good morning. welcome to way too early. the show that has been unable to make a seamless order for 24 hours because of that amazon urge. we ll talk about that in the show. i m also jonathan lemire, on this wednesday, december 8th. let s start with the news, president biden is warning vladimir putin about the invasion of ukraine. the biden called it tense but occasionally lightened by humor. hello. good evening. good to see you again. unfortunately, we didn t get to see each other in the g20, i hope next time we do it in person. and making it clear that any military action by moscow would end the hopes for a key natural gas pipeline. officials say putin gave no intention of his intent but asked for, quote, reliable guarantees that nato will not expand into ukraine. officials say biden made no commitments on that. the high-staking call came as russia has moved nearly 100,000 troops to the border in recent weeks. joining us now to talk about this, nbc news foreign corr
his family, all holding guns, just days after that school shooting. we ll get reaction from a parent of one of the kids killed in parkland. omicron now detected in more than a dozen u.s. states. plus, a new requirement for foreign travelers coming into the country takes effect tomorrow. what s next in the fight against the new variant? it s clear not just that it s here, but it s spreading. it s just that we haven t known to look to it already. new signs emerge of a possible invasion of ukraine. while president biden prepares for a key meeting with vladimir putin this week. good morning, everybody. it is sunday december 5th. i m lindsey reiser. we begin this morning with more of that breaking news in pontiac, michigan, where several investigations into tuesday s school shooting are ramping up. james and jennifer crumbley, the parents of the suspected shooter ethan crumbley, you see them in the top left on your screen, pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter in
hello, thank you forjoining us. several more countries around the world have detected cases of the new coronavirus variant known as omicron. it s the most heavily mutated version of the virus discovered so far and early evidence suggests that it has a higher risk of re infection. canada has confirmed two infections and france has also reported a number of suspected cases. a third case has been detected in the uk. at least 13 cases have been confirmed in the netherlands. they were all on flights coming from south africa where scientists first identified the variant. omicron is responsible for most of the infections found in gauteng province in south africa, and has been found in all provinces there. britain, as the current chair of the g7 group of leading economies, is to convene an urgent meeting of health ministers to discuss how best to respond. it comes as a number of countries have moved to restrict or ban incoming flights from southern africa, as caroline davies reports.
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states itself. there was a time in american history when people accused of being gay were literally purged from their jobs by government mandate. and it all happened during this period that i had never heard of called the lavender scare. if you stood up and said that you were a homosexual, that was the equivalent of saying, i m un-american. tonight we meet americans whose patriotism was questioned because of what they did behind closed doors. we were taken to be interrogated because we were gay. and find families that are still reeling from a witch hunt our government never wanted us to know about. there s been a progression of it being illegal to be gay in the government. and it was my relative who led this whole thing. so we are in fresno, california, and i m on my way to meet a woman who is part of a group that the united states government once considered one of the greatest security threats to our country. in the 1950s, america was gripped by the red scare.