Coronavirus measures after being closed for 8 months. And Tropical Storm as it makes landfall in the u. S. State of florida after killing dozens of people in Central America im joining us roscoe with the sports as the last neighborhood of 8 schools in stoppage time to rescue a similar line becoming at least top scorer in the lead. The transition to a biden presidency in the United States is gathering pace with some key decisions expected in the hours ahead the president elect is due to announce a task force to tackle what he says is his top priority the coronavirus pandemic on sunday biden visited a Church Cemetery where family members of buried including his late son meanwhile donald trump spent the day playing golf outside of washington and still refusing to concede defeat his campaign is finding legal challenges in states where hes disputing the counting of votes they does including Israels Benjamin Netanyahu and saudi arabias my. Had been selman have congratulated biden on the form
A political transition and bolivias former leader abel morales heads home from exile in argentina just days after his party swept back to power we will have a live update from one of science. To simply told you sport is less than the brim of age schools in stoppage time as a simulation state some of the telly and league while he goes to the dont call in show. The fight against covert 19 may have taken a significant step forward this monday the u. S. Drugs make a fine vaccine candidate has proved to be more than 90 percent effective bringing some hope in a pandemic thats killed nearly 1300000 people all over the world now pfizer says it is on track to ask for permission to sell the vaccine before the end of the month but u. S. Health regulators have. Theyll need some time to review any potential vaccine the head of the World Health Organizations also been calling for Scientific Solutions and solidarity to end the pandemic that was what proved to be a largely Virtual Meeting of the w h o
A possible breakthrough in the fight against covert 19 u. S. Drug giant pfizer says its vaccine candidate is 90 percent effective. Also in the news there i mean to end a decade of chaos and bloodshed in libya u. N. Backed talks have begun paving the way for a political transition. And uncertainty in peru is the president faces a 2nd impeachment trial in just 2 months coming up a live update from the capital lima. And bumpy december the legal sports news 27 seen masters champion Sergio Garcia withdrawals from this weeks tournament of the testing positive for corona virus. But were starting with breaking news this hour 1 pm in washington d. C. And literally in the last 2 minutes the u. S. President donald trump has fired his secretary of state. In his words. Has been terminated straight to kimberly how could a White House Correspondent cant believe its begun. Yes thats right mark else for is the secretary of defense or at least he was until this announcement by the u. S. President on twi
The state of georgia, we got as many ventilators available today for georgia patients and i hope we dont need them. But sir if i could follow up specifically, what numbers on the Health Department website ill get my press team were glad to share all the numbers and the data that we have available that supports the decision. If dr. Thume wants to, she can come answer that question, as well. Could i ask dr. Thume about the numbers . Thank you. Doctor, thank you. Im cathleen thume commissioner of Public Health. Weve been monitoring these data very closely. We have not only just been tracking cases but also actually doing calculating what i call the birx criteria with respect to dr. Birx who i know very well. And we didnt meet the full gating criteria we met several of them and were approaching a plateauing, which made us feel that it would be safe to movie forward because we had three things in place. We had adequate Hospital Capacity and had really augmented that considerably. We have ad
Gov. Kemp good afternoon, everyone. Let me thank you guys for being here. I certainly want to thank the general who was with us today. Homer bryson. Last to my left. And behind the cameras. We appreciate all that they have been doing with these many press conferences we have had. Before i get started i want to thank the faith leaders across our state and the many georgians that which is a painted in our day of prayer. This went well and certainly appreciate that. In our fight debated against covid19 we let we must continue to pray for health care workforce, our front care frontline workers and Law Enforcement nfl the fellow georgians. Casestoday we had 23,773 2 fatalities and we continue to keep those folks as well as their families and communities in our thoughts and prayers. ,169ave given a total of 127 tests and through the leadership of the Public Health department, the National Guard, our gustaership with au university, walmart, walgreens and others are testing numbers are quickly