Republicans and police who survived the Capitol Riots. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world this is early start, im christine romans. Good morning, christine, im laura jarrett. Its thursday, may 13th. Its 5 00 a. M. Here in new york. Getting back on line, Colonial Pipeline initiating t after a sixday shutdown caused by a cyber attack. Pipeline officials warn it will take several days for service to return to normal and normal can not come soon enough for millions of drivers along the east coast trying to fill up their tanks. Gas stations throughout the southeast Running On Empty. Three quarters of North Carolina stations totally dry, half the stations in georgia are out of gas including 70 in and around atlanta. Serious shortages also in South Carolina, virginia, florida and maryland. My daughter called, she said, dad, they have gas down the street. This pump right here is not working, the pump on the other side is working fine. I just need some gas, man. Th
Suzanne with me today, our distinguished guests. Dr. Johnetta b. Cole, president and chair of the board of the National Council of negro women and former president of Spelman College and bennett college, the only two hbcus dedicated to educating africanamerican women. And dr. Ruth simmons, president of prairie view a m university, an historic hbcu hbcu. She also served formerly as president of both Brown University and smith college. Its a pleasure to have you both here today with us. You have made such a significant contribution to the field of education. We have invited v. P. Franklin from the university of californiariverside to give a short presentation on the history of blacks in education. Really happy to be a part of the 20th anniversary of the history makers, and i just wanted to say thank you to miss richard son. Im glad to be a part of it at the beginning and here at the end to discuss the background, historic background for Higher Education for africanamericans. Africanameri
Greetings and sell you tell you its all right all right all right here in the United States of america this week marked the release of pfizers now f. D. A. Approved vaccination against 19 yes front line workers including doctors nurses hospital workers and Senior Living facility aids all across the nation stood in line and took injections for all the world to see from kalamazoo to providence all the way down to san diego in tallahassee and while pfizer and their stockholders are now no doubt patting themselves on the back for their swift and remarkable leopards to be the 1st in market to hit us streets with relatively few issues well you know minus the whole anna flack picked up the pen incident in london lets not forget the pfizer is not the only game in town this week the f. D. A. Will be an ounce. Theyre ruling on mcdermotts covert vaccination and its now being reported that astras a need. Is to start Clinical Trials to test a combination of its experimental Coronavirus Vaccine with
We all jump up and down roll up our sleeves and cries stick it here doc lets remember that despite all these new code with 19 vaccinations flooding the marketplace things are not coming up wine and roses for everyone the Peoples Vaccine Alliance a coalition that includes oxfam and Amnesty International has discovered that according to the latest numbers nearly 70 poor countries will only be able to vaccinate one in 10 people against the cove and 19 virus in just next by next year and that by contrast wealthier nations have brought have bought up enough doses to vaccinate their entire populations nearly 3 times over by the end of 2021 if those currently in Clinical Trials are all approved for use so we while we rightfully celebrate the achievements of code net and vaccination makers in germany russia the u. K. And the u. S. We must not let wealth greed and political tribalism. Get in the way of ending this pandemic now lets start watching the hawks. If you want to know whats going on a
A bit of the story. As covert 19 infections reached new heights around the world scientists are putting their Heads Together to fight the pandemic british pharmaceutical giant astra zeneca announced a Clinical Trial program to assess the safety enum huge in a city of a combination of a z d 1222 developed by astra zeneca at Oxford University and sputnik be developed by the russian camel a Research Institute in the unexpected move russian and british scientists are teaming up to see if protection against the corona virus can be improved by combining russias sputnik vaccine with the astra zeneca virus fighter developed at Oxford University hopes are that a cocktail of the 2 might create a stronger and or longer lasting vaccine. For many up to now the idea of russians and brits working together to fight covert 19 may have seemed implausible in august the b. B. C. Wrote russias registration of sputnik has raised concerns about short cutting the normal process and just days ago the b. B. C.