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And now, Preston and Steve's news updates with Kathy Romano.

It is Wednesday, March 3rd.

Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning.

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolfe said Tuesday that teachers will receive doses of the newly approved one shot Johnson and Johnson vaccine under a plan. His administration

will release today. Wolf's administration is planning on releasing that at some point on

Wednesday. So far, few details were given, but Wolf said that he and a bipartisan legislative

test agreed that the Johnson and Johnson vaccine should be set aside for teachers and then other workers considered to be essential but who are not included in the first vaccination phase.

In addition to teachers, other workers being mentioned for the Johnson and Johnson vaccine are child care workers, police, fire, grocery store workers and bus drivers.

State officials expect 94,000 doses of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine to arrive this week

as school districts face pressure to bring students back to classrooms for in-person instruction.

Philadelphia schools are still not back in.

They are still 100% virtual.

And I know that their union was trying to, they were saying, you know, they wanted the

teachers to get vaccinated before they go back.

But I just saw a report that they're supposed to start hybrid on Monday.

Oh, really?

Yeah, but I mean, all of this, like I cannot, I didn't realize they were still out.

I was, I heard this morning, they were saying this Johnson Johnson vaccine is going

to be like a big time game changer with this one time shot. It's going to be move things along,

hopefully quicker. More so also because of the storage requirements are less demanding. Yeah. And then also

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