cases are way up, in some places like houston tripling in just days. now another sign in the sports world of how bad the situation is. the national hockey league deciding it will not be sending any of its players to the olympics in beijing. but a silver lining. hospitalizations are rising but not spiking. not yet. all of this underscoring what the experts have been telling us, which is the best way to stay safe is to get vaccinated and make sure you have a booster. let s start with cnn s elizabeth cohen on the very latest with omicron and the current hot spots. elizabeth, where are the pressing concerns right now? kate, let s take a look at the united states. when you look at this map, red is bad. that s where you re seeing the most dramatic increases. so you can see we have six states in dark red that are seeing increases in cases of more than 50% week over week. louisiana, florida, georgia, new york, hawaii and new jersey. certainly we are hearing about the long lines of
the root of the problem is in the company s algorithms. i ve seen a number of companies and facebook was the worse. now with tens of thousands of pages of facebook internal documents, haugen is pulling back the curtain. a toxic stew that opened the door for the insurrection on capitol hill. one of the consequences is it is optimizing for content that gets engagement, reaction. the own research is showing that content that is hateful, polarizing, it s easier to inspire people to anger. misinformation, angry content is enticing to people. very enticing. and keeps them on the platform? yes. facebook has realized that if they change the al kbor rhythm to be safer, people will spend less time on the site, they ll click on less ads and make less money. facebook wrote every day our teams have to balance protecting the ability of billions of people to express themselves openly with the need to keep our platform a safe and positive place. we continue to make significan
hello and welcome, i m samantha simmonds. the royal family are facing more questions over a picture of the princess of wales first published on sunday. this picture, released for mother s day, showing catherine with their three children, has since been retracted by four photo agencies over concerns it has been manipulated . it is the first official photo of the princess of wales since her abdominal surgery two months ago. simon jones has more. released at 9:00 yesterday morning by kensington palace to mark mother s day a picture of the princess of wales surrounded by her children. the aim was to dampen speculation about catherine s recovery from her recent abdominal surgery. but some people pointed out that the image looked odd a view shared by several leading picture agencies which had initially sent out the photo worldwide. one of them said there was an inconsistency in the alignment of princess charlotte s left hand, meaning the image didn t reach the agency s standar
at their record high today. but will the european central bank signal lower borrowing costs are on the way? bag pipes skirl. paying the piper! as scots everywhere celebrate burns night, we ll be speaking to one whose playing has bagged a global following. yes we have bagpipes in this programme. we start in the us where air safety chiefs have cleared a path for boeing 737 max 9 jets to return to the skies after dozens were grounded when a cabin panel blew off mid flight, forcing an emergency landing. the federal aviation administration says the jets can fly again once approved inspections are done. but in a blow to boeing, the faa says it won t allow any ramp up in production of the 737 max until it s satisfied about the company s quality control. earlier on wednesday, boeing s chief executive faced senators in washington. our north america business correspondent erin delmore reports. the boss of boeing said he understood the seriousness of the safety questions facing the co
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