Im british by the day. Welcome to news asia. Glad you could join us. He highways leading to the indian capital of delhi, blocked as thousands of farmers protest against new agricultural laws passed by. The government. Farmers are demanding a rollback of the laws. Claim me, they removed a government assured grain purchase scheme that acted as a safety net for them. The government has assured the scheme will continue, but farmers convinced these 20000. 00 farmers arent going anywhere. Their trucks and tractors are blocking the major highways near indias capital. Each one of our tractors is loaded with rations up to 4 months. Until the time the government reverses these new agricultural laws, none of us will go back to the farmers field. Their livelihoods are threatened. They fear that the government will stop buying grain at guarantee prices. The worry is that this could leave them at the mercy of corporations who wont pay enough for their crops. Prime minister, Narendra Modi is trying t
Flames. A lot of smoke in that area. Topper five was overhead, the fire sent up a column of thick black smoke, it was seen for miles. Seven street between fay on east alma avenue have been shut down. Pg e and santa clara Emergency Responders are also on the scene. No reports of any injuries. Traffic alert on the peninsula. A big rig overturned on interstate 280. It flipped over at about 6 30 this morning as it was heading north. It for stay shut down of the two right lanes. Chp is asking drivers to avoid the area. To our coronavirus coverage. Statewide in the last 24 hours there were more than 22,000 new cases. The Positivity Rate now over 7 . Hospitalization rate taking a huge day today jump, more than 9500 patients are in the hospital. Governor newsom is responding with a region by region crackdown. We are live in san jose with where things stand right now. Reporter here in the south bay we are keeping a close eye on this graph. This shows the number of icu bed at least high availabi
You can text us, 202 7488003. Include your name, tell us where you are texting from. On twitter, we are cspanwj. We will look for your posts as well on our facebook page. We start this morning on the modernage of usa today, applied monday for an emergency use authorization from the u. S. Food and Drug Administration after receiving more good news about the safety and effectiveness of its covid19 vaccine. They are the second vaccine maker to request authorization from the federal government after similarly positive results from pfizer host we will start by asking you, when the back in comes out, will you get back native . Tell us your thoughts on that. F you will, 202 7488000 if you wont, 202 7488001. What are some of the next steps . We have a look at that and what you need to know about astrazeneca, moderna, and Pfizer Vaccines, in the third such announcement in as many weeks. Pfizer, moderna, astrazeneca, the headline from last week, the chart onated what happens next. Resultss repor
Close your watching cspan, your unfiltered view of america. Write you today by your television provider. Brought to you today by your television provider. Dr. Chrise beyrer. , we talk about the road ahead with vaccine. Coming this morning on the news of another successful application of moderna to the fda on approval of their vaccine. Beyrer, what are your thoughts at this stage where we have two vaccines in the pipelines . In the pipelines . Guest this is extraordinary. Both the Pfizer Vaccine candidate and the motor in a and the Moderna Vaccine candidate are based on rna technology. These trials have gone very well. They have been very large. The data from both are remarkably similar around over 90 efficacy in protecting people from serious complications and serious diseases with covid. These are not vaccines that prevent primary infection. What they do is reduce the likelihood if you do have an exposure and you do have covid. With the Moderna Vaccine, there were no serious cases in
With the same terrible threat. And within a matter of months, as many as 50 million would be dead. In the United States, the death toll reached 675,000, five times the number of u. S. Soldiers killed in world war i. What was that deadly threat . [ bells tolling ] there were many, many people who died. We had just come a few years before from mexico where we were living on account of the mexican revolution. I was about 10 years old. I was the oldest, and my Four Brothers and sisters of the family, only my dad and my sister did not get it. My two brothers were in one room sick. I was sick in the other bedroom with my mother. My poor dad and sister had to be our attendants and see what they could do for us. Influenza gave you such high fever. Mother told me that i thought her black hair was a cat, and i was afraid of it with a delirium from high fever. People were left very weak with kind of that high fever. And all the schools, the public places, and every place was closed. I guess nearl