The drive to get more laptops to children to help them with Home Schooling. And how all these lockdown video calls from home have prompted an unexpected boost in business for books. And coming up on bbc news. West bromwich albion Contact Police over alleged online racist abuse of romaine sawyers. Hes the Third Premier League player to receive abuse this week. Good evening. Yet another new vaccine has been shown to be effective in major trials in just 2a hours. The latest is the janssen vaccine. Its 66 effective overall and only needs a single dose. And crucially its 85 effective against severe disease. Last night novavax announced uk trials had shown its vaccine to be 89 effective. And crucially that vaccine protects against the new more contagious uk variant. If approved the uk has millions of doses of both vaccines on order though they wouldnt be available until later in the year. Our medical editor fergus walsh reports. Covid Vaccine Trials keep delivering results beyond all expecta
From the stronger gusts. Mount st. Helena, a wind win was out in the north bay hills. Mount diablo 57, and 53, and healdsburg hills 52. Even a wind of 20 Miles Per Hour could cause problems. That was the case in terms of the wind speeds. Oakland hills 38 high fire dang continues, that northerly flow ramping up. This continues, all of the areas in red, north bay towards the delta and east bay valleys and hills. This in plays until 11 00 tomorrow morning. 23 more hours, gusts could be approaching 30 Miles Per Hour and across the higher peaks, maybe approaching 45 Miles Per Hour, once again, the strongest wind event was last night, early this morning. Its incredibly dry out there. Take a look at the sampled sites. Temperatures are in the 70s and 80s. Relative humidity. We look at that to guffaws idea how much moisture is in the air. Look at atlas peak, down from 12 tomount st. Helena, and mount st. The winds have backed up and theyre completely calm especially in the higher terrain. Heres
Created by americas Cable Television comedies as Public Service and brought to today by your Television Provider. This week on the communicators of democratic member of the federal trade commission, rebecca slaughter. Our guest reporter is leah nylund who covers technology and antitrust for politico. Commissioner slaughter, what has this pandemic fed like for you when it comes to your work at the ftc . Guest thank you so much for thinking for having me. It is a pleasure to be here today. Well, as you can see from my special guest here what this pandemic has involved for me in part has given me a brandnew baby and juggling those response abilities which is not a common occurrence for commissioners pandemic or no pandemic. Ive been muddling through that and then in terms of the work of the agency it has been a really important and really fascinating time. We switch to all telework pretty quickly and i will say it relatively seamlessly in march, which i was very impressed by but even thou
Under water after some of the heaviest monsoon rains in decades but a 1000000 people are seeking Higher Ground with river set to rise further. President donald trump strips hong kong of the special trading status hardening the u. S. Stance on china for its clampdown on human rights that. An exhibition tennis tournament here opens its doors to spectators for the Laboratory Safety protections the 1st major sporting event in germany to welcome back fans. Welcome to the program the Irish Government and apple have won their appeal against a 2060 e. U. Decision that sat. To pay the Irish Government certain buildings heroes and back taxes money that island didnt even walled so i took the case to europes 2nd highest cost of a long denied that its tax origins with apple amounted to illegal state aid the European Commission is expected to appeal the ruling to the European Court of justice and. Earlier this year then irish Prime Minister lavrov Current Apple chief executive tim cook had an annive
America as a gift by france madam liberty it is you know the United States was founded on the principles of the and white men happened in france and in scotland but i thought this image of. Lady liberty of the statue of liberty in this headline that i want to turn to from the daily mail says new york has been lost to thaw and low life scum after looters ransacked 5th avenue and curfew is brought forward from 11 pm to 8 pm until end of week but cuomo into glasgow still refused to call in the National Guard and as you can see there some looters on the front page and weve talked about the looters at the top from the very beginning the trillions and trillions of dollars being printed in the cant tell you in a fact but heres lady liberty right there on the ground trinket probably made in china sold in times square and just as quite a fitting image for the rest of the stories we have to cover max oh absolutely the poem resonates with a double entendre with deep meaning or with echoes of the