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we page tribute to actress cicely tyson who broke barriers cicely tyson who broke barriers during her decades' long career. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. we're going to begin this morning with the latest challenge on the fight against the coronavirus outbreak. a variant first detected in south africa is now here in the u.s. it's infected at least two people in different parts of south carolina. and this strain could cous and more resistant to some vaccines. debra alfarone is in washington. what else do we know about this dangerous mutation? >> reporter: we know that the existing vaccines don't work as well with this new strain to fight it. that's why moderna and pfizer are both working hard to find new ways to fight this strain. a dangerous new coronavirus strain has turned up in the united states, infecting two patients in different parts of south carolina. >> there is no known travel history and no known connection between the cases. >> reporter: this variant was initially detected in south africa. it's believed to be more cont

we'll take a look back at the life of american hollywood legend cicely tyson. we begin with news of another covert 19 vaccine that could soon enter circulation late stage trials of the u.s. produced novak's job so it's been nearly 90 percent effective and it shown to have some effect in this against both the u.k. and to a slightly lesser extent south african variance and the head of the european commission says drug maker astra zeneca hasn't given a plausible explanation for delaying deliveries brussels has warned it may stop any vaccines manufactured in the block from being exported they too on friday europe's medicine agency is expected to recommend approval of the astra zeneca vaccine for emergency use but german health officials have warned it should only be given to people under 65 saying there isn't enough data on older people. is a social epidemiologist a professor at the center of social medicine and community health at. university he says the vaccines potential against new variance is encouraging. this vaccine comes from a relatively less known company

she was an american entertainment icon cicely tyson has died at the age of $96.00. we begin with a coronavirus outbreak in the world's 3rd worst affected nation brazil has vaccinated more than a 1000000 people but that's less than half of one percent of the overall population and cities like mouse the gateway to the amazon rainforest still face a shortage of oxygen and hospitals corruption scandals are also hampering the vaccine rollout. reports when you back to vaccines has arrived in my mouth and inoculations have resumed after being suspended from. the vaccination program team under scrutiny after local off dorothy's work used to favoring themselves and friends i skipping the line in taking shots i had of health workers and the elderly to field hospitals have been set up in man hours were patients must wait for a room in shock or are they to me were swapped field hospital should help us redistribute patients. but this the largest city in the brazilian amazon still uses a shortage of oxygen and health workers have been working around the clock to keep patients fro

well you know cicely tyson was a force of nature she's what i call a performance activists actually use the arts to expand the perception and the humanity of black people she was a former model turned actress and her mom didn't want to become an actress but she became one anyway and she took on a complex historic it personal character is critically acclaimed roles like sound of the autobiography of miss jane pittman roots and one of my favorites the women of bruce the point you know cicely had been acting since 1956 and she had a career resurgence in the mid 2000 with a series of roles that tyler perry put her in her body of work won her 3 emmys a tony award a peabody and she even received an honorary academy award for rock obama gave her the presidential medal of freedom and that's not too bad for a woman who didn't start acting until she was 31 she broke down barriers for not just black people in hollywood but for black women ever typically women of darker skin did we know what the goal were violet davis octavia spencer lupita nyong'o go with out cicely tyson she wanted to uplift the

cicely tyson died tonight.ion, playing strong black women. from the mother of a man sold into slavery in the miniseries "roots." >> a strong son. >> to the legendary coretta scott king. >> martin, you can't besior demonstration that goes wrong in this country. >> refusing to take roles that belittled black americans. >> who's to say that a film that projects images tcks thatre positive, that and elega well into her 90s, seen here just a few years ago on "how to get away with murder." >> you're my baby girl. you don't deserve to be in jail for something i did. >> honored with a tony, three emmys, and an honorary oscar. cicely tyson was 96. what a legacy. that's "nightline." you can watch our full episodes on hulu. we'll see you right back here at the same time tomorrow. thanks for staying up with us. good night, america.

making it easy to bundle insurance. >> yes, cicely tyson, you are a queen. when i got the call yesterday, guys, i was stunned but yet so happy and so grateful that we got to spend the time with her that we did so close to her death. it was a week ago, it was a week ago that we were sitting with her in church. >> that was the final significant interview she did. >> yes. none of us saw that -- that that would be that way. she was so elegant and so engaged. i'm so, so, so grateful -- >> glad we got to hear her. >> me, too. me, too. i'm choosing to remember her life. let's think about that. cicely tyson, as you know, she's being remembered this morning for her genius as an actor, and yet her heart and humanity in blazing a trail for other black performers is what many are talking about. the oscar, emmy, and tony winner died yesterday, ending a hugely influential career that lasted through seven decades. she was 96 years old. we spoke with her a week ago before the release of her memoir, "just as i am." it came out on tuesday. she told us about the obstacles that

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us actress cicely tyson dies at the age of 96. american makers of the novavax coronavirus vaccine have reported promising findings from a large—scale trial in britain, raising hopes the jab could be rolled out in a matter of months, boosting global supplies. a study was strong enough to protect against a highly transmissible british variant of the virus. here'sjon donnison. another scientific breakthrough in the fight against coronavirus. this time, from the us firm novavax. results of the us firm novavax. results of the companies british trial showed the first proven efficacy against the new more contagious uk variant. there were more than 15,000 volunteers on the trial throughout the uk. 0ver volunteers on the trial throughout the uk. over half the cases of covid—19 recorded came from the new variant. it is very significant because we were able to show that the vaccine works well against both the old, the original strain and the new strain, that had 96% efficacy against the original covid—19 strain and yet still had 86% efficacy

cicely tyson was an actress, an activist, and a trailblazer.s, she started her career as a model. then as a single mother, turning to acting. >> i do not discriminate. never have. won't. >> common complaint. you just don't qualify, huh? >> reporter: she was the first black actress to play a recurring role on network television. her breakout role as a sharecropper's wife in "sounder" earning her an oscar nomination. >> you mean to tell me i can't see my own husband? >> i just follow orders. >> you got you a lowlife job, mr. sheriff. >> reporter: vowing over the years to take on roles portraying black women with dignity and strength, speaking of the stereotypes she often witnessed along the way. >> to deal with what i consider another level of stereotypes is putting me and my race back where we were like 100 years ago. >> reporter: she earned two emmys portraying a former slave in "the autobiography of miss jane pittman." her role in "roots." >> we'll give him a very good life. >> reporter: in later years, in "the help." >> you got to ask yoursel

cicely tyson was 96. what a life. that's "nightly news" on this friday, thank you for watching ♪ ♪ ♪♪ you know i never meant to see you again ♪ ♪ but i only passed by as a friend yeah ♪ ♪ all this time i stayed out of sight ♪ ♪ i started wondering why ♪ ♪ now i ♪ ♪ ooh now i know i wish it would rain down... down on me ♪ ♪ ooh yes i wish it would rain on me ♪ ♪ though your hurt is gone ♪ ♪ mine's hanging on inside ♪ ♪ cause i know i know... ♪ ♪ i never meant to cause you no pain ♪ ♪ and i realize i let you down ♪ ♪ yes you know i wish it would rain down... ♪ ♪ rain down over me ♪ ♪ just let it rain down ♪ ♪ rain down over me ♪ [cheers and applause] >> kelly: all right, yeah! woo! give it up for my band y'all, everybody. with some phil collins pritt i like it, do you know when the house seats requested a song and you have a special reason for requesting "i wish it would rain down," right? >> i do, kelly, one of

remembering cicely tyson, a trailblazer.the legend told gayle king in one of her final interviews. stock market tumbles, the gamestop trading frenzy continues. and "on the road," why these two friends never miss their weekly walk and high-five. >> this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting from the nation's capital. >> o'donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. we're going to begin with a big breakthrough in the fight against coronavirus, but one that comes with a dire warning about how quickly the virus is evolving. tonight, johnson & johnson says the vaccine it's developing is about 66% effective at blocking covid, and as much as 85% effective of stopping people from getting seriously ill or dying. the company plans to apply for emergency approval as early as next week, and that is welcome news, because the new vaccine only requires one shot, making it much easier to distribute. but production delays mean it will still take months before it's widely available here.

inside subway sandwichesfa fain fights b >>> and this morning paying tribute to the legendary cicely tyson. >>> good friday morning, everyone. i'm kenneth moton. >> and i'm kyra phillips. mona is off. we begin with those mutations of the coronavirus. >> found in the u.s. raising concern about how effective the covid vaccines will be. >> this morning we're expecting to learn new details about a potential third vaccine and johnson & johnson is expected to release new data today and growing urgency to get shots into more arms. this morning, new evidence that vaccines might be less effective against mutations of the coroe s. >> the south afric v quite concerning, and it has spread relatively widely now. i believe it's in more than 20 different countries. >> reporter: two people in south carolina are the first known americans infected with a highly contagious variant from south africa. the patients have no travel history or connection to one another. distancing, wearing the masks is now even more important because the virus mutates each time it makes copies of itself. it has a chance to mutate

cicely tyson was 96. what a life. that's "nightly news" this friday, thank you for watching everyone, i am lester holt, please take care of yourself and each other good night >>> new hope in the battle against covid, the first one-shot vaccine, johnson and >>> right now at 6:00, two grim milestones in santa clara county. >> more than 80% of the deaths are in persons over 65 years of age. >> the big problem south bay doctors say we're facing to get us out of this pandemic. >>> also that new johnson & johnson vaccine. how does it work against the new variants, and would you get it even though it's less effective than the others? we get answers from infectious disease specialist at ucsf. >>> this week's storms may be here and gone, but it washed a mountain of trash downstream. >> it isn't getting any better. this is not something that we can clean our way around. >> how the coronavirus is making it tougher to clean up this mess. the news at 6:00 starts right now. good friday. thanks so much for joining us. i'm janelle wa

. >>> and celebrating cicely tyson. award-winning actress gracing both the stage and screen with incomparable poise blazing a trail for black actors in iconic roles like "roots," "sounder" and "fried green tomatoes." >> the secret's in the sauce. >> tributes pouring in for the pioneer from oprah, tyler perry to former presidents and beyond. >>> good morning, america. we hope you all are doing well this friday morning. what a life, what a career, what an actress, cicely tyson. >> and what a sight. there you're seeing there in harlem the iconic apollo theatre paying tribute to an icon. this is where cicely tyson. performed countless times paying tribute to this trailblazing actress. this was last night and the marquee reading, rest in peace, pioneering icon. >> icon, legend, so legendary. we'll talk more about her coming up. >>> but we want to get to our top story this morning, the latest on the coronavirus emergency. and the news that the first cases of a more contagious variant have been detected now right here in the u

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i don't want to be your cicely tyson was an actress of enormous scale a trailblazer and a role model for black women in theater film and television tyson was nominated for an academy award for sounder in which she played a strong sharecropper wife and mother struggling to keep her family together in depression era louisiana. in the 1974 television movie the autobiography of miss jane pittman tyson portrayed a woman born enslaved living through the tribulations of the jim crow south and perseverance until the civil rights movement dawned ok. oh no they can't. keep me. what if. in the climactic scene tyson as jane pittman defies menacing policemen to drink from a whites only water fountain symbolically triumphing over bigotry. tyson received 2 emmy awards for the film she broke down barriers for not just black people in hollywood but for black women to particularly women of darkness yet she wanted to uplift the culture she wanted to change this the perceptions and not buy into the stereotypes that we know that hollywood in the entertainment industry has historically had for black people

amy: the late cicely tyson speaking about rosa parks in 2005. democracy now! was there.cely tyson has died at the age of 96. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. when we come back, we spend the rest of the hour with filmmakers behind the remarkable new documentary "my name is pauli murray," exploring the life of pauli murray, a groundbreaking legal scholar who influenced ruth bader ginsburg, thurgood marshall, and their largely unexplored experience as a non-binary black person. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. one of president biden's first steps in his first week in office was to end the trump ban on transgender people serving in the u.s. military and issue an executive order to clarify protections fotrans people in the workplace, schools, in health care, and more. he also signed four executive orders to advance what the white house calls his racial equity agenda. the moves are steps on the long path towa

>> i done my best. >> o'donnell: cicely tyson was 96 years old. she once said, "i'm the dreamer of audacious dreams." no one could have dreamed a life like that. and there is still much more news ahead on tonight's cbs evening news. gamestop rebounds, but the stock market tanks. ahead, tew and a rare sight-- a packed stadium as serena williams gets back on the court. andy gullahore judge to death. it can cause serious skin reactions, liver problems, and low white blood cell counts that may result in severe infections. tell your doctor right away if you have new or worsening symptoms, including breathing problems, cough, chest pain, a change in your heartbeat, dizziness, yellowing of the skin or eyes, dark urine, tiredness, loss of appetite, abdomen pain, bleeding, bruising, fever, chills, or other symptoms of an infection, a severe or worsening rash, are or plan to become pregnant, or breastfeeding. avoid grapefruit during treatment. it's very common to have both sensitivity and gum issues. ask your doctor about living longer with kisqali. dentist

cicely tyson died this week at the age of 96.nk you for being here this morning. >> thank you, tiffany. >> i know we're both so sad. we know cicely tyson is not immortal but it's still really sad to see her leave this earth. one thing i thought was interesting about her, she refused to take roles where black women were not portrayed in a good light, roles without depth. tell me, if you will, your memory of cicely tyson and do black women still face that issue in the industry? >> absolutely, and thank you, tiffany, for this moment to talk about her. if you were a black actress working in hollywood or on stage, cicely was the alpha and omega. if you said her name, it meant excellence. for so many actresses who had to play those roles they were offered, they had no power to make change. all of the executive agents and managers were white and so no value in black talent. but she was different. and so they set the table for her. dark skip usually had kitchen, main street prostitute or well fair roles. but she raised the bar. if you we

cicely tyson has died. life iconic roles and theaters and television. she won two emmys for her role in 1974, the autobiography of miss jane pitman and received an oscar award for "founder." her memoir "just as i am" was published this week. >>> new at 11:00, the california teachers association sent this letter to governor newsom getting the pandemic under control. educators want the governor to work with federal leaders to contain the virus over the next 100 days so students can return to in-person learning. the association wants the vaccine roll-out to be effective so teachers and counselors and staff members can be vaccinated. reopening schools for in-person learning is a priority. proper funding is a must to slow the spread of the virus. >>> it appears middle and high school students in san francisco will not be returning to class any time soon. these school districts have told parents middle and high schoolers that it is unlikely in-person will resume this school year. they say public health guidelines

ends monday. >>> trailblazing actress cicely tyson has passed away at the age of 96. tyson gained fame in the early 1970s when black women were finally starting to get starring roles. some of her best-known work includes "sounder" for which she earned an oscar nomination and "the autobiography of miss jane pittman" for which she earned two emmys. very powerful. tyson also won a tony award, was granted the presi mal of a had justblished memoir th fact. a cause of death has not yet been released. but again, she was 96 years of age. >>> the state auditor released a second report today blasting the e.d.d. saying the agency ignored signs of massive fraud and paid billions of dollars to criminals. >> the report identified at least 10 billion in payments to fraudsters but said the amount is probably much higher. in fact, the e.d.d. itself admitted on monday as we reported as much as 31 billion was paid and either confirmed or potential fraud. >> 7 on your side's michael finney has the report. >> reporter: i've told but inmates filing false claims from behind bars. and folks a

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sir. >>> the groundbreaking emmy and tony award winning actress cicely tyson has died at the age of 96. >> if we give him a very good life. >> tyson captivated and inspired audiences in her work on and off screen. she was born in 1924 in harlem. tyson shot to fame first as a model but pursued acting. she was the first black actor to win an emmy award for best actress in a drama. she then went on to win a tony and an honorary academy award. she also received the medal of freedom from former president obama. after her passing, tributes flooded in for her life from people like oprah, tyler perry, even bill clinton. she was an amazing actress. what a life lived. 96 years old. >>> a short pause from the rain. meteorologist kari hall is tracking when the wet weather returns all next on "today in the bay." >>> plus breaking news overnight. a landslide in santa cruz county sent a pg&e truck rushing down a hillside. >> also ahead a new funding battle on capitol hill. the request house speaker nancy pelosi is making as more, for more security following that siege on capitol hill. we will be righ

we'll take a look back at the life of american hollywood legend cicely tyson. and it doesn't go according to plan is the defending n.b.a. champions look to avoid a 2nd straight loss peter will have the action in sports. how either the weather has been exceptionally mild if not hot across western parts of europe took down towards the southwest and now we can see on thursday off know the temperature got up to a staggering 29 degrees celsius that is around 12 degrees about the seasonal average so some very very warm weather something's going to cool off over the next couple of days now let's compare and contrast that with the weather that we see across the other side if you have moderate sweeps in from the atlantic with this gag of weather fronts with some rain sleet and snow there's a fair bit of snow just around the black sea this is into western parts of ukraine where we saw a good covering of snow cause widespread disruption that snow actually extending down across the other side of the black sea into good parts of turkey so we have seen scenes like this more

we'll be right back. >>> i think this has been a good day, you have tyler perry and cicely tyson.stmas tree without the ornaments and you get to hear about her with the unvarnished truth. she's 96. >> i just love the way she talks. >> i do, too. >> 96 and still feeling good. three . >>> it's 8:25. today san francisco supervisors will introduce emergency ordinance city requirement of public health to development a mass vaccination plan. the goal is to vaccinate every resident by june. sonoma is under a storm watch with mudslide concerns. the rain is threatening fire stricken areas. officials say they expect damaging winds and are closely monitoring the weather. >>> and i'm watching heavy rain, strong winds and flash flooding a chance of isolated thunderstorms with this powerful storm. the timeline for you. the rain moves in to the area this afternoon. the heaviest rain and strongest storms tonight into tomorrow morning and we are looking at showers continuing in wednesday afternoon through thursday. taking you hour by hour on future cast, watch as that rain moves in. widespread rai

and that is why she will be dearly missed and she will be always remembered because cicely tyson wasit is not how high your star rises as what your star represents and who gets the brightness of that star to inspire them. that's why even though i have known her since i was a teenage activist, every time i would see her, i would bow to her. she was royalty to me. she was the queen. she represented the best standards that we can see in the entertainment world. that does it for me. thanks for watching. i'll see you back here tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. eastern for another live hour of "politics nation." joined by assistant speaker massachusetts congresswoman katherine clark and has keem jeffries, representative from new york chairman of the house democratic caucus. now my colleague alicia menendez picks up coverage. >> thank you. >>> hello. tonight, national security on the line. new reporting taking us inside the pentagon's decision to keep thousands of national guard troops in the streets of washington, d.c. as we get a new gut punch from the fbi, affirming the greatest threat facing the am

the slide started thursday cicely tyson. >>> welcome back at 7:41.ng cotton candy skies whenever we look at walnut creek the last few weekends in a row. on this final weekend in january, a small break from the rain. vianey will have your full microclimate forecast in just a few minutes. >>> the browned breaking winning actress cicely tyson has died at 96. tyson captivated and inspired audiences in all her work on screen and off. she was born in 1924 harlem. tyson rose to fame first as a model and then pursued acting. she was the first black actor to win best actress in a drama and won a tony and academy award, and medal of freedom from former president obama. after tributes flooded in from oprah, tyler perry, former president bill clinton, before tyson passed she was promoting her new memoir titled "just as i am". >> beautiful sunrise. a break from the rain. we'll have an answer to the question how long coming up in my full forecast. it's t time for slsleep numbes januarary sale on n the slep numberer 360 smartrt bed. you can adadjust yourr comfort t

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on thursday, actress cicely tyson died at the age of 96. arriers in hollywood throughout her seven-decade career. nbc's rehema ellis takes a look back. ♪♪ >> reporter: cicely tyson captivated and inspired audiences on stage, and in film. >> now, starting now! starting now! >> reporter: she made her mark in ground-breaking productions. "roots." >> it will give him a very good life. >> reporter: "the autobiography of miss jane pittman." combined her commitment to civil rights with her career. tyson was always an unlikely star. born in 1924 in harlem, she grew up in poverty, the daughter of caribbean immigrants, deeply rooted in the church. when she quit her job as a secretary to pursue modeling and acting, her mother kicked her out of the house. >> she really thought i was going to live in a den of iniquity, because that's what show business meant to her. >> reporter: tyson shot to fame, first as a model, and became one of the first black actors in a recurring role on television in nbc's "east side, west side." her career was defined by a deci

the american actress cicely tyson has died at the age of 96.ormers. her breakthrough came in 1972 in the film sounder, set in depression—era louisiana, for which she won a golden globe and an oscar nomination. you can reach me on twitter — i'm @benmbland. hello there. it can be a fine line between rain and snow here in the uk, and the battle lines are certainly drawn over the next few days. cold air to the north—east of us, milderairto the south and west. on that dividing line, which this weekend pushes its way southwards, this is where we could see that rain—snow mix, particularly on saturday. this swirl of winds, a developing weather system, developing area of low pressure, which pushes into that cold air. and on the weather fronts that reach the cold air, we could see some significant snow, parts of wales and parts of southern england especially. the exact details on that, though, will change. we'll keep you updated. today, though, is a fairly quiet one. there will be plenty of cloud around and some showers. a cold start, too, across parts o

cicely tyson died thursday. she broke trails. the first steps were no doubt the hardest. ion. so many television roles would follow, the autobiography of miss jane pittman. the margaret callman story. roots, just one of many few. one her acclaim including a tony for "the tribute to bountiful." in 2016, president obama honored tyson with the presidential medal of freedom saying her performances illuminated the possibilities for america. indeed. herself was possibility and triumph but never complacency. in her autography, just as i am, she wrote, i want to believe that there is a mountain so high reaching the top of it. cicely tyson, pioneering to acting was 96. >>> thank you for being with us this hour. we'll be back monday with "meet the press daily." we'll have more msnbc coverage with katy tur after the break. with katy tur after the break. allergic reactions can occur. get help right away for swelling of face, mouth, tongue, or trouble breathing. infections that can cause shingles have occurred. don't stop steroids unless told by your doctor. tell your doctor if you hav

. >> cicely tyson embodied strength and power in a decades-long career that paved the way for countlessghter of immigrants from the west indis, tyson grew up in harlem and got discovered by a fashion editor at "ebony" magazine. she found her way into acting. in 1963 became the first black actress to star in a tv drama playing jane foster in "east side west side." >> i'll take her with me. >> reporter: tyson appeared in numerous tv shows in the '60s and '70s before making her mark on the big screen as well. she earned an oscar nomination for "sounder" about a share cropping family facing hard times in the great depression. >> the children and me will do the cropping. we have to. because we owe you all that money. >> reporter: around this time, tyson vowed to only accept roles that portrayed black women in realistic ways that reflected their full humanity. >> there were a number of issues as a woman born black and living in a country that did not recognize me as a human being. i wanted to address those issues. and that's why i was steadfast in terms of what i was -- what i was giving to m

we are remembering the legendary cicely tyson after her death at age 96 on thursday.leased earlier this week. >> ah, this is a tough one for everyone in hollywood in the black community. thank god she was able to pen this 400-page memoir just days before she died and it is just a force. it goes through her entire life. it shares stories of her career, of her childhood, of her marriage to jazz star miles davis and how tumultuous that was for her. but you just get her resolve in every single page so i encourage everyone to go out and get this. it's a history book almost. but if you can. it's moving very quickly, of course, because of the circumstances because she's no longer with us and you just see the outpouring that has happened on social media. viola davis who she was just working with on "how to get away with murder," oprah we know has taken this really hard, and the timing is so crazy because we just had her in the magazine this week. she's in our life in pictures with cicely tyson, so it's a tough moment, but i do think it's kind of beautiful that we have this wo

darkness did we know what the goal were viola davis octavia spencer lupita nyong'o go with out cicely tyson she wanted to uplift the culture she wanted to change this perceptions and not buy into the stereotypes that we know that hollywood and the entertainment industry has historically had for black people she was groundbreaking at pioneering and she used her art to make change and the fact that she was still working up into the very end she had just done an amazing interview her memoir with gayle king that just aired 2 days before she passed living until you're 96 with the body of work in a legacy like cicely tyson that's what we call good living and that's the legacy we should all and sat. there with allen says there are these are all top stories the u.s. drug company never backed says its coronavirus fact scene has been shown to be more than 89 percent effective joint trials in the u.k. as trial suggests it's effective against a new variant of covert 901st found in the u.k. . but will present jabil sonora has promised to quickly vaccinate everyone in the country and made a new wave of c

i don't want to be what you cicely tyson was an actress of enormous scale a trailblazer and a role model for black women in theater film and television. tyson was nominated for an academy award for sounder in which she played a strong sharecropper wife and mother struggling to keep her family together in depression era louisiana. in the 1974 television movie the autobiography of miss jane pittman tyson portrayed a woman born in slaved living through the tribulations of the jim crow south and perseverance until the civil rights movement dawned ok. oh no. that ain't a lot keeping me. what if. in the climactic scene tyson as jane pittman defies menacing policemen to drink from a whites only water fountain symbolically triumphing over bigotry. tyson received 2 emmy awards for the film she broke down barriers for not just black people in hollywood but for black women to particularly women of darkness yet she wanted to uplift the culture she wanted to change this the perceptions and not buy into the stereotypes that we know that hollywood and the entertainment industry has historically had for

well, cicely tyson died thursday, she was 96. doug kolk ktla 5 entertainment. >>9.13 right now on a friday things are starting to clear up they are yeah let's get over to the weather center john trouble has the good news for weekend planners good morning john good morning guys and we've been talking about our dogs hated the weather the past few days. >>one of our viewers actually says her dog quite enjoyed it. in fact she took her pup to the snow pamela del seco sending this one in oh my gosh slow you're i'm glad that he's only in like a foot or 2 snow because if you wait really high in the what has been lost it's just so if you have any pictures of your dogs or enjoying the snow maybe she make sure to share with definitely beautiful view right there, although at the very crest of the sierra it wasn't just a couple feet of snowfall we're talking about but it was 5 to 6 feet of snowfall at the top of northstar squab valley and sierra at tahoe for example, where we saw well over 60 inches of it and at the very crest of the sierra o

cicely tyson was my first screen mom. she was as regal as they come.e highest order and i will love her forever. because her career panel issed seven decades, she was that rare artist known to different generations for different and signature roles. and most recently, thanks to channeledra rhymes, we got to see her in how to get away with murder where she played a recurring character with dementia. that was in addition to her role in the series, cherish the day. realizing her role in hollywood, and her visibility and the power that came with it, she turned down a lot of work and committed herself to playing only positive depictions of black women. she was born in harlem between world wars back in 1924. her parents came to this country from the west indies. for a time she was married to miles davis. a few years back, back when the only had had true meaning, president obama awarded her the presidential medal of freedom. he did so on behalf of all of us, a grateful nation, grateful that we got to marvel at cicely tyson who is gone at the age of 96. that's

. >> reporter: born in 1924 to west indian parents, cicely tyson in memoir "just as i am." >>. >> reporterurney not easy for tyson, pregnant at 17 and marriage lasted just over two years. began acting career as single mother, choice that brought conflict at home. >> were you surprised your mom kicked you out of the house because you wanted to be actress? >> yes, told me i couldn't live there and do that. suddenly i found something i loved to do and had child to support. >> reporter: you weren't thinking when i grow up, i want to be an actress? >> no. my mother, i don't know what she wanted me to be, she t live in ? lots of prostitutes walking up and down the street, and that's all she knew about movies. >> reporter: mother eventually came around and their connection is strong one to this day, especially in this church. >> and i feel that her spirit is here. so i bought this pew in her name. >> reporter: this is a way to honor here? >> that's right. >> reporter: tyson made onscreen key debut at 31, then enrolled in acting school run by paul man, well-known acting coach and alo alone with hi

good morning by any definition, cicely tyson was a trailblazer.arting now >> reporter: earning an oscar nomination for her role as a sharecropper's wife in "sounder." and two emmys for her portrayal of an elderly former slave in the emotional tv drama, "the autobiographer of ms. jane pitman." recently, she appeared in "how to get away with murder," "the help." >> about me today. >> reporter: and "house of cards. >> president's constable put it in jackie's war chest i feel i can just be an actress. i can do anything. >> reporter: tributes pouring in for the star, from oprah, writing, "she used her career to illuminate the humanity of black people," to oscar winner viola davis saying, "you gave me permission to dream. born in 1924 in harlem, tyson began her career as a model. she was an idol of the black is beautiful movement, gracing the covers of "ebony" and "jet" magazines. >> do something, anything, to take your mind off waiting. >> reporter: she later became one of the first black actors in a reoccurring role on television in nbc's "east side,

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