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it may be a wet and windy start to the weekend for many, but as we go into the afternoon across many western areas we should see a bit more sunshine at times. it s saturday, the 8th of january. our top story: up to 500,000 flat owners across the uk will no longer be liable for the cost of replacing dangerous cladding on their properties, under new government proposals. the plans, set to be announced by the housing secretary michael gove, would instead see developers forced to pay up to an additional $4 billion to help resolve the crisis, which has left many unable to sell their homes. our policy editor lewis goodall has more. it s estimated that more than half a million people are caught up in britain s fire safety crisis. and we can exclusively reveal the government s latest plans to deal with it. up up until now, the government s approach breakdown as follows. dangerous cutting removal would be paid for by the building safety front only for buildings of 18.5 metres in ....
be. we have so many more tools we re developing, and continue to develop that can contain covid and other strains of covid. the new normal is not going to be what it is now, it s going to be ber. now, remember, this comes at the end of a period that has seen new cases more than triple since christmas, and hospitalizations climb sharply. and it comes, tend of a week of confusing statements from the cdc and some damage control from the agency. also, clashes, confrontation, a lot of understandable angst over schools re-opening. also, the supreme court hearing oral arguments today on challenges to the administration s vaccine mandate for big businesses, as well as healthcare workers. there is a lot for the week. add to it, six former geysers to the president are now calling for new measures to move toward this or at least plan for this new normal. in a piece published yesterday in the journal of the american medical association, ezekiel emmanuel, see leen gounder, and mic ....
should prepare to live with covid forever. no, i don t think covid is here to stay. but having covid in the environment here and in the world is probably here to stay. but covid, as we are dealing with it now, is not here to stay. the new normal doesn t have to be. we have so many more tools we re developing, and continue to develop that can contain covid and other strains of covid. the new normal is not going to be what it is now, it s going to be. now, remember, this comes at the end of a period that has seen new cases more than triple since christmas, and hospitalizations climb sharply. and it comes, of a week of confusing statements from the cdc and some damage control from the agency. also, clashes, confrontation, a lot of understandable angst over schools re-opening. also, the supreme court hearing oral arguments today on challenges to the administration s vaccine mandate for big businesses, as well as healthcare workers. there is a lot for the week. add to it ....
novak djokovic ahead of the australian open. and all is quiet in kazakhstan after days of deadly clashes. what the country s president is saying now after issuing shoot-to-kill orders to stop protesters. all right. we begin in the u.s. where covid cases are soaring to record levels driven by the super contagious omicron variant. infections are averaging more than 660,000 per day. this map gives you a sense of the dramatic spread across the nation with cases surging in nearly every state. child hospitalizations are at an all-time high, as well. some of the largest increases are in children under 5 who are not authorized to be vaccinated yet. hospital zaizations in that age group are up 48% from a little more than a month ago. with the public exasperated by what seems like an endless pattern of covid surges, americans want to know when will it end. at a news conference on friday, president joe biden was asked if this was going to be the new normal. no, i don t think ....
the former vice president to testify. i kept coming back to the terror that must have been in the mind of those. life sentences for the three men who killed ahmaud arbery. a warning from president. i gave an order to law enforcement agencies and the army to shoot to kill without warning. what s behind the unrest? the details of tennis star novak. what we re learning this morning from newly released court documents. newsroom starts right now. good morning to you on this saturday, january 8th. i m christi paul. i m boris sanchez. there s drama to tell you about inside the biden administration. the next month could be brutal. the latest cdc forecast predicted more than 84,000 americans could die from covid over the next four weeks. hospitals already on the brink as icus are over run with unvaccinated patients. despite the surge, some state officials are pushing to reopen schools. the georgia governor has announce and he is loosening covid protocols to ....