so well, for so long. a new species of whale has been discovered ten metres long in the gulf of mexico. hello, i m laura trevelyan in washington, christian fraser is in london. south africa has suspended the roll out of the astrazeneca vaccine, because a new study shows it to be much less effective against the south african variant of covid 19. this matters because the vaccine is supposed to play a big part this year in meeting the huge global demand. three billion doses have been ordered so far. so not great news. but then we should put this into some perspective. while it may not be effective at stopping mild or moderate infection from the south african variant we can t draw any firm conclusions about severe cases, because the participants in the study were young and so weren t in the demographic most at risk. and the better news is that the oxford vaccine has shown to provide good protection against the uk variant which is much more predominant here in the uk of cour
m randy price with cindy fitzgibbon. we could set a record? cindy: sunday morning, saturday night. you walk outside, it is incredible the cold that is coming on in. wind chill is8 below. subzero all the way down to nantucket. the wind is about 15 0-15 miles per hour with even colder temperatures this weekend. the actual temperatures in the single digits for most of the area. three below in the orange area. the core is up towards hudson bay, and that is going to be coming in over the weekend. the impact gets higher saturday sunday morning but the worst of it is saturday night into sunday morning and we have high pressure to the south which will give us sunshine for the first half of the day. s this afternoon with increasing clouds. plan on the wind chills subzero this afternoon. through noontime on sunday. let s get you out to the roads. olessa: a live look outside at the leverett connector, no problems in either direction. we didn t have a lot of construction to begin with
s eyeopener. emily: it is cold. bitterly cold air already in place. good morning. cindy: hard to imagine it is going to get worse than this. you can get frostbite in about 10 minutes. make sure you are bundled up and the kids and the pets are inside. 6:45, the sunrise. it feels like eight below right now in boston. that is the wind chill out the door right now. this is not the worst of it. the wind chill will be running between 20 and 30 below zero this weekend. the north. you will feel. a big change 1 right now in worcester. 5 right now in beverly. high pressure will give us a good amount of sunshine. we will see increasing clouds before the sun goes down. 20 s this afternoon. wind chills will be below zero through 9:00 a.m. the coldest is yet to come. wind chill warning those into effect starting 4:00 tomorrow afternoon. olessa: once you get going it is a slow ride. this is the expressway by the gas tank. there is a disabled car blocking a road on columbia northbound. a cr
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