people know that. what i do know is today s going to bea what i do know is today s going to be a lovely autumn day for the vast majority of the country after what s a chilly and misty start. will the fine weather continued into the weekend? i ll let you know here on brea kfast. it s thursday the 18th october. good morning. our top story: theresa may is reported to be ready to delay the uk s transition out of the eu by another year, pushing it to the end of 2021. this would give officials more time to resolve the deadlock over the irish border but would mean the uk would continue to pay contributions to the eu and abide by its rules. we have a full report on that story and speaking live to our correspondent in a few minutes‘ time. commuters at paddington station are facing another day of disruption. engineers have worked through the night to repair overhead power cables which were damaged by a test train on tuesday. correspondent jane frances kelly is at paddington for us no
transit cancellations, in new york city three subway lines completely suspended because so many workers are calling out sick. the new york city police department canceling days off for any officer healthy enough to work. nearly one in three paramedics are out and the fire department is now pleading with new yorkers not to call 911 unless it s a true emergency. and, of course, it s not just new york obliterating covid records, in ohio the number of people hospitalized with covid reaching a pandemic high. the governor ordering more members of the state national guard into hospitals to help with the surge. in florida, meantime, that state breaking its daily case record, reporting nearly 50,000 covid infections yesterday. out west california reporting a 25% jump in covid hospitalizations in just the past week. so a lot to talk about. our stellar team has all the information you need to know. sam brock is in miami, jacob ward in san francisco, gary grumbach in washington, d.c. and
t dot com and on all youtube channel will say soon for the big picture coming your way in just a few moments, i am well back in one hour with a worldly talk to global news headline to join us again with ah, just a year ago we were very ready to avoid 2020 in the rear view mirror. 2021 would certainly be less challenging, right? grab the armrest. the past year may seem tame as this new year unfolds. i m holland cook in washington this week. what happened? and what happens next? in the big picture on our t america? oh i why we love the holidays. i things slowed down if only for a moment and as we reflect on 2020 one s busy blur are there clues about 2022. what s asked michael harrison, publisher of talkers magazine, the trade publication of talk radio and tv and pod casters. again this year michael is here to debut. the talkers 10. the 10 most talked about stories of the year. the 10th most talked about story of 2021 climate change evidence here in washington. as tourists find
translator: it was really dramatic. there were floating bodies and very shocking. we recovered all the people we saw on boats, we recovered six people. all dead? all dead, yes. there was one woman who was pregnant and a young man 18 to 20 years old and the rest were men. reporter: this area of northern france is dotted with groups of people desperate to reach the uk, prepared to pay thousands to smugglers and also to accept great risks. now those risks have come horribly true. adam parsons, sky news, calle. that was sky news adam parsons reporting, an incredible, yoi opening report there. coming up, congress is back in session monday with a laundry list of things to get done. we ll take a look at what is on tap for a deadline filled december. then, few cultural main stays were more impacted by the pandemic than sports. and now the new omicron variant raises questions about what comes next. plus, what is the last time you ve been to a movie theater? with awards
response to fears about the variant. the u.s. and other nations hope that restricting travel from south africa and its neighbors will buy time, as scientists race to learn more about this new variant. cnn s arlette saenz joins me from nantucket, massachusetts, where president biden is spending the weekend. an e.r. doctor i spoke to said we just need to require vaccination for air travel at this point. what do you think? do you think the white house is in any mood for those kinds of restrictions? reporter: well, president biden actually ignored a question kind of along those lines a short while ago while he was out shopping here in nantucket. a reporter on a few occasions shouted a question asking whether more mitigation measures needed to be put in place in response to this variant. the president just kept walking by and did not offer his thoughts on there right there. but the president was briefed earlier in the day by his team, and senior health officials within the biden