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level in seven months. the delta variant still behind the vast majority of new infections. covid cases rising again in america, averaging more than 100,000 per day. tonight, the outbreak on this cruise ship docked in the u.s. new travel restrictions set to take effect in just hours. and the message from the cdc director and other top health officials. chris cuomo, fired from cnn after revelations about how he helped his brother, former governor andrew cuomo. the new accuser coming forward with claims of sexual misconduct against the star anchor. president biden set to hold a high-stakes call with vladimir putin, as tensions escalate between the u.s and russia. the concerns moscow could be preparing to invade ukraine. the winter weather alert impacting millions. the snow slamming parts of the west, and where it s heading next. rob marciano standing by. tonight, t for survivors of that deadly volcanic eruption in indonesia. the terrifying scenes of destruction and ....
wednesday. one thing i was struck by at the time and haven t had a chance to comment on until tonight s show is the fact that in that 90 minutes or so, they never discussed, never had a discussion of rape and incest. and that mississippi law makes no exceptions at all for pregnancies that are the result of rape and incest. we re going to correct that tonight. we have professor michelle goodwin joining us tonight. she wrote that extraordinary op-ed piece in the new york times about this very point in these abortion laws that are coming in now with no exceptions at all for rape and incest pregnancies. it is one of the most harrowing, harrowing elements of it, even of all of these politics, even in the abstract. but in the specific, in the personal specifics of it, it is inescapable and terrible. and justice barrett s scenario that she sketched out about, you know, there s not much difference between getting an abortion at some point in the pregnancy or just givi ....
beat have been working on, the special report about the supreme court and human rights. that s coming up in this hour, pretty soon. i ll explain more about it when we get there. we begin with the top story in america and much of the world, the new variant, as people are concerned and trying to gather information. the u.s. bracing for cases that have not yet been detected. dr. fauci says it will get here. the cdc, led by its chief, saying this. we are actively looking for the omicron variant right here in the united states. right now there is no evidence of omicron in the united states. the cdc has new detection stations and they re in four of the busiest international airports, jfk, newark, san francisco and atlanta. no deliberate reference there from my toss with jason, but atlanta is a big airport. omicron is presented, detected in 20 countries. officials believe it could be many more. that includes canada. also new details on this variant s origins. the first ....
that could actually save my life from a deadly virus. it did not occurred to me, one year ago, that we would be having discussions like the one you just had. that people are actively working against getting a vaccine for a virus that is still active, and still killing people. to the point where a state s governor is putting on the line, the individual careers of all the guardsmen and women, to who he is giving advice about what is going to happen to them if they don t get the vaccine. which is in split stately discouraging them from doing it. it is just an astonishing thing. it is when you think about all the heroism that we ve seen from national guard members, from oklahoma, a national have stepped up to distribute vaccines, who have done so much on covid. for them to be road kill for this governor. they are the front line. thank you for bringing that story to our attention rachel. have a good moment will see you tomorrow. thanks. and of course tonight we begin ....
of the eight countries targeted by u.s. travel restrictions which go into effect in just six hours. as this variant inches closer to the u.s., president biden has just wrapped up a meeting with his covid-19 response team. joe, we now have a readout and a photo. yeah, this is the status report. it doesn t move the ball a lot, but it gives us some information. much of what we heard from the experts on cnn talking about the variant. here is a graphic from that. dr. fauci informed the president that while it will take two weeks on the severity, trans m tranc trans mmissibility of the varia, dr. fauci said boosters of the covid-19 vaccine provides the biggest protection against covid. now, one of the big questions, of course, is the extent to which authorities actually know where the science is headed. so if that s a question, the answer would be maybe. dr. francis collins, director of the national institutes of health, talked about that on state of the union earlier t ....