it probably had the same materials. it probably had the same plans, and you know, people are asking me, is the building safe? and i can t tell them it is safe. i can t tell them that. reporter: the families affected by this, fred, are not only wondering about the conditions of their loved ones but also whether this could have been prevented, and we re getting new details today that shine a light on the condition of the building before it collapsed. actually, dating back to 2018. a structural field survey that was conducted of the condo warned of cracking in some of the columns that were in the pool deck. an engineer arguing that major repairs were going to be needed, repairs that were apparently going to begin before the unthinkable happened as we take a look at these images of rescue crews literally standing atop 11 stories of what used to be homes. we have a full team on the ground right now as the search for survivors continues. let s start with cnn s randi kaye. she s n
reaction to the ncaa big decision. john: soft on crime policies, emboldening career criminals released too soon. happy friday eve to you, sandra. sandra: i love you look at it that way, john. a spotlight on homeless criminals who are the hardest to track in the system. california, police arresting a man wanted in the murder of ucla grad student brianna kupfer. shawn smith stabbed kupfer to death in a random daytime attack as she was working in a furniture store in los angeles. john: critics blame the lenient laws to be free on the streets. howard safer will join us in a moment. sandra: jonathan hunt is live in los angeles. what do we know about smith s criminal record? before he allegedly stabbed her, he had been bailed on both coasts. democrat and republican prosecutors, covid court delays also involved, a perfect storm of circumstances, tragically ending with the death of kupfer. smith was arrested after a member of the public called 911 having spotted him in pasa
you grew up in, charity long supported. they are very different if you are an episcopalian, you know exactly what. everywhere in this country, formerly respectable organizations, have seem to gone off the deep end. have you listened to national public radio recently? npr was always a little nutty, but in a familiar nonthreatening kind of way. your average public radio station ran needs cultural programming, the celtic music hour or bluegrass show. public radio s most popular feature was something called car talk. remember that? a show where two italian mechanics, in boston, both of them, they argue the merits of combustion engines and they fix your honda. all npr stations aired in the news from washington. there was morning edition in the morning, all things considered on the trip home. anchors were left of center, but they were subconsciously upmarket. they spoke in comically stilted having come located opinions about wine. this is npr, they d say. national public radi
continue to rise across the country and the white house says president biden is going to address the nation about the threat posed by the new omicron variant on tuesday. as one medical expert put it, a tsunami is coming for unvaccinated americans. the omicron strain has been detected in all but seven states in the u.s., but experts say the delta variant is actually the one fueling the latest wave of infections. from new york to miami and across the u.s., lines for covid-19 testing are long, and results are often slow to come in. also, at home tests are flying off shelves. cnn medical analyst dr. jonathan reiner blames the biden administration. we need to, you know, mobilize manufacture produce, hundreds of millions of these tests and make them ubiquitous. that s how you keep businesses open, broadway open, how you keep your kids in school. unfortunately, as we stare down these sobering realities, colleges, venues and businesses are re-implementing restrictions that have
didn t startle and that the coffee is working well in d.c. this morning. it was early and the coffee is hot and tasty this morning. we start with the beginning of the holiday travel rush and worrying signs that the omicron variant has been issued. a warning that the unvaccinated prepare for illness and death. hospitalizations have been trending upward more than two months. levels not seen since the end of the summer surge in september. rates are rising fastest in parts of the northeast, midwest and south. in new york state alone, positive cases jumped 154% in less than a week. the numbers trending in the wrong direction. with christmas and new years approaching, millions expected to fly in the next few weeks. a warning that it is only an amount of time before omicron is the leading variant. cnn s report of the growing strain on the country s hospitals. boris, paula, the doctors and nurses here are under a great deal of stress because at one point, they didn t have