Now predicts there will be as many as 9,600 more depths by the end of this month, as the nation now approaching that somber milestone, 1 million covid deaths. and as the fda reviewing moderna s request for authorization for its vaccine. there s a new poll tonight that says just 18% of parents will vaccination their children right away. there is a tornado watch, severe weather alert, dangerous storms for text texas and oklahoma and then that threat moves east. pdallas, memphis, atlanta all watching this. let s get right to senior meteorologist rob marciano timing it out for us tonight. hey, rob. reporter: hi, david. may is peak tornado season for the plains and mother nature is abiding. we are stacked with tomorrow threats, tornado watches expanding tonight. west texas up through oklahoma. big winds, big hail, and, yes, tornadoes. dallas may get clipped. heavy rains into missouri and then the storms refire tomorrow. shreveport up through little
Moderna. j & j is just a little bit behind. so that may have to wait for another month. can you tell us what the latest status is as far as you understand of the process that the fda will undertake for a kids vaccine? yes. so that actually is moving along i think pretty well. of course, those of us who are parents of kids who are under 12, not fast enough, but it is coming. correct. you know, i have a 9 year old i would like to get vaccinated, and i think what is going to happen, again guesswork, in the next two weeks or so we should see a filing from pfizer for 5 to 11 year olds. the fda will probably take two to three weeks to review the data. my hope, this is really hope, before halloween my 9 year old gets his first shot if everything goes well. it could slip a little bit, but that s the timeline. for younger kids, all of that probably under 5, probably a month behind. maybe by the end of november,
Safe. possibly it will be a phased-in booster, with those who are most vulnerable first. as the secretary put it, the president himself plans to get a booster, once it was approved, once his white house physician said it was necessary, he himself would take it. dr. jha, questions like the ones i m about to ask may make physicians nervous because it is a time when americans all sort of fancy themselves armchair epidemiologists. but if you have had moderna or johnson & johnson, is this process, is what they re reviewing relevant to you? are they just reviewing pfizer data? yes, so they re reviewing pfizer data right now. they will be reviewing moderna data in the upcoming weeks. what is going to happen, i suspect tomorrow, is a determination by the advisory committee that will officially and technically only be about pfizer. but in the next couple of weeks we will see a determination on