ukraine, according to three defense officials. this system has the ability to shootdown inning ballistic missiles to ukraine. joining us is alisyn barber. what can you tell us ability the strikes? reporter: jose, most of the people who live in central kyiv woke up this morning to the sound of air-raid sirens and then booms. as you said ukrainian officials say russian forces fired 13 iran-made drones at kyiv. they say they intercepted all of them. those were the booms that so many people heard but some of the debris from one of those interceptions fell in a residential area hitting an administrative building. this afternoon smoke was still coming out of that building. we spoke to some of the people who live in the area. one man talked to us about the toll of this. you see these images and the physical damage here in this particular strike is relatively minimal.
show. let s face it, in today s world, some things are just kind of weird and this is old school, and we try to make it whimsical for the kids. they think it s amazing. a christmas toast to cold school and the gaddys and thanks to alisyn barber. coming up how the omicron surge and grounded flights are leading to tough decisions for families this holiday. and we have another hour of news on the other side of the break. s on the other side of the break watch this. that was in these clothes. ugh. but the clothes washed in tide- so much cleaner. if it s got to be clean it s got to be tide hygienic clean. no surprises in these clothes! couple more surprises. limu emu. & doug
alisyn barber has their story. reporter: for residents of fayetteville, virginia, a visit to the north pole is a car ride away. every december larger than life nutcrackers, fairy tale characters and ninja turtles come to live. curt see of mike and gwen, the unofficial mr. and mrs. claus at the heart of the wonderland. it all began 33 years when the couple, parents of three, decided to add a little magic to their front yard. we put up three words, hohoho and that was it. reporter: one displayed grew to dozens that attracted cars up to two miles long. 73-year-old mike is building six months of the year. his crowning achievement, two large working ferris wheels.
it wouldn t be lockdowns for everyone. it would be exclusions for the unvaccinated. i m going to the movies. you know, again, so with respect to imposing something specifically on unvaccinated people, you would need a vaccine verification system. americans have been very resis tent to that kind of system. you had the republicans who painted that as the idea of vaccine passports, which they should not be. because passports are a form of identification. but absent a system like that you re asking the ticket seller, waitress at a restaurant to do that kind of vaccine verification. here in new york city you ve seen that lead to confrontations with guests. you know, i m not sure that that s a fair ask of people who are working on the front lines. that is a great point. alisyn, lindsey, dr. gounder, thank you for joining us this morning. al zip, be sure not to eat anything in the lab.
starting december 6th all international travelers will be required to test negative within a day of their departure to the united states. the president stressing no new lockdowns or shutdowns at the current time. joining us to discuss this new information that you need to know, alisyn barber in illinois, lindsey risener, and dr. celine gounder. doctor, is this the covid that gives you the sniffles or sends you to the hospital? we don t have the answer to that. i think people are hopeful, based on a handful of cases most of them in young healthy people with mild symptoms they are extrapolaing that omicron may not be so serious, so virulent but we don t know we need more data to assess whether or not that is the case. lindsey, five cases have been