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as an immigrant i don t think immigrants should be allowed unless they re united states citizens. yuma county mayor declaring a state of emergency. [inaudible] 3, 2, 1 lights. [cheers] fa la la la la la la la la sitting around the christmas tree presents hanging for you and me lights all shining merely christmas a week away. steve: well a little more than a week away. good morning, everybody, it s friday, december 10th, 2021. that s more like it. we relit the christmas tree last night about 5:15 during the five or actually probably should have called it the 5 lurks. about 500 people here in midtown manhattan to watch us throw the switch after you know what happened a couple of days ago. ainsley: we had a big crowd out there. we all counted down and lit the tree together. we had a rabbi from fdny. we had timothy cardinal dolan, it degraff a fox news contributor. all gave spiritual messages about fighting back. we didn t fold in pearl harbor we aren t ....
if she s on the pitch, you stay in the seat. thank you so much. new day continues right now. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. it is thursday, december 9th. i was surprised by the thursday thing. it creeps up on you. one our from now, president biden kicks off a two-day democracy summit at the white house. the virtual meeting that will gather leaders from 110 countries to push back on what the biden administration warned is a global democratic recession. two nations not on the guest list, russia and china. both have attacked the biden summit. they call it hypocritical. we will bring it to you live. new signs of economic recovery fueling a wave of optimism throughout the country. among the reasons here, pay raises are coming down the pike. there s a radical drop in energy prices, jpmorgan made the prediction that 2022 will mark the end of the pandemic. cnn business reporter joining us now on that. hey, matt. reporter: goo ....
distract. lawmakers instagram after damning reports on the site s impact on children. you are the new tobacco whether you like it or not. you have got to stop. hillary clinton launched a master class. this was supposed to be the victory speech that i would have delivered. looks like self-pity and how to lose an election. it s beginning to look a lot like christmas everywhere you go ainsley: that is one of our trees inside studio m. brian: that s not on fire. ainsley: right. the one outside has been taken down, the remains of it, and we are going to light another tree during the five tonight and we ll all be here for the tree lighting ceremony. steve: it will be great. cardinal dolan will be here. members of the fire department of new york and the police department who helped apprehend the guy. we will all be there. and it is a big story. it is the cover of the new york post, treeson. grinch sets fire to fox s y all display he is free on bail despite a lo ....
tonight. jonathan hunt in los angeles where the county district attorney is defending himself against criticisms of his progressive policies and practices but we start with correspondent bryan llenas in new york. good evening, brian. bret, good evening. numbers don t lie. tonight crime statistics are validating how many people feel in cities across the country. crime is up across the board and leaders are struggling to find solutions and silver linings. new york city, the safest of the top 20 big cities. no, s mayor bill de blasio painting optimistic portrait today of crime in the big apple despite startling headlines like the murder of a columbia university student stabbed to death in a city park sunday or the nypd s own statistics showing crime is up 3.4 percent in the big apple compared to last year. while murders are nearly the same, felony assaults are up about 9%. auto grand larceny is up more than 14%. and hate crimes are nearly doubled. nypd commissioner ....
but whether omicron can evade vaccines, that will take longer. this highly mutated variant has been found in more than a dozen countries. more than 40 nations including the u.s. are restricting travel from southern africa. south africa announcing that omicron is now its dominant variant, less than two weeks after it was first detected there. at the moment, there are no confirmed in the u.s., president biden says sooner or later, omicron will be there. cnn international correspondent david mckenzie is in south africa. we begin with cnn s phil mattingly at the white house. the president said shut downs are off the table for now? for now. shut downs off the table. instead, the white house is focused on vaccinations and boosters. that will be the core along with testing. the president is supposed to lay out a plan about fighting the pandemic as the country moves into the winter months, and obviously that plan royaled by the discovery of this new variant. it s a variant ....