In gaza have started vaccinating some babies against polio, a day before a mass immunisation programme is due to begin. Palestinian health workers carried out the vaccinations in nasser hospital in khan younis. Unicef says the vaccinations will take place for six and a half hours every day until wednesday. Israel and hamas have agreed to three localised pauses in fighting to enable the vaccination of more than 600,000 palestinian children. Our middle east correspondent yolande knell sent this new report from jerusalem. Just two drops as the un begins vaccinating against polio in gaza. A dose is easy to give, but carrying out a mass immunisation campaign in a combat zone is a huge challenge. Parents of the first vaccinated children are relieved. Translation: i was worried and afraid because this is scary. The polio disease. This disease makes the children unable to move. Baby abdulrahman was crawling early, but now his mum worries he ll never be able to walk. He was the first child foun
Well, its looking like the f. D. A. In america is probably going to be making an announcement round about the 17th of december. And if thats the case, and if thats positive, then these vaccines are going to be shipped literally within hours, as weve just heard on that report. Now in terms of the european situation, the europeans, magid medicines agency, typically this can take months or even up to a year to approve a new vaccine. So we really are in unprecedented territory here. And its going to be remarkably interesting to see what sort of timelines they come up with. But i think we can rest assured that they will be working flat out on this. Theyll be doing a lot of hard work on the files that are not important to member. Its a rolling program, so they have access to much more information than we have pfizer, midden it will be reporting to them on a daily basis with the latest information. Well have all the latest information at their fingertips, but of course this is not pay reviewe
Unfortunately, the obvious effect of the wind as you got to tie everything a little bit further down, especially if you do have a set up outside for your thanksgiving feast. Now this is your look outside at the suture tower cam it is beautiful crystal clear. Lots of sunlight and temperatures are already climbing. Wind speeds the breezy us for the north bay and right along the coastline, were looking at notably windy conditions in areas like Sonoma Sandra fell Half Moon Bay and santa rosa, lets advance to later on today a more important time like well be around 02 30pm thats when temperatures will be at their warmest in a good time to be outside some of our windy response the north bay at the coast even san jose in concord on the decently windy side, although sonoma and napa will be here to windiest spots around this time just something to know if you are getting out there because otherwise it is beautiful skies will be clear from the coast to our inland areas well into the afternoon an
Could be undone by the corona virus. And its one year since bills are funded took over the helm of the european union. We take a look at where shes made progress and where shes fallen short bus. The most innovative car maker in the world means germanys highly regulated labor system. Musk is in berlin for talks with union chiefs as welcome to the program. We start with what could be a glimmer of light. At the end of the covert tunnel, europe could see to covert 900. 00 Vaccines Available by the end of this year. In the past few hours, u. S. Drugmaker finds and its german partner biotech announced they have submitted their vaccine for emergency approval by the european medicines agency. A day after drug company, madonna asked for emergency approval of its vaccine in both europe and the united states. Finding effective vaccines is a crucial part of tackling the coronavirus pandemic. Madonna and pfizer biotech have now both applied for emergency approval moderna hopes its vaccine could get
City leaders encourage everybody to get tested tonight. There is a catch. Thanks for joining us. Everybody at 10 im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus some people say everybody get tested and then its ok if everybody congregate but there is a testing shortage and city leaders tonight are asking people not to use these government operated covid testing sites. Before their thanksgiving travel or gathering plans. They say these resources are for essential workers at people who have symptoms or believe they were exposed to covid yeah, one of those government operated sites is on the embarcadero and thats where we find kron 4 Taylor Bisacky she joins us now live with more. About the citys message. Sign here behind me says appointment only and at last check appointments here are booked up through december second at put that in perspective this site typically tests about 1700 people a day so this is obviously raising concerns for the people that need the tests most the city is now emphasizing