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strategy. comes less than a week after the omicron variant was first identified in south africa and on a day we learned what had been expected that omicron is here. we knew that it was just a matter of time before the first case of omicron would be detected in the united states. and as you know, we know, i have been saying it and my colleagues on the medical team and others have been saying it. we know what we need to do to protect people. get vaccinated, if you re not already vaccinated. get boosted. that first patient, a traveler from south africa, who is now in california is said to be isolated and experiencing mild symptoms. dr. fauci joins us in our next hour for a special cnn covid town hall. right now, i want to go to cnn s kaitlan collins with her new reporting there the white house. so what are the president and his team doing tonight in response to this first-known case? well, anderson, ever since south african scientists last week told them they thought ....
right now, i want to go to cnn s kaitlan collins with her new reporting from the white house. so what are the president and his team doing tonight in response to this first-known case? well, anderson, ever since south african scientists last week told them they thought that this could be a more concerning variant than some of the other ones that you have seen, the president and his team have basically been meeting nonstop. whether that s within the agencies, people meeting and talking about how they are going to respond to this. or the president meeting with his medical team directly. they have had hours on ends of meetings where he has been peppering them with questions about the data here, the timeline of when they are going to know more to those big questions, like how severe of disease this could cause or whether or not it evades vaccines because the president has been clear that he wants to know more. and of course, anderson, today it was the day that his medical ....
positive for covid-19 earlier than we knew, just three days before his first debate with joe biden. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with omicron variant. the omicron variant s spread to the united states. let s go immediately to our chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins. what are you learning about the omicron patient in california? yeah, wolf, the california governor says this person started feeling mild symptoms on november 25th, three days later they took a covid test and the next day got a positive result. after that it only took 30 hours for the scientists at the university of california in san francisco to figure out it was omicron. it s what scientists were bracing for. we knew that it was just a matter of time. reporter: the omicron variant now in the united states. this is the first confirmed case of covid-19 caused by the omicron varian ....
and, the chinese property that was facing demolition, whose owner figured out how to stave off the city s bulldozers posters of xijinping pasted on every surface. joe biden is not having a good week the row with the french, the row over spending within his own democratic party, and now a row over the treatment of haitian migrants massed on the southern border. today, as if it wasn t bad enough, the special envoy for haiti quit, citing in his letter of resignation the inhumane policies of the biden administrration which he said were counterproductive . on tuesday, these pictures emerged of border guards on horse back, with lassoos, forcing migrants back towards the rio grande river to the mexican side. over 1000 of the migrants who had crossed have since been flown back to haiti. in his letter, the envoy, daniel foote, said haiti was a collapsed state which could not cope with the return of thousands of people who lacked food and shelter. here who lacked food and ....
downing street parties is submitted by the senior tory mp, tobias ellwood. justice for 26 year old bethany vincent and nine year old darren henson after the man who stabbed them to death is sentenced to a minimum a0 year term. the bbc has been told that households could see cuts in energy bills of about £200 under government plans to ease the impact of soaring prices. medical regulators are consulting on proposals to make one form of hormone replacement therapy available without a prescription. and school s not out in wales with a trial to lengthen the school day by five hours a week. the government is announcing its plans to close the gap between rich and poor areas of the country, as part of its so called levelling up agenda. the policy, which the prime minister has described as a defining mission, will take until 2030 to deliver and aims to tackle regional inequalities and help overlooked communities. there are 12 missions or targets which include: increasing ....