what kind of mask should we be wearing? do the cloth ones just not cut it anymore? the cloth ones don t cut it anymore. they are better than nothing, but maybe marginally so. what i m wearing inside, whenever i go indoor, i m using a kn95 or n95, whether i m treating patients or walking into my building. and i think that that is what everyone should be wearing if they can get their hands on them. a cloth mask is certainly better than nothing, but it is not good enough for omicron with its ability to spread being one of the most infectious and contagious viruses that we ve ever met. you work in the e.r. in new york city which is having a bit of a rough go right now. cases have exploded. how are hospitals doing? that is a great question because a lot of people are saying that cases are exploding but case numbers are not necessarily reflective of hospitalizations and deaths. and that is true. we re seeing some decoupling here and omicron will likely not bring the same hospitalizatio
steve, listening to the president in addition to him sounded like he was having a rough go, he was tone-deaf, used words like incredible news, dramatic improvement, i think the rest of america is looking around and saying, really? steve: it is unbelievable. you say tone-deaf, i saw that and thought this guy literally looks and sounds like death. how long can we go on with this? with this person, this people, frail person who is clearly not in charge? look at the week he has had, stumbling and mumbling all over the place, making things up, his policy program is in total ruins. nothing is working, his pandemic response is totally incoherent, a complete mess, contradicting himself the whole time. the economic policy is failing. the idea that he will claim
ryan said for years he is in politics for the people that shower after work and not before. the working men and women, the ones his party forgot how to talk to. a mcdonald s democrat in the party of whole foods. he challenged pelosi for speaker a few years back. i don t have to tell you how that went. he remains a vocal member of the house. what you are about to hear is delivered more passionately than we have heard from biden, pelosi or schumer about what is in the biden bills that would actually help make americans lives better. this infrastructure bill is about two things. it is about putting money in the pockets of the american people who had a rough go for the last 40 years. and this is about taking on china. we have seen in the last couple of weeks ceo pay since the 1970s
kansas city chiefs with lamar jackson flipping his way into the end zone. the ravens getting the 36-35 win on a late fourth quarter drive. jillian: my team lost. we lost one of our best defensive ends. he s out for the season. it s going to be a rough go. todd: my whole team is out for the season, we decided that. we re going to sit this one out, see if anything changes in 2022. time now, 27 minutes after the hour. help is on the way for border agents in texas where thousands of migrants are living in a tent city under a bridge. jillian: lawrence jones is live in del-rio with a firsthand look. lawrence, good morning. reporter: good morning. it is a crisis of the biden administration s own making. but the border secretary, the secretary of homeland security, says that they are telling people not to come. so why are people still coming? we ll talk about that after a quick break.
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‘‘We hope pirates don’t take it,” one astrophysicist said.
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NASA’s new space telescope has had a rough go. Name a problem, and this telescope meant to be the most powerful of its kind, a worthy successor to the famous Hubble hasfacedit: poor management, technical errors, budget overruns, schedule delays, and a pandemic. So, naturally, the people responsible for the telescope’s safety are now thinking about pirates.
Yes, pirates.
The topic came up at a recent meeting about NASA’s James Webb space telescope, named for a former administrator of the space agency. Later this year, the telescope will travel by ship to a launch site in South America, passing through the Panama Canal to reach French Guiana. Webb, with a mirror as tall as a two-story building and a protective shield the size of a tennis court, is too large for a plane. Its departure date will be kept secret, someone said at the meeting, to protect against