latest on the fight and the fallout. good evening. reporter: just a few days ago, twitter owner elon musk made headlines when he challenged meta ceo mark zuckerberg to a cage match. that cage match is still tbd but a legal battle between the two might actually be heating up. twitter is reportedly threatening to sue meta the parent company of facebook and instagram that is owned by zuckerberg alleging that a copy twitter with its remarkably similar new social media platform threads. that officially launched last night and is even being there for the twitter killer. in a letter published by the media reporter max bottani, musk s lawyers sent a cease and desist to zuckerberg claiming that mehta has engaged in systematic his appropriation of twitter s trade secrets and even hired a former twitter employees. musk responded to the lawsuit making headlines by tweeting, quote, competition is fine, cheating is not. fox news reached out to meta for comment. director andy stone respo
beat out on the fourth of july by the low-budget sound of freedom. a an agent who saves children. it cost about 14 million to make and earn back its entire budget in one day. you might want to get back to a concerning report from the u.s. geological survey found that nearly half of the tap water in the u.s. is contaminated with forever chemicals that may cause a host of health problems. it can cause cancer. it can cause immunity problems. it can cause liver problems. it can cause kidney problems. from of the study found the majority of contamination is in urban areas and suggest filtering your water before drinking it. good advice. canadian prime minister justin trudeau is taking heat on social media after taylor swift announced a new set of tour dates make that did not include canada. trudeau tweeted, quoting, it is
something that the constitution has worked to prevent mightily through the courts, since the civil war. this has been the battle of this country, but recently we have seen groups embrace discrimination, biden administration was found to have engaged in racial discrimination in elevating or prioritizing black farmers over white farmers. that was struck down in a bill passed by congress. now new york is doing this in the medical field and saying this is one of the so-called other risk factors would be your race. well, what s really quite perverse about the policy, identifies the conditions they are looking for, obesity and immunity problems. and then says, however, that because minority population has a lower rate of vaccination, higher rate of some of these problems, that should be considered a risk factor and
what they are saying is this that certain groups have a higher incidence of conditions that put them at higher risk. well, why not base your decisions on risk rather than race? you just identified the conditions. look for those conditions. and if you are right, and i think they are right, it means the african american community, for example, will get more assistance because those conditions are more prevalent in that group. but the administration and new york wants to sort of put race as a criteria up front, a threshold criteria, even though that s not relevant in terms of what is the decision making as to risk. look for obesity, look for immunity problems, that s what the c.d.c. was talking about, so this is not just unnecessary, it s incredibly divisive. you know, the biden administration made a huge error in prioritizing things like therapeutics and tests, and we now have scarcity. to tell a country that we may be
illness. which compared a little less favorably than the mrna but it was a single dose and for certain populations that was very attractive. while we were considering that, they were in the midst of doing a 30,000 two-dose trial. we now know that s about 94% effective in prevention. so it s much more similar to the mrna vaccines and so making a second dose recommendation was really easy. so the recommendation is two doses of j&j vaccine, at least with a second dose at least two months after. the mrna vaccines are the pfizer and moderna ones. and the booster for them is only recommended for certain groups, people 65 and older. adults who have immunity problems or underlying conditions. the johnson & johnson second dose that you are now recommending is that for everybody or just the same groups of older americans and people with underlying health conditions?