lack of faith in the facts. and a lack of faith to that pledge of allegiance. too many refuse to live the right way. with masks and with restraint, to hold back the variants. as a result, all of us are suffering. covid is rising, again. the cdc director is now warning of impending doom, if we don t work together to ward off a fourth wave. but the vaccine, people say. yes, the vaccine. it matters. but it has always been about time. this tension between vaccine and variants. the numbers tell the story. we have less than 20% of us fully immunized. we need to live right. otherwise, the variants are going to make people sick, hospitalized sick, dead, from being sick. how many, before we can get people vaccinated? you heard the president, today. 90% of adults in america will be eligible to get a shot, by three weeks from now. the question is how many will we let get sick? how many will die, when we are so close, and as a function of our own choices? depends on the question of alleg
this morning new york city mayor bill de blasio announced on nbc the city is implementing a sweeping set of vaccine mandates for all private sector employers as health officials try to limit the spread of the omicron variant. today marks the official start of sweeping new testing requirements for travelers. all air travelers are required to show proof of a negative test taken no more than one day before their flight. meanwhile, the spread of covid domestically is-esque mating. the 7-day average of daily new cases in the u.s. has jumped above 120,000. with more than 1300 deaths on average every single day. those numbers are a sober reminder that so much more work needs to be done to combat the current spread of delta. even as officials work to combat the future spread of omicron. and there are some potential signs of hopeful news on the omicron front with dr. fauci saying yesterday that there has been, quote, encouraging preliminary evidence that omicron infections aren t as s
what does it mean when somebody s defense is bankrolled by righty-fringe political zealots? and they allow a righty-fringe political zealot to embed, to document the process while they go on tv every night advocating for the defendant? listen to what the lawyer told us for kyle rittenhouse about the reality of what was done in this case. the people who were raising money it this defense was crowd funded through donations. but who were the people making the calls act who got to have access to the process? kyle s family and his adviser. the lin woods, the john pierces, who basically, you know, i think were trying to whore this kid out for money, for their own causes. fox pay for that access? did the money guys have a deal with them? this is a problem. that s it for us tonight. don lemon tonight starts right now with its big star, d lemon. i don t care if people get access. you know, i was saying to my team, hey, look. if they wanted to give me access to it, i wo
crisis at the russia/ukraine border. the american ambassador is ready to listen to the russians, but won t be played by them. we are prepared to go in the room and listen to them, but we are not going to be distracted by their propaganda and we are going to be prepared to respond to any disinformation that they attempt to spread during this meeting. meanwhile, house members have been officially notified that there will be an all-member briefing on ukraine thursday afternoon led by u.s. secretary of state tony blinken. cnn s melissa bell is on the ground in kyiv with our top story this morning. melissa, any chance the russians will try to block this emergency u.n. session or do you actually expect they will participate? reporter: well, this is a session that s been called by the united states. we ve heard via twitter from russia s deputy ambassador to the u.n. angrily reacting to the calling of that meeting and suggesting calling on other u.n. security council members to
in this trial. hello, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. we start with that major development in ukraine where thousands of people have been told to evacuate their homes after kyiv accused russian forces of blowing up a major dam, threatening a catastrophic flood. this video tweeted by ukraine s president zelensky shows the breached kakhovka hydro electric dam. he has accused russia of blowing up the dam to slow its offensive by making it harder to cross the dnipro river. russia says ukraine is to blame. this dam is over the dnieper river, between areas controlled by russian and ukrainian armies in the south of ukraine and there are fears for the cooling capacity at the nearby zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant the biggest one in europe. regardless of who or what caused the breach it has potentially deadly consequences for towns and villages in the path of the water. bbc verify has established there was already s