The fda, it will be the most reliable way to beat the virus. Certainly, the vaccine representing both our hopes and our fears and abc 7 News Reporter kris reyes spoke with a doctor about the worries that keep him up at night and kris, im really interested to hear what he had to say. He had a lot to say. The doctor is very confident about the vaccine calling it a bright light in this long, dark tunnel that weve been traveling through but he says distribution is far from a trivial matter and we need to prepare for dealing with plenty of complications. Neither the cdc nor the state of california are likely to get more granular than to say Health Care Workers and people over 65 in Long Term Care facilities are the first two groups. Reporter the question then becomes which Health Care Worker goes first . Take ucsf that is unlikely to get enough vaccines in the first shipment to cover the 30,000 staff. The complicated task deciding which employee gets the vaccine first and then falls on the
Couple . Who will get custody . New details this morning. Go big meet the whiz kids getting a big buzz at the spelling bee. Scate, inviscate. That is correct. The first grader making history and the competitor overcoming great odds. Which little one is about to take home the biggest prize of all . Go big or go home we do say good morning, america. What about that adorable 6yearold stealing the show and our hearts there at the spelling bee . Oh, walking up to the mike thats a little too tall for him. What he said too. He was great. I know what that feels like but 6 years old. 6. We have two big headlines in the race for the white house today as well. Hillary clinton is drawing some stark criticism to her own state department over those emails and donald trump with a debate challenge on Jimmy Kimmel Live and a big protest on wednesday. Well have more in a moment. A deadly shooting at a concert here in new york city. At least one person killed. Three injured. Abcs diane macedo is outside
Thankfully, and not surprisingly, they have been mostly peaceful. Curfews started here in new york an hour ago. That has not stopped the demonstrations, as you can see. Practically no big citys curfew has. In washington, many thousands of people spent the day marching down the newly renamed black lives matter plaza, one of the streets that leads to the white house. At times the protest was very lively. Parts of the crowd were even dancing. Meanwhile, in north carolina, they danced with the holy ghost at a Church Service for mr. Floyd. The memorial was in his hometown of raeford, north carolina. That was preceded by a public viewing. More Police Officers are coming under scrutiny for their actions during protests. In buffalo, new york, an elderly man remains in the hospital tonight after this happened. When he was pushed to the ground. Two officers are suspended as they face assault charges. Today President Trump repeated what has become a common refrain this week tweeting simply, quote
Ground. Two officers are suspended as they face assault charges. Today President Trump repeated what has become a common refrain this week tweeting simply, quote, law and order, unquote. We begin in washington. And thats where we find nbcs Garrett Haake joining us live. How is the protest going tonight . Joshua, this is a different story. Could be a different planet from a week ago. The protests here today could only barely be described as protests. Its lively. It is jubilant. Its essentially a block Party Atmosphere out here. And i have to tell you, to the degree this remains a protest focused thing, weve really seen a shift from anger and frustration and exhaustion and frankly sadness the first couple of days to, what we are going to do about this . Todays protest has had a distinctly antitrump tone. A distinct focus on voting and on voting him out of his residence behind me, and building on symbol ic successes like the painting of black lives matter on this street and the renaming o
Night into tuesday. A wall of water rising with frightening speed leaving thousands traveling in their vehicles racing to escape. Turn around dont drown. Reporter rows of vehicles left abandoned on a houston highway. Some cars almost completely sub murj merged under water. Emergency crews scrambling to pull feem from the flood waters. But for some it was too late. One woman says she witnessed the discovery of a body in a flooded truck. It was a woman. And it was dead by the time we got there. Thousands of people are now without power. The water, the force of the water is just moving on the power system on the grid. The flash floods rushing through thousands of homes. Houstons mayor says at least 4,000 residents may have suffered significant damage. We first were on the couches, then on the table, then on the counters. Reporter one houston resident, her family narrowly escaping the flood, shows me the devastation the rapidly rising tide left behind. The water got right up to this lip on