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Now he set on pushing back any type of punitive behavior or punitive repercussions to these people in the military who are choosing not to be vaccinated, right now, theres a tremendous fight going on between the national guard and the pentagon under his watch in his direction and those guys arent going to get paid. just today they were going back and forth with the press secretary and the pentagon saying they are not going to get paid to come up theyre not going to do operations and thats a real...

On high alert amid growing concern of the new strain of the coronavirus. the world health organization has named it omicron and classified it as a variant of concern. omicron was first reported to the world health organization by south africa where the new variant, quote, appears to be increasing in almost all provinces. fears of another deadly wave of the coronavirus has forced some countries to act swiftly on friday. several nations including japan, canada and the united kingdom announced trav...

Reported a heavily contagious strain of covid-19. the world health organization naming it omicron. so far theres fewer than 100 cases. it is sparking worldwide panic, spooking the stock market. biden pressed open why hes waiting until after the weekend to block people from coming in. >> were going to be cautious, make sure theres no travel to and from south africa and six other countries in that region except for american citizens that are able to come back. we dont know a lot about the variant ...

Prime minister boris johnson is going to address his nation about that development in the next hour. the -- this variant, though, for now continuing to send a ripple of fear and a wave of travel restrictions around the globe. >> the world racing to shut out or at least slow down the alarming new covid variant first found in south africa. the w.h.o. officially naming it omicron. >> this variant has a large number of mutations, and some of these mutations have worrying characteristics. >> reporter...

Reported a heavily contagious strain of covid-19. the world health organization naming it omicron. so far theres fewer than 100 cases. it is sparking worldwide panic, spooking the stock market. biden pressed open why hes waiting until after the weekend to block people from coming in. >> were going to be cautious, make sure theres no travel to and from south africa and six other countries in that region except for american citizens that are able to come back. we dont know a lot about the variant ...

Will be restricted from entering the united states. this move comes just minutes after the world health organization designated a new variant of concern with covid, and named it omicron. concerns over the new variant have led to multiple international travel bands, to global markets tumbling today, and to scientists already testing the impact of this variant on the vaccines effectiveness. the fear is that omicron could evade immunity and spread more easily. this was first detected in south afric...

Restrictions will buy the u.s. more time to learn about the variant. the world health organ aceh moving quickly, and they gave it a name, omicron. investors around the world of rattled, the dow jones logging its worst day in more than a year. arlette scenes is live from nantucket, pete muntean is outside reagan airport. what did the president have to say today? >> reporter: jim, president biden said he wants to take a cautious a3r067 when it comes to this new omicron variant. thats why hes decid...