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a.m. pacific on this thursday, december 23rd. we begin with breaking news. doctors have two new weapons at their disposal to help treat patients at high risk with covid-19. moments ago the fda granted an emergency use authorization for a drug made by merck designed to keep people with mild to moderate symptoms out of the hospital, just one day after it granted similar approval for a drug produced by fiz per. pfizer. two days before christmas the omicron variant is responsible for almostfections with the u.s. seeing more than 200,000 cases a day since september. one in eight comes from new york and this is new video of another day of long, long lines in new york city as people wait in the cold for hours just to get tested. with omicron surge, isn t stopping tens of millions of americans from traveling to visit friends and families this holiday. so if you are deciding to stick with your holiday plans, health officials are urging you to be responsible. get vaccinated. ge ....
you start to ask yourself that. to clear the mental restore sanity, we are going to return to what we actually know which is to say to the facts here is the most important fact and american politics. democrats cannot continue to ru the united states of america. they ask him at democrats get elected president with 33 percent of the hispanic vote. or with the matter with 43 percent or with that 53 percent. oil as the answer, no chance. it s impossible. this is a huge change for what most people thought. certainly with democrats thoughts thought. they sincerely believe they wer the party of repressed racial minorities. that was the whole point of thae party, and weirdly, republican leaders seem to accept it as true, but actually it turns out it wasn t true at all. the democratic party is not thea party of the repressed racial minority. and pretty lament only entitled white liberals. democratic donors live in aspen and martha s vineyard in bel ai , democratic voters live in ....
more now on the uk where prime minister borisjohnson has warned he won t hesitate to introduce further covid measures in england, as cases of the omicron variant continue to surge ahead of christmas. over 91,000 covid cases were reported across the uk on monday, the second highest daily total on record. the government s scientific advisers say new restrictions may be required very soon. and some in the business world are preparing for further measures and calling for urgent action. over 100,000 retail hospitality and leisure businesses have called on government to provide more financial support. joining me now isjeevun sandher an economist at kings college of london. welcome college of london. to the programme. the hospitality firms are calling for immediate help from the government, with only a few days left before christmas, is it too late? many in that sector are saying we are in a lockdown already. we very much. let s be clear, it is absolutely everybody s inter ....
sf reporter: america, bracing for a tough winter that is beginning to look a lot like last winter. in the midst of a delta surge, the new omicron variant accounting for 3% of cases but spreading fast. this virus is extraordinary. it has a doubling time of anywhere from two to three days. it is going to take over. reporter: and with just over 60% of the country fully vaccinated, the white house warning of a season of severe illness for the unvaccinated. the u.s. now averaging 1200 deaths aday. and 130,000 new covid cases a day, up 10% from a week ago. hospitalizations nationwide up 35% over last month. intensive care unit beds 80% full. cases rising much faster in parts of the midwest, the south and the northeast. ohio s governor deploying over a thousand national guard members to over stretched hospitals there. in miami, a royal caribbean cruise ship docking over the weekend with 48 people testing positive for covid. new york setting a record for new cases for the ....
that s the message. plus, biden s year end agenda falls short leaving a 2022 scramble. it s healthy that the senators are going home to egg nog and fruitcake. maybe that will improve their attitudes. more evidence that the trump coup attack was real. how we address this is a moral test of our generation. biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to inside politics sunday i m phil mattingly in for abby phillip. it is a sobering sunday for what we think could be the biggest covid wave yet. it s a tsunami coming. this omicron variant is extraordinarily contagious. it s as contagious as measles and that s about the most contagious virus we ve seen. this may be the most contagious virus that civilization has faced in our lifetimes. if you want to get a sense of what the doctor is talking about, look at the cases in the u.k. and denmark. they fear those are what s coming here. the world health organization says omicron can double about every ....