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The british socialite ghislaine maxwell is found guilty on five counts of grooming and trafficking teenage girls for abuse by a jury in new york. maxwell procured the girls for the financier and convicted sex offenderjeffrey epstein. she faces the rest of her life behind bars. well be looking at the implications of the verdict for prince andrew, who is named in a lawsuit brought by a woman who says she was groomed by maxwell and abused by the prince. he denies the allegations. in other news... n...

With or become a sexual predator yourself because underage girls are very vulnerable, they are easy to take advantage of and its taken very seriously when they are preyed upon by adults who do know better. there were 33 fewer deaths with coronavirus in england and wales in the latest recorded week, according to the the office for national statistics. its the lowest number of deaths since the middle of october. the number of deaths involving covid—i9 has now been falling since the mid—novembe...

Preparing for what could be mass immigration from ukraine. officials say 10,000 israeli citizens have now left ukraine, and israel is taking in jewish refugees. joining me now from jerusalem, hadas gold. hadas, israel has been preparing for this potential wave of refugees. give me a sense of what is being done to support them where you are. >> reporter: so, isa, israel has the law of return. anybody who is jewish or has one israeli grandparent can return. hundreds of thousands of ukrainians coul...

It. rather than making the shots available. but there is a concern whether there will be enough funding to make these boosters free for people. and then as far as the supply and demand, any time the cases go down, right now were in a lull here in the u.s. and so there is less demand for getting vaccinated. thats really an uphill battle for public health officials trying to make the case for getting people up to date on their vaccinations before the next potential wave arrives here in the u.s. we...

Welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. im john vause. youre watching "cnn newsroom." another day of record high covid infections for many european countries. the uk, ireland, greece, spain, italy. among the nations reporting their highest daily case count ever. cnn has the latest from london. >> reporter: amid skyrocketing infection rates and record breaking case counts, britains national health service says it is now on a war footing. its preparing plans for...

The board for the ten-day standard. the reason theyre doing that is were facing a real crunch at a lot of hospitals who h are short on health care workers already and are fayes a potential wave of cases. the jury is out on how many cases there will be with omicron in the hospital. if youre sitting there without symptoms, illness, concontagion theyre running out of health care workers. theyre saying if youre vaccinated, your isolation period doesnt have to be as long. >> the president heads to de...

Parts of the united states are filling up fast with nearly 800 children being admitted with covid each day over the past three days. plus, hospitals are facing a new potential wave of cases, with fewer staff on hand. according to the bureau of labor statistics, about 450,000 health care workers have left the industry since february of 2020, and the highly infectious omicron variant is threatening to exacerbate those staff shortages even more. the cdc has now issued new nines saying that doctors ...

Museums and put restrictions on night life to try to get the virus under control. >> reporter: everyone here is asking will there be a lockdown before christmas. over the weekend, british scientific advisers warning tougher measures are needed to slow a potential wave of hospitalizations due to the omicron variant. the london mayor declaring a major incident in the city over the weekend and saying further restrictions were inevitable. and the deputy prime minister saying theres no hard and fast ...

>> for the unvaccinated, youre looking at a winter of severe illness and death for yourselves, your families and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm. >> reporter: vaccinations will protect most from serious illness. but today the covid task force emphasized the critical need for boosters as omicron evades some layers of protection, scientists are worried about what will evolve next. >> we are concerned that we are one or two mutations away from not having effective vaccines or monoclonal antibo...

Overwhelm. >> reporter: vaccinations will protect most from serious illness, but the covid task force emphasized the clinical need for boosters as omicron evades some larls of protections, scientists are worried about what will evolve next. >> we are concerned were one or two medications away from not having effective vaccines or monoclonal antibody therapies. >> reporter: many hospitals on a break, and taking a toll on nurses with a new study showing 1 in 5 plan to quit the profession. >> were ...