led to the january 6th attack on the capitol with key players offering contradictory statements, the question is, how will congress get to the bottom of what happened? and new polling shows a majority of americans, including 60% of republicans, support president biden s covid relief plan. with the bill being so popular, the question is, how exactly do republicans plan to oppose it? it s way too early for this. good morning! and welcome to way too early. i am kasie hunt on this thursday, february 25th. we ll start with the news. we are learning more about the security breakdown behind the january 6th attack on the capitol. according to prepared testimony for a house hearing set for today, acting capitol police chie pittman will tell lawmakers that while violence by an extremist group was likely, quote, it did not identify a specific credible threat. on january 6th, pittman was the assistant chief of police for the department that oversees intelligence and coordinates w
other than to remind you that it s very hard to be charged with murder if they never find a body. anyway. it s great to be back. i hope you all had a great christmas, or if you re like me, a great covid. yeah, i had covid, which was a great way to finish a year that started with me also having covid. so let s do the math here. i know greg is out there saying kat can t do math because he is definitely watching and has definitely not been dead for a week already, and less there s been awful coincidence. so this year i had two covids. i also had two covid shots. two plus two equals four. as in forget about all of this belief. following all the rules and regulations failed me more than the dare program. i am over it and i bet you are too. i mean, i m not the only one who had covid over christmas. lots of people did. unvaccinated people, covid buried vaccinated people, covid. boosted people, also covid. this christmas, covid was more popular then robbing a bloomingdale s with 30
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 third
overseas tonight, the new variant ripping through the uk. this weekend, london seeing the largest number of new cases since the pandemic began. wembley stadium now a mass vaccination center. the netherlands now in a new nationwide lockdown. france cancelling its famed new year s fireworks. and germany shutting its borders to british travelers. and with millions of americans already on the road for the holiday, the tsa screening more than 4 million people since friday alone. many now forced to make the difficult decision of whether to travel this holiday. breaking news in washington. massachusetts senator elizabeth warren announcing just moments ago she has tested positive for covid with a breakthrough case. she says she is experiencing mild symptoms. this, as west virginia senator joe manchin delivered a potentially fatal blow to president biden s domestic agenda. announcing he is a no on the build back better plan. manchin saying he has major concerns about the price