When you can soon line up with one. We begin with mike tobin at pfizers factory up in michigan. Reporter we saw that historic first shipment leave here yesterday carrying doses of the vaccine. The followup today is more trucks, more boxes nilled with vaccine leaving the pfizer plant in michigan. Yesterday, 189 boxes left here. That works out to little more than 920,000 shots in the arm. Today, 400 boxes or 1. 9 million doses of vaccine ship from here. Within hours of the first shipment leaving here, ups landed its first plane with 38,000 doses of vaccine at its World Distribution facility in louisville, kentucky, where the doses are sorted. Planes and trucks take it from there. It is humbling, you know, being part of this vaccine process. Its going to take a lot of lives. Reporter three kentucky hospitals got 975 doses of vaccine each as the priority has been to get the vaccine to Health Care Workers. Dr. Jason smith got the First Vaccination in kentucky. The vaccine is going to 636 di
20 leaders commit to fair access for coronavirus facts. And the polls close in became a fast in an election, overshadowed by violence, and staying by claims of fraud. And in school theres an old familiar name of the top of the Italian League table to swallow. It moved into 1st place after its true. Know when its true and welcome to news hour. Ill talk story in a dramatic escalation, ethiopias Prime Minister has issued a 72 hour ultimatum to forces in the dissident region of to gripe. A ahmed says the Peoples Liberation front has 3 days to surrender, or brace for an all out assault on the regional capital mccalla a. The Reuters News Agency has been reporting that to grind forces have destroyed roads and bridges. Just slow down the government offensive. The oaths, Ethiopian Military plans to surround the city with tanks and artillery in an effort to end the nearly 3 week war, according to, a military spokesman. And in an address on state, t. V. , residents were told to save themselves an
Live now to discussion with main senator angus king who joins Healthcare Providers and Bipartisan Policy Center experts on the use of telehealth during the covid pandemic. Health team led by, Catherine Hayes and others. For those of you who may be unfamiliar with the Bipartisan Policy Center we were established a a little over a decade ago by four former majority leaders, senator bob dole, late senator howard baker on the republican side. Senator tom daschle and senator George Mitchell on the democratic side. Senator mitchell from the great state of maine which youll hear shortly his estate, very well represented here this morning. The country is indeed, indeed the world quite frankly is experiencing a once in a lifetime pandemic caused untold suffering and death. Doctors, nurses, hospitals, Healthcare Providers are struggling to provide Critical Care under some very difficult conditions. But if there is any good, and theres that much, but if theres any good to come out of this virus,
Hunter biden emails. Democrats are outraged saying this is a partisan hit job. Joe biden for the first time breaks his silence. Speaking out, calling this a desperate sneer. That is not the full story. The fbi agree. This is not russian disinformation. The laptop is allegedly loaded with emails showing the biden family leveraging its greatest asset as it has for years. Selling access to joe biden of washington and around the world. Why critics say this is a National Security problem and why the media narratives are demonstrably wrong and why the claim that joe bidens tax returns dont show any of this wrongdoing, well, they are likely wrong, too, those claims as well. More details from a batch of emails separate from this laptop and why this story keeps getting bigger and bigger as a countrys most powerful people in tech and media wont talk about it. To the president strategy. Will he go after the bidens influence peddling, talk and not interrupt so voters can hear about bidens plans li
A half 1000 even germany the country still seen as exemplary for controlling the spread of the virus in a shop jump cases the u. S. Has tightened sanctions on irans Financial Sector measures against 18 banks that were already under american sanctions have now been ramped up and the fact of theyve been cut off from the International Financial system over most of the children in washington this is hurting the iranian people certainly we have seen that criticism coming not just from e. U. Nations but also from a wide range of humanitarian organizations around the world now the Treasury Department when in announced this latest round of sanctions against these 18 iranian banks said that these banks would still have exemptions so that they could bring in funds to facilitate the purchase of emergency food and medicine. Russia has invited the Foreign Ministers of armenia and azerbaijan to moscow for talks as they try to end an increasingly violent conflict also mediators from the u. S. Russia