Emergency use authorization next week. But there is a caveat, the efficacy of the j js vaccine dropped 57 from the highly contagious variant from south africa. Despite the travel van to stop that variant from coming over here, the new variant is already here. Two cases identified this week in South Carolina with two patients with no ties to each other and no travel history given that, signals community spread. During todays White House Briefing dr. Anthony fauci stressed the importance of vaccinating as many people as possible, as quickly as possible, before those mutant strains get out of control. Whether or not thats going to ultimately take over in the sense of being dominant is unclear by now. The projection that is made with regard to the uk is that probably by the end of march, the beginning of april, it actually will become more dominant in this country. The fundamental principle of getting people vaccinated as quickly and as efficiently as you possible can will always be the be
Through sag after. Hello, everyone, i am Chris Jansing in for stephanie ruhle. Its friday, february 5th. What a week its been. Breaking news, the first jobs report of the Biden Administration is in, it shows modest job gains, 49,000, slightly fewer new jobs than expected. The Unemployment Rate came down to 6. 3 from last months 6. 7 . But, and this is important, both november and decembers jobs numbers were revised, painting a picture even worse than previously thought. Bottom line, the recovery may be stalling, and theres still a ton of economic pain thats devastating large parts of the country, nearly a year after the pandemic began. But help may be on the way after working through the night and into the Early Morning the Senate Just Passed a budget resolution, a critical step in getting a new relief bill through. The vote was 5150. All democrats on one side. All republicans on the other. Vice president harris casting the tie breaking vote for the very first time. Were going to hear
I think it was an effective measure. The idea now is we have to hit back hard. We have to hit back strong if were going to finally put this dual crisis of the pandemic and economic payment engendered behind us. With respect to larrys point, one thing is just wrong which is our team is dismissive of inflationary risks. We have constantly argued the risks of doing too little are far greater than the risk of going big. Providing families and businesses with the relief they need to put this virus behind us. I want to quote Jerome Powell who strongly reiterated this view the other day. I think it was a week or so ago that inflationary risks are also asymmetric. He said, im much more worry about falling short of a complete recovery and losing peoples careers and lives they built because they dont get back to work in time. Im more concerned about the damage that will do, not just to their lives but to the United States economy, to the productive capacity of the economy. Im more concerned abou
Than a mile because of fears of a possible explosion. A Deadly School shooting in minnesota. One student killed, another in critical condition. And another shooting, this time at a virginia campus. Two officers shot. Overseas tonight, more u. S. Military equipment arriving in ukraine and tonight, Vladimir Putin and his new message about the u. S. And nato, saying, quote, they played us. The January 6th Investigation. New reporting tonight on former President Trump and his alleged effort to seize Voting Machines in several states after joe biden won. Asking the Justice Department and the reported plan that could have allowed the pentagon to seize the machines. Jon karl is here. Tonight, Whoopi Goldberg apologizing after comments she made, saying the holocaust was not about race. What shes saying now amid outrage over her words. The fbi investigating more than a dozen new bomb threats targeting hbcus for a second straight day. The newest threats coming on the first day of black history m
Rules in canada for several weeks now. Traveling across the country before arriving in the Capitol Of Ottawa last week. Crowdfunding site gofundme is facing criticism after it shut down the Fundraising Page yesterday. The company said it made the decision based on Law Enforcement reports that the convoy had become violent and unlawful. And says it will refund the millions of Dollars Worth of donations. Brian is alive in our New York City newsroom with more on this and growing controversy, brian big. I need a good evening. Police in ottawa have had enough of the socalled freedom convoy of canadian truckers. Audible Police Declared the protests and unlawful occupation that was quote increasingly volatile and dangerous. Reportedly there have been numerous harassment complaints by residents including a Class Action Lawsuit filed against the truckers and the blaring of their horn. As a result go finally pulled the plug on the convoy Fundraising Page was raised over 10 million Canadian Dolla