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Joining me now from dallas is nbc news correspondent morgan chesky. morgan, the restaurant down the street from my house had to go dark for a few days because everybody was calling out sick. >> reporter: katy, were seeing that all across the state. i had a reservation this past week had a had to be canceled because the establishment shut down temporarily because of shortage of staffing. were here in dallass deep ellum neighborhood, a hotspot for bars, restaurants, nightclubs, and particularly th...

This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. lawyers for prince andrew argue for the first time in court, that the sexual assault civil lawsuit against him, should be thrown out. they say he cant be sued, because of an agreement signed by his accuser. the us registers more than a million new coronavirus cases in the past 2a hours — setting a new global record for daily infections. president biden has urged americans to get booster shots. the uk also se...

Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are broadcaster john stapleton, and kate proctor, editor of politics home and the house magazine. parliaments magazine pa rliament�*s magazine of parliaments magazine of record. lets start with the front pages. the metro quotes the prime minister, who insists england can ride out the omicron wave, as he announced no new coronavirus restrictions at a downing street press conference. the express capture...

Much. its not quite as steep rise as the caseload. maybe? that is for the country as a whole. but now look at some of the leading states that have been first hit with this wave of omicron. the hospitalization charts in these first hit states are starting to look a little scary too. here for example is a look at the daily cases in new jersey, and you see the huge spike on the right side of the graph there. it is beyond any record the state have seen before in terms of new cases. now look at the h...

For anyone being unvaccinated. this continues to be a pandemic of the unvaccinated. meanwhile the british prime minister, borisjohnson, says he hopes england can "ride out" the current wave of covid—19 infections. we have a good chance of getting through the omicron wave without the need for further restrictions and without the need, certainly, for a lockdown. prince andrews lawyers have been trying to convince an american judge to dismiss the sexual assault civil lawsuit against him. they say...

Than 1,000 staff? its an extreme position. but i am confident, and were already seeing a number of staff choosing to be vaccinated. the push on vaccinations and boosters, notjust for nhs staff but all of us, continues. but even though the omicron wave is not yet over, ministers are clearly thinking about what comes next and how we live with covid in the months to come. dominic hughes, bbc news. and now to the latest official figures on the virus which show iai,472 new infections in the latest 24...

Is an extraordinary divergence of risk between a vaccinated and unvaccinated person. if you look at vaccinated versus unvaccinated, there is a 17 times greater chance of being hospitalized and a 20 times greater chance of dying if you are unvaccinated, versus vaccinated >> a 20 times greater chance of dying. meanwhile, the u.s. reported a highest daily rate of covid infections in the world. covid hospitalizations also up 83% over the last two weeks. but scientists are also seeing good signs sign...

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The north west of england will need help from army personnel as well, but there are big variations across the country. the headline figures that we get are not representative as averages, they cannot be, of the best and the worst? absolutely not, we are seeing real chefs both in infections and in their consequences. london which led their consequences. london which led the omicron wave is starting to flatten. that is what the infections are saying. in the staff absence that we are seeing that pa...