evidence: Leave a comment 0comments Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/news-wrap-fda-panel-backs-modernas-covid-19-vaccine-for-emergency-use Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Audio In our news wrap Thursday, a second COVID-19 vaccine moves closer to emergency authorization, President-elect Biden rounds out his environmental team, Vladimir Putin denies ordering opposition leader's poisoning, more than 340 boys kidnapped in Nigeria are freed, the family that owns Purdue Pharma admits Oxycontin has helped fuel opioid addictions, and Google faces another major antitrust lawsuit. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. Judy Woodruff: In the day's other news: A panel of experts endorsed a second COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use. They recommended the Moderna vaccine to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, as deaths nationwide passed 310,000.In California, hospital staffers now have beds in hallways and ambulances lined up, and it's getting worse, with 100,000 new infections there in two days. Mohamed Fayed: Nurses and physicians and all the health care workers are really working so hard through this, hours and hours and hours and hours per day nonstop. People are taking two shifts just to get through this.