pete, what do we know about at&t s decision? reporter: this is a huge development from at&t. it along with verizon is really behind the 5g push which is set to roll out tomorrow across the country far and wide, but issue here is that there are really serious aviation safety concerns that have been brought up by air. . they say the problem will lead to thousands of cancellations and delays and diverted flights. the big issue is with the 5g radio spectrum. it is so close, airlines say to radar altimeters, to what they use, a highly sensitive instrument that pilots use in critical phases of flight t.sends a radio beam down to the ground and bounces back up to the airplane to give them a hyper accurate reading of how close they are to the ground. airlines say they need this, especially in low visibility conditions. on a day like yesterday there, would have been 1,100 delays and diversions if this does cause errors, if this 5g system does cause errors with the radar altimeters.
good evening, mike. bret, good evening, governor glenn youngkin is clearly trying to set a tone here in virginia. taking action immediately on some of the key priorities he laid out during his campaign, promising change is coming. they see declining schools. they see violent crime reports dominating the news. and they see government failures and encroachments on their liberties. beyond his state of the commonwealth address, it has been a fast start for virginia s first republican governor elected in more than a decade. youngkin kin signed 11 executive actions on saturday day one. ending the covid-19 vaccine requirement for state employees and terminating the virginia parole board. others focused on education such as reversing mask requirements for children ending the use of divirve steps critical race theory asking the attorney general to investigate the sexual assault in loudoun county school. multiple school districts are pushing back in richmond and the northern virg
plus, if you haven t seen these pictures, you want to. and underwater volcano near tonga has ree resulted for the third time in four days, those pictures captured by satellite. a massive eruption over the weekend sparked tsunami advisories across the u.s. west coast. and in china, major changes now to the winter olympics, which are less than three weeks away. amid coronavirus concerns tickets will not be sold to the general public but distributed by authorities instead. the country s zero covid policy has meant stringent restrictions, new lockdowns, beijing reporting its first case according to its numbers of the highly transmissible omicron variant just this past saturday. we begin first with the winter storm wreaking havoc across the eastern united states this morning. cnn s dianne gallagher is in charlotte, north carolina. polo sandoval is live from pittsburgh. we begin with polo. it s a tough mix, right, because you have the snow, it melts, turns to ice. tell us what
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 beijing i ll
hello and welcome to bbc news. a court in australia is meeting now to decide whether the serbian tennis star, novak djokovic, can stay in the country and attempt to win a record 21 grand slams. three judges at the federal court will decide whether the australian immigration minister, alex hawke, was right to revoke djokovic s visa for the second time this month, on the grounds that the unvaccinated player s presence could risk fuelling opposition to covid vaccinations. the bbc s phil mercer has the latest from melbourne. a day s time, the australian open, the first grand slam of the year, will get under way. novak djokovic is still the top seed, scheduled to play his opening round match ironically against a fellow serb on monday as well so time is of the essence. we know novak djokovic left a detention hotel not too far from left a detention hotel not too farfrom here earlier this morning. he was placed back into immigration detention about 2k hours ago because of this cance