officials for the last 14 months. let s bring an wall street journal columnist editor, dan henninger and editorial page writer, adam. adam, you follow this more than a year. why did the biden administration do the quick reversal this week? what s driving this? i think they are starting to recognize and they have from the beginning the administration, the previous administration has gotten good intelligence that made a lovely seemed like a plausible theory and they couldn t reject it so i m told the state investigation being moved around was bureaucratic wrangling but the important thing the intelligence community is going to be overseeing that. paul: so we have, what have we learned in the last year, adam? what is the best evidence we have for the lab theory? the one particular incriminating piece of information the state department put out in january was that there were researchers who had symptoms consistent with covid at the wuhan institute of virology in autumn 2019
i m in for eric shawn. we re following two big stories this hour. the my grant surge continues at the border. and a mexican national who came to the u.s. as an illegal immigrant found guilty in the murder of mollie tibbetts. we will hear from one of the jurors. arthel: we have live fox news team coverage. alex hogan on the mollie tibbetts case and aishah hasnie following the worder crisis border crisis. but first, charles watson as the travel surges, what s happening there, charles? reporter: arthel, it s been consistently busy here at douglas international airport. you probably wouldn t know it because the lines are a lot smaller, but i promise you there were long lines this morning for as far as the eye can see. this is an indication that the airports expect ourlines were ready for the and the airlines were ready for the memorial day crush. american airlines alone expects 300,000 customers to fly with them from charlotte. as you look at the national picture, airlines
the cdc recommends isolation for most people who test positive for have been exposed to the virus, from five days to ten. during evidence people are most infectious in the early days of the illness. let s bring and doctor farney makary, johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health and fox news medical contributor. marty, welcome, good to see you. let s start with talking about the omicron variant where we are, these new studies about t cells and how they seem to be very active against the omicron variant and maybe reducing the severity of covid. we got a lot of good news this week, a study out of johns hopkins that confirmed the t cell immunity from omicron and delta crossover, there s good cross immunity. the t cell immunity doesn t really protect you from getting the infection but it does prevent severe disease, it takes a few days to kick and it s powerful. we got another promising study that answered the open question, does it omicron immunity cross over to delta? it
break this holiday weekend omicron variant spreading across the country and the surge expected to get worse before it gets better and remembering giant of the small screen and tributes pouring in, we will look back at life. live team coverage this hour. laura ingle on betty white but first rich edison live in wilmington, delaware where the president is spending the holiday weekend. rich. rich: good afternoon, william, the president faces a host of challenges as he s getting into his second year in office. his administration is trying to make testing a priority though he s caught plenty of criticism for not moving on that sooner to try to beat the holiday season and now this omicron surge to close out 2021 plenty of americans stood in line trying to get their covid test, looking at empty shelves trying to get test. the administration working on buying 500 million at-home kits, even the president admits he wishes he had moved on that a couple of months ago. the administration a
welcome to the journal editorial report, i am paul gigot. you covid measures from the biden a ministrations this week and the first cases of the omicron. our confirmed in the u.s. brief the president thursday outlining plan to fight potential pointer search with expanded booster shots, at pump testing new restrictions on international travel. his science really guiding the administration s efforts to combat it? let s ask doctor marty, doctor at the johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health and foxes medical contributor. welcome. this variance was announced to the world a little more than a week ago get popping up all over the place. what does that tell you about fixed spread? welcome there s a lot of discussion about it because there were some unknown unknowns initially but based on modeling done by the scientists in absence of any severe infections with omicron, there s a high degree of confidence there s something we need to do differently. there s a report you ma