bringing back leg warmers and i think it is awesome. or whatever it is you do. when you make this up - it is not true. very tough on your joints and now that you are moving into senior years you need to have the relaxation so that is great. this is the ingraham ankle from washington, eight days ago and anti-white blm supporter plows into a christmas parade killing 6 sitting a child and tonight as many children remain in the hospital why has the media gone silent on the motivations of the driver plus biden steps on his own covid message and what is up with the white house christmas decorations? raymond arroyo has it on seen and unseen but the biden booster club is the focus of tonight s angle? as americans were enjoying the holiday weekend anthony fauci emerged on television to hunt them like the ghost of christmas past. should we be expect to see more lockdowns, more mandates? i don t know. it s do too early to say. we need as i said so often prepare for the worst.
massive spending package through the senate by christmas. the question is would manchin support it even the holidays. and the guardrails held barely as donald trump tried to cling to power. now there s new reporting on efforts to loosen the infrastructure. the question is will it work? it s way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that hopes that your giving tuesday is just as good as your cyber monday. i m jonathan lemire on this tuesday. we ll start with the news. as new cases of omicron pop up in countries around the world, president biden speaks. this is a cause for concern, not a cause for panic. a year ago america was floundering against the first variant of covid. we bead beet that variant significantly arcnd then we got hit by a far more powerful threat, the delta variant, but we took action, and now we re seeing deaths from delta come down. look, we re going to fight and beat this new variant as well. in remarks yeste
controlled states to undermine the administration s push to get everyone vaccinated. joe, it s interesting because as time goes by and the science bears itself out right before our eyes, i just wonder if those efforts fall on more deaf ears along the way. i don t know. first of all, i probably called it omicron yesterday. i did yesterday. omicron, i don t even know what that means. yeah. omicron, omicron, i ll tell you why. here in new york, i can tell you nobody is paying attention, and nobody cares, and nothing s going to shut down. we re done. they re done. i was flying up to laguardia. i ve been flying here for 30 years 35rks years. never once has a pilot come on over washington, d.c., and say, traffic is so backed up in laguardia, we re going to have to circle around washington, d.c., for 45 minutes. we vectored around d.c. so we could find a slot at laguardia, and then went out to east last night, you know, where i usually do at the grill out there. you know,
they know more about this, so what you ll likely see the president come out and do based on what we ve heard from officials is come out and urge a sense of caution, a sense of awareness as we re waiting on the details and this also comes as the president is going to be speaking the day the new travel restrictions the u.s.cismenting for south africa and seven of its neighboring countries that s going to be going into effect. that s something that the president could also speak about, what was behind that decision that he made last week right after the thanksgiving holiday to put those measures in place which the white house has owe essentially shade is only a modest step. it s not, of course, going prevent the variant from spreading, but it will poe fencely help to contain it to a degree while scientists are still evaluating it, so that s going to be a big aspect of this as well. but we should note, john, one thing. officials are essentially bracing for the first omicron varia
identified in south africa spreads rapidly and may show the ability to evade immunity and there s serious concerns that the covid advance evens may be less effective against this new strain. new covid cases meanwhile have surged in south africa in recent days. a growing number of countries, including the uk and france, are now banning travelers from south africa as well as neighboring countries. the variant has also been spotted already in belgium, hong kong and israel. the world health organization is warning it will take weeks to learn more details. all of this causing markets around the world to tumble. the u.s. markets included. they are down sharply. the dow jones industrial average, as you can see there, down roughly 1,000 points. so we ll start with this latest news out of south africa. that s where we find cnn s david mckenzie live in johannesburg. what are you hearing from south african health officials today? alex, just a short time ago the south african health mi