virus, not ourselves. unlike the previous strains, it transmits very readily to the air to large numbers of people. if we wait and see, then by the time we re seeing, it s always too late to act. it is being called an unpleasant case of deja vu. the u.s. sees another covid winter surge, but this time it s the omicron variant taking over. we are just hours away from president biden s speech on the pandemic. what will he tell americans as they head into the holidays? and jury deliberations will begin in the trial of the killing of daunte wright. we ll have closing arguments in the trial of the police officer kim potter. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. welcome, everyone. it is tuesday, december 21st, and we begin with a staggering really take over of the omicron variant in the united states. on monday, the cdc announced the highly contagious variant now accounts for more than 73% of new covid cases. now, omicron has been detecte
a kicking over it and the prime minister has rightly said that we made mistakes and he regrets that those mistakes happened. wales announces tighter coronavirus restrictions with the return of social distancing and nightclubs shut from december the 27th. and coming up we ll check in with our correspondents across europe as other countries bring in new restrictions to combat the threat of omicron. a 27 year old woman has been arrested on suspicion of child neglect after two sets of twin boys, aged three and four, died in a house fire in south london last night. at least 27 people are feared dead in an office building fire in the japanese city of osaka. hello, and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. here in the uk, the liberal democrats have pulled off a political shock in the north shropshire by election, taking one of the country s safest conservative seats. it follows the resignation of tory mp owen paterson, who was found to have breached parliam
but a small and significant mandate that could still throw things off track. they said they don t want to see republicans shut down. we hope cooler heads will prevail. if there is a shut down, it will be a republican anti-vaccine shut down. and the house rules committee is holding off on the con tempt referral that passed unanimously on wednesday night. i will speak to committee member zoe lofgren. we start a jake ward and the coronavirus. antonia hilton, and dr. michael osterholm. jake, i will start with you. you spoke with the professor that helped lead the response in the bay area. what are they learning there. as you know san francisco add a very robust response to the pandemic and is blessed with facilities like the university of san francisco. once this travel started to feel symptoms, the travel reached out to the san francisco department of health and said i have been in south africa, i know the omicron variant is there, and that person s sample wound up here an
the united states to the long oppressed population of venezuela. venezuela s socialist economy famously had collapsed utterly by that point. there was no toilet paper in caracas. people were eating zoo animals to stay alive. the average venezuelan had lost over 10 pounds from starvation. so the point of sending humanitarian aid to venezuela was to show the world that americans are decent, but more than that, that the american system works. this country is so rich that we can afford to send crutches and wheelchairs to our enemies. again, that was 2019. it was not the berlin airlift, it was the other day. but a lot has changed. we are not shipping any more crutches or wheelchairs to venezuela or anywhere else, for that matter, and we are not because we don t have enough for ourselves. less than a year into the joe biden administration, the united states faces massive and potentially dangerous shortages of just about everything. just this week, one of the largest health care pro
venezuela. venezuela s socialist economy famously had collapsed utterly by that point. there was no toilet paper in caracas. people were eating zoo animals to stay alive. the average venezuelan had lost over 10 pounds from starvation. so the point of sending humanitarian aid to venezuela was to t show the world that americans are decent, but more than that, that the american system works. this country is so rich that we can afford to send crutches and wheelchairs to a our enemies. again, that was 2019. it was not the berlin airlift it was the other day. but a lot has changed. we are not shipping any more crutches orwe wheelchairs to venezuela or anywhere else, for that matter, and we are not because we don t have enough for ourselves. less than a year into the joe biden administration, the united states faces massive and potentially dangerous shortages of just about everything. f just this week, one of the largest health care providers in the united states, intermountain heal