Easier to store. Lets begin this morning with cnns athena jones who is following the latest on the first confirmed case of the uk variant here in the United States. What more do we know . Reporter good morning. This is the last thing this country needs, to have a more contagious version of an already very contagious virus. The country hasnt been able to get under control. This was this variant was discovered on tuesday in a man in his 20s in elbert county, colorado, and this is now a second suspected case also in elbert county. Both men were working in an assisted living facility, a small facility with about 25 patients and they were only there they were serving nonclinical roles and were only there because they were filling in and helping with Staff Shortages after a recent covid outbreak at the facility that cost at least two people their lives just in the last two and a half weeks. Now, the state Health Department has dispatched a Rapid Response team to this facility in selma, color
Been Community Spread. Reporter good morning, jim. Thats right. And this is really the last thing this country needs. Colorado officials announcing they found the first known case of this uk variant which we know according to uk scientists is significantly more contagious than the already contagious virus weve been dealing with all this time, found in a man in his 20s in elbert county, colorado. As you mentioned there is now a suspected second case also this variant. Both men were working at assistive living facility. They were only there to fill in, to help out due to staffing shortages after an earlier outbreak at that facility two and a half weeks ago that killed at least two people. The state Health Department has dispatched a Rapid Response team to the facility to test the residents and staff, they are also in touch with the cdc. We understand as you mentioned the first man had no known travel history which certainly suggests that this virus had already been circulating undetected
Twice. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is also pressuring Vice President pence to invoke the 25th amendment to remove trump from office. If pence will not, the house plans to move quickly to impeach trump this week, but then wait for a senate trial until after president elect bidens first 100 days in office, so biden and congress can focus on the pandemic and getting his cabinet confirmed. Again, this morning, we have new video and pictures that capture the sickening attack on the u. S. Capitol. In this one, on your screen, right here, you can see the mob repeatedly beating a Police Officer with flagpoles, with clubs, with their fists. Another officer was nearly crushed in the rush to swarm the building. Just sickening. So in a brandnew interview, the head of Capitol Police, steven sund, who has now resigned, says he suspected pipe bombs were used to draw officers away from the capitol perimeter. He says he requested help from the National Guard six times both before and during the insurrec
Reporter instead of campaigning for his own gubernatorial seat, governor gavin newsom used a laptop to text voters in Southern California to vote for a democratic candidate running for a house seats. He worries the republicans will take back the house, and then Kevin Mccarthy , the next speaker. In sacramento this morning. I will be in l. A. Later this afternoon. Orange county. Is also campaigning outside of the state for other candidates to help democrats retain both the house and senate. Look at all these senate races. They are all within the margin of error. Seven or eight of them could tip in one direction or the other. Vote political experts expect newsom to win a second term as governor by a large margin. That is why hes putting his efforts on national politics. He says the Democratic Party has failed big time in his messaging to voters. Mccue asked me about effective messaging. Win or lose, i hope we take a good hard look at what we are up against and how we can calibrate to the
Down 10. 3 but yet, compare that to what the inflation was the same week the year prior the total inflation from 2021 has dropped 22 . In that range. So we are seeing some drop here and we are also seeing softness in the marketplace which probably is indicative of why the inflation. We have the economy and we have representatives from four Different Community organizations. And we will have a chance to ask related questions to hear about the people that you work with. Just stepping back for a second, a little bit about the cross current that are hitting the economy we know on the one hand that americans are back to school and work even if you are not in work laces they are back to work and the economy did come out of the pandemic with some strength. We recently saw a report suggesting unprecedented declines and in children poverty even with the pandemic over the last few decades and that is looking to the future. When i look more towards our retired populations, we have seen two point