esteemed panel. zerlina maxwell, hurst of zerlina on peacock. host of msnbc s island and, republican strategist. let s go right to the first revvie award. the ridicu-list. these are events i can t believe happened, as bizarre as 2021 was. here are few of the picks we have, to give a start. facebook goes meta, stuck in the suez, and trump the blog. facebook s name change, the social network found itself under fire, from the right and left over user privacy and rampant misinformation. mark zuckerberg decides the solution, is to re-brand the company to meta. i don t know exactly what the meta verse is, i m guessing it has something to do with having your head in the clouds. or, how about that ship that got stuck, four days in the suez canal? disrupting trade routes, all over the world. it seemed like a random event, back in march. but, little did we know, it was a preview of global shipping tie ups, and even a shortage of christmas trees, this holiday season. finally, donald t
with that, let s bring in our esteemed panel. maxwell, most of zerlina on peacock. host of msnbc s, and elise jordan, republican strategist. let s go right to the first revvie award, the ridicu-list. these are the events that i still can t believe happened in a year as bizarre as 2021. here are a few of my picks to get us started. facebook goes meta. stuck in the suez. and trump: the blog. facebook s name changed. the social network found its under fire from the right and the left over user privacy and rampant misinformation, and mark zuckerberg decides the solution is to rebrand the company to meta. i don t know exactly what the metaverse is, but i m guessing it has something to do with having your head in the clouds or how about that ship that got stuck for days in the suez canal? disrupting trade routes all over the world, it seemed like a random event back in march, but little did we know it was a preview of global shipping tie-ups and even a shortage of christmas trees
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
charge of the trump investigations. the incoming manhattan da talks exclusively to cnn. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper. we start with the health lead and covid cases spiking across the u.s. we re now averaging 130,000 every day. that s up 10% in a week. hospitalizations are also up about 35% in the last month. with about 1 in 5 of all icu beds in this country taken up by a covid patient. health officials warn the highly contagious omicron variant will soon be responsible for most cases. but for now, it s that other superspreader, the delta variant, driving this december surge. athena jones reports drugmaker moderna has encouraging news about its boosters and the fight against omicron. it is going to be a tough few weeks to months as we get deeper into the winter. reporter: america, bracing for a tough winter that s beginning to look a lot like last winter. already in the midst of a delta surge, the new omicron variant accounting for just unde
bringing you some of the most significant and memorable moments this past year. and what a year it s been? with that, let s bring in our esteemed panel. zerlina maxwell, host of zerlina on peacock. ayman mohyeldin, host of msnbc s ayman. and elise jordan, republican strategist. let s go right to the first revvie award. the ridicu-list. these are the events that i still can t believe happened in the year as bizarre as 2021. here are a few of my picks to get us started. facebook goes meta. stuck in the suez. and trump: the blog. facebook s name change. the social network found itself under fire from the right and the left over user privacy and rampant misinformation. and mark zuckerberg decides the solution is to re-brand the country to meta. i don t know exactly what the metaverse is, but i m guessing it has something to do with having your head in the clouds. or how about that ship that got stuck for days in the suez canal? disrupting trade routes all over the world, it seeme