About a covid variant that may be more contagious. Tonight, more than a half million americans received the other authorized vaccine from pfizer, including president elect joe biden. Also breaking. Cnn learned some of President Trumps own advisers are now privately worried about how farrell farre far he will go. No one is sure where this is headed. Lets go to cnns sara murray. Seeing more americans vaccinated, a Promising Development as we are closely watching new covid variant in the uk. Whats the latest . Reporter thats right, wolf. Even with concerning news out of the uk, it is good news in the u. S. To have two different Coronavirus Vaccines circulating, and the new Moderna Vaccine makes it easier to get across the country. The first shots of the Moderna Vaccine going into americans arms today. This vaccine is hope. Its hope that we will cease the pandemic, hopefully live a better life. Reporter as modernas easier storage requirements allow more corners of the u. S. To receive vacc
President trump a plan to get on employed americans back to work. Your overseeing historic economic despair. President trump i think weve announced a plan. Were opening up our country. It just rude person, you are. We are opening up our country and we are opening up very fast. The plan is each state is opening and its opening up very effectively. And when you see the numbers, i think even you will be impressed, which is pretty hard to impress you. Go ahead, please. A lot of these are not coming back. Speak to the border will remain closed until june 21st, 10 days before the usmca. Arent you worried for the economy on the border states . President trump yeah, we do. We speak with canada all the time. The relationship is very good with the Prime Minister and myself. With the two countries, canada is our neighbor. We have a great relationship. We love canada. We will be talking and that the right time we will go very quickly. Could happen before june 21st . Is mike yeah, and should, sure.
Hey, everyone. Im dana bash in for brooke baldwin. Thanks for joining us this day before christmas, Christmas Eve, to be exact. An hour ago, the dow closed early and deep in the red. And as markets fall, republicans and democrats are stuck unable to end the partial Government Shutdown thats now in day three. Its likely to last through thursday. Well explain why in a minute. But first, to the dive in the dow, spurred in part by comments from treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin. Theyre baffling and apparently they backfired, instilling uncertainty when he was attempting to do just the opposite. Mnuchin on sunday called these six Big Bank Ceos and he talked about the idea that there are fears out there with liquidity. I want to get straight to alison kosik to give us more about that and whats going on in dow. Alison . Reporter hey, dana. It was an interesting day today, because the trading session was only four hours today. And during the session, there was a tweet from President Trump where