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and signists are scrambling to test the impact of the variant on vaccine effectiveness. the fear is that it may evade immunity and spread more easily. it was first detected in south africa. the health minister issued an alert saying this variant has an unusually high number of mutations. cnn has just learned that the u.s. will join other countries in restricting travel from south africa and nearby countries. so we want to get now straight to jeff zeleny at the white house. so, jeff, in nantucket where the president is. what are you learning about travel bans and all of this news? reporter: that is right, alisyn. we re learning that president biden moments ago has issued a travel ban here to the united states from south africa and seven other countries in africa on the continent of africa. the white house said they are following this very carefully. the president was briefed about this new variant just a short time ago here on nantucket where he s spending his thanksgi ....
that means every single time ahmaud arbery goes into that house, he is committing a burglary. but you hardly needed a jury instruction. okay, folks we want to go to you to waukesha, wisconsin, the press for the tragedy at the christmas parade where a car plowed into parade marchers, let s listen in. through barricades and to a crowd of people celebrating the waukesha christmas parade which resulted in killing five individuals and injured 48 additional individuals. i just received information that two of the 48 are children and their in critical condition. we have information that the suspect prior to the incident was involved in a domestic disturbance which was just moments prior and the suspect left that scene just prior to our arrival to that domestic disturbance. when the suspect was driving through and into the crowd, one officer did discharge his firearm and fire shots at the suspect to stop the threat but due to the amount of people had to stop and stop and fi ....
and this is similar to the lie that he told jason loucowski and he saiddy not shoot anyone. and that was established through his testimony. and again i think it is worth emphasized that he had just met the defendant maybe an hour, this is about 11:50 at night, he got there at about 10:45. this is greige grosskreutz running towards danger, running to try to help. this is exhibit number three. you pulled a gun. why shoot him? huh, what are you doing? you shoot somebody? who shot? who shot? hey, what are you doing? you shot somebody? who shot? who shot? listen to the second thing he says. you shot somebody? who shot? who shot? what are you doing? you shot somebody? who shot? it is hard to tell what his exact words are. i hear the word not pretty clearly in there as in i did not shoot anybody, i did not do anything. jason lick owski lies too, he lies to the crowd and gaige grosskreutz he lies to. so at this point the crowd is dealing what they perceive to be a ....
a good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. here s what s happening. well, to say that tomorrow will be a busy day in washington is something of an understatement. steve bannon is expected to surrender to authorities. president biden will sign that bipartisan infrastructure bill into law. both the house and senate are back in session. and the president meets virtually with chinese president xi jinping for the first time since taking office. it all comes as new polling shows the president s policies are more popular than the president himself. 63% of americans supporting the infrastructure bill, 58% supporting the build back better act. while president biden s approval rating hits a new low at just 41%, mostly driven by fears over inflation. director of the economic council addressing those concerns this morning. there s no doubt inflation is high right now. it s affecting americans pocketbooks an ....
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