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now he could face deportation. >> thousands of workers go on strike saturday fight live how old "it" girl is kicking off a busy season welcome to the end of the workweek, i'm frances rivera. >> i'm philip penna. breaking fuse, it looks like novak djokovic is out of the australian open. the administration canceled his vaccination. they said the australian government is quote firmly committed to protecting australia's borders, particularly in relation to the covid-19 pandemic. djokovic's lawyers could go back to court to apply for an injunction to prevent him from

leaving the country. if that fails, he would be unable to apply for an australian visa for three years. after the supreme court ruled against the biden man day. our gabe gutierrez has the latest. >> reporter: three disdays after test mandate for private companies started to take effect, the u.s. supreme court blocked it, writing that osha, the occupation am safety and health administration, did not have the power to regulate public health. the mandate had acted some 80 million americans, including jamie crocker's employees, his florida company. >> i saw this mandate from the very beginning as perhaps the greatest example of government overreach. >> reporter: president biden called it disappointing, arguing his administration had not put requirements in placd be experiencin

conservative justices in the majority, th 5-4 decision, they similar requirements to stand for medical or medicaid payments. >> it will cover 17 million healthcare workers at 76,000 ped cam facilities the supreme court upheld it. we len force >> reporter: it all comes as the biden administration surges a pandemic and vaccine administration and the variant recent information suggests omicron may be wearing off hospitalizations remain high nationwide now the president is sending in the military to hospitals in six hard-hit states, including the cleveland clinic, the university of mexico and rhode island hospital and he says his administration will make hire quality masks available to americans for free. >> i know we all wish we could

be done with wearing masks i get it but they're a really important tool to stop the spread. >> reporter: back to that first supreme court ruling, the bottom line for big businesses, they can still impose vaccine mandates or testing requirements if they want to. but what the ruling needs is that the federal government can't force them to do it. back to you. >> gabe, thank you >> more than 2 million americans likely having a says to a digital vaccine pass known as the smart health card it allows users to generate a qr code with information from state health records, pharmacies and other healthcare organizations this as the u.s. has hit 64 million cases since the start of the pandemic, reporting another million cases if less than 24 hours. the fda is warning people to stop using rammed antigen and ain't body tests sold under

luscient diagnostics kerry sanders takes us inside a factory of one fda-approved home testing kit. >> so i'm on the factory floor here right now where they are putting together these really much sought after home testing kits the fda has only authorized the 15 companies to provide these. this is one of those right now they're turning the out what amounts to a million tests a day, 30 million a month. but it can't keep up with the demand a. real tremendous demand like this one called on go the effort, of course, will be complicated by the fact that the biden administration promised to send out 100 million of thestes postal service and depending on saturday by federal rules insurance companies will have to pay for up to eight tests a month, again, if, if you can get

one. kerry sanders, peak lakes. the panel suspend parent companies of google, reddit, google and facebook and wants to know how much violent extremism on their platform may have contributed to the capitol riot a. spokesperson says facebook is working to provide the fess information. google said we have been actively koornth and we have strict policies to incite the violence or 81 pines trusts in elections. a red did spokesperson says the company will continue to work with the committee and twitter declined to competent. sticking to the subject of january 6th, the most serious charges have been issued the founder of a militia group called the oath keepers has been arrested he's charged with quote se dishes conspiracy along with when e ten others. pete williams reports.

>> reporter: it's the most high profile charge yet, stuart rhodes of texas, the leader of the oath keeper is in federal custody to carry out acts of violence to stop congress from formal lip counting the electoral college vote for president. they're charged with the crime of seditous conspiracy all crimes are serious, this is an unusual charge not often brought is more serious. >> reporter: as early as two days after the eplex, prosecutors say he reached out to his leadership team with this encrypted message. we aren't getting through this without a civil war. they say he messaged the team, we ned to make those seniors very uncomfortable with all of us being a few hundred feet away the day before the riot the fbi says one of the oath keepers drove around the u.s. capitol on a reconnaissance mission january 6th, as rioters began

breaking through police lines, he messaged his leadership saying they stormed the governor's mansion in massachusetts a. short time later oath keepers began working tear way into the capitol in two groups lined up in military-style form eight. stuart rhodes remained outside, after violence, he met with his team he spent more than $17,000 for weapons and am 96. on inauguration day, he messaged, after this, if nothing happens, it's war, civil war 2.0. his lawyer says the evidence doesn't support the charge last year, hodes, himself, said his group went off mission by entering the capitol and he never instructed them to do so president biden's hopes to rep form the filibuster might possibly have been crushed mere days after his blistering speech in atlanta

joe manchin of west virginia and kyrsten sinema have publicly come occupant against the idea our peter alexander has this report. >> reporter: president biden on the way to deliver a sales pitch, instead, surrendering for his democratic voting rights legislation. >> i don't know we get it done, but i know one thing, as long as i have a breath in me, as long as i am in the white house, as long as i am engaged at all, i will be fighting. >> reporter: the president unable to get his own party after he left the dpol, moderate kyrsten sinema took to the now, that would have allowed democrats could pass it on their own. saying it promotes bipartisan. >> while i continue to support these billsly fought support separate actions that were sent the underlying disease of division infecting our country. >> reporter: she expressed

frustration no governments backed the voting rights bills but issued this critique about her democratic colleagues. >> i wish there had been a more serious effort on the part of democratic party leaders to sit down with the other party and genuinely discuss how to reforge common ground on these issues. >> reporter: but leading democrats countered that saying they tried to get republicans on board for month. meanwhile, the other moderate holdout joe manchin parades sinema. >> she did a nice job. >> reporter: the mood among other democrats, frustrated, demoralize late friday, they announced they were meeting with president biden about voting rights here at the white house. >> peter, thank you. all right. brace yourself for a wicked weekend of winter weather. a snowstorm is gearing up to hit the mid-west south and east coast. nbc meteorologist janessa webb is tracking it for us. good morning, janessa. >> hi, good morning.

this storm system starting getge going right now, very exact across dakotas but it will be large and in charge as we no into the weekend. right now we do have winter storm warnings, advisories and watches. they're currently in place for 16 million people and look now they're starting to expand all the way into pennsylvania in portions of atlanta as well. so, storm totals firstoff is the snow, winds will be very gusty i do expect some police ard warnings possibly to go in place for iowa area into the dakotas nine-to-12 inches is currently in the forecast. throughout the weekend, this storm system starts to rev up. it's sunday into monday, we're going to be watching the mid-atlantic for an ice storm, but for the northeast, section new england atw york to northern

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