helicopter. it was a rough way to ring in 2022. 21 people, some restaurant employees and some tram workers, stuck on a tram system overnight on a mountain in new mexico on new year s eve. an iced-over cable caused the cars to get stuck for 12 hours. there were no reported injuries. i want to show you now a pretty phenomenal story out of texas, where it actually rained fish from the sky. raining fish is a meteorological phenomenon in which a water spout sucks up animals and carries them along until losing steam. residents told affiliate station ktla that they heard loud noises and looked outside to find, well, it s raining fish. here you can see the small fish littered throughout a parking lot in texarkana. i heard about this in el salvador in the 1980s when i was there. and there s a town in honduras
of the uk omicron outbreak, has seen some rises in infections in older people and hospitalisations, but figures for intensive care are still below any worrying threshold. cases are still rising. i think suggestions a few days ago that we might have actually started to peak i think was probably not borne out yesterday. but on the other hand, cases aren t increasing as rapidly as they were a week or so ago. i think we can be fairly certain that they are not doubling every couple of days now. the hospitality sector has described the decision not to add further measures as a lifeline for pubs, bars and clubs. it also says allowing people to go out on new year s eve signals better times ahead. it s notjust about new year s eve for us. it s bigger than that. it s the start of a recovery and we believe we have created safe environments for people to come out and socialise. and we think it s the best scenario,
students get boosted in order to be considered fully vaccinated? how long did they give you to comply? that is correct. we already have a vaccine mandate and everyone is fully vaccinated and wearing masks on campus. on new year s eve at 7:00 p.m., we were told everyone needs to receive a third shot of the vaccine, a booster and 45 days. and this goes against everything that i learned at george mason about the importance of free consent, free voluntary choice because what they are doing here is they are preventing students from being able to make a free choice. no, i don t need the third shot. i recovered from covid and had shots. i m already protected. there is a higher risk for adverse side effects and inflammation for young, healthy males. once you are vaccinated it outweighs covid. they have to sacrifice tens of thousands of dollars of lost scholarship getting kicked out of school or dropping out and
with covid but not because of covid, staff are also getting infected. it s very clear that as soon as you get omicron circulating significantly amongst the community, of course it will be circulating amongst nhs staff. we are now having to redeploy staff to fill the gaps that are being left in critical and essential services by staff who are off with covid related absences. along with vaccinations, the government in england is urging people to remain cautious and, if possible, to celebrate outside on new year s eve. it will assess whether more restrictions are needed injanuary. sophie hutchinson, bbc news. the latest uk government covid data now. some of the figures are still being affected by delays over christmas, and some data has not yet been published, but it still shows record numbers of cases. there were 129,101 new infections recorded in the latest 24 hour period in england and wales. the scotland government have published their data separately but they also show record levels.
on new year s eve and celebrate. and we ve seen an influx. we ve been very nervous because not knowing whether to order stock and get staff in order, we didn t really know what to do. so, today, we ve been going frantic, trying to make sure everything is going to be planned for the big night, new year s eve night. we ve been running this as the government have guided us. we ask for people to show their vaccine passports upon entry of our venues. if they re coming earlier than one o clock, then we give them a stamp to make sure that they ve actually proven that they ve got a vaccine passport. then when they go to the bar, they just show their stamp, so the staff are confident of that as well. and that s what the government have told us to do and that s what we do. we follow the rules. surprisingly, we ve been able to follow the rules all the way through. but you know what? it s been really, really hard to be able to work a business through all these difficult hurdles we ve had to jump.