the trumpet ministration pumped billions into its warp speed program to produce that sainz and secure us manufacturers the pole position. like anything our country has seen since the manhattan bridge. in the end it was biotech and find it was the 1st step in. seen approved at least in the western world. in early december after britain issued emergency approval for the vaccine 19 year old margaret keenan became the 1st to receive the bio on tech jab. cooperate to help the paper. write it. can a jury in the united states also promote the biotech pfizer vaccine and. the companies who pledged to deliver 200 meakin doses to the u.s. by maine. just before christmas the 2nd vaccine gained emergency approval in the u.s. made by american company modernity like the one from by undertaking to me is an m.r.e. night that same. the violent takeover din of vaccines was shown to be 95 and 94 percent effective in clinical trials. and a 3rd vaccine has now been approved to a so-called viral vector produced by up speaking of a city and the british swedish company astra zeneca it's thought to be up to 70

the plan could involve the state ordering pharma companies to produce facts sainz even vaccines developed by that compared to or another would state intervention in the manufacturing process the green support that idea they say companies haven't done enough to speed up manufacturing. to me for. companies really doing enough to scale up operations that would mean increasing manufacturing gradients training lebar tree capacity and then vaccine production we have to take a close look at all of that and the state has to get involved with things out working out including by forcing them to lock their products to. the left parties also in favor of piling political pressure on vaccine produces museum god and upon to me this pandemic is proving that the idea of the invisible hand of the market solving everything doesn't run but that doesn't mean the government should do it for them companies must be forced to act health minister can make them jim and lauren powers him to do so or human. much is at stake at the german government vaccination summit as people white impatiently for their jobs. let's

the iraqi foreign minister for his sainz arrived in teheran on his 2nd trip this month he'll meet his iranian counterpart of the reef just a day after u.s. airstrikes hit iranian backed militias in the east of syria as mike hanna reports from washington the u.s. is still defending that attack. the decision to strike was taken at the very top after days of consultation with his national security teams president biden ordered the attack which took place on early thursday evening d.c. time this apparently in retaliation for a series of recent attacks by militia groups in lebanon and iraq one of which killed a u.s. contractor it's believed the attack was carried out by 2 f. 15 s using joint direct attack munitions a j.-dam is described as a precision weapon with g.p.s. navigation capabilities the target says the pentagon was a base being used by an iranian backed militia on the syrian side of the border with iraq and this response was conducted together with diplomatic measures including consultation with coalition partners this claim of acting in a restraint a way echoed by the secretary

cautious given our past experience and of course there had been a global campaign calling for mahmoud sainz release by organizations such as yours and you know the hash tag 3 mahmoud hossain was also launched what impact do you think such campaigns have on governments and countries who jail journalists i think they're absolutely i think it showed exactly this case just unsupported by so many organizations and so many people including by yes global network of members around the world. and in the end he was able to be free but i will say i think it's important to say this as well that today's decision is as joyful is as it is it doesn't erase but her suffering it doesn't you rate of 40 years that you spend in arbitrary detention where you are in europe or in his basic rights repeatedly to know it. so well it is a joy to think there are you also need to have that in mind and have in mind the wider oppression of press freedom in egypt does this move advance and promote press freedom not only in egypt but worldwide. i think it creates an opportunity. but revici's can be a step forward. loosening

new director rita sainz appeared before lawmakers promising the same mistakes will not be made again.but we are in for a warm-up as we go into today. lots of sunshine, and we're going to see more sun in the forecast into the weekend, and actually trending a little bit warmer than normal, especially for a saturday and sunday. early next week, a weak cold front is coming through but unfortunately it doesn't bring us any rain. we are still going to continue with dry weather over the next several days in san francisco, going from the mid-50s today to the low 60s for the weekend. >> i'll have another local news update for you in a half hour. off. it's a great show tonight. ♪ ain't my fault ♪ >>> once in a while they play our jam, hoda. blame it on our juice. it's thursday morning, 8:30. 4th of february, 2021. carson loves this song carson giving shoulder action. >>> coming up, if you've been trying to work out at home but not feeling motivated, we're right there with you >> i don't know if jenna roped me into it or i roped her into it but we went to a popula fitness class that moved outsid