Threat and we but they are staying relatively stable. In terms of the 6. 72 variant, one thing also remains the same which is our current assessment of the vaccine likelihood being effective remaining what it was which we think it will probably protect against severe disease and hospitalisation. We are not so confident about the degree to which it protects against mild disease and transmission and that is because we don t have the data. The thing which has changed is the very clear view it now that everyone is looked at it that this is more transmissible than the b 117 and we expect over time this variant will overtake and come to dominate in the uk in the way that beat woman seven took over and indeed other variants have taken over prior to that. beat ii7. Indeed other variants have taken over prior to that. beat 117. As a prime minister say, there are some things we want to look for and the most important is it is a bit more traversable or a lot more, that would imply we have a
sunshine and warmth for many of us, because of some high pressure, which will stay with us this week, but a change in direction will bring quite a dramatic change in the weather story over the next few days. there will be quite a lot of low cloud and fog around. this is the story for sunday, the high pressure centre that was us, now veering towards the near continent and allowing ali south easterly flow that has been drawing on cloud off the north sea. it has been rather murky across parts of eastern england down into south east england. you can see where we have the best of the sunshine so far, not too bad across scotland, north west england and parts of northern ireland, and although the fog will lift and that low cloud will thin and breaking places, if you are under it, it will have quite an impact on the feeling of the weather. temperatures underneath a cloud sitting at a maximum of around seven celsius, but where we see sunshine we will see double figures. going through
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griff. griff: i m griff jenkins. the couple were apprehended in a detroit business just a mile from the canadian border. and the arraignment filled with raised voices as their attorneys crashed with prosecutors. and steve harrigan on the ground in oxford, michigan, hi, steve. that arraignment by video conference taking place a short time ago and really the prosecutor got exactly what she wanted, $500,000 in bond for each of them, and that has to be paid in full 100%. and the prosecutor said that these two are clearly a flight risk, only involve a manhunt with u.s. marshals. and they withdrew $4,000. these two were pound in a room locked hiding, these are not people we can be assured will return to court on their own. the two parents face four charges each of involuntary manslaughter. the judge had to read out the charges for each of the four high school students here that have been murdered and the mother sobbed audibly each time she had to say i understand, or not guilty
united states and all around the world. we will have some extraordinary reporting this morning from the poland belarus border this hour. we start with breaking news overnight from washington. the january 6 committee giving a top aide in the trump white house an ultimatum. the panel is now demanding former chief of staff mark meadows show up for a deposition and hand over documents today or risk criminal contempt. this after his attorney made it clear that meadows had no plans to cooperate until the courts ruled on trump s claim of executive privilege. and that, by the way, is now delayed as well. a federal appeals court has paused the release of trump white house documents to the select committee. the national archives was supposed to start handing them over today, including handwritten notes from meadows himself. cnn s daniela diaz is live on capitol hill with more for us this morning. good morning, daniela, what do we know? reporter: this is what we know, guys. the sele