distribute 500 million rapid covid tests and creating a government-run test site that you ll run for free. it is unclear, but distribution being begin as soon as next month and that rollout can t come soon enough. this new wave has made it clear that the u.s. is still not where it needs to be when it comes to testing. people across the country are still waiting in line for hours to get tested as they try to protect themselves and their families. by the way, the government is adding 20,000 20,000 or 10,000, i ll get that right. many thousands of testing sites across the country. on the plus side, the fda just authorized two antiviral pills from pfizer and merck to treat covid-19 at home. merck says it will have 10 million medicine pack available by the end of the month and pfizer said it s ready to roll out immediately and it is limited. the pfizer drug is best option. it has a 90% reduction rate in hospitalization and death. the merck pill could only lead to only a 30% redu
committee. a letter isn t by his attorney reveals a treasure drove of documents detailing the inner workings of the trump white house in the run-up to the deadly insurrection. it includes discussions about alternate electors on the same day that president bidenways declared the winner of the 2020 election. those documents were provided to the committee by meadows include, quote, a november 7th 2020 email discussing the appointment of all the mat slates of electors as parts of a direct and similarly attack after the election, a january 5th, 2021 emailrd ring a 38-page power point briefing entitled election fraud, foreign interference, and options for january 6th that was to be provided on the hill. among others, a january 5th 2021 email about having the national guard on stand by. it is in light of those documents being in the hands of the january 6th committee and the disgraced expresident s rage over revelations about his shall we say sickness in mark meadows new tell-all bo
president biden present health and the white house says he does not have covid-19. plus wall street executive says crime rates continued to surge in your city. we begin with the parents of the accused michigan high school shooter now the subject of a search by the us marshals and the fbi. they are facing some very serious criminal charges. steve harrigan has the latest details for us tonight. get evening, steve. kevin, the parents are charged with involuntary manslaughter and still some uncertainty at this point as to what they are up to. according to local law enforcement, they have fled the scene, failing to appear at their own arraignment today. an attorney for the parents say that they did not play and they fear for their own safety. they will return but didn t say when they would be back. that failure to keep tax on the parents was due to port is medication with the prosecutor present office. we didn t learn of the charges and felt we were called but the news media t
there are no confirmed cases, but obviously we re on high alert. it s inevitable that sooner or later it s going to spread widely because it has at least the molecular characteristics of being highly transmissible even though there are a lot of things about it that we do not know. but that will be able to be ascertained in a week or two. the key questions in my mind are how protective will the vaccine be. at least three doses, a fully boosted patient will have fairly good protection against this variant. the other question is how protective is prior infection with delta. if we re seeing that prior infection with delta isn t conferring any meaningful protection here, that s going to be concerning. and that s going to tip more in favor of the fact that this could potentially start to spread here in the united states. meanwhile, vaccine makers like pfizer and moderna say they are preparing to reformulate their shots for this variant in if necessary. pfizer s ceo says they
prosecution but disappointment and there was relief for the defense. kyle rit enshtenhouse is a f man. acquitted on all fuf counts. is there anyone that does not agree with the verdict? defense attorney saying the wait for a verdict had been torture torture but clintent is relieve. he wants to get on with his life. he has a hunl ge sense of relie for what the jury did for him today. he wish this never would have happened. but as he said when he received, he did not start this. the prosecutor responding while we re disappointed with the verdict, it must be respected. the family of one of the victims anthony hubert, saying we are heart broken and angry. we love you, hannah. his girlfriend spoke outside the court. we know that this is stum is a failure. yep. i think the question that most of us are feeling right now is what can we do next? the governor has called for calm as a small crowd in ken oecha ckenosha continues to react to the news: a spokesman for