Head. Olympic Medallist Suni Lee wins the gold in the Gymnastics Allaround as Simone Biles Cheers her on from the stands and thanks her supporters. Lets begin with Corporate America Taking A Stand in a big way. The list of employers requiring that workers be vaccinated is growing up, they join the federal government and some local governments putting pressure on Unvaccinated Americans who are driving the surge across the united states today. In just hours, President Biden will announce all federal employees must be vaccinated or face regular testing requirements. The hope is, of course, that all of this creates a Domino Effect to get more people to get more shots. And the urgency is ob obvious. The united states is averaging 64,000 new infections a day. That is five times above last month. We have reporters and experts covering every angle in this pandemic. Lets begin with Matt Egan tracking the big moves by corporate america. Matt, how many companies are we talking about and what are
the world, this is early start. i m laura jarrett. good friday morning. i m christine romans. it is february 12th and it is 4 a.m. in new york. in any other trial donald trump s legal team would face a daunting challenge today fending off a devastating impeachment case against the former president. house managers have wrapped their case now painting trump as a dangerous tyrant who turned his mob on fellow americans laying out in graphic detail how the deadly siege terrorized the rank and file and black police officers called the n word and janitors cleaning up blood and feces left behind by the pro trump rioters. house managers tried to link the insurrection to the former president showing how long he tried to undermine the election, how his supporters were conditioned to attack. how donald trump drew them to washington and unleashed them on the capitol. democrats warned senators a refusal to convict could incite more of the same. i m not afraid of donald trump runnin
that s considerably down from october and november when inflation was up .8 and .9% respectively. one reason why it came down in december, why the rate of inflation was slower in december is because energy prices actually fell after growing 6% in october and november. they actually fell half a percent in december. okay. matt eagen joins us now. give us your take. well, clearly the cost of living is going up. in some cases, pretty dramatically. consumer prices up by 7% from a year ago. the biggest spike in 39 years. month over month, yes, price gains did decelerate, but they will still up by more than expected. we have this line chart that shows how headline inflation continues to move in the wrong direction. it s really going straight up. it s the eighth month in a row where we ve seen 5% or higher inflation. the federal reserve s goal is for 2% inflation. we are nowhere near that. so we also need to talk about how some of these specific price gains are really in record b
top of a brand new hour. it is good to be with you. i m victor blackwell. and i m alisyn camerota. the u.s. begins 2022 with a winter blizzard and a viral blizzard. more than 20 million americans are under weather alerts from the southeast to new england. this is the region s first major snowstorm of the season. in the meantime, the omicron variant has driven the average new infections to a record breaking 404,000 a day. hospitalizations are rising at a slower rate, but we are now learning that there are 100,000 people in the u.s. in hospitals with covid. this double hit has led to major disruptions, schools and businesses and travel. one major airport has ordered a ground stop because of the severe weather, and that is on top of the 17,000 plus flights that have been cancelled since christmas eve from staff sickouts because of covid. we begin the hour with cnn aviation correspondent pete muntean at reagan national. first, talk about this ground stop, and when potentially
imposed around the dpglobe. the rocketts calling off the christmas spectacular. in ireland, a curfew begins at 8:00 p.m. rio and paris deciding to cancel planned new year s fireworks shows. the world s health organization warning today that cases of the omicron variant double in under three days for countries already seeing infections. in the u.s., covid hospitalizations are at levels not seen since september. now, an admission from vice president kamala harris. she says we didn t see delta coming. i think most scientists did not. she goes onto say we didn t see omicron coming and that s the nature of what this awful virus has been which as it turns out has mutations and variants. harris adviser tells cnn the vice president was referring to the exact kind of mutation and not the prevalence of the variant themselves. we have more on growing signs that a winter surge is on the way. reporter: covid-19 infections and hospitalizations are rising in the u.s. promptin ing disrupti