ah, ah, you ask for prayer prepares to crack down on russia's economy as the biden ministration lays out options for sanctioning moscow if it attacks you praying again, wall street considers the impact for global markets. also coming up argentina narrowly avoid another financial catastrophe. when us areas reaches the last minute debt restructuring deal with the international monetary fund and fridge, bakers are an uproar over back crisis. they see a supermarket chain is under cutting their ability to sell m chelsea delaney welcome to the show. the biden ministrations plans for sanctioning russia if it had been ukraine again, are taking shape us institutions would be prohibited from dealing with major russian banks and state companies. according to media reports, the biden administration is also considering banning trading in russia's government debt and blocking the export of key items like micro electronics. president biden has promised severe economic consequences for russia and president bomber putin personally, in the case of an invasion as well. busy now for more in this, i'm jo

we have the latest from washington. >> reporter: the supreme court has blocked to the biden ministration vaccine test will for you as business is less than a week after arguments before the conservative majority high court, but the justices allowed the vaccine mandate for healthcare workers and at federally funded facilities in the decision comes as the president tries to ramp up a strategy to battle the latest surge announcing the administration will double its purchase of app -- at home rapid test. >> we need 1 billion test total to meet future demand. >> reporter: he said a website rolling out next week will allow americans to sign up for the first 500 million home kits for free, a plan aimed to ease the burden on overwhelmed testing sites and emergency rooms. >> so many hospital steps are sick that we don't have enough people to take care the patients we have. >> reporter: next week additional military medical teams will deploy the hospitals in six states with staffing shortages from new york to new mexico. >> these are additional teams that were requested in december, and we are sen

the biden ministrations plans for sanctioning russia if it invades ukraine again, are taking shape us institutions would be prohibited from dealing with major russian banks and state companies. according to media reports, the biden administration is also considering banning trading and russia's government debt and blocking the export of key items like microelectronics. president biden has promised severe economic consequences for russia and president vladimir putin personally. in the case of an invasion world. busy now for more in this, i'm joined now by our financial correspondent, jens quarter in new york. so again, we're hearing reports from bloomberg that wall street banks have been briefed on these potential sanctions. what would it mean for wall street if the u. s. does come forward with these penalties itself is there is talk that we are talking here about the toughest, the sanctions against russia in a decade. and in general, disruptions in the global financial markets are never a really good news for wall street or us financial institutions. i mean, one big question a clear i

but i think the biden ministration historically and currently have been critique for not diversifying enough of the mitigation strategies, putting all the eggs in the vaccine basket. because after all, vaccines are so politicized. and you asked that if joe biden is seeing good get vaccinated and you're in red, said you, you're probably not going to do that. i think what we're seeing is that people who are not wanting to be vaccinated probably feel less queasy about getting monoclonal antibodies or getting pills or maybe doing testing. so i think these are all strategies that need to be, you know, are really ramped up. they didn't do it in time for omicron, but hopefully for the next variance. so the new variance up here regularly, just a week ago the, there were new cases of new variant in france and some say we ought to get used to corona learn to live with it. what, what's the mood there in the us among scientists and policymakers? well, i think today's news of the i h u variance from france, which doesn't stand for, i hate you very. and which, you know, we all feel at this point. i

the pandemic is the central piece of the biden ministration. he knows he was elected, he said this repeatedly, he was elected more than anything, to try and tame this pandemic. restore normalcy, but really get the nation through this virus. it's been up and down. the vaccines out, there are the boosters are available, that's great news, but so much of america are still not taking those shots. cases going up. omicron doesn't seem as deadly as delta, but still a real thing. cases are surging. schools are closing. businesses shot. americans had their lives throws upside down, again. biden ministration is going to get tests out, they have a surge in tests. hundreds of millions of tests out to americans, that's going to start next week. that will help, they hope. they also are encouraged by how quickly this variant soon to be burning through the populace. and a largely have peaked in move past -- in the months time, there's a lot of four hospitals. a lot of people sick, a lot of people dying. of course, there's no census toward variant might be down

gerry: droit what would you recommend biden ministration do other than denying the problem exist? one. a big part of the reason we are in this mess as biden came in early in his administration and approve the approve the package mentioned earlier in the last segment there was a huge amount of money to throw into an economy that was already slow down with labor troubles. it went ahead and turn off the keystone pipeline to limit petroleum and natural gas production all that's on his drive up energy prices which is one of the drivers of inflation. make this .19 a time the last time we had inflation at this level is graduating high school. i have some memory of what things were like then paid there's a lot of people if you're under 40 years old you've never seen this before. i think it will hurt biden politically as many people are going to inflation for the first time ever they are probably bewildered and confused as to what is happening. i think you've seen this before you see it again it's one thing of deflation at this level is brand-new to you i think a lot of people going to be

i think what they are trying to do is cover -- the biden ministration is trying to cover their bases.russia released video of military exercises near the ukrainian border. roughly 100,000 troops around the country on three sides, even as russia denies it is preparing to invade. >>> the u.s. is urging citizens and nonessential embassy staff to leave ukraine as it ships american-made weapons to the region. the biden administration says it may also send up to 8500 troops to back nato forces. >>> tonight, the world health organization says the rapid spread of the omicron variant offers, quote, plausible hope for a return to normalcy soon. while these surges are subsiding in some parts of the u.s., it remains relentless in others. >> we are never really going to get to herd immunity as long as only two thirds of the country is vaccinated. we need to get to 85 or 90%. >> with the winter games just over 10 days away, beijing is busy sealing off its olympic bubble and racing to test millions for covid-19 after a cluster of cases in the city. spectators are banned from the events. everyone els

texas brought a lawsuit is a biden ministration for releasing people like this. court they would not release any single adult men into the united states but instead they would comply with the title 42 and send them back. they told the court, the federal district court here in texas they would do that. they are acting contrary to what they told a federal judge were going to be asking the federal judge to put sanctions on the biden administration for not complying with the federal court order and not complying with federal law. ask your troopers, your department public safety has been doing such a great job. and yet they are looking at resources strained. >> part of the way biden seemingly allows people to increasingly come across the border is by biden reducing the resources that he is deploying to the border. texas, as a state, is deploying more resources to the border than the united states as america is a country. texas taxpayers alone and just the next two years we are spending $3 billion to secure the border. that's far more than the government is spending he

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. >>> the biden ministration is now making it easier for americans to stay on top of their covid-19 status beginning this wednesday the white house will mail out nearly half 1 million rapid test to citizens who register online. it will take 7 to 12 days to ship. also this evening a top u.s. military official is testing positive for covid-19. joint chiefs of staff general mark millie experience in very minor symptoms and currently isolating at home. the concern, the general came into contact with the president during a funeral, five days ago. moderna is working on a shot that combines a flu and covid- 19 booster into a single dose. the company's ceo made that announcement at the world economic forum this morning. the drugmaker hopes it will address concerns that people have about getting separate covid-19 and flu shots. best case scenario, it would be introduced to the public by the fall of 2023. >>> if you are looking for a covid-19 test vaccine or booster, visit our county by county resource guide on kpix 5. just click on the red banner at the top of the screen. >>> throughout the bay are

vaccine mandates that are being imposed through a regulatory, judicial theat, and you've got the biden ministration, ignoring judges that are condemning them. so i'm telling you in my lifetime, i've never seen such a sadness in chaos and brokenness across the board. just a year term go ahead in bristol i think it's really important to notice that i'm right at the beginning of the pandemic when the look towns were brought in. there was actually a financial crash, a financial crisis, a crisis in the system that was covered over by the look down. and when we had a big bailout, it wasn't a coven bailout. it was another big business bailout like we saw in 2008, but it was covered over because of course, the anger that would have arisen on the streets if people had realized were biting out big business again. because as another financial crisis would have been really extreme, and that crisis has not been recovered from it. fundamentally caused by the fact that the mass of the working class have not the money to put the demand into the economy. they can't buy the goods that they themselves have been produ

sanctions on russia and shutting down the street, and that is not perhaps the position that the biden ministration expected. they thought, you know, the germany would be great ally in this crisis and would actually take on responsibility for, you know, pioneering the toughest response to russia and will hopefully, you know, the germany here may, may or all of a sudden then perhaps to the many surprise too many here in moscow be more and more cautious than the past. we'll see if they're able to stood up to the all that pressure that's coming from from washington now, and continue on the track. and the paintings are also getting mad at germany for not as they think are doing enough before to, to, to jump to that to support. you know, i'm not doing enough to help destroy their country. i, this is really weird. patrick, you have 30 seconds left here. i think ultimately this is this gambit. denito is, i'm playing out, is going to, it's good. it is a part of the demise of nato, which i would regret, obviously. but also, the effort to separate right to, from europe will end up in my opinion, isolating eu

s. department of agriculture, which the biden ministration has not been able to overcome its been blocked by the courts in many regards. so my so sorry i why racism? yes, so in the united states, very specifically, black farmers have been dispossessed from their land from the era from the minute they were free from slavery until today. so a common phrase is that the u. s. d a was the last plantation in the united states . so this a long pattern up until today of specifically black farmers being dispossessed from the line, not being granted access to credit the same way. white farmers are given access to credit and financing. and so over the years there's been a decrease in black farmers over the years. and then if you look at other groups, indigenous people and immigrant communities, minorities, by any definition, it's hard to get into farming. but it's hard for anyone to get into farming in the united states, so there's racism. but then this is the corporate domination of the farming sector in the u. s. but also globally, obviously bank said deny that include credit worthiness on, on the

s. senate who are conducting this hearing, that the biden ministration has a messaging problem that the administration has been giving out, conflicting, and confusing information on how americans can best protect themselves from the cobit 19 of virus and in particular from the alma chron variant. now, while congressional democrats of tried to be more sympathetic to of the challenges of trying to manage the pandemic and trying to end it. senate republicans on the panel this morning are basically attacking those who are testifying, notably, dr. rochelle will lensky who is the director of the centers for disease control and prevention and doctor anthony foul. she perhaps the country's best known public health expert. this is a, a contentious hearing where they are basically accusing the administration of failing the american people and having lost the american people's trust. however, paula, we have seen dr. will and skiing, try to be diplomatic in her answers as government officials are trained to do when they testified before congress, dr. foul, she has a been accusing senators of trying

surgeon general will talk about the biden ministrations plan to distribute 500 million rapid tests and new masking guidance. you could watch the full interview on this week at 8:00 this morning. moving on, when it comes to the climate, the recent storms were welcome news. they are putting focus on a dangerous source of pollution that surges into the bay along with the storm water. new research is pointing to potential solutions. >> walk along and you will likely see trash heading toward san francisco bay. david lewis says much of it comes from the nearby freeway and local storm drains. >> every time it rains, anything on the street goes into the storm drains and into the bay unfiltered. we see this on all the freeways. >> the pollution you can see is only part of the threat. floating alongside and often invisible our micro plastics, tiny particles that could come from clothing, cigarettes, even the rubber from car tires. >> when the tire hits the road, it wears off these tiny bits of tires. they are practically microscopic. >> third effects could be devastating to salmon and other mari

hostages administration has an opportunity now to show the world secretary of state blank and biden ministrationthe center of american foreign-policy. that can be true for free the hostages. eric: that's amazing you're going to have a hunger strike you're going to vienna and hope to meet with the american negotiators or the iranian's want to get that message out the hostages really do not deal with them as a recognize human rights. >> absolute them tempting to me the iranian delegation in vienna next week. and i am tending to meet i am hopeful this will happen. but for me, the importance is this. the human beings over and above politics. it's very simple my message is straightforward, no deals with iran unless the hostages are free. i do not trust iran until the hostages are free and that is it. eric: very strong statement no doubt must the hostages are for coming from a former hostage. mr. rosen thank you for what you do. we think of you and we are thinking of you and your colleagues and what you all went through. it has not changed. >> thank you erie thank you for being with us on fox news who

the biden ministration now briefing big bags on possible russian sanctions.ow to fill the seat of retiring justice stephen breyer. we begin with another real-world example of our aging infrastructure. a bridge collapse in pittsburgh on the same day president biden is traveling to the city to push his economic agenda and promote the benefits of the bipartisan infrastructure law. that is where we begin with bloomberg's goverenem

talks will— the biden ministration response. he incident at walney school, near barrow—in—furness. he's now in a stable condition in hospital. cumbria police said they have arrested a 16—year—old boy. he's being questioned on suspicion of grievous bodily harm. mr beatty said the tweets were pretty horrific and he was deeply ashamed of them. however he has denied that he is a racist or misogynist. an investigation into the fire that destroyed glasgow school of art in 2018 has failed to find a cause. investigators spent more than three years probing the blaze, but said the damage was so bad that any possible evidence was lost. the fire broke out during a multi—million pound restoration of the world—renowned charles rennie mackintosh building following another fire four years before. the uk's metropolitan police has said it's now investigating multiple events at downing street and across government, to see whether there were breaches of covid restrictions. up until now, the met has taken no action — and has been criticised by some b

more than 100 brought public and lawmakers are pushing for a thorough review of the biden ministrationons during the ongoing border crisis. we have the latest on the border battle tonight from south texas. the video from a law-enforcement source shows a single massive group of about 400 migrants who crossed illegally into texas on wednesday night. border patrol photos show the size of that group with the center chief himself saying this was no coincidence. it was orchestrated by criminal elements for money. the night before the exact same thing happened, photos from border patrol show another group of 400 after they crossed illegally in eagle pass tuesday night. here in the rio grande valley, they tracked him on runners in the brush hoping to of fade near texas. two men of this group were from china. in just the first three months of fiscal cure 2022, there's been more than half a million migrant encounters here at the southern border. that is more than doubled the first three months of fiscal year 2021. meanwhile the agency is allowing illegal immigrants to use our pressed warrants an

people are coming here illegally there be encouraged by the biden ministration, they are not interestedge americans are struggling. they work hard come the by the rules about the president of the united states on this administration encouraging this level of lawlessness it is unconscionable. elizabeth: we have got reporting from townhall. telling border patrol agents to worse now than ever. it's the worst we've seen in a generation at least 20 years, your final word? >> he has failed at the highest level he ought to quit or be fired it's a total disaster. as i said today, every state is a border state. we are all suffering the consequences of this terrible leadership. again the states are going to continue to fight back and win. elizabeth: got it missouri at ten attorney general eric schmitt thank you for joining us it's good to see you. i am elizabeth mcdonnell even watch "the evening edit" on foxbusiness rate thank you so much for watching hope you have a great weekend. join us again monday night. ♪ ♪ >> from fox studios in new york city. and happy weekend to all welcome to the progra

the chief science adviser to the biden ministration. an honor to have time with you. thank you for making time. >> thank you for having, me rachel. >> the president said, if you're vaccinated and boosted you should look at these rising case numbers and this current wave with concern, but not with alarm. i will tell you, honestly, i feel alarmed, looking at the hospitalization numbers rising so steeply. i was not alarm about the case numbers rising, because we have been told, and you have explained that the cases are more mild. they're not necessarily as more as threatening. seeing the hospitalization numbers going up so steeply, when the hospitals were already tax, i'm worried about that. >> so, let's go through what we know. first, cases are everywhere. yes, there is an increase in hospitalizations, and my friends in the icu units, they are crushed. no question, increase in hospitalization. i think we are seeing something fundamentally different. that could change, this could be due to the variant, it could be due to the extent of the

this is coming after the supreme court rejected the biden ministrations mandate for vaccine or testing at companies with more than 100 workers. if you want to stay up-to-date with the latest covid headlines, we have more information on our website at abc7news.com/coronavirus. reggie: the search is on for a person who left a fake pipe bomb in downtown oakland. it was backed away for hours while law enforcement investigated. our news reporter has more on what was inside. reporter: sky seven wednesday afternoon captured this moment. a bomb technician with the alameda county sheriff's office picking up what was originally believed to be a possible pipe bomb. officials now say it was a fake, with a note inside address to law enforcement. >> i would call this a hoax device designed to obviously get our attention when the bomb squad does its work. from there, it obviously caused us several hours of work. reporter: federal protective services saw someone put the device under the flagpole in front of the federal building. it was evacuated and's running streets were closed off. all afternoon, th

the ruling comes as we're seeing a spike in covid cases and as the biden ministrations boosts efforts to get more americans vaccinated. the court's conservative majority concluded the administration overstepped his authority by seeking to impose the vaccine or test rule on us businesses with at least 100 workers. schools in marin county have relaxed some of the rules about when and how long students and teachers have to quarantine after being exposed to a positive covid case. ktvu erasmus life in the newsroom with what's changed ali? well, one of the biggest changes mike marine county schools are doing away with the automatic 10 day quarantine for kids and staff who test positive for covid. here's what they will now do. if a person tests positive, it has no symptoms or their symptoms resolved quickly. they can test again on day five, and if they're negative, they can go back to school. it's becoming more more nuanced, um, so that people would be able to return to school. um rather than automatically, um, being out for 10 days. this is actually something that's a statewide guide, and w

walgreens is one of the several chains expected to start handing out free n95 masks from the biden ministrations today, walgreens tells usa today . participating stores will have signs up once those masks are available. right eight, also says some locations will have the masks today and that more will be offered on a rolling basis over the next two weeks as they're delivered. walmarts safeway, cbs and other pharmacies are also expecting shipments in the next week. there's a limit of three masks per person and the process to pick up the masks varies from store to store more than 1000. teachers in west contra costa county are threatening to strike unless their school district agrees to a list of covid safety protocols by tonight. ktvu reporter amanda quintana, live in our newsroom to get us up to date here. amanda united teachers of richmond, the union that represents teachers in the west, contra costa unified school district says if it doesn't come to an agreement with the district by tonight, a majority of its members will support a strike vote. that strike would start sometime next week. but so

about half house minority leader kevin mccarthy is blasting the biden ministrations and democrats accusingotaging quote what should have been a v shaped recovery. the omicron variant, potentially throwing a wrench into the country's economic growth to stoking uncertainty among employers. labor secretary marty walsh is preparing for a possible hit and jobs numbers come january. the only crime variant could have some impact on next month's report. there's no question about it, but right now we're focused on continue moving our economy getting our recovery moving forward. the unemployment rate is likely to keep the federal reserve on track to raise interest rates this year. with inflation eating into wage gains when inflation gets out of control. then what has to happen is that you need really, really big interest rate hikes to get it back under control, and the president is signaling more optimism. covid as we're dealing with it now. is not here to stay. the new normal is not going to be what it is. now it's going to be better. the biggest job gains were in leisure and hospitality, but many

missing economists expectations about half house minority leader kevin mccarthy is blasting the biden ministrationsusing them of sabotaging quote what should have been a v shaped recovery. the omicron variant, potentially throwing a wrench into the country's economic growth to stoking uncertainty among employers. labor secretary marty walsh is preparing for a possible hit and jobs numbers come january. the only crime variant could have some impact on next month's report. there's no question about it, but right now we're focused on continuing moving our economy getting our recovery moving forward. the unemployment rate is likely to keep the federal reserve on track to raise interest rates this year. with inflation eating into wage gains when inflation gets out of control. then what has to happen is that you need really, really big interest rate hikes to get it back under control, and the president is signaling more optimism. covid as we're dealing with it now. is not here to stay. the new normal is not going to be what it is. now it's going to be better. the biggest job gains were in leisure and hos

health officials warn of waning protections from the initial doses, despite the decision that biden ministrations continues to urge americans to stay up to date on their virus protection by getting booster shots when eligible. if you're fully vaccinated, and especially if you've gotten a booster shot. if you're eligible for a booster shot. you're highly protected. and it's very unlikely that you will get seriously ill. but if your unvaccinated you have a good reason to be concerned. if you get covid, you're at a high risk of getting severely ill. being hospitalized and even dying. the decision to keep the initial definition of fully vaccinated means that federal vaccine mandates for travel or employment will not require a booster dose are covid-19 coverage continues in just a few minutes. coming up a little later in this newscast will discuss fighters antiviral covid pills with the local infectious disease expert. we now know the identity of the alameda county sheriff's recruit who was shot on the freeway in oakland. late yesterday afternoon, the 28 year old was killed on his drive home from a da

missing economists expectations about half house minority leader kevin mccarthy is blasting the biden ministrations of sabotaging quote what should have been a v shaped recovery. the omicron variant, potentially throwing a wrench into the country's economic growth to stoking uncertainty among employers. labor secretary marty walsh is preparing for a possible hit and jobs numbers come january. the only crime variant could have some impact on next month's report. there's no question about it, but right now we're focused on continuing moving our economy getting our recovery moving forward. the unemployment rate is likely to keep the federal reserve on track to raise interest rates this year. with inflation eating into wage gains when inflation gets out of control. then what has to happen is that you need really, really big interest rate hikes to get it back under control, and the president is signaling more optimism. covid as we're dealing with it now. is not here to stay . the new normal is not going to be what it is. now it's going to be better. the biggest job gains were in leisure and hospitality,

this is something a biden a ministration should have seen it for the have known we have people travelingcannot get tests. i know i've been to cvs many times we had family in town. everyone is looking for these tests in the biden administration failed yet again. >> you look back on the events i need think about how president trump handled covid. it was obviously a new virus we knew nothing about it, with no test no vaccine for to work with the private sector he really pushed to make sure those things were there and essentially handed those tools over too this administration. therapeutics were out there as well. all they had to do was ramp up the supplies just to make sure we had enough for everybody. they push real hard on vaccines but seemed to drop the ball on everything else. >> they absolutely did. the trumpet demonstration that a herculean effort they got ppe they got the testing done, they got vaccines they made sure the therapeutics were available. all of that was done he handed to biden and biden dropped the ball it was a major fumble and now we are in a position more people havin

but as fox news, lauren blanchard tells us, that's not the only covid related challenge the biden ministrationswith this week. us hospitalizations reached a new record high topping more than 141,000. americans now admitted with covid-19 as the white house tries to slow the spread. the supreme court may stop the president's vaccine mandates. a decision is imminent from the justices on whether the federal government can require businesses with more than 100 employees to force vaccination or regular testing. there's criticism of justice sonia sotomayor when, during oral arguments on the mandates, she overstated the number of kids hospitalized with covid, and we don't need the supreme court making decisions based on wrong facts, also creating a problem for the federal government. the lack of available tests as the white house waits for their promised 500 million at home rapid tests we want to ensure that there's not only that physical test but the ability to distribute them, which is what we're working through now. a group of 51 u. s representatives and senators are urging the president to take mor

companies nationwide will be required to reimburse people for at home covid test kits that biden ministrationsnounced it has doubled the number of tests it will send out for free. ktvu jana katsuyama joins us live with the ways you can get a test and some of the challenges ahead, janna. greg the fda has already approved dozens of these at home and to covid test for emergency use, but finding one can be a challenge. so many people are going online. and starting next week, there will be new websites to help you find one swapping your nose to test for the coronavirus might not feel so great. but getting at home test kits for free. take some of the sting out of your wallet. i had already bought some. but if there's free one, i'm going to pick some more. the new policy starting saturday allows americans with private insurance to be reimbursed for up to eight of the at home covid test kits for each family member every month. getting tests right away, though, could be a big challenge. many pharmacy shelves are empty, waiting for supplies to catch up after people stocked up for holiday gatherings and