the world s top tennis player is spending the weekend in an immigration detention hotel. his supporters have turned up for a third day. this is novak djokovic arriving in melbourne on wednesday. the documents his legal team presented to the court state he d received the exemption from tennis australia with a follow up letter from the home affairs department saying he was allowed into the country. i explained i had recently been infected with covid in december 2021, and on this basis i was entitled to a medical exemption in accordance with australian government rules and guidance. his legal team added that onjanuary the 1st djokovic received a document ist djokovic received a document from home affairs telling him his responses indicated he met the requirements for quarantine free arrival into australia. what is becoming clear is the break down in communication among those making the decisions, and what the judge communication among those making the decisions, and what thej
the request to appear as early as this month. quote, i think you can expect that before the month s out. there were people who came to the capitol a year ago wanting to hang him. for no other reason, our committee really needs to hear what are his opinions about what happened on january 6th. nbc news is now confirmed that reporting with a committee aid saying quote, the chairman s comments indicate the select committee is con templating an invitation to former vice president some time this month. the chamber said he was hoping to speak to pence directly. the vice chair said yesterday she is looking forward to pen s quote cooperation. it s unclear the mike pence would agree to talk to the kple voluntary or if they would consider issuing a subpoena. he was one of the few people with security detail and the agents can provide more information about what the white house knew about the threat of violence. perhaps most importantly shs pence can also answer questions about conversat
skyrocketing, education secretary miguel cardona said there will be bumps in the roads. colleges and universities have already announced changes to the semester. 45 states have had a 50% rise in cases over the past week. 28 states have seen rising hospitalizations, a number that trails the cases. meanwhile, the biden administration considering once again changing the guidance for those who test positive for coronavirus. the new guidance in effect for only days at this point advises people can return to work and school five days after testing positive if they re asymptomatic with no requirement for a negative test. dr. anthony fauci said they could soon issue an update. we will watch to see if there is more in a moment. i want to begin with cnn meteorologist chad myers in the weather center. give us a sense how widespread this is looking at it this morning. reporter: two too five inches and winds 40 miles per hour, clue the blue ridge up there. this is going to be traveling
2021 has, for many people, been a long and difficult year. a year of change and uncertainty. and worry about lives and livelihoods and jobs and prospects. and early hopes of a return to something more normal have been replaced by a realisation that covid will be around for much longer than we first thought. its impact on how we live and how we work has been far more significant than feared. our social lives, shopping habits and our travel plans all changed by this pandemic. and now, we are learning to live with this virus, but learning to live with its consequences will be harder the lostjobs and the rising prices, and a big covid bill still to pay. getting back to where we were will take time but the question is, just how long will it take? since the pandemic began last year, the whole uk. the start of 2021 was not a happy new year. but we now have a new variant of the virus. we must therefore go into a national lockdown which is tough enough to contain this variant. that
ukraine s president today, to reassure him of u.s. support. we are live in moscow with the latest . and we begin in the united states, where the latest covid surge is shattering records again. the u.s. is now averaging more than 394,000 new cases a day, the fifth day in a row a new high was set. and remember, that s the seven-day average. most states, you see it there, the ones in dark red, have seen daily case counts rise by 50% or more in the last week. now, so far, thankfully, hospitalizations and deaths are lower than the peaks that we saw in 2021, but that doesn t mean the danger is over here. the cdc estimates more than 44,000 people could die from covid-19 in the next four weeks. meantime, millions of children are headed back to the classroom monday. others have been postponed, and it comes as a record number of children are hospitalized with covid-19. and some school districts now are announcing at least a partial transition to online learning. that s the approach s