watching the white house. president biden set to speak. also set to sign three bills into law aimed at helping veterans. later this hour he will head out of to minnesota to continue his infrastructure sales pitch. we ll go live to the white house. also happening right now, jury selection getting underway in the trial of a former minnesota police officer who is shown on body cam video shooting and killing a 20-year-old named dante wright. her former chief said he thinks she meant to grab her taser instead of her gun. we start with the latest on the omicron variant. nbc s richard engel is also with me in london. new york city mayor bill de blasio just reinstated this mask advisory on the new variant. what are you hearing. reporter: the city is preparing. on friday the governor of new york declared a state of emergency, signing an executive order that will go into effect this friday limiting nonemergency, nonurgent medical procedures to help with hospital staffing as well
profile. the question is what kind of an impact, and how much of an impact would it have on protection that is induced by vaccinations. the only way to know that is to do what we re doing. that is of course the latest from dr. fauci. the stock market is getting lambed today on a number of factors including omicron. the recent rise in covid-19 cases and the emergence of the omicron variant poses downside risks and increased uncertainty for inflation. it could reduce people s willingness to work in person that would slow progress and intensify supply chain disruptions. and a story here in washington, a panel of judges is hearing arguments. but we do want to begin with our top story, the coronavirus, and lindsey riser in manhattan. welcome to all of you, thank you for joining us today. lindsey, i want to start with you. there have been so many developments other the past 24 hours. take us through what the key headlines are and what you re watching. yeah, good to be with
we have seen a rapid spread of infections and we have seen that in a pop flags the country where we thought that people had a lot of immunity. and the fact that this virus is now spreading so rapidly and so easily, it seems, it is highly transmissible, and it may be able to better get around some levels of our immune protection. so, doctor, what do you make of that given all of the unknowns here? it seems like this, at the very at least, is a virus that has a rapid rise in transmission. what do you make of that? right, thank you so much for having me on, kristin. definitely we re getting signals from this virus that there could be, you know, increased risk of transmissibility. it is based on what we observed
The justices asking questions. first, ab degree ya membershiple andrea mitchell reports is next with kristin welker. good day, this is andrea mitchell reports. we ll check in with andrea later. i m kristin wewe ll welker. as leaders at the federal, state, and local level are urges boosters for the fully vaccinated as information on the variant continues to pour in from all across the world. we don t have enough information to talk about dire situations. there are some concerning aspects about the molecular