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Into that build back better and passed. >> the administration estimated the tax credit cut child poverty by 50%. immediate real world impacts. christine romans thanks so much. >> youre welcome. stock futures are responding, not surprisingly to the build back better news not positive at all. look at the numbers there, just minutes from the opening bell on wall street, all three indices are down, especially the dow, investors concerned as well that new shutdowns, precautions tied to the omicron ...

Communications from allie alexander and organizers of the stop the steal rally. among the communications are messages from lawmakers and members of trumps inner circle. alexander is such a key witness for the committee looking into the days and weeking up to january 6th because he can potentially help them understand how is this rally organized? how was it funded and erupt into violence? we could see more witnesses this week. >> how it was organized, who helped. paula, thank very much. moments...

70% to 75% of the covid inpatients that we currently have are unvaccinated. about 90% of those patients in the icu are unvaccinated. so getting vaccinated is incredibly important. >> so if as the numbers seem to show to this point, that the surge were seeing in this country is still largely driven by the delta variant, in other words, we have not been hit by the worst of omicron yet, even as it begins to show up in most states around the country, where you are, youre already overwhelmed today. w...

Airlines did say that as infections ticked up, as the a.m. variant reared its head, there was a bit of tapering off in ticket bookings. well see if that comes to pass, jim. >> youll be watching, pete muntean at reagan international, thanks very much. hospitals in michigan are struggling under a fourth wave of coronavirus infections. delta to be clear still driving a majority of hospitalizations, but experts say that omicron is spreading faster, infecting more people. so joining me now to get a...

Piece, the spike in hospitalizations largely among the unvaccinated. what were seeing now is the data, and an ecdotanecdotally. we have family and friends testing positive, largely still delta, right, thats happening in this country, so what does that mean when omicron, which we know is even far more transmissible, when it hits here with full force? >> right. can you imagine two strong dominant variants existing, coexisting at the same time? now typically what happens with the viruses, one tries...

It has a doubling time of anywhere from two to three days. right now in certain regions of the country, 50% of the isolates are omicron, which means its going to take over. >> so heres some of the good news. so far, data shows that cases of omicron may be less severe, especially and this is important for those who are vaccinated and boosted. get those three shots. but hospitals are already stressed. in ohio, more than 1,000 members of the national guard have been dispatched to help nurses and do...

Other countries to its ever-expanding red list because it wants to cut off the main source of omicron in the country, which has been people returning to israel from overseas. the majority of the 175 identified cases of omicron in israel so far have been traced to people who have come back to israel from overseas, and that goes also for the 380 suspected omicron cases so far. jim? >> understood, elliott, thank you so much. well be staying in touch. still ahead this hour ill speak with the ceo o...

But now we know that it is at least four times more contagious than delta and listen to this, jim, the fact that its doubling every two days, if youre 100,000 cases by christmas, a week later, by new years eve, we could be over 400,000 daily cases of just omicron, and even if we find out that the cases are mild, its a numbers game. if you take a small percentage of those people that get hospitalized and maybe even go to the icu and die, its still a significant number. >> understood. okay, for fo...

Pleasure to be with us this morning, john berman. ahead, omicron cases rising as were getting new information about just how important those boosters are in terms of protection. cnns coverage continues right now. a very good monday morning to you. im jim sciutto. were going to do our best to give you the good news and the bad news. happening right now, health experts are warning the country could be in for a grim beginning to the new year because covid cases are on the rise. the u.s. is aver...

Public and to protect public health and protect our nhs and we wont hesitate to take that action. in the us, covid cases in new york rose by 60% last week. heres the mayor of new york, bill de blasio. we do know omicron moves very fast and its very transmissible and it moves fast and we have to move faster. thats why we are focusing even more on vaccination and redo no vaccination helps ijust omicron. so, bottom line, fast spreading variance we are going to see a surge in cases for a few weeks a...