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refusal to testify before the january 6th select committee and his failure to turn over documents. let's begin this morning outside the u.s. district court in washington, d.c. cnn political correspondent sara murray is there. how is all of this expected to play out today? >> reporter: well, you know, look, steve bannon is here in court, we expect this could take a couple of hours. what we know is that steve bannon is trying to get out of any kind of jail time. he was convicted on two counts for refusing to show up for a subpoena to testify before congress and refusing to hand over do...

a committee member joins us with more on that. and russia and chichina's leaders are meeting face to face. and speak with foreign relations committee chair bob menendez about it. today is day one of hispanic heritage month. we'll talk about efforts to address mental health access for latinos. plus thousands of people lining up for hours to pay their respects as the queen lies in state. we'll go live to london. we begin this hour with two buss with people who had crossed the border in texas arriing near the residence of vice president harris in washington, d.c. this according ...

And turning now to new data from the department of health and human services showing the new 988 suicide hotline is already reaching more americans in distress than the ten-digit lifeline in july. in august the first full month of operations, npr reports calls for help in english and spanish were made up by more than50% compared to the old line at the same time last year. the average response time went from over two minutes on the old line to under 45 seconds on the new one. with us now is the secretary of health and human services. let's talk about this very important lifeline. what's so diff...

That we're seeing on hospitals overwhelmed by covid. hhs data shows a report 155,000 hospitalizations from covid-19 nationwide. that is over an 80% increase in the last couple weeks. of course, that puts pressure on the nation's hospitals. we're glad to be joined by a pentagon spokesman, john kirby. great to have you with us, sir. great to see you. >> thank you. >> martha: it comes down according to what we have here. 7 to 25 military medical workers spread across the hospitals. when did the -- when was the pentagon first asked to start to be able to provide these people? >> we've been providi...

Many countries tighten up their visa mandates. paula hancocks in melbourne, scott mclean in belgrade. a big thanks to you on the ground reporting for us. now, updating you on the pandemic, with any luck waiting in those long tiresome covid testing lines, and i'll stressful as well could hopefully be a thing of the past. beginning next wednesday, americans will be allowed to order home covid tests. the program will allow four free tests requested per address. available at covidtest.gov beginning on january 19th and will ship seven to 12 days of order. this comes as hospitalizations are unfort...