With two Covid-19 vaccines given the greenlight from health agencies, officials are accelerating the distribution of doses to patients over the coming holiday week. Moderna’s candidate is the most recent vaccine to receive an emergency use authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration. The first doses are expected to be administered to patients Monday
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Canada has become the latest country to halt flights from the UK following the discovery of a new variant of Covid-19, which is said by officials to spread faster than others. The new coronavirus variant, which prompted the UK government to impose a Tier 4 lockdown in London and southeastern England, and tighten restrictions for
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A meeting President Donald Trump held to discuss overturning the election result alarmed some White House staffers — people who are used to Trump’s inflammatory and anti-democratic rhetoric. With only a month remaining until President-elect Joe Biden will be sworn into office, Trump has been ramping up his efforts to remain president, while also trying
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A rocket attack on Baghdad’s diplomatic Green Zone Sunday night was “a terrorist act” that undermines Iraq’s international reputation, the country’s president says. Eight rockets were fired at the heavily fortified area, with at least one Iraqi soldier injured when a rocket landed near an Iraqi security checkpoint, according to a statement from the Iraqi
Continue Reading In the dark small hours, two recurring nightmares terrorize the sleep of Eddie Chu. In the first, he is lost overseas and cannot get home to Hong Kong. In the second, the former lawmaker is day tripping with his nine-year-old daughter. The latter scenario might not sound nightmarish, but democracy activist Chu, 43, knows what
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Andrew Kauffman brought on KTGR’s Matt Michaels in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch the full conversation in the video player above.
Continue Reading It’s another day of self-isolating, which means it’s potentially another day of sitting indoors restlessly taking yet another Zoom meeting. Prolonged sitting is an unavoidable reality for many. And with lots of us spending more time inside, as the pandemic continues, it’s inevitable that we’re spending even more time being sedentary. The irony is that
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Millions of Americans expect to lose wages in the next four weeks. Millions of Americans don’t have enough to eat, are falling behind on housing payments or have had trouble paying their bills. And millions of Americans are lapsing into poverty. As the coronavirus surges again across the nation, the fragile economic recovery is showing
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) UPDATE (9:50 p.m.): Both lanes of Rock Quarry are back open. ORGINAL: Emergency crews blocked of Rock Quarry Road after a car crashed shortly before 9 p.m. Sunday. The crash happened on Rock Quarry near Stags Way. An ABC17 crew on the scene saw one care crashed in the trees on the
Continue Reading President Donald Trump convened a heated meeting in the Oval Office on Friday, including lawyer Sidney Powell and her client, former national security adviser Michael Flynn, two people familiar with the matter said, describing a session that began as an impromptu gathering but devolved and eventually broke out into screaming matches at certain points as
Continue Reading The warehouse is like any other with row upon row of products stacked on top of one another with identifying barcodes. But it’s unique in that it contains critical items to protect the United States in the event of an attack or disaster. And this year, the warehouse became a flashpoint in the Covid-19 pandemic.
Continue Reading Scientists at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research expect to know in the next few days if there’s a concern that the coronavirus vaccines might not work against a mutated variant of the virus that’s rapidly spreading in parts of England, according to the institute’s top vaccine researcher. While there’s always a worry that
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Poll of the week: A new Fox News poll finds that 42% of voters say history will remember President Donald Trump as one of the worst presidents ever. An additional 8% say he will be remembered as below average, while 22% say one of the greatest, 16% say above average and 10% say below average.
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Randall Williams, director of the Department of Health and Senior Services signs a standing order for the Moderna vaccine Sunday.
Continue Reading In one of Attorney General William Barr’s final acts leading the Justice Department, he plans to announce on Monday criminal charges against an alleged bombmaker in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. The former Libyan intelligence officer Abu Agila Masud is expected to be charged for his involvement
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Owosso, MI (WNEM ) — Living in a pandemic can be tough, taxing and at times burdensome. Ovid resident Jennifer Cruce can relate, as she’s balancing the demands of life as best she can. “I am a mother of two, I’m a [Certified Nurses Aid],” Cruce said. “I
Continue Reading Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted 13-1 on Sunday to recommend that both older adults, ages 75 and older, and “frontline essential workers” including first responders be next in line to receive Covid-19 vaccines. That would put those people in “Phase 1b” of allocating the vaccine nationwide. That committee
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CLACKAMAS COUNTY, OR (KPTV ) — A driver was rescued after he drove off the Oregon City Marina dock and into the river on Sunday, the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office said. Clackamas County Water Rescue Consortium responded to a report of a submerged pickup in the Willamette River
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SHAWNEE, KS (KCTV/KSMO ) — If you pass by 75th Street and Quivira Road on a school day, you just might catch a glimpse of a very cheerful crossing guard. Mark Redmond is a retired railway worker who’s fighting pandemic fatigue and the winter blues by brightening peoples’
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TONIGHT: We’ll keep the partly cloudy skies around with lows falling into the low 30’s. TOMORROW: Tomorrow will be nice and warm with sunshine and temperatures warming into the lower 50s. EXTENDED: Temperatures will warm into the low to mid 50’s for Tuesday, but a breeze gusting to 25-30 mph at times will keep us grounded.
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