their covid rules and we ask a bay area doctor if it is too soon. the reward in a bay area serial killer case that dates back decades. our top story on kpix 5, the covid rules are about to change in two counties. we will take you live outside and san francisco marin county is easing some of their restrictions saying the surge is easing up and in san francisco starting february 1, office workers and gymnasium members and so-called stable cohorts of people may remove their masks indoors again, but the groups must be up-to-date on the vaccinations, and that includes boosters when eligible. the city said cases are still high but they are dropping quickly. today signals very clearly to the people of san francisco that the city is saying it is safe to go into the jims and if you are boosted without a mask and that is a big step forward. new rules in order to get into chase center starting february 1. you are going to need either proof of vaccination including a booster shot
good morning to viewers here in the united states and around the world. it is thursday, january 7th. i m brianna keilar with john berman. we are beginning with a rare opportunity for a struggling president to reenergize his party and to make history in the process. supreme court justice stephen breyer set to announce his retirement at the white house today, giving president biden a chance to deliver on a campaign promise to nominate the first african american female justice to the bench. let s get a sense of the timing, short list, and republican plans to slow down the process. jeremy diamond is there. jeremy, if i also in on the details. reporter: well, we learned yesterday justice breyer is set to retire after 30 years. he was tight-lipped on this. without a formal announcement, the president would not weigh in. but today they are set to make this official. and this opening gives biden a chance to nominate a justice to the supreme court and potentially make history
drama. we re going to have more on that in a moment. the president s standing by his campaign pledge to nominate the first black woman to the court. the question remains, however, who will that person be? and will the process be completed before the midterm elections. we are also following some breaking news on the economy. thankfully some good news. in the last year the u.s. economy grew at the fastest rate since 1984. this according to a new report out this morning, we re going to have much more on that coming up. but first cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider and white house correspondent jeremy diamond are standing by with more on the news about justice brierbreyer stepping down. how do we expect this to play out timing-wise? we re still waiting to hear from justice breyer directly or potentially a statement from the supreme court. we re expecting maybe that will come later this morning, early afternoon. but a source has told kaitlan collins that justic
variant to the next. a common denominator. saunders calls it a conserved site, creating antibodies to that is one path to a universal vaccine. so typically that s a place where the virus is binding to specific protein on the host cell that it s targeting. if it changes that site, then it s no longer able to infect. a big clue came from someone who was infected with sars, all the way back in 2003. what is dh 1047? the antibody dh-1047 is an antibody that we found from a sars cov 1 infected individual. 17 years later in 2020, they found dh-1047 was also protective against covid. protective against a virus that didn t even exist when these antibodies were first made. and so we took that antibody as a template to say there must be some site that s common between sars cov 1 and sars-cov-2 and let s figure that out. there are a number of covid vaccine strategies in the works. unlike the mrna vaccines we ve come to know, at duke they re working on a nano-particle vacci
from philadelphia up through new york city and into new england. rob marciano timing it all out. tonight, moderna now saying human trials of its omicron-specific booster are now under way, following the news from pfizer on this, as well. tonight, dr. fauci on whether this will be needed. and how soon before a universal vaccine for covid. what he said about that. and news tonight on this omicron subvariant now seen in the u.s. and more than 50 other countries. tonight, your money and the federal reserve signaling a hike in interest rates is coming. how this will effect everything from your credit cards to your car loans to your mortgage. but is it needed to slow inflation? rebecca jarvis breaks it down. the rising tensions in ukraine. the u.s. ambassador to moscow delivering america s official response to russia s demands. that ukraine never be allowed to join nato. the u.s. making no such promise. ian pannell in ukraine. prince andrew fighting back tonight. formally r