system, killing and abusing our people. it s a humanitarian rights issue. passions and emotions spilling over in miami. another day of events by the cuban-america community. what they hope to accomplish inside the communityist island that they or their families led from. also this people have threatened to remove our hard access, remove access to e-mail, to the entire building at all. they can do anything they want. texas democrats are here and ready to take any punishment in order to fight with texans freeing the vote. the professional and personal toll. i will talk to representative gene wu, after he and more than 50 of his texas colleagues fled their state to try to stop voter restriction legislation being passed. i ll speak with him. the act of kindness. after rude behavior by customers in their restaurant. we begin this hour in washington where chuck schumer has vowed to force a vote on wednesday, nbc s josh lederman is in washington with the details. do yo
and now a stunning new admission from vice president kamala harris claiming the white house didn t see either of the variants coming, telling the l.a. times we didn t see delta coming. i think most scientists did not based on whose advice and direction we have relied. we didn t see delta coming. we didn t see omicron coming. jasmine, let s start with you. this is a very candid admission. and the vice president seems to be contradicting an administration where she works that portrayed itself as being on top of the virus. why? reporter: yeah, amara. well, look, these comments are definitely puzzling. i spoke to a harris adviser who argued that harris was referring to the exact kind of mutation, not the prevalence of variants themselves. they argue both harris and president biden for months have been encouraging and forcefully pushing americans to get their boosters because of the potential of mutations and variants circulating. let s take one step back. these comments from th
welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is thursday, december 16th, and i m brianna keilar with john berman. the dilemma facing colleges and really the whole country as coronavirus cases are shooting up and cases are definitely shooting up, rising quite a lot here. cornell university encapsulating the situation. 1,000 new cases reported on that campus. the university president reports they are seeing no severe cases among students, none. so what is the most important medical headline here? is it 1,000 new cases, is it no severe cases, and what is the right reaction to these events? cornell, princeton, middlebury college all are moving fall semester final exams online. nyu says it strongly encourages students to take their finals from home as well. but is that necessary with almost no severe cases? several schools issued booster shot requirements in recent weeks. this as flu and covid cases are on the rise, which led to growing concern that h
warrants for the leader of hamas, yahya sinwar and the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. we re going to have much more continuing coverage of this coming up. i m kasie hunt, cnn news central starts right now cnn. breaking news we are following this breaking news. the international criminal court moments ago announced it is seeking arrest warrants for the leaders of hamas for the october 7 terrorist attacks can israel and also seeking arrest warrants for the political and military leadership of the state of israel. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is really defenseman minister. yoav gallant hamas is top political and military leaders also being sought for crimes against humanity. all named just now, cnn s chief international anchor christiane amanpour, has this exclusive interview with a special prosecutor at the international criminal court, karim khan, who announced it to her just moments ago. and she s joining us right now from the hague christiane, te