Tomorrow ill be 18 seconds later. We begin with the Breaking News on the pandemic. This Omicron Variant Of Covid first hit the United States officially. We can tell you now it is spreading. It has now been formally confirmed and found in three states, california, colorado and minnesota. What do doctors make of this new variant . Well, we will ask the doctor who treated the very first omicron case in the United States. He joins us in a moment. As for those three states with the variant, experts view this as a floor. They expect more spread on the way. Indeed, the person who has it in minnesota had traveled recently to New York City to a very large Anime Convention in late november. As it happens, we have a photo. About 50,000 people were there celebrating, discussing, learning, doing all the anime things. And given that crowd and what is known about variants, the mayor of new york says they are operating as if there is already Community Spread of the variant in New York City. Now, many
Hip-hop. an officer kills a 60-year-old man in a wheelchair nine times. we have that coming up. r nine times we have that coming up like pulsing, electric shocks, sharp, stabbing pains, or an intense burning sensation. what is this nightmare? it s how some people describe. shingles. a painful, blistering rash that could interrupt your life for weeks. forget social events and weekend getaways. if you ve had chickenpox, the virus that causes shingles is already inside of you.
Or closing schools. that s a break with some of the permanent closures in parts of europe and with some of the first wave responses to covid last year. this is one of those times that may feel like deja vu, but the problem with deja vu is feeling like we re living with the same thing again. in a very real sense we are not, because there are things we don t yet know about the mutated version with this variant. we ll get into that with our experts, but also because there are things we didn t know two years ago. indeed, one of the things that was worse besides the pain and depth of how little we knew about covid was how little we knew what to do. one thing the president said is there is much more known how to take care of yourself, your family and your community as we go into what may be the third year of the covid era. i want to bring in presidential candidate howard dean. he will be joined, as mentioned, by another doctor shortly.
Probably more so than some players, it runs on muscle, it runs on players. i think they have to be reminded that you are nothing nothing without players. and i think that hopefully tony clark will mobilize the players from top to bottom if we just stick together. if we just stick together, we can get what we want, because without us there is no gain. and they sound like that is the plan. bill rhoden, thank you for spending time with us. it s so nice to see you. and thank you to all of you for letting us in your homes in these extraordinary times. the beat with mari elber starts right now. i owe you 18 seconds.
Give your business the gift of savings today. comcast business. powering possibilities. a disturbing story out of arizona, a policeman shot a man in a wheelchair nine times, killing him. this was caught on tape. they intended to shoot the man. the victim, 63-year-old william richards. they say he stole a toolbox and flashed a knife when he was confronted. the captions were added, we should note, by police, and a warning. the excerpt is disturbing.