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Last thing before we go tonight. we mark the passing of academy-award winning actor sidney poitier. in a statement today, president biden called him a once-in-a generation actor, advocate, whose work carried so much dignity, power and grace, that it changed the world on and off the big screen. nbcs joe fryer takes a look back at the long career and lasting impact of the great sidney poitier. >> they call me mr. tibbs. >> reporter: sidney poitier played characters who jumped off the screen. oppos...

The amount of patients coming in is more than ive ever seen in the emergency departmentsment people are talking about how omicron is milder and it is anecdotally as well. big data is better than any anecdotal experience, but when you have this many people getting sick, when you have this many people getting infected, if its slightly milder, its still going to cause a ton of hospitalizations because almost everyone is getting infected. it really seems to be a huge scourge. we can barely fit patie...

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That the agreement with the committee to come in for an interview seem to have fallen apart. and the committee wanted to do a deposition instead on the 13th. now, this is something that keriks lawyer has opposed previously because the dont see that the committee is being to hold a deposition for a various of technical reasons. this is part of a back and forth, here, and we will see that play out over the next week as we get closer to that deadline to actually come in for an interview. >> nichola...

It left us still vulnerable to trampling of the rights of minority communities, not just racial minorities, but any type of minority communities across the country. she was an absolute champion of civil rights, of voting rights, and well never forget "the wall street journal" called her quota queen. but she nonetheless reigned as a champion, author, scholar, and fundamentally as a thinker who pushed this country forward in terms of fundamental civil rights. she was a giant among the intellectual...

That somehow again the opinion of one guy who is on tv is more important than all of the millions of people that hes supposed to represent. and its an excellent question, you know. as i was watching it, it really struck me that there are two realities. or maybe several at this point about what happened on january 6th and that that felt like almost like ted cruz was held hostage, you know, saying this is the version, right, of what we are seeing happen and him saying yes. and really being forced ...

My lecture. elections have consequences again. the conservative members of the supreme court had a different agenda, and that is an agenda to dismantle the administrative power and regulations and the administrative state. and so it looks like theyre going to overturn this vaccine requirement. and i find it tragic because i know many people will die, and i would defer to your doctors on that. but it does seem that the politics carried the day. the problem, of course, the bigger problem in additi...

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