laleh gharahbaghian. >>> today a 737 max commercial flight will take off in the first time here in the u.s. in nearly two years. american airlines is using the jet for a round trip from miami to new york. the jets were grounded in march of 2019 after two crashes that killed 346 people. united and southwest plan to resume flights sometime next year. >>> coming up sayonara 2020. how times square celebrated good riddance day and how people are looking forward to ditching this year. >>> first hilaria and alec baldwin responding to critics who say she's faking her heritage. ritics who say she's faking her heritage. ♪ ♪ >>> back now with the online outrage aimed at the wife of alec baldwin. critics have accused hilaria baldwin of cultural appropriation saying she's faking the spanish accent. >> this morning she and her husband have responded. good morning, will. >> alec baldwin has posted a few times about the controversy surrounding his wife hilaria, formerly known as hillary. the new york post echoing the tidal wave of criticisms aimed at hilaria baldwin, accusing her the wife of alec bald

laleh gharahbaghian. doctor, we just passed 300,000 covid deaths in this country. what are you seeing right now where you are? >> it's not great. the hospitals in our region including our own are full. icus are at capacity. elective surgeries are being cancelled. the number of covid positives are increasing every day and the curve has not flattened. so we're in the trenches and we're exhausted. >> that is tough to hear. moving onto the vaccine, how do we know the vaccine is getting to the places that need it the most and how will most americans know when they can get it? >> i have to commend fedex and ups. they essentially split the country into two and they shipped 5 million with priority access at the airport to avoid any delays. each of those packages will have high-tech tracking devices for monitoring of those packages to ensure delivery and the safety of the product. also the vaccine is being distributed as planned. >> what do we know about immunity after you get the second shot? >> we know that given the timeline of the trials that it at least lasts for about

laleh gharahbaghian about these headlines.does concern about more lockdowns. the mayor of los angeles already telling residents, go ahead and cancel everything. and now the state's governor says regions will shut down if local hospital icus drop below 15% capacity. what's your take on that move? >> i actually worry that it's not strict enough, and it may contribute to a delay in mitigating covid transmission. we need to flatten the curve. >> and now to the vaccine. a new study shows that people who got moderna's vaccine still had antibodies three months later. sounds promising, but what do those results really tell us? >> it showed that although they had a slight decline over time, they did have elevated levels at three months' time period, which is important to understand the long-term efficacy of a vaccine. the other thing that they found was that it activated memory cells, which shows that the body may remember the virus in order to produce new antibodies that if they got reinfected. >> dr. gharahbaghian, that vaccine repor

laleh gharahbaghian. dr. gharahbaghian, we just passed 300,000 covid deaths in this country.t are you seeing right now where you are? >> it's not great. the hospitals in our region including our own are full. icus are at capacity. elective surgeries are being canceled. the number of covid positives are increasing every day and the curve has not flattened. so we're in the trenches and we're exhausted. >> that is tough to hear. moving on to the vaccine, how do we know the vaccine is getting to the places that need it the most and how will most americans know when they can get it. >> i have to commend fedex and u.p.s. they essentially split the country into two and they shipped 3 million from the pfizer plant to hospitals, clinics and various distribution points with priority access at the airport to avoid any delays and each of those packages will have high-tech tracking devices for monitoring of those packages to ensure delivery and the safety of the product, and also that the vaccine is being distributed as planned. >> what do we know about immunity after you get the second s