jonathan serrie keeping track of it all in atlanta. jonathan? hi, neil. the omicron variant has been detected in every u.s. state except for oklahoma and south dakota so far. and texas has confirmed the first omicron-related fatality. this one involving a man in his 50s, lived in the houston area. he was unvaccinated and had underlying health conditions. take a listen. of course we re going to have hospitalizations tragically deaths like what we see now. but the evidence shows that for those vaccinated and with the booster is much less likely. with holiday gatherings around the corner, many americans are waiting in long lines. many live shows like the rockettes and hamilton have
dominant variant of covid in the united states. he is going to do that at 2:30 eastern. the first con omicron related death has been confirmed. all of this with airports packed ahayed of the holiday rush and people report waiting if line for hours and hours not to get to the plane, but to get a covid test ahead of gathering with friends and family. the thing they ve been told to do. jonathan serrie has more from atlanta, home to the cdc. maybe some answers on how to get tested faster. hi. the omicron variant has been detected in every u.s. state except for oklahoma and south dakota and texas has confirmed the first omicron-related fatality. a houston-area man in his mid 50s. he was unvaccinated and had underlying health conditions. take a listen.
November has been an active month in the years-long litigation of opioid manufacturers and it hasn’t been good for the theories put forth by Attorneys General and local governments..
you re for or against the death plenlty in theory and the question that s harder, which is when you learn the facts of how it goes on, racism, which we reported on, the cruelty, and other issues, then society has to look at those facts and say do you support that. the halt in executions does not as a legal matter address any guilt or innocence of these two individual cases. it speaks more to the execution system. oklahoma s process was so botched that as i mentioned, and i ll show you some of the reporting, you had experts saying it was like burning people alive. what we re seeing now is that process itself will go back on trial. these excuses will be halted. postponed for now. while these individuals including mr. jones remain on death row. we have a special coverage planned for you tonight. we bring in one of our legal experts, a former civil prosecutor and julius jones
attorney in the case who joins us for the first time. dale, what does today s ruling mean? good evening and thank you for having me on the show. the tenth circuit ruled today that the execution of john grant and julius jones should be stayed because the federal district court judge in a prior ruling determined that this question of the drug combination that oklahoma uses to carry out executions may be unconstitutional and it s important to point out why the plaintiffs were dismissed from the lawsuit. they declined to affirmatively state an alternative method of execution based on religious reasons. so they were excluded from the