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Or closing schools. that s a break with some of the permanent closures in parts of europe and with some of the first wave responses to covid last year. this is one of those times that may feel like deja vu, but the problem with deja vu is feeling like we re living with the same thing again. in a very real sense we are not, because there are things we don t yet know about the mutated version with this variant. we ll get into that with our experts, but also because there are things we didn t know two years ago. indeed, one of the things that was worse besides the pain and depth of how little we knew about covid was how little we knew what to do. one thing the president said is there is much more known how to take care of yourself, your family and your community as we go into what may be the third year of the covid era. i want to bring in presidential candidate howard dean. he will be joined, as mentioned, by another doctor shortly.
Probably more so than some players, it runs on muscle, it runs on players. i think they have to be reminded that you are nothing nothing without players. and i think that hopefully tony clark will mobilize the players from top to bottom if we just stick together. if we just stick together, we can get what we want, because without us there is no gain. and they sound like that is the plan. bill rhoden, thank you for spending time with us. it s so nice to see you. and thank you to all of you for letting us in your homes in these extraordinary times. the beat with mari elber starts right now. i owe you 18 seconds.
Give your business the gift of savings today. comcast business. powering possibilities. a disturbing story out of arizona, a policeman shot a man in a wheelchair nine times, killing him. this was caught on tape. they intended to shoot the man. the victim, 63-year-old william richards. they say he stole a toolbox and flashed a knife when he was confronted. the captions were added, we should note, by police, and a warning. the excerpt is disturbing.
Governor dr. dean, when the president lays this all out, he is trying to walk the line. there are things that can be done, vaccination at the top of the list, boosters a part of it, and then there are things we don t know yet, but he s trying to give people expectations. what did you think of that line he walked today? i think he s doing a very, very good job, and i don t say that just to be a shell for the democrats. the trick in something like this is to amass as much evidence as you can and that s very hard to do early on. i think a lot of mistakes have been made by reasonable and reputable news organizations is to have people on who make definitive statements. we don t know. that s the only honest thing we can say is we don t know. now, there are clues. there was a south african study recently, like today, that showed that the new variant may be up to three times more