in colombia are trying to help those in need this holiday season. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us. well, the world health organization warns a storm is coming to europe where the omicron variant is partly to blame for more than 2.7 million new covid cases in just the past week. france and spain have broken new daily records, and germany, portugal, and scotland are bringing back covid restrictions. israel is now the first country to offer a fourth vaccine dose. medical workers, people over 60, and those with compromised immune systems will be eligible. meanwhile, u.s. president joe biden is laying out his strategy to fight surging covid cases in the u.s. due to the omicron variant. he says fully vaccinated americans can go ahead with their holiday plans, but he s also planning to make half a billion free at-home test kits available starting next month. more now from cnn s jeff zeleny. let me give it
a covid surge is imminent. israel is offering a vaccine boost to people. we are live in jerusalem. could it be a potential deadlock? jurors in the trial of former police officer kim potter prepare for the third day of deliberations. after suggesting they may be struggling to reach a verdict. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. welcome to the show, everyone. it is wednesday, december 22nd. we begin with new evidence of just how devastating the covid-19 pandemic has been. now, the cdc says life expectancy in the u.s. fell by almost two years in 2020. mostly due to the pandemic. last year americans lived to an average age of 77, down from 78.8. that is the biggest single-year drop in more than 75 years. and covid was the third leading cause of death behind heart disease and cancer. the news comes as the pandemic is still raging right across the country, fueled by omicron. the variant has now been detected in all but one state, and that is
explained explain to the people of west virginia i can t put forth, and i can t put cake to continue with this piece of legislation. i just can t break i ve tried everything possible and i just can t get there. you re done, this is a no. this is a no. that was pretty good. who knew it took chris wallace to leave before the sunday show breaks actual news. i kid, we are very close. he went on to something that s called cnn plus. good luck chris, but avoid brin your children to workday. for their sake. a lot of perverts over there. they re is deep sadness for the press who invested so different outcome. it s like leaving a bunch of christmas presents in your car only to find out while you re i the mall getting a pretzel, somebody broke into your car an stole them all. ricky news, he has said he i a firm no on this. he s a mercurial person to b dealing with for people i talke to within the white house. we know this to be true. he may want to be a key figure in some ways
. pete: we request and you deliver yet again, our nation s anthem on this sunday morning, december 19th, year of our lord, 2021. welcome to fox & friends. thanks for being here. we have four big hours for you. as always wonderful to be here with my dear friends will cain, rachel campos duffy. how are you doing? rachel: could the pictures get any better every single week? i will tear up, i saw the veteran for 98 flags for my birthday 98 birthday. by the grave stone of a vet rang. we love it. keep sending them. that is purple, viking cover, right, pete? pete: close, close. a lot of people. rachel: good morning, everybody, merry christmas. looking forward to the last weekend before the holiday. will, how are you doing this morning. will: several of the photos look like stock photos. they re not. they re user photos. you re wonderful photographers with wonderful moments. speaking of patriotic i can t wait to hear from pete in just moments from the speech you gave out there in
what happens next and joe pretty. the supply chain crisis is coming for a holiday favorite a new antiviral drugs used to treat the covid-19 and when will this ever get under control and that is later in the show pretty. what you have charlie read. dozens of americans rescued from afghanistan are unsafe and callable is one of biden s biggest foreign policy successes which is a shocker. president biden scheduled to deliver a stark morning on tuesday to those who remain unvaccinated this is beginning to look up lot like march 2020, with broadway shows closing and get setting back to online learning predict nih director sm of cases rising once again predict. we are in for a world of trouble i m afraid in the next month or two, but there are things people can do on a hope that we can talk about this is sort of said curve ball would gotta be it pretty. is biden administration prepares, doctor redfield slams the brakes on the vatican saying that we need to learn to live