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covid. all right? what we need to do is make sure the hospitals can still function. omicron with its extraordinary, unprecedented degree of efficiency, of transmizability, will ultimately find just about everybody. unfortunately, those who are still unvaccinated are going to get the brunt of the severe aspect of this. so it will find you. what does that mean? well if you re vaccinated and boosted like dr. fauci said there, almost definitely not much. you are largely protected against severe infection, but the unvaccinated are not. the unvaccinated are pushing hospitals to the breaking point this morning. we re going have much more on that in just a moment. also new this morning, a scary incident on an american airlines plane in honhonduras. a man breached the cockpit and damaged it before trying to climb out of a window, as you see him doing here. passengers delayed eight hours before they got a new plane and that flight could finally take off and the suspect arre ....
paul of putting his life at risk for political gain. rand paul raising money of his website. how the senator responded. president biden on protecting voting rights in this country, saying he will support a change in the senate rules in the filibuster on this issue, telling senators and members of his own party, how do you want to be remembered on this issue? how will history judge you? the brutal cold in the northeast. wind chills dropping below zero. more than 30 inches of lake effect snow. some covid testing sites today forced to close. waiting for hours in line, not possible given how quickly frostbite can kick in. and what s now right behind this? ginger zee standing by. tonight, the sudden groundstop up and down the west coast. why the faa called for a temporary groundstop around the same time north korea tested a missile. you will hear the audio from the pilots and what little air traffic control could say to them. the medical helicopter going down with an infa ....
under alerts for brutal cold and lake effect snow. in new york city and boston and several cities in the northeast, oin chiou wake up. and they could last well into the day. ginger zee timing this out. there is also news tonight about the sudden death of actor and comedian bob saget. how he was found in his hotel room. who alerted authorities? the tributes pouring in tonight, as we now hear from his wife and what authorities are now saying, how long before the results of the autopsy? the high tastakes talks between the u.s. and russia, and what the u.s. told russia. tonight, russia responding. the major medical breakthrough tonight. the first of its kind heart transplant for a man desperately waiting, from a genetically edited biedit ed pig. and what doctors are saying about this. there is also breaking news coming in this hour from north korea. they call it black monday, the nfl coaches fired today. and bob saget in his own words, the lessons from his fathe ....
pattern here as more of these companies take the spike in cases into their own hands, and the response which is fairly blunt, in the case of citigroup, if you are thinking of coming back to work as of january 14th and you re not vaccinated, don t worry about it. welcome, everybody, i m neil cavuto. we re going to explore the confusion over omicron. the good news is that it is not as dangerous. so while these spikes in cases look alarming, the fact of the matter is overall hospitalizations and certainly deaths are not nearly indicative of that spike as you might think. we re going to explore that in a lot more detail, the administration s handling of all of this. for that, we go to lucas tomlinson in washington. reporter: good morning, neil. some medical experts think the silver lining with omicron variant is an immunity boost. president biden insists things will get better despite a record-setting number of cases almost two years into the pandemic. no, i don t think ....
you from msnbc headquarters. it s high noon here in the east, 9:00 out west. the number of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations in the u.s. hitting some record highs as the omicron variant rages on, but there is new hope today. the cdc says there is evidence those numbers will drop dramatically in the coming weeks. i do think in places that we are seeing this really steep incline that we may well see also a precipitous decline, but we re also a much bigger country than south africa, and so it may very well be that we see this ice pick shape, but that it travels across the country. hospitalizations among the nation s youngest children are at the highest level since the pandemic began. states are reporting nearly twice as many severe cases of covid in children under 5. that of course the only age group ineligible yet for the covid vaccine. and a major decision from the supreme court is expected within days on president biden s vaccine, mask, and testing requiremen ....