fighting vaccine hesitancy. i think there are certain proportions of people who are just waiting for the full approval, even though the data is overwhelming right now that these vaccines are highly effective and are safe. as the american academy of pediatrics warns of substantial increase in new cases among children, dr. fauci saying that full fda approval might speed up authorization of the vaccine for children under the age of 12. critical as we get closer to schools re-opening. with the delta variant tightening its grip on parts of the country with low vaccination rates, president biden made a plea to state governors who have blocked mask and vaccine mandates. i say to these governors, please help. if you re not going to help, at least get out of the way of the people that are trying to do the right thing. use your power to save lives. let s begin with cnn medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. first about full fda approval, to this point we ve had emergency approv
trump, it s not normal to have paid $50 million in campaign contributions towards our personal court cases. it s not normal to mock the military. it s not normal to go and choose the side of a tyrant over our allies. it s not normal to have any of this happen. that s the problem. and that s nikki haley making a final push in her home state ahead of tomorrow s republican presidential primary. we ll have more from the campaign trail in south carolina in just a moment. plus, more fallout from the ivf ruling from the alabama supreme court. several house republicans are now trying to distance themselves from the decision as additional providers are pausing services in that state. and also ahead we ll look at the state of the war in ukraine as the country prepares to mark two years of defending itself from an unprovoked russian invasion. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, february 23rd. i m jonathan lemire, and thanks for starting your day with us. an
command in chief receive the bodies of the three killed in jordan. i m sandra smith here in new york. john: sad moment in american history. this is america reports . deadly attack happened last saturday in jordan and the u.s. has pinned it on iranian-backed proxies but yet to take any sort of action in response and critics say the delay may be giving the militia groups time to prepare for a strike and protect. sandra: rich edson is live at the white house as we await the transfer. do we know what the response will look like? we know it s coming and will have several layers but the specifics beyond that are very unclear, that s what senior officials are saying, an umbrella group of iran-backed militias in the regions killed the three. few other details about the strike. since mid october, attacked u.s. positions more than 160 times, mostly in iraq and syria. the u.s. struck the groups several times. lloyd austin says the pentagon has planned for a more substantial respo
now on bbc news, all the latest business news live from singapore. a strong earnings results for way bow. will we see similar numbers for tencent? tencent?. good morning, asia. glad you could join us for this midweek edition of asia business report. chinese social media giant weibo has reported reve nu es of media giant weibo has reported revenues of just media giant weibo has reported revenues ofjust under $200 million, an increase of 67% compared the year ago levels. profits are coming in at about $47 million us. the company claims 347 million monthly active users, an increase of 30% over the past year. another tech giant in china, tencent, is tipped to report encouraging numbers today. but with a saturated market, what are the other avenues for growth? certainly they need to start looking outside of the chinese market. there s still a lot of growth in chinese market, for example tencent are actively looking outside, looking at notjust china but around hong kong and sing
Night. it could be the end of the month. i hope it s sooner than that. another reason for this hope that it will happen sooner rather than later, maybe if there s full approval employers would feel better about mandating the vaccine. it gives everyone more confidence, even though as dr. fauci said, the authorization, the emergency authorization, that was done after a lot of scrutiny. it s not as if the authorization was nothing. it was incredibly important and incredibly diligent. no question. 347 million vaccines administered. that s good data to this point. we ve heard anecdotal evidence from doctors about an increase in covid infections in children. what s the data showing? more and more children are getting infected and ending up in the hospital.