Good morning to you. Thanks for joining us for our midday newscast. Im marcus washington. We brought you the news of pfizers vaccine as it was breaking today in the bay. We have team coverage. Scott mcgrew is telling us wall street is celebrating that news and so is the president. First lets start with cierra johnson. She is live for us the ucsf and president elect biden found new members of his task force and you have information about the new vaccine as well . Reporter yes. A lot to cover. Days after president elect joe biden already moving forward with some of his paths he would knock out while he was campaigning. He is assembling a Pandemic Task force. This morning, biden laid out his covid plan announcing an Advisory Board would help him moving forward with treatment and new vaccines. An announcement from pfizer there were promising results in the covid19 vaccine and that is what we are going to start. Pfizer has been working on a vaccine that early results revealed it could be a
Coronavirus Advisory Board and called on all americans to wear masks. From wilmington, delaware, this is about 15 minutes. So that we can reopen our businesses safely and lives,ably, resume our put this pandemic behind us. We just received positive news in this fight with an announcement that there has been progress made toward a successful vaccine. Soon, the expectation is the fda rigorousa process of reviews. In process must be grounded science and transparent so the American People can have every confidence any approved vaccine is safe and effective. At the same time, it is clear that this vaccine, even if approved, will not be widely available for many months to come. The challenge before us right now is still in mens and growing. Although we are not in office, i am laying out what we expect to do and hope can be done, some of it, between now and the time we are sworn in. The purpose of this is to let you know what we are going to do once sworn in. There is a need for bold action t
A vaccine as soon as possible i was there no effort to turn this pandemic around once were sworn in january 20th to get our kids back to School Safely our business is growing and our economy running full speed again and again to prove that c manufactured and distributed as quickly as possible to as Many Americans to as Many Americans as possible free of charge will follow the science head of the World Health Organization cautioned against seeing it as a Silver Bullet advice and is needed urgently to control the pandemic but as you know it will not fix the vulnerabilities at its roots advice seem proud of not address the Global Investment in the central park you can find shoes and brazilian tele systems. U. S. President has fired his defense secretary donald trump said marcus would be replaced by the head of the countrys Counterterrorism Center but Christopher Millers only set to be in place for just over 70 days before joe biden is inaugurated as commander in chief will be trumps 5th s
A vaccine for corona virus could be administered around the world early next year the American Company pfizer says its drug developed with a german firm biotech is more than 90 percent effective in late stage trials 50000000. 00 doses are set to be available by the end of this year well more than a 1000000000 could be administered next year several governments along with the World Health Organization have welcomed the news but caution that it may alter the progress but not necessarily stop of a pandemic us president elect joe biden has hosted an initial meeting of his Coronavirus Task force proceed to roll out a vaccine as soon as possible i was there no effort to turn loose pay demichelis once was sworn in january 20. Together kids ride to School Safely our business is growing and our economy running full speed again we begin to approve the manufactured and distributed as quickly as possible to as Many Americans to as Many Americans as possible free of charge will follow the science u
How he plans to wipe out the disease. Still, no concession from President Trump who has been flooding facebook and twitter with unfounded messages that the election was stolen. Expecteddministration not to play so nice with big tex. Expect more public engagement, public oversight, and regulation. Those stories in a moment. Paring gains. Ocks markets widely mixed at the end of the day on a bit of an ugly close despite intraday record highs. What are we seeing here . Abigail if you had a dollar for every time i said this, you would have a nice pile of money. It was another wild day. Stocks surging out of the open. The dow up nearly 6 . Russell 2000 hitting its first record high, more than 6 . At the close, we had stocks pullback to some degree. Up. Dow closing where we had losses, the nasdaq 100 down 2. 2 . The faang complex, those make a cap stocks, down 3. 2 . The reopening trade clearly doing very well with pfizer which itself was up about 8 on that vaccine. Certainly a light at the e