Monday, December 14 top stories briefs

Here are today’s top news briefs.

A nurse in Long Island, New York was one of the first people in the U.S. to get the new Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. Her name is Sandra Lindsay and her vaccination was televised live. She said she wants people to feel confident about the vaccine and emphasized that she has seen the alternative with infected Covid-19 patients and doesn’t want it for you. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he believes that it is the weapon that will end the war. President Trump said “Congratulations USA! Congratulations WORLD!”

The U.S. is the worst-affected country in the world with the coronavirus pandemic. The Johns Hopkins coronavirus dashboard says we’re at 300,000 deaths with over 16 million reported cases. The vaccines will help to end the pandemic, but it will take a few months. Check out my interview with Dr. IV Mirus — it’ll be on a separate video posted today.

On Saturday at the Las Vegas international airport, a man was filmed walking on a wing of an Alaska Airlines flight. The plane was preparing to take off to Portland when the pilot reported that a man was on the tarmac and coming towards the plane. The man hopped a fence. Videos showed the man walking on the wing and lying down as police officers swarmed in response. He then removed his shoes and tried to climb the end of a plane wing, called a winglet. Three police officers are seen in the video walking on the wing towards the man. The man fell down from the winglet and landed hard on the floor, where he was detained. The plane returned to a gate for inspection before it departed after a four-hour delay.

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News reports from last night said the Cleveland Indians will change its team name, which is a similar move as the NFL’s Washington Football Team. The Cleveland team has had the same name since 1915 and the name is controversial because it is offensive to multiple Native American groups. The baseball team has not yet made a formal announcement, but news reports said there should be one this week.

On Saturday, Vanderbilt University football player Sarah Fuller became the first woman to score a point in a Power 5 conference game when she picked an extra point. She later kicked a second extra point. ESPN explained that Fuller is the goalkeeper for Vanderbilt women’s soccer team. The head coach said Fuller is the most accurate kicker on the team for kicks inside the 10-yard line The first female to score in a college football (FBS) game is Katie Hnida in 2003.

That’s all the top news briefs for today. See you tomorrow and stay with the light.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/12/14/world/covid-19-coronavirus#america-begins-its-most-ambitious-vaccination-campaign

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/12/us/las-vegas-airport-plane-wing-man-custody/index.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/sports/baseball/cleveland-indians-baseball-name-change.html

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/30504745/vanderbilt-kicker-sarah-fuller-first-woman-score-power-5-football-game