Vaccine Trial Paused, New Oscars Rules & Moon Rust- Wednesday, September 9th, 2020
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
The news to know for Wednesday, September 9th, 2020!
We'll tell you about:
- why one vaccine maker is suspending its research trials and the promise it's now making with eight other drug companies
- why taxpayers could end up footing the bill for a lawsuit against President Trump
- where the largest wildfires are now growing out of control in the western U.S.
- what it could mean that there's rust on the moon
- how #OscarsSoWhite could have changed Hollywood forever
- which popular reality show is calling it quits after 20 seasons
Those stories and more in just 10 minutes!
Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.
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Sources:
AstraZeneca Trial on Hold: Stat News, AP, WSJ
Vaccine Safety Pledge: WaPo, USA Today, Politico, NPR, Read Pledge
DOJ Seeks to Defend Trump in Defamation Suit: NY Times, Bloomberg, NBC News, FOX News
Rochester Police Leaders Retire: AP, NY Times, WSJ, Mayor Statement, Police Chief Letter
CA Wildfires, More Rescues: AP, SF Gate, Reuters, Fresno Bee, Cal Fire
Other Western Wildfires: OPB, Salem Statesman Journal, NY Times
The Moon is Getting Rusty: CNN, Space.com, Mashable, NASA
Kaepernick Becomes 'Madden' Character: USA Today, The Verge, Axios, EA Sports
Oscars New Inclusion Standards: Deadline, WSJ, LA Times, AP, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
'Keeping Up With the Kardashians' Ending: E! News, AP, Kim Kardashian West
Work Wednesday: Working Remotely Could Affect Taxes: NY Times, WSJ, CNBC
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Wednesday, September 9th. |
| 0:01.7 | We'll explain why one vaccine maker is suspending its research trials |
| 0:05.2 | and the promise it's now making, along with eight other drug companies. |
| 0:08.3 | Also, white taxpayers could foot the bill for a lawsuit against President Trump, |
| 0:11.9 | and where the largest wildfires are now growing out of control |
| 0:14.7 | in the Western U.S. Plus what it could mean that there's rust on the moon. How the hashtag |
| 0:19.5 | Oscars so white may have changed Hollywood forever and which popular reality show is calling it |
| 0:24.4 | quits after 20 seasons. |
| 0:28.4 | Welcome, welcome to the newsworthy. |
| 0:30.4 | All the days news in less than 10 minutes. fair fun and on the go I'm Erica Mandy |
| 0:36.2 | Thanks so much for being here you ready let's do this |
| 0:47.6 | The race for a COVID-19 vaccine could be slowing down at least a little bit. One of the trials is now on hold because a volunteer got sick. |
| 0:51.6 | We're talking about the possible vaccine from |
| 0:53.4 | AstraZeneca which was developed by the University of Oxford. Trials have |
| 0:57.5 | been underway not only in the UK but also in the US, Brazil and South Africa. |
| 1:01.6 | Here in the US it's one of only three potential vaccines |
| 1:05.0 | that's made it to the final phase of testing. |
| 1:07.4 | But now, it's on hold everywhere. |
| 1:09.6 | Stat news reports it's standard protocol |
| 1:11.4 | to pause the trial and start a safety review |
| 1:13.7 | whenever someone gets sick in one of those trials. The participant in this case |
| 1:17.6 | apparently has a potentially unexplained illness but of course in these large |
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