cases you can see still sky high, but they are going down. and now it s just under 700,000, another promising sign? hospitalizations. patient lots are trending down in the northeast. i m so glad to have you here with us, dr. fauci. you say things are looking good, going in the right direction, as omicron cases decline. when will we be in the clear? well, ana, i m not so sure we can say when we ll be in the clear. it s a trend we have seen. they had a shatter people and came back down. we re seeing it in those areas of the countries that had the first surge to begin with. we project we ll start seeing the same peak in coming down. how long that takes, that we re in in an arena we can actually live with that time is very typically to predict. it will continue to come down and down. with all the things we have, with all the tools, vaccine, booster, testing, masking, we ll belt keep it down there. the worth-case scenario is we ll have another variant that would allude some
the new covid variant omicron hit the u.s. with dr. fauci announcing the first detected case while speaking at the white house. this is the first confirmed case of covid-19 caused by the omicron variant detected in the united states. we knew it was just a matter of time before the first case of omicron would be detected in the united states. the first case showing up in san francisco according to the cdc. it got there through a person that travelled to america from south africa on november 22nd. the person was fully vaccinated and now has mild symptoms. officials tested their contacts and found no spreading. a doctor explains how they nailed this down quickly. we were able to confirm the detection of omicron within five hours and had most of the genome within eight hours. so, 4:00 a.m. last night we assembled most of the genome and were able to conclusively demonstrate this was indeed an infection from the omicron variant. as people brace for what will be a third year
the fight is going to be state to state. already, 26 states, already with trigger laws that will outlaw abortion the moment that supreme court decision is released, there preparing to act. and prepare for this fight to get ugly. louisiana considering a bill that without classify abortion as a homicide. the stakes could not be higher. as the official decision on roe v. wade expected about a month or so, so we want to get right through this hour. we start in houston, texas, where protests are going on by texas governor tory will candidate beto o rourke, who nbc spoke to just a short while ago. this is what the majority of us feel so strongly about. we want our rights protected. we don t want to be targeted, we don t want to be the leader in an epidemic of maternal mortality that is three times as deadline for black women in the state of texas. we want to focus on things like greater public schools, having the back for teachers, make sure we expand medicaid so more people can
anna says she fears for her brother, who she says is deteriorating physically as he fights the russians inside the plant. he s very skinny, he s exhausted. his eyes have black bags, she says. he s in horrible condition, but that s just physically, mentally, he s unbelievably strong. they are all so motivated to tear the russians apart. russia is attacking from the ground and the sky. the devastation immeasurable. the human suffering incalculable. under heavy fire, hundreds of civilians still stuck cowering in fear under the steel plant. this is the last ukrainian stronghold in mariupol, but russia is squeezing in on it, relentlessly bombing the place, even after a promise of a cease-fire to allow those trapped civilians to escape. translator: once again, the russians violated the promise of a truce and did not allow the evacuation of civilians who continue to hide from shelling in the basement of the plant. friday, a third rescue attempt got under way. at least a dozen ci
of rape saying it was easy to make. the instruction is known as the hale warning. he didn t have much use for charges of marital rape either. in his book, history of the pleas of the crown he wrote, quote, the husband cannot be guilty of a rape committed by himself upon his lawful wife, meaning that a wife was a man s property and, therefore, he cannot commit a crime upon her nor can she refuse her consent. interestingly or rather horrifically, justice samuel alito in the leaked opinion draft that would overturn roe v. wade cites that book in his argument to end abortion. citing hale as an historical authority not once, not twice but nine times in a 98 page ruling, mathematically that s once almost every ten pages, hale was one of the people alito relied upon for one of his most extreme assertions, that, quote, an unbroken tradition of prohibiting abortion from 17th century english common law to the late 20th century. that could apply in almost everything. contraception, inte