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♪ leave now. that is the order to u.s. embassy families, along with travel warnings for anyone in or near ukraine, as tensions escalate with russia march against mandates thousands turned out to y no thanks to covid vaccinations and we've got new nbc news polls. multiple shootings in a number of cities what's being done to protect law enforcement. the high cost of meat at the grocery store and restaurants
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financial and military aid to ukraine and kiev just got its first shipment of u.s. aid around 200,000 pounds of lethal aid, including ammunition to fight on the front line. britain is also supplying ukraine with short range antitank missiles for defense and a small team of british troops have been sent to ukraine to provide training. and it's not just the support being stepped up, but rhetoric as well. let's take a look at what secretary blinken and prime minister have to say >> if a single russian force goes into ukraine in an aggressive way, as i said, that would trigger a swift, severe and united response. >> we will support them in defending themselves and to the international community, nato allies, u.s., we're standing shoulder to shoulder so, there will be serious consequences if they try to take
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this move and install a puppet regime >> reporter: and he's accused him of trying to install a pro moscow figure to lead the government this was to shine a light on the extent of russian activity designed to exert ukraine. and vladimir putin is increasing the military flow, making the russian troops amass their bigger and more dangerous, while the temperature keeps rising, forcing president biden to weigh more options, like the ones that lloyd austin presented to him, such as bomber flights over the region, ship visits into the black sea and the moving of equipment into poland and other countries neighboring ukraine. but most of the responsibility is going to fall on the shoulders of the u.s. because there isn't much unity amongst nato right now about how to go forward.
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but the hope is there is still room for an agreement. >> higher global stakes as each day passes, ali, thank you the u.s. has surpassed 70 million covid cases since the start of the pandemic. the omicron variant now accounts for nearly 100% of infections in the country. while cases are falling in the northeast, much of the south and west are seeing a steady surge and there's pesism on the vaccine front as protesters march in washington against mandates here's more. >> reporter: the vaccine battle reaching a fever pitch in the nation's capitol >> if there is risk, there must be choice. >> reporter: thousands rallying on the national mall for the defeat the mandates protest, featuring some of the nation's most prominent antivaxers. >> tried to get a burger and got turned away because we didn't have a proof of vaccination card >> i'm not antivax i'm fully vaccinated but not this vaccine is because it's
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quote/unquote experimental >> reporter: they're more scruttenized for safety than any vaccine in history they say mandating vaccines is the only way to get life back to normal but a new poles shows deep pesism and 53% disprove of president biden's handling of covid. and 45% say they're vaccinated andbusted. >> everybody wants to say we're extremists and all i can say is we're living in extreme times. >> reporter: president biden suffering yet another blow to his mandate. blocked in court >> obviously we're confident in our legal authority here >> reporter: across the u.s., a tale of two pandemics, one with glimmers of hope, as cases plummet in areas where omicron may have peeked. in new york, once the nation's
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covid epicenter, the governor sit siting a 66% drop in the last two weeks. but in the south and west, where omicron hit later, one of cases surging, hitting new records and over running hospitals but dr. anthony fauci says he's hopeful the rest of the country will soon see a turn around. possibly by midfebruary. >> we don't want to get over confident but they look like they're going in the right direction. >> reporter: and predicting more pain and suffering in areas where fewer people are vaccinate said and boosted organizers insisted they're not against vaccines, just forcing people to take them. but the speeches were filled with misinformation about vaccine risks. and we asked whether they themselves were vaccinated all but one said they were not >> interesting, josh, thank you. it's been a violent weekend for police officers.
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in houston after pulling over a car, the suspect got out and immediately started firing galloway was shot multiple times. they're searching for the suspect. this a day after a gun battle in new york city. one nypd officer was killed and the other left fighting for his life they were responding to a domestic violence in harlem. he was shot and is hospitalized in critical condition. another day in court for jailed wikileaks founder, julian assange. they'll rule whether or not he can appeal the extradition in the supreme court. he's been charged with several counts of espionage after wikileaks published classified military documents in 2010 amnesty international has condemned the charges as a full-scale assault on the right of freedom of expregsz
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the trial began in the trial of former minneapolis police officers that were at the scene where george floyd was killed. they're charged with depriving floyd of his constitutional rights, by failing administer aid and failing to intervene, when he knelt on floyd's neck for more than nine minutes, which resulted in his death in may 2020 and house chair bennie thompson told "face the nation." that they interviewed barr about a plan to seize voting machines the week after the 2020 election barr resigned in 2020. he was seen as an ardent defender of president trump but notably dismissed his claims of voter fraud. and division round games coming down to the wire.
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>> from the 19 and 17 seconds. down the midthdle to the end zn and there it is! >> they were screaming in my house when that happened in a fourth quarter full of lead changes, and chiefs stormed down field and forced overtime. in o.t., kansas city got the ball and didn't let go of it the chiefs are on their way to a fourth straight title win with a 42-36 win. earlier in the day, tom brady and the buccaneers erase a 24-point lead but left the rams a little too much time on the clock. stafford led los angeles down the field and game-winning kick eliminated the defending champs. the buck stops tampa bay and the rams win 30-27 and on saturday, both number ones fell at home to last-second field goals. setting up these conference championship games the chiefs could go to their
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third straight super bowl win if they win and a rams' win would mean l.a. plays the super bowl at home, rather let's turn to the weather and vanessa webb for a look at how we are starting this week. janessa, good morning. >> we're still in winter and dealing with snow. i know the cold temperatures are just not backing off across the northeast or midatlantic andand that's going to continue as we kick off the week. we're focussed on the winter weather alerts this just coming in from the national weather service and the storm system currently impacting 14 million people. it will make its way across the ohio valley. northeast ohio, get prepared for the greater cleveland area and some accumulations talk about three to five inches
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that's why the athlerts are cu look at santa barbara today, 68, a good beach day for los angeles. lower 70s. our temperatures very chilly we'll take a look at that forecast coming up, ladies >> jealous of the west coast thank you. "spiderman" is still going strong six weeks after its release in the box office. >> hello, peter. ♪ >> you're not peter parker >> "no way home" the marvel blockbuster made a return to home in first place, earning
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peacefully, according to his family he was 88 years old. an irish man was arrested on a flight from dublin to new york 29-year-old shane mcinerney repeatedly refused to wear a face mask, threw a can at a passenger and pulled his pants down he was charged with interfering with a flight crew, which is a felony and you may have heard the term, flurona. it's coronavirus hybrid. you contract covid and the through at the same time, which is a coinfection other viruss are capable of doing this they've studied the effects of other coinfections on the immune system but it's still unclear how a covid infection, paired with another virus, could impact the body and the fashion community is
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driving up the price jacob ward investigates those claims >> reporter: the price of beef is up 20% from this time last year ground surloin is more than $5 a pound. why? well, from the cost of packaging to the cost of growing feed, every part of the supply chain is more expensive. but president biden also blames industry consolidation >> we end with an industry like the meat-processing industry, where four big companies do dominate the markets >> reporter: tyson, cargill, jbs and national beef, who together control nearly all beef production in america and saw profits tripled during the pandemic >> so, when there's no competition in a market, you're not going to get some of the dynamics that allow prices to ease >> reporter: and consumers have little choice in the matter. >> when we walk in to the
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grocery store, you see dozens of different brand names for meat but the reality is about four companies own all of those different brands and that doesn't give the consumer the ability to vote with their dollar. >> reporter: of course, the pandemic raised prices in many industries >> but in the meat industry, those effects were exacerbated by the lack of competition up and down the supply chain. a concentrated food supply chain is a vulnerable food supply chain. >> reporter: executives say the industry hit hard by covid and inflation, couldn't keep up with americans consuming more meat during the pandemic. >> it's not the result of a consolidating industry, lack of competition or the cash markets. the concentration of ownership within the meat-processing industry has virtually unchanged over the past 30 years >> reporter: they argue their size keeps meat affordable >> when you have large players
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in today's top stories, sarah palin verses "the new york times" heads to trial. the former gop vice presidential nominee is suing the paper for libel, over a 2017 editorial that wrongly linked an ad to her political pact to a 2011 shooting in tew sign the attack badly wounded then congresswoman, gabrielle giffords the former alaska governor is fighting for actual and punitive damages. she has to prove the paper acted
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with actual malice and knew the editorial was wrong or reckless. stormy daniels former lawyer will stand trial in new york city he's accused of stealing $300,000 for the adult film star it was an advanced payment for a book deal. daniels herself will testify during the trial avenatti is currently under house arrest after being convicted of extortion in a different case two years ago when the family started receiving mysterious furniture shipments, they had no idea who placed the massive order and here's the toddler behind it all. >> reporter: 22 month old precocious in more ways than one. >> he's so cute and we were laughing too much. >> reporter: he may not be old enough to form a complete sentence or tell you his last name but he somehow managed to order close to $2,000 worth of
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furniture to his family's home in new jersey. >> i have emails your package is on the way like, 10 emails i have >> reporter: packages have been showing up all week, mostly accent chairs that she had been browsing for her new home. at first she couldn't figure out who ordered the items. the dad said he didn't do it and the older children said they didn't either. which left one person. he got ahold of his mother's phone and knew how to check out, using her saved information. raised around four people doing plenty of screen time, this so-called covid baby may be walmart's ever online shopper. >> there are multiple steps someone has to follow and you have to say yes, and you have the card information and all this
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evacuations ordered at the u.s. embassy in ukraine, as a military build up continues and diplomatic efforts appear to be gaining no new ground. >> has the omicron wave in america peeked plus the tusands that showed up to protest vaccine man mandates. today, former porn star stormy daniels will testify against her former attorney over allegations he defrauded her and a new look at a historic
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