covid spread and test requirements and staff shortages as well. and some parents just opting to keep their kids home. thousands of travelers still trying to get back home after a week of staff shortages from new covid cases leaves airlines, tsa, and support personnel shorthanded. planes grounded complicated by a new winter storm already hitting the mid-atlantic and moving up the coast towards the northeast. one flight not grounded today, air force one, president biden arriving at joint base andrews. it is hard to see him. mid-morning that was about an hour and a half ago amid swirling winds, accumulating snow from a holiday break that he had in delaware. the president s holiday was interrupted by a call to reassure ukraine s president zelensky after an hour-long call with vladimir putin who still has 100,000 troops along ukraine s border. washington is preparing for the first anniversary of the january 6th insurrection. the commemoration at the capitol will include a speech f
authorizes pfizer s booster shots for kids ages 12 to 15 as kids go back to school and health officials nervously watch the rising number of hospitalizations nationwide. and the president meets with american farmers and ranchers later this afternoon as the white house unveils a plan to combat rising prices at the supermarket as it battles the rising political fallout from inflation. welcome to meet the press daily . i m kristen welker in for chuck todd. happy new year. president biden made his return to the white house in the snow. it s an apt metaphor for the blizzard of urgent issues facing him and his party right now, stalled agenda in congress. surging covid cases nationwide. inflation concern at home. russian aggression abroad and much more. and the president is confronting the call amid the very long and dark shadow being cast over washington this week as elected officials reckon with the ongoing aftermath of the january 6th attack on the capitol now approaching th
. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. countries around the world are scrambling to get a handle on the new covid variant called omnicon. in recent days, it s already spread from southern africa and has been discovered in italy, germany, the uk, the czech republic and just now in australia with two cases. and there are more suspected cases around the world. we don t yet know if it s anymore deadly or whether it can blunt vaccine efficacy or natural immunity, but scientists fear it could be more contagious. dozens of countries have already banned or limited travel from parts of south africa and several of its neighbors where there are confirmed cases of the variant. governments are also scrutinizing travelers as they land inside their borders. australia is testing people entering the country. this is a fast-moving issue, but we will continue, as we always have. sensible, balanced, guided by the best possible medical evidence and med
presumably found among 61 people who tested positive for covid on arrival at amsterdam s airport. more analysis is being done to find out for sure. while the variant is being studied extensively, we don t yet know whether it s anymore deadly than the regular virus or whether it can blunt vaccine efficacy or natural immunity. but scientists fear it could be more contagious. dozens of countries have already banned or limited travel from parts of south africa and several of its neighbors where there are confirmed cases of the variant. on saturday, british prime minister boris johnson gave a sobering description of the possible threat. here he is. as always with a new variant, there are many things that we just cannot know at this early stage. but our scientists are learning more hour by hour. and it does appear that omnicron spreads very rapidly and can be spread between people who are double vaccinated. there is also a very extensive mutation, which means it diverges quite si
with a .45 caliber pistol, they followed up the initial shooting. malcolm x was on the ground, laid out by the blast from the shotgun, and the two men stood over him, the two men with pistols stood over him and fired multiple shots into his prone body. malcolm x was 39 years old. his daughters and his wife were there in person close up to see him murdered. and, of course, chaos broke out in the crowded ballroom. one of the gunmen, the one with the .45 caliber pistol, he got caught. he was shot in the leg as he tried to run from the scene by one of malcolm x s body guards. we believe is who shot him. but he was shot in the thigh, and that brought him down and then people grabbed him. he had dropped or thrown away the .45 caliber pistol that he had used in the shooting, but somebody else recovered it at the scene outside the ballroom and handed it over. he was found with .45 caliber ammunition on him in his pants pocket. he was so he was caught that day. one of the three gunm