durable kubota equipment. more goes into it. so you get more out of it. all right. just days after announcing a tentative agreement on a bipartisan agreement, serious doubts are emerging whether the u.s. senate will pass a gun safety package any time soon and while lawmakers haggle over language, an alabama community joins the list of cities and towns mourning the impact of a mass shooting. three people in their 70s and 80s were killed when a man opened fire on a church pot luck dinner. the 71-year-old suspect now in custody facing capitol murder charges. cnn s danella diaz is tracking the gun negotiations in washington. danella, what is keeping u.s.
the media is no monolith, as you know. could we find examples of the media overreacting? yes, we could. there have been times i would say clearly the dominant strain of media coverage has been overreaction. i don t think we re in that moment right now. again, we can find examples of overreaction. but omicron is serious and it requires a really nuanced response in which we try to acknowledge the fact that for most boosted people, the risks really remain quite low. for children, they remain minute sch minuscule. you re probably putting your kid in more risk by putting them in a car today than omicron presents. and yet it not only presents a risk to the unvaccinated, as katherine was saying, but it does to older people in their 70s and 80s. i m not saying we should grind to a halt to get that number down to zero but to say cases
better after a serious scare. and dr. torres, what do we think really happened here? there was confusion over whether he had sepsis or how extensive the infection became when the urinary tract infection got into the bloodstream. and when people started talkingabout the word sepsis, that got a lot of attention because that can lead to septic shock when the body starts shutting down and that has a high mortality rate and that is why there was a big concern here. but what is happening here is not unusual. there is a spectrum of illness that is going on here. the urinary tract infection is very common especially as people get in their 70s and 80s. and that infection can often go unnoticed and if it does, it can leak into the bloodstream and that can cause a bloodstream infection. and that is essentially the start of that sepsis spectrum, so the organs are starting to
the republican party. it has not just spread to men in their 70s and 80s like donald trump and mitch mcconnell and chuck grassly. it is now completely consuming republicans in washington who are half the age of those men and younger. there could be future senators working on that republican committee staff, future members of the house, future white house chiefs of staff. ron klain worked on the staff of the senate judiciary committee. there could be a future republican president on that staff, future republican attorney general. and we now know tonight that the republican staff of that committee has contempt for government, contempt for the constitution, contempt for the justice department s ethical standards that were established after republican president richard nixon corrupted the justice department. senate staff take the same oath that senators do.
climate change. years of repeated human errors and outdated technology led to an estimated i billion pounds worth of state pensions being underpaid to more than ioo thousand people. according to a report by the national audit office, 134,000 pensioners, mainly women were underpaid pensions because outdated computer systems in the 19805 led to mistakes. in total the department for work and pensions is expecting to pay the affected pensioners a total ofjust over £1 billion that s an average of £8,900 for each person affected. here s our business reporter, sarah corker. for nearly a decade, irene from worcestershire was underpaid her state pension. she is one of thousands of women in their 70s and 80s that missed out on large sums of money because of government errors. i think it s scandalous. i think that the fact that you have