for $979,000. it is pretty cute. not a bad deal ored by cbs o donnell: tonight, president biden addresses the nation in his first state of the union amid a ranging war in ukraine and rising prices here at home. as russia bombards ukraine s capital, including a tv tower and holocaust memorial, we re learning the president will detail the latest efforts to stop vladimir putin. plus as oil reaches a seven-year high and causes pain at the pump, the president tonight on how he ll curb inflation and claim credit for record job growth. the cost of war: the humanitarian crisis bornses as ukraine refugees line up at the border. we re there as some women and children have to wait five days. war crimes.
179 people were a part of this investigation, including the governor s brother, chris, our colleague here at cnn. p speaking with a number of members the governor s inner circle. this was all part of putting together this investigation, some 79,000 different pieces of evidence. what we know in terms of charges, too, john, a lot of questions about what could come in terms of criminal charges. the a.g. making it clear this was a civil investigation. she actually doesn t have the authority to bring criminal charges. but we can tell you that the district attorney in albany county has said he has now requested materials from the a.g. s investigation and also has reached out to any other potential victims asking them to come forward. says he has an obligation to follow up. erica hill, thank you so much for your reporting. more now on what president biden had to say about his long-time friend governor andrew cuomo. here is more of cnn s kaitlan collins asking the president directly about it
the governor to step down growing louder. for the sake of the state, the governor resigns, he should resign. and erica hill joins me now. what do we know about how many people investigators spoke with and why? reporter: nearly 200. 179 people were a part of this investigation, including the governor s brother, chris, our colleague here at cnn. speaking with a number of the governor s inner circle, this was part of putting together this investigation, some 79,000 different pieces of evidence. what we know in terms of charges, too, john, a lot of questions about what could come in terms of criminal charges. the a.g. making it clear this was a civil investigation. she doesn t have the authority to bring criminal charges but we can tell you that the district attorney in albany county has said he has now requested materials from the a.g. s investigation and also has reached out to any other potential victims asking them to come forward.
nhs staff automate what happened last time and will happen this time and yesterday we saw nearly 79,000 cases confirmed in the community, proportion of those will be working in the nhs, so it s really important to remember that, alongside increasing demand from people with omicron, we re also going to get increasing absences from nhs staff with omicron, so that s going to be a real crunch point. i think we don t know yet is how many people we are going to see admitted to hospital. we haven t got to that point yet. we know there are a few in hospital, admission rates are going up, but the spread of omicron is such that we won t know yet for probably another ten days to two weeks what level of impact that will have on hospital capacity and also capacity across the whole of the nhs and, critically, social care, because remember, in order to keep
hospitals going, we really need to see social care operating at its peak and come at the moment, we know that they are suffering staff shortages. they are in really difficult times as well, and fewer than half of patients who are medically fit to do so can actually be discharged from hospital at the moment, so some really challenging pictures out there, but i think what we have to know is that there are things of the public can do. there are things that nhs staff can do. there are things the government can do in order to help stop the spread. omicron in particular. thank you very much for your time today and good luck over the coming days and weeks. she was referring to the almost 79,000 new covid cases reported in