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season, and then put on top of that covid is kind of creeping back up again. the numbers are still relatively low, but if you look at the week of november 26, there were 33,000 people admitted to the hospital with covid in the u.s. 33,000, that is not a small number, a 27% increase over the week before. so in other words, it is going in the wrong direction. we were sort of enjoying the benefits of having covid numbers go down and now they appear to be ticking back up a bit. and so this is really a problem. one thing i will say is that if you are concerned about medication, please don t hoard. even if it is for your child, don t hoard it, that is bad karma that will come back to get you. instead get yourself vaccinated and that can really help. i know here in new york officials are calling on federal resources to come in. so what is the biden administration doing about this?
between hillary and the super pac, particularly if you see the people running it, so this is really hillary clinton s campaign for all practical purposes and you can see they are ramping up and going to raise any penny they can. john brabender, kiki maclean, thank you. thanks. checking the news feed this morning, investigators looking into the helicopter crash that killed four u.s. air force personnel off the coast of england. the public is being told to stay away because of scattered live ammunition. the chopper was on a training mission and was flying low at the time of the crash. new york police busted more than 100 people connected to a disabilities scam. investigators say the suspects falsely claimed ptsd, many of them said it was related to 9/11, and they got a collective $400 million in benefits. some claim they were too sick to leave their homes, but court documents show one man was a martial arts instructor, another they caught going fishing,
you think about it. i did interview a manitou springs who s launching a tour business, including hotels and businesses that may be near retail shops. think about the lighting people that sell the grow lights, think about the construction people that have to build these grow rooms. think about building owners, we have investors now that are buying buildings expressly to rent them out as growing operations, industrial buildings, so the real estate is impacted greatly. so, the impact to other businesses is pretty vast. which is one of the reasons that other states are looking at it, not just tax revenues, but the other ways in which it could spark the economy, a legal economy, so i guess the question is, is there a sense of what will determine whether or not this experiment, which is, i guess, you know, this is what colorado is doing first, if this
goodness, we re coming up on super bowl season, tell me it isn t so. i know, panic time. no double dipping here, chris. kraft has put out a warning about that velveeta shortage that could leave some supermarkets shelves bare of the product. why, kraft says it s partly due to high demand, another unspecified reasons but hopefully it s only short term. it does come on the heels of a string of college bowl games and clearly a lot of cheese dip eating. i don t know, is hoarding allowed these days? if you can find it, hoard it, is what i m going to say. i can t imagine the shelf life of it, but i think you re safe. new service to block what we all hate, robo calls and it s been a big success. yeah, it s a free service. what s it called? no mo robo. it s a free service that spots those robo calls. it blocks them and then automatically hangs up. it launched about three months