group but you cannot actively participate in it. we will have to see in the coming months whether that makes a fundamental difference on any trend that develops on extremism in the ranks. victor. barbara starr, thank you. top of the hour, i m victor blackwell, good to be with you. five days now until christmas, and the pandemic is taking what experts are calling a grim path forward. today the u.s. is averaging more than 130,000 new infections a day. that s a 10% increase over a week ago. new york, an early epicenter of the pandemic has seen record positive case numbers for three days in a row. mayor bill de blasio says he will decide this week whether to go forward with new york s famed new year s eve celebration in times square. cnn s jason carroll is with me now. what more are we learning from the mayor, also the governor today as they move forward on this new surge? the mayor is saying a couple of things. first and foremost, he said earlier today that there are no pl
meteorological association says climate change propelled earth into uncharted territory. new data shows the past seven years are on track to be the warmest on record while this year alone the global sea left rise accelerated to a new high happening before our eyes. ahead of the summit the white house announced a plan to get the u.s. to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 202050. kaitlan collins is following all of us this edinburgh. president bide listen speak shortly. i wonder reality check here. what are the expectations? hard commitments? reporter: that s the big question. doesn t seem there are hard commitments yet. the overall message at the white house is trying to have president biden portrayed to the other world leaders the united states is serious about confronting climate change . you ve seen john kerry meeting with other world leaders and deputies to talk about this. that is essential lir the overarching message of this speech you ll hear from president bide
this is where brian allegedly went to september 13 for a hike, never came back home. his parents have believed that that is where he may be found, and here s what we re learning from steve bertolino who is the laundrie family attorney. he s saying last night that the parents decided they were going to go out to the reserve today to search, and that they told the fbi and northport police they were going to do that, and this morning that the parents, along with law enforcement, found, quote, some articles belonging to brian. that is all we know. we don t know what they were, we don t know how significant they could be, we don t know when they would have been left by brian. but the medical examiner has been called to the scene as well as pasco county cadaver dog has been called to the scene, plus two spotters. the cadaver dog was called this morning. we don t know what time this morning at all, we don t know if they made a hit or what activity they have done, but this is a devel
know this will be a different fight in the east. it will be a more consolidated russian forceful one where they have more fire power, more raw strength focused into a specific geographic area. but they ll be going up against ukrainians, the most experienced ukrainian troops. and they are confident they can hold out if they get the support they need from western allies. the military weapons and such. today putin met with the austrian chancellor, carl, for 75 minutes in moscow. he says it was not a friendly visit. he is not particularly optimistic from the talks. what do you make of the face to face meeting? he is the first to meet since the start of the war. austria is militarily neutral. but as the chancellor says, not morally neutral. this is a chancellor only yesterday was talking with streets of bucha, seeing for himself the aftermath of russia s occupation. so his messages to putin were blunt. effectively, this is on you. there must be accountability for war crime. th
in washington that we ve seen in some time and it confirms our worst fears about the biden team. but first, beijing silent screams that s the focus ofed tonight s @ngel now. right now it s safe to concludea that most elites in the united states believe joe rogan is a bigger threat to their way of life thann the chinese dictator xi jinping.at they go to great lengths, after all, to avoid the uncomfortable facts about china s torture and subjugation of the and of course all the political dissidents they ll say something like, well, it s a complex situation in china. it s s a different history, a different culture. and if you know we weren t making money there, someone else woulde. but our joe rogan, they never pull their punches and how dangerous he is and how dangerous his podcast some aging musicians will stop their gnarly feet pushing and pushing to get him bannedng from spotify. others will demand red flag warnings are required wherever he s heard. and of course, the radica