but, of course, people will be waiting to hear whether or not there will be new restrictions over christmas. isa? indeed, do stay with us. i want to bring in fred. there is reluctance you are reporting to vaccines in germany. we have a new vaccine, a shot approved by eu regulators. do you think this will further persuade the unvaccinate to get boosted, get a vaccine reporter: they hope so. under the new chancellor olaf scholz and one of the reknowned experts in the country, they say they are going to get tough on unvaccinated people as well. they have already done that by tightening restrictions for unvaccinated people. they are also saying, and this is very important right now in this country, that booster shots are extremely important for people, but they also understand that they need to come to terms with the omicron variant before it actually really takes hold here in this country. it was quite interesting. i was listening to the health minister this entire week.
omicron being the most transmissible variant yet. and public health advice suggests that every case coming in through our border into our managed isolation facilities will be the omicron variant. our immediate job right now must be to slow it down, to delay it from entering the new zealand community for as long as we possibly can. reporter: and covid-19 is disrupting the opening plans, the omicron variant in the pacific region, chinese authorities are doubling down on its zero covid strategy. they are mass testing its nearly 13 million residents, reimposing travel restrictions. the stakes there are high, isa. indeed. selina wang, thank you so much, and elliott in jerusalem. thank you. now, the former u.s. president has filed a lawsuit seeking to block an investigation into his company. we have the details just ahead.
lockdown speech in the words of white house press secretary jen psaki, but rather talking about the vast differences between the vaccinated and unvaccinated. saying it s not like 2020 when there were shutdowns and the things of the like because of vaccinations. but there is a strain on the hospital system. there is a strain on the health care system largely because of the unvaccinated. president biden trying to get ahead of this, trying to really point out the administration is on top of it. but the reality is this is raging out of control, and the next few weeks, perhaps even longer than that, will be a dire situation, particularly for the unvaccinated. now, the white house has been struggling to get adequate testing here in the u.s. that has been a key problem or shortcoming. we are told the president will be addressing testing as well in that speech from the white house, but certainly officials here are alarmed at the spread of omicron and that s why the president addressing the nat
cop charged with shooting and killing daunte wright. jurors also have the case in ghislaine maxwell s trial. we ll have the latest coming up. we start with the latest on the omicron variant overtaking delta as the dominant variant in this country now. monica alva is at the white house. ellison barber is at atlanta international airport as millions of americans are set to travel for the holidays. also with me is dr. celine gounder, an epidemiologist. she the host of the american diagnosis and epidemic podcast. what can we expect to hear from president biden this afternoon? reporter: there s going to be an overarching message from the president and a stark warning to the unvaccinated. he s going to predict one of the
place proactive measures because they understand the omicron variant is going to take hold in germany fairly soon, isa. indeed, take hold in germany and much of europe as the rest of the world as we have been painting out this morning here on the show. fred pleitgen for us in berlin. and nada in london. thank you. all the major wall street industries dropping more than a%. you can seem from the dow to the nasdaq and s&p down across the board. the dow at its worst point down 700 points due to the stalled build back better plan. we ll have a look at what it can expect coming into today. look at that. what a difference a day makes. we re seeing green, upward trend. european markets as you can see also trending higher. ftse 100 fairing the best up 1%. commodity stocks were leading the gains, fears omicron variant