Coronavirus vaccine has been boxed by rich nations and libyas internationally recognized Prime Minister pfizer says he will step down by the end of october to. Thank you for joining us a us is being hit by with whats being described as catastrophic and life threatening flooding thats where Tropical Storm sandy made landfall as a category 2 hurricane hundreds of people have been rescued half a 1000000 have lost power across florida and alabama and gallagher reports. Are akin certainly came ashore in the early hours of wednesday morning slamming into alabamas coastline floridas panhandle also bore the brunt of 165 kilometer per hour winds as heavy rain and storm surges led to life threatening floods many residents. Were forced to evacuate the hotels as conditions worsened i mean if youre counting the people that were left in there in their office you know things like this we have 3 madagascar but. I just i feel for the people that are not you know have as much story here so he has now we can do after making landfall but continues to move at an agonizingly slow pace forecast to say that makes this storm extremely dangerous for much of the gulf coast daylight in alabama showed a scene of devastation with severe flooding and damaged homes logan is still was at home in gulf shores where sally made landfall just rode it out on the 1st 4 we started youre over Windows Start up. By the roof started coming off the side it was written i just wrote it out last month louisiana was hit by one of the most powerful storms on record or again laura killed at least 8 people and cost the state billions in a Hurricane Season isnt over until the end of november in addition to sally there are several other named storms currently swirling in the atlantic that hasnt since 971. 00 meteorologists here in miami will soon run out of preselected names for this Hurricane Season and be forced to use the greek alphabet thats only ever happened on one other occasion floridas governor is warning residents not to be complacent as the storm moves across the state Hurricane Sandy is the full storm to make landfall this year Scientists SayClimate Change is making storms like this wetter and slower a potentially deadly combination and agalloch a aljazeera on the other side of the u. S. Hot dry weather is hampering efforts to contain dozens of wildfires burning in all 3 west coast states from those flames has caused some of the wild unhealthy quality rob reynolds reports from portland in oregon. The noxious cloud of smoke and ash choking the west coast has drifted in the upper atmosphere as far away as europe but nowhere is the smoke as bad as here in portland its really bad we have never had an air quality of event like this since 1985 which is when the department of Environmental Quality started tracking our air quality our previous record for poor air was set in 2017 we are 7 times worse than that. This environmentally conscious city is normally proud of its clean polluted air now it has the worst air quality of any major city on earth and portlanders are feeling it deep inside i am definitely having problems breathing i work outside so unfortunately i am really exposed to even with a mask it still gets to you. Major League Baseball games in seattle were postponed due to unhealthy air Alaska Airlines one of the regions big carriers canceled many of its flights and Washington States governor said the file air is breaking all records the air outside right now is that historically polluted levels. According to our department of ecology. The consequences of breathing this filthy air can be done or portland hospital emergency room visits for breathing problems are 88 times higher than usual says county Health Officer andrea hamburg who spoke to us while wearing and in 95. 00 man asked causes a dry cough which is of course a concern during a pandemic i can cause shortness of breath it can cause chest pains could cause an asthma attack so the effects range from mild irritation still very serious and life threatening meanwhile the fires continue to burn in butte county california a family that lost their home 2 years ago to the deadly fire in paradise are reliving a nightmare now their new house has burned and we need to take care there are being told that every day with all these things happening on the outskirts of los angeles firefighters are combat enough fierce blaze its led to evacuations of hundreds of people from the towns of arcadia and sierra madre and threatens to engulf the historic mt wilson astronomical observatory. Thousands of homes have been destroyed tens of thousands of people have fled millions of heck theres the forest have burned and the death toll is rising now tens of millions of people here in oregon california and washington are worried what the effects of breathing in this dirty air might turn out to be rob reynolds aljazeera portland oregon. Us present donald trump as contradictory Tom Pelphrey Fishel on the timing of a Coronavirus Vaccine the director of the centers for Disease Control says its highly unlikely one would be available to most americans until next summer but says Robert Redford ill is just confused and insists a vaccine will be ready before the election mike hanna has our report from washington the c. D. C. Director period before a Senate Committee and emphasized the importance of wearing a mask i might even go so far as to say that this face mask is more guaranteed to protect me against covert than when i take a covert vaccine because the imminent unicity may be 70 percent and if i dont get an immune response to vaccine stuff and protect me this facemask will on the subject of a vaccine ridgefield said one could become available before the end of the year but only in a limited supply if youre asking me when is it going to be generally available to the American Public so we can begin to take advantage of vaccine to get back to our regular life i think were probably looking at 3rd late 2nd quarter 3rd quarter. 2021 but the president publicly disagreed with the c. D. C. Director on the issue of mosques and the time scale one available back scene no i think he made a mistake when he said that its just Incorrect Information and i called him and he didnt tell me that and i think you got the message maybe confused but president maintain the release of a vaccine is imminent were ready to go immediately as the vaccine is announced and it could be announced in october could be announced a little bit after october the but once we go were already a president ial candidate joe biden says he would side with science rather than trust the president who he says has frequently misled the public one thing is certain we cant allow politics to interfere with a vaccine it anyway americans have had to endure president trumps incompetence and dishonesty when it comes to testing their personal protective equipment. We cant afford to repeat those fiascos when it comes to a vaccine when it occurs the stakes are too high. President trump has made no secret of the fact that he wants a vaccine in circulation before the november election hes repeatedly expressed anger at restrictions imposed on his campaign by the virus and is now back to holding full scale rallies with many including the president rejecting the use of mosques final Clinical Trials for potential vaccines have only just begun they involve tens of thousands of patients and importantly at least 2 doses have to be administered over a period of time its impossible for the test to be completed in the timeline envisioned by president trunk which raises a question of whether the president is considering cutting short protocols for the testing of new vaccines that have been established for decades mike hanna aljazeera washington. In other World News Police on the greek island of less preparing to move refugees that have been living on the streets after a fire at the overcrowded morea camp a new facility has been made available but many of those left without shelter are wary of moving in thousands have been left homeless after several fires burned on last falls island in greece a few days ago hundreds of migrants and refugees were left homeless and left to fend for themselves the greek government has been trying to move them into a shelter and that operation we understand is supposed to begin this morning lets bring in stephanie de. Forest the operation to move the refugees expected to start this morning stephanie tell us about whats happening right now and how we expect this to unfold. We will Nothing Official has been said this is all from sources that we were getting into the night and overnight that police are being called up because of course they do want them to move into that camp now weve managed to get in and you can see riot police is the 1st time this is happened since the fire since the refugees and migrants have been camped out on this road. In the last half hour or so have arrived you see the buses there is a water cannon truck further up the road and out of the formation of riot police with shields now we havent had any forcible movement as of yet its very morning here finally the refugees are just starting to wake up and trying to figure out why this is happening now the greek authorities have made it very clear that the only place for these people to go into that new camp which is literally just you can see it from where we are just not with the camera its still being expanded but many people here say they dont want to move because the situation in more of a camp was so desperately because the facilities were terrible i mean even here its terrible weve been walking down seeing people washing themselves you know under a stream brushing their teeth theres no sanitation theres no toilet this. But theyre free to go there because. At the moment were just here and were trying to see what is going to happen but certainly theres riot police have been standing there now for about 20 minutes or so. We do know that the plan is that theyre going to try and move at least some of them today stephanie i know that theres been tension between the locals on less and the refugees and you know one wonders how this is all going to evolve i mean if the refugees refused to move to that town. Whats going to be happening what sort of plans are in place by a from the greek government to to address this issue of the tensions on the island of west. Well theres been a lot of talk about that but the fact that the grievances of the islanders have been hosting this population since 2050 need to be addressed we did a report on it thats been running the villagers say that this is a story of 2 tragedies but the world doesnt listen to hours and hours are forgotten because of the economy this is an island thats very famous for its all of oil folly and now you know we saw people villagers cleaning up that all of grows at the refugees of now try to seek shelter and so its very difficult the message from the authorities is this that the refugees and migrants have no choice that theyre going to be moving to that happen if they dont do that willingly its going to be done by force and certainly this is the most sort of show of force if you will that weve seen so far which is riot police we know women police have also been called in to deal with women and families i mean you know some people walk to the camp people are still going willingly but i think certainly they know that the majority of these people do not want to go there weve been talking to people coming here this morning who tell us they dont want to move so its going to be interesting well have to wait and see how things turn out and just briefly tell us about these refugees youve been speaking to some of them i know where are they from you know what are they hoping for. You know as we look at this situation right now obviously they want to be in a better in better conditions but is it in greece or is it elsewhere in your. They want to leave this island thats the 1st thing many of them have been stuck here for over a year their papers in limbo. Sign in process which really has a real issue here one man was telling us you know just give us an answer tell us yes or no dont keep us in this legal limbo in this limbo of hope he says you know this has a massive effect on our psyche and you can see it when people when you talk to them ali they dont know whats going to happen to them and i think now you get a sense that theyre having to start again you know they landed here by boat years ago and had to set up camp. To be in horrendous conditions now theyre all i mean we cant share were sitting among the 10s of refugees here the rule down here theyve been sitting outside the supermarket little supermarket which has been closed to this is also the effect you have on the local economy theres a couple of shops here this is an Industrial Area weve had to close were not happy about that so youre dealing its basically a forgotten people folly and the fact that this come down meant that you were talking about this now again it meant that the u. N. H. C. R. Head of greece came here and the president of the new council came and so the debate is ongoing but what is actually going to happen to expiate the paperwork of these people and give them answers and move them to where they need to go or if indeed they get rejected go back home and thats the big question i know were going to expect some kind of policy from the European Union at the end of this month but again you know how thats going to translate on the ground directly affect the future of these people here we dont know all right stephanie thank you very much for the moment of course keep a close eye on the situation there. And with you Stephanie Decker live from deciples in greece. And still ahead on aljazeera one of the strictures in the world is coming to an end well bring you an update from. Hello there fairly cautious and calm picture across much of the middle east the winds are going to be faking up again in the next couple of days. Developing you say that the central Western Areas a soggy but this is what i mean about the way we could well see some dust and say for the interior of iraq time it is not faring too badly mid fortys celsius 39 is expected to high in doha but of course it does tend to feel very humid when the temperatures come to particularly when the winds are very light or coming from the east theres no real change on friday how much is still pretty high for the eastern end of the magic and these temperatures are above average for this time of year then down into Central Africa plenty of rain becoming a little widespread and also typically for this time of the a big getting to push the south because he wanted to show is across areas of. The picture as you can see staying mostly fine across much of south africa that run of the frontal system is coming through say damages in the high teens celsius where we have a warm air is across into both want to temperatures here above the average sunny for this time of year its going to be mostly fine for the next few days and touch is getting up to about 36. 00 certainly by sunday meanwhile feeling much cooler in cape town with showers on sunday. And i never thought id be saying you are living with the cooler i never dreamt of it with the words music speaks. To us about how music. And inspire hope for a better life a. J. Selects on aljazeera. Why the war. The end. Of the back a recap of our top stories on aljazeera a storm sandy has caused life threatening floods in florida and alabama in the United States it made landfall as a category 2 hurricane but has since been downgraded to a depression a slow speed has brought a high level of rainfall hundreds of people have been rescued and smoke from a wildfire is on the u. S. West gold says causing some of the worlds poorest 10 percent of Emergency Hospital visits in oregon by people with breathing problems and u. S. President donald trump has contradicted a Top Health Official on when a Coronavirus Vaccine will be available c. D. C. Director Robert Redfield says distribution wont be possible until next summer trump insists it will be this year. And saying with the issue of the Coronavirus Vaccine oxfam says rich countries have bought more than half of the promised souces the nations account for just 13 percent of the worlds population the charity analyze deals made by the producers of the 5 leading vaccine candidates and its warning even if all those trials succeed 2 thirds of the worlds population want to have access until 2022 or less speak to sun send in your car bought this is in camera and hes an associate professor of Infectious Diseases at the Australian National university thank you very much for joining us this of course has been a concern for the u. N. And many Health Advocates that once a vaccine is developed and successful that rich nations would be 1st in line and this is a scenario that we saw in 2009 with the swine flu is there really any any way to bring equitable and broad access of these toxins. Yes i will 1st of all finally i think it is important that we have it could have all distribution of the vaccine because weve only ever eradicated one infection in the whole history of the human civilization and that small pox so to do so is a big task and we need everyone or close to everyone around the world vaccinated now all although i completely agree with oxfam sentiments that we need to make sure the developing world is looked after there are some steps that have been taken and there is a group called kovacs which is associated with the World Health Organization the coalition for epidemic proper preparedness innovations the