Emergency use authorization next week. But there is a caveat, the efficacy of the j js vaccine dropped 57 from the highly contagious variant from south africa. Despite the travel van to stop that variant from coming over here, the new variant is already here. Two cases identified this week in South Carolina with two patients with no ties to each other and no travel history given that, signals community spread. During todays White House Briefing dr. Anthony fauci stressed the importance of vaccinating as many people as possible, as quickly as possible, before those mutant strains get out of control. Whether or not thats going to ultimately take over in the sense of being dominant is unclear by now. The projection that is made with regard to the uk is that probably by the end of march, the beginning of april, it actually will become more dominant in this country. The fundamental principle of getting people vaccinated as quickly and as efficiently as you possible can will always be the be
Joining us to start this off, monica alba, across the street from the white house, and nbc news correspondent Garrett Haake on capitol hill. Lets begin with you. Amid the new controversies and calls for Resignations Swirling around Marjorie Taylor greene, weve just learned that missouri Congresswoman Corey Bush moved her office after she said greene berated her and her staff in a hallway. How long can leaders ignore these issues being brought up by Marjorie Taylor greem . Yeah. A pretty disturbing report there. Marjorie Taylor Greene has responded with a video that she claims is of the incident. A selfie style video in which she can be heard yelling back and forthwith someone who we dont see on camera. So its not entirely clear whats going on here. The lack of response from Republican Leadership is the thing to watch. The resolutions about censure or expulsion. Other things that have been raised in discussions of miss greene are not going to go anywhere unless Republican Leadership dec
Flag warning in effect until 11 00 a. M. Friday for the areas highlighted in red, the north bay mountains, east bay mountains, inland valleys and Santa Cruz Mountains all under that red flag warning. Gusts as high as 55 as we head through the next few days. Also, low relative humidity values. Critical fire weather conditions watching this closely for you. Talking about the high temperatures. We are talking about 83 for a high. 87 oakland. 92 in san jose. 95 for concord. 13 to 17 degrees above average for this time of year. It gets hotter as we look to the rest of the week. We will show you future cast and when we will see the peak winds with this off shore wind event coming up lets check in with traffic. Traffic is starting to stack up. They just turned the metering light its on. Its slow from the 880 overpass. It stays sluggish. Give yourself some time to go over. The east shore commute getting busy. We have first arts of an accident right at san p ablo. Vehicle and a pickup truck tan
Police brutality and racial injustice. The discussion focused on how newsrooms are changing how they approachstory coverage. Welcome. So happy to know that youre with us. Im the executive director of the National Association of Journalism Institutes and we are really happy to be hosting this event on newsroom protests and it has anything really changed. Thank you to the National Press club members for planning this program in partnership with us and the communicatorscommittee. Its going to be an interesting and informative conversation. First among our wonderful panelists and then we hope youll join in by sharing your questions using the monday. So im going to turn this over to our moderator ina moment , Michael Carter who is usa today managing editor, ethics but first i want to say again welcome and thank you to our panel and amanda barrett, fda managing editor of theassociated press. Sanchez, editor and Senior Vice President at the Minneapolis Church news and dorothy packer, Investig
The National Press Club Journalism institute, and were very happen happy to be hosting this program on newsrooms after thews summer of protests, has anything really changed. Thank you to National Press club members for pairing this program rtin partnership with us and wih e e communicators committee. Its going to be an interesting and informative conversation first among our wonderful panelists, and then we hope youll join in using the q a. So im going to turn this over to our moderator, michael mccarter, who is usa today managing editor of standards, ethics and inclusion. But first, i want to say begun aglcome and thank you to our panel amanda barrett, Deputy Managing Editor of the associated press, Renee Sanchez, editor and Senior Vice President at the minneapolis star tribune, and Dorothy Tucker, Investigative Reporter in my hometown of chicago and president of the National Association of black journalists. Thank you all for being here. And michael, over to you. Thank you for having