the election by putting forward fake electors from seven states that trump lost. also this week an atlanta area district attorney requested a special grand jury to investigate the former president s election interference in georgia, and trump family members are also under the legal spotlight as the january 6th committee is asking ivanka trump to cooperate and has subpoenaed phone records from other trump family members. we re starting, though, with the breaking news, today. the department of justice has just charged a texas man for allegedly making death threats against election workers in georgia. cnn s evan perez joins us now. what can you tell us about the suspect and the charges? well, victor, his name is chad stark, and he was arrested today in texas. he s being charged by prosecutors in atlanta, and according to the prosecutors, what he did was he posted a message on craigslist in january of 2021 seeking to pay someone $10,000 if they would kill specific georgia ele
ukraine. and you re grounded. how one woman s anti-mask moves changed the travel plans for more than 100 others. hello and welcome to the lead. we begin with our health lead and the strongest case yet for getting a covid booster shot or should i say strongest cases yet. three new cdc reports show that adults who had gotten their booster shot had the best protection against hospitalization because of covid and against emergency room and urgent care visits. the new data suggesting getting a booster in the age of the omicron variant is now less of a nice to have and more of a must have. this as we are learning that unvaccinated adults over the age of 65 are nearly 50 times more likely to be hospitalized for covid than their fully boosted peers. across the u.s. today, more than 160,000 people are hospitalized with covid right now. that s a record high. but as cnn s omar jimenez reports, the number of daily cases are actually trending down, even as some hospitals are growing
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