mandates for certainly those businesses of 100 or more employees would not be required or mandated to get vaccinated. we know in other countries there are fines being put in place as incentives, there s various across europe. so are any of those viable for the united states, do you think? yeah, i think certainly at the federal level probably not. you re not going to see a national effort in that way. but i think certainly cities, new york city has put in vaccine mandates, or i would say passports, for almost every public event. i think that clearly makes a difference. a lot of companies, andrew mccabe a lot of companies, apple, universities like mine, that s fine when private businesses mandate it. i m hoping a combination of that plus cities and states acting aggressively on this issue will get us where we need to be.
anti-semitism, and the work of course now begins, or probably began at the beginning of this crisis between u.s. and uk officials to look at things like communications, travel history, to work out whether or not this was a lone figure acting on their own or part of some wider plot. and were there any elements that plot may still be a threat around? i have to say listening to the coherence of akram in that recording of him in the synagogue and other suggestions about how sophisticated or unsophisticated frankly this plot was, that may point investigators toward what his family is suggesting, there could be mental health issues here. but certainly all efforts now being put in by uk and u.s. officials to work together to get to the bottom of this. and i understand from our colleague josh campbell that u.s. and uk officials at this stage aren t seeing many traces of akram in their data bases in terms of somebody they already had on their radar. but even president joe biden
the australian government says it hopes to have a better assessment soon of the damage done in tonga by this volcanic eruption. it triggered tsunami waves that flooded parts of tonga. there s very limited if any information coming from some of its islands. new zealand sent a reconnaissance flight early monday. clouds of ash have blanketed the region for miles, hindering some recovery efforts and even reaching australia. there s now this gofundme page to help victims of the disaster. tonga s own olympic flag bearer launched this fund-raiser just a short time ago. we turn now to cnn meteorologist tyler mauldin, who s monitoring developments for us and joins us now live. good to see you again, tyler. of course those satellite images just shocking. and this event put the region
ground and any ice that sticks to the trees with a 50-mile-per-hour wind that could cause the tree to come down and cause more in the way of power outages. it then ejects up to the north as i mentioned and it s eventually out of here come late tuesday on into early wednesday. yet another clipper system is going to be on its heels, though, pushing over the ohio river valley going on into the northeast, rosemary. so we will see more in the way of winter weather woes up here across the northeast as we get into the mid to late week. rosemary? all right. tyler mauldin, thanks so much for keeping a close eye on all of that. just an incredible mess, isn t it? so saturday s hostage crisis at a texas synagogue is being investigated in the u.s. and the uk after news the attacker was british. malik faisal akram was killed by an fbi rescue team sent to save the hostages in colleyville, texas. now counterterrorism police in greater manchester, england say
kn95 masks. but for many families struggling to make ends meet, access to these masks could prove problematic even though the administration does say there will be enough to go around. do you worry about unvaccinated kids particularly and other vulnerable groups not getting sufficient access to these improved masks? yeah, it is confusing still, where to get them, how much they re going to cost. so i think this is a place where more guidance would be useful. and then for people who are of more limited financial means, more assistance would be useful. there are states now starting to send out high-quality masks. i think that s a good idea. i think the federal government can play a role in that as well. but no doubt about it, higher quality masks work and they re better and the government should be making it easier for people to get them. right. and doctor, in some countries vaccination rates are very high. in canberra, australia it s at more than 98%. and yet america struggles to get