well i know exactly what you've just said sarah johnson and johnson says that they are close to submitting their materials to the food and drug administration hopefully for approval we on the c.d.c. work group are going to see these data fairly soon and i look forward to seeing that if we had a one dose vaccine out there and johnson and johnson says they could produce a 1000000000 doses that would really accelerate the vaccination program dr schaffner do you think people will be more confident in a one dose vaccine that's not m.r. and. i think if we can show that that one dose thank seen is as effective as the 2 dose of x. scenes that will be the critical point is the is the one dose vaccine going to be as effective in all elements of the population older people people who are immunocompromised and the like so there will be comparisons made. people don't want a 2nd great traction so everybody will look at the data very carefully and we're looking forward to that data to be released in the coming weeks dr schaffner thank you so much for making time for us always appreciated your expertise.

sarah johnson is in san francisco with more about what researchers know so far. >> reporter: researchers in the bay area are confident that the variant mutation they're seeing in the bay is not the one they're seeing in the united kingdom. they're saying it is similar to the one found ought the outbreak in san jose. researchers have determined the variant is l-452-r. researchers do not have data to determine if it is more transmissible or more deadly. in the case of the outbreak at kaiser permanente, at least nine people were affected by this specific strain around christmas. in addition to santa clara county, it's been detected in several other counties, including humble, lake, los angeles, monterey, orange and san diego counties. >> was there some change in ventilation or some change in how personal protective equipment was used or some staff turnover or some other condition? >> reporter: researchers are learning more about this specific variant, they're confident that the vaccine being administered across the state and across the nation will still protect people against the current st

johnson. they are focused on strengthening the so-called relationship between the two countries. sarahhe uk. based on the photo, it appeared as if it was a cordial conversation. lots of smiles. at least on boris johnson's part. >> hey, kendis, yeah, exactly. it's a pretty big honor and certainly some bragging rights go along with getting one of the first phone calls from a new incoming u.s. president. and boris johnson was very public about it. he tweeted a photo of himself on the phone. let me read you what he wrote. he said looking forward to deepening the longstanding alliance between our countries as we drive a green and sustainable recovery from covid-19. now that focus on the green economy is not by accident. it's actually not that easy to find common ground between an american democratic president, who is from pennsylvania, and an old conservative british prime minister, and it also belies the fact that they really don't agree about something that's very important to boris johnson. a uk/u.s. trade deal. >> sarah harman there from the uk. now the question becomes which foreign co

sarah harrison call to the state department and they returned a phone call and this all is between chile and his son and an attorney with the state department under clinton they spoke with cliff johnson and they told him that they would like for the state department their safety punchers and. a warning or some sort of notification to do in your top shape for a former wiki leaks employee to knott's that circulates this wealth of the file. and what is the current state of the asuncion extradition hearings we know back here in america there's a lot of big news about kobe in 1000 vaccines obviously the transition of power is going on but could this newly released audio have any impact on the hearings and make a quake in the national media here. well julian to scientists in belmarsh prison right now it's one of the u.k.'s work prison it's actually referred to as the u.k.'s guantanamo bay he's there right now in her working conditions and the judge is expected to make her final decision actually based in on a january 4th of money 21 so we're very hopeful that president truck was going to issue a pardon to children in a sauna because there is no better way to stand up to the gate the democr

johnson tweeting about their call. biden's first to a european leader. and the white house later said the president hopes to, quote, revitalize trans-atlantic ties. msnbc foreign correspondent sarahl relationship. so we expected this to be one of biden's first calls. what did they talk about? >> it's funny, it really depends on who you ask. the u.s. read out is that they discussed climate policy and covid-19 recovery. the uk readout is that they also discussed a potential trade deal. clearly as you say, it's a bit of bragging rights for world leaders to be among the first calls of a new u.s. president. boris johnson was the first european leader, and he made sure that people knew about it. he tweeted a photo of himself on the phone and he wrote, looking forward to deepening the longstanding alliance between our two countries as we drive a green and sustainable recovery from covid-19. now that green economy is a smart thing to focus on here because it's a bit of common ground between a democratic u.s. president and conservative british prime minister. but it belies the fact there is very little agreement between the two on something that's very near and dear to boris johnson's hea

johnson's meetings with world leaders who attended the funeral. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern and enjoy "american history tv" every weekend on >>> next, on "lectures in history" university of colorado professor sarah fields teaches a class about the 1981 trial of gene harris, who was accused of murderering the scarsdale diet doctor. professor fields describes the suspect's background, her long relationship with the doctor and her conviction for his murder. >> all right. good afternoon. we are going to talk about jean harris, and for those of us old enough to remember the scarsdale diet doctor murder. we'll talk about the case in a couple of different sections. first we'll talk about the case itself and some of the impact of the choices that the lawyers made during the trial that affected the outcome. but as we talk about this case i want you to keep two things in the back of your mind because we're going to come back at the end of class to talk about these. the first is i want you to think about how this case is similar and different from the lizzie borden murder trial from 1983 so and the second is the question about 100 years earlier. and the second is the question of why do you all know who liz