could it come here an emergency landing and a passenger dying of cardiac arrest, but did he does coronavirus symptoms before boarding? that scare as millions get ready to travel for the holidays. super saturday the mad rush inside stores for what may be the busiest shopping day of the year. our exclusive look inside college basketball s fight against covid. the technology inside jerseys to keep players safe. and a christmas toy story. the boy fighting for his life and still delivering for others. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz-balart. good evening i m kate snow in for jose tonight, and another development to report reinforcements are on the way. today a cdc panel authorized a second vaccine. this one by moderna for americans over age 18 it will start rolling out on trucks within hours. that means the amount of available vaccine overall will more than double by christmas, but that good news tempered by some new warnings that hospitals cannot s
why it may have been worse than originally feared. player s message. keyontae johnson whose frightening on-court collapse was caught on camera speaking directly to fans in a video message. me and my parents are very grateful for the prayers going out. the latest on the college basketball star s health scare that left the team shaken. and delivery delays? the avalanche of orders for the holiday rush, the warnings major shipping carriers are issuing to customers. will those presents make it in time? hey, good morning, and let s get straight to the breaking news. the fda has now added a second covid-19 vaccine to its arsenal by authorizing the emergency use of moderna s vaccine. the announcement coming at a critical time. the united states reported almost 250,000 cases yesterday. a record high. the fall spike combining with the thanksgiving holiday surge leading to weekly record highs in cases, hospitalizations and deaths, the worst since the pandemic began. and
impact of fossil fuel usage. second, the committee is encourages by the six-point recommendation for taking action on this topic, but would like to request more information regarding specific timelines for each of the action items lefted in the staff plan. the committee would like to communicate their grave concern regarding the possibility of a mass divestment of fossil fuels within a short time frame. the committee would advocate that the board undertake no such rash action until completing a complete analysis of the financial impact the effect it would have on pension performance and costs. we appreciate and understand the desire to divest from fossil fuels from different entities, but we must understand the implications of such a decision before it s made. sorry. time. thank you very much. again, everyone has 1 minute. we re going to announce loudly when you are at your 1-minute mark. understand the constraints we have. sara greenwald, are you present? seeing she s
would have on pension performance and costs. we appreciate and understand the desire to divest from fossil fuels from different entities, but we must understand the implications of such a decision before it s made. sorry. time. thank you very much. again, everyone has 1 minute. we re going to announce loudly when you are at your 1-minute mark. understand the constraints we have. sara greenwald, are you present? seeing she s not here. i will set her speaker card aside. phil casky, followed by margaret pierce. phil casky, retired from the water department. i think i want to say briefly the water department is an incredibly wonderful system. it s one of the most protected systems in the world. and we didn t get that way by being unprotective of the environment. so burning fossil fuels is not protective of the environment. and i would like to keep the water system the way it is and i think that san francisco can be a leader in many, many ways and by divesting is one way
that we double up in this category then? you are a consultant. you are giving us advice for now and in the future. so if you believe it s going to go up, why was that not in the recommendation that came before the board? everybody in this room needs to understand that you hold securities in two places. you give them to managers and those managers make the decision on if the security is attractively valued or not. as a consultant, why don t you recommend us investing more money in the field if you think it s going to go up? we re not recommending adding additional energy to the portfolio unless a manager hired to make that recommendation determines that that s what they should do. we re arguing that you don t take away that choice from them. the figures i quoted to you do not embed an expectation that energy prices will increase. what they do embed is taking energy away diversifies the portfolio. you made a statement that we re making a political statement. could you p