other than to remind you that it s very hard to be charged with murder if they never find a body. anyway. it s great to be back. i hope you all had a great christmas, or if you re like me, a great covid. yeah, i had covid, which was a great way to finish a year that started with me also having covid. so let s do the math here. i know greg is out there saying kat can t do math because he is definitely watching and has definitely not been dead for a week already, and less there s been awful coincidence. so this year i had two covids. i also had two covid shots. two plus two equals four. as in forget about all of this belief. following all the rules and regulations failed me more than the dare program. i am over it and i bet you are too. i mean, i m not the only one who had covid over christmas. lots of people did. unvaccinated people, covid buried vaccinated people, covid. boosted people, also covid. this christmas, covid was more popular then robbing a bloomingdale s with 30
embolden in part because of. biden. he joins us this hour. but first, republican senate eric scott a member of the homeland security committee joins us. thanks so much. so the talks are about a few minutes away. we don t know if we ll get a response. we ll bring you any breaking news as it comes in. the wall street journal reminds us in part, obama warned putin not to move russian troops against ukraine and that his country would face painful economic counter measures. mr. putin ordered his special forces to seize the crimeian peninsula two weeks later. and now biden is being tested and the stakes are higher. what should in your estimate joe biden do differently this time, senator? he ought to get a backbone. first off, he ought to be very clear that putin that something will happen and it has to happen. what we watched with biden, he s all talk and no action. it s not just putin and it s not just ukraine. what we re talking about, what will happen with lithuania, poland.
escaped death. today we remember harry reid s remarkable life. and a diplomatic follow-up. we re now learning president biden plans a thursday phone call with russia s vladimir putin. just moments ago at a white house coronavirus briefing, the nation s top health officials reminded us about complacency as covid cases are skyrocketing in the u.s. they said data overseas points to the new variant being less dangerous to vaccinated people, but its exact severity especially for children is still to be determined, and a contract for billions of free home tests is expected to be completed next week. health officials are also defending new guidance to allow people who test positive to leave isolation sooner if they don t have symptoms. the cdc director told cnn they re following the science but also human behavior. it really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate. we have seen relatively low rates of isolation for all of this pandemic, so we real
year s eve in times square. and in washington, a house committee investigating the january 6 insurrection is looking at a possible criminal referral for former president trump. the fallout if sitting house republicans refuse to cooperate. as we near the one year mark since that dark day. plus happening just moments from now, a historic space launch that could change our understanding of the universe as we know it. we ll bring you the moment nasa s new james webb telescope blasts off into space and explore what it means for humankind. and joyful gesture sending love across a string of lights. meet the man whose random acts of kindness inspired his entire neighborhood. good morning, merry christmas. it is saturday, december 25th. i m lindsey reiser. and we have a team of reporters following the latest for you. and we begin with the travel headaches. if you got where you wanted to be this morning, consider yourself lucky. covid cases have slammed airline pilots and crew
immunocompromised americans who aren t well protected by vaccines. an effective drug from astrazeneca. the u.s. government only ordered enough for a 10th of the people eligible for it. cnn medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joining us now. elizabeth, good morning. reporter: good morning. ye is, the situation is as the numbers are rising, we are seeing cases rise but not seeing hospitalizations go up as much. one group of americans that i don t think we talk about as much as we should and that s the immune compromised. folks who are immune compromised, millions of them, did not get a response to the vaccine in the same way healthy people did. they are now vulnerable to covid-19 because they didn t get the antibody response they should have. so i want to introduce you to four of them. one is diane barren. she s in florida. she has cancer. diane ellis is in arkansas. eris bowden in hawaii. candace in hawaii. cancer patients, they re immune compromised. a drug can help them.