hi, meg. great to speak to you again.s the first data from a unique vaccine program in just some four months have moved to clinical experience that shows reason to be encouraged. the preliminary data from the study shows that we can administrate our vaccine at the low effective dose it's well tolerated and it provides mutualizing, reported to be above what you see in plasma from patients that recover from the infection. as early we record as four weeks after starting the vaccinations. local injection where you inject the patients or systemic events 10 or 30 micro gram of low dose, moderate and transient no serious averse were reported. so we are obviously very encouraged by this good experience in humans and we feel great to be able to also post today a manuscript on a open public source that allow other scientists in the world to review our data and at the same time submit it for publication >> well, i want to ask you about those levels of the neutralizing antibodies seen in this study. one of the things that your team n

meg mcclellan is at j.p. morgan asset management.what you wrote about the 60/40 traditional split. everybody knows it is out the window. there is a panic i am not participating. how do i participate? how do i catch up? meg: i cannot take credit for writing that. that was our investment bank. talking to a lot of clients about the topic. the way you can diversify a traditional 60/40 folio our credit. that is a great diversifier. neglect to look at to look at of the private credit market. right now the private credit pickts offer a significant and yield income and i think the private markets are extremely compelling. lisa: let's talk about the fundamentals in private credit. they are less visible than what we are seeing in public credit. we are seeing ongoing concerns about a lack of revenue. company shut down by the pandemic. potential bankruptcy starting to swell. how bad is it in private credit versus public credit? meg: that is one of the challenges in private credit is the lack of data to look at. where we start is looking at some

meg tirrell's back with an update on that hey, meg. >> hey, carl this is moving at warp speed and of that is the name of the operation from the administration to ensure at least 300 million doses of vaccine be available toward the end of this year, early next year today striking a deal with pfizer and its german partner bi-ontech to supply 100 million doses of their vaccine, should it have success in their trials and getting approval they will be paying $2 billion for the doses and this is a two-dose vaccine, so enough for 50 million people. they could also acquire an additional 500 million doses, should all go well and they want to acquire more. pfizer is due to start phase three trials for efficacy and broader safety of this by the end of this month, guys. so moving pretty quickly and they say if all goes well there, they should be in a position to apply for regulatory approval in october. so, we could be seeing the u.s. government starting to purchase doses as soon as september, secretary azar said this morning. >> and meg, how does this particular announcement, the nearly $2 bill

let's bring in meg tirrell and a very special guest for us. hi, meg. >> pfizer becoming the first one to finish the second phase they're rolling out the next trial and it includes 120 sites globally if all goes well, they should face regulatory review by october. we have ceo albert bourla. albert, thank you for being with us i want to start with the timeline because the timeline you put out there is faster than anybody else in the field right now. just walk us through, if you could, how you get to applying for approval as soon as october, or as you guys said in the call this morning, perhaps even by september if the first participants were just dosed yesterday and they have to get another shot in three weeks. that means you're only following them for about a month, right, before you apply for approval? just help us understand. >> they go, megan. what a great day it was yesterday because a lot of companies will be able to have efforts to bring a vaccine because it's much needed our estimations are real of course, it's difficult to execute, but

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good evening, meg. >> reporter: good evening, norah.kensack meridian health is one of 89 testing sites across the country. many are in hot spots battling the infection which is crucial to figure out if the vaccine works. but a new cbs news poll found only 30% of americans would get a vaccine as soon as one is available. the moderna vaccine trial 5 thi. dawn baker got the first dose. how are you feeling? >> i feel as if nothing happened today although i know something very big did. ng reporter: the tv anchor at the cbs affiliate wtoc in savannah, georgia is one of 30,000 to participate in the phase 3 covid-19 vaccine trial. >> i got tired of sitting here worried that i can't do anything more than wear a mask and stay away from people. >> reporter: half will receive the vaccine and half a placebo. baker doesn't know which she received. each participant will receive a second dose 28 days later and will be monitored to see if the vaccine can effectively prevent infection. >> you will know probably in about six months. >> reporter: six month

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meg tirrell is here with the very latest for us meg? >> hey, kelly.ell, our average on new cases we're adding each day in the u.s. is around 66,000, though we did add fewer than that yesterday in the united states pointing out that growth in new cases is slowing now we're just growing by 10% in new cases versus 20% in the previous week. you can see hospitalizations have also been rising. in some of the states that are adding some of the new cases in hospitalizations, though we are seeing signs of potential nearing or passing of a peak in terms of the new cases however, in other states like montana, north dakota and idaho, even though the numbers are smaller, you can see that their hospitalizations are peaking, showing that their infections in those areas are really starting to take off. meanwhile, kelly, some interesting data coming out today from the cdc looking at antibody levels in ten areas across the u.s., this is from blood essentially taken as part of routine visits just tested for sars-covid-19 antibodies they found in new york city, 23% had a

norah. >> o'donnell: meg oliver all that new reporting tonight, meg, thank you.ight the mayors of several big cities including new york and chicago are warning the president not to send federal officers to patrol their streets. the mayors are alarmed by the ongoing violence in portland, oregon, where protesters have battled for weeks with police and officers from the department of homeland security. here's cbs' carter evans. >> reporter: round after round of tear gas and rubber bullets fired into the crowd by federal agents is becoming a nightly routine. this unnamed protester said he collected some of the spent ammunition. what was it like? >> war, literal war, except you can't fire back on your enemy. >> reporter: portland's federal courthouse has been attacked repeatedly, and today, the department of homeland security said they have to protect it. >> they are not military. they are civilian police officers. these police officers are not stormtroopers. they are not the gestapo, as some have described them. >> reporter: mayors from six cities have written the tr

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. >> let's go to meg with the breaking news from pfizer? >> the vaccine news coming fast and furious today. pfizer and his german partner now announcing they have begun their pivotal phase two/three trial of their covid-19 vaccine that's beginning in the united states they plan to enroll up to 30,000 participants. they'll going to have 100 trial sites around the globe but the first one is here in the united states. i'm being told that the first patients either have been dosed or are being dosed eminently. they're going to be roll around the world as well including argentina, brazil, and in germany. this will enroll up to 30,000 people ages 18 to 35 on that one to one ratio vaccine versus placebo. similar to the ma dern know vaccine candidate. pfizer was evaluating four candidates to take the best one forward. and the one that they have selected is one that they hadn't yet presented the data on. we saw data on one candidate. it looked good was the assessment from experts in the field. presumably, the candidate selected looks even better. pfi

meg, thank you meg terrell. >>> turning to washington. fresh comments from treasury secretary on the ppp program kate rogers with the latest. kate >> hi, sarah secretary and administrator taking questions before the house small business committee today on ppp rounds one and two, what worked with the program and what didn't. treasury secretary says he does support repurposing the more than $130 billion in aid that remains for businesses most in need >> the administration supports using the existing money and topping it up with some additional money and that will be discussed and allowing for a second payment to the businesses that are especially hard hit. i think this time we need to have a revenue test and make sure that money is going to busine businesses that have significant revenue declines that is something that congress didn't have in the first provision. so we have to make sure the businesses that are especially hard hit, particularly small businesses and put in certain safeguards >> the committee also focused on a lack of informat

hey, meg >> hey, wilf these numbers are hard to believe. more than 71,000 new coronavirus cases reported yesterday in the u.s. by states if you look at the johns hopkins data or other data, it's even higher 75,000 or 77,000, depending on how you're counting. that as hospitalizations are now reaching rates we haven't seen since april, and as the number of deaths reported each day in this country is also starting to rise let's look at the states that are seeing the highest case counts florida yesterday reporting 14,000 new cases, today more than 11,000. texas also reporting more than 10,000, california 8500. multiple states reporting more than a thousand daily new cases, 14 of them one possible bright spot is arizona continuing to look flat at about 3,000 daily new cases georgia being highlighted today by scott gottlieb at a potential important point for being able to reverse things. right now it's looking quite bad. hospitalizations, as you can see, are spiking deaths also on the rise, more than 3500 cases reported yesterday. dr. fauci was j

. >> we got a slew of positive coronavirus news let's get to meg tirrell for the latest meg? we actually lost meg basically pfizer and biontech, two candidates out of four candidates getting fda fast track designation, bonawyn we saw the stocks jump biontech and pfizer jumping. meg points out earlier that the fda would grant fast track approval to any drug or many drugs that treat things with pressing needs like coronavirus. i'm wondering what you make of this news here. >> i think it's further evidence that we continue to trade on news and trends as opposed to fundamentals right now, as you said, there's a pressing need. we have a pandemic outbreak and we're going to allocate or the fda is going to allocate resources to putting an end to that with that said, in terms of what that means for sales going on a go forward basis, if you're looking for companies going forward now, we scrap 2020 going forward to 2021, 2022. i don't have a crystal ball and i can't tell you what that means in terms of sales and allocat n allocation my take away is once again it is a testament to us tr

this as cases continue to surge across the country meg tirrell with all the news on this front meg? >> hi, kelly this generon news that its antibody test for covid-19 moves into phase 3 in clinical trials, so just an amazing pace. what they're doing is looking at this drug both for prevention and for treatment. they're beginning a phase 3 prevention trial in uninfected people who have come into close contact with somebody with covid-19 that will be in collaboration with the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases, so testing people like housemates of patients, for example. they're also going to move into late stage trials to treat patients both in the hospital and who are not hospitalized with covid-19. they say those data are expected later this summer. this is basically on about 30 patients in the early stages of clinical trials getting the go-ahead, at least on the safety of those we have not yet seen those data so we will be eagerly awaiting it kelly, this comes as case numbers continue to rise, hitting several records over the holiday weekend. several days of more

meg tirrell is here. meg? >> reporter: they announced $2 billion in grants to these companies, one for a vaccine and one to scale up a drug for covid-19 let's start with novavax $1.6 billion to support taking the vaccine through late stage clinical trials, including, if all goes well in the earlier studies, a 30,000-participant phase 3 that would start in the fall also the funds will be used to scale up manufacturing and supply of the vaccine with the goal of 100 million doses being available start ing in late 2020 if all goes well this vaccine just started human trials in may in australia, so we need to see those results before we even get this far down the road this is the largest award so far under operation warp speed the previous largest was $1.2 billion for astrazeneca in may they also awarded half a billion dollars each for barda and the department of defense. now they're starting up their antibody drug. they say initial doses could be ready by the end of the summer if these trials go well. this is a dr

meg oliver has more on the search. >> if we tested half as much, the numbers would be down. >> with new cases hitting around 70,000 per day, president trump pins rising cases on testing itself. >> many of those are young people that would heal in a day and they have the sniffles and we put it down as a test. we have embers and we have flames. florida became more flame like. but it's going to be under control. >> florida has broken through the 300,000 mark in total cases , along with california and texas. some experts are warning of rising infection rates in georgia, tennessee, missouri, and kentucky. >> we are seeing rising hospitalization, record cases, and a shifting of the center of the epidemic in the united states. >> georgia governor brian kemp is in a legal battle with the mayor keisha lens bottoms, over her mandate to wear masks, she says the surge is traced to georgia being one of the first states to reopen. >> people across the country came to our state, we were open for business as if we were not in the midst of a pandemic. >> dissidents and residents ú>> we hope to open earl

meg tirrell is here with all the details for us meg? >> these are very early data, the first from human trials we're seeing with a pfizer vaccine bioentech. they tested 45 participants in this trial and we got results on 24 in two low-dose groups. they said all 24 of these healthy participants in the trial generated what are called neutralizing antibodies. those are the important ones because they block the virus from being able to infect the cell they said the levels they observed of those neutralizing antibodies were about two to three times higher from people who recover from covid-19. they said the most common side effects were pain at the injection site, fatigue, headaches, and they did do better with a second shot at a higher dose of the vaccine we talked with michael dolston about the vaccine and what comes next >> reporter: while these are early observations and before we can be absolutely confident in the direction for what we're hoping to be a phase 3 going into a large data set that could be the foundation for emergency use a

and mike san totoli is joining s meg, let aers start with youen that executive order news. >> hi. drug pricing hasn't been in the conversation as much this year as the drug industry has been racing to develop vaccines and drugs for covid-19 but the president reportedly planning to sign an executive order with a few different aspects on drug price this is afternoon. one could be allowing importation of drugs from canada where they're price moored cheaply. another could focus on tying prices to basket of prices from other wealthy countries. and a third could focus on providing free insulin or free epi pens to some hospitals now not clear what exactly will be included, there is also some talk of whether there will be a revisiting of rules around rebating for drugs so we're going to have to see how this shakes out exactly. but however it does, guys, folks aren't really expecting a major impact on drug prices in the near term. it's not always clear that executive orders have real teeth to make changes here this is coming at an interesting time fwheer we're in a pandemic and the governm

meg oliver, cbs news. >> garrett: overseas now japan says it is extremely concerned after more than 140 u.s. marines tested positive for the coronavirus. the marines are based on the island of okinawa. as amy inocencio reports, the it is testing an uneasy relationship. >> the ospreys still deploy out of okinawa japan. the u.s. military keystone in the pacific, even as the marine corps wages a public health battle against coronavirus. a major change from this fourth of july party seen on social media. allegedly direct service members when restrictions were loose are. okinawa's governor criticized the u.s. military for spreading the virus and isolating new arrivals in this off-base hotel. >> is there truth to that? >> so as of right now we have not found any connection between the july 4th celebration and any positive case we have identified. >> the joint covid response cell is the military's nerve center to trace and treat the virus. up to 40,000 marines and their families are now in a state of restricted movement. >> if you go out in town you go home and come to, without. that is really

so, glenn, sal and meg, the screen is yours. >> all right, very good. glenn, everyone is here. we -- this book, we have been living the presidency of donald trump since it began and we have spent every day going through and fact-check can his claims and also claims of democrats and other members of congress and advocacy groups. and we live it day by day. when we finished completing the book it was still a shock to us to see what we had actually written about. you forget about it. the president says so many things that are so often false, it's averaging 22 claims a day, that it's i think most people when they actually get through what we have written will be very surprised. the book is written as a way you can read it from cover to cover, you can also dip into sections that are of interest to you was we try to write so it each chapter stands on its own and each of us was responsible for different chapters. so what we are going to do in this presentation, we'll just take you through the book. wrote the introduction, and describe that, and then we'll go through each chapter. we'll

here's cbs's meg oliver with a vital clue that lead them to the discovery. >> the ventura county sheriffuthorities are confident that the body they have found is of 33 year old naya rivera. >> there was no indication of foul play. and no indication this was a suicide. >> recovery teams spent six days searching lake piru and its shoreline with 15 foot brush making it difficult. rivera was last seen wednesday afternoon boarding a rented pontoon with her four year old son josie. he told investigators they went swmming and she helped him into the boat from behind. >> he told investigators that he looked back and saw her disappear under the surface of the water. >> a report from the los angeles times says that hours before she disappeared rivera took a photo in a cove and sent it to a relative which lead authorities to agree on the location and this powerful image, members of the cast of "glee" gathered at the lake before the body was found. >> meg oliver, cbs news. >> and coming up next, kelly preston lit up the screen in several iconic movies and was married to john travolta for nearly thre

meg. the numbers are a bit wonky coming out of the july 4th weekend as testing gets delayed. the positive rate up to 8.5% now. this according to ever core isi. the fastest growth in the past week we're seeing south carolina now jump ahead of florida in terms of showing the hot spots charleston, south carolina, now the area in the country with the fastest case doubling time you are seeing jacksonville, florida still there along with sacramento california. i believe this one is from yesterday. new york and new jersey adding three new states to their tristate quarantine list that's the list of now 19 states from which travelers need to quarantine for 14 day ifs they come into the tristate area. we are seeing just this spread across the united states continue it's try to fund and accelerate the vaccine projects that will support them through late stage clinical trials and ramping up production with the goal of producing 100 million doses by the end of 2020. we talked with ceo about their timing this morning. here is what he told us. >> the scale of starting already and we'll plan

meg tirrell does have more on the breaking news out of the moderna. what's going on? >> hi, kelly, i've been corresponding with the ceo stefan bonsell they are still on track to beginle phase three trial in july the stat news story is reporting there might have been some delay from a planned start on july 9th, but it could still start this week due to a change in the trial rotocols you know, just what i'm getting here is that the trial will still start, the phase three trial, this month, all of the end points, all of the same size, the dose plan, all of that remains the same moderna telling me they do plant to start this phase three trial this month, kelly. stat news reported that the trial's start date was delayed is moderna confirming that, but saying it will still happen in july >> they are not guiding by the day. i hadn't heard from the company that they planned on start on july 9th my colleague at stat news reported that the investigators of the trial, the people at the clinical trial sites who run the trial, he's saying from his reporting, they had said they had

meg joins us with the details. meg? >> these are moving incredibly quickly. regeneron only started in june and now they're saying they're in the late stages of testing these. what they're looking at are really two different programs. one is a prevention trial done in collaboration with allergy and infectious diseases. that is done in uninfected people who had close contact with a patient with covid-19, house mates, for example the other is late stage trials they're going to run in patients with covid-19 both hospitalized and nonhospitalized patients with those data expected later this summer. now, these are going to be large trials for the treatment trials they're going to enroll 1,850 patients in one of them and more than 1,000 in the other. u.s., brazil, mexico and chile administered through an iv where any prevention trial they are enroi enrolling and that is given as shot not a pill, not easy to take, they are trying to figure out how to give it outside the hospital they do expect to have data later this summer. we'll stay tuned for that. i also want to u

jamie. >> yuccas: meg, thank you.oday in selma, alabama, the body of congressman john lewis crossed the edmund pettus bridge for the final time. michelle miller is there. >> reporter: the bridge edmund pettus is quite unremarkable. four lanes, 1300 feet. but its historic symbolism is powerful. and powerful it was today, as the architect of that symbolism, john robert lewis made his final crossing. on a horse-drawn casson lewis was carried across the alabama river on his way to montgomery. the march's intended destination on that bloody sunday in 1965. brown chapel ame church served as the rallying point that day and it's where his friend and congresswoman teri sewell led today's final prayer service in selma. >> john was determined to fight for equality and justice. >> people of all stripes lined the street to say farewell and holler. >> good trouble! >> cheyenne webb has a tortured history with the bridge, as an 8 year old she was the youngest marcher that day. >> reporter: what does it mean for you to be here today.

cbs's meg oliver on how the virus took its toll on someone so full of life. >> ♪ oftentimes the onest talk will get down on their knees. >> reporter: nick cordero was known as the tap dancing tough guy on broadway. with breakout roles that catapulted him to stardom. ♪ ♪ but in march cordero, 41, was diagnosed with covid-19. >> nick's body is extremely weak, his muscles have atrophied so he can't move his body yet. >> reporter: his wife amanda kloots posted about his complications, mini strokes, sepsis, a leg amputation, all while on a ventilator. ♪ ♪ trying to stay positive, kloots started playing a song cordero had written, live your life. ♪ live your life >> reporter: the world responded with the hashtag #wakeupnick. ♪ no no no, live your life. >> reporter: on day 90 kloots talked to cbs this morning's gayle king. >> i grab his hand and i'm waiting for the day when he holds my hand back.tebut that dd myver come. after more than three months in the i.c.u., he lost the fight. >> ♪ you don't forget. ♪ one of your great ones >> reporter: a great one taken far too soon. cordero leaves b

meg has the details for us hey, meg, tirrell. >> reporter: fiphil mentioned te areas. quest diagnostics saying last night for nonpriority patients, essentially those in the hospital or symptomatic health care workers, for everybody else, it takes on average seven days to get their test results it's up from 2 to 3 days in early june it's not just quest diagnostic buy row reference labs three days or less how to fix the problem admiral brettgiroir is saying couple of things is coming online by the fall he points to point of care tests like anti-gen tests. he also points to the idea of pooling where you're testing multiple samples with the same test beyond that, he said we should be prioritizing testing, again, to patients who need it the most there is a growing frustration, guys, about some groups of people can access to testing and it includes professional athletes nba player hassan whiteside posting he was getting his 20th covid test nba players are getting tested every other day as they're in the bubble in orlando. we reached out to the nba about this, and they said "

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tirrell is here with the latest meg? >> this is a pretty big development with moderna developin developing so what happened was a patent court decided, or the patent office decided that this patent that moderna was challenging over delivery technology for mrna medicines was, in fact, valid. so moderna lost that challenge to a small company called arbutis which holds the patent and that sent shares of that company doubling this week moderna's stock down 23% this week on this news. le leerink says this decision opens the door to a fascinating and likely protracted period of investor controversy and debate around the implications of any potential infringement much claims so the question is can they challenge a patent to get royalties? moderna says it's not aware of any impedimentmes for products kelly, i've reached out to genavan which would make the decision on this they're a private company. i literally heard back from them right before i came on air with you. they said it's not company policy to comment on an ongoing dis

let's get to meg tirrell for the details on these developments. hi, meg. >> hey, tyler. these are very early results, the first from a human trial of pfizer's vaccine partnered with biontech they found the participate, 24 of them generated neutralizing antibodies, the ones thought to be most important. they saw levels of those at two to three times higher than what they see in patients who have recovered from covid-19. time will tell if that's high enough to protect people from the disease with this vaccine. fever was observed at some of the higher doses, though they said it was generally observed to be safe, no severe side effects. this is just the first of four vaccine candidates that they are testing. they do plan to start phase three trials with the beone of those four in late july. that puts them neck and neck with the leaders in the race moderna also saying it plans to start at phase three this month. astrazeneca on their heeled and johnson & johnson also pfizer expects to have 100 million doses available by the end of 2020, 1.2 billion by the end of 2021. we talke

meg tirrell joins me live with the latest on that hi, meg. >> hi, wil fast track designation is just a marker that the fda has decided this is a product or two potential products that are worth expediting through the review process this is two of four, pfizer and biontech, for vaccines for covid-19 of course a coronavirus vaccine, especially one which shows promising phase 1 results as this one has, would be favorable for the fda. a shared reaction is for folks who know what this designation means saying this is an important product to get through quickly. it is a reminder this is on track, pfizer saying they plan to start a late-stage 35,000 clinical trial by the end of this month which would put them neck and neck with moderna, and potentially set them up, if all goes well, to apply for regulatory approval this fall. moderna also has that fast track designation. they've all been tracked to move through this >> what about the spikes in certain areas? >> these numbers in the u.s. continue to be staggering. we're up near 60,000 cases every day being reported in the united states, reco

tirrell has the very latest meg? >> reporter: hey, john quest diagnostics out with an update last night saying that for most patients, those who are not in the hospital or who are asymptomatic health care workers, average wait times for test results is about seven days that's been growing from two to three days on average since early june quest is not the only lab seeing this labcorp is seeing delays of up to four to six days now. bioreference laboratories saying they return results in three days or less quest really citing the uptick in demand in surging cases particularly across the south, southwest and west for this. albert girard who is heading the tests for this company, 15 to 20 million tests he says coming online by september or october, and pooling tests where you test 5 to 10 samples per test pro teams are getting easier access to testing, hassan whiteside of the portland trailblazers saying he waited 20 minutes for a test result. they say by bringing new testing capacity to central florida, launching a mobi

>> o'donnell: meg oliver, thank you.ith expanded unemployment benefits set to expire next week, today president trump met with republican leaders to plan another trillion dollar covid plan another trillion dolla we've got more now from cbs's covid relief bill. we've got more now weijia jiang. >> reporter: president trump said coronavirus briefings are making a comeback in part because they were so popular. >> i was doing them and we had a lot of people watching, record numbers watching. >> reporter: but the president stopped holding them at the end of april as polls showed they were hurting him politically and after he received sharp criticism for asking this question about disinfectant. >> and is there a way we can do something like that. by injection, inside or-- or almost a cleaning. >> reporter: mr. trump has also been accused of using the briefings to campaign, rallies have been limited because of the pandemic. >> we have had this big flare-up in florida, texas, a couple of other places. > reporter: and after months