2021 and good reason. Bill: this theory is coming back into mainstream. Three of these researchers working at the wuhan lab are now reported to have been treated at the hospital. What happened at that point? who were they exposed to? either at the hospital, en route or perhaps at home. All these questions are out there to try to be solved. Dana: even dr. Anthony fauci says he is not convinced covid developed naturally and called for an investigation on the matter. John ratcliffe slammed the biden administration for not doing enough to confront china. They put a 200 page plan on covid19 not one word on the origins of covid19 even though there is increasingly intelligence and evidence that indicates that the origins was a lab leak from the wuhan institute of virology. They aren t helping themselves by putting people in with ties with the chinese communist party or doing work for china and the chinese communist party into this administration. Bill: we ll talk to former secretary of state
George floyd s murder. I m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. The chaos raging anew in portland as some 200 rioters torn down fences and put spikes on the streets why police had to clear for emergency vehicles to go through. Rioters tried to burn down a federal courthouse and targeted business. Shocking video in minneapolis as gunshots rang out not far from where george floyd was killed. A site that has now become a memorial. This all happening in broad daylight. We showed you a bit yesterday. Now there is more. I heard gunshots. [gunfire] it sounds like gunshots. I would like to know what this is. They seem to be gunshots. Get down! harris: our crew had to crawl out of the way yesterday. They re still investigating what happened. Neighbors say crime has been surging in the area. A pattern also being reported city wide. Dan springer live today with our top story. Dan. We ve seen this all before over the last year. Anarchists attack police and property in portland and th
In cities from coast to coast. Bill: most americans are actually against cutting police funding. Let s begin with david lee miller on that topic on the sawed sidewalks of new york city. Dana: there is outrage in new york this morning over the latest incident that took place monday. A new york city police detective was investigating a burglary in queens when he was hit in the head with a large plastic stick all caught on video. He was filling out routine paperwork. A 25yearold man hit the detective in the head with one of two sticks. The incident happened shortly before noon. He walks away and starts to run before being taken into custody by police. The detective is on the ground and bleeding from a minor injury. Morgan charged with assault and resisting arrest. Detectives endowment association that says in part, quote, even as our detectives investigate crimes they re attacked. Criminals who realize there is no consequence for the lawmakers in our state. The incident underscores a grow
question this explosion was a deliberate act. welcome to a brand-new hour of america s newsroom, and merry christmas. i m rick leventhal. merry christmas, writ, and everyone at home. i am molly line. we are watching what has just occurred here all through the morning and nashville, quite a scene. it felt miles away, taking place shortly before dawn. police had been responding to reports of shots fired in that area, and alerted the bomb squad about a suspicious recreational vehicle shortly before that blast. we are expecting a press conference. you can see the microphones they are set up right now. we expect to hear from the fbi out of memphis, the atf, and local police seeking more information about what occurred there in nashville. on the ground in washington we have rich edson to bring us what we know from there. rich? good afternoon, molly. it is a major police response in downtown nashville after an rv blew up there at 6:30 this morning. an explosion police say wa
70% or so of the population being immunizeed would allow for true herd immunity to take place. that s likely to happen somewhere in the month of may or something like that based on our plans. trace: the vaccine developments come as over 2 million americans pass for airports this weekend for thanksgiving travel despite cdc guidance to stay home this year. as even more states impose new restrictions to combat a surge in cases across the country. laura engel is live on long island, new york. what more can you tell us on these vaccine results? good morning. good morning, trace. the news about effective vaccines and antibody drugs can t come fast enough as the nation braces for what is predicted to be a new holiday wave of covid cases despite the dire warnings and all the restrictions put in place to keep people safe. the news you mentioned there at the top today a major announcement from astrazeneca that says its late stage trial shows high-level results from clinical trial