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meanwhile, tributes pouring in for bob dole, a tighttan of u.s politics passed away. in honolulu, viscitizens wa answer after water made them sick. representative omar, warning that republicans are tracking, quote, bigotry. in just a few hours, brand new covid testing requirements will go into effect for anyone coming into the united states, that includes u.s. citizens. it s part of an effort to curb the spread of the new and possibly more transmissible omicron variant. these new rules that start at midnight mean that all inbound international travelers to the u.s. must have a negative covid-19 test within one day of travel. nonu.s. citizens must also show proof of vaccination. cnn, nadia, why isn t the u.s. requiring domestic travelers to test if it s this big of a concern item? yeah, that is something many biden administration officials were asked today, trying to figure out limiting the spread of covid-19 and preventing this winter surge. we ve known that the ....
launching an invasion of ukraine. the president has a video call scheduled tomorrow and announcing a diplomatic boycott of the upcoming olympics in beijing. no u.s. government officials will attend. but u.s. athletes will still be able to compete. phil mattingly joins us now. a lot of high stakes international issues right now. reporter: no question about it. jen psaki just publicly announcing that diplomatic boycott, a short while ago and addressing a series of questions about the looming phone call with russian president vladimir putin. and make no mistake about it, u.s. officials have grown concerned over the course of the last several weeks due to a build up of russian troops on the ukrainian boarder that could reach 175,000. a lot of the question right now inside of the administration is what is president putin s intend. that is a driving factor behind the decision to schedule that video call tomorrow. and i think what is going on as well as trying to figure ou ....
his alarming behavior at school. they also said that the day before the shooting a teacher spotting the suspect searching for ammunition on his cell phone. the school left his parents a voice mail but the call was not returned and later of the prosecutor said that jennifer crumbly sent a text to her son about the incident and wrote this, lol, i m not mad at you. you have to learn not to get caught. the prosecutor said there were more warning signs, the morning of that shooting. on november 30th, 21, the morning of the shooting, the next day, ethan crumbly s teacher came upon a note on his desk when alarmed her to point that she took a picture of it on her cell phone. the note contained the following. a drawing a semi automatic gun and said the thoughts won t stop me and a drawing of a bullet with the words above the bullet, quote, blood everywhere, end quote. between the drawing of the gun and the bullet is a drawing of a person who appears to be shot twice and blee ....
restrictions tomorrow. we ll make sure there is no travel from south africa and six other countries. we were concerned if we could come back home. with lessons learned, scientists are rushing it evaluate the threat. you can take a covid test on site and they give you this little at-home test kit. that definitely feels different, when you come home and see all of that going on. i m kaitlyn collins in washington. you re live at the cnn newsroom. tonight countries around the world are scrambling to respond to a concerning new variant known as omicron. could it cause more severe disease or at least a dozen countries are detecting cases of omicron including those showing red on this map. canada just now confirming its first two cases. multiple countries including the united states are shutting their doors to south africa and the neighbors in an attempt to contain the variant but preventing it from spreading entirely will likely be impossible. those suspicions hav ....
26th. and i am brianna keilar with kaitlan collins in for john berman. i did a little bit of shopping online yesterday. i m not doing any right now during the show. don t worry. well, i did as well. so we re beginning with breaking news right now. officials in south africa are preparing to brief the world health organization about a new and alarming coronavirus variant that thief they are discovered. there s a lot of anxiety over this one because it spreads very quickly, and it is showing an ability to evade immunity. cases in south africa have been exploding the last week. it is currently known as b.1.1.529. it is being seen in israel and hong kong. the eu is confirming that it plans to halt all travel from south africa. cnn s senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joining us with more on our top story. how worried, this particular one, how worried are you about it? you know, i think this is definitely one that you want to track and that you want to kee ....