With ali velshi weathering the storm. Tonight, hurricane ida is a category 2 storm, but a powerful one at that. Let s begin with ali in new orleans, where the power has been out for some time, and it looks like it s going to be out for a while. Reporter: yeah, joshua, we re in the 11th hour since landfall of this storm, and it s still whipping up. You can see this water behind me in new orleans, which wasn t sort of inside of the center of this hurricane to start with. So it s a very, very powerful storm, and it s mostly hitting new orleans on the backside of this thing. We saw it pop up in wind about 2, 2 1/2 hours ago, to pretty intense. It started to let off for a little while, and we re still getting big gusts and bands. What ended up happening about a couple of hours ago is we lost power. We lost it in the local area here downtown. I thought it might have been central to this block or building. We learned there was a much bigger problem. It was what they call a catastrophic proble
the record late today in advance of that cdc meeting, saying the clinical trial data on pfizer makes it clear to them that kids 12 to 15 are fine the take the pfizer vaccine, what it means bottom line is that american kids aged 12, 13, 14, 15 could end up being eligible to be vaccinated by the end of this week, which is fantastic news. in terms of the country being able to just live more normally. vaccinated kids in schools, in sports, in summertime activities, families being able to be together in multigenerational ways without worrying that an unvaccinated kid might unknowingly have an unsymptomatic case of covid and might infect grandma or grandpa to devastating effect or a relative who can t be vaccinated for some reason. this should fix those worries for families with kids ages 12 and up. but again, the cdc advisory meeting is going to happen in the next couple days. with the fda saying today from their perspective, they re ready to go. that means as soon as that cdc dec
pfizer makes clear to them that kids 12 to 15 prime to take the pfizer vaccine. what it means, bottom line, is that american kids aged 12, 13, 14, 15, could end up being eligible to be vaccinated by the end of this week which is fantastic news. in terms of the country being able to just love more normally, vaccinated kids in schools, in sports,, in summertime activities. families being able to be together in multi generational ways without worrying that unvaccinated kid might unknowingly have an un-symptomatic case of covid might infect grandma or grandpa to devastating effect or relatives who can t be vaccinated for some reason. this should fix those worries for families with kids ages 12 and up. but again, the cdc advisory meeting is going to happen in the next couple of days but the fda saying today, from their perspective, they are ready to go. that means as soon as that cdc decision is in, vaccinations of 12, 13, 14, 15 year olds could begin immediately when that happens
week, which is fantastic news in terms of the country being able to just live more normally. vaccinated kids in schools, in sports, in summertime activities, families being able to be together in multigenerational ways without worrying that an unvaccinated kid might unknowingly have an unsymptomatic case of covid and might infect grandma or grandpa to devastating effect or a relative who can t be vaccinated for some reason. this should fix those worries for families with kids ages 12 and up. but again, the cdc advisory meeting is going to happen in the next couple days. with the fda saying today from their perspective, they re ready to go. that means as soon as that cdc decision is in, vaccinations of 12, 13, 14, 15-year-olds could begin immediately when that happens, within just the next few days. and again, this is just the pfizer vaccine. we expect that moderna s clinical trial results for testing their vaccine on younger kids, those should come in the next few weeks. but