dangerous movements in america. it happened so quickly, being a totally apolitical person to a person dying for donald trump. a person dying for donald trump. i hate to have to do this, but we have sad breaking news from hollywood. the associated press is reporting that legendary actress betty white has died at the age of 99. she was the longest running woman on television. but there was so much more than television. she began her career on the radio in the 1940s, then tv in the 1950s, starring in more shows than i have fingers on high hands. her most famous, rows nylund on the golden girls, which ran on nbsz from 1982 to 1992. then there were the move east. so many. just the other day, her proposal co-star ryan reynolds joked that he was still holding out for her, ready for betty white to give upmer crush on robert redford, for him. she was beloved, and only weeks away from her 100th birthday, which was on january 17th. so let us take a moment to celebrate the remark
forced. the new executive memo issued by president biden i had no legal effect. speaking of the president will be ringing in the new year at home in wilmington, delaware, as americans spend countless hours and long lines testing for covid. the administration scrambles to distribute home testing kits around the country for the demand. the cdc director michelle is taking heat tonight for suggesting the agency new quarantine isolation guideline for asymptomatic cases more closely follows behavioral science. it really had a lot to do with we thought people would be able to tolerate. leading to more confusion help officials in michigan announcing the state will not follow the updated cdc guidance opting to keep current recommendations while they wait for more information from the cdc. we began tonight with ghislaine maxwell sex trafficking trial period and found guilty on five oh six federal charges against her including recruiting teenage girls to be sexually assaulted by jef
reporting on the cdc s decisions to relax guidelines as cases hit record numbers. plus, we ll have the renewed questions of what constitutes being fully vaccinated. good morning, welcome to morning joe, it s thursday, december 30th, i am willie geist, with us the host of way too early, jonathan lemire and susan docille. good morning, guys. first, the verdict of the trial of jeffery epstein s long time associate, ghislaine maxwell found guilty yesterday. reporter: the jury found maxwell guilty including five charges and sex trafficking of minors and carries 40 years behind bars. today justice has been done. reporter: prosecutors called two dozen witnesses. four women who say they were recruited and groomed and lured by maxwell when they were teenagers so they can be sexually abused by epstein. epstein was able to sexual abuse young girls because maxwell was the key to the whole operation. jurors were reminded that she lived with him for years and referred to the lady
good to be with you again. i m katy tur. as our second year of living with the pandemic draws to a close, there s a new worrisome variant causing a record number of new cases but there s the question of whether we should be using different metrics to determine how bad this is. the u.s. seven-day case average right now is at an all-time high with a daily caseload nearly twice that of the worst days of last winter. 300,000 a day and surely a whole lot more that have not been officially reported or confirmed. what s worse, the peak, according to dr. fauci, could be several weeks away. yes, cases are spiking at a dizzying race, but the caseload is not matching an equally dizzying hospitalization spike. new cases up 60% in the past week, new hospitalizations up 14%. covid related deaths are actually down. that s right, down by 7%. still, cities like cincinnati and baltimore are declaring states of emergency while new york s incoming mayor suggests it s time to pivot into a new nor
long time senate majority leader harry reid, her former colleague, his wife of 62 years announced in a statement that reid passed away peacefully while surrounded by friends following what she called a courageous four-year bat well pancreatic cancer. combative but soft spoken, reid was elected to the united states senate in 1986 after serving two terms in the house of representatives. he held the role of senate majority leader from 2007 to 2015 and was a pivotal figure on capitol hill touring the administration s of both george w. bush and barack obama. president biden worked for two decades in the senate and eight years while vice president paid tribute to a person he called a great american and a dear friend. in a statement the president wrote if harry said he would do something, he did it. if he gave you his word, you could bank on it. that s how he got things done for the good of the country for decades. president biden also listed a number of reid s accomplishments inc