african countries. benjamin: researchers say the variant caught them offguard. experts are calling it a big jump in the virus s evolution. it has a large number of mutations. the concern is when you have so many mutations it can have an impact on how the virus behaves. benjamin: jonathan serrie is following it live from atlanta. it doesn t sound good. researchers are just beginning to stud ooh he the new variant. there are a lot of unknowns. international health officials are concerned the sheer number of mutations may make this new variant first detected in africa more dangerous than previous variants. listen. the early indications we have of this variant it may be more transmissible than the delta variant and the vaccines that we currently have may be less effective against it. britain imposed a temporary ban on flights from six african countries and requiring british travelers returning from those countries to quarantine in hotels. each time the coronavirus spr
cleanup after getting called out over a plan to shut down the pipeline in michigan. it now says it s only reviewing building a new one. and when it comes to the pain at the pump the white house basically telling americans too bad. just deal with it. we re very kenosha about the high impact on consumers. we just don t have anything right now to announce but like i said we re monitoring this and we re working through it. how we can actually address this. the republican lawmaker torturing biden over the higher prices saying it s all by design. big oil company executives are in there from chevron, exxon and bbp. will you commit to reducing? biden asks opec to increase production and damager local companies to decrease production. it makes no sense. americans are losing faith in biden fast. a new poll shows that over half say biden hasn t even been focussing on issues that actually matter. greg, you great this up the other day. this is by design, higher prices. i think it wa
attack, the question is will democrats attempt to use the actions of lone lunatics to chill political speech? if so this is because their grip on power is giving way on two major fronts tonight. in politics and across social media. for them, elon musk s successful purr which you say of twitter is a total invasion of their inter-sanctums like an intruder waltzing into their living room and maybe making a sandwich and turning on fox news and using the bathroom. how dare he. most regular people see elon s desire to house clean at twitter as plain common sense. after all, we discovered there s a lot of fat to cut l. welcome to a day in my life as a twitter employee. then make my way down to the log cabin area. i don t know what it is but it was cool. played fuse ball with my friendy friends to unwind a bit and it was cool. then going to the meditation room that i thought was super neat. i had red wine that s on tap. laura: in is the culture the left is desperate to protect.
jdbalart@msnbc. yasmin vossoughian picks up with more news right now. good to see you. it is thursday morning. i m yasmin vossoughian live for you here at msnbc headquarters in new york city. we got a lot to get to this morning. right now a jolt of good news on the economic front. 12 days out from the midterms which could very well be decided by how voters feel about the economy. the gdp grew more than expected and how the white house is responding to that. new urgency and new questions in two of the most consequential races of the midterms. first in georgia, a new allegation against herschel walker. the antiabortion republican denying a claim from another former girlfriend who came forward anonymous saying he drove her to get an abortion decades ago. i am a registered independent and i voted for donald trump in both elections. i do not believe that herschel walker is fit to be a u.s. senator. walker is firing back, calling the allegation a lie and saying he s done w