times square. have a great day. right now on "america this morning," paying respect. president biden and the first lady arrive unannounced at a solemn ceremony at the u.s. capitol paying tribute to the officer who lost his life in the january 6th attack. this morning, the new move to make the capitol safer and the new arguments on president trump's impeachment trial. what his lawyers are now claiming. a new mutation of the coronavirus causing concern as the uk variant mutates once again. will the vaccine still work? what experts are saying and this morning, the plan to ship the vaccine straight to local pharmacies. our medical expert weighs in. the new warning about a special feature on tiktok. and major privacy concerns. what parents need to know. the jeff bezos bombshell.

the man who reinvented retail stepping down as ceo of amazon. we look back at how he built his empire and what he's doing next. and from a shadowy groundhog day scandal to dolly parton changing her 9 to 5 hours. ♪ working to 9 to 5 ♪ ♪ what a way to make a living ♪ >> to the florida man you have to see to believe. all the trending stories for your wednesday morning. good wednesday morning, everyone. the big story overnight, that emotional ceremony at the u.s. capitol paying tribute to fallen police officer brian sicknick. >> president biden and first lady dr. jill biden made an unannouncevit to the capitol rotunda to pay his respects to officer sicknick. we have a live report from washington in a moment. we want to begin with the pandemic and a new discovery overseas. >> a more contagious variant of

the coronavirus has mutated once again. experts are worried this will impact the effectiveness of the vaccines. also overnight investigators from the world health organization visited the lab in wuhan, china, that's been the center of speculation about the origins of the coronavirus. the team gathering data and searching for clues more than one year after the virus spread around the world. this morning an urgent push to vaccinate against the coronavirus before mutations take hold. doctors in england say a more contagious strain that originated in that country has mutated again and appears vaccines are less effective against the variant. similar to the variant first found in south africa. >> it's a very stressful situation. >> reporter: in the u.s. infections and hospitalizations are dropping. california reported 12,000 new cases tuesday, the lowest daily case count since thanksgiving. but dr. anthony fauci is sounding the alarm about the next six weeks because of the virus mutations now spreading. >> when you have that much virus circulating, you're going to get a lot of mutations, no doubt about it.

it's almost a race here of trying to suppress the level of replication before we get so many accumulation of both the south african and other mutants as well as mutants of our own. >> reporter: the cdc says 32 million americans have received the vaccine but winter weather on the east coast has slowed the process. the storm canceling 10,000 vaccine appointments in connecticut alone but access to doses will soon expand. the biden administration announcing 1 million vaccine doses will be sent to more than 6,000 pharmacies across the country beginning next week. >> this is a critical step to provide the public with convenient, trusted places to get vaccinated in their communities. >>epte ste and local guidelines will determine who is eligible to get a shot at their neighborhood pharmacy and availability will be limited at first. in the meantime, a new study claims people who have already recovered from covid may only need one vaccine dose. >> that's very encouraging news

and i think that if it bears up with further study, it would give us an opportunity to use our doses of vaccine even better. but we need to keep tracking those data and make sure that that is really true before we start recommending just one dose to people. >> and it's not just the u.s. where covid cases are falling. global cases are down 13% in the last week but virus mutations could reverse that progress. for nour president biden is sticking with his nearly $2 trillion covid relief plan saying the republicans' $600 billion proposal is too small. coromise now says democrats have csen vestigation into a sh that left two agents dead. officials say a suspect opened fire at this apartment complex near ft. lauderdale as the agents were trying to serve a warrant in a child pornography case. 43-year-old agent laura schwartzenberger,

ermother of two was killedloth3a the morning, you want to come home so now you have two people who can't go home to their families today. that's what broke our heart. >> both agents specialized in investigating crimes against children. officials say the suspect took his own life. now to the impeachment of former president trump. his lawyers are outlining their arguments claiming next week's trial is unconstitutional and democrats are already fighting back because they pushed to convict trump and potentially ban him from ever running from office again and say trump aimed a, quote, loaded cannon of his supporters at the capitol. faith abubey is in washington with the latest including that emotional ceremony at the capitol. faith, good morning. >> reporter: tresident sayinhe singularly responsible for that deadly capitol siege. this morning a somber

remembrance inside the u.s. capitol rotunda, the cremated remains of an american hero lying in honor. the first family paying their final respects to fallen capitol police officer brian sicknick killed in the january 6th insurrection. hours earlier house impeachment managers formally declaring it was former president donald trump who was singularly en attack that left five dead including the officer adding it was a betrayal of historic proportions. >> trump engaged in high crimes and misdemeanors by inciting violence against the government of the united states. >> reporter: in the 80-page brief filed tuesday, democrats referencing trump's own words just before the insurrection. >> you'll never take back our edo er the h weakness. or sr presand ai them le loed cann wn pennsylvania avenue. >> and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. >> reporter: the impeachment manager citing these videos

obtained by just security showing the crowd responding to trump in realtime. >> take the capitol right now. >> reporter: the president's legal team directly pushing back in their own 14-page response denying that trump violated his oath of office while suggesting an impeachment trial to convict a former president is unconstitutional. >> the judge and jury has already announced publicly that the defendant must be convicted in this case. >> reporter: the documents also foreshadowing trump's attorneys' plans to defend his false and baseless claims they won the election and now one of trump's most loyal allies, my pillow ceo mike lindell in a fiery exchange on 9 conservative cable channel newsmax. >> we have all the elections -- >> reporter: the hosts attempting to interview lindell

and twitter suspending permanently his account but voicing his baseless allegations that voting systems somehow rigged the election against trump. >> you're talking about machines that we at newsmax have not been able to verify any of those kinds of allegations. we just want to let people know that there's nothing substantive that we've seen. >> i'm reviewing all the evidence on friday. all the election election fraud that these machines -- so i'm sorry if you don't think it's real. >> can i ask our producers, can we get out of here, please? i don't want to have to keep going over this. >> mike, mike, hold on one second. let's talk a little bit. >> reporter: that impeachment trial begins next tuesday. 17 gop senators would need to join all of the democrats in order to convict trump. rng unl kenneth. >> faith abubey there in washington, thank you. a new move to improve security at the capitol. house lawmakers will now be fined if they bypass the metal detectors installed after the capitol attack. it's $5,000 for the first offense. house republicans are reportedly delaying a decision

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♪ time to check "the pulse." we begin with a shadowy scandal surrounding groundhog day. >> we are not talking about punxsutawney phil. but a new traditiont ad n yorpost rep o ys at groundhog ceremony and never told viewers that it wasn't live. >> so pandemic of th. people wondered why it looked so beautiful with no snow in sight while we had 17 inches on the ground. >> leave it to a storm to ruin your plan. next the producers of "jeopardy!" announced a new round of guest hots. lots of broadcasters, anderson

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checking the top stories, scientists say the british variant of the coronavirus has mutated in england. the discovery of another mutation is fueling concern about the effectiveness of the vaccines. capitol police officer brian sicknick is lying in honor of the u.s. capitol, the building he gave his life defending during last month's siege. president biden and the first lady paid respects. alejandro mayorkas was sworn in as homeland security secretary. he's the first latino and first ll lead a task force to reunite families separated at the border. more than 1,000 protesters have been detained in russia after putin critic alexei navalny was sentenced to prison. he drew a heart on the glass for his wife as he was sentenced. today's weather, a storm brings rain and heavy mountain snow from the west coast to the rockies.

showers in the plains and clear skies in the east. finally on wednesday morning the countdown to super bowl lv and some special gifts beingou >> along with a new rule and a prediction. here's will ganss. >> reporter: you don't need to play like tom or pass like patrick to get the super treatment this super bowl week. in tampa, he has been a fan of the bucs for 20 years even though he's 8. >> in his heart he's been a fan for 0 years. >> reporter: his dedication to his team timeless. that's why he made his own bucs jersey with sticky notes to wear to school on support your favorite team day. that jersey a touchdown. and now it's getting a two-point conversion. >> i see you been making homemade jerseys with some stickers and stuff. but we're going to do better than that, man. we'll give you your own special jersey and i appreciate you for being a real huge bucs supporters. >> reporter: and gronk stepping up before game day too. >> hello.

hello, mandy. >> reporter: surprising four health care workers with big news. >>ations. you're going to super bowl lv as a special guest of the buccaneers and the nfl. >> and it was just pretty cool just to be that delir that msage and see citement on thei >> reporter: that's a lot of good karma for the bucs going into the big game and they might need it. the cannons usually the nfl du play on sunday to help maintain a neutral site for sb dlv. this is the first time a team is playing at home during the big game. call it unchartered waters. speaking of, nicholas the dolphin at the clearwater aquarium picking the chiefs to take the title. he knows his stuff. he correctly predicted the past six winners, the 2019

times square. have a great day. right now on "america this rning," paying respect. president biden and the first lady arrive unannounced at a solemn ceremony at the u.s. capitol paying tribute to the officer who lost his life in the january 6th attack. this morning, the new move to make the capitol safer and the new arguments on president trump's impeachment trial. what his lawyers are now claimi. a new mutation of the coronavirus causing concern as the uk variant mutates once again. will the vaccine still work? what experts are saying and this morning, the plan to ship the vaccine straight to local pharmacies. our medical expert weighs in. the new warning about a special feature on tiktok. and major privacy concerns. what parents need to know. the jeff bezos bombshell.