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Now he set on pushing back any type of punitive behavior or punitive repercussions to these people in the military who are choosing not to be vaccinated, right now, there's a tremendous fight going on between the national guard and the pentagon under his watch in his direction and those guys aren't going to get paid. just today they were going back and forth with the press secretary and the pentagon saying they are not going to get paid to come up they're not going to do operations and that's a real threat to those families who are trying to learn that the omicron their livelihoods and put foo...

On high alert amid growing concern of the new strain of the coronavirus. the world health organization has named it omicron and classified it as a variant of concern. omicron was first reported to the world health organization by south africa where the new variant, quote, appears to be increasing in almost all provinces. fears of another deadly wave of the coronavirus has forced some countries to act swiftly on friday. several nations including japan, canada and the united kingdom announced travel restrictions for people coming from the southern region of africa. the biden administration decid...

Reported a heavily contagious strain of covid-19. the world health organization naming it omicron. so far there's fewer than 100 cases. it is sparking worldwide panic, spooking the stock market. biden pressed open why he's waiting until after the weekend to block people from coming in. >> we're going to be cautious, make sure there's no travel to and from south africa and six other countries in that region except for american citizens that are able to come back. we don't know a lot about the variant except that it's of great concern. seems to spread rapidly. >> why not do it now? why wait till...

Prime minister boris johnson is going to address his nation about that development in the next hour. the -- this variant, though, for now continuing to send a ripple of fear and a wave of travel restrictions around the globe. >> the world racing to shut out or at least slow down the alarming new covid variant first found in south africa. the w.h.o. officially naming it omicron. >> this variant has a large number of mutations, and some of these mutations have worrying characteristics. >> reporter: those mutations raiing fears it could be more contagious than delta and that existing vaccines may...

Reported a heavily contagious strain of covid-19. the world health organization naming it omicron. so far there's fewer than 100 cases. it is sparking worldwide panic, spooking the stock market. biden pressed open why he's waiting until after the weekend to block people from coming in. >> we're going to be cautious, make sure there's no travel to and from south africa and six other countries in that region except for american citizens that are able to come back. we don't know a lot about the variant except that it's of great concern. seems to spread rapidly. >> why not do it now? why wait till...