Senate but expect that to happen. Yesterday on the midday news, we were able to say that biden had confirmed that yellen was, indeed, his pick for treasury secretary. Wall street has suspected that for more than a week. She is one of the reasons the stock market has been doing so well. But this morning, as you saw on nbc bay area in that special report a short time ago the president elect made all of this official. The team im announcing today will play a Critical Role in shaping our plan for action starting on day one and move fast to revive this economy. They are going to help me help us, help the country lay out my build back better plan. Its my great honor to have this opportunity to serve you and the american people. And to join this incredible Economic Team at this moment of great challenge for our country. Reporter president elect biden has named neera tanden as the director of office of management and budget. Now, this nomination probably will not get through the republican dom
Agenda, the nomination of judy shelton to serve on the Federal Reserve board of governors. Watch the house of representatives live on cspan and the senate, live on cspan two. We are just standing by. This is a view outside the Neil Armstrong operations and checkout building. Inside is the historic astronaut crew quarters and sit up room. Quarters. Theres look at the doors that the crew will be walking out of any moment now. There is a view of the door the crew will be stepping out of any moment. And you see the sticker on the door. You can see along the door frame, even more stickers, i believe theres one sticker from every mission but i did notice that there was just enough room to put the crew 1 sticker up. Here they come. The crew 1 astronauts now beginning their journey to the launch pad ahead of this Historic Mission to the International Space station. Outside the bil building, we hae friends and Family Gathering there with prior to liftoff. Thats a different thing to the shuttle
House. On saturday, cbs news projected him the winner after a solid lead in pennsylvania giving him more than 270 electoral votes. Hours later, he spoke in delaware with Vice President elect. President trump is not conceding. He continues to questioning the results based on unfounded claims of voter fraud. Will President Trumps legal challenges affect the decision. There are the legal challenges and then there are conceding. Some say without the president conceding, they cant officially name joe biden and Kamala Harris the official candidates. Without that, there could be a delay in that transition. Without that, joe biden is wasting any time preparing for the white house. Our work begins with getting covid under control. Today he introduces his task force. That plan will be built on bedrock science and constructed out of compassion, empathy and concern. Former commissioner and former fda commissioner will lead the group. Joe biden will make good on his promises. Cbs has learned joe bi
Will have to endure a dark winter. Im aaron tilton thanks for joining us we start with the most promising developments yet in efforts to stop the coronavirus pandemic German Company beyond tech and u. S. Drug maker pfizer have announced they are experimental vaccine is more than 90 percent effective in Clinical Trials the vaccine expected is expected rather to be submitted to u. S. Authorities for emergency approval this month if its given the green light it could be rolled out in limited quantities by the end of this year. The hope for an effective vaccine against the corona virus could be growing German Company by on taxes test results are more promising than expected. Yes our results are showing that after an interim evaluation the vaccine is able to prevent infections with over 90 percent probability. So. This is how the socalled m r n a vaccine works Genetic Information from the corona virus is brought into the human body via a messenger molecule the body then uses it to produce v
The International Space station for about six months. Nasa tv coverage. Headset are six key positions were monitoring the health of the vehicle and crew. The mission director, responsible for success, is in charge of the room. The person you here talking is the crew operations and resources engineer. Open. Con 19, this is the other positions are focused on things like navigation and control of the propulsion,tware, lifesupport systems and communications with ground segments. Nasa has its own team members in Mission Control, houston, where they have been preparing for crew dragon crew dragon arrival. For now, lets go to john for an Operational Update on the launch countdown. Hello from spacex headquarters in hawthorne, california. On the falcon principal integration engineer. We are just over four hours to launch it its a major event, getting to this point. The falcon nine for the dragon capsule on top and it has remained vertical on path 309a falcon static fired the nine we used the sa