Top of the hour, good morning, everyone. Im poppy harlow. Im jim sciutto. Two of the nations top medicalec perts will testify in just a matter of minutes. Thats a live picture from the hill. The director of the National Institutes of health and the Surgeon General will address the role vaccines play in preventing Infectious Disease outbreaks and protecting Public Health, but this morning there is a new obstacle in the race for a vaccine. Drug giant astrazeneca is completely pausing its global trials of their Covid Vaccine after one of their volunteers became unexpectedly sick. This halt, they say is normal. Its a normal precaution as the company gathers more data to find out what it was that made this person sick. The National Institutes of health made their plea for more testing. Their message, test, quote, as many people as possible. Lets begin with our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. Well get to the news which is really significant in a moment, but just explain why ast
Donald trump continues to claim the us election was stolen from him and refuses to concede despite a lack of evidence. Now hes sacked his defence secretary, mark esper. And, understanding the history of Human Evolution. We find out what a team of researchers have learned after digging up a 2 million year old skull. Leading scientists are cautiously welcoming news of a new vaccine against coronavirus thats proved more than 90 effective in early results. The vaccine, developed by pharma giant pfizer and its partner biontech, has been tested on nearly a4,000 people in six countries, with no safety concerns being raised so far. Some experts though point out that the announcement was made on the basis of very early analysis, with the vaccine not yet formally approved. Our medical editor fergus walsh reports. This is a huge day for science, and perhaps the world. For the first time, a covid 19 vaccine has been shown to protect against the disease. Plenty of caution is needed, but the prelimi
And down significantly from october. This is the fifth straight month of decelerating jobs gains and two of the past three weekly jobless claims reports showed increases. Now, Congress Continues to not be able to agree on another round of relief funds, although a 908 billion package put forth by a Bipartisan Group of house and Senate Centrists seem to have at least broken the stalemate. Yesterday, president elect biden summed up the situation like this. This is a dire jobs report. This is a snapshot, i might remind you, up to mid november. Before the surge in covid cases we predicted, many predicted and the deaths rise that weve seen in december as we head into a very dark winter ahead. Were indeed heading toward a very dark winter, right now, the United States is setting records for covid19 case, hospitalizations, and deaths. On a near daily basis and we arent even at the expected postthanksgiving surge, which is anticipated to begin this weekend. As we hit the 10day mark for millions
Change the outcome of the election. This shows that they still fear trumps tweet. They still fear republican primary challenges. This is really setting on fire american institutions. Its going to end with a vote in the senate and a vote in the house against what theyre trying to do and well all move on with our lives and joe biden will get inaugurated on january 20th. Final push, joe biden, Kamala Harris, and President Donald Trump converging on georgia ahead of tuesdays highstakes runoffs, when voters determine the balance of power in the u. S. Senate. And potential drama on the house floor today, as nancy pelosi faces tight margins for a fourth run at speaker. Plus, new york now the fourth state to record 1 million covid19 cases, as the u. S. Reports more than 350,000 covidrelated deaths. With that, we say good morning to you, its sunday, january 3rd. Im cory coffin. And im joe fryer. We have a team of analysts and reporters following the very latest for you right now. We begin in wa
Incompetence release them early without any kind of records. There was a big for of a better word freak out in the american media. These guys are deftly coming here and coming to the United States. Theyre going to wreak havoc and as a result Border Patrol and these people were eventually apprehended or they faded away and Nothing Happened but the point is because American Immigration enforcement because our immigration laws are so focused on keeping people out for economic reasons or for any other types of reasons a small amount of what they are pulled to do focus on legitimate threats. Instead they are more concerned with asking how will an additional worker affect the wages for american tomato pickers . Theyre more concerned with how one additional worker will affect the labor Market Conditions or computer programmers in silicon valley. They are more concerned with where a highskilled immigrants will take a Conference Call with her is at his home or whether that home is listed as a p