celebrations. germany intends to extend its lock down as that country records more than a thousand deaths in one day for the first time. hardest hit britain, may be offered a lifeline as the oxford astr a azenca vaccine begins the roll out. >> the focus is on saving lives and enabling the health care system to get back to something approaching normal. >> it will increasingly become a race between the vaccine and the virus. but not only the did covid have a head start, it's picking up speed. >> health secretary matt handdock described it as a day of mixed emotions. great news of the vaccine, and terrible news about the lockdown. all topped off with britain leaving the eu, isolated, and uncertain. that wasser charlie dagget in london. as the united states and european union race to vaccinate hundreds of millions people, there's concern that poorer nations are being left behind.

wealthy countries which is 14% of the world's population has-purchased more than half of the sachsvaccine. >> a shot in the arm in a small stuffy room in the small township. it may not look like much, but she believes this is her only opportunity to protect herself from covid-19 for the foreseeable future. >> so i feel it's important for me, i'm not working, so it's a chance for me, so, let me go for it. >> it was your best chance of getting a vaccine? >> it was. >> her instincts are not far off. they are participating in one of four vaccine trials under way in south africa, but despite being at the forefront of vaccine research on the continent, this country like so many other african nations might have to

wait until 2023 before everyone has been immunized. >> what we are headed for is when front line health care workers in ethiopia will be waiting to be vaccinated even after the 20-year-olds in the united states has been vaccinated and that is an unacceptable scenario. >> this is the lead researcher in to global vaccine distribution. she tells us that the delay in vaccinating poorer countries will have devastating consequences for the global economy, costing wealthy nations around $120 billion, nobody is safe, until everyone is safe. there's also a very real risk that if the pandemic is allowed to continue raging in poorer countries, while high income countries are protected, it can continue to mutate and spread, and then we could end with up with a strain that our current vaccine candidates don't cover. >> around 100 nations have joined an initiative to help

provid fair access to vaccines. it's so far falling well short of demand. once the vaccine finally reaches low incombinationkocome nations another problem, distribution. just think of the nightmare of transporting vaccines in to remote areas on foot in nepal, by donkey in yemen or over water in far flung villages in the democratic republic of congo. the vaccine needs to be stored in ultra freezing temperature thes. a problem for places with poor or nonexistent electrical grids. the trials in south africa, is a front-runner the for wide distribution here, because its cheaper than the other leading candidates, and only requires normal refrigeration. he said that the covid vaccine will have to be easily

accessible so that people don't have to travel miles to get that life saving shot. >> we need to ensure that the program itself is friendly. and inviting for people to come forward, because the last thing that you are wanting to do is add fuel to the anti-vaccine lobby in terps of why people should not be vaccinated. that is what you are wanting to avoid. >> it may be a new pandemic, but it comes with age old problems of inequality as developing nations prepare for the mammoth task of vaccinating hundreds of thousands of people in remote corners of the globe. south africa. ♪ can (ringing)

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. the new year we will see a recreation of the historic voyage of the mayflower, the ship that carried the pilgrims to the new world, this mayflower doesn't have a wooden hole and cloth sails. it doesn't even have a crew. we have the story from plymouth england. >> reporter: among the yachts and freighters floating in the harbor, a little ship the warming up for a big journey. >> we don't know how it will go. will it make it across the

atlantic. it does have a successful first voyage. >> reporter: success is uncertain, because although the vessel will rely on the latest technology when it sets out in the spring. >> you have all sorts of cameras, here, here and here. >> reporter: it will not carry a captain or crew. >> it has no people space. >> reporter: instead, robotics expert said that artificial intelligence designed by ibm will guide it. >> so, it looks at its own cameras like eyes. looks at the radar and all other sensors and charts its own course and deal with unique situationsout human input. >> situations like other ships that it could encounter along the way. >> course change required. >> reporter: to recognize them, humans like this software engineer are training it with more than a million images. >> we can see here that we are able to track other vessels. what we are doing at the moment is simulating what she is seeing. >> that's what you don't want to ship to run into.

>> absolutely. yep. >> reporter: programmers are also setting the ship's destination. plymouth, massachusetts, retracing the voyage made by the mayflower, 400 years ago this month. it took that wooden merchant ship 66 days to transport dozens of pilgrims across the atlantic n the 1950s a replica sailed from england to massachusetts, where it's docked today. but fanef who grew up near plymou plymouth, massachusetts, wanted to mark the past by looking ahead instead. >> i thought, well, we should build a ship that speaks to the next 400 years what the marine enterprise will look like then as opposed to what it looked like 400 years ago. >> reporter: an international team turned his vision in to the solar and wind powered may flower autonomous ship, the software developer is to learn more about our oceans by gathering data on plastic

pollution, warming waters and the affects on marine life. >> it's expensive for the scientists to be on the research vessels so having ships like this is an important step in enabling us to go out to the dang are ruerous places and lea. >> reporter: other boats have tested similar technology. take for instance, the car firrfir ferry. >> what are the benefits to not having a crew in here? >> nobody gets tired or hurt or sick, and we can keep the ship small. >> what is your biggest fear with this vessel? >> something silly breaks that we didn't think of, and it slowly crashes in to ireland. >> could it capsize? >> sure. that would be sad, but i would not want that to happen. >> have we thought of every possible situation? >> if it does, the team will track it via satellite and salvage it, if it succeeds it

will commemorate history while charting a new path. i want people to look back on this 400 years from now, and think about how different this was from what other people were doing. >> it's a future he said, that the world is just starting to imagine. plymouth, england. ♪

. as 2020 ends and the new year dawns we look at the year that makes history. >> tonight the cdc is confirming the new and deadly coronavirus case. >> the first case was a washington state man who traveled from the city of china. february was consumed with the impeach ment of president trump, he was vecheventually acquitted >> this this is the what the end result was. >> march, it was back to covid. the world health organization the declared a global pandemic and the 2020 olympics was

officially postponed. tensions over covid took center stage in april. when armed demonstrators took to the michigan state capitol to protest stay-at-home orders. in may, the nation's focus shifted. to justice and inequality. >> i can't breathe, officer. >> after the death of george floyd. >> i can't breathe! >> i can't breathe! >> sparking protests all around the country. a peaceful protest near the white house was broken up in june medical record to allow president trump to pose outside a church holding a bible. ♪ >> got a bit of normalcy in july when major league baseball finally returned, in front of cardboard cutouts but it was better than nothing. as if 2020 was not hard enough,

hurricane lawyer hurricane laura slammed in to the louisiana gulf coast and the highest court in the land changed with the death of ruth bader ginsburg and president trump's nomination of judge amy coney barrett to replace her. covid hit the oval office in october. president trump was diagnosed, hospitalized and released all in the waning days of the camp an. in november, we voted. joe biden won, president trump can disagreed. and tried to overturn the result both in the courts and in certain state legislatures. mercifully the year-ended with some to positive news on covid. the vaccines were finally here. much needed shots in the arm that will continue far in to the new year. and that is the overnight news for this new area's day. for some of you the news continues, for others check back

later for cbs this morning. and you can follow us online, any time, at cbs ne .com. reporting it's friday, january 1st, 2021. this is the "cbs morning news." new year, new hope. we take a look at celebrations across the globe as people look for a fresh start in 2021. pharmacist arrested. how one man spoiled hundreds of covid vaccine doses meant for the public. hotel dispute. new video emerges of a woman wrongly accusing a teen of stealing her phone. why she claims she's the victim. good morning. and happy new year. i'm diane king hall, in for anne-marie green.