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
Reporter todd walker is a Longtime Community activist in oakland at the forefront in the fight to stop the violence among the citys youth and he is the uncle of the 14yearold High School Freshman shot and killed saturday as he walked down a fruitville street with two friends. Just a great kid. A great kid. Wonderful mother. Wonderful father. Just a nice, humble kid, loved to play sports. Reporter sunday night the spot where ellis was killed friends and family members gathered for a candlelight vigil. Just tragic. Know youre not gonna see him no more. Reporter devon har san is a classmate of ellis and teammate where he was a star Football Player and excellent student. No reason. I was just shocked. Why him . Reporter the mood at oakland tech is somber as students returned for the First Time Since ellis was gun downed just before 8 saturday night. At tech and ellis prior school mop terra middle school the district made sure there were grief counselors available for students and staff. Gi
Today, lets talk about covid. Trump made the comments while blitzing the battleground state of pennsylvania. Hes at his second rally right now and will be on his way to the third stop in just a few minutes from now. Vice president mike pence, he is on the road right now in minnesota after we learned this weekend that five of his aides have contracted the coronavirus. Pence, himself, tested negative again today. Still, hes no longer planning to preside over tonights senate vote to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. The white house is planning another large event to celebrate, and the president is eager to have barrett voting on electionrelated ir ed issues i couple weeks. Pete williams will have a report on that in a moment for us. We want to begin with jake sherman, Senior Editor at politico. Peter baker, chief White House Correspondent at the New York Times, and coauthor of the new book the men who ran washington the life and times of james a. Bake r iii. And dr. Jennifer
Burnett. A break through in the battle against coronavirus. Moments ago an Fda Advisory Panel giving the green light to a second vaccine this one from moderna. Gienl decision can come in any minute. In a moment im going to speak to a world renowned member of that fda panel. It is a race against time. Today the cdc forecast the american death toll will climb to as many as 400,000 people before inauguration day. We are on track for more than 3,000 deaths. We will not surprise you that trump said nothing about those deaths. Nothing. A tweet. He did tweet of course, ten tweets today. Half on untrue claims about the election. The one and only tweet about the virus was about the vaccine. Even here as of now hes all talk and tweets. He quotes, the vaccine and vaccine rollout are getting the best reviews. Moving along really well. Get those shots, everyone. The president patting himself on the back. Not empathizing with the suffering. Given what hes tweeted, weve got to check the facts. When i
Say was used in the bombing. It is apparently no longer parked in the bark yard of warners home. They have investigating whether or not this person may have been the person responsible for the bombing. Joining me live in nashville, shaq, what is the latest on this investigation since you and i last talked . Hi there. While lead investigators have not named a person of interest theyre paying particular attention to that 63yearold man, Anthony Quinn kwawarner. We saw them go in and now theyre collected evidence, gathering Different Things and locking down that area for lots of time. Theyre seeing his digital devices, if there is in any social media this. They have not been able to gather any evidence that points to a possible motive for that shooting. They continue it at the last site that is about 4. 5 blocks of where i am now. You see the complexities trying to pr access the scene of that size. We know they will continue to work and process that scene. One other detail is what theyre c