Removed from his role in afghanistan. The State Department his views do not reflect those of the department, which embraces diversity and inclusion. Brianna . Appreciate that report. Thank you. It is the top of the hour. I am Brianna Keilar and right now the senate is taking up president bidens 1. 9 trillion pandemic relief bill. It appears that all 50 democrats are onboard, while republicans know that, it wont stop them from dragging the whole process out. We are talking hours here no. Were talking days. Cnn political director David Chalian is with us now. This is a stunt by republicans. It will certainly get attention. Reporter yeah. What you see here, brianna, republicans trying to prolong the process that this debate over this bill is on the floor before it can actually move to a final vote. So as you said, Senate Democrats are moving ahead on to this bill to begin the process of debating this bill. Ron johnson of wisconsin, a republican senator, has said when the traditional ask t
Its data on the companys singledose vaccine saying it does meet the requirements for Emergency Use Authorization. Put another way, fda sees it as safe and effective. This friday, an independent group of advisers to the fda will be meeting to make their recommendation on the vaccine. So hearing from the president s top covid advisers and how they will describe this coming step will be very interesting. Well bring you that briefing from the Covid Response team once it gets under way any minute now. Let me bring in cnns sanjay gupta on this j j news. The analysis youve been going through, it says it protects well against severe disease and death. Can you put numbers to that for us . What does this mean . What is the fda releasing with this . Yeah. This is the fdas analysis of this data. Lets put the numbers up and ill talk you through this a little bit. I think this is important. When we look at the numbers in terms of how protective this vaccine is against moderate and severe disease, i
army in the late 40s he had been in and out of prison for years, he had actually escaped from prison in missouri in 1967, the year before he killed king. after his escape from prison in missouri he spent time in mexico, he also spent time in california. by 1968 he was reportedly really intoxicated with the reactionary presidential campaign of george wallace. the segregationist alabama governor who ran for president in 1968 on an anti civil rights segregation white supremacist platform. james earl ray volunteered for the campaign, but even beyond that he was increasingly committed to the racist cause more broadly. and in the spring of 1968, james earl ray moved to atlanta. he had been moving on the west coast, he moved to atlanta where martin luther king lived, and where he preached at this church james or earl ray appears to have gone to atlanta specifically in pursuit of dr. king. and in april of 1968, king took a trip to memphis tennessee. it was widely publicized that he
how effective the existing vaccines are going to be against them. according to the president, the unknowns are exactly why it is too early to overreact calling for time to let the data and emerge and the science to led. today there are three messages about varnt i want to family to hear. first, this variant is a cause for concern new york of the a cause for panic. we have the best vaccine in the world, the best medicines, the best scientists, and we are learning more every single day. and we will fight this variant with scientific and knowledgeable actions and speed. not chaos and confusion. we have more tools today to fight the variant than we have ever had before. from vaccines to boosters, to vaccines for children, 5 years and older, and much more. while we have that travel restrictions can slow the speed of omicron, it cannot prevent it. but here s what it does. it gives us time, time to take more actions, to move quicker, and to make sure people understand you have to