Day. Ktvus Jana Katsuyama is here with the pfizer results in the race to get vaccines to people. Reporter one interesting point is pfizer says their data showed basically the vaccine was 94 effective with older adults and had no serious side effects. Now the fda has an Advisory Panel on standby to review and publicly debate the data in early december. As president elect joe biden held a briefing with healthcare workers wednesday, the nations ninemonth battle with the coronavirus show the emotional toll. One nurse tearing up along with the president elect. The hardship and heartbreak on the front lines, now seeing some hope. On wednesday pfizer announced new test results from their vaccine candidate shows a 95 efficacy rate overall, despite the rest timeline. The nations top Infectious Disease expert said in a call this week that he is confident the vaccines will be safe. The data then goes to the fda , to career scientists who have no political obligation to anyone. Then they go to an
A quarter mile or less. Anger grows over budget cuts for Health Services and education, and desperate for food and aids. We report from sudan where thousands of refugees who fled the fighting in ethiopia are getting help. President donald trump has suffered another court loss in his attempts to overturn the results of the us president ial election. A federal judge in pennsylvania has thrown out a lawsuit filed by the trump campaign, which sold to exclude millions of mail in ballots. In the states. The judge issued a scathing ruling saying that it failed to provide evidence of voter fraud. The trunk campaign has now lost all withdrawn dozens of civil lawsuits. I was there as mike hanna reports from washington. It count is more than 30 since the elections brought in various key swing states. But this very significance because its a ruling by a federal judge and also significant because of the extremely scathing language he used. He likened the trump appeal to a frankenstein monster which
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It seems like. If you listen to House Speaker nancy pelosi, theyre going to start to craft that legislation next week, hope to have it passed by end of the month, definitely passed by middle of march. Jobless benefits start to run out, thats the threat the white house referenced so much. Wolf, heres the catch. No republicans are on board. Theyre opposed to this. Despite calls for bipartisanship and invitations for republicans to the white house, President Biden now appears ready to move on without them. Theyre just not willing to go as far as i think we have to go. Reporter President Biden making clear in the strongest terms yet, he wont wait for republicans to pass his pandemic relief bill. What republicans proposed is to do nothing or not enough. Reporter days after sitting down with Senate Republicans in the oval office, biden said he wont delay the bill in hopes of getting some of them on board. If i have to choose between getting help now to americans who are hurting so badly, get
Good morning, everybody. Im becky quick and welcome friyay were watching the equity futures. Three down days in a row, but the dow did make a pretty stunning recovery, down actually over 300 points after the numbers at 8 30 yesterday that showed that initial jobless claims were higher than anticipated. Ended down by 20 points at the end of the session this morning dow futures down about 13, s p s p are flat lining, nasdaq basically flat lining too well be watching this closely to see how people shoring things up you as we head into this weekend. And also take a look at what is happening in the treasury market the ten year which yesterday fell back below 7. 0 and now is 7. 26 . Lets talk about what happened last night. President trump and former Vice President biden making their case to the American People on dueling town halls i was sitting there with my remote going back and forth, both events focusing on the Trump Administrations handling of tGlobal Pandemic. Do you support herd immu