started doing people that were younger than 16. you remember their vaccine is for 16 and older. but as you mention, let me show you, this is some of the youngest trial participants that we ve now heard. over 6,000 people age 6 months to 11 years. and then you have 3,000 adolescents, age 12 to 17 years. what s happening now is they re going to trial these, again, very young participants with various doses of the vaccine. 25 micro gram, 50 microgram, 100 mi microgram. they re trying to figure out two things, is this safe in people of that age and what is the right dose to give as well. after that, if those things sort of if they get the information they need and sprois proven safe, they can bridge these trials to existing trials. meaning, hey, we get a lot of information. they could get some results early. as you heard, dr. fauci said by the fall potentially high school students potentially could have a vaccine. i was going to ask you about the timeline there. so if this go
european countries are suspending the use of a different vaccine over reports of dangerous blood clots in a small number of recipients. the vaccine has not been authorized for use yet here in the united states. the company expected to apply for that authorization quite soon. and dr. anthony fauci is keeping an eye on europe today offering a new warning as new cases in the united states are plateauing at a dangerously high level. about 50,000 cases a day. and he wants to make sure that we as a country don t end up in the same situation that europe is facing right now. europe is generally a few weeks ahead of us in the dynamics of the outbreak. and they had play towing and then they pull back a bit on their mitigation methods. the all of a sudden, it started to surge again. we want to mike ake sure that doesn t happen here in the united states. part of that equation is vaccines. let s start with the news coming out this morning about moderna s trials involving children. eli
the two caught on camera just before the alleged attack. crisis at the border: one shelter now seven times over capacity as fema is sent to help. authorities prepare this dallas convention center to house up to 3,000 teenage boys. deadly crash, a 71-year-old man loses control and kills several pedestrians. whiteout whiteout conditions, an historic winter storm dumps four feet of snow in the rockies. cuomo under fire, one of the governor s former aides speaks to investigators for more than four hours. the new details tonight. nashville terror investigation.g about the mahind the chsts day bomb in tennessee. and a big night for women at the grammys, as women stole the show and took home the top awards. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell. reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. we are going to begin with alarming new fears about another surge of coronavirus infections here at home a
at our southwest border now. the homeland security department out with this dire warning. at this rate we could encounter more people there than we have in the last 20 years. we re going to dig into what s being done to deal with it including a total transformation of a major city s convention center. but we start on this tuesday with our reporters following the biden administration s push to sell that covid relief package. nbc s chief white house correspondent kristen welker is there at the white house, and priscilla thompson is in delaware county, where president biden will be visiting today. she is in chester, which is a suburb of philadelphia. kristen, let me start with you. help us understand why president biden is focusing on pennsylvania s small businesses today with promoting this covid relief deal. reporter: he s doing two things, craig. one, president biden trying to now sell and explain that sweeping $1.9 trillion covid relief package. so he s going to talk about
governor greg abbott say the situation that now needs disaster relief apparently, is president biden s fault but democrats like house speaker nancy pelosi blame former president trump while joining biden in refusing to label it a crisis. the biden open border policies that are inviting even more illegal immigration and actually have created this humanitarian crisis. this is a humanitarian challenge to all of us. what the administration inherited is a broken system at the border and they re working to correct that in the children s interest. it is entirely you cannot notice the administration changes and there is a surge. the 11-year high for crossings without documentation at the border was in the middle of trump s presidency. is idea it is joe biden s election that prompted more people to show up is belied by the actual facts. harris: more now. kevin mccarthy is leading a delegation of one dozen republicans to the southern border today. casey stiegel is live along th