highlands, from its foothills to its volcanic plateaus all the way up to its high ice fields. our journey begins on the grasslands of the patagonian step. at 1,500 feet. here, one predator reigns supreme, the puma. this big cat roams all of the americas. you might know it as a cougar, a mountain lion or even a panther. in patagonia with no bears or wolves to trouble them, pumas are the top predator and they know it.
chile from argentina. we are headed on an epic journey up through patagonia s wild high lands. from its foothills to its volcanic plateaus all the way up to its high ice fields. our journey begins on the grasslands of the patagonian steppe. at 1500 feet here, one predator reigns supreme. the coma. this big cat court roams all of the americas. you might know it as a cougar, a mountain lion or even a panther appeared in patagonian,
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coal-fired power plants in order to power their country. green energy, it s a great goal in the future. it s not what is needed right now. they can t they just can t quit. no. europe is not going green. they re going black as in black coal. germany, the economic engine of the continent, is going into coal. they can t do solar, because you need consistent hot sun all year around. they don t have it there. they can t do windmills, because germany is a lot of plateaus and forests. there s no place to put the windmills. france, the other big powerhouse, they re 80% nuclear. they re not going to budge. the countries will go to coal, going to their former african colonies, the middle east, or united states, and get oil and gas supplies from there. harold, why can t they admit we need to drill more? i wrote about this on friday. and it was in the wall street journal, everybody. that being his journal. it came from my journal.
done it yet. we know that there is a shortage of tests nationwide. everyone is trying to keep up with the unexpected demand that omicron has produced. and vice president harris says as soon as next week we ll see if they can meet that objective. john, the administration also pushing health insurance companies to provide at least eight at-home tests to families across the country a month as well. so, clearly they are trying to increase the effort as well. thank you so much, john harwood. while the omicron surge has driven covid infections, hospitalizations to record highs now in this pandemic, it does seem, looking at the data, to have already hit a peak look at those plateaus at the top, even downward trends, particularly in washington, in some cases in the east. new york trending down slightly. our chief medical correspondent sanjay gupta joins us to break it down. jim and i have been trying to find the optimism this morning