouldnt be stief restore until its safe to do the powerlines. That could be thursday or friday night. Right now on our website and our free app we have easy tips for how to prepare for these shutoffs and this address guide to find out if your home is in a potential shutoff area. So take a look at that. As do you and as you explore that power outage, as you see it, no public power shutoffs have gone into nekt our area, meaning you still have time to prepare. Joining us, our very ow
Spike in cases across the u. S. We looked at the latest reported data how we are on an upward slope of a bigger wave of confirmed infections than anything we experienced to date. We talked about what actions would be needed to turn this around and how we made worse by the administrations declaration of surrender to the virus. We discussed the vital importance of wearing masks, protecting yourself, protecting your neighbor and to save around 100,000 lives in the months ahead between now and just after the first of the year. This is not political. It is patriotic. Wearing a mask p, where one,eriod. We focused on the weight this virus is hitting communities of latinoparticular black, and native american communities. We are seeing racebased disparities across the aspect of this virus, higher infection rates lower access to testing and harder time quarantining safely because of their financial circumstances. Lower access to quality treatment when they are infected and tragically, higher mor