greg: all right, another great show tonight. julie banderas is back. which is pretty amazing given yesterday s boat trip. [laughter] [screaming] it was a huge greg: but at least you tried it out. i mean, you re close. michael loftus is here. as usual he looks like he got dressed in the dark at a homeless shelter. still boxcar willie s jacket. but he s having a great summer, if only he and his buddies could learn to throw frisbee. greg: some friends? all right, shut up. so we are all happy to be here with you. you know who s not happy? cnn. was it destination for news when tv was in black-and-white is now a motley assortment of glum for eggs touting with the what s left of their shredded reputation. they are clinging to past glory and full of commies. it s a clown car minus the car. so between the first and second quarter of this year, the network has lost more than half of its audience. in near months, they went from six people trapped in an airport watching don lem
week. but there is good news out there, very good news, and it s right there on your screen. those right there are the average number of covid hospitalizations in the u.s. and despite all of those cases i just told you about, hospitalizations have not budged. they re essentially flat over the past week. deaths are up a bit. but that s just over 5%. here s potentially more good news, when omicron was discovered in south africa a month ago, their cases were going straight up. they doubled. then they doubled again. last friday, their average number of cases peaked and they have been dropping ever since. south africa s top scientists told the washington post that he expects other countries will follow the same trajectory and said the u.s. could see a similar drop in cases in the next couple of weeks. of course we ve got a lot to get to here, but first, i want to go through every tool in our tool box because we want to keep people from suffering. we want to keep people from just
their story about to release as a major film from denzel washington. we begin with the incredibly infectious omicron variant forcing many americans to rethink their holiday plans just three days before christmas. new numbers show just how fast this strain is spreading. the latest numbers showc cases n houston tripling in just days. washington, d.c. is seeing the highest infection numbers since the beginning of the pandemic. but while cases are skyrocketing, no question, hospitalizations are not. right now those numbers are rising steadily nationwide, but not speaking which is important to remember. and there are developments from overseas that could suggest where this is headed for all of us. israel now rolling out a fourth dose of the covid vaccine for people over 60 years old, medical workers and people with suppressed immune systems. the uk is cutting the self-isolation period from ten days to seven for vaccinated people who test positive for covid. back here president b
race this week. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill hemmer is off today. great to have you with me. bill: i m bill melugin. at this time president biden set to start actively holding campaign events. voters who put him in office will have resumed paying their student loans, which he promised to eliminate. but for now there is little sign of biden out on the campaign trail following a series of stumbles, trips and falls in public and that has some democrats defending the president s health and his age. i think that joe biden rightly says that he has grown very wise in his many decades in public office and i respect that. so i think that he deserves to be judged by the results of his administration and what he has gotten done in terms of a bipartisan infrastructure law, the inflation reduction act. lowering prescription drug prices. that s what should matter. jack dorsey who started twitter now says on twitter open the democrat primaries a
private property in texas. where is come allah, our borders are? missing in action of course. will 2020 through many different? foxnews such a ring in 2023 with our all-american near starting at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. we are going to share some of our own resolutions as we take you coast-to-coast. but first, we begin with a fox news alert tonight, gentoo has died at the age of 90 5a. passed away this morning at the vatican. resigned in 2013 the first to do so in 600 years. and now catholics around the world are mourning the loss. charles watson joins us live with the latest. charles good evening to you. hey good evening to you. u.s. leaders including president biden are mourning the death of pope emeritus benedict xvi along with the millions of catholics around the world. the statement the president said in part quote joe and i joined catholics around the world and so many others in mourning the passing of pope emeritus benedict xvi. the statement goes on to say he wil