There were essentially no hospitalizations or deaths in the Vaccine Group whereas in the Placebo Group there were. This tells us we have a valueadded additional vaccine cand candidate. There are other advantages. It is cheaper, only requires a single shot and only basic refrigeration. No vaccine has yet been authorized in the vaccine for use by anyone under 16 but theres more news. Today, dr. Fauci addressed when that could change and when kids could start to get vaccinated, the new variants of the virus are also causing potential problems as Athena Jones Now rep reports. Reporter another covid19 vaccine could be available in the United States. The results are very encouraging. Reporter Johnson Johnsons vaccine was 66 overall in a phase three trial, 72 effective in the u. S. And 85 effective against severe disease. The drug is delivered in a single shot and does not have to be stored frozen, making distribution ease her. There is real benefit to having a singledose vaccine and one that can be transported a lot more easily and, frankly 85 protection against severe disease is really good. Reporter pfizer Bichlt Ontech and moderna vaccines were 95 effective but in short supply, the Johnson Johnson vaccine, if given a green light, would be a welcome addition to the pandemic tool box. Were i not able to get the rna vaccine and only had the choice of getting the Johnson Johnson vaccine, i would take it in a second. In this clinical trial, no patients who got the vaccine had to go to the hospital and none died. An influential model shows they could worsen the virus spread. Adding in the worst case scenario, 85,000 covid deaths by may 1st. This is a wakeup call by all of us. Especially given the still extremely high death toll. As daily cases and hospitalizations numbers slowly decline, a warning from President Bidens chief medical adviser about the president s goal to reopen all schools in 120 days. That may not happen because of mitigating circumstances. Reporter new cdc director says its possible if the schools continue masking, smaller class sizes and prioritizing vaccines. Home to more than 95 of the population are still considered sustained hot spots. That means they have a high case burden of covid cases, just another sign this is far from being under control. Jake . Dr. Sanjay gupta. Sanjay, the top line that sticks out to a lot of people is that the Johnson Johnson vaccine is 66 effective in a global trial, which is less than the two other vaccines that have already been approved, but you think the number waeshd be focused on is 85 instead. Explain why. We can put up these two numbers so people can see what the trial showed. 85 perks this is basically the protection against serious disease. The type of disease ta might land someone in the hospital or have severe symptoms. Its the number of infections, number of hospitalizations, number of deaths. If you can bring down hospitalizations and deaths, that ends up being a key point. I think well look at these numbers and also see how these vaccines compared to the variants. You see, obviously, in south africa, its the lowest efficacy, almost all the patients in that trial had the variant now that they know. So youre getting an idea of what the efficacy is against moderate disease. Regardless severe disease, 85 protection across the board around the world, thats a very good vaccine. Its easy to compare this vaccine, j j, to moderna and pfizer, 94 and 95 effective respectively, but is that a fair comparison . You know, i dont think so. Keep in mind were not just talking about the Vaccine Trials but when they were done. This Johnson Johnson trial was studying these participants at a time when there was more virus that was spreading and there was more variants. What that means is basically there was more severe disease out there overall. So this is an 85 effective vaccine at a time when the disease burden, the pandemic burden was actually higher. We now this is critical information. 85 protective against the most severe part of the pandemic and against severe disease of the South African variant. We have no reason to believe that the moderna and Pfizer Vaccines wont protect us against the South African variant spreading throughout the United States but we do know about the Johnson Johnson one. Its an important point and difficult to compare. Dr. Fauci warned until we get enough people vaccinated the coronavirus will continue to mutate and we could see more variants such as the one first found in the uk or from south africa as you were discussing spreading across the u. S. How big of a danger are future, as of right now, unknown variants . I think thats a real concern. We dont know what we dont know. Were not sequencing enough. We dont have good visualization on these variants. It kind of reminds me of the conversation we were having about testing overall. We didnt know how big the problem was bichlt the time we were testing there were tens of thousands. If they mutate enough, they may start to escape vaccine immunity. That means the vaccines dont work as well. That doesnt appear to be the case right now but thats why we have to keep looking for these and make sugar we get enough people vaccinated to decrease the spread, mutations and the likelihood of that happening. Dr. Rochelle walensky says we should treat every new case of covid as if it is a variant. Explain, and why is that important . I heard that as well i think what shes saying is that its pretty clear that ease other variants are here. We dont know, you know, unless were actually sequencing these patients. Right now in the United States, about. 3 of the virus, that someone comes back positive test, we just say youre positive for coronavirus. But the actual sequencing to find out what exactly the sequence of that virus was is only happening. 3 of the time. I think dr. Walensky is suggesting we sequence more. The possibility that these vaccines will have to be retooled to protect against the variants is real but you dont want to do that after the variants have already spread significantly throughout the country. As of now there is no vaccine that has been approved or authorized for use by anyone under the age of 16 in the United States. Fauci estimated children could start getting vaccinated in late spring or early summer. What kind of data would you need to see before deciding if a Covid Vaccine was safe enough for your three kids . This is interesting. You want phase one data. Theres no reason why it shouldnt be safe for kids under 16 but youve got to show that through phase one. After that, theres typically phase two, phase three trials which can take a long time. What dr. Fauci and others have described is this idea of Bridging Trials at that point. Its interesting, jake. Basically you say okay, once we show its safe, we can now look at the existing phase two and phase three data, say its the moderna or pfizer vaccine. Look at that data. If phase one shows safety in children under the age of 16, you can basically bridge that data and get something authorized much more quickly. People said how do you do that . You basically bridge the data. That cannot come soon enough for moms and dads out there. Showing what police saw during the capitol Terror Attack as officers were beaten, kicked, assaulted. Well show that to you. And a Viewer Warning on that. As the fbi is releasing new video, hoping you can help catch the terrorists who planted those pipe bombs near the capitol. Stay with us. Ou dont have to make the largest 5g network. Awardwinning customer satisfaction. Or insanely great value. Now, with tmobile for business, theres no compromise. Network. Support. Value. Choose. All. Three. Tmobile for business. Ready when you are. So, uh, yeah, just a silly mistake. I guess i look pretty. Ridiculous. [ chuckles ] no one looks ridiculous, bob. Progressive is always here for you with roundtheclock service. Just so you know, next time, you can submit a claim with our mobile app. Good. Thanks again for for rushing over. Are you kidding . This is what 24 7 protection looks like. Okay. You smell like fish. Sorry. I was talking to jamie. In our National Lead today, we have grew some video from the insurrection on capitol hill, insurrectionists seen Beating Police officers with batones and hockey sticks. We have to warn you, this video is violent and may be disturbing. The terrorists then go on to scream at police ill fing kill you, then rip off the masks of policemen and women. Have the men seen attacking police in this video, have they been located, identified, charged . At least one of them has, an individual by the name of michael foy. Thats why this video came out. Prosecutors in michigan were using it as evidence in a hearing for him. And so they only released this 1 20 clip of this video. Thousands of hours of video just like this both from inside the capitol and then the bodyworn camera that Law Enforcement has been reviewing. It just shows how brutal and vicious this attack was. And from what we heard from Law Enforcement forces very early on is that this video shows how the officers fought so desperately to keep so many rioters outside the capitol. Theres thousands of hours of this video, jake. We have photographs of the suspect who planted the pipe bombs outside the Democratic NationalCommittee Headquarters and the republican National Committee headquarters before the insurrection . For fbi releasing information saying two pipe bombs were placed outside the dnc and rnc outside washington, d. C. There was speculation that pipe bombs were placed that morning as a diversion to get officers to leave the capitol and respond to these pipe bombs. Significant new information from the fbi. They obviously believe this was placed the night before which could tell us that there was some planning, some Organization Behind this. That is significant, certainly something that the fbi wants to release. Jake they dont have much to go on right now. They doubled the reward. It was initially 50,000. Now its 100,000. They dont know who the person is. They released information about the sneakers this person was wearing and other Clothing Items to see if they can really identify this individual. It is a top priority for the fbi, jake. Shimon, thank you so much. Were getting new information about the National Guard deployed not just to the u. S. Capitol but across the country to help support Coronavirus Vaccine efforts. A new Draft Agreement could see the u. S. Military playing an even larger role in distributing coronavirus shots. Oren lieberman is at the pentagon for us. Tell us more about this plan. This is still in the works between fema and the pentagon as far as what the troops role and pentagons role would be to administer vaccines. Fema request calls for 10,000 troops across 100 vaccination teams. Half of those would administer 6,000 shots a day the other 50 teams would be able to administer 3,000. If this the agreement and if the pentagon is able to get to these numbers with fema thats some 450,000 shots a day. That would very much become a large part of the administrations efforts to administer vaccines and shots and to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The agreement is still in the works and theres still aback and forth between fema and the pentagon. It hasnt been finalized that. Were tracking that. The troops come from National Guardsmen, 23,000 deployed across the country in 38 different states at some 260 vaccination sites administering about 51,000 shots a day. They, too, could be part of this effort as well as the question of are they going to use active duty troops and reserves to try to get to that number fema is requesting and boost the administrations efforts at fighting this pandemic . Meanwhile thousands of National Guardsmen are in d. C. Supporting the effort to protect the capitol. We did learn today some 2 are Testing Positive for covid. That is also certainly the number to watch as those troops and guardsmen remain here in the area. Jake . Oren lieberman at the pentagon. Thank you for that reporting. Coming up, is the Republican Party eating its own . Well talk to one republican congressman about where his party is headed and what his hopes are for the biden administration. Hey you, yeah you. 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Capitol has become somewhat of a fortress with the acting Capitol Police chief calling for more physical security, including permanent fencing around the capitol. This week an armed man was arrested near the capitol with election conspiracy papers and a list of lawmakers. Joining me now to discuss is republican congressman Michael Mccaul of texas, ranking republican on the House Foreign Affairs committee. Good to see you. You, too, jake. What do you make of the plans to keep the fencing around the capitol . Obviously, we want all of you to be safe. Is that too much, do you think, to make that fencing permanent . Well, i would make it threat based. As long as we have intelligence threats coming in, which we do. I think well have that through the Impeachment Trial in the senate. I think its wise course of action. They tried to break into my office. And all i had was a baseball bat to defend myself. Thank god the Capitol Police took them down. But it was a very dark day for america and a dark chapter. Congresswoman liz cheney, the number three republican in the house, one of the only ten republicans voted to impeach. Now shes under attack by fellow republicans. Take a listen to what your republican colleague in the house, congressman peter meijer, who also voted to impeach, what he told me yesterday. If liz cheney is the person who suffers the most from the events on january 6th politically, there will be a very, very sad day for my party. Do you think liz cheney will survive this challenge . And whats your view of her . You know, i do. Leader mccarthy was very clear that this is a vote of conscience. She did what she thought was right. I think she exercised a profile in courage in doing so. Ive publicly defended her. I think the leader has been correct in the last conference, really calling for the conference to come together. Lets stop this finger pointing. Lets stop trying to bring each other down. We need to be united as a party to get the majority back. And, honestly, we need to be united as a nation and heal as a nation if were ever going to get past the tragic day of january 6th. I have to say, i find it kind of unsettling that liz cheney is under attack from so many republicans while increasingly there are folks pushing Conspiracy Theories and bigotry in your party. Obviously im not talking about you, but whether its the oregon gop putting out that insanity about how the attack was a false flag operation, congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene, all these horrific comments shes made coming to light. The republican jewish coalition, you have a strong relationship with the jewish community. They put out a Statement Today saying theyre appall bid her comments and opposed her previously and will continue to do so. What should happen with congresswoman greene and are you at all concerned about the direction of your party . Well, im concerned about the rhetoric. Rhetoric has consequences. The rhetoric led to the insurrection of the capitol that day, and i called for a Department Of Justice investigation into this. I know they are investigating this. I find i have no patience for these types of comments, whether it be omar on the antisemitic comments or members on my side of the aisle. Leader mccarthy will meet with her. There are talks of censure. I dont think its very helpful, jake. I think the leaders of this country need to have an honest discussion with the American People and not perpetuate these conspiracy lies out there, but rather tell them the truth. We need to be honest as politicians and tell the American People the truth, because when we spin these stories of conspiracy that we k