Way to use a medication on severely ill covid19 patients. The Agency Approved an emergency use authorization for a drug called remdesivir. Dr. Anthony fauci says remdesivir is a very important first step with Solid Research behind it. Those steps cannot come soon enough for folks eager to get back to business. Some of them have been on the streets venting their frustrations. Some californians have been protesting this weekend in Orange County south of los angeles. Governor nauchl nauchl closed that countys beaches after thousands of people showed up there to enjoy a sunny weekend. Prior to this the State Government signaled that all of californias beaches could close. That frustrated some local officials and drew criticism from republicans who accused newsom of playing politics. Lets begin in Orange County with nbcs Steve Patterson in laguna beach. Steve, the mood today has been pretty heated at times. Whats it like now . Certainly noisy, i can tell. I would say this continues to be on
Eating candy. Its monday, october 27th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. All right. Good morning. Im tai hernandez. Im t. J. Holmes. Good to have you back. Just last week. You couldnt wait to be here. Felt like a heartbeat. A lot happened over the weekend. We have to start with this growing controversy over whether people possibly exposed to ebola should be quarantined here. A federal civil rights lawsuit is expected to be filed an behalf of the nurse being held in new jersey. New yorks governor has loosened the states rules on quarantine. Cecilia vega has the latest. Reporter the plight of kaci hickox is coming under intense scrutiny. Shes the first traveler to be automatically detained under tough new ebola quarantine rules imposed by four states. Hickox is facing 21 days of quarantine in an isolation tent at a new jersey hospital after returning from treating ebola patients in sierra leone. The 33yearold nurse telling cnn shes being treated like a criminal. This is a
Waves his prosthetic leg in their faces. Well have the latest on that as well. The obamas talk about race. In a candid interview with people magazine. The president and first lady discuss brushes with racism. Are they playing the race card . What if they are . Straight ahead. Lets begin with the breaking news. Sony suspended tours of the los angeles studio until january. Because the of security concerns following the hack attack. That its according to the hollywood reporter. Meantime, the Obama Administration may publicly blame north korea for the attack as the early as the tomorrow. Officials tell cnn investigators know how the hackers got in. And we are joined now from seoul, south korea with the latest on this story. So, we are learning tonight that the u. S. Investigators think the hackers use aid sony employee used a sony employees credentials to get in. What can you tell us about that . Reporter it is a targeted attack. If you think about it from the hackers perspective. A smart
Sense approach. Bill Chris Stirewalt, good morning to you. He will likely argue what . That its no big deal. Nothing to see here, doesnt matter, this is just a slight tweaking in the enforcement of the law. However, thats not what he hear from other parts of the administration. Especially when we heard president obama tell protesters that they changed the law. When they talk to activists and potentially hispanic voters. They are talking out of both sides of their mouth because secretary johnson says no big deal at all. Bill they will get a chance to question johnson face to face. Between now and the 11th of december when the emergency funding measure that keeps government open in the absence of a budget, the issue of immigration and this spending package are totally connected. The republican means by which they hope they can turn back the president on this temporary amnesty he has granted is by cutting off funding or putting in riders into legislation that would instruct government how
Center now open for business but staying away are the adults and children who have not been immunized against the measles. These five cases all under the age of 1. So they were too young below the age where the recommendation is where they become immunized, ten other infants all again under the age of 12 months in the same room. Theyre being closely watched but Public Health officials here say that they suspect there will be more cases as the cook county Public Health director said the cat is out of the bag. There was one earlier case in cook county at the end of last month. And theyre investigating all these cases. Trying to determine where the point of infection was, trying to determine if theyre in any way connected with the outbreak that was centered around disneyland in california. Now, the five infants who have been diagnosed with the measles not hospitalized all being treated at home. And the ten others are being advised by Public Health officials on what to look for. Theyre bei