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welcome, everyone. a biden administration official says 9 million doses of the johnson & johnson covid vaccine are ready to go into patients arms after the u.s. lifted on friday a temporary suspension of the vaccine s use. now, that pause was put into place amid reports of a rare type of blood clot in more than a dozen people who received the shot. chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta explained the decision to resume use of the vaccine to cnn s anderson cooper. this is a rare, very rare but possible occurrence here, and it needs to be treated a certain way. anderson, i m going to put up this graphic here. just, you know, when you think about risk versus benefit, that s what really the emergency use authorization is all about. and that s what they really looked at here. if you look on the left, that s women between the ages of 18 and 49. for every 1 million doses given, we saw roughly 13 cases of this condition of clotting. but at the same time, prevented 12 deaths
thanks, jonathan. i m jonathan capehart in for lawrence o donnell. tonight, day five. humanitarian crisis in texas. the good news, power s been restored to most of the state. the number of households without electricity is down from 4 million to around 100,000. but there s a new danger putting texans at risk, millions are now confronting a water crisis. 13 million texans don t have safe drinking water due to cracked pipes, frozen wells and water treatment plants that have been knocked off line. the people of texas are suffering because of decades of republican intransigence. republicans refuse to take action to weatherize water systems from the cold, and the texas tribune reports texas officials knew winter storms could leave the state s power grid vulnerable, but they left the choice to prepare for harsh weather up to the power companies, many of which opted against the costly upgrades. texas republicans are to blame for these failures, let s be clear, and democrats ar
13 million texans don t have safe drinking water due to cracked pipes, frozen wells, and water treatment plants that have been knocked off-line. the people of texas are suffering because of decades of republican intransigence. republicans refuse to take action to weatherize water systems from the cold, and the texas tribune reports texas officials knew winter storms could leave the state s power grid vulnerable, but they left the choice to prepare for harsh weather up to the power companies, many of which opted against the costly upgrades. texas republicans are to blame for these failures, let s be clear, and democrats are now working to right these wrongs starting at the top. on february 14th, the first day of the power outages in texas, president biden signed an emergency declaration that authorized fema to provide the state with critical equipment like generators and resources such as water and diesel fuel. president biden spoke with the governor of texas last night, and t
the us will pledge four billion dollars to an international coronavirus vaccination programme. how do you revive the iran nuclear deal? the us is set to hold talks with tehran and key european powers. and, we meet the virtual therapy dog, being given a merit award after providing comfort and support for thousands of people. hello and welcome to the programme. nasa s perseverance rover has landed safely on mars, where it will begin to seek out signs of ancient life on the red planet. the robot spacecraft left earth seven months ago and successfully navigated a risky landing phase, known as the seven minutes of terror. it will now drill and collect samples of rock and soil. our science correspondent, rebecca morelle has the latest. perserverence is perserverence is going about one kilometre per second. fix, one kilometre per second. a nerve wracking weight at mission control, then celebrations, as a signal is received from mars. it is touchdown for nasa s perseverance rover an