We start with the Travel Industry. Its been welcoming changes to the uks covid travel rules which come into force on sunday. As you have been hearing france a major destination for british tourists is to be brought into line with other Amber List countries. Those coming from france to england, scotland and Northern Ireland will no longer need to quarantine, if they are fully vaccinated. Seven europen countries including Austria And Germany willjoin The Green List. And india and the United Arab Emirates are among those moving from red to amber. Dfds which operates ferries between the uk and france is among the companies welcoming the changes. In terms of the Amber Plus rules, We Saw a dipping in bookings. People were booking for the next few days and people who really had to travel. We saw a surge in booking when travel looked to be reopening. We know how many people visit our website and looking for prices. We expect that will pick up sharply and people will have more confidence to boo
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discuss what this could mean for transmissibility and vaccine efficacy. and dr. anthony fauci weighed in just a short time ago. well, certainly, there is a new variant that is now in south africa, that has some mutations that are raising some concern, particularly with regard to possibly transmissibility increase, and possibly evasion of immune response. we don t know that for sure right now. this is really something that is in motion, and we just arranged right now a discussion between our scientists and the south african scientists a little bit later in the morning. so a lot we don t know. but this news is making the markets nervous, dow futures are down 800 points, with travel business being especially hard hit. with me, more on this. nbc news foreign correspondent, and gary joins us live from a testing site in pennsylvania, and also with us dr. peter hotez, co-director for the center for vaccine development at texas children s hospital, and dean of the national school
3, 4, 9, 8, 7, 1 8, 8, 8, 5, 2, 3, 4 9, 8, 7. i m katie bo lillis in washington, and this is cnn first of all, needing a parent s permission to listen to a book written by a black person is objectives outrageous? book about any controversial topic or political theory, just a book written by a black person. but that s exactly what teachers in south florida say. they felt forced to get this week because so the new state law today was the school making a political statement or do black history month programs now need special approval? plus the testimony of fani willis grilled by lawyers trying to force her off the donald trump case here in georgia, some black professional women say they saw a double standard. we ll get into that. and biance goes country treat, listen, we knew there would be some haters, but much of the criticism of her making music and genre is just ignorant of history. so we re going to educate some people i m victor blackwell. let s start the show if you
i m fredricka whitfield. thank you so much for joining us. new today, iraq is now summoning a top u.s. diplomatic official in protest of a barrage of punishing u.s. air strikes in the middle east. the u.s. says those strikes hit 85 targets linked to iran s islamic revolutionary guard quds force and affiliated militia groups in iraq and syria. the strikes a response to a drone attack in jordan which killed three american soldiers on sunday. iraq is claiming the explosions that just happened involving the u.s. killing 16 people, including civilians. u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin says the strikes are just the beginning of the u.s. response. iran says the u.s. has made a strategic mistake, while iraq and syria say the u.s. actions could inflame more conflict in the region. cnn has teams around the globe covering all of these developments. let s go first to cnn s ben wedeman in jordan. ben, these strikes were sudden, devastating. how are officials on the ground? how are thos