a date for your withdrawal. we firstly, never ever give your enemy a date for your withdrawal.- a date for your withdrawal. we will also be live a date for your withdrawal. we will also be live in a date for your withdrawal. we will also be live in guantanamo - a date for your withdrawal. we will also be live in guantanamo bay - a date for your withdrawal. we will l also be live in guantanamo bay were some of those detained for their alleged roles in the 9/11 plot are yet to stand trial. and in other news, for the first time in 22 years, two teenagers will face each other in the us open final. emma raducanu will battle 19 year old canadian leila fernandes for the moment s title on saturday. for the women s title. welcome to our special coverage here on bbc world news as we mark the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks on new york and washington that killed nearly 3000 people. attacks that have forever be known by the date on which they happened, 9/11. commemorations
i m still smiling over commander in leash. yeah. we have more of those this morning. don t you worry. i can t wait. good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. it is tuesday, december 21st. the omicron variant has taken over. it is now the most dominant strain of covid in the u.s., making up more than 73% of new infections. according to the cdc, they just released those numbers, that s 21 days after the first case was identified here. new york has seen a three-fold increase in covid cases in the past week. new jersey reporting the highest number of daily positive cases in almost a year. but the good news, out of both new york and new jersey and this is really important although they are rising, they are not seeing a drastic jump in hospitalizations yet. we re going to speak to a new york hospital official in a moment who will tell us they have plenty of capacity, at least for now. this is not 2020, he says. we are learning of the fi
there is good news, both new york and new jersey are not seeing a drastic increase in hospitalizations just yet. a few minutes ago, we spoke to a hospital official here in new york who says stay calm. this isn t 2020. he says they still have plenty of hospital capacity. telling you it is not a crisis. those are good things to hear. president biden, meantime, later today, he s going to lay out a new strategy to fight the covid resurgence. this strategy centering on testing. the president will announce the purchase of half a billion rapid tests along with a plan to distribute the tests, free of charge, to americans who request them. his other important message, fully vaccinated americans don t need to cancel their holiday plans despite the rising case count. joining us now, dr. peter how t hotez, dean of the national school of tropical medical at baylor college of medicine. always good to see you. let s start with what we re going to hear today from the president. 500 milli
hello and welcome to all of you watching new state and canada and around the world. i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom, another shoot-down. this time the unidentified object was in the skies over northern canada. we ll look at the differences. plus we ll take you live to istanbul with a look at incredible stories of hope and survival still coming from turkey six days after the deadly earthquake. and ukraine is facing a new barrage of russian strikes in kyiv. we ll show you the latest on the front lines. we re working to learn more details about what caused canadian and u.s. fighter jets to be scrambled saturday and what triggered the shooting down of another unidentified object over canada. prime minister justin trudeau and president biden agreed to the shoot-down. trudeau said the latest object violated canada s airspace. it will be supported by the canadian armed forces in conjunction with the rcmp. this coordinated operation will allow a further investiga
what could be. in any form but they really want to damage me so i can no longer go back to work for you and i don t think that s going to happen. i don t know that our movement is that divided. i don t know that the president and i differ on issues. but we may differ on focus. bret: breaking tonight what could be a preview of the battle of the 2024 presidential nomination. former president trump and former vice president pence addressing separate conservative groups today here in washington. senior national correspondent rich edson is at one of them tonight. good evening, rich. former president trump and former vice president mike pence giving two very different speeches in washington today. the former president just wrapped here. he gave a speech, lasted about an hour, hour and a half or so. in doing so, he mentioned a number of typically trump topics when it came to safety, economy. other issues like the january 6th i economy, impeachment, and the 2020 election. i