Im annemarie green. We begin this morning with americas staggering death toll. The latest figures reveal more than a quarter of a Million People in the u. S. Have died from covid. As cases spike across the country, more than 70,000 americans have been hospitalized. The Health Care System is feeling the strain. Debra is in washington. How are state and local governments responding now to this worsening crisis . It ranges. In north dakota, there is a mask mandate. In ohio, a 21day curfew and in florida, there are no changes. State and local governments are reimposing measures to slow the spread. I need to ask a little more. We know this will cause some more harm out there. Restrictions mostly on restaurants, bars and gyms come as the total number of americans who have died from covid19 passes 250,000. The rate of growth from the middle of october until now is something we have not seen since march. A record 79,000 americans are currently hospitalized. We dont want to think about what wil
The vaccine developed by Oxford University doesnt have to be stored at ultra cold temperatures as some others, which makes is easier to distribute. The subfreeze by pfizer and partner biontech is one downside. The fda says a committee will meet december 10th to discuss an emergency use authorization which could start the Distribution Process immediately. Moderna is expected to file for an emergency use authorization by the end of the month. Its vaccine is 95 effective and can be stored at regular refrigeration temperatures, developed thanks in part to funding from dolly parton. While the u. S. Military is gearing up for what it calls operation warp speed to distribute one or more vaccines once approved, others are scrambling at the local level to give the series of shots. Abc 7 david louie spoke with a logisti logisti logistics sker logistics expert. It was Pretty Amazing to see how fast the testing ramped up, but vaccinating millions of americans once supplies become available will be
You can actually see the effects much more quickly. But i do want to warn these are theory, preliminary results. Theres 30000 people and you need to follow them for months and years. So these are just a early signals, but its promising now how long the immunity last that we have to see and how many people will take it. Thats the other concern, because you could have a 100 percent effective vaccine. If only half the people take it on half as Effective Group population. So if you have to follow the if its necessary to follow the results for months and years, what does that say when manufacturers are hoping to get this out of the market and into peoples arms or whatever in the next a month or so . Yes, so i thought in terms of racing to get it out we, we know that in terms of the early thing, some of the months and years were trying to answer is, does it have, for example, immunity that lasts for months and years. Thats the long term immunity question is a reduction. 2 years down the road
The extension follows an appeal from armenia and mediation from russian president vladimir putin. It brokered the deal and has put Russian Troops on the ground to enforce it. Its a russian flag, no flying of the enchanter minion, dobby Found Ministry in a disputed cow. The hard district Russian Peacekeeping forces are setting up here ask part of a cease fire agreement brokered by moscow. Guarding a Christian Ministry is one of their duties, along with supervising the exodus of armenian troops and civilians from the area. The armenian priests who live in a monastery, how allowed to remain christian armenians feel they have no other choice but to leave the terms of the peace deal, a low azerbaijan, to take control of kandahar formally controlled by armenians. Both ethnicities have lived here at different times, according to moscow, more than 4 pounds and people have died in the 6 weeks of fighting in and around. The armenians are still burrowing the dead. Yes. All the dead guys and now o
Short commute i hit a lot of standing water. That woke me back up again. Hi, mike. Yeah. Definitely some minor ponding out there as we head through the morning commute. The deeper we get into the morning commute the less likely youll run into that. We have patches of drizzle and light rain to contend with. A bit of fog out there as we try to keep things damp. That will transition after the morning commute into a few waves of showers that should be over around 3 00, 4 00. The clouds may open just right before the sun sets, but tonight tule fog will be arriving. The morning commute will be wetter than the evening commute. Kind of the reverse of what we had yesterday. Well talk about a dry pattern coming up as we look into thanksgiving week. Thank you. Well start this morning with a major announcement overnight about pfizers covid19 vaccine. We know youve been tracking these vaccine developments closely. Pfizer says it is just days away now from seeking fda approval. Jobina has the detail