Right now theres widespread devastation, and an urgent search for survivors. The storm decimated towns with historic flooding washing out bridges and roads, and leaving some neighborhoods completely under water. Take a look at asheville, North Carolina, where homes and trucks were swept away by Raging Waters that have turned roads into rivers. At this hour, more than 2 Million people across the south are without power, hundreds are still unaccounted for. Well have live Team Coverage from across three states this morning. Joining us now, nbcs reporter, florida was the first place the Storm Hit. What are you seeing there . And im seeing George Solis there, who we will have on shortly. There is guad, also with us priscilla thomson. Guad, lets begin with you. Reporter total destruction in this area. So we are on treasure island. This is one of the islands on what they call the barrier islands, furthest west from the Tampa Bay Area, and i dont even know where to start here. So, the sand you
For the future. The last thing they need is more explosions. Continue to build cleared from the french. The developers of it is 95 percent effective. 20. 00 to the world. This is your art. My names you know, neal and youre welcome to the news our we begin in the u. S. , where changes on pennsylvanian of a new are picking up pace president elect. Joe biden has announced his top cabinet picks for the white house. He said near enough the whole world has their hopes resting on his team to restore america, to its historical role in calls from world leaders. And ive had about 18 to 20 so far. Im not sure the exact number in the weeks since we won the election. Ive been struck by how much theyre looking forward to the united states. Reassert its historic role as a global leader, both in the pacific as well as the atlantic all across the world. Together these Public Servants will restore america globally scribble leadership and its moral leadership without engaging in needless military conflic
Explosions, voiding taps. A war hawk for secretary of state who looks to pack his administration with figures is to relent, and agree to cooperate on the transition. Hello good afternoon, just gone 2 oclock in moscow. You with r. T. International, 95 percent effective. That is the claim being made by the developers of russian vaccine for their sputnik jab. The assessment is based on the latest Clinical Data which indicates that the drugs efficacy increases with time. So lets get more from our good afternoon. Just tell us them. What developers have been saying then in their latest update on this drug. Yes, sputnik me is currently in phase 3 of its Clinical Trials and it will last for at least 4 more months. But already now we receive early interim results and they are quite impressive. The 2nd interim analysis of Clinical Trial data showed a 91. 4 percent efficacy for the sputnik vaccine on day 28. 00 after the 1st dose. Vaccine efficacy is over 95 percent. 42 days after the 1st game, o
Hopkins vaccine initiative. Also joining us is dr. Mike levine. He is at the university of Maryland School of medicine and the founder for the center of Vaccine Development. Dr. Powell off it, the director of the Vaccine Education Center at Childrens Hospital of philadelphia and professor of pediatrics at the university of Pennsylvania School of medicine. And Wilson Rooney the managing director of tr gp investment partners. You can ask our panelist questions using the q a feature and i am excited to get things started. Esther, i will turn it over to you. Thank you so much. Welcome and good afternoon to everyone. We have a terrific panel today. With leading experts to discuss the challenges related to Vaccine Development and the implication of the race to develop a covid19 vaccine or multiple vaccines. As of this morning, there were over 27 million confirmed cases of 2019 and ate her thousand deaths. In the u. S. , we have six point 3 million confirmed cases. We are approaching 190,000
The peninsula, San Mateo County has reached 453 cases, 10 deaths so far San Francisco county has 458 cases with 7 deaths and the east bay Alameda County 396 cases with 9 deaths Contra Costa County stands at 276 cases and 3 deaths and in the north bay moraine county is it 118 cases so far and 6 staff Sonoma County reporting 95 cases with one death Solano County has 61 cases with one death and that the county has 20 cases and one death. New reported cases of coronavirus a homeless shelter saw its first case a person was staying at a Navigation Center but has since been moved to isolation. Now a handful of San Francisco supervisors are calling on the mayor to do more to help the citys phone rubble, Homeless Population. Kron fours dan thorn has that story. Weve learned that this person is in Good Condition and they are right now recovering in an isolation room, but the supervisors say that this case could have and should have been prevented. Theyre demanding action and theyre calling out t