And also Johnson Johnson, just releasing the results from its phase three trials. Saying in its announcement it is 66 Efficacy Rate overall. 85 against severe disease. Still notably lessective than the vaccines from pfizer and moderna. What does the biden team say about that . The White House Press secretary just said this morning that President Biden is encouraged by the data coming out from j j but also said that the politicians will leave it to the scientists who we should hear from any moment. While were standing by. Lets bring in Elizabeth Cohen following the latest developments. So on this announcement from Johnson Johnson, what are they saying . Basically the bottom line here, kate, is that this vaccine does work well against covid 19, this j j vaccine. Im going to jump in. Andy slavic, one of the members of the Covid Response team is beginning the briefing now. On both the successes and the hurdles we face. I hope on these calls, that the public will get a regular and consisten
10ly plans on spending billion euros a month. Biden uses his first call with Boris Johnson to reaffirm his support for the good friday agreements. A lot to talk about this morning. Under one hour until the start of the European Equity trading session, futures look flat. Ftse futures, dax futures, a bit of a mix. Yesterday europe was up strongly 1. 5 or more on the major markets by the close. We come into today with a continuation of themes of the previous day, selling out on tech, getting back to value. Lets get to u. S. Futures, looking more buoyant and having to do with what we did not see in the u. S. Session yesterday. Things are not as strong across the board. Nasdaq down by 0. 3 . U. S. Futures looking have we seen that rotation playing out in terms of the tech versus value story . It is in play in asia. It is inch deceit a japanese equity market doing well. See the interesting to japanese equity market doing well. Part of this has to do with what is going on in tech, a crackdown
A live look there. We will take you there live just as soon as it starts. Right now though, the word of the moment is vaccine. Im at a Football Stadium thats part of the Charleston County School District. Its the second largest in this state. They are ready to give their teachers the vaccine just as soon as the state gives the green light. Already some people in the state getting their vaccines at drivethru sites which presents its own set of challenges. We will talk about that and learn about an ingenious solution from Mount Pleasants mayor. It includes an unlikely ally, chickfila. More on that in a moment. We will start in Charleston County. The School District is ready to roll out vaccines to its teachers. First, they need the green light from the state. I want to bring in jeff buroey. He is the Chief Operating Officer in the School District. 50,000 students. Jeff, first of all, i will put my mask on. We might be within the six feet here. Lets just start with the teachers. Again, So
Slow you down a little bit as youre getting out there and then the senate to certainly the case this morning roadways are definitely wet. So you want to give yourselves that extra time as you venture outside overall just be prepared for the rainfall that. Yeah were going to continue to see out there today were doing across the bay from sausalito at San Francisco, a misty look to it morning that you do want to be prepared for just to stay dry. So right now the core of this Atmospheric River event still sits mostly to the south across the bay, the trajectory of it has shifted a little bit. It was pretty much coming into the Central Coast from the west earlier now its hitting the coast of the state from the south and west and in the process we have actually seen a resurgence of moisture in areas like san jose as well as other areas further south in the bay, we zoom in on some of the spots this morning you can see those areas of yellow orange and even red thats the deeper and heavier rainf
Yeah theres no theres no question about it ive been covering u. S. Politics for 22 years ive never had to cover anything like this and you know but you know the world hasnt dealt with a pandemic at this scale in those 22 years either so were really in New Territory in terms of trying to figure out what happens next im scratching my head im not exactly sure because the official white house guidance that came out just before the president indicated that his assistant had tested positive still had the president traveling to florida still had him holding rallies there was really no sort of adjustment for the possibility the president would be quarantining for 14 days as he had indicated he would be and this is even before we knew that he had tested positive so the white house needs to update all of that now in terms of how the president contracted that we cope with done team we assume it is from hope picked the question becomes. How did she get it and the president discussed this when he c