where any new variant is discovered. signs of progress are leading to ease red d restrictions followea surge. still, cases higher than they were during any of the summer surges even as numbers decline. the u.s. is still reporting nearly 65,000 new cases and more than a thousand deaths per day. more than 67,000 americans are currently in the hospital fighting this virus. but, again, these case numbers are much lower than what we saw last month. going by the 7-day average, new cases dropped 58.5%, hospitalizations dropped 44%. moments ago the world health organization talking about it like this. so far this year, the number of weekly reported cases has fallen by almost half, from more than 5 million cases in the week of january 4 to 2.6 million cases in the week starting february 8. just five weeks. this shows that simple public health measures work, even in the presence of variants. what matters now is how we respond to this trend. the fire is not out, but we have reduced it
right now. we need federal laws that guarantee the freedom and right of every american to have access to the ballot to be able to vote. the john lewis voting rights act, the freedom to vote act address that issue and those are the issues that are present and are imminent and that are really dispositive frankly of this moment in time in terms of whether we are going to fight for some of the most important pillars of democracy is up as the freedom to vote and free and far election. so let us pass those two pieces of legislation and ensure through federal law that all americans have meaningful access to the polls. good morning, welcome to the cross connection. as you all know, thursday more juan year since january 6th insurrection happened here in washington. it is a sobering reminder the current threat to democracy requires real tangible change. we begin today with crucial legislation that has a direct impact on your life the build back better act and federal voting
hotels and airbnbs saying washington is being inundated with people who don t want to see an election victory stolen. our country has had enough. they won t take it anymore. we hear you and love you from the oval office. trump put a target scarily on mike pence s back claiming his vice president had the power to reject fraud chosen electors and we know where he was getting the wild idea. there were at least four memos circulating among trump s inner circle and all of them proposed a version of the same unprecedented scheme to pressure pence and get enough republican house and senate members to reject democratic votes all january 6th. certification day, that the election would have to be decided by congress where republicans held the upper hand instead of by the electoral college. these plots may have been dressed up in legal and sports metaphors but represented nothing less than a coup and based on the same false claim s trump s donald trump of justice headed by a hinchman wi
administration is taking to combat it. the white house still has not offered comprehensive details about its plan to distribute half a billion tests for free. joining me now is dr. vivek murthy. how much higher do you think it will go and when will it peak? well, john, you know, it is troubling to see these numbers, to see how high the cases are going, to know our hospitalizations have increased like this. unfortunately this is the consequence of an extraordinary transmissible variant, the omicron variant. as troubling as this is and as tough as the next few weeks may be there is something important we have been learning during this experience and that is that our vaccines, especially when combined with boosters, have remained extremely effective at keeping people out of the hospital and it is saving their lives. it is why we have been encouraging people to get vaccinated and boosted. when i talk to doctors in the emergency room and colleagues in hospitals around the coun
thought it would be solved but app apparently they have the suspect today. the news overnight police arrested in suspect. a mere 20 minute drive from the beach where the bodies were found. the killings date back to december of 2010. that is when police found the bodies of four women, the remains all wrapped in burr lap and left on the beach. dana: police later found the bodies of six more people. that brought the total to ten. all of them found murdered on the same small beach fueling fears of a serial killer. let s get to lauren green to try to figure out what we think we know at the moment. just as you say this has been the most intense investigation for a supposed serial killer on long island for more than a decade. police joined by the f.b.i. have been searching for the suspect in the murders. this morning they made an arrest. witnesses say a swarm of police vehicles surrounded a home on new york s long island and took a suspect into custody with the connection of