Well, its looking like the f. D. A. In america is probably going to be making an announcement round about the 17th of december. And if thats the case, and if thats positive, then these vaccines are going to be shipped literally within hours, as weve just heard on that report. Now in terms of the european situation, the europeans, magid medicines agency, typically this can take months or even up to a year to approve a new vaccine. So we really are in unprecedented territory here. And its going to be remarkably interesting to see what sort of timelines they come up with. But i think we can rest assured that they will be working flat out on this. Theyll be doing a lot of hard work on the files that are not important to member. Its a rolling program, so they have access to much more information than we have pfizer, midden it will be reporting to them on a daily basis with the latest information. Well have all the latest information at their fingertips, but of course this is not pay reviewe
Commissioner green . Present. Commission chow . Present. Commissioner guillermo, present. Ill note the commissioners. Thank you, mark. Well move on to the next item, which is approval of the minutes from the last Commission Meeting on january 5th. Commissioners, upon reviewing the minutes, are there any amendments . And if not, do we have a motion to approve . Before we go into the vote, i have to make sure there is nothing on the item. Thank you. And this is a general instruction, but you will press star 3 if youd like to raise your hand, and ill say the same introduction over and over again. Okay. So there is no comment at this time. Well vote. Commissioner chow. Yes. Commissioner green . Yes. Commissioner chong . Yes. Commissioner guillermo tkpwhrerpl . guillermo. And. Our next item is the directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners of health. This report focuses on covid19, and i will be providing an update and as well with regards to the current status of covid19 and our vacci
The strongest week since back to april. However, you have to put that in context. Two weeks ago was a lousy week in fact, two weeks ago the dow lost just over 1800 points, down by 1833 points last week the dow was up by 1821 points so that was a giveback for the dow kind of starting things over if you look at the other major averages, they got back much more ground than they had lost the previous week. Last week the s p was up 329 points after being down 195 the week before and the nasdaq was up by 983 points last week after losing 636 points the week before but again these gains this morning are significant ones they are adding to what we saw last week. Also, take a look at whats happening in the treasury market youll see that right now the treasury, the tenyear, is yielding 0. 812 so its stabilized after bouncing around quite a bit during the election and the election counting last week stabilized at 0. 812 andrew thanks, becky our top story this morning, president elect biden wastin
Cleanup begins in the philippines after one of the most powerful storms this year at least 16 people dad. And a journalist is killed every 4 days well find out why most perpetrators are held to account. Of all your sports news as sports highest court begins hearing russias appeal against a 4 year bear for violations. But we begin this news out and afghanistan where gun battles have been taking place inside Kabul University after multiple attackers entered that campus. Some students are understood to still be inside police have cordoned off the area and also close to the main road leading to that campus the taliban says its fighters are not responsible for that range well lets now go live to. The afghan. Capital kabul for us tell us a little bit about this developing situation i know its really fast moving what do we know at this stage. Indeed so its a developing situation here in afghanistan in kabul a group of gunmen entered the Kabul University compound this morning and they started
Before he died and were waiting now for a live update from officials so we can get some more information on exactly how he died because officials are not saying how he was injured. But they are remembering him as a beloved veteran of the department. This very trying time as jason was well liked department. And they fought their about it. Starting in 2007 working mostly its a supporting recently attending the fire academy. Graduating as a firefighter paramedic. Assigned to the busiest station in america station number 3. And that every one of san cortez leaves behind a wife and 2 children firefighters are expected to hold a procession later this afternoon from the hospital to the San Francisco medical Examiners Office and theyll be doing that in his honor with a large gathering. This is a developing story were working to get more details and kron fours teresa stasio is following it for us. Shell have the latest information later tonight on kron 4 news at 5 in the meantime you can always