and with one day to go until the world s most famous horse race returns, we ll meet the jockey who s preparing to take on the sport s elite in the grand national, hoping to become the first female winner, and her horse s trainer is her mum. roll trainer is her mum. up, all the fun of the fair. good roll up, all the fun of the fair. good morning from blackpool pleasure beach, where they are preparing to reopen on monday morning for their 125th season, and somehow i ve got the job of testing the rides. good morning, some colder weather on the cards once again of the next few days. some snow showers across scotland today, patchy rain further south, i ll be here all morning with all your weather details. good morning. it s friday the 9th of april. our top story plans to reopen international travel for holiday makers from england have been unveiled with a requirement to pay for coronavirus tests. the government has stopped short of saying if foreign trips can resume next month,
it is truly a milestone moment for america. at this very moment the first rounds of shipments of the authorized pfizer/biontech covid-19 vaccine are now on the road to hospitals across the country in a months long process to vaccinate more than 300 million americans. the largest inoculation effort that the world has ever seen. nearly 3 million doses of that vaccine are expected to be distributed this week. and as many as 40 million doses could be distributed by the end of the year. d-day was the beginning of the end and that s where we are today. while this moment is extraordinary in time and i m proud to be here announcing where we are with distribution, we have a lot of work to do. we are not taking a victory lap. we know that the road ahead of us will be tough. we know that situations will occur, but we will figure it out together. this symbol of hope couldn t come soon enough as the united states experienced the deadliest week in this pandemic, averaging 200,000 in
family and friends practicing similar prevention measures. president biden saying he bungled the covid case. omicron variant may have peaked. and despite the surge in covid cases, americans are crowding the roads and the airports at near pre-pandemic levels. we have your holiday travel and weather covered. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. welcome, everyone. it is thursday, december 23rd. we begin with some positive news in the battle against the coronavirus pandemic. there is a new pill that could be a real game changer. the fda has authorized pfizer s antiviral pill to treat covid-19 in the united states. and the white house says thousands will be available in a matter of weeks and many more by the summer. cnn medical analyst dr. leana wen explains why this is such a big deal. there are a lot of people who are remaining unvaccinated. i wish they were going to get vaccinated, but we know that there are some people who are just n
both bills to the american people because it meets their needs. so we re not using an artificial timeline, and we re not concerned with process. we re concerned about delivering. all this, plus tomorrow, the supreme court will return to the bench for the first day of its new term, and it will be a consequential one with cases involving abortion, gun rights, and separation of church and state, all that on the docket. so we re going to go beyond the headlines with nbc s heidi przybyla, and julie sirken standing by at the capitol. heid you first. the white house is sending a clear message about these bills and so are republicans, so what are you hearing? the president marking a new phase of his legislative agenda, alex, and it s one we have seen throughout history. it s really necessary, if you re trying to pass a major piece of legislation that s taking it to the people. we saw that with george bush and tax cuts. obama and health care. the president, you heard him yesterd
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