University. Just six days ago, the u. S. Crossed 12 million. Thats one million new cases in less than a week. Experts warn data may be spotty due to the thanksgiving holiday. In fact, scientists at the cdc predict the amount of cases in the u. S. Is about eight times higher than what the states are reporting. Experts say roughly 84 of the u. S. Population has not yet been infected and still remain at risk. The race is on to get a vaccine to the public quickly, perhaps as early as the next few weeks, but there have been setbacks. Cornell has the latest. Cornell. The cdc holding a meeting next week to discuss who will get the vaccines first. Meantime, fda approval of one vaccine could happen in weeks. The fda could be authorizing a Coronavirus Vaccine in a few weeks. The federal Drug Administration is holding an emergency use authorization meeting about pfizers vaccine on december 10th. The fdas center for buy logisticsist and research, he says within weeks, possibly days. But the covid
Foreign power. In 24 hours, resignations as anger grows in the streets following the last inin beirut. Thank you for joining us on france 24. First,t, please say we thousand people were detained in belarus, after thousands took to the streets in minsk and other cities after early results showed Alexander Lukashenko posed to win by a landslide. It is said he got 80 of the vote for his sixth term. Ministry saidign there have been numerous indications of election fraud. Oliver cried oliver craig is standing by. What have they been saying . Oliver the main opposition candidate gave a press conference in which her team does not recognize the result. She said they would come forward with proof of exactly how before it was carried out. She invited Alexander Lukashenko for a dialogue for a peaceful transition of power. The longtime president completely ignored those calls. Bioy he was visiting a agricultural holdiding and he wl be speaking with the commonwealth of independent states, states th
Streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live from our exclusive salesforce tow camera. As we look out south on this friday morning. And brace yourselves, it is going to be a hot one. Good morning everyone, it is friday, august 14th. Im michelle griego. And im len kiese. Good morning to you, lets go straight to mary lee with the check of the weather and those extreme heat warnings. Mary, good morning. Good morning to you len and hi shell. Thats right. Were going to see those temperatures soar this afternoon. And in fact, today, the hottest day of the week. And in fact well see some of the hottest temperatures that weve seen so far this summer. So get ready for that. Please try to do what you can to stay safe and cool in this heat. All right, heres a live look with our sutro camera and check out our temperatures this morning. It is already a warm start to our day. 50s and 60s and 70s this morning. 73 in concord right now and 70 in oakland and 74 in livermore and 63 in San Francisco. M
Diego, it will be Online Learning only for the rest of this year. That is shut down. The l. A. Teachers union demanded medicare for all and the defunding of the Police Department as a condition for reopening. What has that got to do with education . Leftist politics rules and the largely minority student body in Southern California will be deprived of a meaningful education. All right. Lets talk about money. Earnings season has begun. Look at delta. Lowest revenue in 30 years, 3 billion forked out for virus expenses, burning through 27 million a day. That shows you how tough it is for airlines these days. The stock down a little premarket. Overall, a tiny bounce back for the overall market. Big tech largely in the red this morning. We do have some decent earnings from some big banks and thats giving the markets a very very modest boost. The dow is looking for a very small gain, maybe up 10 or 12 points. And we have the s p and nasdaq on the downside. Thats premarket. All right. Now loo
And tribal forces in the east of yemen. And at least 4 people have died in the u. K. After 2 storms caused some of the worst flooding in full shields. So the number of people have died after contracting the corona virus has now surpassed 1800 there are new figures just released from Health Officials they are saying that 98 more people have died in just the past 24 hours and china that is mainly in who by province the epicenter of the epidemic with more than 1800. 00 new cases detected there on monday as well and so beijing has taken some drastic steps to contain the virus it has deployed more medics from the military today and for the 1st time in recent history the Ruling Communist Party is considering delaying its annual congress its biggest political meeting that was interesting the World Health Organization says according to new data the chinese coronavirus which is officially if you dont know it is called coded 19 it is actually less deadly if contracted than previous uprights ligh