it s great to have you along with us. as the delta variant prompts concerns of a coronavirus resurgence, drugmaker pfizer will brief u.s. government officials tomorrow evening on covid-19 vaccine boosters. last week pfizer, biontech have seen waning immunity among people who got the vaccine and would seek emergency use authorization for a booster from the fda in august. the fda and cdc said there s no evidence boosters are needed yet, but a short time ago, israel announced it s immediately going to allow third doses of the pfizer vaccine for people with compromised immune systems. joining me now with more is dr. megan rainy, emergency physician at brown university and co-founder of get us ppe. dr. rani, great to see you. so what we re really talking about here is people who were vaccinated a while ago where there may be some declining efficacy, where they may have some underlying health problems. do you think a booster shot would be necessary right now? so let s be clear th
people, these families, the extended families and 150 people. 150 at least. you said 150 million. i m sorry, no, 150 people at least. we ll see. we ll see what the number is. it would be great to have miracles. i know the people doing the search haven t given up hope but in circling back with some of them this weekend, we got to be careful, legal analysis is subjective to speculation. norm eisen is a great legal mind and you need to know here is a potential avenue. it could go this way, that way. that s legal analysis. factual analysis of what happened does not bode well for suggestion by speculation and i think that what i heard, i don t think. what i heard from these guys is it hurts. they don t want to hear 100 different architects and engineers tell them could have, should have, would have, this cracked, that cracked. the state needs to get with the feds, put together a team. get the answers, put them out and have accountability. these people deserve that and th
holidays. one of the latest reported cases, u.s. secretary of defense lloyd austin said he was last at the pentagon on thursday but he hasn t seen president biden in almost two weeks. hospitalizations are really the thing to watch here. those numbers are climbing at a slower pace. that means vaccines are working despite the faster spread of omicron. and more data coming in from the u.k. in south africa shows omicron infection may not be as severe. that s a good thing, but the problem, of course, is more infections in more people gives more chances for the virus to mutate again. only 62% of americans are fully vaccinated right now. that means more than 1/3 of the population is essentially a breeding ground for a new variant and many of those americans are in less populated states with fewer health care facilities. yeah. the crush here for the health care workers is just really important to note. another question, why is omicron affecting children more than other variants
surging om krob cases are fueling a pandemic of cases across the u.s. as parents return to work, try to, and kids head back to school just days before the anniversary of the january 6th insurrection. lawmakers hint at the coup attempt and 40 million people are under a winter storm warning stretching from alabama to new jersey. we ll have the latest forecast. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. monday, january 3rd. we begin 2022 with cases surging like we haven t seen before in the pandemic. it s causing staffing shortages across businesses and amongst had health care and airline workers. we ve started a new day and more than 1600 flights canceled. more than 14,000 flights canceled since christmas eve. airlines say it s a combination of workers getting sick with covid and bad weather. look at the seven day average of new cases in the u.s. higher than ever before. experts warn it s likely to get worse in the days ahead. of course you tonig
testimony now that he was sitting in the dining room next to the oval office watching the attack on television as the assault on the capitol occurred. members of his staff were pleading with him to go on television to tell people to stop. we know leader mccarthy was pleading with him to do that. we know members of his family, we know his daughter. we have first-hand testimony that his daughter ivanka went in at least twice to ask him to please stop this violence. this first-hand testimony means that despite all the headlines about who isn t talking to the committee, is not is, and that is not was in the white house witnessing the commander in chief refusing to do anything as he watched this for more than three years, news coverage of the attack. live video of a crowd of his supporters depending on the capitol scaling the walls, assaulting police officers, chanting for the vice president to be hanged, and eventually make their way obtnto the senat floor. cnn s melanie zanona