d. c. heidi, i understand that the that the evidence, the verbal evidence that has been given has finished now just what's been happening so far. it's always very difficult to read in the tea leaves exactly how these 9 justices are approaching their decision making certainly this decision is one that has been awaited for nearly 5 decades. that is, how long the anti abortion movement has been waiting for a chance to overturn roe vs wade, which could potentially make abortion illegal once again in the united states. but we did hear from the chief justice john roberts and his line of questioning this morning that he may be considering a more moderate approach approach that wouldn't overturn completely ro versus way. that would be a more narrow ruling in terms of this mississippi law. but that may open the door for more restrictive abortion laws to pass in states around the country. that certainly has been the direction we've been see across the united states. with more than a 100 state level, new restrictions on abortion kicking in this year alone. rob and i don't want it to go back to a stat

the variance has been confirmed in at least 10 states. heidi joe castro has more from washington d. c. fresh cases of alma cronner popping up the coast to coast in the u. s. from new york to california to many states in between. and particularly one case in hawaii in which the person who is infected has no recent travel history. so it is now undeniable. a community spread is happening. can you the spread of all the crowd is happening in the united states and the chief white house medical advisor anthony found she talked about this in a briefing saying that the vaccine makers were already on top of this working on multiple plans to in the case of whether or not the current vaccines work, which is still a study that's ongoing, but he says that these vaccine makers will be prepared. they do have plans that have multiple contingency. one is to wrap up the production of the vaccines that they already have. the next is to make, for example, a buy balance where you have the vaccine against both the ancestral strain and the new variant. and the other is to make a variant specific boost. the d