His california cabinet member won the election. And nations in Central America and the caribbean rushed to help those made homeless by Tropical Storm into. The transition to a joe biden presidency in the United States is gathering pace with some decisions expected in the hours ahead the president elect is due to announce a task force to tackle what he says is his top priority the coronavirus pandemic on sunday biden visited a Church Cemetery where a family members are buried including his late son donald trump spent the day playing golf outside washington and is refusing to concede defeat his campaign is planning legal challenges in states where hes disputing the counting of votes World Leaders including israels Binyamin Netanyahu and saudi Arabias Mohammed and so man have congratulated biter on his victory well former u. S. President s and republican george w. Bush also sent his well wishes his. More of what george w. Bush has said in a note posted on instagram he thanks guys and for
For a u. S. District court judge in ohio. It is also the first opportunity for members to speak on the floor sense election day. Watch live Senate Coverage on cspan2 and the house on cspan. Amtrak president and ceo William Flynn was on capitol hill to testify on how the coronavirus affects the Passenger Rail system and what amtrak is doing in response. The Senate Commerce of science and Transportation Committee also heard from representatives of the freight Rail Industry and about the challenges they are facing as a result of the pandemic. This hearing is just over two and half hours. Order. Thank you all for being here, good morning. Today the committee can means to discuss the status of the National Rail network in the country is 140,000 miles of freight rail in class one railroads over 600 freight railroads and thousands of Companies Using braille to ship products and raw materials, we also have an intercity passenger real service amtrak operating on 22000 miles of the same network
Cheaper auction it could be a cheaper option. Tom we will talk about that with sam fazeli. Over here it is about the hospitalization. It has been an extraordinarily difficult pandemic weekend fulltime america tries to move on, and someone moving on is the president elect with news from bloomberg overnight on appointments to be had, i believe, tuesday. Even while the president contests in wisconsin. Francine we will have a full round up of u. S. Elections as well. Lets get to bloomberg first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika another Promising Development in the fight to end the coronavirus pandemic. The vaccine developed by the university of oxford as astrazeneca prevented a majority of people in a large trial from getting the disease. It stop and average from 70 from falling ill, below the high bar set by pfizer and moderna, but effectiveness did rise to 90 for one of two dosing regimes. Joe biden plans to name anthony en as secretary of state. When he was when biden was Vice Preside
The u. S. By end of march. All of these mutations, fauci emphasized can be stopped or slowed by increase in vaccinations. Viruses cannot mutate if they dont replicate. The fundamental principle of getting people vaccinated as quickly and as efficiently as you possibly can will always be the best way to prevent the further evolution of any mutant, because when you do that, you prevent replication and replication is essential for mutation. Joining me now to talk about this is primary care doctor, a Public Health special iist. What do you think about 66 effectiveness . Im excited, brianne florida. Weve been spoiled with results from pfizer and moderna which is 95 effective as you just mentioned. Listen, this is still 85 effective in preventing severe disease and 100 effective in preventing deaths. The more vaccines, brianna, we have on the market the quicker we can vaccinate as many people. I always tell a lot of my patients, its not necessarily just the number of vaccinations. Its the pa
Life well planned. The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Katty im kerry k in washington and this is announcer im kerry k in washington and this is bbc world news america. President trump fires his secretary of defense is the latest in a long line of Security Officials to be shown the door. Azerbaijans president tells the bbc heat sees no end to the fighting. Their opportunities to compromise ahrinking as we are getting those territories back by force. Katty bbc world news america. Welcome to welcome to bbc world news america. President elect joe biden is preparing to make the transition to the white house as the u. S. Surpasses 10 million coronavirus cases, mr. Biden said his number one priority is to defeat the pandemic. Today he announced his task force. He made this plea to americans. President elect biden a mask running to most pote