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to just go home. the unvaccinated serb is the number one seed in the australian open and is on the cusp of becoming the so-called g.o.a.t., greatest of all time. now, if a court once again rein states his visa, djokovic could become the first man to win 21 grand slam titles to give you a sense of what s on the line here. all signs indicate he won t leave the country without a fight. his visa battle is a big deal in australia as you can imagine, where people have been really suffering through some of the toughest covid restrictions anywhere in the world. now, for an update on all of this, we want to go straight to melbourne now and our paula hancocks. and really good to have you there on the ground, paula. i mean, look, people were wondering will he or won t he. in the end, the immigration minister i guess must have felt to do anything but deport him would have been untenable. reporter: well, paula, what we re hearing from the statement is we believe they had to do it ....
provide critical support to help relieve some of the drain and the strain on the health care system. and more relief. early indications suggest the omicron surge is starting to slow in a handful of northeastern cities such as new york and washington, d.c., that bianna got hit first with this. yeah. that is a promising sign. in moments, president biden will speak from the white house laying out his latest efforts to tackle the pandemic. then he ll be heading to capitol hill later this afternoon where he will make a direct appeal to senate democrats to take action on voting rights. this as house minority leader kevin mccarthy changes his tune, saying he will not cooperate with the committee investigating the capitol riot despite previously saying he d do so. we begin this morning at the white house with president biden set to address the nation as covid hospitalizations hit record highs. cnn white house correspondent john harwood is following. john, the president ....
notified. i think what we assumed from the very beginning is that this virus is already in the united states. so now we know the vie are us is here. the big message for everyone is that if you have not been vaccinated, now is the time to get vaccinated. about 18% of adults in this country have not been vaccinated. folks over age 5, currently available population for vaccine in this country, only about 75% of the population have received at least one dose of vaccine. so now is the time. this is the incentive for everyone to be vaccinated. the other flip side of this is the more robust response you have to your vaccine the better you are likely to be protected against this variant. and that s where boosters come in. so if you ve been vaccinated, time to get boosted. we have only boosted 23% of the folks in this country who have been fully vaccinated. so there s a long way to go. so the message is, yeah, the variant is here. we don t know if it s going to outcompete delta. ....
lighting ceremony only on cbs, following an all new episode of bull which is still on. oh, that s a good thing there. good morning, welcome to morning joe, it s friday, this has felt a long week. agree, right? with us here in washington, we have our contributor and best selling author, katty kay. michael steel is with us. white house s senator for politico sam stein and correspondent garrett haake is with us here. we ll get garrett s reporting on the government shutdown after a small group of republicans looked to delay matters. speaker nancy pelosi accused them to looking to shutdown the government and shutdown science, we ll explain that and talk about it with garrett. we have president biden s new plan to keep the country safe against covid heading into the winter months as the new variant begins to spread across the u.s. first, willie, a remarkable interview last night with alec baldwin s first sit down since the deadly shooting on the set of his movie, ....
now as of yesterday passing the law, the white house needs to change that. the white house s aides tell me a lot of travel and sell tg first bill. thank all of you for waking up way too early with us. a jam packed morning joe starts right now. america s most beloved politician has as message. don t be a turkey. gobble, gobble. there is some good news. it looks like we have not one but two vaccines. we expect to have 40 million doses of pfizer and moderna vaccines. we would not have a vaccine if it were not for me because fda is not able to do what i forced them to do. the president is at a task force meeting several months ago. oh, quiet down. we would say thanks to donald trump, without him we would not have the vaccine. why not name the vaccine the trump? this is trump s vaccine. i just raised the stakes. trump vaccine are the world s greatest vaccine and i mean that in every sense of the word. one bite and you will know what i am talking about ....