We will get feedback on the time of day. Ok. I have several announcements for you today. To begin, i know many of you and the American People are interested from the news coming from Johnson Johnsons trial data. The president is encouraged about the data about a potential new vaccine. He knows this is just new data and now is the time for the fda to do its job to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the vaccine. He continues to urge all americans to mask up and follow Public Health guidelines until it is their turn to get vaccinated. I know there might be a lot of questions about the trial data or Johnson Johnson. I will not get ahead of the experts, who you all get to hear from in the next hour in our Public Health briefing from the Covid Response team. They will discuss this and what this means then. At wednesdays briefing, i shared some of the engagement and outreach the white house is doing to move forward the American Rescue plan from the president , Vice President on down. That wo
And responsibility commitment needs to be kept and contracts are binding advance Purchase Agreement needs to be respect today we have developed a system that will allow us to know whether vaccines are being exported from the e. U. This increase transparency will also come with the responsibility for the e. U. To authorize with no Member States these vaccine exports us drug from johnson and johnson is the latest Pharmaceutical Company expected to apply for emergency use authorization for its vaccine in the u. S. Next week they said single dose job appears to be at least 66 percent effective in preventing coronavirus the dutch court of appeals has ruled that Oil Giant Shell was paid compensation to a group of nigerian farms cuse the company of destroying their fishing villages as a result of 3 or spills. Memos military is refusing to rule out the possibility of a coup in the aftermath of last years election it says it was fraudulent and sense that shes governing party won a majority of s
The third hour of today in the bay continues right now. Good friday morning to you. Im kris sanchez here for Marcus Washington. Boy, wasnt it nice to see his smile . Oh, yes. Were going to have him a little later in this hour as well. Im laura garcia. Before we get to weather right now i want to tell you about a small earthquake that hit the north bay this morning. A 3. 3 magnitude quake hit about 5 00 a. M. It was about 13 miles north of healdsburg. No reports of injuries or damage so far. But what a way to wake up at least for those folks. And yesterday we were waking up to pounding rain across the bay area. Kari has a look at our forecast right now. That rain is getting lighter. This storm system is moving out but it was impressive. Now as we take a look at storm ranger, we are catching a break for much of the bay area. Still some lingering showers down around gilroy as well as around the napa area over toward Solano County. Weve seen some of the showers that are now starting to mov
Depression of the 1930 s. Also gaming retailer game stops continued surge causes anxiety on wall street a small investors take on the market titans and why namibias government is auctioning off 170 elephants despite appeals by conservationists. Welcome to the program the European Union is imposing export controls on vaccines made within the block limiting shipments to dozens of countries including the u. S. Japan australia and the United Kingdom now thats raised diplomatic tensions with the u. K. Because the controls could prevent vaccines from entering the rest of the country through Northern Ireland the e. U. Has since clarified that a lot use emergency clauses in the brics it deal to block access to the block. The kids are doing creasing pressure following shop cuts to plant vaccine deliveries it was the Pharmaceutical Company astra zeneca to stick to its contractual delivery shed jewel but the drug company says it will supply british orders 1st the e. U. Just approved astra zeneca
There with me so robyn a reminder of our top stories the European Union has reversed a decision to impose export controls on vaccines made within the block to the United Kingdom the earlier move would have prevented vaccines from entering the u. K. Through Northern Ireland Drugs Companies that novaks and johnson and johnson have introduced 2 new vaccines to fight the pandemic johnson and johnsons inoculation is a single shot job but both produced weaker results on the more infectious south african strain. Mexicos economy last year suffered its biggest contraction since the Great Depression of the 1930 s. Its credible as death toll surpassed that of india this week that now has the 3rd highest number of fatalities in the world. Kenya says health care and security personnel will be 1st in line when it starts inoculating people next month that scenes are being secured through the African Union and the w. H. O. But Health Officials say it will take until june next year to vaccinate around