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Easily. lets talk about new york city. new york state is having record breaking numbers and new york city is a highly vaccinated estate but you probably heard about the big uptick in cases. look at this. at first glance it look boring but it has a really good payoff in a second. trust me. so this is covid cases in new york city week by week going back to late september per 100,000 people from late september until now. you can see these numbers go upstarting right at thanksgiving in november. the...

Vaccines, and i wonder what would have made a difference, you know, a year ago or more if he had been encouraging the same thing instead of essentially encouraging the disinformation and the chaos that erupted and we find ourself in a situation now where fully a third of americans are still not vaccinated or 40% of americans are not fully vaccinated. >> its a strange thing to see donald trump pushing back against right-wing journalists who are criticizing the vaccine. barbara, lets talk about do...

The legal battle over the presidents vaccine requirement is heading to the supreme court. the court agreed to take up challenges to two of the presidents mandates on january 7th. that is an unusually fast timetable. joining me now, justice correspondent pete williams. pete, lets talk about the challenges to the requirements of both employers, employers with more than 100 employees and also for health care workers. what do you read if you read anything into the timeline here? >> well, this is hyp...

Where the number of people in hospital with covid but because of something else has more than doubled so far in december and now stands atjust over 400. the number of people in hospital because of covid has also risen: by 40% to nearly 1200. lets talk to the bbc�*s head of statistics robert cuffe. roberts, the government is advised by a group of scientists call sage and theyve been saying that we could expect to see 1000 to 2000 people in hospital by the end of the 3000 people in hospital at a...

All the boroughs, they are distributing 2,000 of these at-home covid tests, 2,000 each of the distribution locations and also federal government is stepping up as well. in queens they have six different fema locations offering free covid tests and governor kathy koch hochul next week will offer free vaccinations at some subways. certainly the help the city and state needs but much overdue. clearly you see behind me that the line continues to grow. i was told here at this med writhe location they...

Vaccines to poorer countries as a "stain on our global soul". speaking to the bbc, mr brown said that everyone will suffer without a push to get the whole world immunised next year. so far, 8 billion covid vaccines have been administered worldwide — but the vast majority have been given in high— and middle—income countries. lets talk to amelia christie, the head of advocacy at unicef uk. amelia, welcome and thank you very much forjoining us. what do you believe the global vaccine strategy ...

Covid pandemic they would need this for military personnel and civilian personnel where they can do the research and do more of the long haul research getting funding from the government to do this. and like was mentioned earlier, were still a bit aways and the struggle theyre going to have one and one hurdle they will have moving forward with the human trials the fact to do the human trials you typically need someone who has not been vaccinated and not exposed to covid and that is harder and ha...

Surge. >> let me say is you do have still protection against hospitalization and death as far as we can tell. we dont know how long that will last. we dont know if you have protection against long covid. so it is important to get the vaccines. i dont want people to misunderstand that. vaccines are really critical possibly to save your life and those whom you love. but it isnt the panacea we thought it would be. therefore, if youre over 60, i agree with the israelis, its time to get another shot....

Money to fight climate change, in the words of your administration. youve met with senator joe manchin a number of times. you invited him to your home in delaware. he came to the white house a week ago. then hes on sunday morning cable and says, "im a no." >> well, look -- >> how does that happen? how -- how are you not able to close the deal? >> well, look, lets talk about what we have done. we have passed more major legislation than anybody in their first year ever, ever, ever, ever. i havent ...

Continue to fight the failures, of the radical capitol left. tonight the committee is indicating a firm response to perrys resistant, to talk about that in one moment with a committee member adam schiff. its just another sign of how serious this investigation is getting. remember, as the new york times reported last, night the committee is recommending, donald trump himself face federal criminal charges. adam schiff of california, is a member of the house select committee, hes also the lead impe...