while 2021 was the year of the vaccine, while national immunization programs began in many countries, the death toll from covid, compared to the year before, without vaccines has almost doubled. according to data from johns hopkins university, as well as the w.h.o., 1.8 million people died from covid in 2020. this year, the virus has claimed about 3.5 million lives. the head of the organization says with the twin threat of the omicron and delta variants and without a collective global response, this pandemic is set to get worse. delta and omicron are twin threats that are driving up cases to record numbers. i m highly concerned that omicron, being more transmisible, circulating at the same time as delta, is leading to a tsunami of cases. in the united states, the national guard is being deployed for more health care workers. now, with omicron in the mix, new forecasting from the centers of disease control updates 44,000 new covid deaths over the next month. tom foreman ha
rittenhouse not guilty. as to the fifth count of the information, gauge grosskreutz, we the jury find kyle rittenhouse not guilty. neil: not guilty on all counts. we re told kyle rittenhouse is on his way home and trying to get his leaf back together. you re looking on the right-hand side of the scene, kenosha wisconsin where the governor was concerned for the possibility of violence that he mobilize or was preparing to mobilize up to 500 national guard troops. we do see a stepped up legal presence there and police presence there. but so far there s been no problems there. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. this is your world on the impact of the case that is perhaps the most scrutinized and publicized since going back to o.j. simpson nearly two decades ago. what is at stake tonight and what they re watching for, we go to garrett tenney in kenosha on how things look now. garrett? yeah, neil. you can see a handful of folks are outside the courthouse here. really most o
package and this is the house looks to vote on a bipartisan infrastructure plan with deadlines to prevent a government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling. john: the biden administration concedes the fate of the president s agenda is precarious. the president looking for a middle ground over his massive tax and spend plans. in moments ago, senator joe manchin saying he wants a $1.5 trillion package, a lot less than what the president wants. they voted pretty consistent. i don t vote any of them if they are much more progressive or much more liberal. but i m not asking them to change, i am willing to come from zero. anita: fox team coverage, bret baier will join us in just a few moments and chad pergram has a latest on capitol hill. john: will but we begin this afternoon with white house correspondent peter doocy. how do things look there? so far they look quiet and you know how these things go. you don t hear a lot from the president if he doesn t have some good n
happy thursday, everybody. yous him just settle down,av you savages. kamala harris made a campaign stop at an abortionfo clinic today where the staff told her it wa is too late. thank you. on tuesday, special prosecutor robert hunter defended his decision not to charge joe biden s ghostwriter for deleting interview recordings with the president, since it s the pre fi time a ghostwriter had worked with an actual ghostteh . americans are being warned about a second wave of venezuelan gangs coming over the border as anothe abowaver 100 inmates have been released from prison. in response, the u.sn reed. wile sending some of our worst vene. ezuela back in your face, researchers have come up with a list lis the 100 most obese cities in the country. topping the list were mcallen, texas. jackson, mississippi. and stelter ville, new jersey. never, never shoehorn him in anywhere. the white house claims their plan to borrow $16 trillion over the next ten years is fiscally response
from now. that s right, steve scrap the so-called sweetheart deal as biden s legal team is accused of misleading the court s clerkens office. ainsley: mark meredith is live at the white house with the latest. are they going to get an image walking in there or shoot him through the back door. pretty likely we are going to see the first son hunter biden show up three hours from now. biggest yet in the investigation that s stretched on since 2019. the 53-year-old is due in court today to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of failing to pay income stacks also reached an agreement to enter a diversification program. we don t expect him to be sentenced today but the deal between prosecutors and hunter s legal team makes it unlikely he is ever going to serve any jail time. the white house says the president and the first lady still love their son that they are going to continue to support him; however, the aides are not getting into basic questions or detailed questions