At the 149th open, the gates have just opened at royal st george s. The first golfers tee off in half an hour. And we ll reveal the total amount raised for children in need s 2020 campaign. Plus, it is a dry sense within state. Will it last for the next a0 days? we have at least got the prospect for the next five. Good morning. It s thursday, the 15th ofjuly. Our top story this morning is a call for sugar and salt taxes to be introduced in england, to improve the nation s health. A landmark report, commissioned by the government, says the money raised by the levy should be used to extend the free school meals programme and pay for gps to prescribe fruit and vegetables. Ellie price has more. It s just what the doctor ordered, but not what you might expect. Cathy runs the charity care merseyside, involved in what s called social prescribing. Patients are referred by their local gp, and then offered things like exercise support and cooking advice here. They also provide healthy food to lo
let s listen to a key moment from the prosecution s closing argument. this case is called the state of minnesota versus derek chauvin. this case is not called the state of minnesota versus the police. it is not. policing is a noble profession and it is a profession. make no mistake. this is not a prosecution of the police. it is a prosecution of the defendant. why is this significant? this is a significant and key moment in the trial and in the closing argument of the prosecutor because what you see here is that he is focussing the jury s attention on derek chauvin. there is lot going on in this world and in this country in anticipation for the verdict in this trial. so what the prosecutor, a skilled former defense attorney and current prosecutor in this case is doing is he s telling the jury he s understanding his audience and telling them that they need to look at exactly what it is that derek chauvin did not black lives matter or police brutality in this country. p
live, from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with john vorse. we begin with the coronavirus pandemic with. many countries, including the u.s., now setting new infection records each day. right now, the united states is averaging more than 265,000 daily cases over the past week. according to the centers for disease control and prevention. the omicron variant accounts for nearly 60% of all new cases. the number of children admitted to hospital with covid is nearing a record, with an almost 50% jump in just the past week. and the food and drug administration is taking a closer look at the effectiveness of at-home antigen tests, which may be not as effective at detecting the omicron variant compared to the delta variant. but anthony fauci says these tests are till beneficial. here is our lead story from new york. reporter: a new surge in covid cases is bringing with it another spike in pediatric hospitalizations, up nearly 50% in a week nationwide. children still make up a
omicron, they re not perfect. but to bottom line it, basing this on what dr. fauci said this morning, they are still useful. imperfect but useful. let s talk about what they re good for and what they re not quite as useful for. if this test says that you have covid, then you almost certainly have covid. if the test says you don t have covid, that s where you get more questions. now, the folks at abbott labs, they make the test widely used in the united states. we reached out to them. this is what they had to say. we ve conducted lab analyses and tests on the omicron variant from live virus including those from the first u.s. omicron case at equivalent sensitivity as other variants. that led us to think, hmm, how good has it been in general? this is the data on the cdc s website. let s pretend that you have covid. we know you have covid because you took a pcr test. we know you have covid and you have symptoms. the rapid test is going to be wrong 35% of the time. it s going to
in the case of children. and a troubling sign, pediatric hospitalizations have jumped nearly 50% in the last week, approaching a peak not seen since september when the majority of covid cases were caused by the delta variant. and even these staggering numbers may not show the full picture. in miami and all around the country, people are lining up, some before dawn, to get tested. some are waiting hours, others scheduling days in advance. and for those lucky enough to find at-home tests, the positive results are not reported to the cdc. now the fda is raising doubts about those tests accuracy, especially with the omicron variant. cdc director richelle walensky says the nationwide shortage of tests was not driving the decision to cut the isolation period from ten to five but what the nation can tolerate. we re going to talk to elizabeth cohen. elizabeth, can you break down some of these numbers for us. jessica, let s take a look at what s happening with cases. we have surpas