his wife giselle gave an update on his condition earlier on morning joe. he feels great. he wants to get out. they hold him longer but the surgery went great and on the way to a full recovery. democratic pennsylvania attorney general shapiro will go head to head with doug mastriano this november. in north carolina, incumbent republican congressman hawthorne lost his bid conceding to chuck head wards. let s start with nbc news national political correspondent steve kornacki at the big board. good morning. where do things stand for the senate in pennsylvania? yeah. good morning, jose. what a close one we got here. mehmet oz, that is his statewide lead is .2%. just over 2,500 votes. to keep in mind, number one, it appears that the biggest source of outstanding votes in allegheny county where pittsburgh is. it s also david mrk cormick s home county and we think 6,000 or 7,000 uncounted votes. election day votes that have not been tallied so far. in allegheny county on the
corners were caught on safety. and one of africa s biggest rising stars burna boy speaks to the bbc about his grammy award win. a third wave of coronavirus is starting to sweep across the european union much of it driven by the uk variant. large parts of france are going into lockdown again tonight. switzerland is extending its restrictions. poland is going into partial lockdown. germans are being told not to travel at easter. the vaccine rollout across the eu has been slow with around just 10% of the population vaccinated so far. confidence has been shaken after a number of governments suspended the rollout of astrazeneca over concerns about blood clots. but vaccinations are restarting slowly as our paris correspondent lucy williamson reports. never mind the prime minister, in france, it was the astrazeneca jab that needed a shot in the arm today. after weeks of shifting guidelines, the message was meant to be clear it s safe and it works. but only an hour before h
people like me who have gotten three doses that the data shows the protection against hospitalization is over 80% which is really fantastic when you think about the vaccinations that we currently have but two things are happening. right. one is in certain pop populations, people who are older, they re seeing waning of immunity that might affect the severity of illness so that fourth booster is important for them. but, two, the virus itself is continuing to evolve, jose, because there s so much transmission all across the world. because it s evolving, the new variants are posing a new threat to us as well. so, when we control the infections, i think, and we come up with a new generation of vaccines we may be able to get around the infection question, but we re already protecting against severe disease and hospitalization, in the current generation that we have of