Safe and effective vaccine. If so, who gets it first . Soledad im Soledad Obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. Every roadmap for fully reopening the country begins with a vaccine. So who gets it first . We posed that question to experts about a month ago and learned an Advisory Group to the c. D. C. Is working on guidelines to distribute initial doses. And it hopes to have a proposal ready in late september. Potential vaccines are racing through the deve operation warp speed promised to stockpile milli doses. Declared safe and effective, there likely wont be enough for everyone who wants it right away. Meharry Medical College in nashville is one of the nations oldest and largest historically black Academic HealthScience Centers and is enrolled in operation warp speed. Dr. James e. K. Hildreth is an immunologist and the president and c. E. O. Of meharry. Instead of being a lead researcher, hes going to be a participant in the testing trials. Dr. Hildreth, its so nice to talk to you. Why would you want to test the vaccine as opposed to working on a vaccine . I want to be able to recommend that others take the vaccine. Vac zenals dont save lives, vaccinations do. The ones who most take the vaccinations are probably the one likely to take it, fredges in particular. I want to do it so i can then advocate for others to do the same. Soledad the trust for minorities historically frequently hasnt been there. Can you exp 1619. I know people might not understand that but since africanamericans first arrived on this continent as slaves, theyve been the subjects of horrendous speemplets. The most well known is the msk gee airmen when they very studied for siff allows. In older generations, theres huge mistrust in terms of accepting a vaccine. Soledad why do you need to sample minorities for a vaccine . Theres no evidence to convince us that minorities will respond differently to the vaccine but the genes that control our immune responses are polymorfhic and there are slight differences in minorities. We have to make sure the vaccines is effective in all those groups. Soledad sit one boost or to to two . Sometimes it takes two injections to give the amount of immunity you need to be protected. So we dont know yet. For a couple of them it may be that another dose is needed. Soledad is it your expectations that the vaccine will be free to anybody who wanted it . I know that as a collaborative effort between the National Institutes of health and the large Drug Companies. The Drug Companies had to agree to frules 100 million doleses and have that available and that is going to be given to the public for free. If its not free, the vaccines wont be effective because the least 60 of the population has been immunized and given that the most vulnerable populations in in case, many dont have insurance and couldnt afford to buy the vaccine, it almost has to be free. Soledad any guidelines as to who gets its first . The most vulnerable and the frontsline Health Care Workers should be the first to get the vaccine because effectiveness comes by protecting those individuals whoost likely to get disease and die from this. Soledad whats the time frame . I believe that by the end of the year, well know with some confidence whether or not some of these vaccine candidates will work but its then going to take a couple of months, maybe longer, to get them fully vetted and also to make the number of doses we need to start immunizing people. So my expectation is that i by next spring, early summer at the latest, well have the vaccine ready to go. Soledad thank you for talking to me. Appreciate it. 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Lily everyone in the house is online and i cant get enough bandwidth to video chat with my book club. Try 1 gig internet with at t fiber. You get more bandwidth and hbo max included. So, everyone stays entertained. So i can just watch the show instead of reading the book . You know, if you turn on your subtitles. Thats almost reading. Get 1 gig internet with at t fiber for 49. 99a month for a year. No annualcontract. And now get hbo max included. Limited availability in select areas. Call 1. 877. Only. Att soledad welcome back to matter of fact. Blue tarps still dot the landscape of puerto rico, a reminder of the recovery that never came after Hurricane Maria hit the island nearly three years ago. The storm killed nearly 3,000 people and left millions without power, some for nearly a year. Since Hurricane Maria, about 130,000 Puerto Ricans left to seek jobs and housing on the mainland, taking their political power with them, settling in places like central florida. A place our correspondent joie chen visited just before covid19 hit, where some say the newcomers could help flip this state from red to blue in november. This place reminds me of puerto rico, especially my backyard because my dad as a load of papayas over there, so when i see the first time i came i feel like, oh my god, i feel like im at home. Carid baez leftbringing her then10yearold puerto rico, daughter kalyani and joining a wave of Puerto Ricans known as boricuas who resettled here in central florida. For people who came after maria, it looks like puerto rico drawn by a familiar environment and job, the counties that circle the Magic Kingdom are some of floridas Fastest Growing. One Osceola County is the seventh Fastest Growing in the nation, driven, in the last two years, by the arrival of thousands of Puerto Ricans after the storm. 2 3 of the 40,000 storm evacuees who moved to florida now live in Osceola County and as u. S. Citizens were immediately eligible to register to vote here. At a holiday festival, Community Organizer alex barrios reminds newcomers how important they can be here in florida. This is a booming population. The puerto rican population is estimated already to have surpassed over one million people. The Puerto Rican Community is the largest and the potentially most powerful voting bloc in the state of florida and has the potential to swing the president ial election in 2020. Our message is, essentially, you have the power to make the difference. A cuban transplant from new jersey, barrios earned his place in the community here during the first days after the storm, his he helped families pack into the cheap hotels along highway 1792 who were by what they heard. President trump you, puerto rico, but youve thrown our seasonsbudget a little out of whack. Because we spent a lot of money on puert a glib remark and a fw rolls that didnt sit well with many evacuees. More than two years later, its the first thing carid baez recalls. And i think it was very unrespectful what we was having over there. What we was confronting over there, it was for me, it was really unrespectful. Do you think Puerto Ricans are angry about that still . Yeah, i think so. And i think so because the way that you hear they talk about donald trump. They remember. Alex barrios says its a sting theyll remember at the polls this fall. Theyre angry and theyre fed up they want to see the change, and particularly with the president. I think its a slow sea change of florida voters and voting a veteran observer of central floridas politics and people, maria padillas new book, tossed to the wind, chronicles the stories of Hurricane Maria survivors. She found few interested in talking politics. What feels their reaction . Some folks just shut us down. It was like, i dont want to talk about voting. Im not going to vote. They were tired. They felt quite frankly like the political system had let them down. Padilla points out that voting stateside is more complicated. Island elections take place only cant every cast ballots for president. In the 2018 midterms, padilla says the evacuees had other priorities. They were homeless. They were jobless. They were hungry. They had to find schools for their kids. So politics and voting were not top of mind. And right now, were talking, by 2020, three years after the fact of Hurricane Maria, so they might be a little more settled, but still politics can be very intimidating for the puerto rican voter. Now, as caridhome theyve ha leaving the island, shes ready to vote, as a floridian. Yes, i will vote this year. That will be my first vote here in the united states. I will vote because i believe that hispanics make a difference in the election this year. A sign that this community of newcomers may hold the real power behind the Magic Kingdoms political throne. For matter of fact, im joie chen, in orlando. Coming up gone but not forgotten, how the families of missing native american women are fighting to raise awareness about a silent epidemic. Plus, the minority has now become the majority in america. Soledad a story we first covered in 2018 brought back to the headlines this past week, the longignored crisis of missing native american women and girls. Few cases garner National Attention or full police investigations, according to families we talked to. Theres no federal database to track the cases. But the sovereign bodies institute, an indigenous nonprofit, started tracking and mapping the cases a few years ago and just released staggering numbers. It documented more than 2,300 cases in the last 40 years. Of those, nearly 60 are homicides and 31 involves girls 18 and younger. We talked to families grappling with loss and waiting for answers. Ive been having a lot of friends that have gone missing and never found. Soledad for decades, Indigenous Women and girls have been disappearing, including larissa lone hill. That was one of the recent ones before she went missing. Soledad more than two years have passed since lisa lone hill last saw her daughter. I was just so mad and i was writing down my feelings. Can you imagine your own daughter being missing . Try to imagine how painful that is. I pray for strength to go on but its so hard without my girl. Soledad its impossible to know how many native women have disappeared. Or how many have been murdered. Because some cases go unreported. Others arent properly documented. And there isnt a specific government database tracking the cases. I used to come out here and sit all the time. And there would always be an eagle. Soledad two hours away, on the rose bud reservation elizabeth roubideauxs daughter rychinda went missing 20 years ago. She wanted to be in the army and fly the 11yearolds body was found soledad in the trees. From what i was told, she only had underwear on. It makes me mad. [crying] to know that she was out here, i dont know how long. Rychindas murder remains soledad unsolved. One thing we really want is justice for her. You know of any place that might need a drone soledad when we first met matthew lone bear in january of 2018, he was orchestrating a search for his sister olivia. The 32yearold mother of five vanished from the fort Berthold Indian reservation in new town, north dakota. She was last seen driving a pickup truck. Lone bear says authorities were slow in launching their search after she was reported mi you look at all these people that wanted to step in with boats that got sonar and they didnt allow them to. Soledad despite his pleas, lone bear says it took months to have boats search a nearby lake. By that time, the seasons had changed. If they would have said yes to every agency that wanted to search the water and they worked with the family, we could have got that water searched six times already. But they dont want, to for some reason, and now were sitting with a frozen lake and wondering islook at all this effort we are throwing in to find this truck and what if its sitting under the water the whole time . Tribal p. D. Will have to answer for that. Soledad nine months after she disappeared, volunteers using sonar found the truck with olivias body inside, submerged in a lake less than a mile from her home. We want to make a protocol, that it will help other families so they dont have to jump through all the hoops like we had to do. And get rid of some of the excuses that Law Enforcement agencies and other agencies have. We are trying to eliminate those so at least if someone goes missing on a reservation, its happens right away. Law enforcement agencies are working cohesive together, that state resources are available to come to reservations right away, not nine months down the road, right away. Soledad back on the pine ridge indian reservation in south dakota, lisa lone hill is still waiting for her daughter larissa to come home. And so is larissas 3yearold daughter. When she sees her moms picture, she says, oh, mommy, i miss you too much. Is she going to be gone forever . The detectives say she is not with us no more. Maybe they gave up on her, but i didnt, and i refuse to believe that shes dead. She will never be forgotten and i wont give up hope. Ahead, its a are the new minority. How will the next generation shape the future . Plus, champagne loses its fizz. Soledad t now to a weekly feature we like soledad to call were paying attention even if youre too busy. Move over, boomers. A newly released analysis of u. S. Census bureau figures shows 50. 7 of u. S. Residents are under age 40. That makes them the majority in the country. The Brookings Institution did analysis based on population projections from last july. Millennials, generation z and younger generations combined equal 166 million people. That leaves genx feeling kind of old. But those over 40, combined with baby boomers and our oldest citizens total just 162 million. Whats the impact . The millennial generation now becomes the primary driver of demographic, cultural, and social change, and they can wield more power at the ballot box if they choose to. Theyre also our most diverse generation, almost half from communities of color. Past surveys by pew research indicate a social split in the generations with the younger generations taking progressive views on immigration, criminal justice reform, and environmental protections. A final note on this the u. S. Census is unerway and waiting for your response. Its one way we get a complete picture of the nation. So, a reminder, fill out your forms today. 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A staple of celebrations and we wouldings and parties but with many canceled due to covid19, producers fear their bubble is about to burst. In frances eastern champagne region, headquarters of the global industry, producers say theyve lost an estimated 2 billion in sales. The champagne committee, also known as civic, says this is the worst year of sales since the Great Depression of 1929. Its possible some grapes will be destroyed, eventually sold at discount prices, or even sold off to make things like hand sanitizer. Producers are having hard time raising a glass to any of those ideas. Thats it for this edition of matter of fact. Im Soledad Obrien and well see you back here next week. If you joined us late or want a second look at our stories on whos first in line for a covid19 vaccine, the power of the puerto rican vote in florida, and how the government is trying to catch up to the crisis of missing native american women and girls go to matteroffact. Tv. Lily everyone in the house is online and i cant get enough bandwidth to video chat with my book club. Try 1 gig internet with at t fiber. You get more bandwidth and hbo max included. So, everyone stays entertained. So i can just watch the show instead of reading the book . You know, if you turn on your subtitles. Thats almost reading. Get 1 gig internet with at t fiber for 49. 99a month for a year. No annualcontract. And now get hbo max included. Limited availability in select areas. Call 1. 877. Only. Att hello and welcome to Asian Pacific america. Im robert handa, host for your show on nbc bay area and cozy tv. We start by joining a nationwide pet Adoption Campaign clearing the shelters, then well have a special segment on growing up asian in america. Then well wrap up with our artistic cultural performance with the dance company