Hello, everyone. Thanks for joining us. In the race for a covert vaccine, the European Union does not appear to be first in line in the race for a covid vaccine. It may need another month to decide on granting approval for a shot. Meantime, the United States and britain are aiming to get the green light to a vaccine before christmas. The eu is not far behind with a meeting scheduled for december 20 92 consider approval for the shot developed by pfizer. Our correspondent dave keating has more on how the process will play out. It certainly is not the normal process. These processes could normally take years, but, obviously, exceptional circumstances call or exceptional measures. All along, we have known that the eus regulatory bodies, just like those of the u. S. , u. K. , and other countries, would perform a special authorization process for these vaccines. Basically, the regulator would approve the vaccine, but the maker of the vaccine would continue conducting tests to make sure they
Challenges. Food, water, shelter, refugees flee. To surround the rebel held capital of northern stans, opposition puts up on our show in the streets of push all in on to resign. We begin in the united states, where the head of the Vaccine Program says the 1st americans could be receiving it. As soon as december, the 11th says the plan is to vaccinate 20000000. 00 people before the end of the year. 2 vaccines are up for approval in early december. Shows them to be 95 percent effective. Our plan is to be able to ship vaccines to the immunization sites within 24 hours from the approval. So i would expect maybe on day 2, after approval on the 11th or on the 12th of december, hopefully the 1st people will be immunized across the united states. Across all states, in all the areas where this, the state department of health will have to told us where to deliver the vaccine is in washington d. C. It sounds like this could be a major turning point in the global fight against crime, the virus exa
Die. Lets do everything we can this winter, this Holiday Season to prevent this scenario. Today the state test San Francisco in the red tier of the reopening blueprint. We remain one tier down from the most restricted tier purple, which triggers roll back of additional activity and abiding by the state and requires abiding by the state limited stayathome order. As this slide shows, we are fast approaching the case count to be reassigned to the purple tier. Tier reassignments may occur more than once a week when the department of Public Health, California Department of Public Health determines immediate action is needed. We expect to be placed in that purple tier sometime soon, perhaps later this week. Now, i want to focus on testing. As we prepared for the ongoing surge. We have taken action to try to slow the spread of the virus. But we need everyone in San Francisco to recommit to protecting themselves, loved ones and our community. Part of that is our collective use of city resource
Have held a Memorial Ceremony for the victims. Germanys Health Minister says the Health Care System could be overwhelmed if the covert caseload is not brought under control and was speaking as germany top 20000 new infections for the 1st time the virus is hitting many european states even harder now than when it was 1st arriving here. A new somber record for germany the highest number of 1000 cases ever registered in the country germany is in its 1st week of a new partial lockdown restaurants bars and leisure activities are shut down travel for tourism is strongly discouraged while shops and schools are allowed to stay open. Germanys Health Minister yes spahn said the countrys Health Care System is not currently overwhelmed but hard times are ahead if the rise in cases isnt stopped. The situation is serious the number of people requiring support in intensive care units has doubled in the past 10 days from as of today our Health System is still coping but even the best system in the wor
Day and as you can see here let me fill you in quickly where are in right in front of the Pennsylvania Convention center here in philadelphia and trucks are common in our people are filling in the 3 in the same as we had yesterday here there will be music playing this is the count all votes crowd here on the other side through new not to see because youre right theres the banner right and wrong of it is is police and its the center and they will be probably we expect them to show up at some point some supporters showing up and then a shouting match will ensure hopefully thats all which will ensue as we saw yesterday 7 everybody is hopelessly looking for clues to figure out where this election is going to go as far as you know our election workers currently counting those from counties that favor either candidate. Yes so candy surrounding counties and districts of philadelphia for example bucks county Allegheny County and other counties in pennsylvania they stopped counting for the nigh