A murder hornet snacking on a honeybee this week here in washington d. C. Afternoons of yet another scandal involving the brand name in chief u. S. President donald trump yes the scandal was revealed to us all late tuesday apparently and my friends what a scandal it is the New York Times reporting that the Justice Department has been investigating whether intermediaries for a federal convict offered white house officials a bribe in exchange for a pardon or commutation from President Trump yeah that is juicy the possibility that a sitting u. S. President or at least members of his team may be in the business of taking cold hard cash in exchange for Services Rendered in this case handing out a president ial pardon naturally the president respond to the news with a resounding fake news tweeting quote pardon investigation is fake news and while rumors of trading pardons for cash payoff this is actually. Actually rather old news here in the belly of the beast especially out here for those g
Reporter neil, good afternoon to you. Start with astrazeneca. That is the top headline. It is covid19 vaccine as you mentioned having a good immune response in older results this is a phase two trial. Heefficacy will not be done untl they resume phase three trials you mentioned pfizer around biontech, they will file for their emergency approval with the fda form for the covid19 that tells us they are on track for the timeline they promised. Johnson johnson ready to have its vaccine ready for approval by february of 2021. Like i said, a bunch of different choices here. New york city in a little worse shape. Public School System is shutting down as of today. The stiffs Public Schools are taking a break, excuse me, because the coronavirus test Positivity Rate of 3 has been at that level for a seven day rolling average. It was reached on wednesday. The decision impacts over a Million Students and their parents and the city is trying to manage these cases and the weight that is placed on th
Striking a city sheriff with his car. The National Director of intelligence, calling for the interim john Durham Report on the trumprussia probe to be released. Both sides are ramming up the fight in those two Georgia Senate runoffs that will swing the balance of power in washington. Chicago suffers another deadly and bloody weekend of violence as many on the far left push to defund the police while south of the border mexicos government reportedly wants to make it a whole lot harder for american antidrug agents to do their jobs. Im Jackie Deangelis in for Elizabeth Macdonald tonight. The evening edit starts right now. Elizabeth some 33 million california residents are now under a strict covid19 19 lock down. 85 of the state including Southern California, San Joaquin Valley and bay area are under stay at home orders. Governor gavin newsom blames measures on growing number of covid related hospitalizations. Fearing the system cofail. The governor is facing mounting pushback including fr
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