stuart mcdonald, thank ou the crucial one. stuart mcdonald, thank you for— the crucial one.the crucial one. stuart mcdonald, thank you for being with - the crucial one. stuart mcdonald, thank you for being with us i the crucial one. stuart mcdonald, thank you for being with us and l thank you for being with us and giving us those answers. i want to return to the uk figures. that is an important element, it was just over 90,000 new cases yesterday. the new figure, 106,122 new cases, with another 140 deaths being reported within 28 days of a positive result. those are the uk numbers. also coming in, the reuters news agency is reporting the latest from the health ministry in italy, let me bring you up—to—date with the situation there. they are reporting 36,293 new coronavirus cases. that is coming from the health ministry, which brings us to what is happening in the rest of europe. spain has reported its highest number of daily cases since the start of the pandemic. the french health minister has said that daily cases in france are set to exceed 100,000 by the end of december,

stuart mcdonald has been following the uk data on this critical sleep. rapid growth now and admissions that were over 300 hospital admissions in london reported today and the seven the average went up from about 100 hospital admissions in london per day to 200 through the first 18 days or so of december but that doubling is accelerating now as omicron variance and the admissions driven by that become more dominant. in the last couple of hours, two early studies on the severity of 0micron in the uk have been published. imperial college london has found people are 40 to 45% less likely to need to spend a night in hospital, compared to the delta variant. and early data from edinburgh university suggests a two—thirds reduction in the risk of hospitalisation for 0micron, compared to delta, although the sample of patients studied was very small. i'm joined by the edinburgh university study�*s lead author — professor aziz sheikh— what have you found? — since we have got to the core findings here and we have been in the fortunate position of being able to track

this one, though, from stuart mcdonald, says don't get it, if vaccines work, why are we introducing newhe hashtag bbcyourquestions. 11 countries, including south africa, nigeria and zimbabwe, have been removed from the uk's travel red list. the red list was reintroduced in late november as a precaution after the emergence of the omicron variant. the bbc�*s mayenijones is in lagos and says that putting nigeria on the uk red list has affected many people in the country. it's definitely had an impact on how much trust people have. this was the first christmas in two years when nigerians felt that they were finally going to be able to either travel to the uk, but there are also lots of nigerians in the diaspora hoping to come back to nigeria and had to put those plans on hold when the country was added to the red list, so there was a lot of frustration on both sides and in both countries. i'm not sure that relations can be permanently damaged simply because, as i said before, the relations are so strong and the uk remains the most popular travel destination for most nigerians, but i certain

stuart: what about mcdonald's? lauren: new high. the drive-thru really strong. t is important. lauren: fast-food. stuart: fast-food must be fast. lauren: i agree. i hate you can't get out of the line. i tried to do that. stuart: i never drive through. i go inside. lauren: i have three kids with me all the time. i hear you. that would be faster. stuart: i hear you. i'm moving on. garmin transferring to the new york stock exchange, 21 years almost to the day after the ipo on the nasdaq. the president and ceo is cliff pemble, he joins me now. cliff, thanks for coming on the show. an important day for you. why the switch? why leave nasdaq to go to the nyse? >> thanks, stuart and good morning. over the last 21 years our stock evolved a lot, the company has evolved a lot. we diversified our position and share hold composition. this move which believe nyse bring as human element we're looking for in the trading and we believe it will help as a management team and benefit our shareholders, cliff, i always think of garmin as the gps people. i think you were the first way

stuart: $105 million coming back to mcdonald's that is a lot of money.i will be proposing in the future will make a lot of people uncomfortable and i don't care. we are past the point where what we see is even remotely acceptable and it comes to an end when we take the steps to be more aggressive with law enforcement, more aggressive with the changes in our policies, and less tolerant of all the bull [bleep] that has destroyed our city. stuart: larry elder from california. where has the mayor of san francisco been all these years? tell me. >> better late than never. this is a woman you pointed out defunded the police to the tune of $120 million. surprise, surprise, crime has gone up. when you reduce the chance of a bad guy being caught, being convicted, being incarcerated crime goes up. now she sounds like dirty harry. you and i tacked about the proverbial rock bottom california has to hit before reconsidering voting all democrats, the london breed is spotty at best. l.a. county d.a. george gascon was asked about his policies, cashless bail, decriminaliz

stuart: [laughter] byron donalds, sir you are all right i hope you do come to new york and i'll buy you mcdonald'soogle, the stock is up not much, half percentage point but there are reports that that company, google, will give a one-time bonus of $1,600 to employees worldwide, including its extended workforce, and its interns. they're doing this because of the delayed return to work, 1,600 bucks across-the-board, they can afford it. the governor of texas has created a hotline for employees to report companies that impose vaccine mandates. uh-huh, how about that? we've got the story. the transition from remote to in -person learning hasn't been easy, after months of closure, school districts say they're ses acting out, bad behavior. former education secretary bill bennett takes that on. >> ♪ we're the kids in america, everybody listens to use ic all around ♪ the living room slash yoga shanti slash regional office slash... and this is the basement slash panic room. maybe what your family needs is a vacation home slash vacation home. find yours on the vrbo app. your shipping manager left to “find th

chain officer, a new role, beyond meet is getting ready in 2022 from mcdonald's, yum brands, pepsi and executives to help them. stuartwild success as it was promoted as being in nearly days. lauren: i have yet to be behind someone in the grocery store or in line that orders beyond. stuart: would you go to a fast food operation and say give me a fast food burger? >> absolutely not. stuart: beyond meet is dead flat. blackstone, full disclosure, i own some blackstone and it is down 3.5%. >> retiring, the firm is up $5 million in common stock, retaining 80% in personal holdings, blackstone repurchasing $2 billion of common stock, stock is down 3%. stuart: i don't see the negative, when you are buying stock, that is usually good, there's got to be another reason but it is down 3.5%. stitch down 26%. this is the online clothing people. >> a couple pieces of bad news. they only added 15,000 new customers in the past quarter. you want to see a bigger build it cuts the outlook for the year, the street never liked it but they introduced a different type of shopping experience. more freestyle. it confused people and you didn't

stuart: all right, markets still show a massive gain for the dow industrials. we have got goldman, i'm sorry, mcdonald'sply. that is why the dow is such a very strong gain. susan back with us looking at movers. digital world acquisition. that has something to do with trump. susan: dwac, we'll use a lot of acronyms. trump's spac deal, blank check company that will help take mr. trump and his business public. they have received voluntary sec questions, bored communications between dwa, the spac and october 20th deal was announced. fin finra was looking at things. dwa, digital network called truth will reach 81 million users by 2026. that is based on register voters they say in the 2021 "politico" poll. i would caveat that. 86 million users is a lot. think about it, twitter, been around for 13 years at 200 million. projected based on political registered voters. stuart: we'll see in that happens. tesla way down. susan: bear market, down 20% from its recent peak. that is surprising. sub-1000 here, reports after sec subpoenaed documents from whistle-blower complaints about solar panels, lack of warning of fi