monday, march 1st, 5 a.m. in new york. a new month bringing new hope in the fight against coronavirus. shipping out to health centers nationwide as we speak. the cdc director signing off on the vaccine sunday after the fda gave it the green light. the j&j vaccine comes with a single shot and does not require storage at the ultracold temperatures like pfizer and moderna. those could dramatically speed up vaccinations. now only 4 million doses are ready. johnson & johnson has pledged to have 20 million doses available by the end of march and 100 million by the end of summer. we ll see in the second half of the year whether there will be a second dose recommendation for this vaccine. certainly one dose will keep you out of the hospital, keep you out of the intensive care unit and keep you out of the morgue. if i were not vaccinated now and i had a choice of getting a j&j vaccine now or waiting for another vaccine, i would take whatever vaccine would be available to me as qui
the pfizer and moderna had. a single-dose vaccine to be shipped and stored at standard refrigerated temperatures, but johnson & johnson and its parter ins face the same challenge of supply and demand all manufacturers have had to manage so far. cnn chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta is following the process. we have a plan to roll it out as quickly as johnson & johnson can make it. reporter: but the truth is, no matter how fast they go, it s never going to feel fast enough. the number out of the gate, meaning right out of authorization, closer to 10 million. now hearing 4 million. how does the public make sense of that? we don t control the volumes in final bottle form. playing that middle step. reporter: making a new vaccine by the millions always an impressive feat. in charge of technical ways. can t sacrifice safety and quality for speed. reporter: it s his job to strike that balance. what is the biggest, hurdle, then, to scaling up? bottleneck is
the sexual harassment investigation into new york s governor andrew cuomo. a second woman accusing him of inappropriate behavior. alleging in the new york times that he made suggestive comments. the statement just in from the governor. severe weather threat. flash flooding washing out roads in the southeast, with more rain on the way. 15 million americans from dallas to nashville now on alert for severe storms. a tornado watch issued. rob marciano standing by. calls for justice. the disturbing details in the death of a black man while in police custody. internal police records obtained by abc news revealing evidence of a violent arrest. his family claiming he was beaten severely. demands tonight for body cam video to be released. the terrifying scene caught on camera. a suspect stealing a car at a gas station with two young children inside. what happened next. and zoom surgery backlash. the doctor appearing before a judge while operating on a patient. the hearing im
just how bad they would be and how far left they would go. he never talked about this. we would have those wonderful debates. he would never talk about this. we didn t know what the hill he was talking about. greg: if a republican president makes a triumphant return to the white house, i wonder who that will be. a republican president will make a triumphant return to the white house. i may wonder who that will be. greg: it was just like old times. trump boiled it down for all of us. he no longer had his mean tweets keeping cnn anchors up at night. you had unsecured borders, fewer jobs, dead pipeline, rising gas prices and return to a disastrous climate agreement and rising crime that gets a pass from the cupboards of tensile culture. the only good thing joe the vaccines, came from you know who. never let them take the credit because they don t deserve the credit. they just follow. they are following our plan. greg: then he laid down the most vital challenge. joe, on
based on videos like these. did bear spray lead to his death? as many as 40 cars in a massive pileup people forces to jump off a bridge to get out of the way. the major highway shutdown fighting hate. protests on both coasts today after the rise in attacks on asian americans. the nypd now searching for this attacker the surgeon s warning. a doctor zooms into a court hearing for a traffic violation while he s in the middle of surgery. are you available for trial? it kind of looks like you re in an operating room right now. plus the emotional story behind this man learning to walk again and the nfl legend cheering him on. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz-balart. good evening it has been 75 days since the u.s. administered the first vaccine for covid. since then more than 70 million shots have been given with some 22 million people fully vaccinated but it s been a frustrating journey getting to this point, one plagued by long lines and shortages