capitol. he is the first former member of congress held in contempt since 1832. that was a while ago. the democratic-controlled house voted 222-208 with just two republicans, kinzinger and cheney, joining the democrats. it will be up to the department of justice to decide whether to pursue criminal charges. more on this in a moment. first, though, a new cdc warning this morning that covid is raging across the u.s., and it is possible that a new wave is imminent as soon as january. this as the u.s. crosses the tragic milestone of 800,000 coronavirus deaths still the start of the pandemic. cornell university reporting more than 900 cases among students this week and now shutting down all in-person activities through the end of the semester. all finals, we have learned, will be taken online. in manhattan, jpmorgan chase is instructing all unvaccinated staff to work from home. they are urging them to get the vaccine and eligible employees to get booster shots. kroger said pai
keilar. broken laws and broken lives, the case being made by the january 6th committee in its latest round of hearings with new revelations about individuals threatened and harassed because of lies. lies the committee suggests that broke the law, including submitting slates of fake electors that simply did not win the vote. lies the committee says about election fraud in which trump allies did not produce evidence, in fact, admitingly according to the testimony without evidence. at some point did one of them make a comment that they didn t have evidence but they had a lot of theories? that was mr. giuliani. and what exactly did he say and how did that come up? my recollection he said we ve got lots of theories, we just don t have the evidence. witnesses revealed how the pressure campaign from trump world became dangerous. republican arizona house speaker rusty bowers said people often show up to his house, some calling him a corrupt politician and a pedophile. bower
worker too scared to even say her own name out loud in public, a steep price for those who defended democracy and did their job. the committee unveiled new information about previously unknown activity involving wisconsin s republican senator ron johnson. his aide offered to hand deliver fake electors to vice president mike pence on january 6th, now, johnson claims this is a nonstory. cnn s manu raju pressed him on this. reporter: why was he even asking for that? because somebody delivered this to our office and asked to deliver that to the vice president. reporter: who is the person that delivered it? i have no idea. and new reporting this morning on ivanka trump, this is a reminder of what she told the january 6th committee in a taped deposition when asked about bill barr s conclusion that there was no widespread election fraud. i respected attorney general barr, so i accepted what he was saying. barr made those claims on december 1st, 2020, but nine days la
When the earthquake hit, it really reduced them to rubble. and what made it worse is the fact that the depth of the quake was 10 kilometers, so quite to the surface, because of which the casualty figures have gone up. we all know this region has been home to conflict for decades. they haven t had the money really to put together an infrastructure, to protect themselves from natural calamities and earthquakes. and this comes at a time, brianna, when afghanistan is in the midst of a humanitarian and economic crisis. brianna? this is making it so much worse. vedika sud, thank you for the update. we ll continue to follow this. the election lies pushed by former president trump and his allies now becoming a huge legal problem for the media outlets that repeated them. in a new move by the biden administration to make cigarettes a little less addictive.
Injured stand at 1,500. but, brianna, this number has gone up in the last six hours. but six hours ago, the officials said the casualties stand at about 260 and now it has gone up to a thousand. we re expecting more casualty figures to come in over the next few hours. let me just tell you about the two worst impacted regions, one of them is the patika region and the other is the coast region. both of these regions are near the pakistan/afghanistan border. we re talking about remote mountain villages here. you can imagine what the health officials are there, they would be very basic. what you re seeing in videos is people is a lot of people there are scrambling really to help others and take them to safer ground. you also see a lot of rubble around the place. most of the homes in this region are made of mud. the indian monsoon has already impacted these homes. weakened them. they already are quite unstable at this point.