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of the strictest covid countermeasures many of them have ever seen as the world confronts a second olympic games amid a pandemic. cnn s selena wang is live inside tokyo with more now. how many spectators will there be, and how will the government be choosing them? reporter: well, ana, it s hard to believe we re only 17 days away from the start of the games and we still don t know how many spectators are allowed or how they will be chosen. all we know from organizers is that anyone allowed to attend is going to have to follow strict covid rules before, during and after the games. international spectators have already been banned and with the latest change reflects just the growing restrictions and what is already an extraordinarily restricted olympic games, even for than what i experienced in the tokyo summer games. i ll be traveling in a couple of weeks but already i ve had to download an olympic health tracking app, put in my daily temperature and once i enter beijin ....
eve. what is it going to take to end our travel nightmare? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start in our health lead. the cdc battling an apparent credibility problem. today the agency s director, dr. rochelle walensky took questions from reporters in her first solo news conference since july after facing a barrage of criticism, including from within the white house and the cdc over isolation guidance that even allies call confusing. walensky admitting the past few weeks have been particularly challenging. she noted that as a as the science changes, the guidance has to change as well. and she went on to say this is hard. and i am committed to continue to improve, unquote. now former biden administration health advisers are urging the white house to shift its covid strategy. as cnn s alexandra field reports, these advisers, former advisers want the president to prioritize ways for our society to learn to live and function with the virus. instead of chasing ....
guilty on five out of six charges here in federal court in manhattan. it was six days of jury deliberations in about 40 hours inside of those of that room, rather, here in manhattan as the jury continued to deliberate even asking for a white boards and pens and paper as they went through those counts bit by bit. so when the verdict was read, maxwell sitting in court pretty much motionless, didn t have much of a reaction there then she left the courtroom. maxwell facing six federal charges child sex trafficking and it sex trafficking conspiracy charges. prosecutors say she groomed and trafficked underaged girls as young as 1 years old to be sexually abused by her former boyfriend jeffrey epstein. the jury then requesting copies of the testimony from all four of her accusers after a long holiday break and asking the judge to clarify the definition of enticement, which is part of two of the charges maxwell was facing. during the more than two weeks of graphic testimony her ....
israel. former top officials now revealing they think getting out of the iran deal was a major mistake. why now? i ll talk with israeli journalists anshel pfeffer. also, george iii lost the british colonies in a bloody war. but andrews tells us the king was much misunderstood, not mad or tyrannical. but first here s my take. i have to confess i find joe biden s unpopularity puzzling. he s rounding out the first year in the white house with the lowest end of first year approval ratings than any elected president in modern times with the exception of donald trump. why is it? biden is a genial, likable person. many of his policies are possible, even with republican support. the country is doing reasonably well, economically with measures like unemployment declining, stock market rising and interest rates demonstrating. so why did the latest cnn average of the polls have him at just 45%? one has to remember that biden is something of an accidental president. he got el ....
why now? i ll talk with israeli journalist anshel pfeffer. also, george iii was the monarch who lost the british colonies in a bloody war. but andrews tells us the king was much misunderstood, not mad or tyrannical. but first here s my take. i have to confess i find joe biden s unpopularity puzzling. he s rounding out the first year in the white house with the lowest end-of-first-year approval ratings than any elected president in modern times with the exception of donald trump. why is it? biden is a genial, likable person. many of his policies are possible, even some with republican support. the country is doing reasonably well, economically with measures like unemployment declining, stock market rising and interest rates demonstrate. so why did the latest cnn average of the polls have him at just 45%? one has to remember that biden is something of an accidental president. he got elected for two reasons, neither of which has much to do with his personal popularit ....