leading boris johnson to impose new lockdown restrictions. they include ordering people to work from home and mask up in an effort to contain the spread. cnn s elizabeth cohen joining us with more on this. elizabeth, lots of precautions being taken here. something that the uk is certainly familiar with, even as people are highly vaccinated. reporter: that s right. but they re going back to sort of a different version of what they did months ago in trying to make things stricter, trying to put more restrictions on. let s talk about why. the before its have a great jean ohmic sequencing and surveillance system. what they have noticed is the rates of omicron going up, doubling every two to three days. now, there s lots of talk about is it so bad, equt cetera. you hate to see it getting any kind of spread. here s what the uk is doing to try to get things under control.
necessary for her to do so. she had received a message on her mobile phone, which she said was a government phone. this message had recommended that she self-isolate. finland vax tphaeuts people don t have to necessarily go into isolation but are commanded to stay within their close circle. a social media post has gone viral. she has gotten a lot of criticism for her actions. reporter: this is john allen in rome. pope francis weighed in on the case of a french archbishop forced to resign after a media expose suggested he carried on an affair with an adult woman. the now former archbishop of paris denied there was anything sexual but conceded the relationship was inappropriate. speaking money, pope francis said that the bishop had been the target of malicious gossip in the press and added that the sins of the flesh are not the most serious. now, speaking privately, vatican
captain weatherby, said brian was as tough as they come, how long leader and committed husband, father, and friend. this is a i great loss to everyone who knew him. he will be greatly missed. he is survived by a wife and five children. may his memory be a blessing. brianna. yes. we will keep his family and the entire s.e.a.l. community in our thoughts. thank you, oren. new zealand is putting cigarettes on the endangered list. they plan to outlaw smoking for the next generation so those 14 and under will never be able to buy cigarettes legally in the country. it calls for the legal smoking age of 18 to increase every year thereby creating a generation of smoke-free new zealanders. cnn covering this and other developments all around the world. reporter: i m scott mclean outside prime minister boris
have another our appraisal came in low. we have a new appraiser coming. can you come and be me. reporter: but that s not all they did. they removed any evidence that black people even lived there, a process called whitewashing. we took down everything that this home belonged to us. or to an african american family. art, pictures. even my hair products, i put them away so that someone wouldn t be tipped off by them. reporter: a different appraiser, also a white woman who visited the house in february of 2020, came back with a valuation of more than $1.4 million, an appraisal 49% higher than the previous one. in dollars, that s a $487,500 difference between two appraisals that came about three weeks apart. in federal court, the austins have sued the a fraser, gennett miller, who gave them the lower
african americans may get a higher value on their property when they remove themselves entirely from the selling process. joe johns with more on what happened to one couple in san francisco. reporter: tenisha and paul austin bought their home in the marin city of northern california in 2016. it came with a coveted view of the bay but a long to-do list. it needed a lot of work, but we were up to the task. reporter: they added a deck, a gas fireplace, and additional living space. in january of 2020, with the buildout almost finished, they decided to refinance and take some cash out of the property. they got an appraisal. it was right before covid hit. so the rates were extremely low. so we were trying to refinance to take advantage of the low rates. reporter: to their surprise, the appraiser wrote that the house was only worth 995,000 dollars.