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Friday, a dismal day. the dow had its worse session of 2021. it fell more than 900 points at the close as news of this variant spread. maria bartiromo, anchor of "mornings with maria" on fox business. good toerng to you. -- good morning. why don't we begin, what do you see? >> it looks like we'll get a bounceback at the opening of trading. i can tell you for sure many people feel that friday's action was a way, way overreaction. remember friday the day after thanksgiving is typically low volume, low liquidity and any moves are outside. we're seeing a bounce today. this omicron variant was quit...

Much of europe and in canada. no reported cases yet in the u.s. sandra, back to you. >> sandra: steve harrigan from cdc headquarters in atlanta, thank you. john? >> john: president biden's travel ban on eight african nations went into effect today to help slow the variant spread. but critics say it is too little, too late since they are already confirmed cases, as steve was mentioning, in europe, asia, canada, and beyond. senator tom cotton says the ban is worse than useless since it didn't go into effect until three days after it was announced. >> if you want to implement a travel ban needs t...

Milder in large measure, that are occurring among people who have been previously vaccinated, all the more important to get those boosters. >> we're hearing about the w.h.o. calling a meeting to discuss the delta variant coming out of south africa. how worried are you about more mutations? >> well, mutations are occurring all the time. so surveillance is ongoing around the globe. and the three criteria that we're concerned about is does any new variant spread even faster than delta? hard to imagine, but that is an issue. number two, could it cause more severe disease if it affects you. and num...

Without a vaccine approved for kids under 12, what more can we parents do to protect our kids? >> the cdc has laid out and the american academy of pediatrics has layed out five lines that -- guidelines that probably should work. of course we're dealing with a very different variant. the delta variant has spread a lot faster than the original variant spread. they've promoted this layered mitigation. it's not just about vaccine, although any eligible child and all staff members as well as all adults in the child's bubble should be vaccinated. that will obviously protect your child. masking shoul...

Desk. one on infrastructure and one on reconciliation. thank you. >> turning to the delta variant for a moment. i want to see do you think the administration has enough mitigation measures in place early enough and should have heeded some of the lessons if other countries that had data as early as may and june about how the variant spread? >> we knew how the variant spread and we know the vaccines prevent the spread. a lot of countries didn't have the vaccines we were able to put together and make sure every single american. we had over 60 million doses of vaccine for americans. we expored ove...