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global risk is, quote, very high. today marks the start of a new travel restrictions to the u.s. from south african countries in the region where omicron was first detected. although it s been confirmed in a number of places from hong kong to ontario, israel and japan have responded by closing their borders completely to foreign travelers. and new york declared a state of emergency before a single case of omicron was confirmed in the state. the governor says it s coming. meanwhile the message from administration officials is one of caution. and that the best defense against this or any other covid variant remains to get vaccinated. just a short time ago president biden gave an update on the omicron variant saying it was a cause for concern but not panic. he said new lockdowns were off the table. and he also spoke about the new travel restrictions from countries in southern africa. take a listen. while we had that travel restrictions can slow the speed of omicron, it canno

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Capitol hill as congress tries to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the week. and a default on u.s. debt next month. and later, the latest from a manhattan federal courthouse as opening statements begin today in the sex trafficking trial of jeffrey epstein con if i confidant, ghislaine maxwell. welcome to meet the press daily . i m garrett haake. president biden has once again been forced to turn his attention back to the pandemic. as u.s. health officials brace for the arrival of this new and little studied omicron variant. it s going to be days, perhaps more likely weeks before experts can confidently say whether or not this new variant is significantly more dangerous than the delta strain which is dominant now. but that hasn t stopped governments and health authorities from taking action. as the world health organization is now warning that the overall

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Who can testify to some of the things they saw and help corroborate the stories from young women. in addition to that, i expect we ll get certain items of evidence. one of the things the judge talked about is she s at least going to hear testimony, whether or not she ll end up admitting the evidence is a different question, but she s going to hear testimony about that infamous epstein black book which may contain some of the underage at the time victims. we might get that included as well. i think it s going to round out the understanding of this world. another important thing, a lot of people are saying the tabloids are saying this is the trial of jeffrey epstein s madame or she was just his conspirator. this is about the abuse she allegedly did herself as well. we should hear some testimony about that. i fully expected when i first saw that i was going to be speaking with you today that i would be coming out here now and able to tell you what the prosecution, the defense said in thei

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The time. she s pleaded not guilty to the charges against her. her trial begins more than a year after she was first charged with federal sex trafficking and more than two years after epstein was found dead in his manhattan jail cell after he was charged with sex trafficking minors. the medical examiner ruled it a suicide. joining me now from manhattan is the investigation s correspondent tom winter and also glen kerrshner. what can we expect to learn in this trial? well, i think what we re going to learn is a couple things. i think as you said, we re going to hear from some of the victims. obviously the four victims here that were included in the indictment, but i think another thing we re going to get are other potential victims here or alleged victims who can help speak to the conspiracy counts. so i think we re going to get more than just the four that are mentioned in that indictment. on top of that, i think we re going to get other people including employees for epstein