brand new hour, glad you re here with us, i m victor blackwell. and i m alisyn camerota. we begin with what president biden is calling good news in the pandemic. pfizer says its early lab data showed a booster shot of its vaccine can neutralize the omicron variant which has now been detected in 21 states. the president s chief medical adviser says he s encouraged by this booster news. when you re entering into an arena of a new variant with very many unknown aspects about it, you always have a degree of anxiety about how it s going to turn out. so the news we got last night and this morning about the effective boosters does make me breathe a little bit better. pfizer also says its lab results found two shots did not provide specific protection against omicron. efficacy matches the findings of a small study of a dozen people in south africa. let s bring in dr. william schaffner of the division of infectious diseases at vanderbilt university medical center, and an adviser
now won 11 straight matches against norwich. world number one iga swiatek, winner at indian wells, says there is no sense talking about a so called sunshine double after she battled into the first round. she lost the opening set to her polish opponent on a tie break before taking the next two by 6 4. it is the first time she has come from a set down to win this season, and safe to say, she was pretty pleased about it. she will play at the 14th seed in next. it is always tricky to play against her. we have had many battles, and also long matches. i am just going to prepare tactically, look at the match to hopefully learn from it and focus on myself and what i want to do on court, because i feel like when i am intensely active i can really put pressure on my opponents. next, to football, and two new faces in the england camp following injuries to harry maguire, carl walker and goalkeeper sam johnstone. walker s munsters to city team mate rico lewis has been drafted in from the
revolutionary guards force and affiliated groups in iraq and syria. those attacks are in retai retailuation to a drone attack that kill threed american soldiers on sunday. but the response is far from over. u.s. defense secretary austin is vowing that these bombings are only the beginning. iran says the u.s. has made a strategic mistake while iraq and syria say the u.s. actions could inflame more conflict in the region. cnn has teams around the globe covering all of these developments. first, let s go to priscilla alvarez in los angeles where president biden will be traveling later on today. what more this latest round of strikes? reporter: they re essentially saying is isn t over yet. this is the first of a series of strikes expected after the three u.s. service members were killed in jordan. president biden was pretty direct about that friday afternoon saying quote, our response began today. it will continue at times and places of our choosing. the united states does not
work karim benzema, christian alterman although comeau going off in search of a new challenge, players who may feel they may have achieved everything they can in british football. the captain could be one of those players. midfield could be a area where pep guardiola looks to strengthen over the summer, but i think given the structure and the hierarchy at manchester city there will be succession planning already plans in place as players move on, targets that they have identified for a long time now. so depending on which players decide to stay and i suppose the captain, a key figure in this team, i think will affect obviously their plans for the summer. but it is a really, it is difficult to see many areas of weakness in that manchester city team. there are times where they are unplayable. the inter milan manager described them as the best team in the world. so it s almost of the cults at times to think on how you improve on that. but pep guardiola will be thinking, next sea