This is the cbs evening news with norah odonnell, reporting from the nations capital. This is the cbs evening news ith norah odonnell, reporting odonnell good evening and thank you for joining us, were going to begin tonight with a possible breakthrough in the development of a coronavirus vaccine. Just as the country is entering a dangerous and deadly new phase of the pandemic. In a surprise announcement, the drug maker pfizer said its vaccine is 90 effective and it could be ready for approval in weeks. Well, that sent the dow soaring closing up more than 800 points. Its a glimmer of hope in what president elect biden is now calling a very dark winter ahead. One of his new advisors bluntly called it covid hell. And as we come on the air cases re growing at sucgrowing at such an alarming and exponential rate, tonight the u. S. Has topped 10 million infections, that is more than a million new cases since the end of october. And with the death toll rising again in cities like el paso now
Now infecting american Prison Inmates at a rate more than 5 times higher than the overall u. S. Population and thats climbing in fact at the Federal Correctional Institution in c. Go bill texas the federal bureau of prisons reports that more than 1300 of the approximately 1750 prisoners held there have tested positive for covert 19 these brutal statistics of lead to multiple uprisings among the incarcerated populations across the United States just last week in georgia violence broke out of where state prison where the Atlanta Journal constitution reports that quote tensions were running high due to cope with 192 people incarcerated at the prison have died of the disease while 22 inmates and 32 employees have tested positive so with covert 19 on fire inside us prisons exposing even more horrors of our prison and die. Complex i think thats a good place to start watching the hawks. If you want to know whats going on a city a new street you want to see. Them so you like to see the prices
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Greetings and salyut a shim well well well well well my friends we have a big nose today as russia has developed a possible back scene for covert 19 reuters and other news outlets around the world now reporting russia has indeed become the 1st country to grant a Regulatory Approval to a covert 19 vaccine after less than 2 months of human testing a move moscow likened to its success in the cold war era of the space race and apparently russian president Vladimir Putin is so high on the efficacy of sub vaccine that he even had one of his own daughters take it. Theres no actual word yet on a u. S. President donald trump has put a banker to put me on an intravenous drip of my drug sequoia queen and lysol in an effort to outdo his russian counterpart will keep you and keep you abreast of that does happen and while us back sports and political political as well now dust off the old cold war 2. 0 debate over moscows. Potential vaccine on cable news channels and social media to no end the virus