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
building. we have to warn you. this is upsetting. okay. i don t know who s watching. we got hit by a hurricane. i m at work in mayfield. and we are trapped. please, y all, give us some help. we re at the candle factory in mayfield. please. please. in arkansas, at least one person is dead. five seriously injured after the apparent tornado hit a nursing home. early reports say two people died and multiple injured at the amazon center in edwardsville, illinois after a 100-foot portion of the wall collapsed. we will stay with the story. a lot going on. i want to get to stephanie stanton who has been covering this. stephanie, good morning. this is a fast breaking story. we are learning about the damage and as sun starts to come up and what that damage looks like. there is still danger of more storms. reporter: good morning, ali. we are monitoring what is happening over in the several states in the midwest. from here in florida, i grew up in the chicagoland area. i m familiar
pandemic. that pro guess is making some people response with a wild new response from the far right including the pathetic attacks on big bird. we can report vaccines are getting to more people. in the week since the fda approved vaccines for kids over 300,000 kids have been vaccinated. it could change covid as we know it. pfizer now pushing this bill that is 89% effective at reducing the risks there of death or hospitalization. you take that together and you understand that we re seeing the way out of this pandemic. it doesn t mean you take things for granted, the experts say, but it does mean that the science and, frankly, some of the officials that have been pushing the scientific approach which is everything from safety measures like masking to vaccinations to, yes, treatment when warranted like this pill. all of that can end really the emergency phases of covid in america. the current president is the one who is leading this charge, sometimes with republican governors fi
and we should think of the virus as the enemy. plus, a frightening situation in the sky, an erratic passenger forcing an emergency landing at laguardia airport. we have details on what happened. plus nearly two feet of snow, whiteout conditions, and extreme cold, dozens of runners getting stranded during a 50-mile run in utah. we speak to the organizers of that race. sunday, october 10th. we are grateful to have you with us and great to see you as well, laura, good morning. good morning, boris. great to be with you lots to cover this sunday morning for sure. donald trump riling up a crowd in iowa, taking aim, lashing out, going after seemingly everybody, democrats, the media, even senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, a former ally, trump urging republicans to unite against president biden s economic agenda and took aim at the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection, calling it the unselect committee. i m not sure what that means, laura.
guy. all right. coming up this hour, how the russian invasion shows trump s fundamental misunderstanding of war. then the big decision the january 6th committee is about to make before it goes public. and jared kushner s dubious deal with saudi arabia. what did he promise to get a $2 billion investment for? i m ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. all right. we have some breaking news on day 51 of russia s invasion of ukraine. russian state media is reporting that major general vladimir, the deputy general of the army has been killed in combat. nbc news has not been able to confirm this reporting, but it would make frolov the eighth to be killed in ukraine. how do we explain the sorry state of putin s military campaign? the washington post max boot has a theory and it has to do with antiwokeness. he says years decried wokeness. trump has dangerously suggested that military shouldn t be constricted by humanitarian concerns. trump has bordered on expressing fondness for wa