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very key house progressives. the marine posted outside the door is what tells us in washington speak, classic signals of this traditional white house, that the president remains in the west wing. this is the latest in a series of meetings the president has been holding. earlier we know he spoke with top democrats, schumer and pelosi and met with key senators who can sometimes be holdouts including sinema, manchin and moderates. joe biden is doing what he did before. he is doing what he said he would, being peace maker. now liberals are threatening to take the bipartisan infrastructure bill which the senate passed last month unless there is a wider impact on the $3.5 trillion impact on the economic agenda. as of tonight there is not a full agreement on that publicly. speaker pelosi saying this back on capitol hill. after your meeting with president biden are you still planning on holding a bipartisan infrastructure vote on monday? you expect me to be we re on sched ....
cavuto. shopping for christmas is up 19% from last year that could mean consumers don t want to be the grinch this year by not giving presents the readout from a guru, what does this mean, 19%, the saturday before christmas what does that mean for retailers going into this season? we re certainly seeing retailers benefit from this, and especially the small businesses, so according to the data catalyst institute 79% of small businesses have an offline presence, so this is a brick and mortar presence, while they are still selling online, they are expecting people to walk into their stores and buy last minute. so i m sure people are out there right now going and shopping, you know, literally in the 11th hour, brick and mortar stores are certainly getting the store traffic. in addition, these sort of offmarket venues that these retailers are taking advantage of, like the street markets and the street fairs, 57% of small businesses have presence there, meaning a brick and ....
it ll be awkward if they make the playoff and don t have a head coach. i will never understand the timing of some of these college football coach moves, right before these championship games and bowl games. andy, thank you very much. new day continues right now. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. it is tuesday, november 30th. i m john berman with brianna keilar. breaking overnight, the omicron variant of coronavirus has now been detected on five continents. nearly a week after being first discovered. now, this is not unexpected. scientists expected this to happen, and it doesn t get to the major questions about how severe the illness might be. japan just identified its first case hours ago. that means 19 countries or territories have now diagnosed at least one case of omicron. there are no confirmed cases in the u.s. as of now, but if you listen to dr. fauci and others, it is almost certainly here. with so much still unknown ab ....
several developments on the mystery still surrounding the omicron coronavirus variant. at least 19 countries now have confirmed cases of the variant, which has spread to five continents. this morning japan is taking a major step after reporting its first case, shutting down its borders to all foreign travelers. the south african doctor who was one of the first treat patients sick with this new variant calls travel bans an overreaction, especially since there is so much we still don t know. listen. i think it was an overreaction. i do understand that there s a lot of mutations in this virus. i do understand that it might be much more far spreading than the delta variant. people say yes, but i m trying to protect my people. so then the question would be how doon it s not in your country yet? how do you know that a lot of those infections that you are currently seeing that is severe, how do you know it s not related to the omicron? how do you know? here in the united s ....
were either canceled or that we were not allowed to board. reporter: but today president joe biden tried to assure the american people that these are precautionary measures. this variant is a cause for concern, not a cause for panic. reporter: and he along with other top health officials continue to echo one main message. get vaccinated. please, folks, if you have been on the fence, i m not a politician. i m a scientist. maybe we can even ask all the politicians to agree on this one. get your vaccine. get your booster. it s the best chance we ve got to drive this covid-19 pandemic away. jake, as we have been saying, there s still a lot we don t know about this new coronavirus omicron, including whether or not it evades vaccines. in fact, if it indeed does, pfizer and biontech staying is prepared to adapt its vaccines within six weeks. johnson & johnson also saying it is pursuing an omicron specific vaccine as well. as you heard from president biden and public ....