hello and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i m lynda kinkade. ahead on cnn newsroom calls for justice after the brutal beating of a 29-year-old man in memphis. the controversial police unit linked to his death has now been dismantled. israeli palestinian tensions soaring amid a wave of violence. prime minister netanyahu outlines a new plan after two attacks in jerusalem. and new zealand s most popular city begins to recover after devastating and deadly flooding. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, from lynda kinkade. the memphis police department has announced the permanent end of a special anti-crime unit known as scorpion. it comes just a day after the city released graphic videos of five scorpion officers fatally beating 29-year-old tyre nichols. police have confirmed all the officers were with the special unit. some of the images you re about to see may be disturbing. scorpion was created over a ye
states, but not over. we re looking for proper preparation for addressing future pandemics. and if all we re doing at this stage is talking about conspiracy theories and not focusing on the bipartisan problems that we know existed throughout the united states, we re missing what america needs right now, moving forward. we re missing what the world needs right now, is for us to assume a role of leadership and to have proper communication with other governments, and also coordinate within our country the messaging that needs to be coordinated. and are there concerns dr. miskovich that this could impact in real terms the uptake of covid booster shots? oh, absolutely. you know, right now, we are in a position where if you look at the major countries that are
so we have seen across the world. so, you know, we need to focus on it, prepare for the next pandemic. get the united states to get a good information system, so all of our states and counties talk to each other. coordinate the world, so that we re all in the same page, so that unlike this last pandemic, the messaging kind of leaked out across the world. let s get it and finally, let s find a way to get every person on the planet in the united states the necessary treatment instead of, you know, the bias that has been where people in second world countries or third-world countries have less access to care. we need to find a way to treat everyone. yeah, being prepared and having clear communication is key. dr. scott miskovich, good to have you with us. thanks so much for your time. thank you, lynda. well, the battle of melburne in men s tennis is underway right now. the favorite, novak djokovic of serbia facing the young
covid-19 testing. dr. miskovich joins us now from hawaii. good to have you with us. thank you and how are you today? pretty well, pretty well. so i want to look at this committee, which obviously was created by the republicans to look at the biden response. i want to start with some of the people on the committee, because, obviously, there are some doctors on this committee, but there s also some covid conspiracyists, like the lawmakers, marjorie taylor greene from georgia, where i am right now. she was banned from twitter for spreading disinformation about covid. she claimed the omicron variant was a democratic host hoax, and she said that the vaccines don t work on numerous occasions. what do you make of the fact that there s someone like that on this investigating committee? it s it s very concerning, because she clearly is the extreme messenger that our country hears a lot and she s feeding these individuals that
welcome back. house republicans are making good on their promise to investigate the response to the covid pandemic. earlier this week, new house speaker kevin mccarthy announced the formation of a select subcommittee to get answers to the origins of the coronavirus. he also wants it to investigate what mccarthy calls, quote, the federal government s gain of function research that contributed to the pandemic. gain of function refers to altering viruses in a laboratory to learn more about how viruses infect and impact humans. but doing so could make them more infectious or more vi virulent. now among those on the committee, democratic representative from georgia, marjorie taylor greene. her personal twitter account was personally suspended at the beginning of the year for spreading misinformation about covid. well, i m joined now by dr. scott miskovich. he s a national confident for