Americans prepare to leave for thanksgiving travel, which Health Officials are urging families to stick this year. Senior correspondent looks all of this, laura ingle starts us off tonight from melbourne new york. Good evening, laura. Good evening, bret. Here in new york, Governor Andrew Cuomo made an announcement today that the state plans to reopen an emergency facility on Staten Island to treat Covid Patients because cases there have not tripled. This, as news comes with yet another vaccine showing strong potential. The Drugmaker Astrazeneca announced it has produced a covid19 vaccine which shows a promising efficacy rate of 90 without the need for ultracold storage like some of the other vaccines in development. Its a very deployable vaccine and we need lots of people to be vaccinated. Astrazeneca, which has been developing vaccine with scientists outwards university oxfords university. The news coming up to the federal Drug Administration Advisory Committee set a date of december
Speed hotline crossing a 60 meters segment in just under 38000000. Ah, ah, this is al jazeera, these other top stories, the shoreline has. Parliament is gonna start electing a new president in the coming hours. Opposition leaders such as the premier dasa has just withdrawn from the race. Its likely a final vote is going to be held on weapons doing. Acting president ronald wicks. Im a singer. Is one of the candidates and hes imposed a nation wide state of emergency. Mal fernandez, has more from colombo inside parliament. What were going to see happening over the course of the morning is that the nominations for the post of president are going to be formally handed over to the secretary general of parliament. Now obviously the speaker, usually a sort of overseas things, but because he is also an elected m b, he takes a sort of her aside. He sounds aside as the 2nd gender runs this election for president. So for names are what were hearing so far. We have the acting president , ronald v,
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Marshfield inspecting damage after the storm surge punched out a 50foot hole in the sea wall of several towns at the mercy of the tides. Trashed. Demolished. What happened . The ocean just tore down my roof caved in. The roof collapsed the side wall. This is the worst storm ive seen. This place is like a war zone right now. Just north of marshfield Governor Charlie Baker assesses damage in the town of scituate where a sea wall there was breached as well flooding local homes and streets. And after spending the past couple of days stranded at the airport, flights are slowly getting back to normal in the northeast. Our Blizzard Team is in place. Meteorologist bill karins has the latest forecast. Tom costello at Laguardia Airport, and bill start with you and the aftermath. The storm is finally ending. Overnight picked up really strong winds blowing and drifting of snow. People out there doing it now. We now officially know this is the blizzard of 2015. National Weather Service in boston co