Bring section 8 usc 1324 charges or any criminal charges against state or local officials. I believe the request for made. The department of justifiable is reviewing what avenues might be available. Martha the answer to that is yes they are looking into it. Good evening, everybody. Im Martha Maccallum and this is the story. Also tonight some reporters at the white house incredulous as the white house doctor declared that the president is in excellent mental and physical health. Watch this. Can you tell me how a guy holler all those diet cokes and never exercises is in as good a shape as you say he is in. Its called genetics. I dont know. Martha Everyone Wants to get on that plan. He rarely sees the president when he terms as stressed out conditions. He has the ability to wake up every day and sort of reset when he is faced with the pressures of the office. More to come on that fascinating afternoon News Conference today. The president no doubts is going to need all of his faculties as
immunocompromised. a third of our country, children under the age of 18, we have too many children still not vaccinated. they re all susceptible. when you have something so infectious, even if it s less likely to hospitalize you or cause you to die, it still means some people will, and that s why i want you to pause. in four months i ll have more to help patients but right now i need a little breathing room for patients and for myself. those antivirals, although approved by the fda, they re not out there in enough numbers yet. right. so what you re saying is, you might get it no matter what, but try to delay getting it for as long as you possibly can. i think that s something people can understand. exactly. let s talk about cruise ships. the industry feels unfairly singled out, and frankly, i mean, there are a lot of industries where people are gathering in large numbers. is it fair to single out cruise ships the way the cdc is doing? i think that it s when i
i do think the industries can turn this around. it s a reflection of what we re seeing across the country. kids are going back to school next week. i m not a fan of shutting schools down, but i think we re going to see schools in quarantine, in some phases of shutdown because we ll see so many cases, so it s similar. but i want to be positive about saying that we can then recover from this just as quickly because we know what we need to do so that people don t get infected. listen, i have no plans to ever get on a cruise if i can help it. my husband is desperate to go on one at some point, but i do feel bad for the industry, it is a tough situation for them. yeah. let s talk about quarantine and isolation. there are a lot of memes out there making fun of the cdc for the five-day isolation, then five days with a mask. there s one that keeps making me laugh, the cdc says just wear a cute pair of jeans and a top. there s a lot of jokes, yes, but tell me, there s data behind the idea
he was trying to transfer to a flight this afternoon. in her instance, it s chaos. i m grateful we can even be here and give it a shot. i know everybody is trying to work really hard. it s just very frustrating. we all wish the pandemic was over and that we didn t have to deal with this anymore. that s my hope for the new year. reporter: katy, she said she understands everybody s working really hard, because the reality is, is with this uptick incovid cases, it s hitting flight crews, it s hitting the airline industry, it s hitting tsa agents. more than 1,700 tsa agents now have covid. the faa put out a statement this morning telling folks to expect further delays and complications with their travels. everybody we re talking to says expect your flight to be canceled not only this weekend here, but also in the weeks ahead, katy. it s hitting the tv industry as well. people are dropping like flies around here also. let s talk about the cruise industry and what s going on
will be announced as happening today, but investors and others will be looking to the fed for clues about the likely path forward for those interest rate changes as well as the balance sheet offloading. catherine, can you make an argument, let s play devil s advocate here, that the markets, the u.s. has been doped up on cheap money for years, right, even in the midst of expansions, right, and i m talking about low interest rates, but also this, you know, enormous bond buying, trillions of dollars, what is known as quantitative easing. can t you make an argument that it is about time? well, the fed is basically evaluating those data right now. they have been trying to juice the economy, right. we went through a very severe, albeit brief, recession at the end of 2020, caused by the pandemic. they pulled out to try to