Reports we will talk about this and a whole lot more. Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz will join us and also on deck pete hicks, Joe Concha and larry kudlow. Sandra and at the same time President Biden is facing mounting criticism at this hour as his administration struggles to cope with multiple crises at home and abroad. He is now confronting a major Gas Shortage, slow job growth, deteriorating conditions of the u. S. Border and a potential allout war in the Middle East. Hello and welcome to thursday, this is America Reports and im Sandra Smith in New York. My neck, john. John im John Roberts in washington, lots to get to in the next hour, fewer and fuel shortages crippling the southeast and it could be several days before the Supply Chain returns to normal. Here is President Biden a short time ago addressing the issue. President Biden Fuel is beginning to flow to the majority of americans that they service and they should be reaching full operational capacity as we speak. That is g
if you go by the seven-day averages here, new cases dropped 58.5%. hospitalizations dropped 44%. head of the world health organization says the number of new cases has been declining now for the fifth consecutive week. so far this year the number of weekly reported cases has fallen by almost half. from more than 5 million cases in the week of january 4 to 2.6 million cases in the week starting february 8. just five weeks. this shows that simple public health measures work. even in the presence of variants. what matters now is how we respond to this trend. the fire is not out, but we have reduced its size. let s talk about this now with dr. wilbur chen, an in infe infectious disease expert and serves on the cdc s advisory committee on immunization practices. okay. let s talk about the good news here. i mean, the numbers are still high, but we are seeing this big drop. that is certainly welcome news. tell us what you re seeing. tell us why we re seeing this drop. tell us ho
to combat the surge fueled by the omicron variant. nbc news has just confirmed at least one case of omicron in all 50 states, all of them. that plan includes expanded testing to address scenes like this throughout the country, people waiting for hours in line to get tested. the spike in cases forced the nhl to announce this morning its players will not participate in the winter olympics in beijing. the league says it will need that time to make up the 50 games recently postponed because of covid. but potentially encouraging news from south africa, where omicron originated. there are signs new infections may have peaked. we ll ask our medical expert what that could mean for the united states. joining me is josh lederman from the white house, nbc news correspondent steve patterson from los angeles international airport, nbc news producer gary grumbach in washington, dc and the co-director for the center for vaccine development at texas children s hospital, dr. peter hotez. gent
my guests this morning, dr. anthony fauci and the governor of colorado, democrat jared polis. the house votes to charge mark meadows with criminal contempt. we won t let the facts be buried by a coverup. the former trump chief of staff refusing to comply with the january 6th committee. the executive privilege is donald trump s to wave, not mine to wave. this as january 6th texts from the former president s allies come to light. one of the president s sons texted mr. meadows, quote, he s got to condemn this [ bleep ] asap. he is destroying his legacy, laura ingraham wrote. and build back when? if president biden couldn t get build back better or voting rights done this year nothing more domestically important than voting rights. the single biggest thing. why would next year be any different? joining me for insight and analysis, pbs newshour s amna nawaz, washington post senior correspondent phil rucker, former democratic congresswoman donna edwards, a