heightened alert to deploy to europe. the pentagon says it s part of an increased effort to prevent russia from invading. hello, sandra smith in new york. john, great to be with you. john: john roberts in washington. defense officials suppress u.s. troops would support a nato response force and not sent to ukraine. the who us says the national security team is finalizing plans for all military scenarios. this as the biden administration faces growing calls to sanction russia now before putin makes his next move. sandra: more than 127,000 russian troops continue to operate along the massive border there with ukraine, but ukraine s president is trying to reassure the public and world there is no reason to panic. john: is there reason to panic or not? former u.s. ambassador to the united nations, nikki haley in moments. sandra: and greg, what is the latest you are hearing about the russian threat there? as the u.s. leads efforts to try to head off the invasion, we are
but the president said yesterday that he doesn t think covid as we know it is here to stay. listen. i don t think covid is here to stay. having covid in the environment here and in the world is probably here to stay, but covid as we re dealing with it now is not here to stay. the new normal doesn t have to be we have so many more tools we re developing and continuing to develop that ll contain covid and other strains of covid. finish. david: dr. ahmed is a senior fellow at the independent women s forum. doctor, great to see you again, thank you for being here. we ll get to the mixed messages in just a minute. but first of all on omicron itself, we saw in south africa that it was kind of like a wildfire. it burned very quickly through the population but burned out fairly quickly as well. is the same likely to happen here or has it begun happening already? so south africa gives us a great template, you re absolutely correct, and we do expect this burden of infection is go
pandemic. those are the words of chicago mayor lori lightfoot after the teachers union voted to return the third largest school district to remote learning amid a surge of covid cases. sandra, good day to you. sandra: and good day to you, john. we have a parent here to respond later in the show and i m sandra smith in new york. classes in chicago are canceled after 73% of the union members voted to go virtual until at least january 18th. why? the union says they want to see the safety standards met and case numbers to fall before they head back to the classroom. the mayor is firing back saying the decision is not based in science and the union is giving into fear mongering. jen psaki was asked about this a moment ago and what she said about keeping the schools open. we are more than equipped to ensure schools are open and will keep our children and educators who selflessly serve their community safe and ensure children are not enduring the mental health impact of not be
after the house speaker s husband was violently assaulted during a home invasion, we re told. what we know about his condition and the man maybe behind that assault. welcome, even, i m neil cavuto and yet another busy weekend as we get closer to the midterms. but growing questions as to how the speaker of the house s husband could get so brutal brutally attacked in his own home. she was, of course, in washington. she s with him now in san francisco. mark meredith has more. reporter: investigators have yet to say what they believe motivated the attack, but police believe the break hip and the assault inside the speaker s california home was intentional. police say it was around 2:30 friday morning when 42-year-old david depape allegedly broke into the speaker s san francisco home through a back door. he was reportedly shouting where s nancy, but the speaker, as you said, was not there. she was in d.c. it was her husband that was in the house. investors believe 82-year-old pa
And they don t have the people in government doing what they need to do to actually enforce these laws. and when alvin bragg came in, his day one memo, he said he wasn t going to enforce all different kinds of laws including fare jumping. the other impacts of these policies is now the mta wants to enact something called congestion pricing kathy hochul supports this plan, a new fee to get into manhattan, and we should be looking at this across the entire country, what s happening in new york. because as we look at what happened in london, it resulted in more congestion, ironically, and that s going to happen here in new york. they say they need more money for the mta. if you want more money for the mta, how about you improve rider shepship experience ridership experience instead of reaching into the pocket of the driver? there are economic consequences. there are the consequences of new yorkers leaving the state more than people fleeing any