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Fighting to find mark meadows in contempt of congress. also congress will prevent a debt limit disaster for now. they passed a $2.5 trillion extension. and also in just the last few moments, we've learned that the president's build back better plan being punted until next year. we'll have more on that when speaker pelosi takes to the podium. also any minute the white house covid response team holding a briefing as we face the convergence of omicron, delta, and the seasonal flu. the cdc warning that the new mutant omicron strain could crash us over a peak wave of infections as soon as next mont...

Vaccine regimens work against omicron. at this point, there is no need for a variant-specific booster. the message remains clear, if you're unvaccinated, get vaccinated, and particularly in the arena of omicron, if you are fully vaccinated, get your booster shot. back to you, jeff. >> thanks, dr. fauci. as we just discussed, after -- >> all right. dr. fauci giving us the news we've been waiting about two weeks for, you'll recall. he said that they were going to be looking at the efficacy of that third booster with regards to whether it provides enough protection against the new variant, omicro...

Effectiveness of a two-dose pfizer vaccine against the omicron variant. on the left hand part, as has been reported in multiple other studies, the effectiveness against the co-v-2 infection is down from 80% from the preomicron variant, but note on the right-hand part of the slide that the effectiveness against hospitalization, which is critical, still maintains a 70% effectiveness. obviously this is significantly down, but there is the maintaining of a degree of protection against hospitalization. next slide. now if you look at the uk data, if you look at the delta in the blue boxes, you see t...

Perfect storm of delta, omicron, and the flu. and, of course, all of this is happening as we are ten days away from christmas, and moving into the holiday season. i want to bring in a doctor, a physician at harvard medical school. doctor, as you know, the world health organization director general said on tuesday that this new variant, omicron, spreading at a rate unlike any other previous variant. do we know why that is? >> so it's interesting, craig. there were a couple studies that came out in the past few days. we know omicron has a 70 time increase in spread. the rate of transmission is 7...

On the right hand part of the slide, one month after the third dose, take a look now again at the purple bar. it has gone up substantially from the six which is circled on the left to 154. again, this is one of a number of representative studies. next slide. another study from the rockefeller university in new york funded by the national institute of allergy and infect, diseases, again, showing that omicron exhibits a rather profound degree of neutralization escape, looking at the low levels of the blue triangles on the left part of the panel. however, the two-dose mrna vaccinated people who r...