All, lets start off with one big news, piece of news for the bay area. Three ucsf doctors have been named to president elect bidens Advisory Council for covid pandemic policies. There are hundreds of jobs that the president elect will need to fill, but the Trump Administration said today that they are not ready to acknowledge him as the winner. President elect joe biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris go straight to work with the transition team. They met by videoconference with the transition covid19 advisory board. Focusing on a key campaign promise. I will spare no effort to turn this pandemic around once we are sworn in on january 20. Reporter the bay area doctors from ucsf are part of the board. Dr. David kessler, an epidemiologist and former fda commissioner is one of the cochairs. Dr. Robert you guess, are also board members. Typically, they were closely with Outgoing Administration according to eric schindler, codirector of uc berkeleys institute of governmental studies
All three of them have impeccable credentials. I think we can learn a lot about what Advisory Board can do effectively from what drums Advisory Board didnt do. Reporter to start, we can expect the Incoming Biden Administration to emphasize a mask wearing and other Public Health measures. The goal of mask wearing is not to make your life less comfortable. Or to take away from you. It is to give Something Back to all of us. A normal life. The goal is to get back to normal. As fast as possible. Reporter other measures the president elect promised in his campaign. And asked the pandemic dashboard to keep track of the infections and beds. Increasing the production of tests. Hiring of tens of thousands of Public Health workers to step up Contact Tracing efforts. Health experts said Advisory Board will guide the direction of those efforts. It is a good crosssection. These are big complex questions they will have to have strategies to move on. Reporter over the next several weeks the board or
Supreme Court Declines a republican bid to limit the count of mail in ballots in the state of pennsylvania. Precision parking nasa scientists hope to land on an asteroid millions of kilometers from home. So nigerian Authorities Say nearly 2000 inmates have escaped out the crowds attacked 2 prisons in the countrys latest on rest thousands of nigerians are defying a curfew in lagos state to continue protests against Police Brutality and in ekiti state businesses have been forced to shut off the protests turned violent there the speaker of the house of parliament is refusing to approve the budget without compensation for victims of Police Brutality. I will not sign off. On it trying to change one budget. Dollars does not include us to compensate those who are sort of our lives im fatality on the hands of police in major the last decade. So how did we get to this point well thousands of nigerians took to the streets earlier this month to protest against and then lead to police unit thats b
Justice department as it begins a lawsuit against google. Election is complete. And searching for the secrets of life and nasa Spacecraft Lands on an asteroid. Thank you very much for joining us we begin with the growing tensions in nigeria where there are reports that Security Forces have shot dead protesters Amnesty International says it happened as they tried to disperse demonstrators in lagos is one of several cities where a care few is in place after days of demonstrations against Police Brutality turned violent reports. It began as peaceful protests to demand an end to Police Brutality. And for 2 weeks the government struggled to feel to calm protesters. Their demands among others include far reaching reforms of the police and the prosecution of officers accused of extrajudicial killings torture and disappearances nokia is going through things we have been protest in we have not had any reasonable results which is what we want out. But you know. What i know im really listening to
Says that the situation is extremely urgent that the next few weeks in france will be very very tense indeed hopes for a vaccine are growing the British Health secretary says the government is preparing for a mass rollout in the 1st half of next year and the balkan has more on that from. Shred of optimism here from the u. K. Of course the oxford team in partnership with the pharmaceutical giant astra zeneca plowing ahead with trials at the moment im called to the Health Secretary hes been speaking this morning has been talking about very optimistically about the hope of rolling out a mass vaccine for general consumption general use in the 1st half of next year asked whether or not the vaccine may be available to some before the end of the year he said well who isnt ruling it out but it is the governments central position that they believe that the vaccine will be available a vaccine may be available at the start of the year Libyas National Oil Corporation says it has reopened its last