To unmute your microphones anytime you speak. If at any time during hearing im unable to chair the hearing the human chairman colon or vice chairman of the committee congressman kennedy will serve as chair until im able to return. Documents for the record can be sent to Benjamin Tabor at the email address weve provided. All documents will be entered ininto the record with the inclusion of the hearing. The chair will not recognize herself for an Opening Statement. Today the energy and Commerce Committee continues itser oversight of the nations covid19 Pandemic Responsee examining a safe and effective covid19 vaccine that the American People can trust. In the eight months we battled covid19 over 7 million americans have had the virus and tragically over 200,000 have lost their lives. Millions ofll people face on employment and have lost their Health Insurance and families are still juggling childcare and virtual classrooms. The list of those most vulnerable to covid19 is especially on th
Crawls east. Al is tracking its path and were live from the rainsoaked region. Coronavirus confusion. Yet another reversal from the nations Top Public Health institute. This time over how the virus spreads. As a former member of the White House Task force who quit over her frustration with the president s response speaks out for the first time in an exclusive interview. I felt that in my heart and in my entire being i think american lives were continuing to be on the line. Changing seasons. Ellen degeneres returns to the air responding to those allegations of a toxic Work Environment and promises big changes at her show. Take responsibility for what happens at my show. This morning, both new support and new criticism uring. Those stories plus, air bubba. Michael jordan and Bubba Wallace teaming up for a new era of nascar as they make history on and off the track. Today, tuesday, september 22nd, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb from studio
Microphones anytime you speak. During the any time hearing, the chairman the vice chairman of the committee, congressman kennedy will serve as chair until i am able to return. Beuments for the record can sent to Benjamin Tabor at the email address provided to staff. All documents will be entered into the record at the conclusion of the hearing. The chair will not recognize herself for an opening statement. Today the energy and Commerce Committee continues its oversight of the nations covid19 Pandemic Response. Examining the pursuit of a safe and effective covid19 vaccine that the American People can trust. In the eight months that we battled covid19, over 7 million americans have had the virus, and over 200,000 of them have lost their lives. Millions of the phase unemployment and have lost their Health Insurance, and families are still juggling childcare and virtual classrooms. The list of those most vulnerable to covid19s especially on the line as the virus continues to spread across
We are always at threat for the next pandemic. These viruses exist out in nature. As people go out in nature they get infected and then move their way back into humans. If we were to imagine the origins of covid19 as a movie, it would begin at the end of the contagion movie. Exactly that process of bulldozing down the forest, bats flying off infecting livestock that then we get infected. That happens every day, every week. Thats how these things begin. With yuhaith you wuhan is a majn the wildlife trade pathway. Its close to hot spot areas for new coronaviruses. Ever since the covid pandemic hit, weve been trying to determine if anybody knew anything about a contagion sweeping through wuhan last fall and when did they know it. Researchers looked at Satellite Photos of wuhan hospitals in october of 2019. And what they show are packed parking lots. All those red dots are cars. And we took those photos and we put em next to october of 2018. Mirror images. And you can clearly see in some t
With byron pitts. Good evening, thank you for joining us. Tonight the wide ranging abc news investigation into this countrys response to covid19. Now some of the nations top doctors and experts on why they say a series of missteps and ignored warnings created the crisis were facing we are always at threat for the next pandemic. A mysterious new virus appearing in china. Chinese Health Authorities are still working to identify the virus behind a pneumonia outbreak in the central city of wuhan. You have a brandnew virus that jumped species from animal to human. Concern rising. There were a number of people raising red flags. As covid19 rapidly spread around the world and arrived in the u. S. It is the perfect storm and my worst nightmare. Tonight we go in ic catastro puic health flure in our naon history. How did we get ever t covid pandemic hit were trying to determine if any one knew anything about a contagion sweeping through wuhan last year. Everybody at the state, local, theres a lo