your toes, those teeming tears that come from this amazing and near extinct thing called joy. it s time to show you the best of humanity. so buckle up. we ve got a lot of happiness to show you for the next two hours, and after that, probably a documentary about the opioid crisis or global warming. which one are we doing? opioids or global warming? opioids, yes! i won 50 bucks. but for now, this is cnn heroes. from the american museum of natural history in new york city, this is the 15th annual cnn heroes all-star tribute. 15 years of celebrating everyday people determined to make a difference in this world. please welcome your host s for the evening, anderson cooper and kelly ripa. thanks so much. welcome to the 15th annual cnn heroes all-star tribute. we are coming to you live from the milstein hall of ocean life. welcome to our viewers watching around the world. happy 15th anniversary, cnn heroes. [ applause ] our show is a full-blown teenager. since 2007, we
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program if they want to come into the u.s. successfully. so let s break it down, jim. travel restrictions versus travel bans. you mentioned the travel restrictions that will begin tomorrow. we ve seen them off and on with various countries throughout this pandemic. so just last month, we had a travel restriction that still in place that international travelers coming to the u.s. have to be vaccinated. now we re adding another requirement, a negative covid-19 test the day before they travel. other places you saw more of a window, 72 hours. now we re stripping that down to just the day before they travel. but if we talk about the travel ban, well, it s really of people who are coming from eight southern african countries including south africa where scientists there were the first to identify the omicron variant. so, many people have called have criticized the u.s. government for that move facing a lot of international backlash, saying that this was a travel apartheid. that s
but whether omicron can evade vaccines, that will take longer. this highly mutated variant has been found in more than a dozen countries. more than 40 nations including the u.s. are restricting travel from southern africa. south africa announcing that omicron is now its dominant variant, less than two weeks after it was first detected there. at the moment, there are no confirmed in the u.s., president biden says sooner or later, omicron will be there. cnn international correspondent david mckenzie is in south africa. we begin with cnn s phil mattingly at the white house. the president said shut downs are off the table for now? for now. shut downs off the table. instead, the white house is focused on vaccinations and boosters. that will be the core along with testing. the president is supposed to lay out a plan about fighting the pandemic as the country moves into the winter months, and obviously that plan royaled by the discovery of this new variant. it s a variant that h
heavy rain and snow. millions are trying to head home today. we have your post-thanksgiving travel forecast. all right. the last day of the holiday weekend. sunday, november 28th. we re so grateful to have your company as all. good morning. nice to be back with you, on such a busy news day. yes. let s talk about it. let s get right to it. we begin with countries around the world locking down, scientists are racing to learn more about the new omicron covid variant. yeah. more countries confirmed cases of this new variant. u.s. health experts are warning the strain could already be in the u.s. there s no way that it s in this many countries across the world, and it has not made it here into our shores. now that we have our eyes open for it, it s probably going to be days until we find and confirm there are cases here in the u.s. but today, airline passengers around the world are rushing to make their flights before those travel restrictions go into effect. startin