Hello. Welcome to the pulse, live from bloombergs European Headquarters in london. I am mark barton. And i am caroline hyde. We begin with our top story. Pfizer said to plan a sweet and a sweet takeover bid for astrazeneca. Westminster is at with more on what we can expect. The countdown continues great the countdown continues. The countdown continues from that conversation we had earlier with a labour mp. Clearly, the ceos are going to face some hostile questions about what their intent is. Why are they doing this . Are they doing it for tax reasons . There is a different tax regime in the u. K. Versus the u. S. Or are they doing it because it makes sense for their investors, their boards him a their shareholders, and they want to grow the company here and create jobs . These are some of the questions that will be posed. The committee starts in about 15, 20 minutes, will go on throughout the afternoon. It is really a question for ian about whether or not he has any allies on the commi
Members of the senate back if washington but so far bipartisan deal on a new Coronavirus Relief bill remains elusive as of friday the extra 600 from the federal government provided to individuals on unemployment expired leaving i direst of circumstances as the economic toll from the pandemic rages on. Despite the urgency, despite the suffering, all signs point to a difficult road ahead as the structure of Unemployment Benefits remains a contentious debate between top democrats, and the trump white house. Garrett, there was some extraordinary journalism this weekend that builds on your reporting building on the human calamity the Food Insecurity, the rent insecurity, this is a human crisis equal to the scale of the Public Health crisis and theyre doing what . Fill in the blank for me. Reporter yeah, look, people are physically, mentally, emotionally exhausted by all of this. Hard to see if capitol hill reflects that same sense of urgency. A sound bite from Chuck Schumer who just walked
Why postal ballots may pose a challenge for this years president ial election. Live from cnn headquarters in atlanta. Welcome to you our viewers here in the United States and around the world, im kim brunhuber. The World Health Organization says more cases of covid19 were documented around the world in the past 24 hours than ever before. Nearly 300,000 people were affected. While the disease has struck more than 17. 6 Million People worldwide since the pandemic began, while the crisis is especially bad here in the United States. According to Johns Hopkins university, the u. S. Has suppressed 400 million cases and 153,000 deaths and its not getting better. The virus is expected to kill another 20,000 americans in the next weeks. Georgia joined at least 30 others in pausing or rolling back the reopening. Florida has had a terrible week in dealing with the coronavirus. The state has now hit four Straight Days of record deaths with 157 fatalities on friday. And its the direct result of the
Into Hunter Bidens tax affairs and ties to china. A new reporting from capital here including democratic congressman Eric Swalwell and yet another hurdle cleared and the trump administrations operation warp speed. This is how close we are. As an fda Panel Endorses the pfizer vaccine, setting it up for final approval, possibly as soon as hours from now. To check out this new video of a vaccine dry run drill, the nation is getting ready. Big pharma has already said the trucks are standing by bearded denver hear, hear looking to ensure smooth delivery from the airports to a distribution facility and to clinicians where it will be given to people who need it most. Four hours from air plates to injections. Each steps includes security protocol including state monitoring to make sure not one dose of vaccine is wasted. There are limited supplies, as you know, four to for example will get 179,400 doses to start. We anticipate receiving these initial doses within the week. We are working to get
Investigation into Hunter Bidens tax affairs and ties to china, the reporting from capitol hill on the spy scandal involving Eric Swalwell and another hurdle in operation or speed. This is how close we are is an fda Panel Endorses the Pfizer Vaccine setting it up for final approval as soon as hours from now. Check this video of the vaccine fry one drill. Big pharma said the trucks are standing by, to a distribution facility where it will be given to the people who need it most. 4 hours to airports to injection including security protocol including monitoring to ensure that one dose of vaccine is wasted. There are limited supplies. Florida will get 179,400 doses to start. We anticipate receiving initial doses within the week. We are working to get as much vaccine to our citizens as possible but florida nor any state will have enough to vaccinate everyone right off the bat. Shannon we will have much more on operation warp speed in a minute but first some news on the hunter biden probe. G