Once the bs fda gives the okay, nearly 6 million doses of modernas vaccine will ship nationwide. This morning, Vice President mike pence becoming the highest profile member so far of our government to get that vaccine publicly. Second lady karen pence and Surgeon General jerome adams joining the Vice President. With help on the way, were still setting new records for daily cases. More than 263,000 new cases were reported thursday alone, a near record high of almost 3,600 american lives lost. It is a dark reminder that even with these vaccines becoming available, people are still losing friends and family to this virus right now. Well start on this friday with that wait for the fda to grant the emergency use authorization for modernas vaccine. When that happens, a massive distribution effort will get under way to roll out some 20 million doses in two weeks. Nbcs tom costello has been following every twist and turn from the beginning, now following the fda approval process for us. Shaqui
A full team of reporters covering this thing from coast to coast. An analysis of what americans can see if they are in the path of totality or not. Our forecaster and weatherman, sam champion here with me for the course of the afternoon. He is with me still, and so are a number of reporters in just a moment. Mr. Brokaw said witnessing it in montana, it was as if he was seeing the birth of time. Sam, is this your first . I saw a partial in 79. In those days, we did the little viewer where you take a white card or two white cards that are in mens shirts or where ever, and you sandwich them. You put the sun to your back and you shine it through the card. And that is a very safe way to view the shape of an eclipse. You see that right there in shadow form. You see white light and dark shadow cross in front of it. If you dont have the glasses, you can do it that way. Many people will say you can see it through the shadow of the trees. You can still see the shadow and the shape of the sun and