America, the director talked about covid19 trials, the virus impact on minority communities and issues with politicizing the cdc. This is 30 minutes. The cdc had guidance not that long ago about a vaccine with the state healt Health Agency ay said it was on track for government review imager not had talked about phase three trial in september astrazeneca talked about vaccine in october. Against the backdrop and this happened from astrazeneca what is your best estimate with a safe vaccine being available. One thing i learned is a cdc director, im not in the opinion business im in the data and science. When does the data suggest. Based on whats going on with pfizer imager not that it is conceptual and they will have enough data to present it to the fda for evaluation somewhere before the end of october and the end of november. The reason i cannot be more specific is these trials are event driven trials in the really 100 dependent on how much covid occurs in the volunteer population. If i
Good morning to everyone assembled here and those watching online and tuned into cspan one. We are delighted to be able to host this one hour session today and the release of the review. We are doing this today under the auspices of the csi says csis special thanks to my colleagues at csis. Special thanks to the csis Production Team putting this together. From dod, special thanks to jennifer nicholson. There has been a lot of support from dod in putting this together. The biodefense posture review a few minutes ago, we published here csis at csis, my colleague and i published a critical questions piece on the release of the bpr. Week my colleague and i also released a piece and it began by impacting unpacking many factors that feeds the pessimism that they will be little sustained against future path again eight pathogenic threats. And makes the case that there is reason for optimism and hope based on several factors, survey work that shows strong support for active American Government
Just an osc body. It is very much one that we hope we have not met yet, but we will have active participation from the services, from the combatant command, so they have that element of hearing from all parts of the department where there are challenges and what is needed to get them. Like most bodies, there are lower working groups that will feed into this on a regular basis and be meeting more often. When i asked richard to talk to that. Just to briefly say, as someone who has cochaired Nuclear Posture, i think my colleagues and we served as the daytoday cochair working group for the bpr, and i think she has been sick and tire of this when we made all these comparisons through the Nuclear Posture review. But as was noted, i think there were some value there in one of the outcomes and the mpr. As we do npr and plantation, a lot of those issues were identified to have a body to go back to to be the lead for implementation for there was a Nuclear Weapons counsel on the case of policy or
Yeah, emotion is flowing here, at spectrum field here, in clearwater, florida. The ceremony just wrapping up, just moments ago. It started at 4 30. Most heart wrenching moment came from roys wife brandy, she stepped to the mike and she talk for several minutes about their childhood relationship, they met when they were nine and 12 years old. They went on their first date years later. Their first date was over a game of pool, and their second one was, over a game of pingpong, but, she went home and she told her mom, that she met the man that she would eventually marry. They had that kind of a relationship and she talked about that moments ago. Everything i still want to be is all because of him. Im not sure how to be me, without him. I loved my son dearly. I am going to miss him dearly. Im so thankful that he got to spend the time with all you folks here, as well as in my home. Look at the fields right now at the ballpark you are watching the ceremony as they are wrapping it up here, an
Rain in the lower elevations and 2 to 4 for the hills and wind gusts of 50 miles per hour. Many elements coming together to bring a vigorous system our way. You can see cells here from point rays off the coast. It has been the lighter rain, heavier downpours and along the coast in San Francisco and san mateo and 280, lighter returns. Further south and east into san jose and livermore, 580. Some light shower activity. Were looking at a wind advisory, winds continue to crank up but by noontime, well have gusts over 35 miles an hour and when the front moves through from 6 00 to 9 00 tonight, we could see wind gusts in excess of 50 miles an hour. Were talking total as much as 3 inches before tomorrow night. And we have another system for the second half of the weekend. Cornell . Well, lisa, thank you so much. Brace for it. As lisa said the most powerful storm of the year so far will bear down on the bay area later today. Along with it, gusty winds, abc 7 News Reporter Tiffany Wilson is liv