Contact tracing is largely gone. I think and i believe that we should be treating every case as if its a variant during this pandemic right now. The good news according to dr. Anthony fauci is Johnson Johnsons new singledose vaccine could help get more people vaccinated and prevent severe disease and hospitalizations as the virus continues to mutate and replicate. We have now a valueadded additional vaccine candidate. This is a singleshot vaccine in which you start to see efficacy anywhere from 7 to 10 days. It is inexpensive and the company is capable of making doses in the numbers of billions. Joining me now nbc news chief White House Correspondent and Weekend Today cohost Kristen Welker. Dr. Celine gounder, a member of bidens Advisory Board during the transition. And patrice harris, former president of the american medical association. Kristen, how difficult is it proving for the biden team with such a short transition, if any, to get their arms around the shortage of doses and the
International analyst for msnbc news, and the host of way too early, White House Bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, happy new year to you all. Happy new year to you. Happy new year. We have so much to talk about. New year yesterday morning, mika and i went to a new Years Day Service, and the priest gave a homily on the need to be architects of peace in our daily lives and political discourse, and Foreign Policy and everything. The harsh path we have taken in our not so new century is elevated, revenge over reconciliation. And reminded us for all of us in attendance, and i love this. Its a good one. He said start by digging two graves. One of them for yourselves. Yeah. Wow, that really does strike you when you look whats happening in washington over the past 20 years because i really do believe, mika, we live in two americas. One that has seen Childhood Poverty has dropped to 60 year lows, and teenage pregnancy drop to 70year lows. Its in the u. S. World dollar and anytime over
times of tragedy in times of crisis, they stand up and they show up. mississippi s governor visits a town flattened by a powerful tornado for the neighborhoods that were leveled . the recovery is only just beginning. political turmoil in israel, benjamin netanyahu is under pressure from his own government to halt plans on judicial reform. now we re hearing an announcement on that could be imminent. we alive in televisa and jerusalem. with the latest and the manhattan grand jury is expected to continue its investigation and donald trump later today we will ask our political analyst if an indictment is likely. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom. with rosemary church. good to have you with us, and we begin this hour in the southeastern us, where millions are under the threat of more severe storms, bringing large hail and damaging winds to areas already struggling to recover from an earlier rash of storms over the weekend, at least 10 confirmed. tornadoes strike mississip
tornadoes kill at least two dozen people in the southeast, and the severe storm threat isn t over yet. and nukes next door, vladimir putin now says he ll put tactical nuclear weapons right on ukraine s doorstep in belarus. all right. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin with the crisis in israel , where the country s main airport just halted all takeoffs . it s part of a general strike called for just a short time ago by israel s largest labor union . the aim is to stop benjamin netanyahu s government from pushing through a highly controversial judicial overhaul what one labor leader called quote this craziness. right street. protests against that plan have intensified huge crowds filling the streets of tele viv after netanyahu fired his defense minister. for opposing the overhaul. cnn s had asked. gold is live in jerusalem this morning. what are we hearing from prime minister netanyahu this morning had asked nothing
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