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it's thursday, january 6th, 2022. this is the "cbs morning news." january 6th, one year later. how congress plans to reflect on the deadly insurrection and why the job is still not done for the fbi. expanding eligibility. kids ages 12 to 15 are now approved for a covid booster shot. how soon data could be available for vaccinating children as young as six months. verdict questioned. lawyers for ghislaine maxwell want a new trial after two jurors make revelations about their past. well, good morning, and good to be with you.
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i'm anne-marie green. it was one year ago today that a mob stormed the u.s. capitol trying to prevent congress from confirming the results of the 2020 presidential election. today events are scheduled to mark the anniversary in some of the very same places where rioters unleashed brutal acts of violence. president biden will address the nation this morning, and a moment of silence will be held in the house. laura podesta is on capitol hill with more on all of this. laura, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. president biden is expected to place blame on former president trump for misleading his supporters about the results of the 2020 election, and those misconceptions persist today. a recent poll shows that two-thirds of republicans agree that fraud helped biden win, a claim that has been repeatedly discredited. january 6th, 2021, started with congress working to confirm joe
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biden's electoral college victory. >> to object to the counting of the electoral ballot from arizona -- >> reporter: not far from the capitol, then-president trump was holding a rally as he and his supporters continued to question the results of the election. >> if you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country anymore. >> reporter: shortly after supporters stormed the building, making it all the way to the senate floor. delaying the election certification until early the next morning. then-president-elect biden called it an attack on democracy. >> this is not dissents, it's disorder. it's chaos. it borders on sedition. >> reporter: more than 700 supreme been arrested in connection to the attack, but the fbi is still looking for 250 more believed to have committed acts of violence that day. >> those who assaulted officers or damaged the capitol face greater charges. those who conspired with others
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to obstruct the vote count also face greater charges. >> reporter: at the capitol today, there will be vigils and moments of reflection. in an address to the nation, president biden is expected to speak to the importance of a peaceful transfer of power. >> he sees january 6th as a tragic culmination of what those four years under president biden did to our country. >> reporter: a law enforcement bulletin said there are no specific or credible threats to the capitol. as you heard, attorney general merrick garland gave a speech where he said there's much more to come regarding the prosecution of january 6th. he didn't give a timeline but said the investigation continues to be based on facts, not politics. anne-marie? >> thank you. we will have extensive coverage of january 6th, one year later, ahead on "cbs mornings." we'll carry a special report at 9:00 a.m. eastern when president biden speaks.
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and you can also watch it on our 24-hour streaming network, cbsn. there are breaking developments in the fight against covid. kids ages 12 to 15 can now get a pfizer vaccine booster shot. cdc director rochelle walensky signed off on the decision last night amid a rise in teen infections and pediatric hospitalizations. manuel bojorquez has more. cdc surveillance data and studies from around the world have demonstrated the benefit of a booster dose including decreased risk of infection, severe disease, and death. >> reporter: as omicron continues its record-setting pace, a new cdc forecast says cases and hospitalizations will likely increase in the coming weeks. with d.c., new jersey, florida, georgia, new york, and maryland seeing the highest rates. infectious disease doctor aileen marty -- >> way too many people are not taking it seriously. >> reporter: new hospital admissions in miami-dade county are up 550% in just two weeks.
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>> so many of our people are sick, not just the clinically facing staff but even the support staff, the lab staff, et cetera. >> the hospitals get strained, there is less opportunity to provide all these resources to the one single patient. >> reporter: patients like 26-year-old jada turnbull who says doctors at the cleveland clinic outside miami saved her life after a 42-day-long battle with covid last year. you had a 10% to 15% chance of living? >> yes. >> reporter: here you are. what words do you have for the medical staff? >> thank you. i cannot thank you guys enough. >> reporter: we're also learning that data onon vaccinating children 6 months to 4 years old could be released as soon as the manuel bojorquez, cbs news, miami. classes in chicago's public
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schools are canceled for a second straight day. school officials and the teachers union failed to reach an agreement over covid safety protocols. the union wants to switch to remote learning due to a surge in infections. it says safety protocols are lacking, making teachers and students vulnerable. school leaders say remote learning did not work, and schools can safely remain open with protocols in place. there is no word whether schools will be open friday. the governor of virginia has declared a state of emergency ahead of a second winter storm this week. it's expected to arrive tonight into tomorrow morning. people are still dealing with icy conditions and power outages from monday's storm. it's the same one that left hundreds of drivers stranded on interstate 95 for more than 24 hours. the storm dropped about a foot of snow in the mid-atlantic. tonight's storm is only expected to leave several inches of snow. an investigation is under way in philadelphia to determine the cause of a fire that killed at least 12 people including eight children.
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the fire started yesterday morning in a three-story public housing row home. officials say 26 people were staying there. as many as eight residents were able to escape. two people were taken into the hospitals. a fire official says none of the four smoke detectors in the building appeared to be working. >> i've been around for 30 -- 35 years now, and this is probably one of the worst fires i've ever been to. >> this s was the cicity's deadt singlele fire in m more than a century. and ghislaine maxwell's lawyers say that they will ask for a new trial. it follows reports that two jurors in her sex trafficking trial said they were victims of sexual abuse as children and discussed their expeperiences during jury deliberations. potential jurors were asked to fill out a questionnaire asking if they had been a victim of sexual abuse. maxwell was convicted of grooming and recruiting teenage girls to be abused by jeffrey epstein. she faces up to 65 years in
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children. and a top tennis player is in limbo in australia. those are some of the headlines on the "morning newsstand." "the new york times" reports novak djokovic is -- was refused entry into australia over the decision to grant him a medical exemption from covid vaccination requirements. djokovic was told to leave the country following a ten-hour standoff with government officials after he arrived at a melbourne airport. australian officials said his visa was revoked. he's holed up in a quarantine hotel in melbourne. this morning the serbian tennis star remains in detention as his lawyers fight for him to stay. the medical exemption would have allowed djokovic to compete in next week's australian open without being vaccinated. >> he has support regardless of the negativity. and he is -- many of us had the opportunity to meet him. and we just -- he's got the community behind him. we all love him, and can't wait
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to actually have -- support him and see him playing. >> australia's prime minister said djokovic does not have a valid medical exemption. the "associated press" said a judge set a trial date in march of 2023 in relation to a lawsuit filed in connection with the surfside, florida, condo collapse that killed 98 people. it claims that construction work on an adjacent luxury condo damaged and destabilized the aging champlain towers which was in need of repairs. defendants deny that the construction on the other building caused the collapse. lawyers say the lawsuit could run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. and "usa today" says pope francis criticized people who choose to have pets instead of children calling it a form of selfishness. during his weekly audience yesterday the pope said denial of fatherhood or motherhood diminishes us and takes away our humanity. he repeated his call for couples to have more children.
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now, unionized starbucks workers staged a walkout, and gm's bestselling truck is going electric. diane king hall is in new york with those stories and more. good morning, diane. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. the stock market fell sharply yesterday after minutes from the fed's latest meeting were released indicating they might move faster to raise interest rates to inflation. there were concerns that inflation was spreading into more areas of the economy and would last longer than expected. ultimate lie the dow dropped 392 points, the nasdaq skidded some 522, and the s&p 500 fell 92. starbucks employees who voted on unionize have walked off the job in buffalo. they became the first shop in starbucks' history to be represented by a union. yesterday six hit the picket line citing covid safety concerns. the protests forced the coffee shop to close for the day. starbucks says the company has met and exceeded cdc guidelines.
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tiktok is going corporate. the short form video app struck the short form video app struck a deal with atmosphere tv, a streaming service for businesses. approved tiktok videos may now end up on tvs in restaurants like taco bell and burger king and gyms, bars, medical offices, and other businesses. typically atmosphere removes the audio from videos and adds its own licensed material. and general motors grabbed headlines on day one of the ces tech event in las vegas. the automaker unveiled the electric chevy silverado ev yesterday. it will be released in the fall of 2023 starting at $40,000. >> the silverado ev is going to blow everybody away when it comes to range north of 400 miles. when you think about range anxiety and things like that, we don't think it's going to be an issue with this truck. >> reporter: buyers can also customize the truck like adding extra outlets to charge a second electric vehicle. anne-marie?
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stories in 2019 based on the letter she wrote after her marriage to prince harry. and days after her death at the age of 99, betty white continues to have a profound impact on one of the causes that was near and dear to her heart -- animal welfare. fans of the beloved actress have organized a social media campaign called the betty white challenge. people are being asked to donate $5 to an animal rescue organization or shelter in white's name on what would have been her 100th birthday, january 17th. >> the betty white challenge that just started from people's love of her and their love of animals. it's been amazing to see. we have already seen a few come in, specifically in memory of betty white. so they're already starting to roll in. and it's amazing. >> white was a longtime advocate for animal rights. and coming up on "cbs mornings," special coverage from washington on the anniversary of the january 6th capitol attack. i'm anne-marie green, this is the "cbs morning news."
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our top stories this morning -- president biden and members of congress will mark the first anniversary today of the deadly insurrection at the u.s. capitol. in an address to the nation, mr. biden is expected to speak about the importance of a peaceful transfer of power. vigils and moments of reflection are also planned at the capitol.
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and cdc director dr. rochelle walensky approved fired -- pfizer vaccine booster shots for kids 12 to 15 years old. it comes amid the surge of covid cases gripping the nation. the new cdc forecast says cases and hospitalizations will likely increase in the weeks ahead with washington, d.c., new jersey, florida, georgia, new york, and maryland seeing the highest rates. the u.s. state department is condemning north korea for test launching a reported ballistic missile. officials say the move violated multiple u.n. resolutions and threatened north korea's neighbors. elizabeth palmer has more. >> reporter: north korea says it was a hypersonic missile, the second time they've launched one. it took off from an area near the country's border with china, flew over 300 miles, and landed in the sea. it's the latest in a whole flurry of tests overseen by the country's leader, kim jong-un,
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including a missile hidden in and launched from a train. last january, what appeared to be a submarine launched model literally paraded through the streets of pyongyang. in video released by state media, kim jong-un said in his new year's speech that the country's defense capability had to be bolstered due to what he called the unstable international situation. it's not exactly clear what he meant, but north korea resents both the u.s.' joint exercises with south korea's military and punishing sanctions. in south korea, the president reacted to the launch diplomatically. at the opening of a railway he hopes will one day unite the north and the south, he said there was still hope for dialogue. at the moment, north korea's actions are speaking much louder than its words. elizabeth palmer, cbs news.
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well, coming up on "cbs mornings," special coverage from washington on the anniversary of the january 6th capitol attack including a look at election mistrust. we'll hear from two very different voters on their views. plus, we'll speak with maryland republican governor larry hogan about the state of his party and the future of american democracy. and jeff pegues shows us how amateur online investigators have played a big role in identifying suspects in the capitol attack. that's the "cbs morning news" for this thursday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. ♪
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