starting late monday, anyone riding on airplanes, trains, subways, taxis, and buses will be required to wear a mask. let s start with the breaking news on these new variants. cnn s he knew mcmorris-santoro joins me live. evan, what more do we know about this new positive case? reporter: fred, as you say, this is fresh news coming in, but what we know is concerning. maryland officials say the south african variant popped up in the baltimore metro area in a person who hasn t been traveling very much which to them suggests community spread of that variant. so they re currently out there trying to contact trace that case, find out more about it and find out where it is. but experts have told us to expect these new variants to pop up here in the united states and that appears to be happening, at least with this maryland case. and we re going to see what more we can find out about that. but as you mentioned, the arrival of this new variant suggests how active the pandemic still i
we ll examine that. then the backlash over restrictions in the golden state. in california where they re really putting big restrictions on everything from restaurants to gym owners. we ll talk to a couple who are very upset about that trend. in hewlett-packard, yet another big, bold-faced corporate name to say in california we are out of here. we re moving to texas. houston in particular. why do you think they did that? give you a hint. they will save a lot on taxes. welcome everybody, i m neil cavuto and this is kos to coast. get the read on the big development of the day an approval of an american vaccine but by another country that has some in this country saying wait a minute, isn t this our drug, our company, our thing? not so fast. let s go to edward lawrence in washington, d.c. with more on that. hey, edward. reporter: alluding to the fact that the flighted kingdom will become the first to approve vaccine that will go into arms next week. the government approved the p
lawrence in washington, peter doocy covering the president in wilmington, delaware. edward, we ll start with you, when things get started this willing something of a surge event? reporter: exactly, 61 million doses of pfizer-biontech vaccine sit on a shelf. that will happen after 24 hours after approval. 24 hours after that vaccinations take place under emergency designation. fda hearing set for december 10th. we could see mass vaccinations on december 12th. the plans the administration have made are shift into action. but every day that goes by after the initial push additional vaccines come off-the-shelf because they have been certified and approved for distribution and administration. it s a initial push and then a continuous cadence, flow of vaccine for planning and coordination and execution. reporter: we re looking at 20 million people vaccinated by the end of this month, 30 million in january, 50 million in february. by march operation warp speed estimates 100 mill
vaccine for emergency use. we ll have much more on this coming up. meanwhile at home the white house set to hold a vaccine summit this afternoon. president trump expected to sign an executive order aimed at insuring all americans have priority to any american-made covid-19 vaccines. a lot happening on this tuesday morning. i m sandra smith. hi, trace. trace: good morning, everyone. i m trace gallagher. in two days a panel of fda advisors meet to discuss pfizer and biontech for emergency use authorization. if approved 100 million doses of the vaccine will be shipped out within 24 hours. enough for 50 million people. but pfizer is warning that it won t be able to provide any additional doses until late june or july because other countries have bought up most of its supply. operation warp speed official paula says he is not concerned about a potential lack of availability. we re in contact with the states every day. all the jurisdictions minus a couple have had the opportuni
for the full clean up. you re going to hear a lot today. we ve got a lot of facts. we know the facts. we re all intelligent people here, but i think what is lacking is courage to dot right thing. so i wanted to bring you my daughter s bides of courage. my daughter s a two-time cancer survivor at 9 years old. can you do it? hachoo! you want to go to disney land today? yeah. okay. let s go to disneyland. oh, yeah! are you going to go too? i m coming too. she earned all night beads through her cancer treatment program. each bead represents something different, for example, red represents when she had a blood transfusion. black when she got poked with a needle. yellow for in-patient stays. white for chemotherapy. this is what she earned the first month. i d like to share with you what shy has earned over the last two times fighting cancer. a few of the photos, i just want to fly through rile quick of some of the children that we ve met who are local. i went to camp wi