Claims and cases of covid19 continue to rise around the world. Two majorly a small games tonight because players tested positive. Good news, moderna is kicking off a late phase trial of its vaccine candidate that will involve tens of thousands of people. Joining us to break down the day that was, Abigail Doolittle has been following all of the back and forth in the markets today. Modernity shares, ending today slightly down, despite the good news about vaccine progress. What stood out to you, today . Might have at the after hours view, that it was a little bit off, but moderna was close to 1 billion on u. S. Funding. It had been topsyturvy, ending higher after two down days but at one point it was russian a bull as stocks were up just slightly but at the end of the day the nasdaq 100 going out a nice gain. The chips index, take a look at that, with hope that some of the intel competitors might be able to produce those next generation chips. The big story, not to revisit tech, gold. Gol
To resign as president of the republic with immediate effect south africas scandal plagued president jacob zuma steps down after the ruling a. N. C. Party told him to go also. At least one person killed and more than twenty injured by a government who opened fire at a us high school. Russia can push the regime to commit to seeking a real peace in syria the u. S. And russia again trade blame at the u. N. In response to a chilling report from the special envoy for syria plus. Im Andrew Thomas in sydney where artists have responded to the moment incidents recorded at australias offshore refugee crisis. Welcome to the news hour jacob zuma has resigned as south africa. As president reluctantly heeding orders from his ruling party the a. N. C. Will go with immediate effect to bringing an end to almost nine scandal plagued years in power the n. C. Told him to quit on choose day and when he had gone by wednesday the party and else that it would bank moves in parliament to force him to leave i
Umbrella. Theres a chance of showers as the day goes on. But the warmup will be with us. 57 degrees at lunchtime today. Your hourbyhour future weather to show you when those heavier showers will move in when im back in ten. Right now lets check in with Christine Maddela. Good morning to you, bill. On the schuylkill expressway to work or school lets check on drive times. Things looking good at the curve and between the blue route and vine, thats going to take you 13 minutes in each direction. And speaking of the schuylkill expressway taking a live look outside, there is some of that light fog in and around there in montgomery county. But we are seeing some dense fog especially undo the shore right now. Take a look at this heavy fog and limited visibility in ocean county. Cape may and atlantic counties also experiencing that fog. Were not seeing a lot of volume out there. But just reduce your speeds if you are heading out into that area. If you are heading out on the bridges, you can see
Germanwings spoke in the last hour. His performance was without any criticism. Nothing at all was striking. The crash killed all 150 people on board. Meanwhile, police were seen outside the house in germany that is believed to be lubitzs home. He had a single engine private pilots license. They issued that license in january of 2012. It had restrictions. He had to be proficient in english and had to be accompanied by his german pilots license. Monique braxton is live at Philadelphia International airport. Monique, nationally known aviation expert from our area is weighing in on the developments. Thats right, vai. We came here just outside the International Terminal because lufthansa operates a few flights out of here every day. As you mentioned, they do own germanwings. The aviation expert arthur wolf calls it very troublesome that anyone would intentionally crash an airliner kill himself, and the passengers on board. What concerns me most is on a short flight like this, what in the wo
Afternoon, only a few hours after authorities confirmed they believe a copilot deliberately flew the plane into the mountain. Translator the copilot manipulates the buttons of the flight Monitoring System for the descent of the aircraft. It can only be deliberate. The families were taken here to seynelesalpes and then they were taken to the mountaintop two miles away where they can see the Mountain Range where the plane crashed. There was a makeshift monument there and they stopped in a moment of silence. You can see many of them had tears in their eyes. They were there to pay respects to their relatives, but at the same time they knew most likely one man, the copilot a german first officer did deliberately fly that plane into the mountain taking 150 lives. Now they were taken away from the crash scene with the knowledge also that their relatives knew exactly what was happening until the last moments the audio recordings, we understand contain the screaming and the crying of the passen