how betty white viewed death. something to be curious about. she said if you don t look at death as an enemy, just another adventure, death does not hurt quite as bad. a new hour of american voices begins right now. as we begin a new hour, the quest for truth. the january 6th committee ramps up its investigation into what happened and who aided in the insurrection. as america nears one year since the attack on democracy. plus, take down. twitter says enough, making good on its promise to ban accounts spreading lies about covid. today it took down the personal page of one of trump s biggest backers. also ahead, 55 million cases now reported across the united states, with new guidance on isolation from the cdc. and fire and ice, snow blanketing what s left of homes devastated by a wildfire. what happened in colorado is a warning to the world. let s begin with the upcoming one-year mark since the attack on the capitol. the quest for accountability continues. not just to
roe v wade. plus millions in the skies and on the roads in the busiest travel day of the year. we will have a live report on that. we will have an amazing story of survival, a stowaway who made it through hours of subzero temperatures. that is ahead this hour as well. we want to start with the breaking news that has much of the world on edge. more countries have been added to the list of places with the omicron covid-19 variant. australia denmark have been added in the past hours. all of those cases linked to travelers who arrived from south africa. with these new cases new travel restrictions as well. israel is stopping entry from some african nations. nbc s saf sanchez has more. reporter: governments around the world are racing to bring in new measures to try to shut out or slow down the omicron variant. in just the last couple of hours morocco announcing it is halting all incoming flights into its territory. that is the toughest known restriction we have seen so fa
jordan has been. i want to play what you said about that. not many people talking about michael jordan. you know, michael jordan hasn t done anything, nothing for the black community in america besides just giving them money. i feel like we need to call out these athletes. i at least lebron james is going out there and, you know, being the voice of all this people who are oppressed in america. now, that was a pretty serious swipe at jordan there. you did say he s used his money to be clear. you know, significant contributions to the naacp defense fund, the national museum of african american national history, boys and girls clubs, two health clinics in charlotte. are those fair comments about jordan? you know, silence is violence. and you know what is so crazy, not many people knows about this, but the black athletes in nba are the one reaching out to me and telling me that to talk about michael jordan. because besides giving any money, he hasn t done much. you know,
friends, it s a jobs report smack dab in the middle of the presidential election. we have the details for you. plus hours after entering a not guilty plea donald trump filing a motion to sever his case from his accused co-conspirators, the former president wants to delay while others want a speedy trial so how will the judge respond? plus a record number of americans are packing in one last summer trip this labor day weekend. i m rahel solomon alongside kate bolduan and boris sanchez this morning and cnn news central starts right now. the latest jobs report has just crossed and here is what the report shows on the surface, 187,000 jobs were added last month, the unemployment rate ticked up to 3.8%, but there is so much more in there than just that. cnn s vanessa yurkevich has the details for us. what do you see inside these top line numbers? this is a good report, a little bit above expectations but still a comfortable number both on the jobs added and the unemplo
i get it. rachel, before you go, i don t think you can guess the one thing that clarence thomas and i have in common. and i will give you a hand, it is a career ambition that neither one of us realized. is it related to bribery? it is the last thing you would guess ever went through my mind. but clarence thomas, at least, partially gets to dress as one of these and that is a catholic priest. [laughter] clarence thomas actually was in the seminary studying to be a priest before going off into law. and when i was a ten year old altar boy, and by far, the most solemn altar boy you have ever seen. it went through my mind, more as a performance thing because you are up there on the stage, i mean alter, and you are in a supporting role and you think maybe should i move up to the big role? lawrence, i feel like this is one of those things that could get real deep real fast, but i should probably leave it right there. it is going to get deeper in this show right before we b