♪ johnson & johnson gets approval from the cdc, now the third vaccine to battle covid will start going into people's arms as early as tomorrow. new details surrounding growing controversy in sexual harassment investigation involving new york governor andrew cuomo. >> they kept saying he's going to start a brand new party we have the republican party it's going to unite and be stronger than ever before. i am not starting a new party. >> the former president backed behind a mike repeating false lines about the election as a new straw poll shows what

conservatives really think of him. the stars are out for the 78th golden globe. busy monday ahead. "early today" starts right now, thanks for starting your weekend and month with us. i'm frances rivera. >> i'm phillip mena. a shot of hope in the hands of johnson & johnson given the green light by cdc to start distributing her one-dose vaccine, the first doses should start shipping to states today blaine alexander is tracking the roll out. >> reporter: the latest fight against covid has reached a new hurdle cdc signed off on recommendation for use and distribution of the single-dose johnson & johnson vaccine now under fda emergency-use authorization for people 18 and older, setting the stage for doses to start shipping. >> interim recommendation passes. >> reporter: that means millions of doses will be speeding across

the country and into americans arm's, now joining moderna and pfizer available, the difference, with johnson & johnson only one-shot needed and vials can be stored at regular refrigerator temperatures rather than sub-zero required of the other two. the white house is making a full-court press urging americans to roll up their sleeves for the new vaccine with clinical trials showing it to be 72% effective compared to roughly 95% efficacy with pfizer and moderna. dr. anthony fauci says despite the numbers the vaccine works. >> 72% effective in preventing you from getting moderate to severe disease but virtually 100% protective against hospitalization and death as proven by this trial that was done. >> reporter: a point he underscored on "meet the press". >> all three of them are really

quite good. if you go to a place and they have j & j and that's the one available now, take it i personally would do the same thing. >> reporter: ns jo johnson & johnson promises to ship 20 million doses by the end of march and 100 million doses by the end of june. for many the wait is grueling financial officials hope the new doses make a dent in lines like these. >> anything is better than nothing. >> reporter: which states get the vaccine supply and how much? the white house said this will be much like the roll out of the other two vaccines the state is 2% of the nation's population then they will get 2% of the supply. >> that's 2% than we had before, thank you. the fbi has a new lead in the investigation of death of capitol hill police officer during the january 6th attack,

the fbi says they've identified a possible assailant. >> reporter: a major breakthrough in the fbi investigation of a capitol hill riot mystery, what caused officer brian sicknick to collapse and die after clashing with protesters during the chaos? federal law enforcement officials says they're focused on a single assail antibioti on a single assailant, one attacking with bear spread in the crowd as rioters are seen doing in this video sources say sicknick was among the targets, the air force veteran died in the hospital shortly afterwards although ruled homicide, no pinpointed cause but now suspected of their -- theirity

ant. -- they're working to identify the suspect and potential charges so far include assault on a police officer but not necessarily homicide because the cause of sicknick's death has not been determined nbc news washington. a second woman has accused new york governor andrew cuomo of sexual harassment and he has issued a statement including an apologize but many democrats in the white house are calling for an independent investigation kathy park with details. >> reporter: new york governor andrew cuomo under fire after a second woman has come forward with claims of sexual harassment the "new york times" first rep reported charlotte bennett acquisition who was with the administration as assistant before leaving in november she said cuomo asked him whether she had sex with older men during an encounter in june at a state capitol office bennett

told the times i understand the governor wanted to sleep with me cuomo releasing a statement denying the allegations writing in part, i acknowledge some things i said were misinterpreted as flirtation, i'm truly story about that meanwhile growing outrage from democratic leaders for cuomo's initial pick for federal review, a judge selected by his own office, now the state's attorney general is asking to give her referral to launch independent investigation with subpoena power into the harassment claims four days ago another former employee lindy boilen detailed the governor's harassment alleging he asked her to play strip poker and gave her a unwanted kiss, the white house

calling the claims simply false. >> president biden has been consistent that he believes every woman should be heard, treated with respect and with dignity and there should be a independent review looking into these allegations. >> reporter: during the height of the pandemic cuomo was praised for his approach but now is under investigation for the way he handled the crisis in nursing homes. he's back in the national spotlight with a separate scandal with a growing list of lawmakers asking him to step down. >> we did reach out to two former aids. did hear back from charlotte bennett who conformed the "new york times" article is 100% accurate and speaks for itself frances? >> thank you. now turning to asia in myanmar seeing it's deadliest days as violence escalated between police and protesters

after the military coup there. now joined by ralph in london, tell us more what happened at these demonstrations. >> phillip, frances, good morning. it's now been exactlily one month since the military coup in myanmar and things have taken a very bloody turn the united nations says 18 protesters were killed with clashes with security forces on sunday, that's by far the bloodiest day we've seen since the coup, but the protesters are undeterred, bannot street today in thousands and demand remains the same, they want to see democracy restored in their country. biden administration is peeking out what happened there. in a tweet u.s. secretary of state antony blinken condemned what he called horneti i ive - what he called horrid violence and -- the u.s. imposed sanctions on some of the coup leader and

expecting new sanctions to be unveiled later this week according to the white house aung san suu kyi the ousted democratic leader of myanmar appeared in court briefly this morning. interesting because we haven't seen her in public since being removed from power by the military a month ago her lawyer said she appears to be in good help. phillip? >> myanmar very much at a cross road thank you for the update. tiger woods breaking his silence after last week's scary car crash thanking players who paid tribute to him on sunday. woods famously wears red on the final day of the tour and certain players on wgc championship wore red and tiger was touched saying they are helping get him through this tough time. in the deep south we kick off the weather with janessa

webb good morning >> hi, good morning. good morning, everyone man, this rain has been consistent all the weekend long in this section of the country, and it's going to last another 24 hours that's why we have flash flood watches in place you can see the heavy bands making its way northeast from philadelphia to new york city. right now we do have 15 million people across the mid-mississippi valley an flash flood watches. that will extend throughout the afternoon. we also watch the severe weather risk from texas all the way into arkansas that's a lk atool the way into i ton of sunshine across florida and it's time to talk about

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i can't imagine her going through the protest all those years ago. >> that is the first look of the tell-all from prince harry and meghan markle sitting with oprah winfrey revealing what life was like for the members of the royal family, no topic was off limits, airs march 7th what a revealing in that sound byte. >> yeah i team it has those old school ratings feel that oprah winfrey used to do, they got a

lot to say, we'll see what they reveal. this weekend on "snl" they roasted marjorie taylor greene for her anti-transgender views. >> we're all endowed with traditional views, i'm a woman so it is my job to threaten my female colleagues, it's a cat fight, what girls do. >> i'm not sure. >> you think i'm crazy, well i'm not. sorry colin, i have to sneeze -- sorry, my allergies. >> that was a sneeze >> oh, yeah, see, when i was a little girl, i sneezed ones and into one said bless you and i demon got in sorry. >> more "snl" come march 27th when the 120 show return -- when the show returns incredible footage of

astronauts more than 250 miles above the earth surface, after taking a space walk for installing support panel outside the international space station. this is the first time we've seen high definition video during an astronaut space walk, they completed it in just over 7 hours an it's fascinating video i could watch all seven hours. >> it is, some of it is relatable like in your garage looking at the iphone light. item like that. celebrating birthdays, justin bieber 27 and -- happy days actor and director ron howard turns 67. front man roger daltr, talking about his generation, he turns 77. >> also harry bellfonte 24.

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