president is putting the onus on the unvaccinated. if you aren t fully vaccinated you have good reason to be concerned. you are at a high risk of getting sick. almost everyone who died from covid-19 in the past many months has been unvaccinated. unvaccinated. get vaccinated now. it is your patriot duty. we should all be concerned about omicron but not panicked. this is a critical moment. also more tools than we ve ever had before. we re ready. dana: former cdc director robert redfield is moments away with what you need to know. let s begin with peter doocy. they re waking up to tough headlines for the administration. the people in charge are telling us two different things. they can t both be true at the same time. first you have president biden saying this new variant came out of nowhere. president biden: covid is spreading so rapidly if you notice. it just happened almost overnight in the last month. so no. it s not but the alarm bell went off. i don t think anybo
i m still smiling over commander in leash. yeah. we have more of those this morning. don t you worry. i can t wait. good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. it is tuesday, december 21st. the omicron variant has taken over. it is now the most dominant strain of covid in the u.s., making up more than 73% of new infections. according to the cdc, they just released those numbers, that s 21 days after the first case was identified here. new york has seen a three-fold increase in covid cases in the past week. new jersey reporting the highest number of daily positive cases in almost a year. but the good news, out of both new york and new jersey and this is really important although they are rising, they are not seeing a drastic jump in hospitalizations yet. we re going to speak to a new york hospital official in a moment who will tell us they have plenty of capacity, at least for now. this is not 2020, he says. we are learning of the fi
investigations into the current president s family. ted lieu, democrat of california, set to orient facts as they exist on earth one. watch. let me ask you a series of basic questions to get facts out to the american people about our system of justice. trump adviser roger stone was convicted in a federal court, correct? that s my recollection. trump donor elliott brady was convicted in a federal court. correct? also my recollection. the attorney general at the time for those two convictions was bill barr, which president nominated bill barr for attorney general? president trump. you were the fbi director for all of those cases at the time. which president nominated you? president trump. okay. what these facts show is we don t have a two-tiered system of justice. we have one department of justice that goes after criminals regardless of party idealogy. all of these folks were convicted under the administrations of three separate republican attorneys general. i
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this is bbc news, the headlines. g7 foreign ministers meet in capri the wars in ukraine and gaza top of the agenda. police take down an international cyber crime gang based in the uk, accused of industrial scale fraud. the scottish government is moving its climate goal post, ditching its target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 75% by 2030. and why some film fans are veering away from streaming in favour of micro cinemas. london s metropolitan police have infiltrated a website, founded in the uk and used to defraud victims on an industrial scale, leading to arrests around the world. labhost enabled scammers without technical skills to set up fake websites designed to trick victims into revealing personal information such as email addresses, passwords and bank details. as many as 70,000 people in the uk were tricked by the scam, which allowed the scammers to steal 480,000 card numbers and 64,000 pin codes. detectives estimate that the labhost site made nearly £1 milli