our darling, you don t need this. i am your mirror- darling, you don t need this. i am your mirror. how darling, you don t need this. i am your mirror. how do darling, you don t need this. i am your mirror. how do i darling, you don t need this. i am your mirror. how do i look? - your mirror. how do i look? fabulous- it s absolutely fabulous forjoanna lumley who is made a dame, whilst the outgoing james bond daniel craig is made a cmg. in sport, husband and wife jason and laura kenny are made a knight and a dame for services to cycling. the president of south africa pays tribute to desmond tutu as the spiritual father of our new nation . and the archbishop s daughter also spoke movingly at his funeral. we say, thank you, daddy, for the many ways you showed us love, for the many times you challenged us, for the many times you comforted us. today is officially the hottest new year s day on record with temperatures reaching 16.2 degrees in st james s park in cen
i m alison morris in for craig melvin. we prepare to ring in the new year, and the number of covid cases raging across the country. for the second day in a row the u.s. is shattering its own record with more than 584,000 cases on thursday. plus in colorado fast-moving wildfires have destroyed nearly 600 homes. look at that. and forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate. the governor declaring a state of emergency and president biden warning russian president vladimir putin to deescalate tensions with ukraine during a phone call on thursday, saying if moscow takes military action yrks the u.s. and its allies will respond decisively. we begin this hour with the coronavirus. the number of cases skyrocketing. over 54 million covid cases in the u.s. since the pandemic started. that s according to the latest nbc news tally. the faa is warning of more airline delays today because of the omicron variant and the weather. saying that an increased number of faa employees have tes
of emergency. this was a disaster in fast motion. all over the course of a half day. nearly all the damage. many families having minutes, minutes to get whatever they could, their pets, their kids into the car and leave. this is our community, and to watch it burn so quickly, so unexpectedly, it s something that i think we re all just struggling to believe and understand. among the communities dealing with the most devastation from the fire is the town of lewisville which was evacuated entirely. i m now joined by the mayor of lewisville. mayor, thank you for being with us and our condolences to you and your community. thank you for helping us get the word out. what does the town look like right now? well, the good news is i m looking outside, and it s snowing. and so that s really welcome to see to help put out the remaining fires. there are sections of town that just it s undescribable. it s unimaginable, the devastation and tragedy that we re seeing. how much
christmas specials starting with the grinch who stole christmas. the annual christmas specials were an event. when you first see that advertisement like. frosty the snowman returns tuesday night. was that on once. missed it, you were screwed. mom, mom can we watch that, can we watch that? mom? on sunday, december 4th, burl ives again tells the exciting new story of rudolph the red nosy reindeer. i was obsessed with clay nation. rudolph the red-nosed reindeer was the pinnacle. loved that show. tells the story of rudolph based on the show redorsal outsider. burial ives as the snowman, the elf. remember him? the castoff. i want to be a dentist. it s a lucrative business given that your boss santa gets paid in cookies. and of course you have clay immigration thing in the history of he. still scary. to this day when that face comes on errr. rudolph the red-nosed reindeer has run every year since 1964. making it the longest running christmas special. act
president putin again insists the west must give russia guarantees that nato won t expand eastwards to admit ukraine; and says he s initiated high level talks with the us. translation: if we are plunged in a conflict? i but we don t want that. it is not our choice. this is why i responded to president biden s proposal. the ball is in their court now and they should respond, and coming up, rescue footage emerges of two babies being pulled alive from the rubble of kentucky s tornado last week and handed over to their grandmother. praise god! hello and welcome. tighter restrictions against coronavirus have come into effect in some european countries amid concerns over the highly infectious omicron variant that continues to spread rapidly. there s a fear that a wave of omicron infections could overwhelm health services, despite preliminary studies suggesting that omicron is milder and that the risk of being hospitalised is up to 75% lower. we ll look at mainland europe in a momen