First, at this hour, Vice President Kamala Harris finally visiting the southern border. 93 days after she became the point person on the crisis. Her trip comes during a record surge in illegal crossings in the United States. Hello. Im john roberts in washington, this is america reports. Good to be back with you again today. Seems like we have a busy news day every day. Today is. Im Gillian Turner in for sandra smith. Vice president harris is on the ground in el paso. Thats where youll recall that we saw one of the most heart breaking videos from this Currents Iteration of the border crisis. You can see Border Patrol footage from april. Shows smugglers scaling a 14 foot fence and dropping two girls on the other side. The smugglers completely abandon the girls leaving them defenseless, alone in the desert outside el paso. John critics point out the epicenter of the border crisis is hundreds of miles away in rio grande. The white house says el paso was a perfect case study. The Vice Presi
Years. That is the best month of the year, im connell mcshane. This is the closing bell. Time for news of the hour. Jackie deangelis in new york, blake burman in white house, Hillary Vaughn with the president elect in delaware and Edward Lawrence in washington with the latest on the covid19 relief deal. A lot of moving parts well get into. The market is back in rally mode. Good afternoon, jackie. Reporter good afternoon, connell. Well talk about the records we set today with the s p 500 and also the nasdaq. Look at the gains there we beat what we were expecting handily. You only needed 16 points on the s p and only needed seven on the nasdaq. This was a strong broad based rally today what is interesting big tech continues to gain on this momentum and continues to go higher from there. Facebook, apples, amazon, microsofts of the world are continuing to climb up. That is something you expect to hear. Again it wasnt just tech, it was broadbased. Look at the dow winners you can see we have
By law, the bidenharris team cannot access federal funding or contact federal agencies without gsa signing off. Now despite the step, the president is clearly not conceding. In a series of tweets he wrote our case strongly continues. We will keep up the good fight, and i believe we will prevail. Nevertheless, in the best interests of our country, im recommending that emily and her team do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols and have told my team to do the same. Now, in response to the letter, the executive director of the bidenharris transition wrote todays decision is a needed step begin tackling the challenges facing our nation, including getting the pandemic under control and our economy back on track. This final decision is a definitive administrative action to formally begin the transition process with federal agencies. Now, in her letter, murphy said she made her decision now because of developments involving legal disputes and certification of Election Results
The states response and said the pandemic is worsening throughout california. The average daily number of cases has tripled in the last month to more than 11,500. However, there is some good news on the vaccine front. Three companies now say they have a highly effective vaccine ready to go or in latestage trials. They are pfizer, moderna, and astoria denver. Today the governor talked about how they plan to roll out those vaccines. Those that are medically vulnerable, assisted living facilities, and, of course, our first responders, and other critical infrastructure, were making sure were protecting those that are protecting the most vulnerable. The governor went on to say mass vaccinations are unlikely to happen anytime soon. Now the governors family quarantining after three of the governors children were close to someone who tested positive for the virus. They have all tested negative, but they will continue to receive tests. San mateo county is still in the red tier, but it may not b
Are already being shipped out. This is a challenging rollout. The nhs in all parts of the u. K. Stands ready to make that happen. Theyre used to handling vaccines. The vaccine is expected to be given to residents and staff at Nursing Homes. Then to frontline medical workers from the National Health service. Pfizer isnt the when vaccine being rolled out. Several even european countries, inruding remain write, are planning on using a russianmade vaccine. Plans are ramping up here in the u. S. On how to effectively distribute a covid vaccine. Public Health Officials say we could see the first immunizations sometime next month, budget fox news tells us widespread distribution will likely take several more months. Reporter were about a week away from the potential fda decision on pfizers request for emergency use authorization. States must provide the federal government details on where they want a vaccine to be delivered by friday, but some public Health Officials say they dont expect wide