home as covid-19 cases increase across the nation. more than 13 million americans have been diagnosed at over 2,000 americans are dying every day from the virus. as states brace for an uptick in cases due to holiday gatherings the nation s most populous county, los angeles county, is set to impose strict stay at home rules that will take effect tomorrow. meanwhile, health way be on the way as the first doses of pfizer s 1ir9 vaccines are headed to the u.s. from belgium, but keep in mind a vaccine isn t expected for wide distribution until later 2021. a cdc panel will meet on tuesday to decide how the initial supplies of the vaccine will be allocated. joining me now emergency room physician and california congressman and a good friend raul ruiz, cardiologist dr. bernard ashby on the committee to protect medicare, dr. mercedes carnethon from northwestern university and dr. corey hebert, former co-chair of the louisiana governor s covid-19 minority task force. we should also not
admitted the january 6th plot. we have two lawyers to break down some of the implications of that later tonight. there s also been a lot of news and reaction. also, shawn hannity s leaked text to the white house causing all kinds of ripples. we will get into that and exactly what he and his team are saying which is pretty interesting. we begin where america is right now, hours away from the anniversary of that stain on our democracy. the insurrection. a year later the fact finding and push for accountability continues on two tracks. there is a congressional committee that can look at basically everything, including how to prevent anyone that would stage in our coup and then the prosecutions in the federal department of justice. right now a former trump press secretary stephanie bishop who has plenty of knowledge about the propaganda, lies, claims, electioneering, all of what was going on in the white house including up to january 6th, she is actually meeting with the committe
after crossing the 54 million mark. cases are piling up at lightning speed now. we ve been averaging 1 million new cases every few days. the fastest at any point in this pandemic. and it s presenting new testing challenges. in fact, take a look at this shot of massachusetts from a few hours ago. lines of cars. stretching as far as the eye can see. who would have thought we d see something like this as we close in on nearly two years of this pandemic? coming up, i ll talk to a massachusetts doctor about what s happening there. we ll also dig into this nationwide testing headache. also apocalyptic. that is the only way to describe this snow-studded burned out aftermath from the wildfires in colorado. we ll have the latest on the ground there. and in just the last 15 minutes, chuck schumer released a letter calling the need to pass voting rights legislation urgent. he ties it to january 6th. he s calling for change to senate rules. will that happen, though? more on that coming u
i m highly concerned that omicron, being more transmissible, circulating at the same time as delta, is leading to a tsunami of cases. people in the uk are left waiting days for covid pcr testing following high demand and pharmacists warn of patchy supplies of rapid test kits. the european court of human rights urges russia to suspend the shutdown of the country s oldest human rights group. and prayers and thanksgiving in soweto, followed by an interfaith memorial service in cape town celebrating the life of archbishop desmond tutu. hello, and welcome to bbc news. borisjohnson has urged everyone in the uk to get their boosterjab he says 90% of people currently in intensive care beds with covid had not received their third vaccine. his comments come as new figures show more than 10,000 people in england are in hospital with covid, the highest number since march. meanwhile, doctors and pharmacists in the uk are warning of variable supplies of covid tests, because of a big ri
ceremony in cape town. now on bbc news, it s time for weather world. sarah keith lucas and nick miller find out how climate change is affecting the scottish ski industry and look back at 2021 s biggest storms. this time on weather world, i m in scotland, the country that hosted the 2021 cop climate summit. and even though i ve come to one of the coldest and snowiest parts of the country, the cairngorms ski area, it faces its own challenges as our world warms. i ll be talking to the people whose livelihoods depend on winter snow here, even if sometimes they have to make it themselves. the factory produces four tonnes an hour, so in just under a month that s about 3,000 tonnes. and i m in london, where, like many major cities around the world, mass transport systems are facing up to the threat of flash flooding. and i ll be asking what can be done to keep travellers safe in extreme rainfall. also on weather world, sudden and savage disaster in the usa, hit by one of its large