i'm michael hill, in for hari sreenivasan.i and the newshour weekend team have left us some christmas gifts-- a selection of some of their favorite arts, entertainment, and technology stories from this year. despite the challenges of covid-19, artists and authors tried out ideas that sometimes sprang from the need to work and communicate in new ways. hari will have those stories from the creative world, coming up. but, we begin with today's news headlines. this holiday weekend, the spread of omicron covid-19 variant led to staffing shortages and delays in airline travel, with 900 flights cancelled today in the u.s., after nearly 700 cancellations yesterday. more than 5,700 flights around the world were canceled from friday to sunday, according to flight aware. the northern chinese city of xi'an, in its third day of strict lockdown, had the highest number of flight cancellations. the united kingdom reported a record 122,000 new cases yesterday. in london, residents lined up to get vaccinated at centers where health workers some

i'm michael hill, in for hari sreenivasan. we will be bringing you more of our favorite stories today. the weekd newshour team has selected some of their best nature and environmental reporting from the past year and hari will have those stories coming up. but we begin with the ne that archbishop desmond tutu has died at the age of 90. tutu's passionate voice helped end south africa's brutal apartheid regime that oppressed its black majority for decades. >> we raise r hands and we say, "we will be free, all of us, black and white together, for we are marching to freedom. >> hill: archbishop desmond tutu was an anglican bishop and a leader of the anti-apartheid movement in south africa. born in 19, he followed in his father's footsteps, becoming a high school teacher. he then switched paths to become an anglican priest. tutu was on the frontline fighting for freedom and equality in south africa, where racially segregated apartheid began in 1948. >> we know, we know, we shall overco the evil. >> hill: in 1984, tutu won the nobel

michael mon hill on out 0 ah, investigating the use and abuse of power across the globe on al jazeera. ah hello norm tainer and under the top stories lounge 0 krenover infections of hit record levels. with more than 6 and a half 1000000 cases around the world in the past week, the head of the world health organization says the combination of delta and omicron variance is creating a tsunami of cases worldwide. france, is it a european record in the past day, with another 208000 cases? hospital admissions and deaths remain low world wide, but rich nations are still in for criticism. rolling out 3rd shots when people in poor nations struggle to get one.

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hill. >>> instagram is in the hot seat. i'm michael test 22 lawmakers and what steps the app is taking to keep teen users safe. >>> a new storm is expected to dump fresh snow on ski resorts, a look at the conditions and wanting tonight. >>> i'm john ramus in mountain view where the median home price is more than $1.5 >>> you are watching kpix 5 news at 5:30. >>> right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, scott peterson resentenced to life in prison where the legal fight is not over yet. what is next in the case? >>> the head of instagram grilled by lawmakers. why they say the app is not doing enough to protect kids. >>> for startup stories at 5:30. after a dry winter, fresh snow is covering the sierras. good evening, i'm elizabeth took. >> enough snow with the next the storm and reporter brian hoffman shows us how one ski resort in tahoe is getting ready. >> reporter: the tahoe area is finally starting to see some snow, and you can see the snowmaking equipment they have over it. mt. rose ski tahoe does plan on opening up by fr

hill. i should mention we were going to have michael steele on but we're running short on time so we're going hill. leeann. >> reporter: hey, ari, that's right. any minute this select committee is going to convene and these proceedings are usually very quick. they will give opening statements by the chair and voice chair bennie thompson che immediately after on the contempt resolution. this is something the committee has done before. steve bannon was first and department of justice official was second and now, the former chief of staff to the former president mark meadows. what's interesting about meadows is he was a member of congress. he was the rankling member of the oversight committee before he became chief of staff and used to bristol when administration officials neglected to appear before the committee and cooperate with congress. now he's failed to cooperate and come before the committee to be deposed. meanwhile, though, before he decided not to cooperate, he did turnover 9,000 pages of documents with which the committee says they received lots of information about his role leading u

which the director will talk about when we get to her report and very exciting things that barb hill and michael himes and clean power sf group is work on over sfpuc and i am a bit troubled, troubled on a lot of levels about a lot of things, but as the climate crisis seems very evident along with the covid crisis and various other things in the world, it doesn't seem to be -- it does not seem to me like the department and this commission are as -- what is a good word? central to the conversation in the city and showing as much leadership in the country and the world as we should be. and if you are not getting nearly the credit for it. and i would ask you as we end this year and look into 2022 that we find ways to increase relevance and the prominence of the department and the commission and that may be a variety of ways i would leave that to the commission, the director, charles, and various folks to figure out how to vote. and i just leave you with that thought. we are doing exciting and important work, but for some reason i don't think it's getting out there as much. maybe it is because of the

hill. we're joined by kron 4 political analyst. >> michael yaki and michael, good morning.hank you for joining us. yeah. this kind of came out of left field for a lot of lawmakers. >> you know, this is this is the kind of situation where you start joe manchin as the grinch who stole christmas and certainly for the democrats. that's exactly what we think of in terms of weather as hard as 2 sizes too small. this was you can tell by the reaction of the white house. in fact, behind the scenes mansion didn't even bother calling the president. he said an aide to the white house to just let him know i'm going to go on fox news and say no, i'm not even the courtesy of a phone call when they tried to call him back. i mean that you need senior aides in the white house. they were met basically no sorry. call back later. >> clearly a bit of whiplash because it seemed like they were getting to some sort of agreement there. >> i was never really sure if they were really going to get an agreement. certainly not the 2.2 trillion that they were looking at. continually made throughout that e

you will see the capitol hill rioter breaking down in tears during his interrogation. he admits he tased officer michael fanone and what he then says next. >>> tonight, the new report claiming then-president trump tested positive for covid three days before his debate with president biden. but went on with the debate anyway. >>> the first look right here tonight of the abc news exclusive with actor alec baldwin. an emotional baldwin with george stephanopoulos, saying, "i didn't pull the trigger." also tonight, news on that chinese tennis star and her safety. >>> and the construction workers accidentally setting off a world war ii bomb. >>> good evening and it's great to have you with us here on a wednesday night and we begin tonight with the news that that new variant, the omicron variant, has been detected here in the united states. the first case confirmed in california. a traveler who returned from south africa three days before thanksgiving. that person vaccinated but hadn't gotten the booster yet. they got tested after developing mild symptoms. authorities tonight say close contacts have been reach

hill. we're joined by kron 4 political analyst. >> michael yaki and michael, good morning. thank you for joining us. yeah. this kind of came out of left field for a lot of lawmakers. >> you know, this is this is the kind of situation where you start joe manchin as the grinch who stole christmas and certainly for the democrats. that's exactly what they think of in terms of weather as hard as 2 sizes too small. this was you can tell by the reaction of the white house. in fact, behind the scenes mansion didn't even bother calling the president. he said an aide to the white house to just let him know i'm going to go in fox news and say no, i'm not even the courtesy of a phone call when they tried to call him back. i mean that you senior aides in the white house. they were met basically no sorry. call back later. >> clearly a bit of whiplash because it seemed like they were getting to some sort of agreement there. >> i was never really sure if they were really going to get an agreement. certainly not the 2.2 trillion that they were looking at. continually made throughout that en

hill. >> i want to bring in political analyst michael genovese. he joins me now from los angeles.at to have you with us. >> thank you. >> so overall, how do you think president biden's address to the nation on the covid pandemic and of course the omicron threat? did he hit all the points needed or did he fall short, do you think? >> well, he had to walk a tightrope between optimism and pessimism. so he had to give two different speeches to two different audiences. on the one hand, one speech was to the vaccinated where he said it's a cautionary tale. it was a warning, but it was also a kind of reassurance that we'll be okay. we'll get out of it. then he was also speaking to the unvaccinated, which was the horror story of his speech. a dark winter is upon us, and things are going to go from bad to worse. you know, it's been the unvaccinated that have caused so many of the problems. and as i tell my students all the time, you can't fix stupid. if people aren't going to help themselves, there's very little you can do. and that's where biden is really going to have a problem. he's got

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instagram testified on capitol hill fending off questions from angry lawmakers who say the social media giant is not doing enough to protect children on line. as michael>> we all want teens to be safe on line -- >> reporter: instagram ceo adam mosseri said keeping teen users safe goes beyond his company. >> this is an industry-wide challenges that requires industry-wide solutions and industry-wide standards. >> a body setting standards is not the same as an independent one. >> reporter: he says instagram is already creating age-appropriate experiences for young users and supporting teens who may be struggling. ahead of the hearing, the platform launched new safety features including updated parental controls and reminders for teens to take breaks. lawmakers were critical. >> the middle of the night is when you drop news that you don't want people to see. >> they could have been announced years ago. they weren't, and in fact, these changes fall way short. >> reporter: the hearing comes just months after a facebook whistleblower turned over internal documents appearing to show the social media company was aware instagram may cause depression and anxiety

our senior capitol hill correspondent garrett haake joins me now. also with now, michael beschloss.iden served alongside bob dole, knew him well. he'll be among the speakers at today's ceremony. what are we expecting? >> i expect we'll hear from the president, similar to remarks to what we heard yesterday, in which he lionized former senator dole as someone who is absolutely a fierce partisan. someone who is going to fight for what he believes, what his party believes, but someone that puts democracy and the country first. and dole really exemplified that ideal of service, of political service, from the time he was in the military, all the way through his congressional career and long afterwards. but i think it's the idea that you can be so fiercely partisan, but set those things aside to put country first that will be a thematic element we heard from the president yesterday and again today. >> there is a lot to say about bob dole, his service in world war ii, his time in congress, but also about how he continued to serve long after he left political life. what would you expect to h

hill about the apps potential negative impacts on teenagers. the app, owned by facebook's parent company, mehta, has been under the microscope for months. michael george reports from new york. >> we all want teenagers to be safe online. >> reporter: instagram ceo adam told congress that keeping users safe goes just beyond his company. >> this industry body setting standards is not the same as an independent one. >> creating age inappropriate standards for young users and supporting teens who may be struggling. the app launched new safety features including updated parental controls and reminders for teens to take breaks. lawmakers were critical. >> the middle of the night is when you drop news that you don't want people to see. >> it could have been announced years ago it was not, and in fact, these changes fall short. >> the hearing comes months after a facebook whistleblower turned over internal documents appearing to show the social media company was aware that instagram may cause depression and anxiety, especially for some teenage girls. >> you think it does create insecurity within teenagers, making them feel like they don't look a certain

. >>> a live look at capitol hill, and new legal action in the house and the committee investigating the january 6th siege. michael flynn is suing. flynn's attorney accuses the committee of overreaching claiming flynn had nothing to do with the riot. the white house is not commenting, nor is the justice department. >>> the agency says criminals stole nearly 100 billion, yes, billion with a "b" dollars. hundreds of millions of dollars were sent through green dot and paypal. the secret service say they have more than 900 active investigations. >>> one southern california man on the road to recovery after getting covid has a message for everybody. he was a personal trainer and considered himself very healthy. when he got covid he lost 40 pounds and currently needs oxygen to help him breathe. castro was unvaccinated due to a adverse reaction to medications while being treated to pancreatitis. >> i do believe that you need to look at your family. you need to look at everything around you. you need to decide what you value in your life. >> after improving, doctors say he can go home for the holidays. >>> san francisco l

michael ryan says, "we have more uncertainty now." hello, again, i've got a really stunning weather watcher picture to start off with, showing sunny weather across the hillsow the weather has been across the uk. no area is cloudy and misty and western and higher areas have seen almost a clear weather and sunshine pretty much the whole day. overnight, where we keep clearer skies across parts of scotland, it turns cold. lowest impetus could get down to about —8 in some of the deeper glens. the low cloud keeping frost free elsewhere but there will be some mist and fog patches as we head into monday morning. for some, quite murky. through the day, the area of cloud coming across eastern scotland and eastern areas of england should be more prone to thinning and breaking. overall, through the afternoon, you might well find it being on the brighter side. temperatures around 6 or 7 degrees celsius. this quiet weather is going to last into the middle part of the week but, as we get close to christmas, it gets more interesting. colder from the north. some of you might even see a bit of snow later in the week. this is bbc news, i'm martine croxall. the headlines at

hill. thank you for laying all of that out. >>> let's bring in former federal prosecutor michael zelden, host of the podcast. help me out here. what is meadows up to? we report last week that he is cooperating. the exact contours of that were never clear. now all of a sudden after providing 6,000 pages of documents voluntarily, he says, no, i'm actually not going to cooperate, after we also learned that the house has subpoenaed all of their phone records. what do you think is going on? >> well, i think that he's really falling back on his original position, which is trump asserted executive privilege. y i don't want to defy trump. so i'm going to stand silent until the executive privilege claim is litigated in the courts. and we know now that december should be the date when the court of appeals rules on that executive privilege claim. >> and we'll see whether he complies after that or whether he still tries to fight it and tries to say, actually, my position vis-a-vis is different because bannon was a former white house aide. i was actually there on january 6. let's put that aside for a second. the committe

michael cohen weighed in on meadows' text messages. >> i think mark meadows is the dumbest a-hole on the hill, to be very honest with you. i'm watching and i'm seeing these 9,000 texts, e-mails, from who-to-who-to-who, and i wonder -- i know for a fact that there were more, but i wonder is why these 9,000 -- who's the next one to be thrown under the bus? and the way it looks like to me, it looks like a few people, and mark meadows is certainly going to be one of them. and i think don junior is potentially another. >> now, this is significant. because meadows' text messages aren't the only one in the committee's possession and they're becoming central pieces of evidence. last week, ali alexander, who founded the stop the steal movement, sat down for eight hours -- this isn't him, so let's take him off the screen, sat down for eight hours with the january 6th committee. yesterday, we found out a little bit about his deposition. alexander reportedly told the committee about his communications with a trio of congressmen. alexander has previously claimed that, quote, we four schemed up to put maximum measure on congress. to d

national security adviser to president trump, michael flynn, is no surprise is now suing the committee to politic its subpoenas. joining me now, capitol hillspondent, league ann caldwell, and joyce vance, a msnbc legal analyst and former attorney in alabama. joyce, war the next steps? how is this showdown going to play out between a member of congress and his colleagues that he has to see every single day. >> that's a great question, steph. and the committee has not said yet what it's going to do. but it says it has options and it's going to keep those options open. the committee thinks that representative perry is instrumental into their investigation. he was a person who worked with the administration to try to implement jeffrey clark, a doj official, to replace the acting attorney general, so that they could try to overturn these election results, or at least put out a statement saying that the results were, in fact, wrong. of course, those are all false statements. but, you know, we're waiting to see. this committee has some options. they can do like they did with mark meadows and steve bannon and refer criminal contempt charges to the

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hill residents were terrified. district residents around the city were terrified. district police officers were injured. think again about michael voted for president trump in 20 16, dragged down the capitol steps, beaten with polls, sprayed with bear spray, chemical spray, god knows what else, tasered, shocked, heart attack, concussion. we need recompense and penalties for that conduct. >> i don't believe he was shot -- >> shocked. >> shocked. >> yes, with tasers. >> tased indeed. we're going to be following this. you have a lot of legal efforts under way now and we'll be tracking them. thank you so much. >> thank you so much for having me. >>> new accusations that south dakota governor kristi noem abused her position in order to get her daughter a job. >>> and just in, oxford community schools in michigan closing again as the community remains concerned about threats weeks after the school shooting there. why they're, quote, not ready to return. [sfx: radio being tuned] welcome to allstate. ♪ [band plays] ♪ a place where everyone lives life well-protected. ♪ and even when things go a bit wrong, we've got your back. here, thing

hill. that's not the america they see. >> and to that point, michael, and i want to get your view on mtg ines, there is something extremely off-putting about the natconpublic pose. i find many of them parming, warm and friendly. if there is one expression of sympathy or grace uttered from the i'm sorry, uttered from the podium in orlando, i did not hear it. but i did hear callousness, invocations of combat and brutality. >> yeah. i think you can dress it up, but it still is what it is. that is the root -- at the root of what animates and motivates, to stuart's point, the grievances. this is about a changing country, the dynamics involved in that. it's about identifying the enemy, the opposition, to own. so we're going to own the libs. you know, when you read david's piece, which is an incredibly good piece, very insightful, and the way he describes they're talking about these natcons talking about liberalism, like aoc, et cetera, they're like the horny devilled creature that you must eradicate. it is a very important shift away from the last 60 or 70 years of politics, both here in washingt

the main christmas tree on capitol hill is now shining bright, thanks in part to house speaker nancy pelosi and 1/5 grader from northern california. 321 michaellast night, speaker pelosi hosted the tree lighting ceremony. the boy who flipped the switch is michael mavericks of crescent city. he was chosen in a nationwide competition after writing an essay about the spirit. of the land and its indigenous people. the 84 ft fall tree is from northern california as well near the city of eureka in the six rivers national forrest, president biden and vice president harris will attend the national christmas tree lighting tonight. alright that does it for noon. but you can always find more news at the ktvu news app and, of course, ktvu .com. thank you for joining us today. long day for you. yes ma'am, but you'll make it. we'll see you tomorrow morning at four am for mornings on two. thanks for joining us on two. thanks for joining us announcer: next "oz." >> they monitor your eating on an hourly basis. announcer: how did one woman found an entire religion based on a diet workshop. >> if you don't lose weight, you're not allowed to come to church. anno

michael flynn's brother, charles flynn, of, quote, outright perjury. he says he heard general flynn say that optics of a national guard presence on capitol hill was an issuetified to a congressional committee, he said under oath, i did not use the word optics, nor did i hear the word used during the call on january 6th, 2021. join us is madeleine dean of pennsylvania, member of the house judiciary committee and was an impeachment manager for the second impeachment trial of donald trump. thank you very much for joining us tonight. what is your reaction to roger stone joining the group defying the subpoenas along with mark meadows? >> thank you for having me, lawrence. i'm not surprised in the least. you used a word that in my notes and preparation for talking with you i used. it's a gang. it's a gang of thugs, many of them. i'm not surprised that they would do this kind of stuntsmanship. they're afraid of actually what they're culpable of. otherwise they would simply come forward and say i'll tell you everything i know. it's important that we learn what happened on january 6th. i have to tell you, i was listening from the top of the hour. i was so pleased

michael scott levels of self-awareness. they think that them going after joe manchin is going to hurt joe manchin, that is hilarious to me. there was an article in "the hills saying what needs to happen is joe biden needs to get really tough with joe manchin. and he needs to taken by the collar and shaken and tell him or do you think that is going to work? joe biden's popularity in west virginia is probably -- i can't even imagine what the number actually is. so they are doing themselves a huge disservice. but of course, what you said, what they should have done is to say -- biden could have said i know we wanted to do all of these things, and thankfully we got the senate, but we only have it by 2. but therefore, the scale back our clients, let's and it would probably be like 55% approval. instead, they are just spiraling downward. >> harold, you are bright man. some say almost as bright as me. could you argue that the squad provides a beneficial role by delineating the moderates and the party? they make everyone else look sane by being there so the democrats don't mind having the squad throwing a tantrum now and then? what do you think of that? >> you kn

>> michael, you're right in this is an act of defiance. the president's approach to the hill.esident have a good relationship. and talked to biden's inner circle on a near daily basis. it was a personal call that got them around that $175 trillion number. at some point the president will push. they want to make sure it gets done and gives them something to run in the midterms next year. >> maybe they could concentrate on getting joe biden his ambassadors and keeping republicans in town until they go through every ambassador for two hours. >>> that would be helpful. time magazine reveals its athlete and entertainer of the year. who the two picks were next on "morning joe." like pulsing, electric shocks, sharp, stabbing pains, or an intense burning sensation. what is this nightmare? it's how some people describe... shingles. a painful, blistering rash that could interrupt your life for weeks. forget social events and weekend getaways. if you've had chickenpox, the virus that causes shingles is already inside of you. if you're 50 years or older ask your doctor or pharmacist about

michael flynn lost his legal challenge to block a subpoena for his own phone records. he filed suit yesterday. does this quick response mean something different that the committee is not facing an up hillhink it certainly telegraphs it at least in the flynn case, there's not much to that objection to the subpoena, right, and as we know, the standard for a subpoena is essentially simple relevance, the subpoena needs only to be geared to collect evidence that's relevant to the inquiry that's underway. i find it hard to believe that any of these suits will ultimately prevail. what they will do in the meantime is delay. they will drag these procedures out, force the committee in the subpoenas, and that's a problem as the clock is ticking over these folks' work. >> our clock has come to an end as well. andrew mccabe, nice to see you tonight. >> thank yous, laura. you too. >> you too. >> thank you all for watching. our coverage continues. i'll shoot you an estimate as soon as i get back to the office. hey, i can help you do that right now. high thryv! thryv? yep. i'm the all-in-one management software built for small business. high thryv! help me with scheduling? sure thing. up top. high thr

michael gallup. he did as you'll see on the replay keep both feet in. that's a great touch. throw a great catch. seven. nothing cowboys in front. dallas defense four interceptions tonight. saints taste some hille least picked up by carlos watkins. and the big man will score the touchdown that put this thing over with and 29 yard return. 27 17 final cowboys having fun again, eight and four. their record. the saints are five and seven, which in a way kind of benefits. the san francisco 49 ers. alright, you know about the golden state warriors playing the sun's tomorrow night, but we this evening had nba history the widest margin of victory ever. in a game and okay, see is on the butt end of it. memphis humiliating. the thunder struck right here as you'll hear about the final in a minute that was shake, melt and going to the wreck. brandon clark will follow with another dunk look at the defense or lack thereof. they weren't interested in that. and here's the final score, not a misprint. 1 52 to 79 no team has ever lost by a wider margin. kind of like a european soccer. i think, okay, c should be sent down a league raucous crowd low. can you talk college basketball st mary's handles the noise tie

michael bolan, cheefr chief park planner, points out some highlights. >> there will be a big ball bowl right here and this will be the campfire. >> reporter: there are benches designed to mimic the hillsmarin made from the fallen cypress trees. >> trees which made it so beautiful for 150 years is like a second life. the area where the team is working right now, that is all going to be lawn. >> reporter: there's a terrace. >> each terrace is designed for people to throw out a picnic blanket. >> reporter: the park will also feature what many will probably consider a kid's paradise. >> which is two acres of nature play where kids can really connect to nature. lower building on the right is a new art and science lab. and then right in front of us is the new field station. when this is done, it will be like a giant walk-in exhibit full of all of these nooks and crannies where kids can explore. >> you can see the boulders. we have woods. there is going to be water. it's manmade but it's going to feel like you're in nature. >> reporter: like the cherries on a cake, crews are planting trees and grasses which will cover the twin tunnels. on the lower end, plants will take their cues from coast

hill to climb. senate majority leader chuck schumer says he wants a vote early next year. joining me now texas congressman michaelack to the house for you and your colleagues to vote first because he's going to have to change the bill entirely, right? >> that's correct. but first off, merry christmas to you as well, maria. look, everyone knew that the vote was going to have -- the bill was going to have to come back to the house. what was not known was how much it was going to change. i'm not sure now that it can even make it back to the house because when they bring it back up on the senate floor, doesn't sound like senator manchin is there. we don't know if there are other senators who also had serious misgivings, they just went public about them because they didn't have to because senator manchin was taking the heat but it was never going to be the senate passing the bill, the house sent over there, it was an awful bill. the hopes was something better would of come back. now looks like maybe it's dead in the water, and maybe that's a good thing for the country. maybe we should go back to our committees start g