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But if there is, we will be ready for it, particularly by the outline that the president said, and one of them is to enhance the capability of the hospitals. >> it is still teb days, but one of the things were thinking about is particularly among health care providers. we want to be care thafl we dont keep them out of action for that long period of time. the consideration of diminishing the quarantine time like wearing masks and being careful. g theyre symptomatic you want to keep them symptomat...

The right thing and the capability to do it and one of the biggest issues throughout the pandemic in the uk has been the inadequacy of the uk has been the inadequacy of the financial support for people to self—isolate when they have got symptoms or when they test positive and thats been a big issue for us all along. and so it isnt really just a question of putting all the responsibility of the on to people, yes, individually we have responsibility but everyone has to take responsibility and th...

-- president will emphasize in his speech. >> you mean the doubling time? >> no, i mean the fact that you can get symptoms within a day or two of exposure? >> yeah, well, if, i dont think is anything positive we can say about that, i think it is just a reflection of the extraordinary capability of this to transmit rapidly. and within a couple days they can be infected and transmitting it to tores. it is something that we need to take very seriously. the spread is really unprecedented in respirat...

Are potentially infectious. this is finally a step in the right direction on increasing access to rapid testing. >> omicron now makes up nearly three quarters of the new infections right now. for perspective, last week it was just 13%. this week its almost 75%. i asked dr. fauci earlier on the "today" show about this new variant and the speed with which it seems to be spreading. heres what he said. >> we know that the omicron variant is more transmissible, but its also less severe. is this an ov...

Address the nation. the president will be announcing his plan to tackle the winter surge of coronavirus as the omicron variant becomes the dominant strain in america. three weeks ago, omicron made up 1% of cases, and now the cdc says it is 73% of cases. were learning of the first known u.s. death linked to this variant, a texas man who was unvaccinated. dr. anthony fauci is stressing this morning that people should not panic and can still celebrate the holidays as long as theyre taking the right...

Dion: on abc 7 news at 6:00, small businesses in the bay area hoping for a jolly holiday shopping season. with days to go, they are offering incentives to get you to spend. >> it has an extraordinary capability of transmitting efficiently. dion: the fight against covid enters a new same time focusing on the latest variant and a rapper dies following a backstage dispute during a music festival. lapd released new information about the investigation. abc 7 news at 6:00 starts right now. announcer: ...

Proceedings because hes been arrested, and he is cooperating, enough for doj to stop what theyre doing on streka we know a high ranking oath keeper asked this question by fbi agents, were you in contact with staff members, we heard a reporter tell thompson, who offered the texts released by the committee? he said house members and staffers, the same language the fbi is using when they question oath keepers. i think things are happening, i think merick garland understands domestic terrorism, help...

So i mean i think it is important to establish that. at the same time to your point, pam, he did campaign on were going to get this under control, we are going to get the economy started again, we are going to get back to, quote, unquote, normal again. when you campaign on that, and, of course, you are going to campaign on that. youre not going to say, oh, were going to let it run wild. but when you campaign on that there is an expectation when you are president of the united states that you wil...

Spoke with chuck todd about the omicron spread. >> this is extraordinary capability of spreading its transmissibility capability. it is just raging through the world really. and if you look even here in the united states, you have some regions that start off with a few percent of the isolates that are positive going up to 30 and 40 and in some places 50%. >> joining us now -- i welcome you both. gary, you first here. we have some breaking news that the nba, even though youre outside an nfl stadi...

But i do want to give ukraine the capability to defend itself and weve not given them that opportunity under trump. we basically with held a lot of diplomatic support and material support so im trying to change that. i went to ukraine with a bipartisan group of members there and we want to make sure democracy arrive there is and make sure it survives here. by the way, they are both protected. >> youre right. it would be nice if it could survive here. that would be great. congressman, thank you, ...