The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. Mark, on top of that, Radio Silence from the president on that statement and on the hack overall. Why . Well, because he doesnt necessarily know what to say. What he has done at this point is that he has put his intelligence chiefs in a very awkward position because they are not go you to have to come out and answer for what President Trump said less than 24 hours ago, where he said that this probe the mueller probe, quote, from the from the reuters article played right into the russians, if it was russia, they played into the russian hands. The idea the president of the United States continues to cast doubt on his own Intelligence Agencies findings that russia is trying to infiltrate our Electoral System is amazing. The fact that he continues to get away with it just really is astounding. Its shocking. How dangerous is it that this happened . That it was clearly targeted. You remember marco rubio in 2016 wh
more than 164,000 new cases a day, a double-digit increase from just last week. but you see the number of covid patients in hospitals is not surging to that extent. several studies are finding the highly contagious variant may be less likely to cause severe disease when you compare it to the delta variant in the wake of the omicron spread, some breaking news coming from the mayor of new york city right here, mayor bill de blasio says the new year s eve times square b bash is still on but in a scaled-back fashion. let s go to athena jones, who has more. what does that mean? we all know, whether you live here in new york or see it on television, it is people packed into times square. are they not going to allow that this year? reporter: hi, poppy, well, no, not so packed this year. you know, this is going to be a scaled down, it s been the big question, we knew the mayor was going to give an answer before christmas. now we have that answer. the celebration will go on but with a lot few
in less than a week, and with the tsa reporting holiday air travel on wednesday surpassed pre-pandemic levels, schools and universities are increasingly preparing for a post-holiday case surge. at least 85 school districts are offering a hybrid learning option or fully remote learning options for k-12 students and a growing number of colleges and universities are making changes to their spring semesters, starting late, going online temporarily or mandating booster shots and meanwhile, we re now learning just how skosly the surge has been in both blood and treasure. 690,000 preventable deaths and cost the u.s. nearly $14 billion. poppy? what a number in terms of preventable deaths. athena, thank you for that reporting. let me bring in senior scholar at the johns hopkins university center for health security. doctor, good to have you. we have these studies from the uk, from south africa, that are
bridge. there it is. then several vehicles were crossing that snow covered bridge when it collapsed. we know ten people were injured. three were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. no known fatalities. good news there. this collapse cut off major artery in the city. let s go to athena jones for more on this. what more are you learning about this collapse? reporter: we know president biden spent time thanking responders. he pledged more infrastructure. that s why he was here today to talk about the more than trillion dollar infrastructure package that he signed into law last november. saying that this nation s roads and bridges, et cetera are badly in need of repair.
0 that s also why it would be so difficult for these two stations, these two segment of the station to divorce. they share electricity, prop propulsion, food and the water supply. it s very common for nasa astronauts to float oaf to the russian segment and ask can we borrow a tank of your urine, we need to use it to drink it, recycle and make more food. if that doesn t transcend politics, not sure what does. not as common as a cup of sugar, but i get your point. thank you so much. top of brand new hour here on cnn newsroom. i m victor blackwell. we re following breaking news on the insurrection investigation. the january 6th, select committee has issued subpoenas to people tied to the fake electors plot. what do we know about the subpoenas? the committee has issued it for 14 republicans from seven states who served on bogus slates of trump electors in 2020 as part of the scheme to subvert the electoral college. the gop leaders served as state or chair designed to be alternate