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continues. new year s celebrations are being scaled back or canceled altogether, and businesses are closing because workers are forced to quarantine. all this as we see an increase in hospitalizations in children just days before schools reopen for the holiday break. gillian: fox team coverage, dr. marc siegel joins us in a moment. mike: but we begin with steve harrigan in atlanta, home of the cdc. steve? mike, more of these covid records are being set, but yesterday almost half a million new cases, almost double the amount that the previous single day had cases, 50 states have set records for new cases. the cdc says hospitalizations are lagging behind the new case numbers, that they are comparatively low. but just a short time ago six atlanta hospitals said they were suffering a staggering surge of covid patients, both adults and children, almost all of the nonvaccinated. for the surgeons and doctors on the front lines who have to deal at this, it really does see ....
seven-month-old baby. welcome to the show, everyone. it is 8:00 a.m. here in uchain, and russia is pummeling ukrainian rail hubs and supply lines as it ramps up its assault on the east. you are looking at a railway bridge that was blown up on friday. we have been able to geolocate it, and verify the authenticity of that video you are look at near the donetsk region and a senior u.s. official tells cnn russian forces are making incremental advances there. meantime, another mass gave was discovered friday in the key suburb of bucha. 900 civil yaps have already been found dead in the kyiv region in the wake of russian forces pulling out. russia s focus is now on the eastern donbas region. moss coy s aim is to kill everyone living there. have a listen. translator: only if ukraine will stand, will they live. if the russian invaders succeed in realizing their plan, at least in part, they will still have enough artillery and aircraft to destroy the entire donbas just as th ....
equipment that is being promised and indeed delivered from nato and from the united states and other nato countries coming to this arguably the most important battlefront in terms of the ukrainian defense against the russian invaders. so they re going after those very important railway lines with these bombardments. i have to say on top of that, though, the railway bridge that links leman to the other side of the donetsk river was also blown today. it s not clear, though, jake, whether it was the ukrainians or the russians that blew it because we do know that the ukrainians do have a tactic of blowing bridges in order to slow russian advances. they are going to use in all probability the donetsk river as a line of defense if it comes to that. there have been very substantial troop movements among the ukrainians on the ukrainian side throughout this region over the last 24 hours. and clearly an effort at least at re-enforcement is under way. a lot of movement of troops. ....
we start in the us, where apple is being accused of monopolizing the smartphone market crushing competition and driving up prices for consumers. the us department ofjustice and 15 states have filed a landmark lawsuit against the tech giant claiming it violates antitrust laws abusing its control of the app store to lock in customers and shut out rivals. apple denies the claims and says it will vigorously fight the lawsuit. our north america business correspondent, michelle fleury has more. more than a billion of us around the world own an iphone. the appeal is how easy it is to use features like imessage, apple pay and the apple watch. for me apple works better than android, i had an android before. it didn t do too well with me. before. it didn t do too well with me- before. it didn t do too well with me. , ., , , with me. it s not my parents alwa s with me. it s not my parents always corny with me. it s not my parents always copy and with me. it s not my ....
vladimir putin in a surprisingly quick advance on moscow. the wagner group claimed to seize control of an important russian military facility in the city of rostov-on-don. [ applause ] the leader of the wagner group says they captured the facility, a key operations base, for the war on ukraine without firing a single shot. the cheers you just heard are locals showing their support ahead of wagner. yevgeny prigozhin also claimed to seize a military facility in another city about halfway to moscow. that s when prigozhin said he ordered his mercenaries to suddenly turn around. this is video of them pulling out of one town. and here s prigozhin receiving a hero s farewell as he leaves. he said he did it to avoid a bloody conflict. translator: therefore realizing all the responsibility for the fact that russian blood will be shed from one of the sides, we turn our columns around and leave in the opposite direction to the field camps according to the plan. we re followi ....