welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown, and we begin this hour with our health lead. momentum is building for a vaccine requirement as we learn sobering new details about the pandemic. more than 103,000 people were diagnosed with covid-19 just yesterday. dr. anthony fauci has warned that number could double soon if americans don t take action. hospitalizations have spiked more than 40%. the spikes in cases and hospitalizations being seen across all age groups, not just the elderly or the frail. the biden administration says there is a silver lining, however, more people are heeding the warnings and getting vaccinated. more than 864,000 doses reported a ministered in one day, and the majority of those were getting their first shot. the administration offering high praise for businesses, universities and health care systems that researchmenting vaccine requirements for workers or even customers. but as cnn s nick valencia reports, that could be much tougher for mom and pop bus
charges? and cnn has learned that the impeachment probe into new york governor andrew cuomo is nearing completion. how much longer can he hold on? welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blither. you re in the situation room. let s get straight to the white house where there s growing concern right now about this latest covid surge. our senior white house correspondent phil mattingly is working this part of the story for us. phil, how is the white house reacting to this very alarming sharp acceleration with the covid virus now topping 100,000 cases a day here in the u.s.? wolf, it s a jarring number, but white house officials say they are laser focused on one thing, getting shots in arms, and they are seeing some results, particularly in some of the lowest vaccinated states. however, it is one state in particular in that group of low vaccinated states where it s not just public health issues they are having. it s also political pr
richard rogers the architect behind buildings including the pompidou centre, in paris, and the lloyds building, in london, has died at the age of 88. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the health secretary, sajid javid, has urged us all to be cautious in the run up to christmas and says he can t rule out further restrictions as the government continues to battle the fast spreading omicron variant. mrjavid said seven people have now died after contracting omicron and it was already the dominant strain in england as well as in scotland. sanchia berg reports. # driving home for christmas.# to the sound of christmas songs, people queued this morning forjabs outside a chilly wembley stadium. omicron accounts for an estimated 80% of cases in london now. people are trying to protect themselves and their family christmas plans. i would prefer to have it done before christmas. i have an elderly grandfather who is 90 years old so i want to be able to see him and get this over an
battle in the case of the abortion drug mythic kristen, this means women girls, doctors can continue to have full access to one of, if not the most common method of abortion amid the preston without any restrictions, at least for now. the ruling. the decision takes us back to how the situation was in the united states before that texas judge ruled in which suspended access theoretically to mifid, chris stone, we re gonna start with cnn s jessica schneider and jessica, this came down just minutes ago. tell us more about the ruling and this isn t the end of this fight, right? i mean, the u. s. supreme court s going to still make a decision on this. this is not the engine that is right. this merely put this on pause for about five days. i mean, you can see it s a very short order here. what this does is this is this is justice samuel alito, granting in part what the doj and fda was asking for here. they were saying, if you if you can t give us anything else, give us an administr
pill, mifepristone justice samuel alito, putting a temporary pause on any changes to the way the drug is currently administered, but only until wednesday, the court giving itself more time to decide if restrictions on the drug will go into effect if the full court doesn t choose to act after wednesday, doctors will be instructed to only prescribed if a princeton up to seven weeks of pregnancy instead of the 10 weeks now, however, doctors typically have discretion to ignore those instructions. and it will get harder to access the pill. women will have to see a doctor in person and pick it up. instead of talking to a doctor online and receiving it by mail , according to a newly published study, nearly one in 10 abortions obtained last year after the supreme court reversed roe v. wade used for preston subscribed during a telehealth visit with a doctor and overall , the drug is used in more than half of all abortions. the justice department urged the supreme court to put all the