some dying in snow buried cars, others in homes with no power. conditions so bad rescuers needed rescuing. and the travel nightmare continues for thousands of americans, so far more than 3,000 flights have been canceled today, the majority are southwest flights. plus, how a toy and a car led police to find a kidnapped baby. welcome to the lead i m phil mattingly in today for jake tapper. we begin with the rising death toll from the vicious winter weather across the country. at least 49 people across nine states have died from storms, at least 27 of those deaths are centered in buffalo, new york, and surrounding erie county which were hit with a blizzard, winds so fierce they reached hurricane strength, rescuers had to be sent out to help stranded rescue crews facing, quote, some of the worst conditions that any of us have ever seen. many roads around buffalo remain impassable, driving bans still in place in some areas as crews try to clear the streets to restore power
capital. we re going to get his reaction to the hearings in just a few moments. and the w.h.o. just declared the monkeypox outbreak a global emergency. with more than 16,000 cases reported around the world, we re going to get into what you need to know about the response, here, in the states. plus president biden has tested positive for covid as some say we could be headed for a surge in the fall, y all, so how could this impact the administration? we re going to get into it. i m symone sanders and i have something to say. the january six committee presented a pretty damning conclusion in their final scheduled hearing on thursday. and they re focused on the 187 minutes the former president stepped by and did nothing to stop the attack on the capitol. here s republican congressman adam the mob was accomplishing president trump s purpose. of course he didn t intervene. here s what will be clear by the end of this hearing. president trump did not fail to act during the 187 m
china with concern about from a variant perspective what may come of what that country is currently going through? i m looking at china for two reasons, one is the humanitarian tragedy because it s a perfect storm of the fact that the population of china is undervaccinated, also the types of vaccines they ve been using the inactivated virus vaccines not holding up well and the fact that they have poor intensive care units. that s a humanitarian tragedy waiting to happen. some analytics groups are saying 5,000 deaths a day. you know, and maybe 1 to 2 million deaths overall before this is over. and then when you allow this virus to circulate among an unvaccinated or undervaccinated population, we know what happens with that. that s how the delta variant arose out of india, omicron out of south africa. so i worry that we may see this out of china as well, a new variant. yeah, seems like much more to
of india omicron out of a unvaccinated population. mother nature is showing us which she has in store for us. unless we can ensure vaccine equity, which is another point of the conference on tuesday. a lot of work to do. in the long term our group is looking to develop a universal coronavirus vaccine. taking that existing vaccine that we develop for global health, and now expanding it to get many more variants and new coronaviruses that were surely arise, because remember covid-19 is actually the third major coronavirus epidemic that we ve seen in the 20th century. we had sars in 2002, mers in 2012 there s gonna be covid 27, and covid 32. in the short term, what do we do over the next two months to year in terms of recommending for boosters, do we try to make a variant specific mrna? do we pivot to another
makers in india, bangladesh and botswana. india is the furthest along there, and they ve been producing their vaccine called corbevax that we transferred the technology and helped in the development. 100,000 vaccines ready to go. i think they maybe going into arms next weekend and they will be scaling up until they reach 1.2 billion. it is excited. this center is headed by myself and my partner, who we have worked together for 20 years. we want to get the whole southern hemisphere and the world s low and middle income countries vaccinated. aside from the obvious humanitarian urgency for this is the simple fact that delta arose out of an unvaccinated population in india. omicron out of an unvaccinated