over seven days the jury reaching a verdict tonight conspiracy trial of elizabeth holmes. the former ceo of the latest on the spike of covid-19 cases. if you look at the up tick. it s actually almost vertical increase. amida tsunami of cases the daily average topping 400,000 for the first time. adding layers of protection. authorizing booster shots for kids 12 to 15. shortening the window between the initial doses of a vaccine and the booster shot. for everyone. from six months to five. and authorizing a third dose of vaccine for some immune compromised children. between ages of five and 11. all that as the omicron surge brings with it a growing number of hospitalizations. more than 100,000 people are currently hospitalized with covid-19 for the first time in nearly four months. even that stark figure is lower than we have seen during other surges. the one group that maybe a problem for it very young kids. toddlers who have trouble with upper air way infections. we
field has the latest on the spike in covid-19 cases. if you look at the uptick, it is actually almost a vertical increase. reporter: amid a tsunami of new covid cases, the daily average topping 400,000 for the first time. the fda making major moves to adl add layers of protection, shortening the window between the initial doses of a vaccine and the booster shot for everyone from six months to five, and authorizing a third dose of vaccine for some immunocompromised children between the ages of 5 and 11. all that as the omicron surge brings with it a growing number of hospitalizations. more than 100,000 people are currently hospitalized with covid-19 for the first time in nearly four months. but even that stark figure is lower than we ve seen during another surges. the one group that that may be a problem for is very young children, toddlers who have trouble with upper airway infections. we are seeing rising hospitalizations among that pediatric segment. reporter: schoo
on the rise are not climbing as fast as cases. and new data from the uk in south africa shows omicron infections may not be as severe. in south africa, where they had a major surge, but as quickly as the surge went up, it turned around. we can help that a lot by the things we talk about all along, vaccinations, if you re vaccinated, get boosted. careful and prudent, wearing masks at indoor settings. so let s take a beat here in the new year. you do have some good news about omicron. it appears based on a number of countries it hit first to cause less severe illness and also that it burns out pretty quickly. that said as we begin the new year, infections are still rising, you are seeing some school districts begin the new year with remote learning, though most are opening up. there is also some good news in terms of treatments here. the fda could authorize pfizer booster shots or children aged 12 to 15 as early as today, and that s important because boosters have been show
used? think about the revenge of geography. in other words, you can change a lot of things on a battlefield. you can t change the terrain. thus, as you point out correctly, jonathan, out in the cities, onto the plains of ukraine. it s a vast think kansas. and as a result of that, that armor can move both the tanks, the armored personnel carrier, and yes what the russians envision is a sweeping set-piece kind of battle like we haven t seen since the second world war. we ll see, a, if they can deliver that, and b, ukrainians have plenty of firepower that we have given them to put a real sense of defense in front of the russians. so it s going to be quite striking to watch. about ten years ago, when i was supreme allied commander of nato, i spent a fair amount of time with my counterpart, general nikolai, and he would talk endlessly about thousand russians were going to specialize, get out of the conscript business, improve their logistics and technology, and we watched that
the hospital and its surrounds have been left in ruins following the two week operation. buildings are reduced to rubble. the few remaining are little more than shells. these pictures obtained by news agency reuters show what is left inside the complex. israel has previously said it was carrying out precise operations against hamas and islamichhad fighters, and had killed 200 of them. reuters reports that hundreds of people returned to the area around the hospital after the troop withdrawal. they said they found a sea of rubble. one medic saying that destruction is far and wide in the shifa compound. a spokesman for gaza s civil emergency service told the news agency that bulldozers were used to dig up the grounds of the complex and exhume bodies. meanwhile, hundreds of israeli protesters have spent the night in tents outside parliament injerusalem to press their demand for prime minister benjamin netanyahu to step down. thousands of people rallied in jerusalem for what they