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Humanitarian assistance and to fund the government, has been cut off. with another $9.5 billion in assets of the central bank of afghanistan frozen by the u.s. millions are without work, and the cost of food and fuel has shot up, making many basic necessities too expensive for afghans to buy. the u.n.'s world food program warns that a harsh winter could bring, quote, an avalanche of hunger and destitution to the country. the aid group says an estimated 98% of afghans aren't eating enough, up 17% since the taliban's takeover. >> families are resorting to desperate measures, as the bitter winter...

Millions are without work, and the cost of food and fuel has shot up, making many basic necessities too expensive for afghans to buy. the u.n.'s world food program warns that a harsh winter could bring "an avalanche of hunger and destitution to the country koechlt the aid group says an estimated 98% of afghans aren't eating enough, up 17% since the taliban's takeover. >> families are resorting to desperate measures as the bitter winter sets in. 9 in every 10 families are now buying less expensive food. which tends to be less nutritious. 8 in 10 are eating less. and 7 in 10 are borrowing food i...

> at least 22 states have detected the new omicron variant of the coronavirus since the first case was identified last week. public health experts say that's sure to go up. we don't know much about the variant yet. it could be the most contagious, the most easily transmitted version of the virus we have encountered. we don't know. we'll see. we don't know if it causes more or less severe illness than the delta variant that dominates now. if in fact omicron is more contagious, well it will take over here soon enough then and we'll know soon enough about its characteristics. even before omicron ...

Regardless of omicron, even before omicron gets here in significant numbers, the case count from good old delta variant covid cases is climbing very aggressively right now. particularly in the midwest and northeast as winter sets in. we want to look for a second what's going on in michigan, this is today the pieces for michigan that are bad in any combination, very bad and sequence. last week michigan hit its highest hospitalization ever. hospitalizations in michigan or reach their highest point ever last week. the previous record was that seven months ago. so highest hospitalizations ever las...

And we'll know soon enough about its characteristics. before omicron takes hold, though, we got about 99.9% of u.s. cases that are delta, regardless of omicron, even before omicron gets here in significant numbers. the case count from delta variant covid cases is climbing really aggressively right now, particularly in the midwest and the northeast, as winter sets in. and i want to look for a second at what's going on in michigan. this is two pieces of data from michigan that are bad in any combination but really bad in sequence. last week michigan hit its highest hospitalization ever. hospital...