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llm iabrangham has l theattes on thede panmis c'new turn for the worse. >> bram:ngha aths e holiday seasonrs nea, nccoerns of a surgent virue s argrinowg. esprident biden tomet daaty the whituse hoe thwi his covid ta fceor to discuss twayso curb s theprd eaof omicron, and deal wthith e rrcuent dominant variant,ta del. >> igot's intog start to spread muche morradlpiy at the ginning of teahe yr,nd a the lyea rl protectionto is get ur shots. if you'r ae at pntoi where you have eveinrythg,nc iluding your booster, youin're rlleay good shape. so, move. now >> branghaccm: aorngdi to the ewor yk times" tra, ckerthe u.s s. isengei a clear spike in cases. with a daively ara ogef 121,000 ctinfeio, nsthat's a 40%e risin the tlastwoee wks. de aathsrep uabout 34%, wanith average ,3of 100eo pple dying evsiery ng dleay. in n yework state, t.dhe c.c. says omicrs on iesmatited to

make up as masuch 1 o3%f the ste'ats covid cases. governor kathy hochul reinstated ska ma mdaante for indooblr puic acples, which wentnt io feefct moay. toy,he s responded to cricitism that theda mantes ian ovretiacon. >> this his aeah ltcare crisis, anopd pelere a going to die. thatno is t pehyrbole. thatba is seond the facts ttha e finront of us r nightow. ifpl peoe d hagotten vaccidnate wh wase ked them to, g andot the teboosr otshs, i wouldn't have had to input pcela a mask mandate. >>ra bngham: in carnlifoia, workplace retigulaonwes re titeghned. the main chaisnge tt,ha startingmi in d-nujaary, y anworker, vaccedinat onor t, o mecos in contacth wit someono e whtes stpositive, must stay home. anmed so cleolge campuses are also takintig acon. classes anamd exs veha been moved onlis ne aanla arming rate of stus dentha gveotten covid. atne corllni uversity, where % 97of students vaare ccatined, lstea 1,100 studetents sted

positive lekt we. tulaneve unirsy,it george washington ursniveit ay,nd n.y.u. a arelsdeo aling with similaikr spes. and, major pssrofeiol nasports leaguee s aral tsoaking a hit. ores of athl aetesndta sff across n the.b.,.a n.h.l., and f.n.l. have testosed pite ivor entered thheal a sndafety procotols this week. several gahames veee bn popostned. with about 1.f00 n.lpl. ayers testing tiposiven ijust the la tsthree days, falootbl commissi ronerog geroodell said yesterdhaay tt ccvainations and boosters a are porriity, but may not be enough. anwhe ilin europe, criountes ardee aling with ail simarwo t- ongethd reatyi: trngo tslow icron, whileba comti dngelta. france moved today to restrict urists from eltravintog and from the., u.k a rndequiring 48 urofs isolation uarpon ril.va

frthe en pchrime ministeidr sa thdee cision is du, e to"the extremely d rapispadre" of icron in the. u.k fasor the u.k., british prime minister boris johnson insteisd day atth he nisot iosmpg ancky lodos.wn >> all we'ayre sintog people is, exer cciseauonti, think ouabt all the styoeps u n catake to minimizure yo o rwnisk, and t geboosted now. >> branghaesm: yteayrd, the u.k. saw itghs hiesnut mber of covid cases in agl sine y dasince the paemndic began: ov8,er 7000. anted la tayod, there was a setback for vathe cce inmade by johnson & jon.hnso a d. ac.dvisory commeitte advised agaitanst ki tnghe j&j shot, recommngendi merodna and pfizer vacciinnes std.ea thcoe mmittee citecrd ineangsi evidence of rea ra bodlo clot diso lrderind kewith the j&j vaincce. isom ces right as rtexpes ear inwarng atth omicron is lylike ecto bomthe e dominant sn traiin the u.s.

for a erdeep lk ooat all of this, i'm jo binedy . dreric topol, feround a dndirector of e scripps rechsear anslational itinstute. drpo. tol,re gat to have ynou o the neurwsho. i wo inderfwe could taablk out this r j&jeomcmendation first. what do u yoma okef that? geart to be with you, llwiiam. thnki the committreee, view of the j&tj daa was very found. that is, it was a unamonius vote that the modea rnand pfizer vaccines asare f.er htheyavae great track record. unfoatrtunel ty,he j&j shot has becen acpaomnied, rary,el with ese very serious bleedg,in otcl iss aues,nd nine deaths. it's best, if possi ble,to avoid it. >>ng braha om:kay, let'sr tun rer boadly to omicron. kwenow tha it its cinredibly ntcoagious. citertainly se temso be. given thato, d yu othink wer ae relye haded for a bad winter? >>f unortunately, it's

qutiesonable at thoiis pnt. ths is ia vir sustrain that's ubdoling just overw to days, icweh 've never s aeennything li taht. 'rwee seeing itgh lit pu in the u., k.in norway, in denmark. itand really is exponalenti growthe , thlis keof which we haven't seien sncthe e pandemic started. so it's viinetae blthat it's goin hg toitht e united states, and lit ardyea iris sing very quickly. and, unfoatrtunel ay, lot of oppele haven't appreciated that th iiss something c wean't avoid right now ien trms of this ve ve--ry has to be seeasn an auonslgh otfm oicn ronew cases. ra>> bngm:ha some people veha-- loo akingt e thcases that alreeady xt isof omicron-a- hve mpjued to the conclusion thaitt ilis mdewir th regarods t its ruvilence. doou y agree with tht?a tehre isn't any question. foatrtunel iy,t's milder. but the pro iblems hatt people arce asringbi that to teh virus. and it'ts no related to the virus. it'sau becsee w have so much

immunity buibylt our vaccines, by our bstooer bs,y people owh haiod prr cov.id wea hve no evidceen that the s viruitself is more mild. and until wvee ha tath, we have toum asse atth people who don't have any teproctn ioare highly lnerable to getting very ill. >>ra bngham: we hbeave en ngseei, soal, a lot of breaktghhrou cesas. i ntionaed ererli, these coll aegesndn uiversities that are seeing these really exploscaive se numbers, largely amongst vinaccat edand boosted groups. do you think that erunivsiesti and coeslleg aer splecia rcstumances, or arhe tey a harbinger oft' whas o tcome for the rest of us? >>s ye, what wesa wt a cornell d onsuw bseenqutly maofny the universities isa sne pakreview. rathe pitidy that it spreads to, yoknu ow, hundred ss oftdeunts, in these ca of cornell%, 97 were ccvainated. isth is what wego're i tngo be seeing throut ghouth ceountry erhe t weeks ahesad a this becothmes e dominant strain, not

just, oof cur, sein the u.s. but throughoout wr.ld tsohis is the kind of rapid adspre tt hawe have yet to see til now in the panmidec. >>rahangm: i mean, i fele a bikt lie a brok renecordhe re, lktaing about the nd eefor good mas,et bter ventila,tion vaccinnsatio, oobsters, rapid testing when poibssle. gin atwh we knoabw out icron, wouldu yo dad anything to that? ulwod you change as anything tor general prutecaioryna principle now? >>el wl, the thinogs yu mentioned, wamilli, are rtnlaiy the cornerstones of r repventiod n anblocking the spread. we don't havthe e rapid tests that we need in this country, unkeli many other places. we don't have enough people who bhaveeen vacnacite nd,o less hwho ave had thr eibooster shot. 'rlae gging way behind. 're 65th ine th world fro ccvaination and lagigngo mst cotrs iewho are on to the

teboosr shots. d anespecially ion peplofe advanced agee, whreh te risk is considlyerab hghi. we're just noust ing the olwes have. if weed us theml, al we'd be in grt apshe to fend off omicron. but, uornftutenaly, we're just not doing .it ra>> bngm:ha one last tiqueson i nto t ask you, an argument ithat hare a lot, whicish omoe n, these are largely mild cases. cases." e thvast majorofity poeple will t gethrough these casethalt al isth talk abo outmicron i fsear ntmohering. atwh do you sa ty tohat? >> that coun'ldt be fur ftherrom the tru, thwilliam. we m aywe gllet beyd ona million canew seas day. t only willny ma of those people geti sck. wmeill wind up in the sphoital and die. t,l aso, we will bse fotering a lot more long covid, the rochnic disngabli faetures that could occur from omicron, no less cuinlturg eth virufus rther r mesothing beyond omicron. b>>rangham: allg riht, drer ticopol of scripps

resear, chthanyok u souc mh for being here. >> thank you. oo>> wdrf:uf in the day's other neofws, fialcis across e great plaindns a t mheidwest reportt ed alet asfive deaths, aftepor a weulrf storm front bld astethree gion with hurricanrce-foe ndwis. it also brousught mm-lerike readinf gs o70eg drees that spawned adtorno ghsitings. e,on in minnesotoua, wlde bthe state's first ever recorded in demb, erif it is conedfirm. the fronvet mod rtnoh today ross the uppreer gatak les, d into canada. meanwhile, d theea ttholl from last friday'rns toads oein weerken ntucky rose 5.to 7 gornveor andy beshreear poedrt eo16 pplare e still missing. heat t se amtime, he again offered hoo pe tthe oswho rvsuived the destitruconbu, t those whose s liveha bveeen shattered. >> i'm notng goi awhnyere, and

is state is gonot ing heanywre. we got a g creatomtmmient from e thfederal goventrnme ttha eyth're going towi be ths utoo. ersty ep, every weevek, ery month, andry eve yr eathat it ketas, we will gacet eh e onof these commieunits bureilt. >>oo wdruff: emplo ayeest a candle factohary tt swa deyestrod minayfield, keny,tuck veha now filed suit. they say thepa comnyef rused to t emth go home eardely, speit the risk. eight of t cheiro-rkwoers died. the compsaany yst iacted preroply. the u.s. food d andrug niadmisttiraon is movingma to ke abonorti plsil more easily acssleib. thagcyen approved a anperment rule todo ay tletht em be shipped ugthroh e thmail. that was alr aeadylledow teormparily during p theanmidec. some states ohaveutwelad mail livery, and f.the d.a. decision is ctexpeedo tface cot urchallenges alls we. in haiti, po sliceay2 1members of u a.s. missionarory gupav he en freed, twnto mohsft aer therey we duabcted. ey were amon pg 17eoepl

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of apo prosatol pay several hurendd thousand drsolla to chea family. frthe autrd ial of theranos fodeunr elizabeth esholm is winding idownn sajose, caliiaforn, thwi closing guarments. prosecuttoors ldhe t jury today that holmes aliedbo huter d-blooteinstg start-up's teiantl to attractli bilonofs dos llarinin fancing. e thdefense is etexpecd to counter hthatols menever meant mleisad anyone. and on wstall re, etprospects of higher interraest tewes ighed on te schtocks, and trohe bader market. e w dojones indust arialvegera 2lost9 inpots to close at ,8.97 the na fsdaqel38l 5 points-- 5%. e p s&500 ipslped .41 ilstl to come on n theewoushr: why nta cororsveial website with explicit dtiireconfos r suicide remaacins ti.ve hoitiaaln ski resortes ar tryingre to op senafely using

invacce sspaports. pridesent biden aw tardsheed mal of honor te o thfit rsblack recipiofent t pheost-9/11 era. plus, muche. mor wdroouff: after fngindi wsay avoid fiscaisl cresn ithe past w fewee, ksdemocrats on picatol hill are i nown a un-tchime for crit picalarts tofheir agenda. r sali desjardins s joinus, tk alabout three -shightaske suises that seembe to at pit inpots: the "buiacld bk bettbier" llim, migration, and tivong rights. hello, lisa. a lot to keep track of. yes. soil "bud ckba better," this has en c aenaltr prta of thbie den

agenda. erdoe es it sta?nd j>>ud dy,emocrats wad nteto get this thr toughhsee nate by ristmas, youre'll mbeemr. itoo lksike there's v aery slim chanc ie,f any, that that will happe n aswe stand, of secour,sow n just a little over ae wek unt cilhristmas. there is not a ful flyledged llbi yet, and there are not yet seatnors on board. first one lvinvoesi wll the nasete parliamrientaan. asy manofur o viewerskn ow, bthisi mllust goh tr aough esprocsa clled creonciliation whicanh mes it must show dgetary efft.ec thpaiarlmentarian jus dgethat. e,o hwever, ise rcoverinomg fr a ditiagnosis of stage three cancer. in addition to this g beina difficult fbillorer h to render opinions on behind clodse ors-- she's intryg ot give crdemoatgus idance-- it is tangki longer thusan uabel uscae of her heah.lt thsendco issue, senorat joe nchin. hea hs not yet signeond to the ovioisn of this bill. he is in meetings daily, sometimes toi'm ldo hurly, on

th. ever wyonean htsim to sig,n on t buhe is not the yreet. oo>> wdrf:uf so, liwsa, e know atth in the past few days, a big item in thibis ll, a lot of diusscsion around cthehd iltax credit. thatee's bn nhaging in the lae.nc erdoe es that stand? >> this is of ne othise sues we arfrd om senatornc mahitn his ek, and i said evyoerne wants m stoignn o. i sh boulde eclar-- every other decrmoat, essenti, allywatsn him sign on. reblanics are happy hfori tmo stay off of this bill. >>oo wdruff: univelyrsal. >> ts hat'rit.gh chthe iltad x credit is one of the la grgeroa olsf democrats here. that exs pandchild tax credits fr $om3,000 to3 $,6 p00er child, but its runou jt,udy, anind fa, 'sit due to run out. in fthact e stla of those expandedec chkse wnt out this week. "inbuild back berett,"h tat wod ulactually extend that. but manchion has a problem with hoit f'sunded. let me exp hlainow this works. he's lookit ng athe total overall ocostf eth bill. if you look w ath iatt costs ringht ow as itst ndas, it's about a $1.6 trillion bill,

"build b backetter." ithatncdelus just one arye of ethatxpdeand child tax credit. majoe ncn hisays i don't buy that math. i think we ultimatelly wil try to ed xtenito fr 10 years, wihch is the usual length of the bill. if youth do a t,accngordi tto he corengssional budgffet oic te,he 'sbill ct osgoes up to $3 trli.on anso mch iins saying in do'tu by at we're jusoit gng to do esthe ings for on yeare orw to years. i ntwa us to say we e'rgog into paoy fr it the whole time, or kimang sure weno're t puinttg items hon tea tble atth are short term. this is a moraj pobrlem for moatcrs to solve. ther they cop me uwi ath way to pay for it adn bring manchin oaon brd a larr gebill, or they veha to take the child tax ed oitut. wdroouff: a veryff dierten opartf het bill i waont t aks abyou ou at,nd that's imatmigrioren form. th iiss somethinmg deoctsra have aleeso bn pushing. ndremi uwhs at's at stake here, anwhd at is the democrats' proposal? >> millions iof lveas re at stake. an, d,shma pnyoliticyal dnamics as well. les t'starwit th wath the proposal is in the cuenrrt

versofion "build backt beter," atwh's being discuedss. it's a parole st fatusor millions of riameca wnsho are-- m i'sorry, not americans, but millions of undocteumend imgrtsan who arrivyed b 2011. it w boulde a stathtus at they could have for five yaers and nefow r up to 10. its inot a pattoh citenizship, anot green card. that's something immigraonti advocates wa.nted it is innot hee.r its tesimated by progressive groups it woulde hlp about seven million, c.b.o. says six lln.io wthisou blde a status many peoplee havsought. whatno is t inthis versionn o immigrn atiois p aath to citizenship drfor eerams, so-caldled acrea cipientos wh me here as childn.re t.p.tes., mparory proteedct status. our prod sucerpkeo to those oppele, daca recipnties and t.p.s. reci recieipnts ouabt thr mixed fees lingabuto this lbil, at their imramigti onstatus means right now.

>> >>y mname is ivoniane dz. i'm 33 y oearsld. >>na my mes irajbin thresha. i' ym 44ea orsld. >> mmey na iefs rain m.l. esla.da am 32 years old. i residede in nv, ercolorado. >>i, h my name is hidais muecgl takana. i am 2s yearol ad,nd have been the u.s. sii nce wasis x aryes old. >>y mname is eva ossant vosel, i am a dicominanac da recipient. i live in brthe on nx,ew york, r foover 23 yearw.s no i have dfoaca r vesen years, and, which iha'm tnkl fufor the prograd m anwh iatt has given me, is that asit hn'bet en enough. , likei stlo my job twice cause i havegon't tt tenheir nel wain time. d it's been thardo plexain to my children beand enbl ae to survive, l set'sayfi, ve, six ntmohs, without b.a jo mnay me is yoliswome khalu davis, and 3 i'm4 aryes old. i am a newke yorr,or bn in natal sinouth africa. i've been sherein ice was three years old. owi kn tt hathe popular narrative ndarou da acis it's

eadrmers and it'uts yoh. wever, everygrone owups . and so, ini thk e thfact that even tirhe fstac da recipients, who were t, heseyoknu ow, utyohful teenagendrs a elyar 20-years aowre n ithn eir 30s and wantin bg touyom hes and-- and figure out 401, (k)sanhod w atve en works. i thinatk th sakpes to how tuacally long webe've enai wting foa r solution thagot's intog acaltuly impact anifd sht rou ves. t>>.p.s. being mpa teoryar at, usevery year a hnd aalf, ey need to r oenewurta stus, and trthe umadp ministration tulyal canceled oup.r t.s. and right noe'w, wreti sll in titigaon, and the rngovement behas enem tporarily extngendi our status. is t'a tricky sitonuati to ink about, t- his-th bisuild back bettellr bi a tndhe prisnsio in it and-- and ngtryi n toto feel disilonlusied oris dappointed wiowth h tnghis arheedad. w>>e know that wthisill net fia lot of peo lple,ike myil famy,ik le my parentst tha

e arundocumentedd , anmiiollns ofilonlis of other irammignts. wweill definiteelly hp .us buulmatitely, it's not a wapathy ctoitizenship. >>s it'noevt en clear whether weil- l-we will be rvieceing wo prkermits for tnthe eire thleng ofif ve years. and itll sti ds oenot take away that cloudun of ceairtnty that s.t.p. h oasver us. d anwhat is evene morsciearr, e sincit v'sery temporary. youlu cod veha another oppgosin adminitistraonom ce in and just nc ielt right off bathe ck. >>i if lo aokt it in incrtsemen eofight to ten s,year ist' definitely an imemprovent the yetwo-arnd a recently the e-onyear work auizthoratn.io >> it is e notnoh.ug rewe a gngoi to be, manyus of , tinhe next ten s,year a greoing to be again in the grips of poatrtion. >> my dad a had teibrrle deaccint. he fell ofrof a ofnd a he-- he-- heoun'ldt work anymore.

he has cr,ance a tndhe cancer bumyt daca expiremod a nth later afteatr th, iso was let , goleft withoutob a j f aor mo anth,ndt iwas really vastating. was lost. i was in f aear,ndha tt was just mia rend terhat-- that disaca not permanent. >> it's goin bg toe very disappointing, if there is no immtiigraonro pvision at all ins thipaagcke. myatgre andfather, he petitioned m fory m moand my pantres some yearsk. bac and weso, a iren this backlog. d anthkfully, in tilhe bl, there is aa visreptcaure ovioisns that woullpd he sedpe up the proincessg,o speople-- sfoo lklis ke myself with a pendintig peti, ondon't have to itec dades. i'hongpi that that othne, at becomes on te ofhero pvisison atth mak iest in b theilatl the en ad,nd so, we dowan't lkwa ay wi nhiotng.

>> right nowp., t.s.nd a daca recitspien t ohenly thing for emth in the bill isx epanded aid four edcaonti. yohe tarhem sayingwe 're ults now and we're concerned abt isth very large categyor ppleoe congress h nasot drseesd. >>ooufdrf: we also rdhea atas lt young ma snayhe ty cod d enup wnoith thg.in e thercod ulbe nothingth in e ll. whdoere est i sta?nd ts hiis one of those provis tionshai t think will ju ce omdown to the very final llca by the senate iaparlmearntian. ai tn,o do this, ait hs to owsh a budtagery effect. anthd e idea ofa pro, legiving stuso t many undumocented immigrants. they woue ld bchgeard a fee. that b's audgetary effect. isbut tt haenough forh te parliaarmentiaton say it should go through? 'lbel watching s thiday by lsdaya teh parliantmearian hereacs daecision. >> woodruff: wecat n'talk about all of what's going on withtaout lking aboutvo ting tsrigh. and ryourertpoing is that vongi rghts and filibusrte

rermt sill behoing tly debated in te hesfinal days. snaete demraocts amid all thisd ha an intseen lnu tchoday. that woward s used "intee-ns-" and it was focusn ed ovointg rits. i twanto lkta abouth wat's been gog inon the last couofple ek. ers e'been a senimse te is ruinoug t on voting right fos.rm e theris a diput ov werhat is best d forecrmoacy right now. t is it cohae ngthrue les oef th u. satene, to pass voting ri, ghtsors iit to not change the rules. t firsles t'hear from raphael warnock eof gorgia who says yes, it'se tim toh cange. >> >> the idea of the fillu br,ster whh icallows eth minority in eth senate to e routseatne, becseau u yoneed v60ot gesenalerlyn i

detor break ai flteibusr. now, the two rea asons filibustruer lise n ita ctare setonars jomae nchin and kstryen sinema. krysten si, nemai ntwa to read a statement hfer ofi gceave me, ouwht y she thinkst i stays in pltace o defend democcyra. here iats wh she wrote. "senatior sna emcontinues to sutppor 60-vote thresldho. here you see votg initself at stake. and the nasete as an institution attake. anmd deocrats wrliestngv oer dwhato ew need to do? wdoe change the rules to, in r view, prote vctoting. dweo prote tcthe itinstutn?io doand esha tt proctte demcyocra? rit w nothe truth is, though, judy tehe dmraocts do not have thvoe tes to changee th lifibuster rule. t smyources tell me p,eople inlvvoed, they arein tryg ot

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as much as it helpsh tem carry ouy t ankid nof s planth heyave kill tehelmsves. >> megthan, e obvio qusueiostn re is how is this site even up? i know you ngo ito great lengths poinrtg on the tw moen who create ad itncod ntinue to run it, but how is it stilupl and running? >> that's a atgre equstion. as ware cri oedut this investigat wion,e rewen't just ecg intogether things lo taril of deat chsonctneedo tthe site. wweere asking that very esonti. soanfay milies left behind wanted desteperalyo t see this ssitehut down. d r fothe two shadowy figures who run the sie tto be held coacuntable. w,no those two mehan d gone to grt ealengths to hidthe eir entities andpr to ott ecthe web site. ey moved their server from countries tou contry. they ucosed mpieans who allowed emth to hide who registethred e domain name. d that made it really hard to not only detect who they were t htoold them account.able there a is federal law that ovesid sweeping legal protections ebto w site

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ski again. we missed itmu so ch. >>epteorr: this resolirt, ke all rsothe aoscrs italy, closed in m 2arch02 a0,nd remained cledor f the entire -22020021 i asseon. the inrydust, clinuding ski res,sort helots and restaus,rant cotsun for $13 bil ilionn annualen revue. atll a evaporated slastean.so with tens of thodsusan ojof bs atta, kethere's a lodit ring on a successreful -lncauh. ketoha tt reboot is y'itals een pass, orid cov pasort. g iett, you have e to bfuyll vainccated, or havree a cent neti cveovid test. thout the grpaeen ssyo, u n'evt en make it o tn tohe slopes. ( transl ated t):he most imanportt inthg this year is atth you ski wite h thgrn eepass and don't get infected. we've reduced gondola and lift pacity to 80%. every day,er skis stmu match

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