To the countrys most vulnerable pop of layingses within weeks. Populations within weeks. He expects the vaccine to be available to the general public by april. The announcement comes as the u. S. Marks more than 10 million cases and the number of deaths surpasses 244,000. Meanwhile, several states are now reimposing covid19 restrictions as some governors resist those lockdowns. Lets go to charles watson, live in atlanta with more. Charles, first of all, what else do we know about the vaccine . Reporter well, arthel, President Trump is hoping that the food and Drug Administration will grant emergency use authorization to at least one of four Major Companies that are currently developing a vaccine. That coming on the heels of pfizers big announcement earlier this week, that early data has shown its vaccine is about 90 effective, during his remarks on friday the president painted a mostly good picture, but he failed to mention the Record Number of cases that are being logged across the co
Shawn. The issue of travel advisory in california as that becomes the second state to hit more than 1 million confirmed infections. More than a thousand nurses are threatening to go on strike. Icu beds gone in some states, and governors who for nine months resisted declaring a mask mandate, well, now they are saying wear a mask. Charles watson live in atlanta with the very latest. Charles . Reporter hey, eric. With the u. S. Averaging about 140,000 daily new cases in the last week alone, states are increasingly pushing lockdowns. The governors of california, oregon and washington issued joint travel advisories on friday in an effort to get a handle on surging cases in those three states. What that means is that if you travel to any of those states, youll be asked to selfquarantine for 14 days. Theyre also asking resident to avoided all nonessential travel out of state and limit interactions to only people who live in their homes. The causes are no longer flat, the cases are rising, and
Could change the outcome of the election, and hes even getting specific saying they actually looked into those claims by people like the former trump Attorney Sidney Powell about Voting Machines changing votes, and bill barr says the doj and the department of Homeland Security has seen no evidence of that. So then, of course, a few moments later, bill barr, someone who has not been at the white house very much lately and has actually been keeping a low profile, then just arrived at the white house. He went into the executive Office Building next door to the west wing. Thats where the Vice President s office is. Then a few moments later he came out, went to his car and then went to the west wing. There was no meeting scheduled between donald trump and his attorney general today. We just got a statement that is incredibly remarkable from the president s legal team, Rudy Giuliani and jenna ellis, the two figures youve seen out there backing his baseless claims of widespread fraud, going a
On science and whether americans listen to it. Millions of americans traveled last week and the week after, cases are starting to head back up. Experts say the covid surge will likely climb even higher. You dont see a difference from a day, two, three, five days. You see a difference two or three weeks from now. Puts it right at the time people will be traveling for christmas. So all things considered, were not in a good place. A cdc Vaccine Panel meets today to decide who gets a vaccine first, front line workers and hospitals are of course at the top of the list. It seems pretty clear that the top group of individuals will be health care providers. We understand there isnt enough vaccine to go around at this time. Each individual institution will need to decide how theyre going to prioritize that vaccine. When the vaccine is ready for everyone else depends on the fda and if it grants emergency use authorization. The scientists who make recommendations on whether to approve vaccines me
Constitutional lawyer and law professor in his own right. He is also, as a member of congress, on the judiciary committee. And tonight with things getting slightly nutty in the republican effort to somehow try to use the courts to overturn the president ial election and install the loser instead of the winner of that election as the next president , we called congressman raskin tonight on short notice to help us with some of these latest developments here. I will tell you were going to get into this in detail but those latest developments involve, among other things, the fbi turning up at the office of the Texas Attorney general to serve a federal subpoena on him. The Texas Attorney general is the guy who has brought this case to the u. S. Supreme court to try to overthrow the election on the president s behalf. Turns out dude has some has his own very serious legal problems back home, and his personal legal problems and this Supreme Court case hes waging on behalf of the president , t