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jonathan turley joins us immediately. was justice served? it was. i think the jury got this right. from the out set the defense was rather implaysib. implaysible. it was a woman arranging the transport of underage girls to epstein s house and flights to his island. it s hard to imagine anything was involved other than sex trafficking or the abuse of these girls. there was no explanation offered by the defense as to why she was harvesting girls from playground and other locations. i think they got it right. the fact is she did not take the stand. i don t think she had anything to say when confronted with these facts. looking at a maximum of 65 years. probably more towards the middle in terms of the guidelines. if you do a quick calculation probably around 12 to 15 years for a first offender, but this involved under-age girls and their abuse. will: the question becomes, what happens next? you have a wonderful analogy on your twitter feed. you said this is like prose ....
variant as they are to older strains. this, as hospitals, schools, transportation networks, and other institutions are scrambling to cope with all of it. a lot to talk about tonight. cnn s tom foreman starts us off. reporter: nationwide, hospitalizations of children with covid are up. on average, nearly 50% in just one week. new york city has seen pediatric admissions jump to five times what they were. in washington, d.c., half the kids coming to children s national hospital are testing positive. all told, an average of more than 300 children are being hospitalized each day. that s not because current variants are uniquely targeting them but because we see children who are hospitalized because of covid or in the icu because of covid. they are all unvaccinated. they are unvaccinated. parents are unvaccinated, siblings are unvaccinated. reporter: others fear the return to school next week could be even worse. i think that what we are going to see is once childre ....
good to be with you here, laura. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. two variants are reminding us why this virus isn t going away any time soon. the u.s. shattering its record for average daily cases more than doubling in two weeks, thanks to a combination of both delta and omicron. the cdc even adjusting its data now, showing delta still accounts for about 40% of these cases. hospitalizations are not spiking as fast, but experts still have concerns about the weeks ahead. there is no question that january will be filled with a lot of short-term challenges. hospital beds, staffing shortages of tests, shortages of almost everything. it s tough to handle this many indications at once. i think we have a good thing in these tests, but there won t be enough in many places to get us through the most trying time. now the fda says at-home coronavirus tests may be less sensitive to picking up the omicron variant. that could send more people ou ....
cases. nationwide, hospitalizations of children are also near their september peak. right now, an average of just over 300 children are fighting covid-19 in a hospital on any given day and that s a stunning jump of nearly 50% in just one week. and as health officials warn of a long winter ahead, cautioning that cases will skyrocket during the first few months of the year, president biden now says vaccine requirements for domestic travel could be imposed if his medical team recommends it. we have a lot to get to this morning. we have reporters covering all the angles, let s begin with cnn s senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen on the news that the fda says at-home covid-19 antigen tests, the rapid tests, may have a reduced sensitivity in detecting the omicron variant. wow. wow. so let me tell you what that means, poppoppy. pregnancy tests are a little bit like antigen tests. if a pregnancy test says you re pregnant, you re pregnant. right. you re pregnant. ye ....
a fantasy from joe biden dating back to february. take a look. as my mother would day with the grace of god and good will of the neighbors next christmas we will be in a different circumstance god willing than we are today. a year from now when it s 22 bow low zero there will be fewer people having to wear masks. pete: i thought i had a plan to shut down this airborne dovirus. on the campaign trail ron klain promoted thisrn plan writing: i said since march we can beat covid. we can t beat covid with articles of confederation response. we have a national government for a reason. if donald trump won t use it to beat this killer disease, i know someone who will. starting on january 20, 2021.oni ron klain was either lying or naive.w now according to joe biden: there is nooe federal solution o covid-19. you heard that right. in other words, everything joe biden said on the campaign trail was a farce. kind of like the kid in every middle school who runs for class presiden ....