to entresto. tonight, several developing headlines as we come on the air. now a second major vaccine. news tonight from the fda on moderna. what they ve learned. could we have two vaccines approved by the end of the week? and the emergency unfolding tonight. hospitalizations in the u.s. breaking a new record. and in california, the emergency. they are running out of hospital beds. the state preparing an additional 60 morgue trucks. los angeles county alone with only about 100 icu beds available. icu nurses have been told they are now in, quote, disaster mode. and tonight, new york city s mayor warning of a possible shutdown in new york. tonight, vaccinations now rolling out across the u.s. the pfizer vaccine arriving at 425 additional locations. and tonight, now one day after the u.s. began the pfizer shots,
they look at you and you can t hug anybody. you look them dead in the eye and my eyes are always red because it s stressful. so, we re all tired. reporter: nurse patricia gardner on the front lines for nearly a year. now hopeful. she s among the first to get that vaccine. we met dr. matt bai during new york s darkest days back in april. this is our e.d. you can see all the rooms are filled. reporter: he had to leave his wife and 17-month-old daughter to work on the front lines. it s going to be several weeks probably before i see them in person again. reporter: today, dr. bai getting vaccinated, too. let s bring stephanie ramos in, and steph, in addition to the news tonight on this
tracked down $2.4 million in federal loans given to the french laundry. new at 6:00 a comparison of its ppp loans to what other local restaurants received. roll up jury sleevyour slee coronavirus vaccine is here and the vital health care workers are getting the first shots. and the vaccine comes at no cost but there is a difference between paying for the vaccine, the medicine in the syringe and the syringe itself. it s a history of medicine in the making. it s a historic day. history made here today with coronavirus vaccines administered in the bay area for the first time. it is thankfully something to cheer about as we face the worst surge yet, hospitalized patients hit record levels in california as the governor warns about what s next. we just had to order 5,000
emergency approval now by week s end? the fda will hold a public hearing on thursday. and take a look at this graph tonight. it shows how effective the vaccine is. shows the cases of infection among participants in the trial. the blue line there, that rising number of cases, those are among people that got the placebo. the red line, the very low number of cases among those who got the vaccine. nearly flat. abc s stephanie ramos on what we ve learned about this second vaccine. reporter: just a day after those historic first shots, supplies arriving at another 425 locations and vaccinations ramping up. it comes amid major news that a second vaccine from moderna could be authorized by the fda later this week. the government ready to ship out millions of doses once it gets a green light. we know that we re going to ship just a little bit short of 6 million doses out to the american people and we re shipping it to 3,2 85 locations
news coming in on moderna. another major vaccine. what the fda is now saying about this second potential vaccine. the key findings coming in tonight. and how effective is it at stopping asymptomatic spread of the virus? 6 million doses on stand-by. could we have those two vaccines approved and under way by christmas? the major snowstorm targeting the northeast tomorrow. we re tracking the nor easter. new york city could see up to a foot of snow. significant snow and rain from philadelphia right up through new england. ginger zee with the latest track and timing tonight. this evening, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell congratulating president-elect joe biden and vice president-elect kamala harris on the senate floor. what mcconnell said about history made. the president-elect joe biden in georgia today. the control of the senate to be determined by those two senate races. and tonight here, robin roberts one-on-one with vice president-elect kamala harris. newly released video