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When teams cut through the granite pedestal -- >> the capstone slid off and there it is. >> reporter: -- they found a 36-pound box, what experts are calling a cornerstone box, mads copper. the bomb squad examined x-rays for active gunpowder. then virginia archeologists got inside, 144 years after it was sealed. inside, confederate money. bullets and buttons. a hand carved confederate flag. an old newspaper. a bible. coins. and letters. historian dale brumfield says it gives us a firsthand look at the mindset of the confederacy. >> it's not just what's inside the box that's important, it was al...

In the last hour, president biden will be speaking with russian president vladimir putin and he's going to do it tomorrow. what more do we know, mike? >> reporter: joe, it certainly speaks to the heightened tensions dealing with ukraine, that it was six months between that in-person meeting between presidents biden and putin in geneva to the virtual conference that took place three weeks ago, and now within the span of that three weeks, they'll be speaking again. we just learned more about this from a white house official who briefed reporters in the last few minutes. the white house saying th...

Hearing about 20 minutes yesterday with the prosecution and defense team and the judge. no word on what that was about. the transcript has been sealed. could be any number of things, but it's one more thing to keep us guessing as we wait for a verdict. >> lots of guessing right now. let's go to the other side of the country and, ron, any clue what's happening with the jury in the maxwell trial, ron? >> reporter: they've been asking a lot of questions and asking for a lot of transcripts. 15 questions so far. and we're somewhere near 37 hours of deliberations over these five days. so, they're in...

Led to this decision. we heard walensky really reiterating this is a decision that represents something of a balancing test. yes, of the need to keep america running as close to normal as possible in a pandemic but also clearly based on the science. let's listen to part of her response. >> let me make clear that we are standing on the shoulders of two years of science, two years of understanding transmissibility and a lot of information that we have gleaned from the wildtype virus as well as the alpha and delta variants, and more that we continue to learn every single day about omicron. >> rep...

Hour ago. how did they defend the cdc's new quarantine and isolation guidelines? >> reporter: yeah, joe, this was an important opportunity for the country to hear from the president's top advisers on dealing with the pandemic. so many questions about a number of issues. we heard from dr. fauci, new data, which indicates that this particular strain, the omicron strain, while it is much more highly transmissible, does appear to be less severe. that's certainly some good news, even if the transmissibility is a problem leading to those record case counts. we also got a little bit of an update on t...