Whats coming down and Gerri Willis on what is going up At The stores but first, go to jackie on jobs. This has been the Moment Everyone is waiting for, the time when the economic recovery is on track postpandemic where Pandemic Unemployment benefits end. Today, seven and a half million workers who have received boosted Unemployment Checks will be cut off according to the century foundation. A group of people have already lost their benefits, 9. 4 million people as of midjuly. These were people who were not traditionally eligible for aid like freelancers who got it because of the crisis. The Department Of Labor said that more than 72 of americans got one form of assistance or another. Recall that in march of this year, the american Rescue Plan extended benefits through Labor Day and democrats insisted more aid was necessary At ThAt Time all republicans questioned why reopening wasnt enough to end benefits and here we are now, many businesses struggling to hire workers as inflation is pa
cult? it s all on tape. you see, his confession is all on tape. everything. how deadly the disease was. how it wasn t the flu. i know some of you said, hey, it s no different than no. your hero said it was five times worse than the flu, said that it impacted everybody. said it was really, really bad and that it was airborne. then he lied for the next six, seven, eight months. he was lying during the presidential debate. how many times did he tell you, starting in march that it was this is about to go away? how many times? so he lied to you dozens of times about this disease going away. and then finally, in the end, he just it s called the freudian slip in the business. he started to talk about herd immunity which of course he dismissed in march because it would kill 2, 3, 4, 5 million americans. so mika, the lies they continued throughout the campaign and there s the president again saying it s going to go away and here we are at this stage, after all the times he sai
strictest sentence yet to a capitol rioter as the january 6th committee meets with one of president trump s closest allies. and tiger woods is back on the golf course just ten months after a devastating car accident. we ll tell you everything you need to know about his comeback. buenos dias on this saturday, december 18th. paula, good morning, welcome to new day. good morning, great to be up early with you. got lots of coffee and lots of news. we begin this morning, of course, the start of the holiday travel rush, but worrying signs the omicron variant is giving a rise in covid-19 infections. yeah, president biden issued a stark warning for the unvaccinated prepare for a winter of severe illness and death. hospitalizations have been ticking up for two months but the united states is now averaging 121,000 new covid cases every day. those are numbers not seen since the summer surge since september. and in the northeast and midwest and south in new york state alone,
around the corner according to dr. anthony fauci says the goalpost has been moving for whether or not americans are considered fully vaccinated. one week until christmas, we ll your packages arrive on time? we begin tonight with the reinstatement of the covid vaccine and eight affected more than 80 million workers nationwide. we re going to go to kevin in just a minute was our white house correspondent checking on that. but first up tonight in the pandemic round up because that is the top of the used to, new york city s christmas spectacular show will go dark for the rest of the year. that follows several breakthrough cases in fully vaccinated caste or production numbers tickets will be fully refunded. the national football league announcing its postponing multiple upcoming games due to substance increase in testers t games sunday games to tuesday, the nfl has reported that more than 94 percent of its players are vaccinated including almost 100 percent of legal personnel. the
afghanistan who wanted to leave. but there is confusion over how many were initially stranded after the u.s. military withdrawal as opposed to what was said publicly by administration officials at the time. state department correspondent benjamin hall has the story tonight. good evening, benjamin. good evening, bret. so much about that withdrawal in august and september revolved around how many americans were stranded in afghanistan and what was being done to save them? what we now know that the figures we were given at the time they were simply not accurate. i would just reiterate that the united states does not track or put a tracker on american citizens traveling overseas. the white house today was again forced to defend itself against discrepancies in the number of americans left stranded in afghanistan after the state department released figures showing the number was far higher than president biden claimed in august. we believe that about 100 to 200 measures rem