. >> i'm an eighth grader from frisco, texas. >> reporter: in the middle of a pandemic, this budding scientists hopes to one day save lives. >> inhibiting the spike protein would stop the virus from entering the cell. >> with her research on a potential treatment for the coronavirus. >> congratulations. you are america's 2020 top young scientists. >> her project earned her top prize in the country for middle school scientists and $25,000. >> i isolated a lead compound from a data base of almost 698 million molecules. >> reporter: that discovery which she hopes will lead to a new weapon against covid-19 began two years ago while she was researching another pandemic. >> you know that there are a lot of people at home saying what 12-year-old is interested in spanish flu in a pandemic? >> yeah. so school is useful. >> reporter: a 14-year-old with many talents, doing grown-up work. >> i just want to help the world and let children know that they can do whatever they want to accomplish. >> reporter: there were 60,000 deaths in the u.s. alone. >> inspiring a new generation to reach for the

. >> i'm anika chebrolu, and i'm an eighth grader from frisco, texas. >> reporter: it seems fitting that in the middle of a pandemic this budding scientist hopes to one day save lives. >> inhibiting the spike protein wold stop the virus from entering the cell. >> reporter: with her research on a potential treatment for the coronavirus. >> anika, congratulations, you are america's 2020 top young scientist. >> reporter: her project earned her a top prize in the country for middle school scientists and $25,000. >> i isolated a lead compound from a database of almost 698 million molecules. >> reporter: that discovery, which she hopes will lead to a new weapon against covid, began two years ago while anika was researching another pandemic. you know that there are a lot of people at home saying, "what 12- year-old is interested in the spanish flu and a pandemic? >> yeah, so school is useful. ( laughter ) ♪ ♪ >> reporter: a 14-year-old with many talents, doing grown-up work. >> i just wanted to help the world and let children know that they can do whatever they want ha accomplish. there wer

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. >> emily turner live in frisco. thank you very much. go to kpix.com/campaign2020 . >>> now to a new report that claims many of pge's emergency workers did not go through proper training before starting shut off last all. the associated press reports among the 100s who handled the blackouts, only a handful had any training in the disaster response playbook california has used for a generation and also that the power company developed its own curriculum. instead of the long-established emergency protocols and language. >> when you're not singing out of the same hymnal, it becomes very problematic. if you are not all using the same lingo, it becomes very complicated and creates unnecessary confusion. >> pg&e says about 90% of its 676 emergency personnel have since completed its. >>> let's take a live look at the johns hopkins university coronavirus tracker because the world just hit a new milestone. the number of confirmed cases surpassing 40 million and the actual figure is likely to be far higher as testing has been variable around the w

restaurant i mean, right there, you know, in midtown where i had these huge restaurants and morton's, del frisco's, the strip house, b bubba gump on times square, people aren't even sitting next to each other at 25% occupancy so there is no threat. our employees are not getting it and our customers aren't getting it i just don't see how you could cut it back any more than that, kelly. because then you're back to a full flown shutdown and you have to lay off everybody again at some point you've got to worry about the mental health of america. >> mm-hmm. so let me pivot and ask you, tilman, with a couple of weeks to go until the election, i think you were anticipating a blue wave outcome. is that right? >> well, i just look at the polls and i'm looking at all the absentee ballots right now and all the mail-in and it's 2-1 democrats. you know, i've always tried just to be a real ist and that's wha it looks like. i always prefer a divided country where you have at least the house or senate belongs to one party and the presidency the other because that's really what i think makes life better for everyb

this year, only 37 games -- yeah, only first one set for december 19th in that mecca, frisco, texas after that, there will be at least one game almost every day through january 2nd. playoffs begin new year's day, unless -- well, unless covid does what covid does for football, please, follow the fauci. >>> a plunge into frigid water and parisians march in the streets, as lockdown measures go into effect. and as we go around the world in 80 seconds >>> france, hundreds marching in paris, protesting the new lockdown measures meant to tackle spiraling covid cases demonstrators calling for drivers stuck in traffic the join them in their fight against what they're calling unfair and anti-democratic rules. >>> brazil, the show must go on, even in a parking lot. theater lovers enjoying a covid-safe play from their individual plastic boxes the actors wearing face masks and making sure not to touch each other sao polo allowed theaters to reopen earlier this month but fewer than ten have actually done so. russia, zoo animals predicting the results of our presidential election a brown bear chose form

claimed the lives of more than 3000 people it's forced over 700002 flee their homes so let's bring in frisco r.b.a. a cameroonian refugee who fled because of the crisis he joins us from athens can i start by asking you about this attack on a on a schooling. have you been hearing much about developments from people that you know in cameroon friends and family. but. the. borders the. people you're doing all that is and you must be very worried for your friends and family there fears that the fighting could spread into could become more widespread in the country it could go into other towns and cities and regions. in 2000 eating a buzzing us tried to switch to extend the fighting in military john and in the senate or the senate in the r. and l. in the because decided the country fight the country's fight and kill each other and just in the region done to bring it to the floor so subtle do you know if there is any support or help being given to the families of some of these have the school children not do not support from the gottman also point so fast on those of from the infamous i got an earf

think about del frisco's next to your building there, it's always packed. if it cuts down to 25% occupancy, then obviously it's not going to have enough revenue to survive for months. the second thing we could do is to come up with some help for businesses. there are proposals in congress that will help. giving people checks did help certain restaurant companies, restaurants with drive-throughs or that did take-out because consumers were spending more but that's not going to help the restaurants that depend on sit-down restaurant business. they really need for the constraints to be lifted and the sooner the better. we're at 25% capacity in new york. it should be 50%. at 50% you might be able to make it for another few months. maria: and you think you can do 50% safely? >> they're doing it everywhere else. i don't know why you couldn't do it in new york, particularly given the diminished effect of the virus in new york. the virus in new york state, the impact from the virus currently is very low. the deaths are way, way down. new york city is almost like swe