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New and existing t-mobile and sprint customers, can upgrade to the iphone 13 on us. on our most popular max plan. do we have a plan for the second half? nah, were gonna get creamed... but well be on t-mobile! two years into the pandemic and normal definitely still isnt here yet. the omicron wave filled hospitals and cement schools back to remote learning and airlines had to cancel frolight and restaurants had to close down because so many people are testing positive and the state of the union ...

And venues covered by the certification scheme by providing proof of a recent negative lateral flow test. cabinet will next review the data a week today and i hope this will allow us to live the other protective measures, the limits on indoor live events, table service and hospitality and distancing from the 24th of january but i will confirm this in my statement next week. live to glasgow and our correspondent james shaw. she said in her remarks that scotland has turned a corner in terms of cov...

Report. it is not always an indicator, but this blockbuster report is very encouraging. one caveat, of course, is covid, because the omicron wave really hit the united states towards the end of december. so it is not necessarily captured by this report. and there is a lot of questions about what omicron means for the jobs market, in early 2022. jim, the good news is that the economy and the jobs market specifically clearly entered this latest covid wave, with some serious momentum. >> yeah, for ...

Country under extreme pressure from covid patients. you think the next two to three weeks before we hit the peak of that surge. is there anything that could make it come quicker, that it could tail off or do you think that were going to have the worse in front of us before it gets better? >> well, i dont think there is anything that could make it come quicker. the concern is that it might take longer. but throughout this pandemic, weve followed the united kingdom very, very closely. and if you l...

A demand for it. >> reporter: theres a disturbing number out tonight: one study says up to 80% of floridians will have caught covid-19 by the time this omicron wave is over. to ease demand at testing sites like this one, the white house and u.s. postal service are set to be finalizing plans to mail testing kits to u.s. households as early as next week. norah. >> odonnell: that 80% number is stunning. manuel bojorquez, thank you. well, tonight, in a test of presidential powers, the supreme court ...

Omicron that you cant be infected with another variant that is yet to surface. >> got you. >> the most important thing is to prevent cases. >> right, exactly, and really quickly, weve got about ten seconds left, stacy. what is the one thing that will get teachers and students in the classroom from your perspective? >> leadership and partnership, so far it has been incompetent leadership that has gotten us to this place. look, everyone wants this to work. our member are mothers, our members are m...

Some good news on the spread of omicron. cases are falling in early hotspots like new york and new jersey. that is the good news. now heres the bad news. it could be weeks before the country itself hits the peak of the omicron surge, as public health experts warn not all parts of the country are on the same timeline. >> the challenge is that the entire country isnt moving at the same pace. the omicron wave started later in other parts of the country. we shouldnt expect a national peak in the com...

Years eve revelers in the united states to keep their parties small, maybe outdoors, just have one glass of champagne, bourbon or beer or however many you want maybe at home though is what theyre saying. the surge is crushing hospitals and doctors are describing packed emergency rooms already. dr. anthony fauci predicts the omicron wave could peak in the united states by the end of january. the u.s. is hitting a seven-day average of more than 355,000 new cases with record case counts in new jers...

One, population immunity. that is because it spread so fast within the population, some developed natural infection. two, numbers have been inching up in south africa. those two reasons. many scientists in south africa feel confident enough they think south africa has surpassed the peak of the omicron wave. that is largely because of the precipitous drop in daily case numbers in the epicenter. that is in the province of haoteng. this is a positive scientific they have warned. there is a caveat h...