[0:58]good morning everybody you're streaming live now from Fox on this Wednesday December 29 we are just inching closer and closer to the new year starting off
[1:10]your show this morning with a live now look over Green Bay Wisconsin this shot courtesy of news Nation where you can see it is a very icy very snowy it is
[1:21]only about a four excuse me 503 a.m out there and it is 27 degrees we've got a whole lot of the nation facing really
[1:32]chilly temperatures here's a live now look at your x-rad radar that white color that you see a lot of wind chill snow and weather alerts happening across the country a lot of the Pacific
[1:43]Northwest is a lot of the Midwest so we are tracking your temperatures this morning you can see 22s out there negative nine in parts of the upper
[1:53]Northwest as well so we will be tracking your temperatures and all of the weather information that you need to know here on live now from Fox with the help of our Fox weather team as well we should
[2:04]be getting a live report a little bit later this morning meanwhile good morning everybody my name is Regina Gonzalez with you live from Orlando Florida thank you so much for
[2:15]joining us here on this Wednesday morning as we inch closer and closer to the New Year I'll be with you for the next several hours before my co-host Christy Larson and joins you from
[2:25]Phoenix Arizona we are a nationwide operation here at live now from Fox working to bring you live raw unfiltered non-stop news I do want to start off our
[2:35]morning by bringing you the latest top stories that we are following and unfortunately within the last 12 hours alone 12 to 24 hours we lost a number of
[2:46]Legends when it comes to both the sports world and the political world I do want to start off our coverage by remembering
[2:54]an NFL legendary coach and broadcaster unfortunately we broke this news to you right here on it live now from Fox yesterday the Sports World mourning the
[3:04]death of a Gridiron giant following the news football legend John on Madden has officially passed away Fox News anchor Martha McCollum takes a look back at his
[3:16]life and Legacy let's take a listen John Madden's booming voice and
[3:30]commanding stature will always be associated with football born in 1936 in Minnesota his family moved to California where he was a star football and baseball player the sports legend began
[3:41]his professional football career as the Oakland Raiders linebacker coach in 1967. two years later the 32 year old Madden became the youngest head coach in the American Football League in 10
[3:52]seasons he led the Raiders to eight playoff appearances and one Super Bowl title in 1977. he retired in 1979 and quickly transitioned to the broadcast
[4:02]Booth winning 13 Emmy Awards while working on all four networks now they're really mixing it up in there hey watch this they're really mixing it up in
[4:12]there famous for not liking airplanes Madden traveled to games in custom-built buses known as the Madden Cruiser well known for his Dynamic style the American
[4:22]sportscaster Association twice named Madden sports Personality of the Year some people say you know they run in there and they Collide or something I mean it's in their pool that's what I
[4:33]say bands and players enjoyed his tradition of handing out turkey legs to the MVPs at the Thanksgiving Day game Madden also lent his name and expertise
[4:43]to popular EA Sports video game Madden NFL applying the same principles he did on the field you never stay the same you say okay
[4:53]we're the top game let's just stay right there let's stay right there on top point you don't because the minute you say we're okay we're going to stay there you slip I'll guarantee you that you have to say okay we're here but we're
[5:05]going to get better he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2006. Martha McCallum Fox News and following the news of his death
[5:18]tributes pouring out on social media I do want to bring you some of the tweets that we've gotten to our live now from Fox desk within the last couple of hours
[5:27]the Las Vegas Raiders posted this tweet following the news of Madden's death showing owner Mark Davis honoring Madden at 6 p.m the original kickoff time for
[5:39]Monday Night Football they said tonight I light the torch in honor and in honor of an tribute to John Madden and Al Davis who declared that the fire that burns the brightest in the Raiders
[5:51]organization is the will to win again owner Mark Davis honoring John Madden last night at 6 PM the original kickoff time for Monday Night Football we do
[6:01]have some more tweets to show you here on it live now from Fox also the NFL posting this picture showing the numerous Madden games over the years
[6:10]with the words more than a game so if you are familiar with video games the Madden NFL sports games are really really popular literally up until this
[6:20]day and as you can see so many series in this picture coming to us on Twitter from the NFL the NFL also posting this picture saying the NFL is saddened to
[6:32]share the passing of the legendary John Madden he was 85 years old also have professionals honoring the loss of a legend Brett Favre saying we lost a
[6:44]larger than life Legend in John Madden my career was narrated by coach one of the best in the game I'll always remember our pre-game meetings when we laughed and talked about anything but
[6:55]football I'll miss my dear friend love and prayers to Virginia and the family obviously very big and sad news coming out of the Sports World we will continue
[7:05]to bring you more on The Life and Legacy of John Madden here on live now from Fox throughout the morning with some live reports and some segments from our owned
[7:15]and operated stations Across the Nation unfortunately and not the only loss that we learned of yesterday I do want to bring you the latest when it comes to a
[7:25]loss being felt in the political world the former Senate Majority Leader and Nevada's longest serving Congressional member Harry Reid has died Fox News
[7:36]Chief correspondent Jonathan hunt has a look at The Life and Times of Harry Reid we're going to continue to fight
[7:48]for good things for this country Nevada Democrat Harry Reid retired from the senate in 2016 after more than three decades in Congress shortly after
[7:58]suffering an injury at home that claimed Vision in his right eye in May 2018 Reed was treated for pancreatic cancer known as a soft-spoken leader who carried a
[8:10]big stick Reed took over as Senate majority leader after the 2006 midterms his reputation as a shrewd backroom negotiator helped Shepherd the passage
[8:20]of the Affordable Care Act on a straight party line vote in 2009 a legacy republicans in Congress are still trying to disassemble Reed was born into
[8:31]poverty in the tiny mining town of Searchlight Nevada in 1939 a boxer in his youth retrained in high school Under future Nevada Governor Michael Callahan
[8:43]who became his political Mentor Reed worked nights as a capital police officer to pay his way through law school at George Washington University
[8:52]and survived an attempted car bombing by the mob during his tenure as chairman of the Nevada gaming commission make sure you're going to work as hard as you can
[9:02]at trying to do what you want to do and I believe that so a lesson for everyone the little boy from Searchlight has been able to be part of a changing state of
[9:13]Nevada I'm grateful I've been part of that change within DC circles Reed may be best remembered for enacting the nuclear option the historic stat read
[9:24]and his Democratic colleagues took in November 2013 to prevent filibustering on presidential nominations after retiring Reed co-founded a public policy
[9:35]think tank at UNLV with former house Speaker Republican John Boehner Harry Reid is survived by his wife landra and
[9:44]five children Jonathan hunt Fox News and social media also filled with
[9:56]remembrance posts from lawmakers as we learned of the death of the former Senator just last night this tweet coming from a senate minority leader
[10:06]Chuck Schumer saying Harry Reid was one of the most amazing individuals I've ever met he never forgot where he came from and used those of boxing instincts to fearlessly fight those who were
[10:18]hurting the poor and the middle class he's gone but we'll walk by the sides of many of us in the Senate every day also hearing from house Speaker Nancy Pelosi
[10:28]saying America lost a Titan of Public Service Senator Harry Reid was a leader of immense courage and ferocious conviction who worked tirelessly to achieve historic progress for the
[10:39]American people more reaction coming from West Virginia senator Joe manchin reading Harry Reid was a quintessential public servant he served the people of
[10:48]Nevada for decades and was a giant in the United States Senate my prayers are with his family and friends as They Mourn this incredible loss also some
[10:59]social media reaction coming from Alexandria ocasio-cortez saying sometimes in a quiet or difficult moment Harry Reid would reach out it was like he knew his counsel encouragement
[11:10]kindness and generosity was so deeply moving it was sincere and I will never forget it thank you Senator Reid wishing peace and strength to his family so
[11:21]again we are covering the loss of two very well respected figures both in the Sports World and in the political world Harry Reid and John Madden passing away
[11:32]within hours of each other unfortunately when we do get any information regarding funeral arrangements or Memorial services for both we will definitely
[11:43]bring them to you here on live now from Fox be sure to stick with our team for those details meanwhile I do want to send some of you on a quick two-minute
[11:53]commercial break when you return we are going to switch gears here and we are going to focus on some coronavirus news we're learning of Shifting guidance from
[12:03]the White House over the spread of the Omicron variant of President Biden facing some backlash from Critics on his handling of the federal response to this
[12:14]surge in cases we're also going to learn a devastating update about the fact that child Omicron hospitalizations are up about 30 percent as of this morning so
[12:24]we're going to get into some covid-19 related news after this quick two-minute commercial break stay with us thank you
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[14:51]everyone 6 17 a.m here on the East Coast taking a live now look over the White House in our nation's capital because we are learning of Shifting guidance this morning from the White House over the
[15:02]coronavirus as the Omicron varying continues to send case numbers skyrocketing across the country Fox News correspondent Steve Harrigan is in
[15:12]Atlanta with the latest 58.6 of all new cases in the U.S are now
[15:21]the Omicron variant more than double the percentage of just one week ago Omicron has been more contagious but less lethal than Delta some medical experts warn the
[15:32]worst is still ahead most of us are concerned that there will be over most of the country a surge of cases and consequent hospitalizations because of
[15:44]all of that mixing and reunions and getting together closely and we anticipate seeing that in the beginning of the new year record caseloads have been set this week in New York New
[15:56]Jersey Massachusetts Delaware and Puerto Rico Israel has begun Trials of a fourth dose of the covet vaccine the one bright spot hospitalizations lag behind the
[16:07]increase in cases the CDC has cut its recommended isolation time for those who test positive for covet without symptoms in half from 10 day days to five in part
[16:19]to reduce disruptions to the workforce by the rapid spread of Omicron the Staffing shortages are certainly driving part of this but there is science to indicate that that the Infectious period
[16:31]is really towards the beginning of when you're sick and often before you're symptomatic there is no requirement to test again after isolation ends and with tests in short supply people are waiting
[16:43]hours in lines or trying to find home test kits for sale I've been to seven pharmacies today and probably eight yesterday just looking for the at-home
[16:53]test kits there are none to be had somebody's got to do something this is ridiculous winter break will be extended for some students as dozens of universities have pushed back the start
[17:03]of spring semester including Princeton which is going one step further those Princeton students will have to stay on or near campus for at least two months of the next semester and we've just
[17:15]learned that the Holiday Bowl in San Diego go scheduled between NC State and UCLA has been canceled reports are that the Bruins defensive line hit hard by
[17:25]covid in Atlanta Steve Harrigan Fox News and as Steve Harrigan mentioned we did learn yesterday that the Holiday Bowl
[17:35]was canceled due to a spike in covid-19 cases with the players and we will keep you updated on the future of all the upcoming college bowl games that were anticipated to happen within the next
[17:46]couple of weeks authorities are now deciding whether or not those games should be canceled too as we talk about the Omicron ovarian I do want to let you guys know that at around 6 45 a.m
[17:57]eastern time so in just about 25 minutes we will be speaking with Fox's Lucas Tomlinson he is in for douglasator who typically joins us almost every morning with the latest political headlines he's
[18:09]going to be talking about what critics have to say about the Biden administration's handling of the surge in covid-19 cases and the Omicron variant so we will definitely get to
[18:19]that here on it live now from Fox in just a little bit meanwhile again some really tragic news to bring you when it comes to children and the pandemic I do
[18:30]want to read you the latest on the fact that a child hospitalizations with the Omicron variant are up about 30 percent more children Across the Nation being
[18:40]hospitalized due to the spread of this new variant and Across the Nation there are roughly 260 pediatric hospitalizations a day which equals that
[18:50]30 percent increase from last week Nationwide 23 percent of children are vaccinated and according to health officials pediatric cases in New York
[19:00]City alone Rose five times since the beginning of the month most were unvaccinated Health officials insist on increasing children vaccinations to
[19:10]prevent the rising spread we actually did hear from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio yesterday they were talking about keeping students safe focusing on
[19:20]children is going to be a huge part of their combat and response to this new variant and they were actually talking about uh sending millions of test kits
[19:30]back with students so they can test and monitor their symptoms and they can keep in-person learning going instead of going back to that remote learning so this is something that we're going to
[19:42]keep on top of here on live now from Fox meanwhile heading back out to the White House as we continue our coverage on the Biden administration's handling of the
[19:51]pandemic yesterday Biden actually mostly stayed out of the public eye despite this growing criticism over his 180 on the federal government's role in
[20:03]controlling the covid-19 pandemic Fox News senior National correspondent Rich Edson is traveling with the president in Rehoboth Beach Delaware let's get the
[20:12]latest from him foreign a day after meeting virtually with a bipartisan group of Governors President Biden stressed quote my Administration
[20:23]has the back of every Governor fighting covid-19 in their state we're going to get through this by working together that tweet follows a day of Relentless criticism from Republicans over his
[20:34]message yesterday to Governors there is no federal solution let's get solved at a state level President Biden campaigned last year promising a competent Federal
[20:44]pandemic response Joseph Robinson day after taking office he wrote in his National strategy quote for the past year we could not turn to the federal government for a national plan to answer
[20:55]prayers with action until today I think what changed is uh they had to actually govern uh and they they found that it's a lot more difficult to govern than to
[21:05]just take pot shots at it the Biden Administration has relied heavily on vaccines the CDC says more than three in five Americans are fully vaccinated though even the president acknowledges
[21:15]his administration should have pushed more testing months ago the White House has now tried to secure 500 million at-home tests to send Americans free though some Governors worry that plan
[21:27]May hamper their plans to buy kits the production of 500 million rapid tests that will be distributed by the federal government is great but obviously that
[21:38]dries up the supply chain for the solutions that we might offer as Governor with more at-home testing kits there are concerns among Health officials Americans will refuse to share
[21:49]positive tests with local governments meaning they may miss the full extent of omicron's spread while here at the Delaware Shore President Biden canceled that month old
[21:59]travel ban targeted at several countries in southern Africa to slow the spread of Omicron here in the United States the President also spoke briefly with reporters today while taking his new dog
[22:10]Commander for a walk on the neighborhood he says he spent much of his time here on the phone and that he's made some progress in securing those at-home covet tests in Rehoboth Beach Delaware Rich
[22:21]Hudson Fox News all right thank you to Rich Edson for that report meanwhile we have been
[22:32]covering for days at this point on a live now from Fox how the spread of the Omicron variant and covid-19 is impacting holiday travel whether you are
[22:43]at the airports or even on the roads I actually do want to send you live right now to a look we have over a terminal at a Philadelphia International Airport
[22:53]more flights still being canceled and even more delayed as this covid driven Staffing shortage disrupts holiday travel for the fifth day in a row
[23:03]yesterday Fox News senior correspondent Mike Tobin has more from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport let's listen in foreign
[23:19]for some Travelers at airports today as flight cancellations continue to bungle the holiday travel season according to FlightAware around 1 000 flights were canceled by the afternoon on Tuesday and
[23:30]nearly 3 000 flights were delayed we've been really lucky we were on time leaving and we were on so far on time going home Alaska Airlines and Sky West getting hit particularly hard some good
[23:41]news for the airlines though chief White House medical advisor Dr Anthony fauci clarifying some earlier comments he made about vaccine mandates I did not say I support mandates on domestic flights I
[23:53]said that is something that is on the table for consideration I didn't say I support it or didn't support it and new CDC regulations could have some Airline
[24:04]workers back on the job quicker Americans who test positive for covid but are asymptomatic now have to quarantine for only five days not ten the agency's director saying quote we
[24:14]want to make sure there is a mechanism by which we can safely continue to keep Society functioning while following the science the airlines responding to the changes saying quote the aviation
[24:24]Workforce is essential to maintaining the operations of air travel and cargo Supply chains we appreciate the cdc's announcement today updating the isolation guidelines the decision is the
[24:34]right one based on science still with the Omicron surge showing no signs of slowing it remains to be seen if the airline's cancellation problems will clear up once the holiday season winds
[24:46]down at Chicago's O'Hare Airport Mike Tobin Fox News all right thank you to Mike Tobin for that report and as we continue to get
[24:57]feeds from inside and outside of terminals as these cancellations and delays don't seem to be going away we'll be sure to bring that feed to you live raw and unfiltered because that is who we are and what we do we can bring you
[25:09]front row to any breaking news situation or live event that we've got going on not only Across the Nation but around the globe as well we are approaching the
[25:19]6 30 a.m Mark here on the East Coast I do want to send some of you to another quick two minute commercial break but don't go anywhere because when we return
[25:28]we are going to get into some crime watch related stories here on live now from Fox as well as an update on a courtroom that we are keeping a close
[25:39]eye on jurors continuing to deliberate the fate of Elaine Maxwell the former socialite of Jeffrey Epstein accused of grooming girls that he allegedly
[25:49]sexually abused we also do want to bring you an update on on a breaking news story that happened just overnight on Monday five people dead in a Denver area
[26:01]shooting spree across two neighborhoods and we're also going to be getting the latest on the fact that at least 16 cities stretching from a coast to coast
[26:11]have broken their all-time homicide records in 2021. so again all that uh crime news and verdict watch news coming up after this quick break thank you foreign
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[28:37]to this Wednesday December 29th even though it's past Christmas we've still got that beautiful tree is standing tall and bright outside of our Fox News headquarters out there in Manhattan uh
[28:48]looking beautiful after that arson attack that happened just weeks ago the team out there did rebuild within I believe 24 hours and there's even more
[28:58]decorations out there so still okay to keep the holiday spirit alive even though we're a little past Christmas and I'm just days away from 2022. we are going to stay in New York for a top
[29:10]story that we have been a following of four weeks now a juror is continuing to deliberate the fate of Elaine Maxwell so far are they have sent several notes to
[29:20]the judge asking to review testimony from The Trial Fox News correspondent Alexis McAdams has more from outside the courtroom in New York City jurors in the Ghislaine Maxwell trial
[29:34]working to reach a verdict for a fifth day the panel of six men and Six Women returning to court in New York deciding whether Maxwell is guilty or innocent on
[29:44]six federal charges including child sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy charges deliberations now lasting more than 24 hours and counting defense attorneys are definitely happier
[29:56]from their perspective that the jurors are really looking at the facts and it's not a slam dunk for the prosecution Maxwell's trial saw more than two dozen Witnesses take the stand during that
[30:06]time prosecutors arguing Maxwell groomed at trafficked underage girls to be sexually abused by her former boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein defense attorneys attacking the motivations and the
[30:16]memories of the accusers throughout deliberations jurors have sent at least a dozen notes to the judge asking to review testimony from all four of Maxwell's accusers and also retired Palm
[30:27]Beach cop who was called twice to Epstein's house the panel also asking that the judge Give a definition of enticement in reference to two charges Maxwell is facing a very very
[30:39]complicated case many different charges relating to different time frames and each potentially relating to a different set of alleged victims we could see them
[30:49]parsing through and maybe have acquittals being hung on some and convicting on others the judge asking that jurors continued deliberations longer than usual due to covet concerns
[30:59]in New York Alexis McAdams Fox News foreign be sure to stick with our live now from Fox team as we keep a very close eye on
[31:10]a verdict we will definitely bring you all of those developments when we get them here on our show you can always stick with us when it comes to anything you need to know about Trial watches we've been monitoring several here for
[31:21]the last couple of weeks a meanwhile a very Grim update to a breaking news story that we brought to you here on live now from Fox within the last couple of days a gunman opening fire in
[31:32]Colorado killing a five people police are now searching for a motive on why he could have possibly done this and the suspect is one of the people that is
[31:41]confirmed dead as of this morning so Fox News correspondent Jeff Paul is bringing us the latest on this really tragic situation that unfolded in Colorado a Colorado shooting spree leaves at
[31:56]least five people dead including the gunman a police officer among those who are injured the shootings stretched across Denver and the neighboring suburb of Lakewood Police say the violence
[32:07]started around 5 PM local time on Monday in Denver when a gunman shot and killed two people and injured a third shortly after authorities say a third person was killed in a different part of the city
[32:19]this is the holiday season to have this type of spree take place is not normal for our community we cannot lose sight
[32:29]of the victims in this the people that are still fighting for their lives following the Denver shootings the suspected gunman exchanged gunfire with the police officers and then fled to the
[32:39]nearby suburb of Lakewood there a fourth person was killed officers say the gunman later ran to a hotel where he is believed to have shot a clerk you could hear just the popping outside
[32:51]um and it was like one shot and then maybe five or six more and a couple more after that they swooped us right inside got us in the back room and not got all the gates down and everything a police officer was shot and wounded a short
[33:02]time later the suspect was eventually fatally shot but it's not yet known if he was killed by police since it moved over into Lakewood our investigators have been working diligently with
[33:14]investigators from Denver police departments we will work together on this police say they are still working to determine a motive for the shootings in Los Angeles Jeff Paul Fox News
[33:26]and we will be playing that full update from authorities on that deadly shooting in Colorado a little bit later here on live now from Fox going from Colorado
[33:36]out to a live now look we have of Chicago Illinois a very smoky cold morning out there only 5 36 a.m uh we've
[33:46]got Grim new data as the nation's crime crime wave is continuing to Surge at least 16 cities including Chicago stretching from coast to coast have
[33:57]broken their all-time homicide records in 2021. hundreds of others are seeing their highest rates in over two decades and the year isn't even over yet we've still got a couple of days Fox News
[34:09]National correspondent William lagunessa shows us what's being done to curb these stunning statistics foreign start off today
[34:19]two minutes and 14 seconds recognizing the 134 lives that have been lost in the city of Oakland to homicide this year Oakland's not alone at least 16 cities
[34:30]this year saw their highest homicide rates since the 1990s violent dangerous offenders on the streets has reached a Tipping Point even some big city
[34:42]Democratic Mayors are being forced to confront their own statistics it's time that the reign of criminals who are destroying our city it is time for it to
[34:53]come to an end residents in some areas leave their cars unlocked to discourage thieves from breaking their Windows it has never been safer to be a criminal in the United States and it's never been
[35:04]less safe to be a citizen after the death of George Floyd and protests that followed many democrat-led cities defunded police and voters then
[35:14]elected prosecutors who favor lesser charges and shorter sentences like Philadelphia's Larry krasner who argue despite a 13 jump in homicides there
[35:25]other crimes are down there is not a big spike in crime that is not true there is also not a big spike in violent crime krasner is one of eight Progressive
[35:36]prosecutors in major U.S cities now playing defense some of the DA's blame the media for copycat crimes like Smash and grab robberies critics however blame
[35:47]them for no bail unless jail policies will you say Chicago people are afraid that looks like it's a death zone Nationwide police faced a 50 percent
[35:57]increase in physical assaults this year and a 24 increase in gun fatalities this is taking an incredible toll on the officers and agent out there that are
[36:07]trying to keep us all safe no surprise 2021 is on Pace for near record gun sales well that fear goes to the polls next year as voters will answer the
[36:17]question has the pendulum swung too far to the left and do Americans want to go in a different direction in Los Angeles County William logoness Fox News another update that I do plan on
[36:33]bringing you in full here on live now from Fox a little bit later but I do want to give you a brief overview of now the family of a 14 year old girl wants
[36:43]answers after the girl was killed by a bullet fired from a police officer's gun the parents of a 14 year old Valentina orea Peralta spoke yesterday in Los
[36:54]Angeles that they are being represented by a very famous Attorney Benjamin Crump the shooting happened last Thursday at a Burlington Coat Factory Store police
[37:04]were responding to reports of a man assaulting people and possible shots fired officers that wound up firing their guns and a stray bullet hit the 14 year old girl who was in a dressing room
[37:16]with her mother the Los Angeles Police Department is investigating so again we do plan on bringing you this full update a little bit later here on live now from
[37:26]Fox meanwhile I do want to go from the West Coast out to the East Coast was a story happening right in our own backyard at our live now from Fox East
[37:35]Coast Hub in Orlando Florida a feud between two of Florida neighbors ended up turning deadly foxes at Jessica Ely has more let's take a listen
[37:46]this apparently has been going on for months the two men lived in the Lake County community of Paisley deputies say the shooter was upset because the other man's security light was too bright and
[37:57]was shining in his bedroom deputies say they believe Eric Hildebrandt shot and killed his neighbor Timothy patch and then shot himself the two had apparently been fighting about the light since
[38:08]October deputies say civil disputes are common but it's better to let them respond to the situation maybe we could be the mediator our midweek we can um you know Point them to resources that'll
[38:19]help them through this but you know no one should ever take matters in their own hands like this deputies down patches body in his driveway and hildebrandt's body next door in a chair by a lake deputies say another neighbor
[38:30]did witness the shooting of the victim and even caught the tragedy on video which is all part of the investigation Jessica Ely Fox 35 News
[38:40]this apparently has been going on for months meanwhile going from Florida out to Detroit for an update on a very tragic situation that actually unfolded on
[38:52]Christmas a family remembers are reacting after a deadly ending to this tragic situation of the person of interest turned suspect in the murder of
[39:02]a woman and her daughter on Christmas day is killed in a shootout with police we did get an update from them just yesterday courtesy of our Fox 2 Detroit
[39:10]team so uh their Camille Amiri is taking a closer look at this story let's listen in you know my mom she ain't hurt nobody neither did Diana they didn't hurt
[39:22]anybody so I'm glad his life is gone you know I'm glad I'm glad he's gone he is 62 year old Dwayne McDonald first named a person of interest and then becoming
[39:32]the main suspect in the Christmas Day double murder of his wife Elaine and her 13 year old disabled daughter Diana he was on the Run since the day of the shootings at the family home on Prevost
[39:44]on Detroit's West Side on Tuesday afternoon Detroit police executed search warrants at this apartment building at Owen and Woodward upon area building and announcing Detroit police search warrant
[39:55]the officers attempted to make access to one of the apartments where they were greeted by Mr McDonald who was armed a shot was fired at which time the officers returned fire striking Mr
[40:07]McDonald the suspect pronounced dead on the scene police say he had been hiding out in one of the apartments two men letting him stay with them investigators say they knew he was one wanted but they
[40:18]were afraid for their own safety if they didn't help them but ultimately they were instrumental in providing police with information about McDonald's whereabouts these things weigh on
[40:28]officers too and they work Around the Clock as you've indicated to to bring some justice to this family and again we wanted a peaceful resolution you know we were hopeful that he would
[40:39]come out we appreciate all the help the support we thank the Detroit police department for all the help that they did investigators continuing to work into the night and still trying to
[40:50]figure out a motive we can only speculate they've got some theories that they're working and running down right now we were hopeful with a peaceful resolution we'd be able to get the answer from him but we didn't get there
[41:01]no motive no motive you know my mom she take care of Diana she go to church she that's that's it he took away a beautiful beautiful family
[41:12]uh Diana and uh Miss Elaine it would never be the same they do not deserve it they did not deserve to go out like that and not they don't live by the gun they shouldn't have to die by the gun they live by the
[41:24]word so it should go out by the word now the family of Elaine and Diana have set up a GoFundMe page in hopes of raising some money to help pay for their burials if you would like to donate we put a
[41:34]link on our website fox2detroit.com Camille and Mary Fox2 News foreign before we go to a quick two minute
[41:45]commercial break I do want to give you an update on a situation that we broke to you just yesterday morning here on live now from Fox the San Diego County
[41:55]Sheriff's Department says it has not located any survivors from a plane crash that happened late Monday night it happened in El Cajon California which is
[42:06]outside of San Diego federal investigators say there were four people on board when the plane took off from John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana the
[42:16]plane a Learjet 35a bus jet was headed Southwest to Gillespie Field in San Diego County the crash caused a power outage which affected hundreds of
[42:27]customers and the FAA and NTSB are investigating so we will definitely keep you posted on any developments to that story here on live now from Fox a
[42:38]another crazy story to bring you this morning as well at least 20 people in injured when a Greyhound bus veered off the interstate according to officials
[42:48]the bus was heading towards Las Vegas on Monday when it drifted about 100 yards over Interstate 70 in Emory County which is in the state of Utah authorities say
[42:59]the injured passengers were taken to nearby hospitals there were a total of about 40 people on board at the time the cause remains under investigation however a highway patrol sergeant said a
[43:11]snowstorm hit many parts of Utah but conditions didn't seem too bad when the accident happened so we will be sure to keep you updated on all of these top
[43:21]stories here on live now from Fox all right everybody some of you are going to see a quick two minute commercial break here's another live now look over the White House in our nation's capital when
[43:30]you return we are going to have a live report from Fox's Lucas Tomlinson as Biden is facing some backlash from critics as covid-19 cases are at an
[43:41]all-time high in our nation in so how is the Biden Administration handling this well we'll find out after this break foreign
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[46:05]everybody we are officially a little past 6 45 a.m here on the East Coast you are taking a live now look over the White House in our nation's capital and as promised we do want to bring you a
[46:17]live report because the daily record for Coronavirus cases in the U.S has reached the highest levels since the start of the pandemic which is so hard to believe even at two years in though
[46:28]hospitalizations and deaths lag behind Peak levels from nearly a year ago so now critics are hitting the president for what they say is an about face
[46:38]regarding the government's role in battling the virus so to talk more about this subject I do want to bring in Fox's Lucas Tomlinson and he's joining us live from Washington D.C with the latest
[46:50]Lucas good to see you how are you doing good morning Regina I'm doing great merry Christmas happy New Year Of course Republicans are now attacking the president over what they call hypocrisy
[47:00]and recall just a day in office after he took office almost a year ago President Biden said there was a national plan for combating the coronavirus and now someone call a candid remark the
[47:11]President says it's now to the states not the federal government to take the lead something welcomed of course by a lot of Republican Governors said this is what we wanted all along I'm going to take Florida's Ron DeSantis take
[47:22]Arizona's uh Governor Ducey you know Governor Abbott in Texas these are are men who wanted from the start saying we know what's best for Texans Florida's
[47:32]arizonans we know what's best but certainly on this omnicron has presented a huge challenge I mean you just set it off the top the highest numbers highest caseload since the start of pandemic but
[47:44]there is some good news that you mentioned the hospitalizations and deaths do lag and there are some health experts that do think that this omnicron could be the beginning of the end that with these new strains these new
[47:54]variants we see the virus weakening you know besides that it's now first of all the omnicron is now the most prevalent uh variant in the United States it eclipses Delta and what happens is some
[48:04]of those original strains of the pandemic that came from China those appear to be burned out so there's a lot of hope that from the medical community that we will continue to see uh you know
[48:14]this pandemic um you know the harsh effects decrease even though we're seeing these large case numbers in fact some experts from the very beginning have said cases were never the metric for determining the virus especially
[48:25]among healthy Americans who are suffering over the majority just a mild infection especially when you think about the impact in schools and for many isolated and it just has caused a lot of problems I mean in terms of just what
[48:36]some critics say crime other things but anyway back to you Regina yeah Lucas and you know we did see President Biden first speak a couple of weeks ago with that initial a plan to uh combat
[48:47]covid-19 ahead of the winter but then we just saw those cases ramp up and we heard from him again again just about two weeks later I believe so as far as the Biden administration's handling of
[48:58]this what have we seen so far when it comes to Federal response well the response is where critics from both sides of the aisle are actually hammering the president's over tests you know it seems like everywhere you look
[49:10]in the country you see these long lines I know I see them here in the nation's capital and where I live outside in the Navy capital of Northern Virginia you see long lines of people some of them standing in the cold waiting for hours
[49:20]to get these tests and so now it feels like there's a struggle between the states and the federal government because if these state governments are in charge who gets the test is it the governor's office or is it the federal
[49:30]government because uh you know it's clearly a shortage of them you can't buy them I saw one report that one test was going as high as 500 dollars for a test and now President Biden is announcing
[49:41]500 million tests he wants to distribute well if the federal government you know has the tests how do the states get them certainly there's got to be some coordination and right now that's what
[49:51]is where the president is taking some broadsides is from people saying hey what's your plan you said you had one you know you obviously ran against President Trump saying you had a plan
[50:01]for solving this uh pandemic and now sadly there's been more people killed from the coronavirus under this President as there was the previous one so this is a lot of mudsling on both sides a lot of blaming and let's face it
[50:13]this is science this is a pandemic that we don't know all the answers we didn't know him a year ago we still don't know him so this stuff is still being studied in fact Dr fauci said back in June that if 50 of the population is vaccinated
[50:24]there wouldn't be these spikes you know he's one of the top experts so you know just a lot of issues with the pandemic needless to say your viewers we all know yeah and you know Lucas I feel like this
[50:35]week a lot of focus in the beginning uh shifted to that phone call that President Biden had with Governors Across the Nation so what came out of that meeting
[50:46]the big takeaway was the president saying that there's not going to be a federal solution it's up to the states and well that was welcome for many of the governors because they were like you know if you're Governor DeSantis in Florida you're like well I've had a
[50:58]strategy all along even though Vanity Fair called him Dr Death Or if the exact word and there's been a lot of criticism in Florida today in the nation's capital there's about twice as many cases as there are in Florida so you know there's
[51:10]a you know a lot of criticism going back and forth but there are some states saying we knew best I mean remember the days of people saying you can't go to the beach in Florida and now they're saying well maybe we shouldn't all
[51:20]huddle inside either because this has spread more indoors than it is outdoors so just from the very beginning you know let's remember the early days the pandemic people were you know washing their mail washing services now we know
[51:31]this is an Airborne uh virus that's how it's spread but just still so many questions I mean look at Mass the Democratic governor of Connecticut was asked is there going to be a mass mandate put into the Northeast even though these are some of the most
[51:42]vaccinated states in the United States or you know Connecticut Vermont New Hampshire sure and the governor of Connecticut said I don't think we need a mask mandate look at New York City they've had one and now they're seeing a
[51:52]record number of cases so there's just so much we still don't know yeah and Luke is the last point to make is the fact that we're just days away from bringing in the new year and we've seen especially you know everybody looks
[52:03]to that ball drop in the city in New York City and even that's changed so this is impacting holiday plans even still years into the pandemic sure I mean you don't think of New
[52:14]Year's parties as being a party for one or two I mean the people host gatherings I mean think about the restaurant industry the packed bars from that usually sell tickets you know of course you don't want the customers leaving
[52:25]right come in have a good time and the restaurant industry was over a hundred thousand restaurants have already shuttered during this pandemic and now New Year's that's a big ticket item for for so many of those restaurants and to
[52:36]not have the customers at the same time if you have the customers going in do you really want to be around a lot of strangers even though you know it seemed like months ago a year ago the message was if you get vaccinated you can go
[52:47]into those bars and restaurants and take the mask off and have a good time uh now it seems to be a different message because let's face it the case numbers are the most they've ever been but the good news is this omnicron does appear
[52:58]to be much less deadly not just appear I mean the numbers speak to themselves they're just compared to the peak earlier this year just not seeing the same death rates and hospitalizations but it's certainly something to watch but the hope is of course this omnicrons
[53:09]this variant keeps mutating it gets less and less us and you know we don't talk about as much of those original variants do we from China anymore it's we it's omnicron and Delta we don't talk about
[53:20]the ones that came before so hopefully there's a trend here hopefully some light at the end of the tunnel for sure exactly uh you had to say exactly exactly well Lucas as always thank you
[53:31]so much for joining us here on live now from Fox definitely lots to watch out for when it comes to this pandemic and unfortunately this record number of cases so uh we will if we don't speak to you we hope you have a Happy New Year
[53:41]and thank you so much for being with us thank you Regina I know a lot of college football game fans want to see these bowl games happening especially these next few days where the big boys are playing so uh there's a lot of people
[53:52]hoping that uh you know we can just get through this and it's more than just football obviously yeah definitely thank you Lucas take care all right everybody here is another live now look at the
[54:03]White House over our nation's capital as you heard Lucas say uh critics definitely pushing on Biden for the federal response when it comes to this pandemic so we will keep you posted on
[54:14]any developments or any feeds that we get from the White House coming in because of the holidays we really have not gotten a White House Press briefing from gen sake or the assistant press
[54:25]secretary we did see President Biden hop on that phone call with Governors Across the Nation and we did learn that he basically said that it's up to the
[54:35]states to handle this so we will continue to keep you posted on the story here on live now from Fox some of you are going to see a quick two minute commercial break when you return we are
[54:46]going to head out to the state of Virginia where a conservation experts in the capital opened a second capsule discovered in the base of a Richmond
[54:56]Robert E Lee statue really interesting stuff coming out of that box so we'll have that story for you after this quick break foreign
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[58:09]you are streaming live now from Fox on this Wednesday December 29th we are officially at the 7 A.M Eastern Time Mark of 4 a.m Pacific time so if you are
[58:20]starting to wake up there on the west coast thank you so much for joining us we are uh starting off the top of the seven o'clock hour with a live now look over Philadelphia International Airport
[58:31]uh we've got a shot from one of the terminals out there for the last several days we have learned of thousands of flight cancellations or delays because
[58:41]of cruise Airline Crews testing positive for covid-19 the Omicron variant still the number one variant in the U.S and the U.S now reaching a record high
[58:52]number of positive cases in the pandemic so we will continue to stay on top of all covid-19 related news here on live now from Fox it is one of the top
[59:03]stories that we are following this morning like many riders every time Sean Chenier takes the Metro that was not right hello everybody so again top stories that we are following
[59:14]on this Wednesday morning if you were just tuning in before that break that we sent you to we were talking to Fox's Lucas Tomlinson as President Biden and his administration are facing some
[59:26]pushback from critics for what they say is an about face regarding the government's role in battling the virus The Daily Record for cases in the U.S has reached the highest levels since the
[59:38]start of the pandemic the good news though hospitalizations and deaths lag behind Peak levels from nearly a year ago so we'll be keeping you up to speed
[59:47]with everything on this pandemic here on live now from Fox also unfortunately uh bringing you some news when it comes to
[59:57]The Life and Legacy of two legends in both the sports world and the political world the Sports World mourning the
[1:00:05]death of John Madden who was a legendary player a coach and a commentator and he unfortunately passed away yesterday also
[1:00:17]passing away last night a former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid so we have been monitoring reaction from lawmakers from people in the sports world as we
[1:00:28]bring you all the news and Remembrance when it comes to these Prime figures so we'll be touching on that here on live now from Fox also focusing on some crime
[1:00:39]news this morning pretty soon we are going to be bringing you a full update from a Denver Police as well as Lakewood Police out there in the state of Colorado after five people are dead
[1:00:51]following a shooting spree the suspect himself is dead and now authorities are searching for a motive on why this could have happened so these are just some of
[1:01:01]the stories that we are following here on live now from Fox my name is Regina Gonzalez and I am joining you from Orlando Florida again if you're just tuning into our our coverage thank you
[1:01:11]so much for being here with us as we continue our top stories I actually do want to head out to the state of Virginia because yesterday we had people
[1:01:21]in the capital of Virginia actually opened a second time capsule discovered in the base of a Richmond Robert E Lee
[1:01:30]statue it was removed earlier this year due to some pushback from a civil rights movements but Fox News correspondent Matt Finn has more on what was found
[1:01:41]inside and what year the box was actually capped up let's get the latest here on live now from Fox it does appear that this is the box that
[1:01:52]uh we had expected for the second time in a month conservationists opened a time capsule found buried in what was Robert E Lee's controversial statue what
[1:02:02]happened is it was found in a little alcove at the pedestal it was found in a pool of water experts say the contents were waterlogged but in better shape
[1:02:12]than expected and as x-ray suggested the copper box contained Confederate money Civil War bullets and several books yes we can read it the capsule dating back
[1:02:23]to 1887 was discovered Monday in Richmond where the monument once stood all but the pedestal taken down in September after Virginia's Governor ordered the statue be removed condemning
[1:02:35]it as a racist symbol it's not the smelliest Time Capsule that works with capsule did not include a much-anticipated photograph of former president Lincoln as indicated in a news
[1:02:46]article from 1887. instead the image found was from a newspaper print from an 1865 issue of Harper's Weekly it looks like a figure grieving over the grave of
[1:02:57]Lincoln still the box is considered the more significant of the two capsules discovered at the site the first a smaller Time Capsule made of lead was recovered earlier this month but turned
[1:03:08]out to be an unofficial Memorial and in just a little bit we will bring
[1:03:21]you about 20 minutes and the whole time capsule opening and then brushing off the artifacts and things inside that was actually about two hours long but we'll
[1:03:30]play for you a primal chunk of that update that we got from historians yesterday as they opened that capsule we'll play for you about 20 minutes when they showed us all of the really really
[1:03:42]neat things inside a little bit later here on live now from Fox meanwhile a another major story that we're following this morning the fact that so much of the country right now is seeing a
[1:03:54]freezing temperatures and snow from coast to coast you can see that white color there that is actually a snow and wind advisory in effect for so many
[1:04:04]places you can see the Midwest the Pacific Northwest uh well I do want to bring you the latest from Fox's Chris de Mayo he's got more on the extreme snow and the low temperatures impacting these
[1:04:16]several pockets of our nation let's listen in it's going to be you know four or five days before we get above freezing again
[1:04:27]intense snow and extremely low temperatures continuing to slam several Pacific and Midwestern states Seattle is in the grasp of a dangerous cold spell seeing its coldest day in
[1:04:39]more than 30 years Monday as thermometer is plunged to 17 degrees prompting communities to open warming centers for those seeking Refuge throughout this week we got a tent right down the street
[1:04:49]only like a block and a half away and I'm not even willing to stay in it right now it's just so difficult in California snow outside Sacramento is proving to be a tourist attraction with residents in the Golden State Driving further north
[1:05:01]to see the blankets of white and why is it fun because we get to do so make a snow mud conditions around Lake Tahoe proving
[1:05:12]even more impressive forecasts through say Tuesday's storm brought the area's snowfall up to more than 193 inches breaking a record set in 1970.
[1:05:22]Minnesota also receiving a heavy dusting of powder this week bringing out an army of shovelers and snow blowers we've got a lot of talking going on other than a lot of grunting and shoveling meanwhile
[1:05:33]at least one person is dead in Western Wisconsin after snow and ice created treacherous driving conditions Travelers in Illinois on the other hand saw less severe storms with Chicago getting one
[1:05:44]tenth of an inch Tuesday its first measurable snowfall of the year and while much of the nation is resembling a winter wonderland these snow storms are causing concerns for air Travelers already facing extensive flight
[1:05:55]cancellations because of Omicron Chris de Mayo Fox News foreign is a look at temperatures Across the
[1:06:10]Nation a courtesy of our live now x-rad radar be sure to stick with us because at about 8 45 a.m eastern time we will be speaking with a fox weather reporter
[1:06:20]who's going to be joining us from Seattle Washington with the latest on Snowy and wintry conditions out there so that will be a live report coming up for you shortly here on live now from Fox
[1:06:31]again my name is Regina Gonzalez with you live from Orlando Florida do you want to get into some business and consumer related news headlines here on live now from Fox this morning let's start that off by bringing you the
[1:06:42]latest Fox means Business Report foreign losing some steam on Wall Street the S P
[1:06:55]500 falling from its record high on Tuesday the NASDAQ dipped a bit too but the Dow managed to finish higher for a fifth day in a row the housing market continues to soar though the s p core
[1:07:06]logic case Schiller home price index jumped 18.4 percent in October from the same time a year ago and probably no surprise a separate report by the title
[1:07:16]insurance company first American finds housing affordability has dropped in October to its lowest level since 2008. Phoenix had the biggest decline buying a
[1:07:26]home there is now nearly 34 percent less affordable than it would have been a year ago and finally celebrating New Year's in a certain part of the Sunshine State could burn a hole in your wallet a
[1:07:38]new survey by cheaphotels.org says the city of Miami Beach is the most expensive place in the world to stay on New Year's Eve the best price for a
[1:07:47]double room there goes for 365 dollars and night that's business I'm Jackie DeAngelis meanwhile it's been one of the biggest
[1:07:58]topics of conversation throughout the year how much is a tank of cat a tank of gas excuse me going to set you back well economists are predicting that the price
[1:08:09]of gas could get better by 2022 early next year but is that going to happen I do want to bring you out to New Orleans Louisiana that's where Fox News
[1:08:19]multimedia Rebecca Caster has the latest on this story after speaking with experts as with many things in our lives covid-19 is still driving up gas prices
[1:08:29]Louisiana is one of the top oil producing states in the country but overall production has not yet reached pre-pandemic levels data from the tech company Gas Buddy finds that early on in
[1:08:41]the pandemic the U.S was producing about 13 million barrels of oil a day now that number is around 11.6 million barrels GasBuddy says production is slowly
[1:08:51]recovering but we'll need to ramp up we will see additional oil production coming online probably in the mid and latter half of 2022 as prices remain
[1:09:01]high and that should eventually lead to some more relief but for now it does look like in the very short term prices may start heading back up we're still in a tumultuous environment in which uh you
[1:09:13]know conventional wisdom is in the back seat compared to developments from the covid-19 pandemic so I would expect that to continue in 2022. this Christmas Day
[1:09:23]gas prices were the highest ever recorded on December 25th at a little over three dollars and 26 Cents a gallon but more production should bring good
[1:09:33]news in 2022 the U.S Energy Information Administration predicts gasoline prices will reach an average of 2.88 cents in the new year when that may happen though
[1:09:43]is largely dependent on future covid-19 variants and potential travel restrictions while prices still remain high they have dropped by about 20 cents since November drivers here today are
[1:09:54]paying about three dollars and nine cents a gallon from New Orleans Louisiana Rebecca Caster Fox News and here is a live now look over in New Orleans Louisiana on this Wednesday
[1:10:06]morning only 6 12 a.m out there I wanted to bring you this shot courtesy of the hundreds of weather cams that we have Across the Nation uh you know Louisiana
[1:10:16]it's like she said it is a huge oil and gas uh state but it also is religious you've got tons of churches out there well a
[1:10:28]new study is actually Shining Light on the religious decline taking place in the United States Fox News correspondent Marion Rafferty has more on that plus why members of the Catholic faith are
[1:10:39]recruiting priests from Africa to serve in America foreign a recent study from the Pew Research
[1:10:49]Center finds Americans are becoming less religious with 30 percent of all U.S adults now identifying as either atheist or agnostics [Music]
[1:11:01]but getting more people into pews isn't the only problem according to the Associated Press the Catholic church is seeing a decline in the number of people becoming spiritual leaders we are
[1:11:12]experiencing a shortage of priests currently and the issue is causing some diocese to Outsource priests recruiting ones from countries in Africa to preach here in the states instead they have
[1:11:23]been an enormous help to us but the transition can come with a little shell shock for these International priests I see myself in this rural country it was like where am I what am I doing still many
[1:11:38]say the love people have for their God is what inspires them to stay initially I did not feel like I wanna you know be here but when I look at the faith of the people
[1:11:50]to be honest with you I say I want to serve as for the parishioners many are enjoying the different perspectives being brought to their services from these priests abroad he brings a lot of
[1:12:00]his culture in explaining the scripture so he father kind of ties everything in to how he grew up and then maybe how things are different here the Pew
[1:12:11]research study also found among the different types of Christians Protestants saw the largest rate of decline still more Americans consider themselves religious than not Marianne
[1:12:22]Rafferty Fox News foreign everyone now we are heading out to a
[1:12:32]live look we currently have of Port Canaveral Florida this is right down the road from us here at our live now from Fox East Coast Hub in Orlando uh do want
[1:12:42]to uh head out there even though this is not specifically taking place in Port Canaveral this next story that I have for you actually takes place in a Miami port that is where a Carnival Cruise was
[1:12:54]forced to return after there was a covid-19 Outbreak on the ship well a passenger actually spoke exclusively with our Fox 35 Orlando's Elena shirazi
[1:13:04]so I do want to bring you this story here this morning let's listen in foreign it was a bit of a nightmare um it was I would say it was very
[1:13:16]frustrating and I definitely did feel like I was sailing on a petri dish I mean I definitely feel like my Christmas was ruined the Carnival Freedom left Miami with over 2 000 passengers on
[1:13:26]December 18th it stopped in Curacao where she heard about the outbreak on local TV it was on the Curacao news it started circling that there was covid-19
[1:13:36]on our ship but they Carnival denied denied telling us that there was covid-19 membership they only told us the next morning when we were denied entry into
[1:13:48]Bonaire that there was an outbreak of covet on our ship Carnival Cruise Line responded with a statement saying the rapid spread of the Omicron variant May shape how some destination authorities
[1:13:57]with limited medical resources May view even a small number of cases even when they're being managed with our vigorous protocols pictures sent to us by Ashley and other passengers show blocked off
[1:14:09]corridors employees in hazmat suits delivering food and Trays left outside quarantined doors Stomps and Bonaire in Aruba canceled only the Dominican
[1:14:20]Republic agreed to let the freedom dock I spent most of the trip like during the day in my cabin or outside I tried to stay away from any indoor activities I
[1:14:32]tried to avoid anybody new so I kind of only hung out with the people that I'd already been exposed to Industry analyst Stuart shiron says canceling stops is just part of C protocols well I've been
[1:14:43]to Mexico on a number of occasions uh recently where uh we the they didn't get allow us to get off the ship they skipped the port all together it's important to know there are protocols in
[1:14:54]place and most people are just happy to be able to get away Alina shirazi Fox 35 News all right everybody some of you are
[1:15:09]going to see a quick two-minute commercial break when you return we are going to continue some coverage honoring the life of John Madden Hall of Fame
[1:15:19]coach and broadcast Legend who passed away unexpectedly yesterday morning the 85 year old coached the Oakland Raiders for 10 seasons leading them to a Super
[1:15:30]Bowl win in 1976 after retiring Madden headed to the broadcast Booth where he quickly became a fan favorite he had the best voice he was twice named the
[1:15:41]American sportscasters Association sports Personality of the Year again unfortunately passing away suddenly yesterday we are going to bring you the
[1:15:50]latest on his life and Legacy courtesy of our KTVU Fox 2 Team out there in San Francisco they put on a special obituary piece for him so we'll have that for you
[1:16:01]after this quick break thank you
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[1:17:20][Music] in his later years in life the public
[1:18:05]rarely caught a glimpse to the guy who at one time was one of the most visible faces in America what you could always count on from John Madden is that when it came to one of his players he would
[1:18:17]be there like the day Kenny Stabler was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame and I started calling him all a favor
[1:18:30]40 years later [Music] ten years earlier it was John's time to be honored a moment that touched him and
[1:18:41]was shared with his former boss and many of his players there's between 30 and 40 ex-raid of players play all stand up stand up my family stand up stand up
[1:18:51]just take your day I went from player to coach to a broadcaster and I am the luckiest guy in
[1:19:01]the world players and coaches will tell you being elected to your Sports Hall of Fame is the ultimate honor signifying a career
[1:19:12]accomplishment but with John Madden it's hard to precisely Define his career to a generation of young people Madden is the face of a video game first
[1:19:23]started in 1988. people say I'm going to play Madden you know I mean that's what they say I'm going to play Madden boom tough acting tonight to a generation
[1:19:34]before Madden was a pitch man for everything from hotels to Hardware to beer excuse me I'm not the same crazy coach who used to storm around the
[1:19:45]sidelines yelling at the officials I've learned to relax and I drank light beer for Miller Light beer for Miller everything you always wanted in a beer and less as I was saying I don't care
[1:19:56]what anybody else and it hardly stops there he makes a little basketball twist there and pivot and boom the ball's there Madden also revolutionized the way
[1:20:05]football games are broadcast Joe Montana looks more like Barry Manilow he knew the game as well as anyone the 49ers play on running Downs a 3-4 defense but
[1:20:17]his style was one of a kind boom We cross him the left goes to the right the right goes to the left this guy crosses here he crosses here they have no idea where we are who we are where we're
[1:20:27]coming from who we're throwing to very interesting in his broadcast career Madden eventually worked for all four major networks teaming with two giants of the industry Al Michaels and Pat
[1:20:39]Summerall as enjoyable as he was to watch thinking Madden was some kind of football cartoon character would be a big mistake there's never been anybody
[1:20:49]in this industry anywhere in the broadcast industry that worked at the trade that he loved any harder than John Madden there's nobody more loyal
[1:21:00]once he becomes a friend uh You've Got a Friend who you could call at any time of the night and he'd be there another man who knows about Madden
[1:21:10]loyalty was his childhood friend and fellow coach John Robinson I didn't have a brother so John was more like my brother I think I was at John's house
[1:21:20]more than he was of mine his mom was I think his mom thought maybe she got had had adopted me John Earl Madden was born in Austin
[1:21:29]Minnesota in 1936 when he was in grammar school the Madden's moved to Daly City Madden played baseball and football at Jefferson High but it was clear football
[1:21:40]was his future Madden played two seasons at College of San Mateo and then transferred to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo he was drafted by the Philadelphia
[1:21:50]Eagles in 1958 but his playing career was quickly ended by a knee injury in training camp his rookie season Madden returned to Cal Poly to get a
[1:22:01]master's degree met his wife Virginia and then at 23 began his coaching career at Allen Hancock College in Santa Maria in 1967 Madden was hired as an Oakland
[1:22:13]Raider assistant and two years later at the age of 32 became at the time the youngest head coach in NFL history if you have it in you to be a head coach it
[1:22:23]doesn't make any difference if you're 32 42 52 62 or 82 you can do it Madden inherited a talented team with a reputation for defying conventional thinking
[1:22:34][Applause] I mean they wanted to say the Raiders are dirty yeah yeah yeah we're dirty yeah what are you going to do about it the Raiders were known as Renegades involved
[1:22:45]in some of the most memorable and sometimes controversial plays in NFL history there was the Sea of hands game against Miami [Music]
[1:22:59]the Holy Roller against the Chargers absolutely if
[1:23:09]someone green on the play Madden is on the field he wants to know if it's real they said yes get your big butt out of here he does and of course the
[1:23:20]Immaculate Reception against the Steelers and his pass is broken up by Tatum thankful Harris has it
[1:23:30]and he's over from 1969 to 75 the Raiders won division championships but couldn't win the big one that all
[1:23:40]changed in 1976. from the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena California it is Super Bowl 11. this is Bill king with a welcome undoubtedly the biggest moment
[1:23:50]in Madden's coaching career was the team's 32-14 win over the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl 11. Madden got a short Victory ride that day we're Super
[1:24:01]Bowl champions of Super Bowl 11 and they can never take it away from you and no one will ever take away John Madden's incredible Legacy the kid who grew up in Daly City raised
[1:24:12]a family and coached a team to a Super Bowl the guy who retired from coaching and built multiple careers after that he rode the rails and later the Madden
[1:24:23]Cruiser putting his unique spin on consumer products all the while preparing to broadcast the game he loved before a national TV audience in a way
[1:24:33]that will never really be duplicated a true legend to say the least we will
[1:24:44]be continuing our coverage honoring the life of the Legendary player coach and broadcaster here on live now from Fox throughout the day be sure to stick with
[1:24:55]us at 9 15 a.m eastern time we will be joined by a Fox Sports contributor talking about the life of John Madden and the career path he has left behind
[1:25:06]this morning after his passing yesterday again we do not know a cause of death this morning if and when we do get those details in the weeks to come we'll be sure to bring it to you here on live now
[1:25:17]from Fox some of you are going to see a quick two minute commercial break when you return we are going to switch gears here and head out to the state of
[1:25:25]Virginia really cool story a second time capsule found inside of the Robert E Lee statue the base of it out there in Richmond we're going to play for you
[1:25:36]about 20 minutes of them opening the capsule and finding really cool neat artifacts and uh tokens inside so stick with us that's coming up after this
[1:25:46]quick break foreign
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[1:27:48]thank you again to all of our viewers who are here with us on live now from Fox what we're going to do is help give a little bit of background to what they are doing again they had found a second
[1:28:00]time capsule 11 days after finding one A different one it was an unknown Time Capsule that had been discovered they are going to be cutting this box live right here and we are going to be
[1:28:11]watching it what I'm going to do though while we're watching this take place is a play out a package giving a little bit of information about where this was found as well as some information on the
[1:28:21]other time capsule that had also been found at this time foreign once the decision was made to remove the
[1:28:35]statue of Robert E Lee there was a lot of speculation about whether or not a time capsule would be found in September there was an effort made to
[1:28:46]locate the Time Capsule and that was unsuccessful subsequently Governor Northam made the decision to remove the stone pedestal which is a massive
[1:28:57]structure it had been brought down to ground level by midweek last week Friday a week ago a time capsule was
[1:29:10]found the Time Capsule they opened today is slightly different than the one historians believe was inside the pedestal that used to hold the Robert E
[1:29:20]Lee statue was there ever another time capsule if there was was it at some point removed I don't think that there is
[1:29:30]anywhere left for us to look [Music] it was decided over the last several days to investigate below grade level
[1:29:42]and they started to do that this morning and in no time they identified uh what we now believe to be the Time Capsule
[1:29:52]that was described as having been installed in the pedestal we are planning to open it tomorrow this one was a challenge to locate it wasn't
[1:30:03]where we expected it's so validating we are a group of really passionate professionals I have the most amazing staff and to see other people get
[1:30:14]excited about it um really warms my heart and validates the work that we do every day all right so once again that was just
[1:30:29]some background information let's go ahead listen into more of what's being said here another collections manager for the Department of historic resources and what you don't see is behind the scenes
[1:30:39]we have several people who work at local museums helping and they just are um we just needed more room so they're in the back um and we honest to God just needed you guys to not hassle people while we're
[1:30:51]trying to do stuff so you can hassle me that's great but back there we'll be dealing with artifacts okay um
[1:31:24]so they are clamping down this box making sure that they have a steady hand when they are going to be opening up this time capsule they do believe again it's from
[1:31:34]1887 and we just heard that uh Cruz had just wrapped up removal of a giant pedestal that once held the statue of Confederate General Robert E Lee in
[1:31:45]Richmond they found to appear this now second long sought after time capsule foreign
[1:31:59]and as we heard of them speaking to us before they had opened already three sides of the box but were waiting to do the fourth side live right here for all
[1:32:10]of the news crews and we are right here in it for you on live now Regina Gonzalez with you here on it live now from Fox as we watch some uh some
[1:32:21]excerpts from this really really cool event that happened yesterday as you heard my co-host Christy Larson talking so this is a previously recorded segment
[1:32:30]she was hosting when it happened just yesterday we brought it to you live raw and unfiltered front row here on live now from Fox obviously the really cool thing about our show and they are
[1:32:41]opening the box as we speak I run unfiltered here online now from Fox so you heard Christy there providing
[1:32:53]some background info and some commentary as they open this capsule let's continue to listen in here on live now from Fox
[1:33:01][Music] News thank you watch out for that okay
[1:33:18]this off and just think about all the things that they have to do to be very careful with
[1:33:27]this old piece of equipment they also want to make sure that they're keeping everything intact as best as possible as
[1:33:36]they try to see what may be inside okay what do we got well the rock is
[1:33:45]going to be thank you
[1:33:54]coins wrapped paper [Music]
[1:34:03]that's a mini bowl I gotta take my glove these metals have to go back really quickly um for anyone who was here last time
[1:34:12]any of the metals the metal coin from last time started to tarnish within a minute it was bright silver and then it turned gray so we're just getting these back into silica gel as quickly as possible foreign
[1:34:31]if you can get any other coins and stuff just start pulling them out uh is it this I don't know so some of the stuff we sort of
[1:34:43]understand we know there were some mini balls in here there does appear to be the piece of wood that had the bullet stuck in it right here on top
[1:34:53]um take care of the wood yeah okay um well actually I can do the wood and
[1:35:03]you can yeah okay so we're pulling out the metals first because they're on top um
[1:35:28]here's one of the buttons it has it looks like the Virginia seal actually on it um folk we saw on the video
[1:36:05]and you can see just how many people it does take to go through all of these items of course they want to get everything documented as best as possible and once they officially opened
[1:36:15]up that box it's just being exposed to that air once again so it could always change the condition of some of these items I'll do what I can to answer if I don't answer you it's because I'm not paying attention and that's how the
[1:36:26]world rolls rules I don't know if you guys can see I've
[1:36:36]got the mini balls here oh okay so she's just uncovering some mini balls we have a button here there you go it feels a little is that a
[1:36:49]little bit uh I can't quite tell it says I can't quite tell honestly no it had been a month-long search
[1:37:08]before this time capsule and again they did not know the exact location but they did say that they had found some news accounts indicating that it was placed
[1:37:20]during a Cornerstone laying ceremony in 1887 which was attended by thousands of people news accounts described its dozens of donated artifacts including
[1:37:31]Confederate memorabilia now based on historical records some have also speculated the capsule might contain a rare photo of the deceased President Abraham Lincoln so let's continue to
[1:37:43]watch what is pulled out of this box I can definitely tell that there's moisture that came from the condensation on the top of the lid um it's not too bad it's not soup so
[1:37:55]we're okay with that so just so that you guys can see there was supposed to be a description on this box I am not seeing that you can see how wet it is on the inside from condensation though if we find in the
[1:38:06]description we'll send you guys a picture but right now I'm just not seeing that uh thousand books in there right now it's
[1:38:19]hard to read it upside down um I see something Bird Island patent family flower Constitution uh and bylaws of Lee camp
[1:38:38]program yeah yes that's our first one there um that was on the inventory I'm just trying to figure out which ones
[1:38:53]to take out first um sorry let me know that's just to get the
[1:39:08]orientation of what's in there it is very tightly packed so once again we are watching them live take out all
[1:39:18]of these old artifacts dating back to the 1887 so we will be continuing to watch this right here on live now from Fox some of you though are going to be
[1:39:29]stepping away for a two-minute break we'll continue to keep you updated as you return on what has been pulled out of the box Mosby
[1:39:44]foreign letters so if we can just keep this pathway
[1:39:59]clear that would be great no jumping you terrify me when you jump
[1:40:13]there's someone behind you okay okay your show I'm Everett Mercer
[1:40:27]Everett Mercer Everett Mercer where you from Everett Ashland how did you how did you manage to um
[1:40:37]my dad my dad is Clark Mercer Harper's Weekly has his weekly
[1:40:48]1865 April 29th Harper's Weekly 1865. page 263 okay
[1:41:12]no this is definitely not dry unfortunately but it's also not soup so there's that I guess
[1:41:23]yes we can read it you can see wow I cannot lift this up um you'll need to go get a piece of I need to just put it out on the yeah
[1:41:33]let's go on the table yeah go do what you need to do yeah so I have to say it looks like a picture of Lincoln
[1:41:42]it said Lincoln on it so this may be not at all what everyone was hoping for this this here looks like it was a way
[1:41:51]to mend uh the tears in the middle did you hear that so it looks like when they put this in it was already torn and they've actually have a mend on there
[1:42:03]because this has been folded already many times and so it looks like a figure grieving over the grave of Lincoln um
[1:42:14]it's a printed image a printed image from Harper's Weekly 260 Pages 264 and 265.
[1:42:24]it's like a centerfold picture okay and then I'm getting out of your way too so you can get this out of here 7 45 a.m here on the East Coast good
[1:42:38]morning everyone if you're just tuning in to our coverage thank you for joining us here on live now from Fox on this Wednesday December 29th uh we are taking
[1:42:46]a look back as the contents of a long sought after Time Capsule a second at Time Capsule was found in the giant
[1:42:56]pedestal that once held a statue of Confederate General Robert E Lee the artifacts inside that capsule uh being introduced just yesterday so let's
[1:43:06]continue to listen in here on live now from Fox and after uh these uh historians speak I will read to you what was found if you are just tuning in sorry there was supposed to be a
[1:43:20]fragment of a shell from a battle in Fredericksburg I think we got money so I'm making the decision not to this
[1:43:33]looks like Confederate money um in an envelope um I'm making the decision not to um separate it all right now because as a stack
[1:43:44]it retains more moisture and I'll have more time later to separate the individual notes so I'm going to leave that as it is right now [Music]
[1:43:55]there's some goo on the envelope so I can't really read what that says there's looks like there's Confederate notes in here okay they were supposed to
[1:44:05]be yeah some of those yes so you're leaving that as a I'm leaving that right now I will separate it later perfect um 12 Capricorns oh there was a um
[1:44:16]supposed to be a bundle of coins 12 copper coins to the monument from Charles Howard Maybe
[1:44:28]or heart Harwood um
[1:44:41]I think it's in pretty good shape considering what we normally get with these um I'm just gonna hold this up real quick um I think it's in better shape than we had
[1:44:52]expected we thought everything was going to be soup and it's not soup so we're pretty it's pretty great in shape that's a two questions
[1:45:08][Music] it's an old newspaper from 1865 that's already had some wear and tear before it got put into the box itself so I would say considering it looks like it's in
[1:45:20]pretty good shape considering that kind of wear and tear before it even got put in the box um
[1:45:34]stuff yeah I think I think looks sometimes can be deceiving here and so it's so packed and the um the boards of the books have splayed
[1:45:44]so I'm gonna have to really work with Kate to figure out what's going to come out first so we can release others yeah sorry I'm gonna I'm good
[1:45:55]at Donovan might need to Maybe like a Bible right there yeah that does
[1:46:09]look like there we were expecting a Bible and it does look like maybe we have a Bible okay um um
[1:46:23]just sort of like no no you take your time thank you Regina Gonzalez with you here on live
[1:46:34]now from Fox this is the beautiful thing about our show while this is a previously recorded segment we brought it to you just yesterday Live run unfiltered front row as history was
[1:46:45]unveiled again if you're just tuning in uh this was as a second in Time Capsule inside of the pedestal of the former Robert E Lee statue in Richmond Virginia
[1:46:55]was opened and they started pulling out all of these really amazing artifacts just a couple of things that were found inside coins books a piece of wood with a bullet in it a button with the
[1:47:07]Virginia seal letters a newspaper dated back to 1865 with a centerfold print of a figure leaning over the casket of
[1:47:16]deceased President Abraham Lincoln and a Bible we learned later on that the Time Capsule was actually found inside of a pool of water and a Crews were concerned
[1:47:27]that there was water inside the capsule which was tested and found to be made of copper and weighed about 36 pounds so this development actually marked the
[1:47:38]latest turn in a months-long search for the capsule uh which was uh apparently indicated that it was placed during a Cornerstone laying ceremony in 1887
[1:47:49]which was attended by thousands of people so a really amazing to see all of the artifacts coming out of this box we were able to bring it to you front row here on live now from Fox some of you
[1:48:00]are going to see a quick two minute commercial break we are going to shift our Focus to the latest when it comes to the Omicron Surge and covid-19 cases in our nation
[1:48:10]thank you again [Music]
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[1:50:03]foreign live now from Fox everybody thank you so much for joining us on this Wednesday
[1:50:13]December 29th We are continuing to cover the fact that covid-19 cases in our nation are reaching all-time record highs with the spread of the new Omicron
[1:50:24]variant well as you know live now from Fox is powered by our owned and operated television stations from across the nation and our very own Fox 11 Los Angeles team actually spoke with an
[1:50:33]epidemiologist on whether or not we may need stronger masks to combat the spread of Omicron so I do want to bring you this segment here on live now from Fox
[1:50:43]this morning let's listen in joining us now to answer a lot of questions about the Omicron surge is UCLA epidemiologist Dr Ann Ramone Dr ramoin thank you so much for your time
[1:50:54]tonight the last time that you were with us at seven o'clock it was the very beginning of December this was prior to the Omicron surge we know that this is far more contagious than Delta we know
[1:51:06]though it seems to be producing less severe illness is there anything else about the Omicron variant that you know that we don't know at this point
[1:51:17]well I think that what we know is is very very clear this virus is extremely contagious it can spread much more easily than the Delta variant which was
[1:51:27]already extremely contagious so you just have to remember that we're dealing with something where the game has been has has gone has become more complicated and so you have to do more to be able to protect yourself you need to be really
[1:51:39]really thoughtful about what you're doing who you're doing it with what their vaccination status is and where very high quality masks this is all going to be very key in terms of being
[1:51:50]able to prevent spread of this virus where you talk about risk management here we are we've just finished the Christmas weekend we are on the cusp of
[1:51:59]celebrating New Year's New Year's Eve is there really a safe way to do that or is the answer simply you just need to weigh
[1:52:08]your risks well you know I don't think that there's there's going to be a way to to be completely safe you're going to go out I think that there's a question of what's
[1:52:20]safer for you given your own personal circumstances so if you are young if you are healthy if you are vaccinated and boosted uh if you you have a little bit
[1:52:31]more flexibility than somebody who is potentially older who has comorbidities who has an immune compromised system or who lives with somebody who has any of
[1:52:40]these uh qualities or is in close contact with them uh that that's really what's going to to give you a a sense of what your risk is what your risk tolerance should be and you should
[1:52:51]always calibrate that risk tolerance to the most vulnerable person in your circle so if you live with somebody who's older if you are going to go see your parents or your grandparents who
[1:53:01]might be uh elderly you know you need to be very thoughtful if you're going to go to an event you're going to be around a lot of other people given how fast this virus spreads even if you are vaccinated didn't boost it you might want to
[1:53:13]quarantine for a couple days or if you have access to testing get tested before seeing them so it's it's all going to be a matter of calibrating risk and your risk threshold you just mentioned
[1:53:23]quarantine uh and and I just mentioned the fact that the CDC shortened its time frame from 10 days to five days
[1:53:31]does this follow the science so the CDC has changed their guidance for isolation isolation is when you have been when you have tested positive for
[1:53:43]covid you need to isolate for several days the guidance was previously for 10 days the CDC has now shortened it to five days and this is for people who are
[1:53:52]vaccinated and unvaccinated now you know this this was really put into into play because we were very worried about the health system and so the original guidance was for health workers that
[1:54:04]they could go back to work if they were asymptomatic or their symptoms were basically resolved with a negative rapid test and I think that that would be the most prudent guidance because that is
[1:54:14]really going to be an indicator of whether or not you are still infectious you know the data still suggests that while most people may clear an infection after five days you know there's still a
[1:54:26]lot of people that may be on this curve and still may be infectious for several days afterwards and that's why a rapid test was going to be so important now the the problem is we have a very uh
[1:54:37]clear lack of Rapid tests in the system where we need to be flooded with them and so as a result the CDC very lightly did not add that uh that requirement for
[1:54:48]for testing out because people are having a very hard time getting tests and so it's going to make it very complicated so I would be very thoughtful about what you do the guidance should be the bare minimum and
[1:54:59]if you can do more you should do more if you can get tested after after those five days I think it would be very very useful if you have people around you who
[1:55:09]are going to be vulnerable and that you could potentially expose now the other half of this is they've suggested that for those second five days you wear a high quality mask and and I think that
[1:55:20]this is really important wearing a kn95 mask would be the right thing to do you know one of these masks for example uh so I think that it's just really important to remember these guidelines
[1:55:31]have changed um they should be improved by adding testing but we don't have those tests available so if you can't get a test wear a mask yeah we had a reporter on that that's where we heard that woman
[1:55:42]say that literally couldn't find a test today and she went to five or six different sites and they're sold out over the counter it's so frustrating best bet for you at home is to find one online if you can do that let's get your
[1:55:53]reaction to What Dr Anthony fauci said today about mandating vaccines to be able to fly here's what he said you know there's requirements that you might want to get if you want to get into college or you want to go to a
[1:56:05]university or you want to work in certain places when you make vaccination a requirement that's another incentive to get more people vaccinated if you want to do that with domestic flights I
[1:56:16]think that's something that seriously should be considered what is your reaction to that I think with this variant it's so contagious uh the the everybody is
[1:56:27]looking for for ways to be able to reduce the potential for spread I think that uh Dr fauci then walked back these these uh statements a little bit later saying that it was something that was on the table and it's certainly it's
[1:56:39]something that people should be considering but what is clear that high quality masks work they make a major difference so the one thing that everybody should be doing right now
[1:56:48]given that masks are available is to be wearing high quality masks on airplanes I recently flew on a plane the people were still wearing cloth mask cloth masks are not effective at preventing
[1:56:59]spread of this virus and surgical masks are are good but they're not great there have been a lot of studies recently that have shown that kn95 masks can drastically reduce the spread of this
[1:57:10]virus so my suggestion is you get on a plane wear one okay um I want to go back quickly to New Year's eve since that's right around the corner the city of Los Angeles canceled
[1:57:21]its Grand Park event so it's all only online meanwhile the Rose Parade is going on so is the city of Los Angeles being overreactive in Pasadena being
[1:57:31]under reactive in just two lacks about this it gets confusing there's never going to be a one-size-fits-all scenario here and it's going to be based on the logistics that
[1:57:41]are that are available the ability for the city to be able to manage events and and it's going to have to be calibrated to that I think that you know the rose the the Rose Parade is outdoors uh you
[1:57:53]know I think that that there are it's it's spread out over a a a large uh a long distance I think that that can be that definitely can be managed if people
[1:58:04]are wearing high quality masks and it is just so clearly outdoors I I think that that it's very complicated and it's really going to depend upon what people what the cities can manage themselves all right uh well I learned that I need
[1:58:15]a KN 95 mask from you um so I'm going to get on that Dr Anne ramoyan UCLA epidemiologist thank you so much for being with us tonight
[1:58:25]my good morning everybody and thank you so much for streaming live now from Fox on
[1:58:36]this Wednesday December 29th last Wednesday of 2021. my name is Regina Gonzalez with you live from our East Coast Hub in Orlando Florida I'll be with you for the next several hours
[1:58:48]before my co-host Christy Larson joins us from Phoenix Arizona we have been bringing you all of the top stories that we are following on this Wednesday morning for the last couple of hours and
[1:58:58]I do want to run you through what we are following once again as we have officially reached the top of the eight o'clock Eastern time hour five o'clock there on the west coast really quickly
[1:59:09]if you are just joining our coverage thank you so much for being with us if you are a new live now or we basically bring you live raw unfiltered non-stop news front row to breaking news
[1:59:21]situations and Live Events across the country and as your host we actually control the whole show so this is our setup here in Orlando Florida love to give you this behind this scene shot
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[1:59:54]and improved way to bring you the news each and every morning and uh speaking of breaking news I actually do want to bring you out to a situation that we are
[2:00:04]following in the Maryland area a news alert as we begin the top of the eight o'clock hour with some information from our Fox 5 DC team we're learning this
[2:00:14]morning that a person is dead after authorities say they fired at police early this morning in Montgomery County so to the left hand side of your screen you've got that ground shot this is all
[2:00:25]courtesy of our Fox 5 DC team you can see a very active scene caution tape up lots of law enforcement agencies on scene to the right hand side in the aerial shot it does look like they are
[2:00:37]looking in a vehicle as of right now we do not know if this vehicle belongs to police or if they are investigating but basically officers say that this
[2:00:47]incident happened around 6 a.m this morning in the Downtown Silver Spring area so again this is in the state of Maryland if you're from the area if you're joining us from Silver Spring
[2:00:58]this was specifically near Wayne Avenue and Greenbrier Drive but I know that uh you know for those of you who are not joining us from the area again this is
[2:01:08]in Maryland officially say officials say the individual and police exchanged some gunfire of the person was pronounced dead at the scene no officers were
[2:01:19]reported injured so again we are learning this morning that the suspect into this situation is dead as of right now as we learn all of these details
[2:01:30]from this breaking new situation here's the full aerial shot of this very active scene out there again this just all went down about two hours ago drivers can't
[2:01:41]expect delays in this area as it continues into the morning it does look like this investigation won't be wrapping up anytime soon so when we do get an update from authorities usually
[2:01:52]after a situation like this involving police especially we will get some sort of press conference so when we do get word of that happening we will be sure to bring it to you here on live now from
[2:02:04]Fox this is raw unfiltered breaking news that we have for you this Wednesday morning meanwhile as we do continue on with some more top stories this morning
[2:02:14]we are actually bringing you the latest on the life and Legacies of two prominent figures both in the sports world and the political world that we
[2:02:25]lost just yesterday it was two breaking new situations that we brought to you here on live now from Fox I do want to start off John Madden's booming voice
[2:02:34]and commanding stature will oh we'll get into that report into just a second everybody but I do want to bring you the latest as the world is mourning the death of a football legend John
[2:02:46]Madden he began his professional football career as the Oakland Raiders linebacker coach in 1967 two seasons later he became the youngest head coach
[2:02:56]in the American Football League in 10 seasons he led the Raiders to eight playoff appearances and one Super Bowl title in
[2:03:04]1977. 1977 excuse me Madden retired in 1979 and transitioned to the broadcast Booth also lending his name to the
[2:03:14]popular EA Sports video game Madden NFL Fox News anchor Martha McCollum is taking a closer look back at the life and leggings Legacy of John Madden let's
[2:03:25]listen in foreign 's booming voice and commanding stature will always be associated with
[2:03:34]football born in 1936 in Minnesota his family moved to California where he was a star football and baseball player the sports legend began his professional football career as the Oakland Raiders
[2:03:45]linebacker coach in 1967. two years later the 32 year old Madden became the youngest head coach in the American Football League in 10 seasons he led the
[2:03:55]Raiders to eight playoff appearances and one Super Bowl title in 1977. he retired in 1979 and quickly transitioned to the broadcast Booth winning 13 Emmy Awards
[2:04:07]while working on all four networks now they're really mixing it up in there hey watch this they're really mixing it up in there famous for not liking airplanes
[2:04:16]Madden traveled to games in custom-built buses known as the Madden Cruiser well known for his Dynamic style the American sportscaster Association twice named
[2:04:26]Madden sports Personality of the Year some people say you know they run in there and they Clyde or something I mean it's in their pool that's what I say fans and players enjoyed his tradition
[2:04:38]of handing out turkey legs to the MVPs at the Thanksgiving Day game Madden also lent his name and expertise to popular EA Sports video game Madden NFL applying
[2:04:49]the same principles he did on the field you never stay the same you say okay we're the top game let's just stay right there let's stay right there on top point you don't because the minute you
[2:05:00]say we're okay we're going to stay there you slip I'll guarantee you that you have to say okay we're here but we're going to get better he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2006.
[2:05:12]Martha McCallum Fox News and after learning of his sudden passing yesterday reaction pouring out from
[2:05:22]people and teams across the industry uh this tweet coming from the Las Vegas Raiders which Madden himself coached for a decade saying tonight I light the
[2:05:33]torch in honor of and tribute to John Madden and Al Davis who declare that the fire that burns the brightest in the Raiders organization is the will to win
[2:05:43]so it shows uh owner Mark Davis here honoring Madden at 6 PM the original kickoff time for Monday Night Football also uh got some more tweets to show you
[2:05:54]here this one coming from the NFL showing all of the pictures of the Madden video games this has been uh just something that people have played it's
[2:06:05]so fun I played it for a majority of my childhood years when my friends had Xboxes they had PlayStations we would go over and we would play Madden I love to
[2:06:15]play it uh again they wanted to show this and they tweeted more than a game also hearing from the NFL on Twitter when we first broke the news to them
[2:06:26]saying the NFL is saddened to share the passing of the legendary John Madden he was 85 years old also hearing from players in the industry this one coming
[2:06:36]from Brett Favre saying we lost a larger than life Legend in John Madden my career was narrated by coach one of the best in the game I'll always remember
[2:06:46]our pre-game meetings when we laughed and talked about anything about football I'll miss my dear friend love and prayers to Virginia and the family so again we will be continuing to bring you
[2:06:57]the latest on John Madden's Life and Legacy throughout the day and the days to come here on live now from Fox again this was sudden we do not have any word on a cause of death right now so if and
[2:07:09]when we learn this information we'll be sure to bring it to you as well as any information on a funeral arrangements Memorial Services uh this did it just unfortunately happen after Fox aired a
[2:07:20]docu-series on Madden's life this weekend this past weekend so again we'll continue to follow this story for you here on live now from Fox unfortunately
[2:07:30]and not the only news of a death that we brought to you here on live now from Fox just yesterday we also learned of the death of a prominent figure in the
[2:07:42]political world I do want to bring you the latest when it comes to former Senate Majority Leader and Nevada's longest serving Congressional member
[2:07:51]Harry Reid passing away at the age of 82 yesterday Fox News Chief correspondent Jonathan hunt has a look at The Life and
[2:07:59]Times of this former leader foreign to fight
[2:08:10]for good things for this country Nevada Democrat Harry Reid retired from the senate in 2016 after more than three decades in Congress shortly after
[2:08:20]suffering an injury at home that claimed Vision in his right eye in May 2018 Reed was treated for pancreatic cancer known as a soft-spoken leader who carried a
[2:08:31]big stick Reed took over as Senate majority leader after the 2006 midterms his reputation as a shrewd backroom negotiator helped Shepherd the passage
[2:08:42]of the Affordable Care Act on a straight party line vote in 2009 a legacy republicans in Congress are still trying to disassemble Reed was born into
[2:08:53]poverty in the tiny mining town of Searchlight Nevada in 1939 a boxer in his youth Reed trained in high school Under future Nevada Governor Michael
[2:09:04]Callahan who became his political Mentor Reed worked nights as a capital police officer to pay his way through law school at George Washington University
[2:09:14]and survived an attempted car bombing by the mob during his tenure as chairman of the Nevada gaming commission make sure you're going to work as hard as you can
[2:09:24]at trying to do what you want to do and I believe that so a lesson for everyone the little boy from Searchlight has been able to be part of a changing state of
[2:09:35]Nevada I'm grateful I've been part of that change within DC circles Reed may be best remembered for enacting the nuclear option the historic step Reed
[2:09:46]and his Democratic colleagues took in November 2013 to prevent filibustering on presidential nominations after retiring Reed co-founded a public policy
[2:09:57]think tank at UNLV with former house Speaker Republican John Boehner Harry Reid is survived by his wife landra and
[2:10:06]five children Jonathan hunt Fox News and once again after learning of the death of the former Senate Majority
[2:10:18]Leader we did have reaction pouring out from lawmakers on social media so I do want to show you a couple of tweets this one coming from current Senate minority
[2:10:28]leader Chuck Excuse excuse me Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer Harry Reid was one of the most amazing individuals I've ever met he never forgot where he came from and used those boxing
[2:10:39]instincts to fearlessly fight those who were hurting the poor and the middle class he's gone but will walk by the sides of many of us in the Senate every day this also coming from house Speaker
[2:10:50]Nancy Pelosi saying America lost a Titan of Public Service Senator Harry Reid was a leader of immense courage and ferocious conviction who worked tirelessly to achieve historic progress
[2:11:02]for the American people also reaction from West Virginia senator Joe manchin saying Harry Reid was a quintessential public servant he served the people of
[2:11:13]Nevada for decades and was a giant in the United States Senate my prayers are with his family and friends as They Mourn this incredible loss also reaction
[2:11:23]from Alexandria ocasio-cortez saying sometimes in a quiet or difficult moment Harry Reid would reach out it was like he knew his counsel encouragement
[2:11:32]kindness and generosity was so deeply moving it was sincere and I will never forget it thank you Senator Reid wishing you peace and strength to his family so
[2:11:43]again unfortunately bringing you news on The Life and Legacy of two prominent figures both in the sports world and the political world and if we do get any word on Memorial services or funeral
[2:11:54]arrangements for these former Senate Majority Leader we will bring it to you here on live now from Fox some of you are going to see a quick two-minute commercial break before we go to break I
[2:12:04]do want to bring you some more live feeds that we are getting from the scene of this officer involved shooting out there in Silver Spring Maryland if you
[2:12:16]are just joining our coverage this is a breaking new situation that we've gotten to our desk within the last 10 minutes a person is dead after authorities say they fired at police earlier this
[2:12:26]morning the incident happening around 6 a.m eastern time and does look like we just lost that feed there nope there it is and it looks like they're using a drone actually to investigate this scene
[2:12:37]still a very active scene out there here's another vantage point we have from the ground lots of law enforcement agencies lots of flashing lights some caution tape we do
[2:12:48]have word from the Montgomery County Police Department that drivers can expect delays in the area continuing into the morning as this is still a very
[2:12:57]active scene looks like they are using drones out there to investigate the premises again this happened at around 6
[2:13:06]a.m this morning officers say a person is dead after they fired at police they said the individual and police exchange gunfire the person was pronounced dead
[2:13:18]at the scene and no officers were reported injured so when we usually do get a situation like this a little bit later we'll get an official press conference from authorities involved so
[2:13:29]if and when we do get that we will bring it to you here on live now from Fox these feeds are coming in courtesy of our Fox 5 DC Chopper out there over Silver Springs Maryland again some of
[2:13:41]you are going to see a quick minute commercial break when you return we're going to switch gears here head out live to the White House right now in our nation's capital A little after 8 15 a.m here on the East Coast we're going to
[2:13:53]get the latest as critics are kind of pushing on the Biden Administration to say more or do more when it comes to combating the spread of the Omicron
[2:14:03]variant as covid-19 cases are hitting record high numbers two years into the pandemic we'll have some more news from Washington D.C after this quick break thank you
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[2:16:22]you are streaming live now from Fox everybody Regina Gonzalez joining you live from Orlando Florida a little after 8 15 a.m here on the East Coast before we head out to Washington DC and get
[2:16:34]into some political news when it comes to the handling of the covid-19 case surge that we're seeing in our nation I do again want to let you know that we are monitoring this breaking new
[2:16:44]situation out of Silver Springs Maryland a very active scene right now live raw and unfiltered feeds coming to our desk this Wednesday morning if you're just
[2:16:55]tuning into our coverage we know right now that one person is dead after authorities say they fired on police officers earlier this morning the
[2:17:05]incident happening around at 6 a.m in the Downtown Silver Springs area if you're joining us so from that specific area this did happen near Wayne Avenue
[2:17:14]and Greenbrier Drive but you can see to the left hand side of your screen we've got a ground shot showing a very active scene caution tape lots of flashing lights that same scene coming from an
[2:17:25]aerial shot above courtesy of our Fox 5 DC Chopper lots of officials on scene it does look like they are surrounding a white vehicle right now do not know
[2:17:37]whether or not that vehicle belongs to them it does look like it could be part of an investigation and it actually does look like it's a little lower to the ground don't know if maybe a tire popped
[2:17:49]in the shootout or something we don't have that information as of right now but officials do say the individual that is now deceased the him and police
[2:17:58]exchanged gunfire that person was pronounced dead onto the scene and no officers were reported injured so drivers can expect delays in this area
[2:18:08]continuing into the morning as you can see it is still a very active scene and if and when we get a press conference on this situation we'll bring it to you here on live now from Fox meanwhile
[2:18:20]heading back to some top stories that we are following on this Wednesday morning I do want to head out to the White House as we talk the latest on some covid-19
[2:18:31]related news here's the live now look we have from Washington D.C that's because I want to bring you the latest report from Fox's Lucas Tomlinson The Daily
[2:18:41]Record for covid-19 cases has reached the highest level since the start of the pandemic in the U.S that is despite the fact that hospitalizations and deaths uh
[2:18:52]they're behind Peak levels from nearly a year ago so some good news coming out of that but now critics are hitting the president for what they say is an about face regarding the government's role in
[2:19:03]battling the virus so again let's get the latest from Fox's Lucas Tomlinson this morning foreign s attacking the president over what they
[2:19:15]call hypocrisy nearly a year in office President Biden now says it's up to the states to figure out their best strategy for battling the pandemic the president enjoying some time away
[2:19:26]from Washington in Rehoboth Beach new cases of the coronavirus skyrocketing beating the previous seven-day average from last January the highest number since the start of the pandemic today
[2:19:37]the Omicron strain accounts for nearly 59 percent of new cases eclipsing the Delta variant in the U.S health experts say despite the spike of new cases hospitalizations and deaths lag from
[2:19:49]their Peak earlier this year and I can tell you that when you look at the media headlines and even some of the Talking Heads coming out of the administration it would seem that we are in a Perpetual state of Hysteria and panic meanwhile
[2:20:00]the president's saying Monday there is no federal solution to solving the coven pandemic Republicans were quick to pounce Arizona's Governor tweeting the president wants it both ways he's
[2:20:11]demanding Governors resolve the pandemic because his administration can't yet he continues to push vaccine mandates on businesses with no thought to the consequences and others agree with the president claiming the states should
[2:20:23]have been in charge all along I'm not sure that it ever was a federally solvable issue but I just think that the about face is is pretty enlightening isn't it there are also critics
[2:20:33]concerned about the mental and physical toll this pandemic is having on Americans as well as the impact of isolation especially among teens in
[2:20:42]Washington Lucas Tomlinson Fox News meanwhile more children Across the Nation are hospitalized due to the
[2:20:53]spread of the new Omicron variant across the United States there are roughly 260 pediatric hospitalizations a day that's
[2:21:02]a 30 percent increase from last week a nationwide 23 percent of children are vaccinated and according to health officials pediatric cases in New York
[2:21:12]City Rose five times since the beginning of the month most were unvaccinated Health officials insist on increasing children vaccinations to prevent the
[2:21:22]rising spread this was a huge focus in New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio's update that we brought to you live here on our show yesterday they actually
[2:21:31]shifted their focus to students they said that they are going to be sending millions of at-home covid-19 tests to students so that way they can monitor their symptoms get their results and
[2:21:43]hopefully in-person learning will allow or will be allowed to continue because the last thing that they said they want to do is put students back in that
[2:21:53]remote learning environment especially if they don't want to be meanwhile as we continue to follow the latest when it comes to the bide administration's
[2:22:02]response to this spike in cases a Fox News senior National correspondent Rich Edson is traveling with the president in Delaware talking about how this new
[2:22:12]variant is impacting our economy and inflation a day after meeting virtually with a bipartisan group of Governors President
[2:22:23]Biden stressed quote my Administration has the back of every Governor fighting covid-19 in their state we're going to get through this by working together that tweet follows a day of Relentless
[2:22:34]criticism from Republicans over his message yesterday to Governors there is no federal solution this gets solved at a state level President Biden campaigned
[2:22:45]last year promising a competent Federal pandemic response Joseph Robin the day after taking office he wrote in his National strategy quote for the past year we could not turn to the federal
[2:22:55]government for a national plan to answer prayers with action until today I think what changed is uh they had to actually govern uh and they they found that it was a lot more difficult to govern than
[2:23:07]to just take pot shots at it the Biden Administration has relied heavily on vaccines the CDC says more than three in five Americans are fully vaccinated though even the president acknowledges
[2:23:18]his Administration should have pushed more testing months ago the White House is now trying to secure 500 million at-home tests to send Americans free though some Governors worry that plan
[2:23:30]May hamper their plans to buy kits the production of 500 million rapid tests that will be distributed by the federal government is great but obviously that
[2:23:41]dries up the supply chain for the solutions that we might offer as Governor with more at-home testing kits there are concerns among Health officials Americans will refuse to share
[2:23:52]positive tests with local governments meaning they may miss the full extent of omicron's spread while here at the Delaware Shore President Biden canceled that month old
[2:24:02]travel ban targeted at several countries in southern Africa to slow the spread of Omicron here in the United States the President also spoke briefly with reporters today while taking his new dog
[2:24:12]Commander for a walk on the neighborhood he says he spent much of his time here on the phone and that he's made some progress in securing those at-home covet tests in Rehoboth Beach Delaware Rich
[2:24:24]Hudson Fox News and going from Delaware to a live now
[2:24:34]look we have over a terminal at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport out there in Arizona that is because each and every day for the last several days
[2:24:45]more flights have been canceled and even more delayed as kova-driven Staffing shortages disrupted holiday travel for again several days in a row Fox News
[2:24:56]senior correspondent Mike Tobin has more from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport about what Travelers have had to say thank you no relief in sight for some Travelers at
[2:25:10]airports today as flight cancellations continue to bungle the holiday travel season according to FlightAware around 1 000 flights were canceled by the afternoon on Tuesday nearly 3 000 flights were delayed we've been really
[2:25:21]lucky we were on time leaving and we were on so far on time going home Alaska Airlines West getting hit particularly hard some good news for the airlines though Chief Whitehouse medical adviser Dr Anthony
[2:25:33]fauci clarifying some earlier comments he made about vaccine mandates I did not say I support mandates on domestic flights I said that is something that is
[2:25:44]on the table for consideration I didn't say I supported or didn't support it and new CDC regulations could have some Airline workers back on the job quicker
[2:25:54]Americans who test positive for covid but are asymptomatic now have to quarantine for only five days not 10. the agency's director saying quote we want to make sure there is a mechanism
[2:26:05]by which we can safely continue to keep Society functioning while following the science the airlines responding to the changes saying quote the aviation Workforce is essential to maintaining
[2:26:15]the operations of air travel and cargo Supply chains we appreciate the cdc's announcement today updating the isolation guidelines the decision is the right one based on science still with
[2:26:26]the Omicron surgery showing no signs of slowing it remains to be seen if the airline's cancellation problems will clear up once the holiday season winds down at Chicago's O'Hare Airport Mike
[2:26:37]Tobin Fox News all right everybody stay with us here on
[2:26:48]a live now from Fox some of you are going to see a quick two-minute commercial break when you return we are going to have the latest from New York City outside of the courtroom where a
[2:26:58]jury is still deliberating the fate of Jeffrey Epstein socialite galane Maxwell we're also going to bring you the latest when it comes to five people killed
[2:27:09]across two neighborhoods in Colorado after a suspect went on a shooting spree I also do want to let you know that we are monitoring this live breaking news
[2:27:19]situation out of Silver Silver Springs Maryland where we do know this morning that one person is dead after firing at police you can see a very active scene
[2:27:29]out there caution tape lots of authorities surrounding this one white vehicle that may or may not have to do or belong to the suspect that is now
[2:27:40]deceased so again some crime news coming up after this quick two minute commercial break thank you
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[2:29:47]from Fox on this Wednesday December 29th We are continuing to bring you all of the top stories that we are following as of this morning heading out to New York City for this next top story as our Fox
[2:29:58]News team brings us the latest on how jurors are continuing to deliberate the fate of Delaine Maxwell the former socialite who was a friends and at one
[2:30:09]point dated Jeffrey Epstein and is being accused of grooming girls that he later sexually abused so I do want to uh bring you the latest here on live now from Fox
[2:30:20]jurors in the Ghislaine Maxwell trial working to reach a verdict for a fifth day the panel of six men and Six Women returning to court in New York deciding whether Maxwell is guilty or innocent on
[2:30:32]six federal charges including child sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy charges deliberations now lasting more than 24 hours and counting defense attorneys are definitely happier
[2:30:43]uh from their perspective that the jurors are really looking at the facts and it's not a slam dunk for the prosecution Maxwell's trial saw more than two dozen Witnesses take the stand
[2:30:53]during that time prosecutors arguing Maxwell groomed and trafficked underage girls to be sexually abused by her former boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein defense attorneys attacking the motivations and
[2:31:04]the memories of the accusers throughout deliberations jurors have sent at least a dozen notes to the judge asking to review testimony from all four of Maxwell's accusers and also a retired
[2:31:15]Palm Beach cop who was called twice to Epstein's house the panel also asking that the judge Give a definition of enticement in reference to two charges
[2:31:24]Maxwell is facing a very very complicated case many different charges relating to different time frames and each potentially relating to a different
[2:31:34]set of alleged victims we could see them parsing through and maybe have acquittals being hung on some and convicting on others the judge asking that jurors continued deliberations
[2:31:45]longer than usual due to covet concerns in New York Alexis McAdams Fox News meanwhile an update to a breaking news situation that we brought you as soon as
[2:31:56]it happened here on live now from Fox we now know this morning that five people were killed one of the people a confirmed dead is the suspect who allegedly went on a shooting spree
[2:32:06]across two neighborhoods in Colorado let's get the latest on what we know as of this morning and then in just a little bit we will play for you that full update from authorities that we got
[2:32:16]just yesterday a Colorado shooting spree leaves at least five people dead including the gunman a police officer among those who
[2:32:28]are injured the shootings stretched across Denver and the neighboring suburb of Lakewood Police say the violence started around 5 PM local time on Monday in Denver when a gunman shot and killed
[2:32:39]two people and injured a third shortly after authorities say a third person was killed in a different part of the city this is the holiday season to have this
[2:32:49]type of spree take place is not normal for our community uh we cannot lose sight of the victims in this the people that are still fighting for their lives
[2:32:59]following the Denver shootings the suspected gunman exchanged gunfire with the police officers and then fled to the nearby suburb of Lakewood there a fourth person was killed officers say the
[2:33:11]gunman later ran to a hotel where he is believed to have shot a clerk you could hear just the popping outside and it was like one shot and then maybe five or six more and a couple more
[2:33:22]after that they swooped us right inside got us in the back room and not got all the gates down and everything a police officer was shot and wounded a short time later the suspect was eventually
[2:33:32]fatally shot but it's not yet known if he was killed by police since it moved over into Lakewood our investigators have been working diligently with investigators from Denver police
[2:33:42]departments we will work together on this police say they are still working to determine a motive for the shootings in Los Angeles Jeff Paul Fox News foreign
[2:33:56]from Los Angeles out to a very dreary look we have right now over in New York city that is because I do want to focus on a crime when it comes to a national
[2:34:08]standpoint at least 16 cities stretching from coast to coast have officially broken their all-time homicide records in 2021. Fox News National correspondent
[2:34:19]William lajunesse shows us what's being done to curb these stunning statistics foreign two minutes and 14 seconds recognizing
[2:34:31]the 134 lives that have been lost in the city of Oakland to homicide this year Oakland's not alone at least 16 cities this year saw their highest homicide
[2:34:42]rates since the 1990s violent dangerous offenders on the streets has reached a Tipping Point even some big city Democratic Mayors are being forced to
[2:34:54]confront their own statistics it's time that the reign of criminals who are destroying our city it is time for it to come to an end residents in some areas
[2:35:04]leave their cars unlocked to discourage thieves from breaking their Windows it has never been safer to be a criminal in the United States and it's never been less safe to be a citizen
[2:35:16]after the death of George Floyd and protests that followed many democrat-led cities defunded police and voters then elected prosecutors who favor lesser
[2:35:26]charges and shorter sentences like Philadelphia selfie is Larry krasner who argue despite a 13 percent jump in homicides there other crimes are down
[2:35:36]there is not a big spike in crime that is not true there is also not a big spike in violent crime krasner is one of eight Progressive prosecutors in major
[2:35:47]U.S cities now playing defense some of the DA's blame the media for copycat crimes like Smash and grab robberies critics however blame them for no bail
[2:35:57]unless jail policies when you say Chicago people are afraid that looks like it's a death zone Nationwide police faced a 50 percent increase in physical
[2:36:08]assaults this year and a 24 increase in gun fatalities this is taking an incredible toll on the officers and agents out there that are trying to keep
[2:36:17]us all safe no surprise 2021 is on Pace for near-record gun sales well that fear goes to the polls next year as voters will answer the question has the
[2:36:28]pendulum swung to too far to the left and do Americans want to go in a different direction in Los Angeles County William logoness Fox News meanwhile also a story making National
[2:36:49]headlines out of Los Angeles the family of a 14 year old girl wants answers after the girl was killed by a bullet fired from a police officer's gun the appearance of fourteen-year-old
[2:37:00]Valentina oh yeah Peralta spoke Tuesday in Los Angeles we did bring it to you in its entirety here on it live now from Fox the family is represented by
[2:37:11]Attorney Benjamin Crump the shooting happened last Thursday at a Burlington Coat Factory Store where police were responding to reports of a man assaulting people and possible shots
[2:37:22]fired officers wound up firing their guns in a stray bullet hit the girl who was in a dressing room with her mother who is you can see us speaking right there the Los Angeles County Police
[2:37:34]Department is investigating a we will bring you this full update a little bit later in our show here on live now from Fox meanwhile I do want to go from Los
[2:37:44]Angeles to Detroit uh where family remember family members are reacting after a deadly ending to a tragic situation where the person of interest
[2:37:54]turned suspect in the murder of a woman and her daughter on Christmas day was killed in a shootout with police Fox 2 Detroit's Camille Amiri has this full story you know my mom she hurt nobody neither
[2:38:10]did Diana they didn't hurt anybody so I'm glad his life is gone you know I'm glad I'm glad he's gone he is 62 year old Dwayne McDonald first named a person
[2:38:21]of interest and then becoming the main suspect in the Christmas Day double murder of his wife Elaine and her 13 year old disabled daughter Diana he was on the Run since the day of the
[2:38:32]shootings at the family home on Prevost on Detroit's West Side on Tuesday afternoon Detroit police executed search warrants at this apartment building at Owen and Woodward upon airing the
[2:38:43]building and announcing Detroit police search warrant the officers attempted to make access to one of the apartments where they were greeted by Mr McDonald who was armed a shot was fired at which
[2:38:54]time the officers returned fire striking Mr McDonald the suspect pronounced dead on the scene police say he had been hiding out in one of the apartments two men letting him stay with them
[2:39:05]investigators say they knew he was one wanted but they were afraid for their own safety if they didn't help them but ultimately they were instrumental in providing police with information about
[2:39:16]McDonald's whereabouts these things weigh on officers too and they work Around the Clock as you've indicated to to bring some justice to this family and again we wanted a peaceful resolution
[2:39:28]you know we were hopeful that he would come out we appreciate all the help the support we thank the Detroit police department for all the help that they did investigators continuing to work
[2:39:38]into the night and still trying to figure out a motive we can only speculate if they've got some theories that they're working and running down right now we were hopeful with a peaceful resolution we'd be able to get
[2:39:49]the answer from him but we didn't get there no motive no motive you know my mom she take care of Diana she go to church she that's that's it he took away
[2:39:59]a beautiful beautiful family uh Diana and uh Miss Elaine it would never be the same they do not deserve it they did not deserve to go out like that they're not
[2:40:10]they don't live by the gun they shouldn't have to die by the gun they live by the word so it should go out by the word now the family of Elaine and Diana have set up a GoFundMe page in
[2:40:20]hopes of raising some money to help pay for their burials if you would like to donate we put a link on our website fox2detroit.com Camille and Mary Fox2 News
[2:40:31]foreign very tragic story that we will continue to follow with the help of our Fox 2 Detroit team here on live now from Fox bringing you a look at our x-rad radar
[2:40:42]here on this Wednesday morning you can see some really really I don't know if Chile is the word uh when it comes to the Midwest and both uh the Pacific
[2:40:51]Northwest out there we actually do want to bring you out live to a look we have over the city of Seattle Washington right now it is about 24 degrees out
[2:41:03]there you can see snow on the ground some of you are going to see a quick two minute commercial break when you return we are going to touch base with Fox weather's will Nunley he has put on his
[2:41:14]winter coat and his hat and he is braving these temperatures to give us an update on the conditions there this morning so that weather report coming up
[2:41:22]after this quick break stay with us thank you
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[2:43:45]after 8 45 a.m here on the East Coast a little after 5 45 a.m out there on the west coast where we're currently taking another live look over the city of Seattle Washington sun has not yet risen
[2:43:57]there but that doesn't mean you can't see the snow so obviously on the ground uh definitely chilly out there about 24 degrees and Seattle's not the only one
[2:44:09]feeling these temperatures everybody a lot of the Pacific Northwest seeing snow seeing below freezing temperatures that are expected to last for a couple of
[2:44:18]days up to a week so in order to tell us more about the conditions we do want to head out live to Seattle where where Fox weather's will Nunley is kind enough to put on his winter coat and join us live
[2:44:30]to update on the conditions well how are you thank you so much for joining us yeah absolutely it is cold here and
[2:44:41]getting colder we're at about 24 degrees here in downtown Seattle and according to the fox weather app it's even going to dip down a couple of more degrees today and we've been in a deep freeze now for several days I want to show you
[2:44:52]kind of what it looks like here on the ground we have a little bit of a contrast here between a treated and plowed Road and then you know the snow that kind of piles up on the side but kind of look in the distance there in the middle of this road because you can
[2:45:03]see a little bit that Sheen shining off of the lights that's because it's essentially a solid sheet of ice and this is one of the major downtown thoroughfares and the picture is not much better when you go to some of the
[2:45:15]major interstates we're talking about the five and things like that it is still just it's a dangerous driving conditions here and they're not used to kind of having a deep freeze for this long we're about five days in to this
[2:45:26]storm event so everything that fell Christmas Eve Christmas day has stayed around and that continues to make driving pretty treacherous having a big impact here on businesses as well because there's so many employees that
[2:45:38]just can't get to work uh deputies here Washington State deputies and Troopers in the area saying they've worked hundreds of accidents easily since all of this uh has started the one silver
[2:45:49]lining is that school is not in session here a lot of people are able to work from home but when you talk about really the business impact and people trying to get back to work after the holidays it has been rough it's been rough on the
[2:46:00]ground and rough for air travel as well hundreds of flights in the region have had to be canceled a lot of those centered here uh just yesterday Alaskan Airlines saying they had to cancel nearly 200 flights a lot of that is
[2:46:11]because of the covet impact but also when you talk about here in Seattle it's a weather impact as well and everything that has frozen and not been able to really move out of the way so far is
[2:46:22]about to get another coating because more snow is on the way so there's going to be some headaches for days to come here in the Seattle area certainly they're looking to get up above freezing
[2:46:32]at some point soon but it's not going to happen here at least over the next couple of days we still have this deep freeze impacting the area back to you yeah and will you know I understand that you and your Fox weather team are not
[2:46:44]just keeping an eye on conditions in Seattle alone but in lots of different parts of our nation am I right absolutely and and if you drive just you
[2:46:55]know an hour or so outside of the city the snow totals become just a whole different picture uh you know talk about you know further out in the region Palisades Tahoe Lake Tahoe is going to
[2:47:06]Northern California they have more than 100 inches of snow I mean just incredible snow totals that are happening here and this is just three and a half to four inches of snow and you can see kind of How It's paralyzed
[2:47:17]the city imagine how much snow especially from some of those ski resorts it's quite an impressive site now they've been wanting that they need the moisture they need that that precip
[2:47:27]but it is absolutely almost too much of a good thing when you consider the incredible snowpack they have coming in there yeah well will that is definitely some crazy ice on the road you want to talk about black ice you can actually
[2:47:39]literally see the sleet of ice that is over that road so you and your team be careful uh definitely keep warm and thank you so much for joining us here on live now from Fox as always have a safe
[2:47:50]and uh Happy New Year thank you Happy New Year all right everybody so here is a live now look at our entire x-rad radar this morning as
[2:48:02]you can see those white patches to the Pacific Northwest in the Midwest and even parts of New York there those are snow and wind chill advisories so
[2:48:12]several parts of our nation definitely dealing with some Wicked winter weather as we like to call it and we actually do have a full story on that that I want to
[2:48:24]play for you here on live now from Fox coming from our Fox news correspondents that are tracking these conditions let's listen in here it's going to be you know four or five
[2:48:36]days before we get above freezing against intense snow and extremely low temperatures continuing to slam several Pacific and Midwestern states Seattle is in the grasp of a dangerous
[2:48:48]cold spell seeing its coldest day in more than 30 years Monday as thermometers plunged to 17 degrees prompting communities to open warming centers for those seeking Refuge
[2:48:58]throughout this week we got a tent right down the street only like a block and a half away and I'm not even willing to stay in it right now it's just so difficult in California snow outside Sacramento is proving to be a tourist
[2:49:09]attraction with residents in the Golden State Driving further north to see the blankets of white why is it fun because we get to do to just make
[2:49:21]a snow mud conditions around Lake Tahoe proving even more impressive forecasters say Tuesday's storm brought the area's snowfall up to more than 193 inches
[2:49:30]breaking a record set in 1970. Minnesota also receiving a heavy dusting of powder this week bringing out an army of shovelers and snow blowers we've got a lot of talking going on other than a
[2:49:41]lot of grunting and shoveling meanwhile at least one person is dead in Western Wisconsin after snow and ice created treacherous driving conditions Travelers in Illinois on the other hand saw less
[2:49:53]severe storms with Chicago getting one tenth of an inch Tuesday its first measurable snowfall of the year and while much of the nation is resembling a winter wonderland these snow storms are causing concerns for air Travelers
[2:50:05]already facing extensive flight cancellations because of Omicron Chris de Mayo Fox News again here is a look at the temperatures
[2:50:16]across our nation right now you've got a negative six in some parts of the Pacific Northwest negative 22 negative 20 in parts of the Midwest so if you are
[2:50:27]joining us from any of these areas please stay warm keep safe stay off the roads uh that shot that fox weathers will Nunley just brought us you could
[2:50:36]see legitimate sheets of ice on the road definitely so dangerous he said a lot of the schools are closed this is impacting business but definitely stay home if you
[2:50:47]absolutely can and stay warm we do want to bring you some other news that we are following now it turns out this situation is not weather related but
[2:50:56]definitely a really crazy uh to tell you about this morning at least 20 people injured when a Greyhound bus veered off the interstate in the state of Utah according to officials the bus was
[2:51:08]heading towards Las Vegas when it drifted about 100 yards over the in Interstate 70 in Emory County authorities say the injured passengers were taken to nearby hospitals there
[2:51:20]were a total of about 40 people on board at the time the cause remains under investigation however a highway patrol sergeant said a snowstorm hit many parts of Utah but conditions didn't seem too
[2:51:31]bad when the accident happened so learning that this was potentially not weather related also an update to bring you on a breaking new situation that we've been following since the very
[2:51:42]beginning as well the San Diego County Sheriff's Department says it has not located any survivors from a plane crash that happened Monday night it happened
[2:51:52]in El Cajon California which is outside of San Diego a federal investigators say there were four people on board when the plane took off from John Wayne Airport
[2:52:02]in Santa Ana the plane which was a Learjet 35a bus a Business Jet was headed Southwest to Gillespie Field in
[2:52:11]San Diego County the crash caused a power outage which affected hundreds of customers and we do know that the FAA and NTSB are investigating some of you
[2:52:22]are going to see a quick two-minute commercial break everybody when you return it does look like we just received an update from authorities breaking we did just receive an update from
[2:52:37]authorities on this breaking news situation out of Maryland where we learned earlier that a person was dead after an alleged shootout with police so we're going to bring you the latest
[2:52:48]update from authorities that we just got moments ago after this quick two-minute commercial break thank you
[2:53:41]thank you [Music]
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[2:54:39]thank you foreign in order to conduct this investigation
[2:55:05]thoroughly um at this point in time do you have any questions of me yeah at this point in time I don't have the
[2:55:16]details as to where the individual was struck is the officer the four officers that were involved in this are all have all been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome
[2:55:28]of this investigation maybe we wanted to start off to the officer of the Civil Court of shots fired yes responds yes so the off-duty officer is in the area of
[2:55:39]on bonifant Street a report a sound of a shot is heard that off-duty officers responds gets information that pertains
[2:55:49]to the lookout uh suspect vehicle which provides that Lookout to responding on duty officers who then see the vehicle follow this vehicle on
[2:56:01]Wayne Avenue conduct the traffic stop in the incident occurred officer who found the person who was shot the ticket to the hospital yes yes that victim has
[2:56:11]been transported to a local area hospital and is expected to survive is it a relationship to be able to see that person and the person
[2:56:21]and at this point we believe there is a relationship we believe that the victim of that shooting knew the suspect um involved in our in our incident
[2:56:32]um so we're still looking into that further was that person armed at all the unfortunately was hospitalized not to my knowledge though four weeks what's going on is this all
[2:56:46]related well I would not say that it's all related we we don't know we haven't put we haven't put the pieces of this particular puzzle together we have to add incidents in in this area before
[2:56:58]um many of those incidents have involved a variety of different aspects in our community but again as I have stated um a way many times and I just stated it
[2:57:09]a few weeks ago we have a lot of guns on our streets here in in the Washington DC metropolitan area to include Montgomery County and so this is a major concern
[2:57:20]again when we have shots fired at our police officers this shows you that these individuals being business who are carrying these weapons and this is of a
[2:57:29]great concern to me in my department gets out of this vehicle how many offices are there
[2:57:38]I I don't know all of the we don't still Gathering the evidence we're still trying to gather information from other witness officers so a lot of those
[2:57:48]questions remain unanswered right now that will be handled Again by the the Attorney General's independent investigation unit and I'll let uh
[2:57:58]Thomas come up and provide any information that he can provide yes ma'am how much time passed between the initial shooting at the off-duty officer
[2:58:07]responded to to the Lola went out and then ultimately the officers within within minutes I mean within just a few minutes okay that's what I've heard fluency
[2:58:18]uh there is body One camera footage that again that again that will be turned over to the Attorney General's office
[2:58:26]okay all right okay thank you thank you so if you're just joining our coverage
[2:58:47]here on live now from Fox to the right hand side of your screen is a live look at the still very active scene where this press conference did just happen
[2:58:57]moments ago they are miking up a another individual that was a part of the investigation so while they do that I do want to let you know that they did just
[2:59:08]confirm a man is dead after authorities said that he fired at police early this morning the incident happening around 4 15 a.m in the Downtown Silver Springs
[2:59:20]Maryland area police said that they were responding to a shooting call where they then found a man suffering from a gunshot injury the victim was transported to an area hospital and
[2:59:32]during their search for the suspect's vehicle officers conducted a traffic stop and police say the driver in the car fire rounds at the officers who
[2:59:42]returned fire of the gunman was struck and died at the scene so so it does look like we are going to hear this gentleman speak on the situation here so let's continue to listen in the evening
[3:00:01]let me uh you've got some questions at the end good morning my name is Thomas t-h-o-m-a-s Lester l-e-s-t-e-r I'm a spokesperson with the Maryland Office of
[3:00:13]the Attorney General independent investigations division as of October 1st of 2021 the Maryland Office of the Attorney General has been tasked with
[3:00:22]investigating all fatal police civilian encounters throughout the state of Maryland this morning earlier this morning the independent investigations division was notified by the Montgomery County Police Department of the officer
[3:00:34]involved shooting apparently we have our investigators on scene along with our crime scene texts that are with the Maryland State Police Gathering evidence and
[3:00:44]speaking with witnesses to gather details we are early on in our investigation just to give you a timeline preliminarily the deceitant and the involved officer will be released
[3:00:56]once we're able to make Mexican notifications and allow to notify remaining of the family so we try to aim for about a 48 hour mark before we
[3:01:05]release that information following that we will gather as the chief said his offices are equipped with body cameras so we will attempt to gather that footage review it and release that
[3:01:16]within aim for 14 day period the Montgomery County Police Department has allowed us to conduct our
[3:01:26]independent investigation and has been supportive of providing us the information and the resources that we need to take care of our investigation
[3:01:36]that is all from our office at this time is there any questions so as far as the the the the the officer
[3:01:49]involved shooting portion that is strictly handled by the Attorney General's Office Independent investigation Division and we will work with the police department to get the information and evidence that we need to
[3:02:01]be able to handle our investigation [Music] how many shots were fired and go from
[3:02:19]there but that's uh we're still early on the investigation that's part of the evidence of election process to identify my information the first shooting occurred on Boniface
[3:02:42]all right so that was about to be the ending of that brief update that we got there this morning that happened just moments ago here is a live now look at
[3:02:53]the stream so uh this is a fee that we are getting in a courtesy of our Fox 5 DC team they've given us a ground shots aerial shots but right now showing you
[3:03:03]this is still a very active investigation lots of law enforcement agencies on scene specifically the Montgomery County Police Department you can see right there multiple Vehicles
[3:03:14]multiple officers uh standing there if you are just tuning into our coverage this is a breaking news situation that we've been following out of Maryland for about the last two hours at this point
[3:03:25]uh continuously learning more information as we go we do know right now that a man is dead after police say that he fired at about four officers
[3:03:35]earlier this morning the incident happening at around 4 15 a.m in the Downtown Silver Spring area police say that they were responding to a shooting
[3:03:46]call where they then found a man suffering from a gunshot injury and then the victim was transported to an area hospital they did say that he is expected to be okay during their search
[3:03:57]for the suspect's vehicle officers conducted a traffic stop and police said that they then noticed that the driver in the car looked a little suspicious
[3:04:07]and then he then started firing rounds at the officers who then returned to fire the gunman was struck and died on the scene drivers can still expect
[3:04:18]delays in the area to continue this morning you can see still a very active investigation out there this is something that we are following very
[3:04:27]closely here on live now from Fox I do want to send some of you on a quick two-minute commercial break but if you are just turning on a live now from Fox good morning and thank you so much for
[3:04:39]joining us my name is Regina Gonzalez with you live from Orlando Florida when you return we are going to continue our coverage of all of the top stories that we are following this morning and
[3:04:50]continue our coverage when it comes to The Life and Legacy of former NFL player coach and broadcaster John Madden he did a pass away unexpectedly yesterday at
[3:05:01]the age of 85. so we're continuing to learn more about his career what he had to do when it came to uh his amazing voice there on TV calling all of those
[3:05:12]games contributing to the Video Game World when it came to Madden sports games in just a couple of minutes we will be joined by a Fox Sports contributor talking all about his life
[3:05:22]and career and the Legacy that he leaves behind so we'll continue our coverage with that story after this quick two-minute commercial break [Music]
[3:05:40]thank you foreign
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[3:07:08]foreign rarely caught a glimpse of the guy who
[3:07:34]at one time was one of the most visible faces in America what you could always count on from John Madden is that when it came to one of his players he would
[3:07:44]be there like the day Kenny Stabler was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame and they started calling him he's going to be a first boat Hall of Famer
[3:07:56][Applause] 40 years later [Music] ten years earlier it was John's time to be honored a moment that touched him and
[3:08:08]was shared with his former boss and many of his players it was between 30 and 40 ex-raid of players to play all stand up stand up my family stand up stand up
[3:08:18]just take your day I went from player to coach to a broadcaster and I am the luckiest guy in
[3:08:28]the world players and coach es will tell you being elected to your Sports Hall of Fame is the ultimate honor signifying a career
[3:08:39]accomplishment but with John Madden it's hard to precisely Define his career to a generation of young people Madden is the face of a video game first started in
[3:08:51]1988. people say I'm going to play Madden you know I mean that's what they say I'm going to play Madden boom tough acting tonight to a generation before
[3:09:01]Madden was a pitch man for everything from hotels to Hardware to beer excuse me I'm not the same crazy coach who used to storm around the sidelines yelling at
[3:09:13]the officials I've learned to relax and I drank light beer for Miller Light beer for Miller everything you always wanted in a beer and less as I was saying I don't care with
[3:09:23]anybody else and it hardly stops there he makes a little basketball twist there and pivot and boom the ball's there Madden also revolutionized the way football games are broadcast Joe Montana
[3:09:35]looks more like Barry Manilow he knew the game as well as anyone the 49ers play on running Downs a 3-4 defense but his style was one of a kind boom We
[3:09:47]cross him the left goes to the right the right goes to the left this guy crosses here he crosses here they have no idea where we are who we are where we're coming from or who we're throwing to them very interesting in his broadcast
[3:09:58]career Madden eventually worked for all four major networks teaming with two giants of the industry Al Michaels and Pat Summerall as enjoyable as he was to
[3:10:09]watch thinking Madden was some kind of football cartoon character would be a big mistake there's never been anybody in this industry anywhere in the
[3:10:19]broadcast industry that worked at the trade that he loves any harder than John Madden there's nobody more loyal once he becomes a friend You've Got a
[3:10:30]Friend who you could call at any time of the night and he'd be there another man who knows about Madden loyalty was his childhood friend and
[3:10:39]fellow coach John Robinson I didn't have a brother so John was more like my brother I think I was at John's house more than he was of mine his mom was I
[3:10:50]think his mom thought maybe she got had had adopted me John Earl Madden was born in Austin Minnesota in 1936. when he was in
[3:11:00]grammar school the maddens moved to Daly City Madden played baseball and football at Jefferson High but it was clear football was his future Madden played two seasons at College of
[3:11:11]San Mateo and then transferred to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo he was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in 1958 but his playing career was quickly ended by a knee injury in
[3:11:23]training camp his rookie season Madden returned to Cal Poly to get a master's degree met his wife Virginia and then at 23 began his coaching career
[3:11:33]at Allen Hancock College in Santa Maria in 1967 Madden was hired as an Oakland Raider assistant and two years later at
[3:11:42]the age of 32 became at the time the youngest head coach in NFL history if you have it in you to be a head coach it doesn't make any difference if you're 32
[3:11:52]42 52 62 or 82 you can do it Madden inherited a talented team with a reputation for defying conventional thinking [Applause]
[3:12:03]I mean they want to say the Raiders are dirty yeah yeah yeah we're dirty yeah what are you gonna do about it the Raiders were known as Renegades involved in some of the most memorable and
[3:12:14]sometimes controversial plays in NFL history there was the Sea of hands game against Miami [Music]
[3:12:26]the Holy Roller against the Chargers believable
[3:12:36]Impossible Dream of the play Madden is on the field he wants to know if it's real they said yes get your big butt out of here he does and of course the
[3:12:47]Immaculate Reception against the Steelers and his pass is broken up by Tatum liftoff from 1969 to 75 the Raiders won division
[3:13:03]championships but couldn't win the big one that all changed in 1976. on the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena California it is Super Bowl 11. this is
[3:13:14]Bill king with a welcome undoubtedly the biggest moment in Madden's coaching career was the team's 32-14 win over the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl 11.
[3:13:24]Madden got a short Victory ride that day we're Super Bowl champions of Super Bowl 11 and they can never take it away from you and no one will ever take away John
[3:13:34]Madden's incredible Legacy the kid who grew up in Daly City raised a family and coached a team to a Super Bowl the guy who retired from coaching and built
[3:13:45]multiple careers after that he rode the rails and later the Madden Cruiser putting his unique spin on consumer products all the while
[3:13:55]preparing to broadcast the game he loved before a national TV audience and a way that will never really be duplicated all right everyone some of you are going
[3:14:10]to see a quick two-minute commercial break when you return we should just be moments away from being joined by a Fox Sports contributor also speaking on The
[3:14:21]Life and Legacy of John Madden unfortunately not the only prominent figure who's a news of death we brought you yesterday when we return we will also bring you the latest when it comes
[3:14:33]to a longtime U.S senator from Nevada and a former Democratic leader Harry Reid passing away yesterday at the age of 82. so that information coming up
[3:14:43]after this quick two minute commercial break foreign [Music] foreign
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[3:16:36]foreign you can say okay we're the top game
[3:16:49]let's just stay right there let's stay right there on top point you don't because the minute you say we're okay we're going to stay there you slip I'll guarantee you that you have to say okay
[3:16:58]we're here but we're going to get better some wise words are from NFL Legend John Madden unfortunately passing away
[3:17:09]unexpectedly yesterday at the age of 85. ever since we learned of this news we've brought you all of the latest developments here on live now from Fox
[3:17:19]as we continue to honor and learn more about his career as not only a player but a coach and then turned famous sports broadcaster so in order to do
[3:17:31]that I do want to welcome on a guest who's joined us several times for sports coverage before he is a Fox Sports contributor his name is Rich Salgado and he is joining us here on live now from
[3:17:42]Fox this morning Rich how are you thank you so much for being with us how are you doing uh I'm doing great thank you for having me it's uh you know I'm up here up in
[3:17:52]the Northwest so it's a little chilly up here but other than that okay yeah I see you got your hat on thank you so much for uh joining us we did want to contact you for uh this unfortunate news such
[3:18:02]sad news for the Sports World Rich so uh you know it's kind of backtrack for our viewers who may not be familiar with John Madden uh can we first talk about
[3:18:13]you know kind of take us through a timeline obviously he started off as a football player himself what can you tell us well he uh I know he started at Oregon
[3:18:25]University and then he uh transferred but uh he had a short career because he had hurt his knee so um obviously when players are left with
[3:18:36]a choice of not being able to play anymore most of them get into coaching and uh obviously you know he's John
[3:18:44]Madden is football he is legendary he is you know everything you could think of when you talk football so he started at
[3:18:55]32 years old which is the youngest uh you know it's a very young age for an NFL head coach to be named you know back in those days uh now you're seeing eight
[3:19:05]you know guys being 33 34 being head coaches but back then uh that was uh a Monumental uh announcement when he was named head coach of the uh Oakland
[3:19:17]Raiders yeah and he obviously had a very prominent history with the Raiders can you talk to us a little bit about that
[3:19:25]rich you know I understand that he uh let he led them to a number of playoff games and then a Super Bowl also
[3:19:35]yeah he was he was Mr Raider he was the Raiders um obviously I wasn't around uh to be there alive to see all of it but you
[3:19:46]know from the stories he was a player's coach he let the players play and you know obviously they were very well known
[3:19:54]for uh being very aggressive very do whatever it took to win kind of attitude and and he only commanded certain things from the players he just wanted everyone
[3:20:05]to be on time he wanted everyone when he was talking or teaching to listen and third just go out there and play as hard
[3:20:14]as you could and he was happy and and look he went to I believe it was five AFC championship games where she lost
[3:20:24]but uh he finally got the brass ring you know after that and I mean like I said everyone who knows football
[3:20:33]John Madden is synonymous with football and also the Raiders yeah and you know something as we've been playing obituary uh stories all
[3:20:44]morning long rich is you know something that you just mentioned as as a coach it's so important to have that relationship with your players and it didn't matter what they did from what
[3:20:54]I've learned he was always there for them supporting their every move and challenge am I right you're a hundred percent right he you
[3:21:04]know him and Al Davis I guess the uh you know obviously the owner who also passed away they had this attitude of it was like giving a second chance you know
[3:21:14]they didn't care where the guy came from what background he had what issues they had as long as you came to work and had the mindset that you want to win
[3:21:26]and win at all costs and get it done that's the I that's the site you are uh mentality that uh you know John Madden brought to the Raiders
[3:21:37]and now we have to talk about that amazing presence that he had when it came to the broadcast industry so rich what can you tell us about how he went
[3:21:48]from coaching turned a really prominent figure when it came to uh the Sports World and television he was just one of those type of guys
[3:21:59]that what you saw is what you got and he was himself like he didn't go and become this actor and change and uh you know be
[3:22:09]phony I mean when you were a kid like when I was growing up I always look forward to you know Summerall and Matt and they were the team they were the
[3:22:19]guys that you wanted to listen to and and if you ask players and coaches from that era they would all say the same thing they were ecstatic that John Madden was calling the game you know he
[3:22:30]was going to be on the field and he was going to be talking about them and he really he was like I I you can actually call him the dean of uh you know uh
[3:22:42]color commentating or TV announcing because he just had his own Flair his own style and the words that came out of his mouth sometimes I mean they were
[3:22:52]hysterical but as a football person you understood it and he also he coached as well while he was on TV and what I mean by
[3:23:04]that is you know he would draw things on the board or you know as times got fancier where you can draw on the screen and this and that he really explained the game of football and I'll tell you
[3:23:15]he's been missed already from leaving the booth but now you know may he rest in peace but he is definitely legendary and iconic and all sorts of
[3:23:27]facets yeah and obviously even television Rich was not enough I know even as a kid I didn't play video games too much but I feel like at some point
[3:23:36]you had to have played uh Madden Sports what can you say about the line of video games that he then released to the public that are still literally going
[3:23:46]strong today I mean that is incredible you know you want to talk about taking one career and and turning in a new career into a
[3:23:56]new career and then all of a sudden now you are the game I mean Madden football
[3:24:04]is such a big deal to this day I mean if you think about if you go back into the uh late 1990s early 2000s you had NFL
[3:24:15]players that were fortunate to be on the cover of this game I mean it was that big of a deal then it turned into the Madden Bowl where you had uh players
[3:24:27]from all over the NFL playing each other then you have people playing against NFL players and I mean that that is so legendary that will go on way beyond our
[3:24:38]time and I mean it's just uh it's a career that you definitely would want to learn about obviously if you want to learn about the game of football
[3:24:48]and learn about the coach and learn about John Madden it would be there's a whole glossary of stuff that you can learn and find out about him yeah and by
[3:25:00]the way Regina I wasn't I will say this about Madden I wasn't that good he you know at it I uh I gave it a shot and uh you know I'll stick to watching it on TV
[3:25:10]and I'll stick to uh my my role in ensuring professional football players not playing a game I know I wasn't good at it either I tried I definitely tried
[3:25:21]every time my friends had it I would give it a shot but can say that I was a pro at that game uh you know Rich kind of summing it all up especially as we uh literally just uh this past weekend I
[3:25:32]know that on Fox Sports they made a whole documentary about uh John Madden's life you know to sum it all up what do you think uh the sports industry will
[3:25:42]remember him for most when we look back now at his life and Legacy what are those prominent marks that he has made in the NFL you know what if I could sum it up in
[3:25:55]one word I would say success and and the reason I say that is because he he was successful at three different levels
[3:26:06]the coaching the TV the gaming industry uh the video gaming industry not many people have a run like that and
[3:26:15]to see that happen and to like actually watch it grow in front of you because you know obviously I'm I'm old enough to have seen him as a coach I've gotten to meet him
[3:26:27]as the TV commentator and and then obviously the gaming uh component to this whole thing but I I think John
[3:26:35]Madden is success and also a winner and a real person who really told you how he felt and he
[3:26:45]told you in his own way and he shared a lot of knowledge with a lot of people in his own way and I think everyone should be grateful that we were fortunate
[3:26:55]enough to be a part of his life whether it was personally or through television or through business whatever the case yeah definitely well Rich we thank you so much for uh joining us this morning
[3:27:07]to talk all about his prominent career and the mark that he has made in the National Football industry so uh we hope that you have a happy and healthy New Year and we'll be chatting with you again soon thank you so much for being
[3:27:19]with us you got it Regina Happy New Year to you and the family and the you know save some sun for us people up here up north when you get a chance all right I know I
[3:27:30]know it's definitely uh we've been talking about cold temperatures across the entire nation but still going strong here in Florida so we'll send you some sunshine have a great day rich thank you
[3:27:41]all right everybody so uh thanks as we uh continue to uh cover uh some news here this morning unfortunately the
[3:27:50]death of John Madden not the only one uh that we brought to you here on live now from Fox yesterday uh there was also a death that has impacted lawmakers
[3:28:01]Nationwide we have learned that former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid passed away yesterday at the age of 82. so as we continue uh reflecting on The Life
[3:28:12]and Legacy of these figures I do want to bring you the latest obituary segment from our Fox News team we're going to continue to fight for good things for this country Nevada
[3:28:24]Democrat Harry Reid retired from the senate in 2016 after more than three decades in Congress shortly after suffering an injury at home that claimed
[3:28:34]Vision in his right eye in May 2018 Reed was treated for pancreatic cancer known as a soft-spoken leader who carried a big stick Reed took over as Senate
[3:28:46]majority leader after the 2006 midterms his reputation as a shrewd backroom negotiator helped Shepherd the passage of the Affordable Care Act on a straight
[3:28:57]party line vote in 2009 a legacy republicans in Congress are still trying to disassemble Reed was born into poverty in the tiny mining town of
[3:29:08]Searchlight Nevada in 1939 a boxer in his youth retrained in high school Under future Nevada Governor Michael Callahan
[3:29:17]who became his political Mentor Reed worked nights as a capital police officer to pay his way through law school at George Washington University
[3:29:26]and survived an attempted car bombing by the mob during his tenure as chairman of the Nevada gaming commission make sure you're going to work as hard as you can
[3:29:36]at trying to do what you want to do and I believe that so a lesson for everyone the little boy from Searchlight has been able to be part of a changing state of
[3:29:47]Nevada I'm grateful I've been part of that change within DC circles Reed may be best remembered for enacting the nuclear option the historic step Reed
[3:29:58]and his Democratic colleagues took in November 2013 to prevent filibustering on presidential nominations after retiring Reed co-founded a public policy
[3:30:09]think tank at UNLV with former house Speaker Republican John Boehner Harry Reid is survived by his wife landra and
[3:30:18]five children Jonathan hunt Fox News all right everybody some of you are
[3:30:29]going to see a quick two-minute commercial break wanted to let you know that we are continuing to get this feed into our desk this Wednesday morning as we monitor a investigation now underway
[3:30:40]after a man was shot by police after firing at officers first so we did get an update from authorities just recently we did play it for you here on live now
[3:30:51]from Fox but if you are just tuning into our coverage I can let you know that police were responding to a shooting call in Silver Springs Maryland that is
[3:31:02]where this investigation is currently underway that's where they found a man suffering from a gunshot injury he was actually transported to an area hospital
[3:31:12]but during their search for the suspect who has shot that person officers conducted a traffic stop and that's when the driver allegedly started firing
[3:31:21]rounds at the officers who then returned fire the gunman was struck and died on the scene drivers can expect delays in this area so if you're joining us from
[3:31:32]the Maryland or DMV area maybe you're passing this way through work you could still see a lot of law enforcement agencies on scene caution tape up right before a little earlier when we brought you this scene they actually had drones
[3:31:44]up in the air and were kind of a scaling the premises so we'll continue to bring you feeds from this situation here on live now from Fox however when we return
[3:31:55]as promised I do want to bring you the full update that we got just yesterday from authorities in Denver Colorado
[3:32:03]after a suspect went on a shooting spree across two neighborhoods leaving five people dead including himself so we did get an update from police that is not
[3:32:15]live this is a recorded from when the scene broke overnight on Monday so we'll bring you the latest update from authorities here on live now from Fox after this break foreign
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[3:35:36]you are streaming live now from Fox everybody continuing to let you know that we are monitoring this feed here on this Wednesday December 29th it was
[3:35:46]breaking news that we got to our desk a couple of hours ago at this point but for those of you who are just tuning in to our coverage I do want to let you
[3:35:55]know that this investigation is currently underway after a man is now dead from firing at officers and those officers then fired back in their
[3:36:06]defense this happened in the Silver Springs Maryland area the whole situation got underway after they responded to a shooting call in this area and then they found a man suffering
[3:36:18]from a gunshot injury as they went to search for the suspect you could have possibly done that they made a traffic stop in the area that's when they said
[3:36:28]that the driver started firing rounds at the officers who then returned that fire the gunman was struck and died on the scene so you can still see a very active
[3:36:39]investigation out there right now Montgomery County Police in Maryland uh taking the reins on this investigation drivers in this area can expect delays
[3:36:49]this is expected to be a pretty active scene for most of the morning so we'll continue to keep you updated here on live now from Fox meanwhile I as
[3:36:59]promised want to bring you a press conference that we got just yesterday and broke to you here on our show after a gunman went on a shooting spree across
[3:37:10]two neighborhoods in the Denver Colorado area so we did again get that update from authorities just yesterday so I do want to play for you some of it here on it live now from Fox we will continue to
[3:37:21]keep this feed up for you so you can see it assembling here so quickly this afternoon I'm Doug schutman with the Denver Police media relations unit speaking today during this press
[3:37:31]conference first will be Matt Clark who is the commander of the Denver Police Major Crimes division he'll speak to the chronology of events that occurred in Denver John Romero the public
[3:37:43]information officer for the Lakewood Police Department will then share updates regarding the incidents that occurred within lakewood's jurisdiction and Denver chief of police Paul Payson
[3:37:55]will also speak today but that I'll turn it over to Commander Matt Clark of the Denver Police Major Crimes division foreign
[3:38:06]good afternoon my name is Matt Clark thank you for being here and giving us an opportunity today to provide an update on the series of incidents that occurred yesterday this is a preliminary briefing based upon information that
[3:38:17]we've obtained by interviewing Witnesses reviewing video evidence and conducting forensic analysis uh that at this point please know and understand that this is less than 24 hours into this
[3:38:29]investigation so there is information that we're still working to obtain there are still witnesses that are going to be interviewed as we move forward with that being said I'll describe the incidents that occurred in Denver so on Monday
[3:38:40]evening December 27 2021 three people were killed in Denver another victim was injured in shootings involving the same
[3:38:49]male this male offender was later located and died and a police officer involved shooting in the City of Lakewood now no Denver police officers
[3:39:00]were involved in that incident in Lakewood but I will provide the chronology of this kind of complex series of incidents that we had occurring uh yesterday at about 5 25 PM the Denver
[3:39:12]Police Department received the 911 call reporting a shooting that occurred at a business in the area of First Avenue and Broadway the responding officers located three victims at that location two adult
[3:39:24]females were found deceased inside the business and an adult male had been wounded by gunfire had fled the business
[3:39:33]and was located just south of the business on Broadway that individual was transported to an area Hospital he remains in critical condition and is recovering he is expected to survive
[3:39:44]from his injuries at 5 31 the Denver Police Department received a report of a burglary in progress in the 200 block of West 6th Avenue that's in the area of 6th Avenue
[3:39:55]in Bannock the report was that an individual a male was attempting to gain access to a residence and force entry to a door the offender did gain access to the residents he
[3:40:06]pursued the occupants through the residence which is also a part of a business it's a dual purpose building there gunshots were fired by the
[3:40:17]offender at the occupants no injuries were sustained at that location in the alley behind that residence business there was a van that was set on fire and at this point it appears that
[3:40:28]the offender was responsible for starting that fire and we're working to determine the source and the ignition uh and how that came to be
[3:40:39]at about 5 45 the Denver Police Department received a report of a shooting that occurred at a residence in the 1200 block of Williams Street near
[3:40:48]Cheesman Park in that incident an adult male victim was shot and killed just inside of his residence there the
[3:40:57]offender fled the location at that point investigators uh the responding Patrol officers were able to develop preliminary information on the offender's vehicle that information was put out
[3:41:09]both to the Denver officers and then officers in the metro area to be on the lookout for at about 5 49 so about four minutes later in the area of 13th and Zuni Denver police officers uh driving
[3:41:20]an unmarked vehicle located a vehicle that matched the suspect vehicle and that vehicle was described as a black early 2000s model forward Econoline van the
[3:41:32]officers initiated a vehicle Pursuit as the offender did not yield to their attempts to stop him they pursued him Southbound on zunai he continued through
[3:41:42]Eighth Avenue at zunai where it dead ends and became stopped the officers stopped their vehicle and the offender turned around and began
[3:41:53]firing at the officers there was an exchange of gunfire involving one Denver police officer and the offender at that location the officer who was involved
[3:42:02]was not injured in that incident the gunfire from the suspect appears to have disabled the police officer's vehicle and they were not able to continue pursuing him as he drove past them and
[3:42:13]exited so they remained at that location the offender got onto I-25 at that point and continued We Believe based on our timeline into Lakewood where he
[3:42:23]continued his violent series of crimes the Denver Police Department continues to actively investigate these incidents against were in the preliminary stages we're working very closely with the
[3:42:34]Lakewood Police Department and our federal Partners in this as well per our protocol in Denver the identities of the victims will be released by the Denver Office of the medical examiner and I
[3:42:45]would encourage anyone who has information about these incidents any witnesses that we haven't spoken to anybody who has video or other relevant information to please contact Denver Metro Crime Stoppers and pass that
[3:42:56]information along thank you [Music] good afternoon everyone my name is John Romero I'm the public information officer here at the Lakewood Police
[3:43:08]Department I just want to give you an update since last night we'll pick up from where Denver left off just before six o'clock and approximately 5 58 Lakewood Police received a call the
[3:43:18]shots fired at the Lucky 13 Tattoo Parlor at 1550 Kipling Street here in Lakewood we got a report of uh one male getting out of a similar van to the one that was
[3:43:30]described the mail then went inside shot another adult male that adult male was pronounced dead at the scene he has since been identified as 38 year old
[3:43:41]Danny Schofield from Lucky 13 Tattoo uh just minutes later at approximately 604 PM our agents were able to identify
[3:43:51]that van near the Wells Fargo Bank in the Belmar shopping area when Lakewood Police agents attempted to contact the driver of that van that driver did open
[3:44:02]fire on our police agents our agents returned fire but the driver was able to escape
[3:44:10]minutes later at 6 10 pm at the Hyatt House also in the Belmar shopping area
[3:44:17]the suspect was seen walking into the hide house had a very brief conversation with the front desk worker he then shot
[3:44:28]the front desk worker several times she was also later pronounced dead at the hospital she has now been identified as 28 year old Sarah Steck
[3:44:38]about a minute and a half later the suspect continued on foot through the Bellmore shopping area to an area near Alaska and Vance which is where he came
[3:44:49]up against another one of our Lakewood Police agents our Lakewood Police agent ordered the suspect to drop his weapon the suspect then moved in on our agent and opened fire on her
[3:45:01]striking her once that agent courageously after being shot was able to somehow compose herself and
[3:45:11]return fire on the suspect striking him and eventually he was also pronounced dead at the scene the suspect in this case has been identified as 47-year-old
[3:45:21]Lyndon James McLeod date of birth one seven of seventy four again I can't over emphasize enough
[3:45:30]the heroic actions of our Lakewood Police agent in the face of being shot in the face of danger she was able to
[3:45:39]not only save others from this terrible tragedy but also a neutralize the threat and I can't say enough about the courage
[3:45:50]and bravery shown by that liquid police agent we're not going to release her identity just yet we're waiting for family to arrive here in Colorado so
[3:46:01]that they can be with her I can tell you that she is a three-year veteran of the Lakewood Police Department she has been through surgery in a local
[3:46:10]hospital right now she is listed as in stable condition she will need more surgeries but she is in stable condition and doing well right now we just want to
[3:46:22]extend our our love our prayers our thoughts not only to our agent and her family but to the fam families and the victims of everyone involved in these
[3:46:33]tragic incidents both in Denver and in Lakewood we are also asking anybody that may have been in that Belmar area it was very crowded it was you know the middle of the afternoon early evening we want
[3:46:44]to ask anybody who may have seen something some anybody who may have video anybody who may have heard something to please contact the Lakewood Police Department with any information you may have again this is a very very
[3:46:56]intricate investigation it's still very early on as my colleague said we've only not even 24 hours in yet and so we're asking anybody with any information to please contact the Lakewood Police Department
[3:47:07]so we can continue to investigate this I will now hand this over to Chief Payson thank you John uh thank you all for
[3:47:18]being here uh we would like to confirm that this individual was on the radar of law enforcement that there were two previous
[3:47:29]investigations into this individual's action neither of those investigations resulted in state or federal criminal charges
[3:47:41]these previous investigations took place in 2020 and early 2021 they will be part of this ongoing investigation into this
[3:47:53]violent crime spree that took place yesterday I want to remind folks that we need to
[3:48:01]keep the victims their families in our thoughts and in our hearts as we move through this time period they are
[3:48:10]suffering as a result of it but also to recommit the efforts of federal state and local law enforcement
[3:48:19]to address this crime to identify all pertinent pieces of the investigation in order to identify the motive behind and
[3:48:30]get answers to the wise with that we conclude this will open it up for some questions thank you do you know if these victims were
[3:48:42]targeted due to suspects know any of the victims based on what we know it does appear that this the offender was targeting specific people in this case the the
[3:48:53]victims were known to the offender in the Park area correct uh the hotel clerk there was It was a
[3:49:05]he was he had we believe there may have been some issue with the hotel not necessarily the specific person but certainly the Denver incidents uh the the one on Broadway the Williams
[3:49:17]um the individual he was targeting on Sixth Avenue those were known to him development okay Linden l-y-n-d-o-n
[3:49:31]James j a m e s McLeod m c l e o d again date of birth one seven of seventy four I don't believe so
[3:49:45]walk me through this this issue of you know the folks I've talked to today have said that they believe that the tattoo connections were connected but he just
[3:49:53]had a grudge against the hotel somehow so we we believe that there was uh that he knew again he knew the people uh in
[3:50:05]general I'm speaking specifically to the Denver connections um there was um previous interactions with the hotel not necessarily that clerk so I'm not specific I don't have specific knowledge
[3:50:17]of that one knowing the the people in Denver did that have anything to do with their employment and tattoo parlors or anything there were there were prior
[3:50:27]relationships um either personal relationships business relationships that uh were involved there can you characterize the previous context of law enforcement and
[3:50:37]the 2020 investigations Chief and and describe to us what that was all about uh so uh Alan uh you know again the
[3:50:47]important part of of this is that this is part of our ongoing investigation uh we want to confirm that this individual was on law enforcement's uh radar that
[3:50:59]uh there were two investigations that took place again highlighting the fact that neither one of these investigations resulted in criminal filings whether
[3:51:10]that be Federal filings or state filings in this particular case that is uh ongoing part of this investigation looking at motive what drove this
[3:51:20]individual's actions and uh what I can tell you is we'll continue to work with the Lakewood Police Department the metro
[3:51:29]area State partners and federal Partners to really uncover all aspects of this to try to answer those questions as to why this occurred can I start uh here and then we'll go
[3:51:45]down well I think Commander Clark outlined
[3:51:58]that uh quite well that we had an individual started these actions in Denver gave that that timeline there the vehicle description that was shared
[3:52:08]metro-wide and I think that that highlights the efforts of the Lakewood agents and and their actions to bring this person this violence spree to a stop
[3:52:19]um and this information was again a metro-wide response you saw folks from Jefferson County Denver Police Department Lakewood working in coordination to try to stop this killing
[3:52:30]spree um again uh you know we're focused on
[3:52:40]making sure that we have these these answers moving forward so we can't get into any of the details I can tell you that uh that that we reviewed uh this matter that that there was two
[3:52:51]investigations uh one taking place in mid 2021 and early 2021 that's all part
[3:53:00]of this ongoing investigation and uh it would not be uh responsible for us to share those details now can I go right back here and then I'll
[3:53:10]come here I saw Marshall first I'm sorry I'll go right to you next and then to you yesterday are they linked it all with
[3:53:25]your previous viewings feeling discussing from last year again uh details that uh we are not going to uh get into right now Marshall
[3:53:34]thank uh apologies Bridge construction that he hit this that is this the dead end because I know that it goes through but uh actually
[3:53:46]zunai does not go through so there's that uh that that turn around right there so that's the location where uh it dead ended and uh in Denver I never talk about the weapon itself but
[3:54:07]I mean I've seen videos uh again um you know credit to Lakewood they've been working on this ever since this
[3:54:18]happened our Denver Police Department working with our federal Partners there's other agencies involved because both of these in both of these jurisdictions had officer-involved
[3:54:28]shootings uh we have these State and 13 partners that are working around the clock to uh to address that we don't have the specifics on that those are all
[3:54:38]uh questions that will be answered as a result of this investigation can I go right here and then Nelson will get you a second [Music]
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[3:56:54]foreign good morning everybody and thank you for streaming live now from Fox my name is
[3:57:06]Regina Gonzalez with you here on this Wednesday December 29th continuing to bring you all of the top stories that we are following this morning as well as bringing you live feeds and live events
[3:57:17]that we are starting to get into our desk as we are officially at the 10 a.m Eastern Time hour 7 A.M out there on the west coast uh can give you a look at some of the feeds that we are monitoring
[3:57:28]right monitoring right now starting off with stocks officially trading and now that it is after 9 30. uh we've got the Dow Jones Industrial up this morning
[3:57:38]despite the surge in cases of the Omicron variant continuing to monitor response from that as well as the pushback that President Biden is
[3:57:48]receiving from Critics on his handling of the pandemic so we did have the CDC officially changing the quarantine guidelines just on Monday so we'll
[3:58:00]continue to keep you updated here on live now from Fox with any information coming regarding the covid-19 pandemic unfortunately we are seeing a record
[3:58:10]number of cases in the U.S despite being two years into the pandemic and does not look like it's affecting the stock market this morning but it is affecting
[3:58:20]covid-19 testing lines I do want to take you out to this live look we have right now from Houston Texas as the Houston Health Department officially set up this
[3:58:30]covid-19 testing super site so you could see plenty of people trying to take advantage of this this morning and uh we do know that again this is
[3:58:41]curated by the Houston Health Department uh they're trying to expand access to this free covid-19 testing with the opening of this new drive-through Mega site that is going to be open throughout
[3:58:52]the week if you are joining us from the Houston area it is located at Del Mar stadium and uh is open today from 9 A.M
[3:59:02]and will operate daily from 8 A.M to 6 p.m with an initial capacity of approximately 1 000 daily tests so when we heard from President Biden a couple
[3:59:12]of weeks ago he did say that millions of tests were going to be distributed to do just this also the at-home covid-19 test trying to be more available but you can
[3:59:23]see just how big this site is it is only at 9 00 a.m out there so this site did officially just open it's 9 A.M central time so we'll continue to monitor feeds
[3:59:34]just like this one here on live now from Fox but we are going to go from Houston Texas out to Silver Springs Maryland where we still got this feed now for a
[3:59:44]couple of hours coming into our live now from Fox desk it was an original breaking news situation now a full-on investigation from Montgomery County Police and other authorities out there
[3:59:55]in a Silver Springs Maryland we do know that as of right now police gave an update and confirmed that a man is dead after firing rounds at
[4:00:06]four officers that were responding to a shots fired call in the Silver Springs area at around 4 a.m this morning when they arrived they saw a victim suffering
[4:00:17]from a gunshot injury and when they started to make that initial investigation they conducted a traffic stop and once they did that according to the officers the driver started shooting
[4:00:28]rounds at the officers the officers fired back in defense and the suspect did suffer a gunshot wound and eventually uh died on scene from his
[4:00:37]injuries so still a full-on scene out there you can see caution tape lots of flashing lights at some points we have seen them use drones scaling the
[4:00:47]premises to continue their investigation so we'll continue to monitor this feed for you here on live now from Fox as well as we continue covering some major
[4:00:59]top stories throughout the country I actually do want to take you out to Waukesha Wisconsin as you know at the end of November we had that very uh
[4:01:10]tragic Christmas parade tragedy when a driver drove an SUV through a Christmas parade killing multiple people and
[4:01:19]injuring more than 60. well there was a memorial site out there in Waukesha Wisconsin honoring the victims it is officially being removed this morning
[4:01:30]they actually did just have a ceremony of making that official removal and a designated designating it as a place to
[4:01:39]grieve so this uh update from officials happened just about an hour ago it is about 10 minutes long this is from Waukesha Wisconsin so I do want to listen in here for just a bit on live
[4:01:51]now from Fox about
[4:02:09]good morning everyone I'm Sean Riley here at city of Waukesha I want to thank all that our president here today and all that are watching this ceremony
[4:02:19]I also want to acknowledge the people we have up here um we have some of our aldermen here all of them Steve Johnson dad Brown Lenny Miller uh we also have our city
[4:02:30]administrator Kevin laner um Police Chief Dan Thompson Deputy fire chief uh Joe Hoffman and I'll introduce our other two speakers uh as we go
[4:02:40]through this Unity we all have witnessed waukesha's Unity our response to this tragedy was to pour
[4:02:51]out support and love for those who lost a loved one for those who were injured and for those who are witnesses as a community we have been United in
[4:03:02]our grief and in our purpose to help those who experience trauma we have shown that we would not allow the evil of the tragedy to be how we are
[4:03:12]defined but to show that we are defined by our compassion and our Unity we have been United as a community to continue to support those who experience
[4:03:24]the worst of that day on November 21st and that we will continue to recover and heal we'll continue to show that good will
[4:03:35]win over evil we as a community will be survivors and not victims I thank our community for the unity we have shown the reason for this ceremony is to
[4:03:51]recognize and acknowledge that this Memorial was a community Gathering Place to grieve for those killed for those injured and for those scarred by what they witnessed
[4:04:03]many people stood silently before this Memorial to contemplate and to grieve many place an item here every item Place possess special meaning
[4:04:13]to those who lovingly deposited their offering miniature was shut here this moment is important because we as a community
[4:04:25]recognize that this place and these items are symbols of our sorrow and grief we also recognize that the removal of these symbols of our Sorrel will not end
[4:04:35]our grief or erase our pain we decommissioned this Memorial not to end our grieving but to move to a new place as a community a place where we will better understand and acknowledge
[4:04:47]our pain all while continuing to help those who are suffering so I think it is important to say that the decommissioning of this Memorial will not mean our Unity with and support
[4:04:58]for the victims has ended we will soon enter a new year and will continue to move forward knowing that this temporary Memorial will not end
[4:05:07]will not be the end but a beginning of our community's response to the tragedy we recognize that we will as a community
[4:05:20]decide upon a more permanent way to recognize our laws our hurt and our pain I ask that we continue to provide care assistance and be unified with the
[4:05:31]victims of the Christmas parade tragedy I know that our community will answer we will and I wanted to introduce Bonnie bird of the Washington County Historical Society
[4:05:43]who will provide a description of the curation process that will be followed to decommission this Memorial Bonnie first I want to say thank you to Mayor
[4:05:56]Riley and to the city for inviting the Waukesha County Historic Society and Museum to be a part of this process that we are able to provide our role as
[4:06:07]historians and curators to the right now and it's really the work that we are going to do already began with the community creation of this Memorial
[4:06:17]site I was speaking to members who of this community who've helped mind the site already and help protect these items that work is the work that we will
[4:06:28]continue to do starting here today there will be over the next uh hours this morning an initial Gathering of materials our first step in our first
[4:06:40]priority is to preserve and conserve what we are able to do we will then
[4:06:46]spend the next days helping to support materials to intervene so that we can make sure that this Christmas
[4:06:58]parade Memorial becomes the Christmas parade Memorial collection a collection we are able to ensure that this community in its coming days and
[4:07:09]weeks is able to know that it has been saved how we remember what our communities
[4:07:21][Music] refreshing we will have this collection so we can look to and to help us recall
[4:07:30]each item each person who demonstrated the incredible community support out and collect it here at this time
[4:07:40]uh it is with great humility and an incredible amount of Honor that we are able to do this do this work uh for those who do want more detail as to how
[4:07:51]this process works you can visit at our website orchardcountymuseum.org and you will find in our collections page April scope of collection statement that outlines
[4:08:01]the material types and what our approach and collection is but a tremendous thanks to the city of Waukesha that we were able to be here today and to begin that work thank you Bonnie and I also want to say
[4:08:18]thank you as a mayor for our community to the indispensable Washington County Historical Society um they stepped up and and were working
[4:08:28]with us right from the very beginning um now you'll hear from Father Patrick Happy who will provide us with words of encouragement it is indeed an honor and a privilege to
[4:08:42]be able to be with you today and our churches got involved in the parade a number of weeks ago we were looking at at the time of unity for all of us working together
[4:08:54]little did we anticipate that that unity and working together would end up dealing with tragedies and pain and suffering at death and that's the kind
[4:09:05]of irony that kind of brings us together today um it's painful I was taken to the hospital I ended up with a concussion I was in the ICU overnight which is by no
[4:09:16]means important at all compared to other things that people have experienced but one of the things that I saw firsthand was people coming together and helping one another
[4:09:28]I mean that was really the significant part of it I was up on the street just a couple blocks away and people were asking what do you need can I give you help you need a blanket can I help them
[4:09:39]to the chair I got to the to the ER and a lot of parishioners were around there but people were compassionate and loving and caring and it's that Avenue that
[4:09:49]element that sticks out with this community Waukesha has been through a lot of crap a lot of garbage but out of all that garbage comes a group of people that
[4:10:00]work together and support one another and look for the alpha the best in each and every person I was in the hospital and one of the nurses I think asked me if I was angry
[4:10:11]and I had to think about that no I really wasn't angry I was frustrated and concerned and disgusted with what was going on but it wasn't anger that was a
[4:10:22]part of what characterized my emotion because I think if you're angry you got to go through anger at one point but if you're angry you can't get to the heart of the matter and the Heart of the
[4:10:32]matter was a group of people coming together helping one another encouraging one another and bringing out the best that's the thing that I think you remember
[4:10:42]we are a group of people that come together that bring out the best in each other no matter what the tragedy and bringing out the best in one another we continue to grow and prosper a little
[4:10:54]bit of anger is good but too much anger stops the girls we have been through a lot of difficulty and a lot of problems but through those difficulties and problems we're going to continue to grow
[4:11:06]and prosper and do some things is that I think the probably going to deal with most of all is this is an opportunity for Hope and optimism and growth
[4:11:17]hope and optimism despite everything we've done we continue to grow each one another because we can get even better thank you Father
[4:11:33]um I'd ask that we take a moment of silence um basically that's what this Memorial resolved for people to come here and to
[4:11:43]contemplate and to grieve and um so we're going to take a short moment of silence this concludes the ceremony
[4:12:16]um I think for the next three or four hours or so there will be I'm not sure how long it will take but it's not gonna it it'll take some all right everybody
[4:12:26]Regina Gonzalez here with you on live now from Fox for those of you just tuning into our coverage uh this is a development to a very tragedy very
[4:12:35]tragic situation that we have brought to you from the very beginning when it happened in late November uh the temporary memorial for victims of the
[4:12:45]Waukesha Christmas parade attack being removed earlier this morning uh the mayor is saying that the reason for this ceremony is to recognize and acknowledge that this Memorial was a community
[4:12:57]Gathering Place to grieve for those killed for those injured and for those scarred by what they witnessed he went on to say that many people have placed
[4:13:08]items at the temporary Memorial and every item placed has a special meaning to those who put it there they are also temporarily taking down this Memorial so
[4:13:19]that way they can look for a more permanent way to recognize the community's loss from this event that starts by gathering up all of the items
[4:13:29]at the temporary Memorial so uh we'll uh whether or not they will be moved to a more permanent spot we will definitely bring you those developments here on live now from Fox and as you can see to the right hand
[4:13:43]side of your screen of monitoring several live feeds coming to our desk on this Wednesday morning and I can walk you through what we're looking at so not
[4:13:53]Fox Weather but a live feed that we are getting to our desk this morning this is a covid-19 testing super site out there in Houston Texas
[4:14:04]obviously we have brought you on live now from Fox for the last several days that testing lines have been a pretty crazy uh not just in Texas but all
[4:14:14]across the nation so we do know that congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee she is going to be speaking on the importance of testing and vaccines in uh just about
[4:14:26]a little less than an hour so if and when we do get that fee to you we'll bring it to you here on live now from Fox this site specifically located at Del Mar Stadium officially opening today
[4:14:37]and will operate daily from 8 in the morning to 6 pm and with the initial capacity of giving out approximately 1
[4:14:46]000 daily tests so a lot of local uh cities entities even States in full trying to make testing easier for their residents opening up sites just like
[4:14:57]this one going from Texas out to Maryland where it is still a very active scene as police are investigating after
[4:15:06]a man was killed for first firing at police the police did fire back in their defense and this suspect was a
[4:15:16]caught by a bullet and did die from his injuries on the scene police initially at around 4 a.m this morning answering a
[4:15:25]call for a gunfire and when they arrived to the scene they found a man suffering from a gunshot injury they ended up pulling over a alleged suspect and
[4:15:35]that's when the driver of the car that suspect started firing at these police officers there were four involved they fired back in their defense and the guy
[4:15:45]who was the alleged suspect did end up dying at the scene so monitoring this situation for you here on live now from Fox also I can let you know that we've
[4:15:54]got the Dow Jones Industrial up this Wednesday morning just a couple of days away from ringing in 2022 so lots of live feeds coming into our desk this
[4:16:05]morning any moment now we should be getting more events around this time we usually do get a covid-19 update from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio does not look like we've gotten any word of
[4:16:15]that yet but if in when we do we'll bring it to you here on live now from Fox some of you are going to see a quick two minute commercial break when you return I do want to bring you another
[4:16:26]important update that we brought to you in its entirety just yesterday the family of a 14 year old girl that was shot and killed by a stray bullet while
[4:16:36]police in Los Angeles were responding to a call at a Burlington Coat Factory they spoke out for the first time yesterday and they are being represented by
[4:16:46]Attorney Ben Crump so we'll play for you that update here after this quick two minute commercial break while we continue to monitor all the live feeds that we are getting at this Wednesday
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[4:19:59]everybody and joining us on this Wednesday December 29th as promised I do want to bring you a full update as just yesterday the family of a 14 year old
[4:20:10]girl asking for answers after she was killed by a bullet fired from a police officer's gun their family is being represented by Attorney Benjamin Crump
[4:20:20]the shooting happened last Thursday at a Burlington Coat Factory in the Southern California area police were responding to reports of a man assaulting people
[4:20:29]and possible shots fired officers wound up firing their guns when a stray bullet hit the 14 year old girl who was in a dressing room with her mother so we do
[4:20:40]have that full update for you here on live now from Fox that we do want to play for you here and we today is not about what's going
[4:20:54]to happen next today is about what the family is going through and hearing from Mom and Dad right now about that as the
[4:21:02]days go on you'll hear from Ben Crump me Paul trena Erica Contreras and others on the legal team about all of the next
[4:21:13]steps thank you thank you attorney Robert Clooney now you're going to hear from her father
[4:21:24]who was like a best friend to his daughter his only biological child Mr Juan Pablo and they they wrote down some notes
[4:21:36]because it's just too emotional yeah
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[4:28:08]that his daughter was shot and killed while they were shopping at the shopping center he was in shock and to find out later that it was the bullet of a police
[4:28:19]officer is the devastating um he had made plans to come to the United States to be with his daughter for Christmas
[4:28:30]um he had purchased gifts for her Christmas and now he those group those gifts are now going to be brought to her grave because she's gone
[4:28:40]um his heart is just torn out his daughter was very excited about the fact that she had done well in school had gotten good grades and they were going to
[4:28:52]celebrate that together and now they're not going to be able to do that also she had great dreams of being an American citizen she wanted to be here
[4:29:03]in the United States because this was the land of opportunity and she was excited about that um they were going to go see the Lakers dad's a big fan of the Lakers and they had planned to go see the Lakers
[4:29:14]together and that's never going to happen now and um he found out that Valentina had
[4:29:25]ordered a um as it asked for a state board for Christmas and the skateboarder ride through Amazon on the 24th the day after her death and now it's something
[4:29:37]that she will never use and you will have to take it to the Grave so she can skate with the angels um the only thing that he has left for him
[4:29:47]now is to seek Justice for his daughter um he will not rest until Justice for his daughter is served and he promised her that
[4:29:57]and all that's left for him his only Solace is to bury his daughter now while other families are home with their families together for Christmas and New Years
[4:30:08]he now has an empty seat and an empty home thank you take your attorney for Treasure so
[4:30:17]before Miss Soledad comes and speaks I just wanted to read uh the statement they got very emotional for him but he
[4:30:28]wanted to tell you all my name is Juan Pablo Valentina was my only biological child I am still in complete shock and
[4:30:39]disbelief from when my wife Soledad valentina's mother told me that she had been shot and killed by an officer from
[4:30:50]LAPD at the shopping plaza it is like my whole heart has been ripped out of my body the pain of opening the Christmas
[4:31:02]presents for her that had been delivered for Christmas day cannot be articulated my daughter was special
[4:31:13]she had dreams and tragically those dreams have been overshadowed by this nightmare
[4:31:22]that prevents me from sleeping at night I talked to my daughter the day before she was killed by the police
[4:31:32]she told me she was on Christmas vacation and she was excited to tell me she passed her math and
[4:31:42]physics exam we talked about our dream of going to a Los Angeles Laker game together when I
[4:31:52]arrived in January she was very excited for Christmas she ordered a skateboard from Amazon all on her own
[4:32:03]and wanted to surprise me in the skateboarders at her school when she returned from Christmas break
[4:32:15]but she would never get to show them the skateboard herself we want Justice for our daughter
[4:32:24]valentina's life mattered we demand Justice if it was your baby girl when you can demand Justice too
[4:32:36]the words of Juan Pablo the father of Valentina and now you were here
[4:32:46]a heart-wrenching broken hearted mother uh Soledad who was with her daughter and she's
[4:32:57]going to speak from my heart and then I turned it address will translate thanks
[4:33:07]all right everybody before we listen in to this heartfelt message from the 14 year old's mother who was with her daughter when they were in a Burlington
[4:33:17]Coat Factory on December 23rd as the LAPD responded to this robbery call I do want to send some of you on a quick two minute commercial break as we are at 10 35 a.m eastern time here on the East
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[4:35:30]good morning everybody and thank you so much for being with us here on a live now from Fox officially 10 38 a.m here on the East Coast my name is Regina Gonzalez I've been with you for the last several hours and I'll be with you for a
[4:35:41]little bit longer before my co-host Christy Larson picks things up from Phoenix Arizona do want to let you know that we are monitoring several feeds that we've had for a little bit now here
[4:35:52]this morning this is the Dow Jones Industrial stocks up this morning as Omicron cases continue to Surge across the United States also starting to uh
[4:36:03]really really impact those testing lines this is something that we've been following for quite some time at this at this point here on live now from Fox this is a covid-19 testing super site
[4:36:15]out there in Houston officially opening today they're trying to make it more efficient for residents to get tested for covid-19 so we'll continue to monitor this feed we do know that
[4:36:26]representative Sheila Jackson Lee will be making some remarks here in just a little bit about the importance of testing and the importance of getting vaccinated so we'll continue to bring that if we get that for you here on live
[4:36:37]now from Fox right before that quick two minute commercial break if you were tuning in we were bringing you a press conference that was a very emotional
[4:36:47]yesterday a 14 year old girl killed by a stray bullet that was fired as the Los Angeles Police Department were responding to a robbery call at a
[4:36:58]Burlington Coat Factory Store just last week on December 23rd so we are hearing from her family they are being represented by Attorney Benjamin Crump
[4:37:09]so I do want to continue to listen in here on live now from Fox for her future she had a lot of Life to Live
[4:37:22]we were together at Burlington in North Hollywood we were trying out clothes for Christmas we heard some screams
[4:37:32]we sat down and hugged and started praying when something impacted my daughter Valentina it threw us on the floor
[4:37:44]and she died in my arms and there was nothing I could do to see a son or daughter Die In Your
[4:37:56]Arms is one of the pains the greatest pains and most profound pains that any human being can imagine
[4:38:06]Valentina meant the world to us to her family to her friends and to her schoolmates and now our sweet angel has left
[4:38:18]forever please give us strength Valentina to have to just give us strength Valentina to make
[4:38:28]Justice for you yeah I will read um some of the thoughts that her sister and
[4:38:40]her uh prepared um my name is Soledad I am the mother Valentina my 14 year old daughter and I
[4:38:53]got dropped off by her sister so we could get gifts for Christmas on the way to the Burlington Factory Store
[4:39:05]we discussed her dreams of becoming an engineer becoming an American citizen
[4:39:14]her making good grades that she loved her school and she wanted to go to college while in the dressing room
[4:39:29]we heard commotion and screaming Valentina and I hugged each other she went and locked the door
[4:39:41]to try to protect us we started hugging each other tighter as more loud noises and commotion
[4:39:52]was being heard eyes closed we began praying praying for peace
[4:40:01]praying for safety praying for everybody I was praying for my daughter and I believe she was praying for my
[4:40:12]sake all of a sudden we felt an explosion that threw us both to the ground that's what I saw white powder coming
[4:40:22]out of valentina's body as she started having convulsions I had no idea she had been shot
[4:40:32]her body went limp I tried to wake up by shaking her but she didn't wake up as I've laid screaming for help
[4:40:47]the police did not come to help me on my daughter but I kept screaming when the police finally came
[4:40:59]they took me out of the dressing room and left my daughter laying there I wanted them to help her but they just left her laying there
[4:41:11]alone we want Justice for our angel
[4:41:19]our precious little angel Valentina from her mother her aunt to the rubber potty
[4:41:33]attorney Robbie pooty and I would try to answer some of your questions if you have any
[4:41:43]and if necessary Erica would try to translate if there's a question for Mr Juan Pablo on this Soledad attorney
[4:41:55]Rodney pootie if you're uh questions yes for that
[4:42:08]you know right now uh the question was uh we talked about Seeking Justice for the family what does Justice look like
[4:42:19]for them and I will go in there attorney Robbie pootie will add on if he has anything
[4:42:29]the family is completely devastated they are still trying to get past this nightmare
[4:42:38]her father's still in disbelief he wants justice as any father would want she wants justice as any mother would
[4:42:49]want what would you want if your baby was killed in this manner that's all they're asking for as we said earlier
[4:43:01]we're going to address and how things could have been done differently to prevent her from being collateral damage as some of the
[4:43:11]activists cynic and Sean and tez have all said we should not have to sacrifice innocent life
[4:43:21]in the name of safety when it was for Sybil that two days before Christmas
[4:43:31]that there were gonna be people in a shopping plaza shopping the family thinks things could have been done differently
[4:43:42]to where Valentina wouldn't be collateral damage and that she would still be here celebrating Christmas getting ready to take that
[4:43:53]skateboard back to her classmates at htla and able to go to the Los Angeles Lakers
[4:44:02]game with her father in January death to them right now is what they're dealing with they're going to leave to
[4:44:13]our legal team to try to address the matters of Justice even though her father has some strong opinions about that attorney Robert when he talks about
[4:44:24]the letter it was in the High School uh civilians for a potential civil lawsuit against the question is uh we sent a
[4:44:37]preservation of evidence letter to the LAPD so that we actually could have transparency on all of the evidence and all of the information so that the LAPD
[4:44:47]doesn't drive the narrative on what they did we can expose that truth ourselves and what we did was we sent that letter we sent it immediately to make sure that all of that evidence is saved and it's
[4:44:59]going to be available to us through this process we believe that there's a video surveillance video from the Burlington
[4:45:07]store itself as well and so we want all the documentation complete transparency not just a perspective that tries to
[4:45:17]justify things we want everything released we do this
[4:45:56]they just don't have any words I I will share a note from their principal um to
[4:46:08]the parents of Valentina I am so sorry for you and your family's loss words cannot
[4:46:19]put into words how I feel right now and I cannot imagine how it feels for you
[4:46:28]I'm working to share this sad news with the staff in the htla community
[4:46:37]I feel like it was just yesterday that I was working with Valentina on her physics final exam preparation
[4:46:48]she was an amazing young woman who was Brave and showed so much growth in such a short time here at htla
[4:47:00]please keep me in the htla family updated on any ceremonies for Valentina
[4:47:10]we would like to attend if possible and I would like to provide an opportunity to share with others just how precious
[4:47:22]and special Valentina was as I'm reaching out to her teachers many have asked if there's a GoFundMe account
[4:47:33]for your family we want to contribute because Valentina what's special to us and we want to try
[4:47:43]to help ease your pain during this time you and your family are in my thoughts and more importantly in my prayers
[4:47:53]please contact us if you need us for any reason and that was from the principal of high-tech la
[4:48:03]Mr Trump you mentioned that there were Colleen Molina Mr prompt you mentioned that there were some steps that LAPD should have and could have taken to prevent this tragedy
[4:48:13]can you please should have been we would talk about those things later today was about letting the family tell the world who
[4:48:24]Valentina was and that Valentina life matters Valentina life matters Regina Gonzalez with you here on a live
[4:48:34]now from Fox listening to a very moving press conference that we originally brought to you in its entirety live just yesterday afternoon Attorney Benjamin
[4:48:44]Crump representing the family of the 14 year old girl who was a tragically killed by a stray bullet fired by a lap
[4:48:53]LAPD officer while they were responding to a robbery call at Burlington Coat Factory uh that happened on December
[4:49:02]23rd really really tragic to hear them recall the moments that this all happened the phone call that her father got the family did just come to the
[4:49:13]United States from Chile and they were looking for a better life so talking about how she had just bought a skateboard on Amazon and it had just
[4:49:23]arrived and now the only way she will use it is to ride with the angels up in heaven so very emotional moving words from her family as well as Attorney
[4:49:33]Benjamin Crump talking about how they are not going to stop until they get Justice for their daughter so I wanted to bring you those remarks here on live
[4:49:43]now from Fox as it was a huge portion of our coverage just yesterday we are nearing the top of the 11 A.M Eastern Time hour here on live now from Fox
[4:49:53]again my name is Regina Gonzalez with you here from Orlando Florida I'll be with you for a little bit longer before Christy Larson picks up our coverage from Phoenix Arizona I do want to let
[4:50:04]you know that we just got this feed into our desk this is going to be a press conference from Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd he has done press conferences
[4:50:15]for quite some time when it comes to a major crime that they investigate in their area so this will actually be in a Winter Haven Florida he is going to
[4:50:27]apparently be talking about a number of a fatal crash investiga Nations that they are looking into these include a Monday crash which resulted in four
[4:50:38]deaths on a local road so we should be hearing from him any moment here on live now from Fox and we will stream it for you raw and unfiltered because this is who we are and what we do we bring you
[4:50:48]front row to press conferences from any uh entity and state here on our show we also do uh have some other feeds that we are monitoring right now bringing you
[4:50:59]out back to Houston Texas where the health department has officially opened a covid-19 testing super site today is the first day it is expected to be open
[4:51:10]throughout the week and they are planning on administering 1 000 tests per day so this is how a lot of states are trying to combat the long testing
[4:51:20]lines that they are seeing this is a drive-through site as you can see but some of those lines where people are standing outside not just in Texas throughout the entire nation and throughout the world a husband pretty
[4:51:32]wild to see it's something that we've been following very closely and then we've also got stocks trading on this Wednesday morning the Dow Jones up amid this surge in cases some of you are
[4:51:43]going to see a quick two-minute commercial break when you return uh looks like we might have Grady Judd walking up to the podium if not we're going to continue our coverage bringing
[4:51:54]you the latest on what we know of the Omicron variant and you know what I actually changed my mind everybody we are probably just not going to go to that break because we've got Judd stepping up to the podium right
[4:52:05]now let's listen in I first want to start by saying when we came back to work Monday morning from our four day Christmas holiday
[4:52:16]break we were high-fiving and the reason that we were was we didn't have not one traffic fatality
[4:52:26]over the holiday weekend and we were excited about that but that was short-lived in the last 44 hours we've had eight
[4:52:37]people killed in vehicle crashes in this County and I'm going to start and give you a summation and then I'm going to give you some details I'm going to start from
[4:52:48]this morning back when I left the left home I could not even get to work without driving across a fatal crash that our deputies
[4:52:59]were working along with Winter Haven fire and police assisting us that was at 7 45 this morning one deceased female for reasons that still under
[4:53:11]investigation and we don't know she clipped the back end of another vehicle rolled her vehicle over and over was ejected from the vehicle and died as a
[4:53:22]result of her horrendous injuries at the hospital well I had just gotten home last night at 6 30 when I got a call that we had a
[4:53:34]vehicle crash on U.S Highway 98 North of Lakeland where a person riding a motorcycle we
[4:53:42]suspect was using alcohol because he had just left the VFW where we know they consume alcohol and he
[4:53:53]on his three-wheel motorcycles swerved into the northbound lane of U.S Highway 98 North and he was struck and killed 11 hours earlier at 7 30 A.M
[4:54:12]on Highway 98 North not far from that particular location we had a vehicle crash where a
[4:54:22]subject driving a pickup truck loaded with a loaded trailer of roofing materials was observed with the trailer
[4:54:33]fishtailing and at fishtail off of the road as he was coming south on 98 and then into the northbound lane and a
[4:54:43]Wonder Bread truck hit the trailer immediately killing the driver and significantly critically injuring
[4:54:55]the passenger they were father and son I'll give you the details in just a minute where we arrested the driver of the pickup truck
[4:55:07]for DUI DUI manslaughter and the Litany of other charges well we back up from
[4:55:20]Tuesday night and Tuesday morning to Monday night at nine o'clock on Old Dixie Highway in Auburndale where a man riding the bicycle into the
[4:55:31]road was struck and killed by a vehicle the reports to us was several other vehicles had swerved around him as he
[4:55:43]rode his bicycle in the center of the road it's we have alcohol and or drugs suspected on the part of the person on the bicycle
[4:55:55]who's now deceased and that's under investigation but it all began Monday at noon
[4:56:05]before our next fatality at 9 00 pm unlike hatch naha we received
[4:56:14]9-1-1 calls from the Poinciana area of a fight and we will provide those
[4:56:25]9-1-1 calls for you where a caller was frantically saying there's a woman being beaten beaten
[4:56:35]he has drug her back into the car she's bleeding you've got to stop him I'm afraid he's going to kill her
[4:56:44]and deputies are responding to the area with a description of a Mazda a black Mazda one of our deputies in the area sees the
[4:56:58]vehicle on Marigold which runs at that location north and south out of Poinciana the vehicle is southbound out of Poinciana our Deputy Gets behind the vehicle
[4:57:10]lights it up in an attempt to stop it immediately Upon Us turning the lights on this vehicle
[4:57:20]the suspect in the vehicle of the abduction aggravated battery that they're telling us you've got to stop
[4:57:30]this guy immediately moves into Northbound traffic and is going head on into traffic so the deputy wisely turns off his
[4:57:40]lights and disengages the pursuit he continues to drive southbound behind the vehicle as it flees from the
[4:57:51]attempted traffic stop but he does not engage the vehicle he does not keep up with the vehicle but he's going in that direction as
[4:58:02]we're now looking for our victim to see if she's in the community or in the suspect's vehicle
[4:58:13]at that moment in time there's still the possibility that he holds the subduction victim in the vehicle so he didn't want to just stop he was following
[4:58:24]day when he was driving down the road as the as the suspect pulled out of sight hoping to get more information about is someone in the vehicle or not is there
[4:58:35]an abduction us victim in the vehicle with this suspect we have video that we'll show you in just a moment
[4:58:45]that clearly shows that as the vehicle zoomed past a home on Hatch naha which is several miles
[4:58:55]from where all this piano marigold that you will see the suspect vehicle drive-by at an extreme rate of speed
[4:59:06]then you will see other cars and the traffic flow driving down the road then you will see the deputy driving down the road without his lights
[4:59:17]probably three tenths of a mile behind maybe four tenths of a mile behind but here's our suspect requiem velona
[4:59:28]v-i-l-l-a-l-o-n-a balona he's 35 years of age and we know that as he's fleeing
[4:59:39]at a great rate of speed that he creates this crash that I'm about to describe to you on Lake Hatch naha Road
[4:59:50]so if you follow what I'm what I'm going to tell you this was a very complicated scene and you'll understand why when I show you a picture of the vehicle in just a moment
[5:00:01]as he's fleeing he comes upon a black Ford 150 pickup truck and he hits the rear of that vehicle
[5:00:11]when he hits the rear of that vehicle as they're both traveling westbound he redirects the Ford F-150 as it spins in circles
[5:00:22]into the eastbound Lane as the Ford is spinning into the eastbound Lane
[5:00:29]then there is a vehicle a Toyota Tacoma that strikes
[5:00:38]the truck spinning in the road the suspect in his who and his vehicle
[5:00:47]is now launched airborne the Airborne vehicle then strikes a gray vehicle the fourth vehicle
[5:00:59]the Mazda is cut and you'll see almost in half from front to rear our suspect is thrown out into the
[5:01:09]pavement and is obviously deceased and we also have two fatalities in the gray Escape where he launched into their
[5:01:21]vehicle so here are the vehicles our
[5:01:30]this is our suspect vehicle and you can see it's demolished you can see it crashes into the Ford
[5:01:40]F-150 which is on the bottom here this guy's kill just by the grace of God there's four people in this Ford F-150 pickup truck
[5:01:52]to include a three-year-old baby a 16 year old girl child and two adults none of them are injured at all but as this vehicle spins around
[5:02:06]and is redirected in the eastbound Lane that's when the Toyota Tacoma is hit there's one deceased in the Toyota
[5:02:14]Tacoma and there's one injured this vehicle as a result of the energy is catapulted into the air
[5:02:25]and lands into this vehicle actually into the top of the vehicle and tears that vehicle into shreds as you can see
[5:02:35]there's two deceased as a result of that out of that vehicle and there's two that receive significant injuries that were in this it was Total Carnage
[5:02:48]it's among the worst traffic fatalities we've seen in this traffic fatalities
[5:02:57]we've seen in this County it's important to point out that I had my traffic homicide team there virtually
[5:03:09]all of them if not all of them and I've got well in excess of a hundred years of experience investigating traffic
[5:03:19]homicide and it took us hours and hours and hours and hours and there's still work to be
[5:03:29]done to try to figure out the which cars costs which crash and how did it occur had
[5:03:44]villalona survived that crash he would have been charged with three counts of vehicular homicide
[5:03:53]as well as abduction or kidnapping or aggravated battery on what we find out after the fact is his girlfriend
[5:04:03]his girlfriend had to be taken to the hospital as a result of the initial which created their initial 9-1-1 calls to be stitched up she was she had a
[5:04:14]significant cut from the fight and she refused to cooperate and when we went back to serve a search warrant at the house she's gone
[5:04:25]she fled totally not cooperating at all so this 9-1-1 call was generated to help her to keep her safe
[5:04:36]from this very violent guy who ultimately killed three people
[5:04:46]and himself with his crazy wild out of control actions because he wanted to beat and injure his
[5:04:57]girlfriend did not want to stop when the deputies tried to stop him so I'll put that aside
[5:05:07]for just a second to show you a picture of Joshua Waters and the Damage he created Joshua Waters at that time in the
[5:05:21]morning early in the morning our traffic homicide people obviously see that he's impaired
[5:05:32]he's arrested charged with DUI manslaughter DUI serious bodily injury DUI and of course resisting us at the scene
[5:05:44]this is a very bad guy but he caused an innocent man to die and the man that died was the truck
[5:05:55]driver for the Wonder Bread Company truck and his 18 year old son is an extremely extremely extremely critical condition
[5:06:06]and we don't know if he's going to survive all because he's drunk he's driving an overloaded trailer of roofing materials
[5:06:16]recklessly to the point that he's fishtailing on the road and swings the trailer directly into the northbound lane of travel where this man just
[5:06:27]driving going to work minding his business and his son are killed and significantly injured
[5:06:37]folks we're about to embark on New Year's later this week and I've said this over and over and
[5:06:48]clearly enough clearly and the people who to listen are safe I would much rather see you locked up in the county jail than in the morgue
[5:06:59]I can tell you that rage and a contempt for the rule rules of society caused that triple
[5:07:09]fatality I can show you that the bicyclist that was killed we highly suspect
[5:07:19]had drugs or alcohol or both in the system we highly suspect the individual that was killed on 98 North on his
[5:07:30]tricycle motorcycle had been drinking and we highly suspect that the man who killed the son or kill
[5:07:40]the the per the suspect who killed the man and son was intoxicated there's no reason for
[5:07:49]that in this Society in this community today where traffic is bumper to bumper and it's even more bumper-to-bumper during the winter when our Northern
[5:08:00]visitors are here there's no room for people to get out of your way eight people
[5:08:10]eight people are dead in the last 44 hours from vehicle crashes that's got to stop that's someone's
[5:08:21]mother father brother sisters cousins friends which one of us
[5:08:29]want to leave work or our home today or go on vacation today and get killed in a car crash because somebody's so inconsiderate
[5:08:40]that they're drinking or driving are not wanting to be stopped or just continuing to drive crazy miles down the road listen to me clearly
[5:08:55]they offer a tow and go program here over the New Year's weekend Uber is cheap a lot cheaper than the county jail
[5:09:09]and a DUI a lot safer than the morgue where you can end up dead if you drink and drive if you don't have a friend a relative
[5:09:19]you can't use toe and go you can't find Uber call the Sheriff's Office we'll get you home rather than have you get out on the road
[5:09:30]and kill yourself or someone else but once you get on that road and that Deputy turns the lights on the deal's off
[5:09:42]we're still going to give you a ride but at that point you're going to go to jail but if you can't get us to get a ride any way else home before you get behind
[5:09:53]the will of that vehicle call us we can't stand to see one person die in a vehicle crash
[5:10:04]when there's eight and 44 hours I called my wife and said just stay home relax
[5:10:14]work around the house read a book till this wave is over this is the craziest we've seen it in a long time that doesn't count the guy I stopped
[5:10:26]yesterday on the way home from work I'm not a traffic kind of guy but I stopped him and he was this issued a citation for running a red light oh he
[5:10:37]didn't cut it close he was way after the light turned red why did I not see a T-bone crash there just happened to not be a car
[5:10:48]pushing the light from the other direction this craziness has got to stop this insensitivity to your friends or your neighbors out here on the roads got
[5:11:00]to stop I don't want to see you killed or maimed and I've seen way too much of it in the
[5:11:10]last 44 hours are there any questions she was not with him we found her at the
[5:11:24]time because she was at the hospital she refused to cooperate even though he had injured her bad enough she had to be stitched up full name they'll give it to you after
[5:11:35]after the press conference we'll get it for you a card following and a car chasing yeah
[5:11:47]you'll see you'll see on this video clip I'm about to show you we weren't we were going on the same direction as he fled but you'll see with this one
[5:11:59]clip and several witnesses if we were pursuing him we would be on him we would be behind him in traffic
[5:12:09]we on top of him with lights and sirens that wasn't it we were we were driving in the same direction while they were
[5:12:18]gathering information at the scene but look and you'll see it'll go there's traffic there's traffic there he goes
[5:12:29]and then you see more traffic and more traffic and more traffic and more traffic all right do you want to say thank you
[5:12:45]again to all of our viewers who have been watching here with us we did have the sheriff giving an update on those uh crashes of these investigations of course are ones that they hate to have to go to time and time again and this
[5:12:57]warning coming ahead of yet another busy holiday weekend when they do see a tendency for people to drive while they're under the influence so a lot of good warnings we had some warnings from
[5:13:07]some of our Pennsylvania officials yesterday as well so we'll continue to keep you covered on all of those stories but another big story has of course been
[5:13:16]the spread of covid-19 as that new variant has now entered the United States the demand for testing continues to be on the rise we're seeing all across the country long lines day in and
[5:13:28]day out at testing sites this one coming to us from Houston we'll check in with our reporters who have been out there this morning to get more information on what they've been seeing more to come
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[5:15:44]here is a look at one of the dozens and thousands of covid-19 testing sites that are taking place across our country this one coming to us out of Houston as we
[5:15:55]saw once again long lines people waiting to get tested for covet 19. what we're going to do is bring in Fox 26's Natasha geigel here with us as she was out there this morning in Natasha I'm sure you
[5:16:07]guys have just seen these cars piled up day in and day out what have you guys been noticing about the cases in your area well good morning yes ever since Monday
[5:16:19]the lines have been extremely long at multiple testing sites across our area people waiting for hours coming even hours before these sites would open up just to line up and one of the things
[5:16:30]that I've noticed is that people's cars even stalling because they've been just running for so long every day I've seen at least a handful of cars needing to have assistance from somebody with the
[5:16:40]jumper cables to get them restarted and testing kits that's also another issue here in Houston as I'm sure it is in the rest of the country where going to your local store you will see empty shelves
[5:16:51]where covid-19 test kits once were and it's just really hard to get your hands on it's really affecting people's travel plans for this holiday season also for people that need to go back to work
[5:17:02]people that I spoke with that was really one of their top priorities was are they going to be able to spend the upcoming New Year's holiday with their family are they going to be able to make that travel Arrangement that they had for
[5:17:13]this coming weekend and they're all waiting for those results to come back a lot of people saying that they would rather be safe than sorry and not wanting to spread it if they do in fact are dealing
[5:17:24]with this Omicron variant and just like the rest of the country we're also dealing with an increase of cases too about a 90 of of all cases that are being reported right now in the state of Texas are from the yamacron variant and
[5:17:36]we're also seeing an increased case of of children with uh covid-19 in our area hospitals as well so it is just one of those things that we're not sure if it's
[5:17:47]going to uh go back to normal so to say after New Year's but I know that we've had to open some of our Mega testing sites uh just to accommodate this and they're going to be open through the new
[5:17:58]year as well and that is pretty much the scene that we're dealing with here and we'll have to see if it's going to go back to normal anytime soon and I know you said that you've been there in a
[5:18:09]time when people's cars have even stalled out have you been able to talk with anyone who may have been waiting to get tested how long did they have to wait to be able to get that test well depending on when they got there
[5:18:23]but some people like I've seen people wait for about an hour if they got there within an hour before the facility opens and they were just able to go right through and some people having to wait if they waited till later in the
[5:18:33]afternoon about three hours it really does vary but if it's something that is that urgent for you the best advice that we've been giving people is to get there early so that you can just get in and
[5:18:44]out once those facilities open and Natasha I know you said too that uh there's a lot of people who've been trying to search for those tests has that been a problem at any of these sites where they've ran out of the test
[5:18:55]to be able to conduct for these people waiting in line it really hasn't been an issue there where people have been uh turned away
[5:19:06]because they've ran out of testing at these facilities that's more so the hours because of course you need staff to work at these facilities and that's why they're opening up the the mega
[5:19:16]sites that we had back when the pandemic had first started they've reopened them to just kind of get more staff in there to get people in and out but once that time comes if they're closing at three
[5:19:27]o'clock if you're on the line by three then that is it uh you know just to give those employees that are working it uh that time to rest as well yeah it definitely has been something that we've seen across the country I know when I
[5:19:39]even went and got a test to myself they had to run out get more kits it's certainly been a big problem we do appreciate you uh coming on here helping explain a little bit about what you're
[5:19:49]seeing in the Houston area so once again Natasha geigle with our Fox 26 team thanks so much for being here with us I'm live now from Fox thank you
[5:20:01]and as she mentioned there is only more cases that continue to be counted on and speaking of children that was one thing that she had touched on more children
[5:20:11]Across the Nation are hospitalized due to the spread of the new Omicron variant Across the Nation there are roughly 260 pediatric hospitalizations a day that's
[5:20:22]a 30 percent increase from last week Nationwide 23 percent of children are vaccinated now according to health officials pediatric cases in New York
[5:20:33]City Rose of five times since the beginning of the month most were unvaccinated Health officials insist on increasing children vaccinations to
[5:20:42]prevent the rising spread so once again we will be on top of this story especially as it has been a concern and top of mind for many of our viewers across the country we will step away for
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[5:23:05]welcome back here to live now from Fox we are getting almost a half hour past the hour here as it is getting close to 9 30 a.m Arizona time do you appreciate all of our viewers who are here with us
[5:23:16]I'm Christy Larson as we continue to bring you some of our top news stories as we were just talking about we've seen our Choppers up in there giving us a look at those long lines of covid-19
[5:23:28]testing sites and we've also seen people down on the ground just as we were just showing you down in the Houston area so what we want to do is continue to talk a little bit more about that as we do have
[5:23:39]the White House covid-19 response team briefing taking place now I want to let our viewers know usually they've been conducting these on Zoom but this one today is only audio so while we're listening into what's being said as
[5:23:51]they're trying to address some of these recent case spikes we may even hear them talk about what to do for this weekend as we head into yet another holiday weekend as a lot of people are stuck at
[5:24:02]the airports trying to travel back from their holiday trips uh we're also going to though keep an eye on those visuals from Houston where we're seeing those uh testing lines we just heard uh from our
[5:24:13]reporters she was saying that people have been waiting uh up to hours in line so long that even cars would get stalled from being in line for so long so we
[5:24:23]will continue to talk more about the top stories when it comes to coronavirus but let's go ahead listen in with the White House covid-19 response team as they are talking about what they are seeing and
[5:24:33]how to address this rise in cases hey it's Jeff science here um good morning everyone and thanks for joining what is a phone briefing today we expect
[5:24:43]to return to our regular format next week today Dr bolinski will provide an Omicron in the U.S update and discuss
[5:24:54]cdc's updated guidance for people who test positive for coven Dr fauci will discuss the latest science on Omicron before we turn to the doctors I thought
[5:25:05]I would provide a brief update on the actions the administration is taking to ensure States communities and hospitals have the support they need in the coming weeks
[5:25:15]for months the Biden Administration is full of government surge response teams have been working hand in hand with governors and local Health officials across the country to assess and address needs on
[5:25:27]the ground more than 13 000 National Guard members have been activated in 48 states to support the coveted response from vaccinations to testing
[5:25:38]to clinical care these are state deployments that thanks to the president's actions are fully paid for by the federal government additionally we have directly helped
[5:25:49]more than 30 States and territories by deploying over 2100 Federal personnel and thousands of ambulances ventilators
[5:25:59]and other critical supplies on Monday the president joined the administration's regular meeting with Governors it was actually our 40th meeting this year
[5:26:11]to reiterate that we continue to stand ready to help them with more support for hospitals more testing and more capacity to get shots in arms this includes an
[5:26:21]additional thousand military doctors nurses and EMTs ready to deploy when and where needed our message to
[5:26:31]Governors around the country is is simple if you need something say something and we will mobilize to quickly get you the resources you need and that's
[5:26:41]exactly what we've done over the past a week or so more boots and supplies have already landed on the ground for example in New York 60 FEMA medical
[5:26:51]personnel and 30 ambulances arrived last week to help transport patients to hospitals around the state and balance patient loads and in just one week we've established
[5:27:02]nine federally run testing sites in New York City with three more sites opening this Sunday in Arizona
[5:27:12]20 FEMA paramedics began providing clinical support across the state on Christmas Eve with nearly 40 more medical personnel arriving next week to help administer
[5:27:22]treatments in Maricopa and Pima counties as well as in tribal communities in Indiana 23 military medical personnel
[5:27:32]started their mission on Christmas Day at University Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis in New Mexico 15 medical personnel from the U.S Public Health Service Commission
[5:27:42]Corps arrived on Monday to provide surge support in Indian country today we're sending 15 ventilators to the state and 12 Federal medical personnel will arrive next week to help
[5:27:54]get more shots in arms in Wisconsin a 23 person military medical team is scheduled to start its support Mission at Bellin Hospital in
[5:28:03]Green Bay on Friday in New Jersey a new federally Run free testing site will open on New Year's Day and more sites were open across the next several days
[5:28:12]in Philadelphia and Washington DC and on top of all of this a million gloves 342 000 masks respirators and face Shields
[5:28:22]and 40 000 gowns the Administration has shipped for Frontline healthcare workers in states in the past couple of weeks alone so as you can see we've been working
[5:28:34]around the clock to Surge reinforcements to communities as they battle Omicron helping to staff hospitals administer on a clinical antibody treatments transport
[5:28:44]patients add testing capacity and get more PPE to where it is needed and you'll see us continue to act aggressively to address community's needs in the days and weeks ahead
[5:28:55]so with that let me hand it over to Dr wilinski Dr wilinsky thank you so much Jeff good morning everyone I'd like to start by walking you through today's data the current seven day daily average of cases is
[5:29:06]about 240 400 cases per day an increase of about 60 percent over the previous week the rapid increase in cases we are seeing across the country is in large
[5:29:17]part a reflection of the exceptionally transmissible Omicron variant in a few short weeks Omicron has rapidly increased across the country and we expect will continue to circulate in the
[5:29:29]coming weeks while our cases have substantially increased from last week hospitalizations and deaths remain comparatively low right now the seven day average of hospitalizations
[5:29:40]admissions is about 9 000 per day an increase of about 14 percent over the previous week this could be due to the fact that hospitalizations tend to lag
[5:29:50]behind cases by about two weeks but may also be due to early indications that we've seen from other countries like South Africa and United Kingdom of milder disease from overcon especially
[5:30:02]among the vaccinated and the boosted and the seven day average of daily deaths are about 1100 per day which is a decrease of about seven percent over the previous week
[5:30:13]as you continue to watch these Trends I want to emphasize that this virus has proven its ability to adapt quickly and we must adapt with it and it is in that
[5:30:23]context that last week CDC updated our isolation and quarantine guidance for health care workers as we prepare for an anticipated surge in covid-19 cases
[5:30:34]this updated guidance will help to ensure that hospitals clinics and long-term care facilities can safely stay open and remain appropriately staffed both to handle hospitalizations
[5:30:45]from covid-19 and to make sure that we continue to provide the necessary care for those experiencing heart attacks strokes and other illnesses
[5:30:55]swiftly thereafter on Monday CDC also updated its recommendations to shorten the recommended isolation and quarantine period for the General Public
[5:31:05]these updates to our recommendations were made to reflect what we currently know about covid-19 infection including how long a person is most infectious
[5:31:15]Studies have demonstrated that when infection with SARS cov2 people are infected with SARS cov2 people are most infectious in the one to two days before symptoms develop and the two to three
[5:31:27]days after after five days the risk of ongoing transmission substantially decreases let me make clear that we are standing on the shoulders of two years of science
[5:31:39]two years of understanding transmissibility and a lot of information that we have gleaned from the wild type virus as well as the alpha and Delta variants and more that we
[5:31:49]continue to learn every single day about our macron we do know the vast majority of viral transmission happens in those first five days somewhere in the 85 to 90 percent
[5:32:01]range so if a person can isolate for the first five days they absolutely should many are asking why do we do not require a test at the end of the five days of
[5:32:11]isolation for those who are infected we know that PCR testing would not be helpful in this setting as people can remain PCR positive for up to 12 weeks
[5:32:21]after infection and long after they are transmissible and infectious we also don't know that antigen tests give a good indication of transmissibility at this stage of
[5:32:33]infection on the other hand we know that after five days people are much less likely to transmit the virus and that masking further reduces that risk and this is
[5:32:43]why people need to mask for five days after their five days of isolation this science as well as what we know about the protection provided by masking
[5:32:52]vaccination and booster Doses and about our test performance we're all part of what informed our updated recommendations let me walk you through exactly what
[5:33:03]these new recommendations mean for you first isolation refers to what you do when you have coca-19 most likely diagnosed by a positive test isolation
[5:33:14]prevents those who are known to be infected from transmission transmitting the virus to others quarantine on the other hand is different this is what you do when you have to be when you've been
[5:33:25]exposed to someone who has disease and are unsure if you yourself were infected quarantine prevents for the spread of the virus in the time before someone may
[5:33:36]develop symptoms or from those who are asymptomatic from their infection if you are infected with SARS cov2 regardless of your vaccination status
[5:33:45]you should isolate for five days during periods of isolation it's best for you to wear a mask around those in your household to avoid spreading the virus at home
[5:33:56]after five days if you're asymptomatic or if your symptoms have largely resolved you may leave isolation as long as you continue to wear a mask around of
[5:34:06]others even in the home for an additional five days for those who've been exposed to covid-19 quarantine recommendations are based on your vaccination status
[5:34:18]if you are boosted or have been vaccinated with your Pfizer or modernist Series in the past six months for your J and J shot in the past two months no quarantine is needed however a mask must
[5:34:29]be worn for 10 days following your known exposure and we also recommend getting a test on day five after your exposure if you're not vaccinated or you are vaccinated with your Pfizer or modernist
[5:34:41]series over six months ago or with j j over two months ago and have not yet received your booster you should quarantine for five days following your
[5:34:51]last exposure after five days you should continue masking around others for an additional five days and you should also get a test at day five if it's not possible for you to
[5:35:02]quarantine it is really important that you do the right thing and wear a mask at all times around others for 10 days after your exposure here we also emphasize that you should get a test at
[5:35:14]day five and if at any point you develop symptoms of covid-19 during your quarantine period or your 10 days after exposure like fevers runny nose a cough headaches
[5:35:25]or body aches you should get a test and isolate until your test results return and of course then isolate if your test returns positive
[5:35:35]now with these updates to our isolation and quarantine recommendations I want to emphasize the critical importance of masking which we know decreases the risk of transmission as well as the
[5:35:47]importance of staying home when you're sick if you are sick or have symptoms it is best for you to stay home and to stay away from others as we continue to fight covid-19
[5:35:56]prevention is truly our best option this means for everyone five and older getting vaccinated and for those eligible it means getting your booster shot for everyone it means continuing to
[5:36:08]follow our multi-layer prevention measures including masking in public indoor settings in areas of substantial or high Community transmission washing your hands frequently and testing before
[5:36:19]Gathering when possible how well each of these prevention measures is implemented as well as adherence to isolation and quarantine recommendations will determine the Outlook in the coming
[5:36:30]weeks and months we at CDC are working to provide updated recommendations using science to ease the burden of lengthy isolation and quarantine recommendations
[5:36:40]however these recommendations will only work if people follow them as we look to the new year I am hopeful that we can come together and do what is in the best interest of our loved ones
[5:36:52]our friends and our communities so with that I say thank you Happy New Year and I will now turn things over to Dr fauci thank you very much Dr wolinski I'm
[5:37:02]going to concentrate my remarks predominantly on severity or not of this disease but before I do I just want to underscore something that we always talk
[5:37:12]about when we talk about severity and that is the issue of transmissibility and immune evasion so very briefly we know now incontrovertibly that this is a highly
[5:37:23]highly transmissible virus we know that from the numbers we're seeing but I think each individual person throughout this country is now seeing around them
[5:37:32]the high degree of transmissibility with regard to immune evasion very clearly now we have a number of tests looking at the effect of Omicron on the
[5:37:44]evasion of immunity from monoclonal antibodies as well as from vaccine-induced antibodies and clearly there is a degree of immune evasion particularly against infection and to
[5:37:55]some degree against hospitalization however importantly in the bottom line message here is that boosters bring back up that
[5:38:04]degree of protection to a level that is approximating what it was before so boosters are critical in getting our
[5:38:15]approach to Omicron to be optimal now let's focus on the severity of disease I'm going to review some preliminary observational clinical data as well as
[5:38:25]some selected initial laboratory data first the data from South Africa there have been a number of reports I'll
[5:38:35]report here one published yesterday from a large Hospital in the Suwannee South African District added to an earlier report that is very
[5:38:46]similar covid-19 Hospital admissions from the Omicron wave were compared to admissions from previous waves
[5:38:56]and here is the comparison and hospital deaths 4.5 versus 21.3
[5:39:04]ICU admissions one percent from Omicron 4.3 for others 45 percent of patients required supplemental oxygen with Omicron
[5:39:15]compared to 99 in a prior wave length of study four-day length of stay excuse me
[5:39:24]four days for Omicron 8.8 days for the second wave mean average age 39 years for Omicron 49
[5:39:35]years for previous waves the author's note in that study that the changing clinical presentation of sauce Kobe 2 is likely due to the
[5:39:46]predominantly high level of Prior infection and to some extent vaccination coverage since vaccine level is relatively low in the Republic of South Africa
[5:39:58]moving on to the United Kingdom in a study of the UK Health Security Agency technical briefing preliminary analysis was looked at from Days
[5:40:08]November the 22nd through December the 19th the risk of presentation to emergency care or Hospital admissions with Omicron
[5:40:18]was 60 percent of that of Delta the risk of hospitalization admission alone with Omicron was 40 percent of
[5:40:29]that for Delta these data were fortified by data from Scottish researchers that showed when analyzed data in the Scottish population from November 1 to
[5:40:40]December the 19th preliminary data suggest that Omicron is associated with a two-thirds reduction
[5:40:48]in the risk of covid-19 hospitalization another study from the UK Imperial College UK report in the hospitalization
[5:40:58]risk analysis of both clinical and laboratory data indicate an overall significant reduction in the risk of
[5:41:07]hospitalization for Omicron compared to Delta in the United States we are getting accumulation of data the spice in cases
[5:41:18]is out of proportion to the increase in hospitalization so if one looks at 14 day averages the data as of last night
[5:41:28]indicate a plus 126 percent increase in cases and an 11 increase in hospitalizations now we must remember
[5:41:40]that hospitalizations and deaths are lagging indicators however the pattern and disparity between cases and hospitalizations strongly suggests
[5:41:51]that there will be a lower hospitalization to case ratio when the situation becomes more clear just the word about children certainly more children are being infected with
[5:42:03]the highly transmissible virus and with that there naturally will be more hospitalizations in children it is noteworthy however that many
[5:42:12]children are hospitalized with covid as opposed to because of covid reflecting the high degree of penetrance of
[5:42:21]infection among the Pediatric population to find a conclusion about the level of severity in children remains to be
[5:42:30]determined and finally some in vitro and animal data which addressed the issue of whether or not there is inherent lowering of virulence of the virus
[5:42:42]in a study from Hong Kong it was shown that although Omicron replicates faster than Delta in the bronchus there's less
[5:42:51]efficient replication in the lung hamster models from the University of Tokyo showed that Omicron poorly infects and spreads in the lung
[5:43:02]and is less pathogenic compared to Delta in a hamster model Belgian researches in Syrian hamsters see the same thing
[5:43:13]nih-funded studies that are ongoing right now in both Mouse and hamsters confirmed the less of virulence in the animal model and studies here at the vaccine
[5:43:22]Research Center at NIH in the non-human primate model are ongoing and will await results of that so in conclusion
[5:43:32]the data are encouraging but instill in many respects preliminary yet they are getting stronger and stronger as additional data are accumulated
[5:43:43]and it is still unclear how these data will translate to other demographically diverse populations in the United States and elsewhere throughout the world but having said this
[5:43:54]all indications point to a lesser severity of Omicron versus delta it is difficult to determine what degree of lesson severity is due to
[5:44:04]pre-existing immunity or the intrinsically lower virulence of Omicron as suggested by the animal studies or a combination of both
[5:44:15]increased transmissibility of Omicron resulting in an extremely high volume of cases May override some of the impact of the lower disease severity
[5:44:26]and so we should not become complacent since our hospital system could still be stressed in certain areas of the country and so to repeat what we say so often it
[5:44:37]deserves re-emphasis the risk of severe disease from any circulating variant including Omicron is much much higher for the unvaccinated
[5:44:49]and so adults and children who are eligible get vaccinated and vaccinated people get boosted when eligible back to you Jeff
[5:45:00]okay well thank you doctors and let's uh open it up for some questions over to you Kevin and as we continue to listen in to the White House covid-19 response team
[5:45:12]briefing they've been talking about the rise of cases but also some good news out of that some of the guidelines because of the more mild cases that they've seen with this new variant they
[5:45:23]have started to downgrade to some of those quarantine times especially for those who are vaccinated and those who even have their boosters so we will continue to listen into this update
[5:45:33]right here on live now from Fox after some of you go out to a two-minute break the uh infections that we're seeing now
[5:45:43]are accounted for by people uh our breakthrough infections basically So What proportion of the cases we're seeing now are breakthroughs same for
[5:45:55]hospitalizations What proportion are breakthroughs and for Dr fauci do you think that we're going to need a a fourth shot
[5:46:06]another shot just to keep um something like Omicron or whatever might be coming next at Bay okay so Dr Valentina and Dr belchi yeah thank you
[5:46:17]Ricardo for that question what I can tell you is that um compared to people who are on um who are boosted if you are unvaccinated you are 10 times more
[5:46:29]likely to be a case and 20 times more likely to be a fatality compared to people who are unvaccinated York 17 times more likely to be in the hospital
[5:46:39]so our vaccines are working really well to prevent severe disease and hospitalization and death they're actually also working quite well to prevent cases all we although we do know
[5:46:50]more breakthrough cases are happening in the context of Omicron Dr fauci yes thank you for that question Ricardo before we start talking about a
[5:47:00]fourth shot it would be very important for us to determine the durability of protection particularly against severe disease for the third shot booster of an
[5:47:10]mRNA and the second shot of A J and J right now we don't have that information it is conceivable that in the future we might need an additional shot but right
[5:47:21]now we are hoping that we will get a greater degree of durability of protection from that booster shot so we're going to take one step at a time get the data from the third boost and
[5:47:32]then make decisions based on the scientific data next question go to Lori Garrett year and a half roughly we've seen a
[5:47:50]steady escalation in a tax directed personally against Dr fauci and generally against public health leadership including death threats and this has escalated to the point where we
[5:48:01]now have actually had uh Jesse Waters call upon his followers in Fox News land to quote Ambush Tony and his family and
[5:48:12]to quote take the kill shot and then this was backed up by Steve Bannon we've had Laura and Logan say to her followers that Tony is Joseph Mengele and should
[5:48:23]be handled accordingly and so on and all over the country Public Health leaders are getting death threats they're getting threats against their families and we have not heard a peep from the
[5:48:34]president from the White House from members of Congress on the Democrat side in the defense of these individuals or nor have we heard anything about the department of Justice issuing
[5:48:45]indictments is it now legal to yell on in public that people should kill and Ambush federal health officials well we've talked about disinformation
[5:48:59]in these types of threats um as being completely and utterly unacceptable the president's been very clear about how much of an impact this
[5:49:10]type of misinformation is having on the country so all I can say is that Dr fauci is an extraordinary public servant
[5:49:19]as our the whole team of Public Health Care Professionals in the federal government across state and local governments they're doing their jobs and this this type of disinformation and
[5:49:30]these types of threats are completely and utterly unacceptable foreign let's go to Sabrina Siddiqui at the Wall Street Journal people who are unvaccinated and those
[5:49:47]who are vaccinated but when you're looking at the vaccinated and boosted population is it still your goal to minimize covid cases across the country or at this point is it more about
[5:49:59]preventing further disruptions and learning how to live with the virus so it'd be helpful if you can just kind of articulate where we are at the stage of the pandemic with respect to transmissibility and the expectation
[5:50:10]that many more people even those who are vaccinated and boosted will likely be infected with Omicron Dr fauci you want to go first here yeah I mean obviously as we get further
[5:50:21]and further uh in the experience with Omicron and perhaps even variants that might come after that it's very very clear for example with Omicron
[5:50:31]if you have a larger number of infections and as the data that I presented here indicate that there is looks like a significant lessening of
[5:50:42]severity compared to others it becomes much more relevant as to what the seriousness of the impact on society is
[5:50:50]we're never going to stop counting tests but we're looking forward as I think everyone feels is appropriate that
[5:51:01]ultimately when we're going to have to quote live with something that will not be eradicated and very likely would not be eliminated but can actually be at such a lower
[5:51:11]level of control namely a control that does not disrupt Society does not disrupt the economy that it will be much more relevant as to what the level of
[5:51:22]seriousness of impact is as opposed to infection which might turn out to be milder so we very well may see a transition in that direction as the
[5:51:33]months go by next question let's go to Cheyenne haslit at ABC News hi thank you for taking my question
[5:51:45]um can you guys hear me all right yes okay great I wonder um the FDA put out a confusing statement about rapid tests last night and I was hoping to get some clarity the statement said they're less
[5:51:55]sensitive detecting Omicron but they still work can you clarify it exactly what phase people can actually trust rapid tests when they should be using them and can
[5:52:06]you give an accurate number or can you give a number for how accurate they are up against Omicron and and lastly Jeff if you have new numbers on what percentage of eligible people are
[5:52:18]boosted I think you gave some about two weeks ago that'll be helpful thank you good so I'll go uh first on the FDA test
[5:52:28]and Dr fauci if you want to add anything you know the FDA clearly recommends the use of authorized at-home tests they are a critical tool
[5:52:38]in our efforts to stop the spread of proven 19 is um Dr malinski expanded on uh earlier with her guidance and yesterday's release from the FDA was to
[5:52:48]keep the public aware of their ongoing work to evaluate the FDA authorized test level of sensitivity specifically to Omicron
[5:53:00]um but it's clear that they are recommending their continued use uh has been has been known for a while and it was stated in their release PCR tests are more sensitive than antigen tests
[5:53:11]but I want to again emphasize that both are critical tools to stop the spread of covet 19. Dr palsy uh anything to or Dr winsky anything to add or subtract them
[5:53:21]well I think you said it very well uh Jeff uh when you're dealing with an antigen test everyone knows from the beginning that it is not by the nature
[5:53:32]of the technical aspect of the test as sensitive as a PCR so it isn't a hundred percent sensitive and not like a PCR but it has a considerable degree of
[5:53:43]usefulness in a number of different circumstances some of which Dr wolensky has already mentioned in her remarks what the FDA was saying that when they
[5:53:54]were looking at the sensitivity with regard to Omicron in some of the tests there appears to be somewhat of a diminution not a
[5:54:03]disappearance but a diminution of the sensitivity the fact that the sensitivity is diminished somewhat does not obviate the importance of the still
[5:54:13]advantage and usefulness of these tests on the different circumstances that was the message of the FDA they wanted to make sure they were totally transparent in saying the sensitivity might come
[5:54:24]down a bit but they did emphasize there still is an important use of these tests and Jeff if I might add to that another important use is where we use them for
[5:54:36]serial testing in places like test to stay to keep children in school in higher ed to keep our college campuses
[5:54:45]safe so lots of uh important uses in addition to the one I outlined and if you're using them serially um we are able to easily um give up a
[5:54:55]little bit in terms of sensitivity and your question on boosting I think importantly uh we're continuing to boost
[5:55:04]about a million people a day which is a good Pace obviously the more people will get boosted the more people who get the highest level of protection uh the data
[5:55:16]I do have off the top of my head is we're nearing two out of three seniors those 65 and older who those who are most vulnerable of the eligible seniors
[5:55:25]about uh two out of three are now boosted and I'll follow up or Kevin will follow up and get you the overall percent of those eligible what percent
[5:55:36]have now received booster shops foreign let's go to Joe lockenbach at Washington
[5:55:46]Post Joel
[5:56:02]Evan we're not hearing anything on this end yes let's uh let's go ahead and go to Jeremy Diamond CNN hey there thanks for uh doing this
[5:56:16]briefing um uh on the 500 million test can you outline specific progress that you've made in getting those 500 million antigen tests rolled out next month uh do you have a launch date for the
[5:56:26]website and for the arrival of those first shipments and is there anything that you're doing to ramp up PCR capacity uh as well and then secondly to Dr wolensky on the quarantine guidance
[5:56:37]you know this is the first time that we've seen you distinguish between people who are unvaccinated and those who are fully vaccinated eligible for booster but have not gotten it yet so should those people who are more than
[5:56:48]six months from their second mRNA dose or two months from J J no longer consider themselves to be fully vaccinated thanks foreign testing and the half billion test bought
[5:57:03]by the US government to be distributed for free the Department of Defense and HHS are executing on an accelerated Contracting timeline companies are already submitting information and we
[5:57:14]expect the contract to be completed late next week that means that the first deliveries from manufacturers will start January we'll set up a Free and Easy System including a new website to get
[5:57:26]these tests out to Americans we're actively working to finalize that distribution mechanism which includes a website where people will be able to order tests for free and we'll share
[5:57:37]more details in the weeks ahead days and weeks ahead we're able to do this now because of all the steps we've taken to increase testing supply and
[5:57:46]Manufacturing capacity we have also taken steps on the PCR front to answer your question there you know there are tests available
[5:57:56]at many websites local pharmacies obviously demand is stronger in certain areas even higher and in those areas we're supplementing as you know with
[5:58:08]federally run testing sites that we've set up in New York City as I mentioned we're doing the same in Philadelphia New Jersey and Washington DC and we're continuing to work with states to add
[5:58:19]those federally run testing sites where needed but tests are available online and in many local pharmacies the rapid hook at home test uh over to you Dr
[5:58:29]wilinski yeah thank you Jeff and thank you Jeremy for that question so our CDC guidance has been very clear that people should get their boost when they are eligible that is both for because of
[5:58:40]waning immunity and because we need more protection against Omicron with regard to your question specifically about people who have received two doses of their mRNA or perhaps just one dose of A
[5:58:52]J and J vaccine who are eligible for a boost but haven't yet gotten it we do know that they do have some protection about against severe disease and death but that they do have quite a bit of
[5:59:03]waning with regard to protection against infection and since these are guidelines for quarantine we really wanted to have those um measures in place since they have had quite a bit of waning protection against
[5:59:15]infection next question all right we have time for a few more questions Let's uh go to osma college at
[5:59:24]NPR hi there thank you guys for doing this um two quick questions um Dr cauci I know that you have said that you don't think people should
[5:59:36]expect any requirement in domestic flight travels any domestic travel mandate um there have been and sure as you all know a number of Public Health experts who have been suggesting that would be a
[5:59:46]good move so could you explain the science in saying you do not think that should be on the table anytime soon and then for Dr Valencia you were on CNN this morning um speaking to sort of risk tolerance
[5:59:58]around the changing quarantine guidelines and the idea that behaviorally also folks were not necessarily going to be under mild symptoms mild symptoms I'm sorry willing
[6:00:09]to quarantine for up to 10 days can you expound on that for me a little bit um you know I know that there's been some pushbacks from from people thinking that there are other guidelines that have been difficult for
[6:00:20]people to tolerate um you know kind of case in point as the mother of a toddler keeping a mask on a toddler is one that I think many parents of young children would say is very difficult from Behavioral Science perspective as well
[6:00:31]so um with regard to the the issue of traveling let me make sure we we continue to clarify what I've been trying to do uh I had said and I and
[6:00:41]I'll I'll say it again that we uh when we talk about keeping America safe and keeping our citizens safe everything that is an intervention is
[6:00:52]always on the table and always discussed and we discuss it regularly uh on a really on a daily and a weekly basis the
[6:01:01]difference between requiring uh vaccination before you get on a plane to come from out of the country into the United States is for the obvious reason of keeping infection
[6:01:13]particularly new variants out of the country when you're dealing with domestic flights you want to keep people safe on
[6:01:22]domestic flights and as I said right now we feel that the masking requirement and the degree of filtration on a plane is
[6:01:33]sufficient to keep people safe however as is very clearly the case for domestic Travelers as I mentioned we want to keep them safe but we believe that the
[6:01:44]requirement achieves that goal if there's a need to do more Beyond this masking namely having a vaccine issue we
[6:01:56]will seriously consider that as new information arises so it's just keeping an open mind that the situation may change but at this particular time we do
[6:02:07]not feel that is necessary to make that a requirement for domestic flights yeah thank you Jeff um osma thanks for
[6:02:18]this question I think you're referring to um my discussion with regard to isolation rather than quarantine and what we really do know is that the vast majority of your transmissible time is
[6:02:29]in those first five days up to 85 90 of all of your transmission is happening in those first five days those two days before you have symptoms in the two to three days after so we think it's most
[6:02:41]important to make sure that people are isolating during that period of time and then any of that lingering small amount of transmission afterwards would be prevented by masking
[6:02:52]it just wouldn't follow up from a previous question on boosters I did track down the data um so as I said nearly two out of three eligible seniors
[6:03:01]those ages 65 and older have now been boosted and for 18 and over so the the population 18 and over 45 about 45
[6:03:13]uh have now received a booster of the eligible but you know those numbers have gone up a lot uh doing about a million a day but does the
[6:03:23]doctors continually emphasize everybody who's eligible should go get boosted as soon as possible next question all right we're going to
[6:03:33]do two more questions uh Nate wexel the hill hi thanks uh just a question on the
[6:03:41]isolation quarantine guidance uh why was there no distinction between vaccinated and unvaccinated with regards to the five days I mean is there evidence that
[6:03:52]the the virus is is going to be less contagious after five days no matter what your vaccination status is yeah thank you for sorry thank you for
[6:04:04]that question Nate um the you know obviously vaccination and boosting is going to prevent you from getting virus to begin with but if you happen to be one of those
[6:04:14]breakthrough infections we have seen data that you at least for um other variants that you peek at around the same place if you happen to be a breakthrough then you were then you
[6:04:24]would if you are unvaccinated you may have a slightly steeper rate of decline than if you were unvaccinated but in fact um most of that is still happening in
[6:04:35]the first five days and therefore we didn't feel like we had enough granularity to distinguish between the two next question
[6:04:45]last question let's go to Evan Lambert at news Nation now thanks for taking my questions I have two uh so I'm still a little bit unclear
[6:04:56]on why isolation guidelines don't include suggesting a negative antigen test if people can get one why shouldn't they check to make sure they aren't infectious before they leave isolation and then the second one I guess maybe
[6:05:08]for Dr fauci can we get a clear recommendation should Americans cancel their New Year's Eve plans thank you Dr
[6:05:15]wilinski yeah so um the we do know that certainly a PCR you can stay positive in your PCR for a long period of time but with regard to the question of your
[6:05:26]antigen is we do not know how well those antigen tests perform at day five in detecting transmissibility and is for that reason that we would say even if
[6:05:37]you had a negative test we would want you to mask and even if you had a positive test we would also want you to mask and therefore given that these these antigen tests are not authorized
[6:05:48]for use in this way we did not recommend them at that time Dr faucinia's youth yes uh thank you very much for that question
[6:05:58]so similar to what I said uh for the Christmas holiday it goes true here if you were in a situation with a family
[6:06:06]setting in your home with family parents children grandparents and everyone is vaccinated and boosted
[6:06:17]although the risk is never zero in anything the risk is low enough that we feel you should continue to go through with those plans
[6:06:25]of having a home related vaccinated boosted gathering with family and close friends who are also vaccinated and
[6:06:36]boosted so what really depends on what your plans are you said should you change or cancel your plans if your plans ought to go to a 40 to 50 person
[6:06:48]New Year's Eve party with all the bells and whistles and everybody hugging and kissing and wishing each other a Happy New Year I would strongly recommend that
[6:06:57]this year we do not do that foreign thank you everybody um thanks for joining I wish everybody
[6:07:09]a safe and happy New Year and we'll look forward to next week's return to our normal style briefings thank you and with that again things wrapping up
[6:07:19]with that White House briefing looking a little bit different today as you saw they did an audio only briefing but still happy we were able to bring it to you as long as well as some of these
[6:07:30]pictures coming to us out of Houston I know our photographer zoomed in a bit it's a little unfocused but they have had quite the lines that have been waiting to be tested at some of their
[6:07:41]Mega sites that have reopened in this city so we did talk with one of our Fox 26 reporters earlier here this morning she was saying that they've been seeing many people lining up to get that
[6:07:53]covid-19 test here's that live look down in Houston again and she said there's a lot of folks who have even been waiting so long in lines if they waited to come a little bit later in the day that they
[6:08:04]had their cars that stalled out during their wait so it definitely is something we've been seeing across the country a
[6:08:14]lot of different drive-through stations that have been set up for testing for covid-19 have had lines out the door so speaking of that too we heard
[6:08:24]our team touch on it but child cases have continued to also climb more children Across the Nation are hospitalized because of the spread of
[6:08:35]the new Omicron variant now Across the Nation there are roughly 260 pediatric hospitalizations a day that's a 30 increase from just last week Nationwide
[6:08:47]23 percent of children are vaccinated and according to health officials pediatric cases in New York City rope Rose five times since the beginning of
[6:08:58]the month most were unvaccinated and health officials do insist on increasing children vaccinations to help prevent the rising of this spread so this is a top story we've been following here for
[6:09:09]you on live now from Fox will continue to do so out of Houston we are expecting to hear once again from some of those leaders not only do we have uh congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee who's
[6:09:20]going to be speaking about covid-19 vaccinations but later this afternoon Union we do also have mayor Sylvester Turner who will be also speaking you can see the sign they're getting set up for
[6:09:31]that event it is set to take place here in about 20 minutes but it won't be the only event that we're going to be jumping out to here on live now from Fox a while coronavirus is a concern for
[6:09:42]heading into this holiday weekend there's also a concern for Crime when it comes to the city of Chicago I do see we do have some of our officials stepping up just beginning a press briefing
[6:09:52]talking about safety going into the new year especially as people are getting together for the holidays once again we'll be jumping into this press conference live with our viewers after this two minute break
[6:10:03]foreign can be viewed along the Chicago River from Wolf point near the Franklin and Orleans Street bridge to Columbus Drive and East to Navy Pier
[6:10:13]fireworks will also be broadcast live on WGN TV for safety precautions viewing will not be allowed from the Chicago Riverwalk oemc is urging pedestrians motorists
[6:10:24]Spectators and residents to be aware of closures and the central business district during this event at 4 pm the Chicago Riverwalk will close east of State Street to all pedestrian
[6:10:34]traffic the remainder of the Riverwalk west of State Street will be closed based on public safety and operational needs beginning at 11 PM complete closures to all vehicular and pedestrian
[6:10:46]traffic will go into effect for the following Bridges Franklin and Orleans LaSalle Street Clark Street Dearborn Street and State Street also at 11 PM
[6:10:57]eastbound upper middle and Lower Wacker Drive will be closed the vehicular traffic from Lake Street to Stetson Avenue we anticipate all streets and bridges to reopen to vehicular traffic
[6:11:09]approximately 10 minutes after the firework display or when deemed safe to do so around 12 30 a.m on Saturday January 1st
[6:11:18]safety measures will also be in place on the river boats will not be allowed to Transit with within the U.S Coast Guard safety zone which includes the area west of the Franklin Street bridge and
[6:11:29]continuing east of the Columbus Drive Bridge traffic controllers will be on hand as always public transportation is strongly encouraged for official information and
[6:11:39]impacts on CTA service and routes in the area visit CTA website at Transit Chicago dash dot I'm sorry.com
[6:11:49]CTA will once again provide free Bus and Rail rides beginning at 10 pm on Friday December 31st until 4 a.m and Saturday January 1st
[6:12:00]oemc will continue to monitor all city-wide events activities traffic and weather conditions from the operations center our 911 floor and coordinate Public Safety resources as needed with
[6:12:11]the Chicago Police Department Chicago Fire Department and infrastructure departments while we make every effort on behalf of the city to keep residents and visitors safe we want everyone to know that they have a role to play as
[6:12:23]well the public is encouraged to be aware of their surroundings and report suspicious activity posing an immediate Threat by calling 9-1-1 if you see something say something by notifying on-site security
[6:12:34]or call 9-1-1 stay informed of emergencies oemc issues several alert notifications to receive notified Chicago texts and email alerts residents can subscribe and
[6:12:46]notifychicago.org or visit chicago.gov oemc I want to wish everyone a safe healthy and happy New Year now
[6:12:55]please welcome mayor Larry Lightfoot here for uh
[6:13:06]for this important discussion around plans for by the end of the year uh both from a public safety but also from a public health perspective
[6:13:16]as New Year's Eve rapidly approaches I know that safety and health are top of mind for all of our residents that's why we've gathered here today to not only share our comprehensive plan to protect
[6:13:28]your well-being during one of the busiest holidays of the year but also to bring into New Year safely from a public health and Public Safety perspective and Home and Community safety perspectives
[6:13:39]as well we put together a number of precautions in place and each leader that's gathered here today will us speak to the specific plans for which they're responsible but
[6:13:48]rest assured planning for New Year's Eve starts weeks out we have a comprehensive plan that we all have confidence in but it really depends upon each of you doing your part as well
[6:14:00]in the meantime I want to especially highlight a few uh issues starting first with public health I don't need to remind any of you that we're still in the throes of this pandemic and are
[6:14:11]grappling with the spread of the new Omicron variant which is more transmissible as we're seeing than its counterparts we are still seeing cases rise meaning that we need to be careful
[6:14:21]in Social Gatherings if you're planning on ringing in the new year with loved ones in an indoor setting not only is it vital to be vaccinated and boosted but
[6:14:31]also to know your own covid-19 status that's why as Dr already will explain in more detail shortly we are recommending to everyone even those who are
[6:14:41]vaccinated to consider getting a covid-19 test before Gathering indoors with a large group and encouraging anybody who's participating with you to
[6:14:52]do exactly the same I know a number of folks have started doing this for weeks but it's a good practice to get in the habit of doing particularly around New Year's Eve and New Year's Day festivities
[6:15:03]tests can help protect unvaccinated children older individuals those who are immunocompromised are individuals at risk of severe disease as well as
[6:15:14]further prevent the spread of covid-19 through households and venues across Chicago Community spread is the biggest challenge that we are facing right now
[6:15:24]and we've got tools at our disposal to make sure that we can address that starting with getting yourself vaccinated speaking of venues I also remind want to
[6:15:36]remind folks that the mass mandate for Chicago remains in effect meaning that a mask is required at all public indoor settings across the city no exceptions
[6:15:47]many venues will also require proof of vaccinations or a negative covet test for entry and as we all now know starting Monday January 3rd any
[6:15:57]individual age five or older in the city of Chicago will be required to show proof of full vaccination to dine indoors visit gyms or enjoy
[6:16:07]entertainment venues where food and drinks are served we are thankful to the establishments that have chosen to implement this vaccination requirement ahead of schedule and many have so
[6:16:19]please folks if you haven't already make that appointment to get vaccinated or help one of your unvaccinated loved ones uh make theirs that's the best New Year's resolution that you can do and
[6:16:31]embrace so get your go get your booster shot and get a covid-19 test before you participate in any indoor festivities second we are working to prevent General
[6:16:41]disturbances and violent crime always every day 24 7. and it with regard to New Year's Eve the Chicago Police Department and partners across the city
[6:16:52]are prepared for large crowds throughout the evening of Friday December 31st New Year's Eve and well into the weekend the superintendent Brown will speak to those
[6:17:01]issues and those plans momentarily many people will be out about downtown including children and we want our children to be able to enjoy the richness and greatness of the city and
[6:17:13]they are of course welcome anywhere but they should be accompanied by an adult and supervised and if they're coming on their own is vitally important that they must be respectful to others
[6:17:24]we have Community norms and we expect those to be upheld particularly with our young people regardless parents are Guardians make sure that you know where your kids are
[6:17:34]on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day Of course that should be a thing but it's worth lifting up no child should be unsupervised or I know their whereabouts unknown when it comes to New Year's Eve
[6:17:46]or New Year's Day and do not simply drop them off downtown and hope for the best that is simply not responsible and I say this as a parent
[6:17:55]we all have a responsibility as parents or guardians or somebody who's a caretaker for a young person to be responsible for the children that are trusted in our care
[6:18:07]and a word to our young people and older adults and I will say the same thing that you I say to my child it's okay to have fun but there are always limits particularly when you're
[6:18:17]out in public you must must be respectful of others that means their people their person but also their property and simply put if
[6:18:29]you're going to come downtown you've got to do so with the right Spirit to have fun but not to cause Mischief or Worse commit crimes and as my mother would tell me if you go out in public and you
[6:18:40]act a fool there's going to be accountability so have fun enjoy yourselves be careful but be respectful of the rights of others including the person and their
[6:18:52]property and as I've said previously many people will be out and about this weekend making our mission to protect Public Safety all the more important and pertinent we want people to enjoy the
[6:19:02]holiday without having to worry about whether or not they are going to be In Harm's Way that's why we're not going to hesitate to take any action necessary against someone who crosses the line and
[6:19:14]commits a crime that endangers Public Safety and as director guidas mentioned we must be safe and Vigilant especially in crowds like the ones that will likely
[6:19:23]form across around the Riverwalk uh during the fireworks show so please if you see something don't hesitate to say something I report any suspicious
[6:19:34]activity to 9-1-1 there will be also plenty of police downtown so if you need to go to a police officer and let them know that you're seeing something right then and right there and they will take
[6:19:46]action finally when it comes to Home and Community safety we plan on doing everything that we can to keep people safe under their own roof but again that depends upon you
[6:19:57]as many of you know we've had some horrible fires lately so first uh Deputy fire commissioner Mary Sheridan will talk about general safety uh in our homes and what you can do to make sure
[6:20:09]your home is protected not only over this weekend but throughout the course of the winter so we're calling on everyone to limit large household Gatherings and do not ring in the New
[6:20:20]Year by firing off a firearm let me say that again don't ring in the New Year by firing off a firearm bullets go up but they also come down and every single
[6:20:31]year when someone makes that tragic stupid mistake injuries happen so please folks there's lots of ways that you can celebrate safety but firing off the
[6:20:41]firearm at midnight shouldn't be one of them as we go into 2022 covet is reminding us again that we have to think not only about ourselves but our entire
[6:20:51]community and city after all what each of us does contributes to the overall protection and safety of everyone in every Community I know this year has
[6:21:02]been very difficult and truthfully the last two years have been extraordinarily difficult people are fatigued people are frustrated people are angry but now is
[6:21:13]the time for us to take stock to refresh ourselves and renew and move forward into the next year with a new commitment to do our part to make sure that we protect ourselves we protect our
[6:21:24]families we protect our community be smart about Public Safety but also be smart about public health that's the way that we can start to put the pandemic behind us
[6:21:36]doing the right thing by protecting ourselves and others so that we may all safely ring in the New Year and with that I'll invite superintendent Brown to
[6:21:46]come to the podium thank you mayor and good morning
[6:21:57]um and thank you to Richard guidas for hosting us here at OMC I'm glad to be standing here beside many of our city and Public Safety Partners to discuss our plans for this upcoming weekend
[6:22:08]it's no secret that this holiday is a busy busy time for the Chicago Police Department but as many toast the new year with family and friends the men and women of
[6:22:19]the Chicago Police Department will be working to keep everyone safe I want to first thank all the police officers for the Chicago Police Department for their dedication and to include our civilian members for their
[6:22:31]dedication to keeping everyone safe we've extended our officers hours we've canceled days off in order to maintain a visible presence
[6:22:42]and have the capacity to deal with multiple challenges in our neighborhoods in our entertainment venues and in our retail corridors while we encourage everyone to have fun
[6:22:53]as the mayor has mentioned and to celebrate if there is any criminal activity
[6:23:01]we will take the appropriate action constitutionally legally respectfully
[6:23:09]but we will take the appropriate action safety Public Safety is our top priority
[6:23:18]and criminal conduct will not be tolerated let me say that one more time Public Safety is our priority but criminal conduct
[6:23:29]will not be tolerated we want to deter any trouble before it happens additionally residents can expect to see
[6:23:39]an increased CPD presidents in our public transit system as well we will have officers in and around CTA stations and help every Rider get to and
[6:23:51]from their destination as safely as possible I want to remind everyone watching that as as neighbors we owe it to one another to make sure we are doing everything we
[6:24:01]can to celebrate safely and responsibly with that said I am now speaking directly to the parents of young children I'm a parent of a 15 year old
[6:24:12]please please make sure you know where your children are and where they're headed this holiday Do not drop them off
[6:24:23]unsupervised anywhere in our city I want to be clear if they or anyone of any age are found engaged in criminal conduct
[6:24:33]they will be arrested repeat that one more time if your children your young people or any age
[6:24:44]are found to be engaged in criminal conduct they will be arrested but my daughter asked me repeatedly she's 15 year old can I just go hang out with my friends
[6:24:55]and it's it is a constant refrain for teenagers I'm sure across the city but it is not responsible to send your kids out to hang out with
[6:25:06]their friends without supervision let me share my response okay where are we going where are we going because I'm going to
[6:25:16]or my wife is going too with your friends to go hang out and I hope that each of the parents listening can share that same refrain you want to go hang out with your friends
[6:25:28]we're going to hang out with with your friends as well the parents lastly do not do not shoot guns off into the air to make uh to bring in a
[6:25:39]new year what goes up the law of gravity tells us must come down in many instances people are not even aiming in the air they're aiming at an
[6:25:51]angle that will the trajectory will strike someone across the city so do not shoot guns off in celebration of New Year's
[6:26:01]a safe and Happy New Year's Eve for everyone is our shared goal so we're reminding everyone to think and act responsibly
[6:26:11]we all want to be uh safe this this weekend and we share that aspiration for every Chicago one and there's no reason it can't be if we
[6:26:21]all all of us not just law enforcement all of us do our part with that I'm going to turn it over to chief of Patrol Brian McDermott to share further details into our
[6:26:32]weekend planning thank you right thank you superintendent
[6:26:43]we continue to listen in with some of our Chicago leaders as they give us safety reminders heading into the holiday weekend some of you are going to be seeing a two-minute break be right back here listening into this update
[6:26:54]when you return Friday morning December 31st with a return to normal operations on Sunday morning January 2nd we will have additional Personnel
[6:27:06]strategically deployed across the city in our valve zones on all platforms at our retail corridors and in the central business district on North Michigan Avenue and in and around Millennium Park area
[6:27:17]the Emergency Operations Center or EOC is up and running CPD Command Staff members will work side by side our partners at the office of emergency management Communications to monitor all major incidents across the
[6:27:28]city there are multiple fireworks displays at Navy Pier at the Riverwalk and on five Bridges at Franklin Street LaSalle Dearborn Clark and State Street
[6:27:39]RDO Personnel from the first and the 18th districts from the Bureau of detectives from the critical critical incident response team from training and support group Public Safety headquarters
[6:27:50]will be assigned to assist with traffic control and any potential large crowds the department has a comprehensive plan in place to deal with any large Gathering whether it occurs in a neighborhood or an essential business
[6:28:01]district the plan includes coordination with multiple City agencies including bacp the building department and the Chicago Fire Department we have communicated and
[6:28:12]coordinated with Chambers of Commerce and hotel associations we have coordinated industry from the central business district and
[6:28:24]the neighborhoods to respond to any large crowds the department is also prepared to deal with any large gathering at Millennium Park we will protect the First Amendment rights and provide for the safety of
[6:28:35]everybody but as a superintendent said anyone coming down to the central business district or anywhere else in the city to engage in Acts of disorder or criminal activity will be arrested we strongly encourage all youths coming
[6:28:46]down to the downtown area to be supervised by a responsible adult the department continues to monitor all city-wide Smash and grab incidents and remains ready to implement its asset infrastructure protection plan or our
[6:28:58]retail order protection plan at any time finally the department continues to test our emergency response plans in coordination with oemc by conducting regular emergency mobilization drills
[6:29:09]the latest of which were conducted yesterday afternoon and late last night lastly I would like to thank every member of this department who continues to place their lives in a line every day to protect the citizens of the city
[6:29:21]happy holidays foreign
[6:29:41]hi I'm Mary Sheridan first Deputy the fire department uh representing commissioner Nance Holt she was unable to come today um I want to speak a few things about winter safety and then I just want to
[6:29:52]Echo everyone else's message about safely celebrating the holidays space heaters are a problem please don't leave space heaters unattended and
[6:30:03]please do not plug space heaters into extension cords please do not use grills the stove or gas heaters to heat your homes because
[6:30:14]they produce carbon monoxide please check the batteries in your smoke detector as we continue to listen in here Chicago officials going into some other safety reminders as we head into
[6:30:25]yet another bout of cold for those who are in the Illinois and Chicago area it has definitely been spreading across the Midwest I know I was talking with just
[6:30:36]some of my in-laws who were in Minnesota they had that minus a 20 20 below zero temperatures on their gauges here this
[6:30:46]morning so it is a lot of great safety reminders but they were focused a lot on New Year's Eve especially when it comes to the crime surge that they've been seeing as well as the coronavirus
[6:30:57]warnings that we've been hearing not only from some of our leaders in Chicago but Health industry leaders across the country earlier here this morning Dr fauci was asked can you just give it to
[6:31:08]us directly should we be getting together with some of our family members our friends for this New Year's Eve holiday and he did say of course you have to do so say safely try not to go out into those big public settings
[6:31:20]especially when it comes to you don't know the vaccination status of some of those people you may be around so a lot of warnings coming out this at a time when again we've been seeing just some of these videos here's just some from
[6:31:32]earlier here today when we had our crews out at a Houston coveted testing site and I do want to let our viewers know that the United States has once again
[6:31:41]hit a new record when it comes to the spread of Omicron variant it's going across the country new covid-19 cases reaching record levels U.S record for
[6:31:52]daily coronavirus cases are now over 258 000 over the past seven days so let me just say that again for our viewers who might not have been paying attention we
[6:32:04]have now hit a new record of over 258 000 over the past seven days this is surpassing the previous peak of about 252 000 average daily cases set back in
[6:32:15]January of earlier this year now this is a again a fast spreading variant it is estimated to make up more than 58 of our covid-19 cases circulating in the
[6:32:27]country U.S health officials are urging Americans to get vaccinated get the boosters to help you fight this virus Dr Anthony fauci again he is the President's chief medical advisor he's
[6:32:38]encouraging people to avoid those large New Year's Eve Gatherings this week especially as we've seen cases continue to go up because of holiday celebrations I do want to let our viewers know we
[6:32:49]have been keeping an eye on Houston because not only have they reopened some of these Mega testing sites but also because we were waiting for an event and later today we will be hearing from
[6:32:59]mayor Sylvester Turner but right now we do also have as you can see as I changed the shot for you uh Sheila Jackson Lee she's going to be speaking about covid-19 vaccines especially when it
[6:33:11]comes to the younger children and that's because we have seen this new variant spreading into more cases for children so more children Across the Nation have
[6:33:22]been hospitalized due to the spread of the Omicron variant Across the Nation there are roughly 260 pediatric hospitalizations a day that's a 30
[6:33:32]percent increase from just last week Nationwide 23 percent of children are vaccinated and according to health officials pediatric cases in New York
[6:33:43]City Rose five times since the beginning of the month most were unvaccinated so of course they're continuing to spread the message that if your kids are in
[6:33:52]that range that has now been opened to a vaccinations that 5 to 11 range they are encouraging you to do so so here's an event that we're waiting on of course live now is always tracking all these
[6:34:04]different Live Events happening across the country but this one is going to be talking about keeping your family safe not only through the rest of this holiday season but a lot of students out
[6:34:15]of school during this time so we do have congresswoman as you can see here's Sheila Jackson Lee she's going to be speaking about getting your children
[6:34:25]vaccinated but we do actually have another interview I'm going to play while we wait here of the latest on Omicron our Fox 11 team talks with a
[6:34:34]pediatrician here's more on that of covid-19 cases all because of the more contagious Omicron variant pediatrician Dr Lauren Crosby joins us
[6:34:45]now Dr Crosby thank you so much I'm just going to get right to it and ask you I mean given the cancellations that we're seeing how this is impacting covet is impacting uh the theaters so many social
[6:34:56]events and sporting events how do we stay ahead of this can we get ahead of this at this point you know I think it's going to be hard and as you mentioned earlier this this
[6:35:08]armor converiant is 70 times more transmissible faster than previous strains so I think though the keys are still the basics you know we have to remember we're still in a better place
[6:35:18]now than we were a year ago because we do have vaccines and we do have other treatments available and a better understanding of how to care for people hospitalized with it so we do need to
[6:35:28]make sure people who are eligible get vaccinated and get boosted and yes people are saying oh but we still get it anyway yes but you're not the ones who are in the hospital still the people
[6:35:38]almost everyone hospitalized are people who are not vaccinated of course there are some who have other underlying conditions that make them more vulnerable but we don't want to overwhelm this Health Care system so we
[6:35:50]do need to be careful we need to wear our masks and we need to not Gather in big groups right now and you need to make sure we're vaccinated one of the impacted groups right now uh kids
[6:36:00]pediatric hospitalizations this is Nationwide have jumped 50 percent is this because Omicron is worse for kids or because more kids are getting
[6:36:11]infected correct it's not worse for kids in fact you know kids even all the other variants overall in kids the kids quite
[6:36:21]end up doing much better than adults do so you know it's just that there's so much and it's so much more transmissible it's just harder to avoid especially of course the kids under five who are not
[6:36:33]eligible for vaccinations yet but still those kids still it's even though it's more transmissible it does still seem like people don't get as sick so I still think those kids are going to do okay
[6:36:45]but you do need to be careful with them and in the hospitalizations of all the kids still what we're seeing in the United States is it's teenagers those eligible
[6:36:56]for the vaccine who have underlying medical conditions who have not been vaccinated so we want to still encourage people to get the vaccine if they're eligible and 30 seconds left here Dr
[6:37:07]Crosby we're ending 2021 we didn't expect it to end like this are we peaking right now or is still the worst yet to come I don't think we're peaking yet you know
[6:37:18]we're just having holidays and people are still Gathering and doing things so I think it's going to be a few weeks at least until we see what all of these gatherings actually do
[6:37:29]okay um well let's hope people I keep this in mind I know that regardless of what we're saying or you need to stay home or stay safe and gather outside a lot of
[6:37:40]people still are just tired of hearing that and they're going to celebrate how they want to on this Friday the 31st of course New Year's Eve they are it's true I want them to upgrade masks too it's
[6:37:51]one thing I didn't get to mention though too is upgrading more than just yeah Okay add that to your KN 95s and you're in 95s okay great uh pediatrician Dr
[6:38:01]Lauren Crosby thank you so much thank you and thanks to our Fox 11 team again for that interview as she mentioned we may not even be to that Peak quite yet especially as we know uh
[6:38:13]that it does sometimes take some times from exposure to when you may have covet 19. so we will continue to talk more about this I do see that we do have our
[6:38:23]congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee she is once again speaking about vaccinations for children we're going to be listening into this event live right here on live now from Fox some of you first going out
[6:38:34]to a two-minute break variance the viruses look for because their main purpose in life is to live and they find homes by being
[6:38:46]unvaccinated and that means you get the variant Delta and you get Omicron and so I think it is extremely important that we focus today on children we've
[6:38:57]asked families to bring their children to be tested and we're also vaccinating children especially in a separate location 5 to 11 year olds can walk through
[6:39:08]walk up and we will vaccinate them in a totally separate area so families please bring your children to be vaccinated or tested but it is true that it is the
[6:39:19]little children that can be the carriers and they can be asymptomatic and cause a great deal of stress there's a 50 jump of children needing to
[6:39:31]be hospitalized and over the couple of weeks we have heard from Dr Peter hotez who uh we're very grateful for his leadership and also the discovery of a
[6:39:40]different type of uh if you will uh vaccine that can be utilized in developing countries one of his messages of course is as the world is unvaccinated we will continue to see
[6:39:52]different variants coming so I'm here today to have a special emphasis on Children and Families that's what we've said there is a major crisis
[6:40:03]and the major crisis demands that we respond and we respond in the manner of getting vaccinated and as well making sure our children are vaccinated
[6:40:14]the other point of what should happen is I want our nation's medical agencies our health agencies to have a special focus
[6:40:24]on children I'll be introducing the covid-19 the children's covid-19 prevention act in the United States Congress and that is to instruct Health
[6:40:34]agencies around America to have a special Focus directed by HHS with materials printed with information
[6:40:42]reached we just saw a young man who was physically disabled so he is like a child in terms of his uh condition
[6:40:54]and he was frightened of the testing I have seen children be frightened of the vaccination many people will say that families have vaccinated children yes
[6:41:06]they have uh in the early years but when you get children between 5 and 11 there are sometimes gaps of their vaccination I want these children to have a
[6:41:16]circumstance where there is a special emphasis a special leader a special focus on how you test and vaccinate children that can provide the increase
[6:41:27]from 15 percent in the fourth largest city in the nation can you believe we have 15 percent of our children that are vaccinated that is not
[6:41:38]making us a healthy community and it is hard work for our hard-working Educators as well but I applaud them for keeping the
[6:41:49]schools open and working as hard as they can but we need to help them we need to work as federal government as Health and Human Services as health agencies that
[6:42:00]receive federal funds and we need to focus on these children Across America we need to have particular print materials and particular ways of encouraging our children to take these
[6:42:11]tests the other uh finding that we're determining is that children are being if you will
[6:42:21]hospitalized those with underlying conditions but healthy children are being hospitalized as well because it is highly transmissible children even with
[6:42:32]some being vaccinated we know that Omicron proves to be extremely infectious so today is my Clarion call
[6:42:43]on a major crisis among our children and to re-emphasize that we as adults can take care of ourselves by getting vaccinated
[6:42:53]and that be proud of numbers like 55 percent the state of Texas or about 60 percent in the United States lower in some
[6:43:03]states like Arkansas and other states that does not help us get to the idea of the covid-19 of vaccination or the
[6:43:15]covid-19 pandemic coming to an end we're into our second year going possibly into our third year we started in 2020 it's
[6:43:24]2021 now 2022 that's almost the third year so My call today is for all of us
[6:43:34]to make a special emphasis on our children if we get to that point where we can say our children are vaccinated we're on the road to making great strides I'm delighted this morning to be
[6:43:46]joined by Dr House who was gracious enough along with the principal of Forest Brook Middle School uh to open the doors to me again we have been here before and we think it is important that
[6:43:57]we are in schools to make people aware of the opportunities that our schools offer so that our children can come back safely I'm proud of the record that he's
[6:44:07]had with his faculty and and staff but also the leadership that he is leading on in terms of helping our children Dr
[6:44:16]superintendent military thank you thank you partner Foreman I really appreciate you as many in this community
[6:44:26]continue to appreciate you as we keep our community safe and HISD as many of you know safety will continue to lead
[6:44:34]the way as we prepare to welcome our 194 000 students back to the school and staff back to to the work environment on
[6:44:45]Monday if we prioritize safety hisd's mask mandate will continue to be in effect and will be enforced at all district offices facilities campuses as
[6:44:57]well as our school buses to keep our school and work communities safe upon everyone's return We strongly recommend as as the congresswoman indicated that uh that individuals that are coming back
[6:45:08]into school environments get tested and more than anything uh move forward if they are if their health allows for them to become vaccinated we continue to expand our Partnerships with Community
[6:45:20]leaders Health officials to provide additional covid-19 testing and vaccination opportunities for all of our families I'm very proud to say that
[6:45:30]between 70 and 75 percent of our 27 000 employees in HISD are vaccinated and that number very well could be higher as
[6:45:41]those numbers were provided to me about two weeks ago as you all know as as Congress congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee indicated we're providing covid-19
[6:45:51]testing and vaccinations at this site she indicated the emphasis is on five five-year-olds and up here at Forest Brick Forest Brook and Beyond we will be
[6:46:03]here as she indicated until 4 pm or until the job is done we will also have PCR screening testing opportunities on
[6:46:12]Thursday December the 30th from 8 A.M till 12 30 p.m at Sam Houston High School and Del Mar Stadium and from 1 pm
[6:46:23]to 4 30 p.m at Cashmere High School and Lamar High School also on Sunday January the 2nd we will be providing drive through PCR screening testing from 8 A.M
[6:46:35]to 12 30 p.m at Chavez High School Westbury High School West Side High School and from 1 pm to 4 30 p.m at Bel Air High School as well as Worthing High
[6:46:46]School HISD will be offering covid-19 PCR screening testing on on campuses to HISD students and staff starting in January
[6:46:57]as cases surged we must continue to work together and do our part to ensure that everyone in this community is safe again thank you congresswoman Sheila Jackson
[6:47:08]Lee for your continued leadership in ensuring that our community is safe as we can be thank you superintendent thank you again for being the right kind of uh partner
[6:47:17]and uh I certainly want to uh acknowledge uh uh wonderful partners that are with us today in particular I want to acknowledge rain uh eatman uh
[6:47:28]who is here on behalf of council member Jackson who is a real partner to me we're in her District uh councilmember District B and I want to thank her personally for being on the front lines
[6:47:38]hoping her hoping that she is now having a speedy recovery I know that we'll be seeing her but her office continues to work and we're grateful for your rain thank you so very much for being here we are delighted to be joined this
[6:47:50]morning uh with a doctor that I have the opportunity to talk often to now the nation and the world uh is well aware of the expertise that we have in Houston
[6:48:01]Texas with Dr Peter hortez MD and PhD who certainly uh his renowned record is now internationally known he is a professor of Pediatrics the molecular
[6:48:12]biology at Baylor College of Medicine where is also the co-director of Texas Children's Center for vaccine development and endowed chair and tropical Pediatrics he is also a vaccine
[6:48:24]scientist and a new Texas Children covid-19 vaccine is being now accelerated it has now been approved in
[6:48:32]India and it is now ready uh to one be utilized in India one of the largest uh
[6:48:42]populated countries in the world and who saw the devastation of kovid in the last year he is now able to utilize that with
[6:48:53]all of the countries surrounding India as well including countries in Africa particularly Botswana and so he is renowned with a degree from Yale
[6:49:04]University uh and the whale Cornell Medical School Rockefeller University and is the author of 550 scientific articles but we have discussed uh the
[6:49:15]really crisis with only 15 percent of our children being vaccinated and Dr hortez as you hear me I introduced new
[6:49:26]legislation which is the children's uh covid-19 prevention act which is to cause the focus in the nation's Public Health
[6:49:37]Centers just like Texas Children on materials and approaches to encouraging parents to get children 5 to 11 vaccinated and as well to be able to
[6:49:48]provide Comfort materials for children who are somewhat frightened which encourages parents not to get them vaccinated or tested and we just saw an
[6:49:58]example of that uh in the drive-through testing that we're doing that some persons with disabilities and
[6:50:08]childlike were frightened of the testing process so we need to focus on our children but I'm delighted that you are here and Dr hortez please would you make
[6:50:19]your presentation I'll hold the mic up to you thank you and welcome you so very much well thank you very much can you you can go ahead
[6:50:35]okay can you hear me so that you can hear me well thank you thank you so much uh you know I think one of the things that we're seeing now with with the
[6:50:45]Omicron variant in some ways it's not too different from the Delta Valley and the Delta variant when it went through Texas and the southern states over the summer
[6:50:55]have affected a lot of children and so children were hospitalized in unusual numbers across the south from Texas and
[6:51:04]even in our Texas Children's Hospital I don't think it was because the Delta bearing was selectively targeting kids it was more of the case that they were
[6:51:14]just getting stepped up in this viruses or firestorms now it looks like it's going to be the
[6:51:24]worst of double Prime and we have some hint of that now from South Africa and the UK and lots of pediatric hospitalizations and I I don't think it's the case that Omicron is
[6:51:35]selectively targeting kids I just think there's so much transmission going on that kids are getting swept up alongside you so I've called it a firestorm like my friend uh my gospel cause of the
[6:51:47]virus blizzard get the idea that we are not and a lot of children coming into the hospital was in New York City in Washington DC and now going west into
[6:51:57]India can be Illinois we are almost worse and eventually it'll come down here to the
[6:52:06]Southern States in Texas yet again if we would expect it as we did January that we could see another uh revise in cases here in Texas due to almost probably
[6:52:18]already seen the beginning things like that and we'll start seeing some pediatric hospitalization so I think the message is that you know there's a narrative out there that tries to make the case that
[6:52:29]that Omicron does not uh affect kids they even some people even disparagingly called making a claim that it's not serious not
[6:52:40]the case we are seeing a lot of pediatric hospitalizations and it is very imperative that we get our kids uh vaccinated the earlier this year we had approvals for the adolescence for the 12
[6:52:52]to 17 year olds and now we have step down studies showing that it's safe and effective for kids five and up so we are as the congressman points out we are not
[6:53:03]doing well in terms of the percentage of our five and up kids who've gotten the vaccine Now's the Time to do it before Omicron gets here in an even bigger way
[6:53:15]so there's still that window period to immunize your kids and that's why we're here today during this very worrisome time went over run is accelerating among our
[6:53:26]pediatric populations and it's it's as important to vaccinate our kids as it is to vaccinate our adults and ask a message for for today so I'll I'll turn
[6:53:37]it back over to you conversation to see if you have any thoughts or if there's any specific questions thank you doc if you can hear me yes I'm going to introduce uh trustee Kathy
[6:53:47]Buford Daniels and then we'll open it up for questions um and I know I'd be interested as I indicated to you and tend to introduce the
[6:53:56]um children's uh covid-19 prevention act which again is to produce sensitive materials uh in our Public Health agencies with HHS to try to get parents
[6:54:07]more comfortable about the five to 11 year olds being vaccinated and or tested and to be able to uh have a sensitive
[6:54:17]approach to how we can vaccinate and test and also what is the most comfortable areas for these parents to bring their children I've had for
[6:54:27]example a children's festival uh where there's a lot of other activities going on at the same time that they're vaccinating or having the ability to
[6:54:37]test but the 15 number is Stark uh and as we watch what is happening into New York I think we should be concerned about what might happen here in Texas so
[6:54:48]let me introduce our trustee Kathy Buford Daniels and thank her for being here as they continue to give us some more leaders in Texas speaking about the importance of getting children
[6:54:57]vaccinated again they are at one of these Omega testing sites that they do have in the Houston area actually taking a look at some of that video footage of
[6:55:07]people waiting in line to get tested in that left hand box so that is some video that we had captured from just earlier here this morning those Mega test sites
[6:55:16]that they do have in the Houston area are up from about 8 A.M until 6 p.m they did say that they had an initial capacity of approximately a thousand
[6:55:27]daily tests but I talked with one of our Fox 26 reporters who was there that morning and she said there were dozens and dozens of cars with people inside
[6:55:38]waiting to be tested so this is certainly a demand that we've been seeing across the country we're going to take a two minute break continue listening to this press conference right here on live now from Fox when we all
[6:55:49]return one good news I want to say is that the weight here is uh continue is continuously moving we're very grateful
[6:55:58]for that I want to thank you and M.C for their work in helping to move these what we call Neighborhood centers that's what this is we brought it to the
[6:56:09]neighborhood so that you can be blocks away uh you could be a few miles away and you could come to this open area as well as our special site that we have
[6:56:19]four children five to eleven year old uh we have a special site for them so please make sure that you take advantage of it at this time and so I will open it
[6:56:29]up for questions and as well make the further uh note that
[6:56:37]um the Infectious nature let me just be very clear the Infectious nature of Omicron
[6:56:46]is going to spread to activities here in Texas Broadway parts of it are shut down restaurants in New York
[6:56:55]are on a very cautious schedule we are seeing it as Dr hortes says move west excuse me move to the Midwest
[6:57:05]and we know that when it was in covid-19 it was New York it then hit New Orleans it hit Detroit and it does hit populations that sometimes are
[6:57:17]impoverished it hits everyone and it hits communities of color when you don't have access to health care that's why we come to neighborhoods where people can
[6:57:27]just get up and go a few blocks but we are not taking any zip codes anyone can come to forestbrook middle school today that's why I want to again thank Houston Independent School District for his
[6:57:39]Hospitality I don't know if any people see we haven't built schools like this uh in recent years with all of this land and I just knew this was a wonderful
[6:57:49]place to come easy place to get to and we hope people will continue to come so we'll take questions at this time it okay it was
[6:58:01]changes are you guys making to the comeback of the school year you know there are not very many changes I think we've done the best job possible
[6:58:12]in reference to mitigating uh the covid-19 uh strains that we've seen over the course of the last couple of years probably more than anything and that's the question that many in our community
[6:58:22]have had is what we're doing in reference to our Mass mandate we did indicate about two weeks before the Thanksgiving break that we would revisit
[6:58:31]the uh the mass mandate uh and we indicated that simply because we know that there has been a ongoing Trend that after holidays we've seen spikes and
[6:58:43]after the Thanksgiving holiday which is pretty much where we are right now we again saw a spike so it's safe to say uh that's why we are moving forward with the continuation of our Mass mandate now
[6:58:54]we hope and expect that uh that the cases will uh will be on the decline over the course of January and February and we can revisit it at a different time when it's safe but what's important
[6:59:06]for our community to know is that we've worked very hard uh with one of the lowest uh positivity rates uh in coca-19 uh in the uh in the state of Texas
[6:59:17]especially being the largest school district in Texas so we'll continue doing the work that we've continued that we focused on to ensure that our community is as safe as possible
[6:59:28]foreign so the question was what is the status
[6:59:41]of of Staff shortages uh in reference to covid-19 and right now of course we're on a break it really depends on uh what
[6:59:51]our staff what our students do as they come back many of our individuals in our community have traveled so we're encouraging them to move forward and get
[7:00:01]tested so depending on what's what happens in reference to the positivity rates of individuals and that's one of the reasons why we will be having testing as well as vaccine sites
[7:00:12]throughout the school district so our hope is that we don't see major shortages but if we do we will look at sites individually and not a district as
[7:00:23]a whole so if we have high positivity rates or high transmission at a particular grade level at a particular in a particular wing of a school we'll
[7:00:33]look at it from that perspective we have to continue to keep our education system open that is my hope that is my expectation but at the end of the day what's most important of course is the
[7:00:44]safety of our staff students and communities let me um let me just comment on that um because of the experiences that we
[7:00:55]had and that all of you have lived through the circumstances May Force us to act that's what I don't that's what we're trying to avoid
[7:01:06]the circumstances of 2020 forced us to act it forced the closing of schools we didn't have vaccinations we only had
[7:01:16]testing and I'm sure that our children were not test it at a high level so if family members had a children would have it or children would have it and family members would have it if the circumstances that is what we'll be
[7:01:28]dealing with when we go back to Washington if the circumstances are such that Omicron is so infectious and that it takes hold of so much of the
[7:01:38]infrastructure of truck drivers or medical professionals or Educators then we have to respond one of the reasons why I brought up the idea of children is
[7:01:48]because again I'm repetitively saying and shocked that our number is 15 and that is not for trying because we know that Texas Children's Hospital has been
[7:01:59]working we put a focus on when I say we various clinics have put a focus on children but it's got to be the parents so circumstances I know is going to
[7:02:10]cause even the federal government to assess how do we address the concerns of parents the concerns of workers uh the concerns of the ability of the the
[7:02:20]country to run itself if Omicron becomes the dominant Force so contagious that people are in important places when I
[7:02:31]say that responsibilities they have Omicron and they're not enough substitutes to substitute for them that's what we need to be concerned about
[7:02:39]um and may I just ask Dr hortez and I will get your quote Dr Cortez Dr hortez
[7:02:48]can you hear me are you on mute can you hear me yes I can right um the um the question is coming to the
[7:02:59]superintendent about trying to make sure that um the work that he does or he is emphasizing the work that he does is to keep schools open
[7:03:09]and I would just uh no no uh the concern that Omicron is so infectious that how do we
[7:03:21]prevent a situation where we are short of teachers we're short of nurses we're short of doctors we're short of truck drivers because of the Infectious nature on the front
[7:03:32]you want to comment yes I mean I mean yes this is going to be the biggest problem and I'm being asked about this now regarding what mayor de Blasio in New York City just announced that
[7:03:44]they're going to open come hell or high waters starting June 3rd then they asked me about it and I said well you know right now in New York New York City and Washington DC or the epicenters of the
[7:03:55]Zelda Farm wave and it's it's hard to know when you've got something this transmissible I think you have to be pretty humble and recognize that there may be limitations
[7:04:06]so there these schools are are trying to use their experiences with previous virus lineages like Alpha Delta to get a
[7:04:17]sense of how things will go with Omicron and Omicron is so much more transmissible that it's it's not clear to me that we can extrapolate to that extent to say well we got away with it
[7:04:29]without with the original Indonesian Alpha Delta therefore it shouldn't be a problem is quite different so it is all right guys we've been listening in as some of our Texas officials and leaders have
[7:04:40]been speaking about coronavirus especially as we head into uh some more weekends that have some get-togethers with family members and of course kids
[7:04:50]right now many of them out of school but we do know that there are going to be returning here very shortly did want to let all of our viewers know this just coming in also California is now the
[7:05:02]first state to record more than 5 million known coronavirus infections according to the state dashboard on Tuesday was delayed by the holiday
[7:05:13]weekend so this is a grim Milestone it was reported by the California Department of Public Health wasn't entirely expected in a state with a 40 million residents posed for a surge in
[7:05:24]new infections amid those holiday parties and family gatherings of forced indoors by a series of winter storms so the first coronavirus case in California
[7:05:33]was back on January 25th 2020 it took 292 days to get up to one million infections on November 11th of that year
[7:05:43]and now 44 days from then to top two million so this again just coming in here to our live now from Fox desk a horse we always like to keep you
[7:05:54]updated on these top stories California's caseload is also ahead of other large states Texas has more than 4.4 million Florida has topped 3.9
[7:06:04]million as of Sunday so California has recorded more than 75 500 deaths related to coronavirus it's just been a terrible
[7:06:14]thing that we've had to report ever since this pandemic did hit California has far far better than many other states that are dealing with the coronavirus
[7:06:24]surge areas in the Midwest and Northeast seeing some of the biggest jump in cases and hospitalizations amid those freezing temperatures that have been keeping people indoors so did want to just let
[7:06:35]you know this came down wanted to report it here for all of our viewers as we've been continuing to follow this story and it's also had a huge impact not only on
[7:06:45]of course our get-togethers but also it's had an impact on our folks who have been traveling just wanted to pop up here uh just a look at some of the flights that are moving across the
[7:06:56]United States this on flightaware.com is they are tracking some of those planes that are up in the air but also they've been reporting more than 6 500 have been
[7:07:07]delayed today that's flight delays and they've also had more than 2 400 cancellations so this coming on a time when we are yet once again all trying to
[7:07:18]get back to a little bit of normalcy but this is go going into yet another day of headaches for those who are trying to travel let's go listen into more on that report with our Fox 11 team
[7:07:29]flights continue to be canceled and delayed because of Staffing shortages at the airport despite holiday travel I mean it's the sixth day at this point the mess just keeps going
[7:07:41]it piles on top of one another Sandra who is live at LAX you know it's almost as if there's a domino effect now you know it started and now we just don't see an end in sight we're hoping that
[7:07:51]that it does but but at this point people are just really frustrated good morning absolutely a domino effect when one flight is canceled all those passengers have to get rebooked on another and it
[7:08:02]just piles on and I could tell you that the lines keep growing right here at LAX we're live inside the United terminal right now where a lot of holiday Travelers are getting the news that either their flights canceled or delayed
[7:08:14]or just the madness of covid restrictions when you're traveling somewhere you do have to get a test in certain cases and all of those new protocols well what we're seeing right
[7:08:25]now is the sixth day of cancellations in and out of the U.S at LAX right now it's 72 flights canceled for today so far
[7:08:36]according to flightaware.com a tracking site they were reported to be in 3 100 flights canceled worldwide yesterday 1200 in the U.S alone now this is all
[7:08:46]because of Staffing shortages at Airlines caused by the increase in covid-19 cases obviously we know the Army crop variant is highly infectious and that's keeping people quarantined or
[7:08:58]isolated if they do test positive the CDC now revising its recommendations to five days instead of 10 days which should help free up a little bit in
[7:09:08]terms of the Staffing for Airlines but clearly causing a concern also weather cancellations because of the severe impact of snow across the country is
[7:09:19]also another Factor but here at LAX we've been talking to frustrated Travelers here's what they had to say it's so stressful to travel and then to
[7:09:29]add the pandemic on top of that and then the snow and and I if I get to Seattle I just hope my ride will pick me up it's it's terrible okay we're healthy and we
[7:09:40]have to wait right now and I tested with Kaiser what was that two days ago in the morning and we waited two hours in line for that okay and right now they're
[7:09:50]telling us to wait and I think we're gonna miss the flight yeah Miss a flight to Europe is not a good idea and obviously she was dealing with new protocols put in place because
[7:10:02]you do have to get tested if you're traveling overseas in some cases to certain countries so you want to make sure you get everything checked out before you head to the airport that means calling your carrier in advance if
[7:10:13]you are traveling during this busy holiday season obviously LAX is only one airport dealing with a lot of these cancellations we're hearing a lot of cancellations as well in terms of a
[7:10:23]handful before this morning at John Wayne Burbank in Ontario so again please please please just check with your airline before you head out to the airport Tony and roxia yeah really
[7:10:34]really good advice all right Sandra thanks so much actually it's affecting flights all over the world and you can see that here again as we go back and look at these flights that are
[7:10:45]being tracked across the U.S I mentioned before that we have had more than 6 500 delays sometimes they do say that is due to the weather in the areas that people
[7:10:53]may be flying in or out of but the 2400 cancellations more than that have happened already here in just one day has certainly had an effect on a lot of
[7:11:04]people who have been traveling out and about and as we mentioned it's not only coronavirus concerns a lot of shorting a shortage of Staff members but also other weather that has been taking effect so
[7:11:16]speaking of weather let's go ahead take a look at the temperatures we are seeing here today you can see some of those different systems that do have snow over in the California area but also some
[7:11:26]rain moving across some parts of central U.S as well as some very freezing temperatures for those Northern plain states as I mentioned I have family up
[7:11:38]in northern Minnesota where that 11 below temperature is and they said it is just freezing cold hard to get yourself warmed up and motivated to go out but of
[7:11:49]course a lot of officials do warn you when you get to those temperatures it's safer not to go out if you don't have to but you take a look then down at our Southern States and they are having some
[7:12:00]higher than normal temperatures that they've been recording as well so a lot of folks dealing with some different wacky weather across the U.S we'll continue to keep you up to date on all
[7:12:11]the top weather stories right here for you on live now from Fox but I do want to continue giving you more stories especially as we have all been mourning
[7:12:19]now the loss of an NFL icon more on his legacy when we return right here in just two minutes thank you
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[7:14:34]has been an icon in the National Football League for many years we do have John Madden a former Oakland Raiders coaching great who went on to become one of the most famous
[7:14:45]sportscasters in history has died at 85 years old on Tuesday let's take a look back at his life and his legacy John Madden's booming voice and
[7:14:58]commanding stature will always be associated with football born in 1936 in Minnesota his family moved to California where he was a star football and baseball player the sports legend began
[7:15:09]his professional football career as the Oakland Raiders linebacker coach in 1967. two years later the 32 year old Madden became the youngest head coach in the American Football League in 10
[7:15:20]seasons he led the Raiders to eight playoff appearances and one Super Bowl title in 1977. he retired in 1979 and quickly transitioned to the broadcast
[7:15:30]Booth winning 13 Emmy Awards while working on all four networks now they're really mixing it up in there hey watch this they're really mixing it up in
[7:15:40]there famous for not liking airplanes Madden traveled to games in custom-built buses known as the Madden Cruiser well known for his Dynamic style the American
[7:15:50]sportscaster Association twice named Madden sports Personality of the Year some people say you know they run in there and they Clyde or something I mean it's in their pool that's what I say
[7:16:01]fans and players enjoyed his tradition of handing out turkey legs to the MVPs at the Thanksgiving Day game Madden also lent his name and expertise to popular
[7:16:12]EA Sports video game Madden NFL applying the same principles he did on the field you never stay the same you say okay we're the top game let's just stay right
[7:16:24]there let's stay right there on top point you don't because the minute you say we're okay we're going to stay there you slip I'll guarantee you that you have to say okay we're here but we're going to get better he was inducted into
[7:16:35]the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2006. Martha McCallum Fox News so many lives that touched by his legacy
[7:16:46]of course his voice booming over the air and the Raiders did release a statement after hearing the news of man's passing saying few individuals meant as much to
[7:16:56]the growth and popularity of professional football as coach Madden whose impact on the game both on and off the field was immeasurable we had just
[7:17:05]so many people speaking about the man who's again been a legacy in the NFL and even further we did have our very own
[7:17:16]live now from Fox's Regina Gonzalez talk more about this with a Fox Sports contributor let's listen into that right here on live now from Fox they're saying you can say okay we're
[7:17:28]the top game let's just stay right there let's stay right there on top point you don't because the minute you say we're okay we're going to stay there you slip I'll guarantee you that you have to say okay we're here but we're going to get
[7:17:40]better some wise words are from NFL legend John Madden unfortunately passing away
[7:17:49]unexpectedly yesterday at the age of 85. ever since we learned of this news we've brought you all of the latest developments here on a live now from Fox
[7:17:58]as we continue to honor and learn more about his career as not only a player but a coach and then turned famous sports broadcaster so in order to do
[7:18:10]that I do want to welcome on a guest who's joined us several times for sports coverage before he is a Fox Sports contributor his name is Rich Salgado and he is joining us here on live now from
[7:18:22]Fox this morning Rich how are you thank you so much for being with us how are you doing uh I'm doing great thank you for having me it's uh you know I'm up here up in
[7:18:32]the Northwest so it's a little chilly up here but other than that okay yeah I see you got your hat on thank you so much for uh joining us we did want to contact you for uh this unfortunate news such
[7:18:42]sad news for the Sports World Rich so uh you know it's kind of backtrack for our viewers who may not be familiar with John Madden uh can we first talk about
[7:18:53]you know kind of take us through a timeline obviously he started off as a football player himself what can you tell us well he uh I know he started at Oregon
[7:19:04]University and then he uh transferred but uh he had a short career because he had hurt his knee so um obviously when players are left with
[7:19:15]a choice of not being able to play anymore most of them get into coaching and uh obviously you know he's John
[7:19:24]Madden is football he is legendary he is you know everything you could think of when you talk football so uh he started
[7:19:34]at 32 years old which is the youngest uh you know it's a very young age for an NFL head coach to be named you know back in those days uh now you're seeing eight
[7:19:45]you know guys being 33 34 being head coaches but back then uh that was uh a Monumental uh announcement when he was named head coach of the uh Oakland
[7:19:56]Raiders yeah and he obviously had a very prominent history with the Raiders can you talk to us a little bit about that
[7:20:05]rich you know I understand that he uh let he led them to a number of playoff games and then a Super Bowl also
[7:20:15]yeah he was he was Mr Raider he was the Raiders um obviously I wasn't around uh to be there alive to see all of it but you
[7:20:26]know from the stories he was a player's coach he let the players play and you know obviously they were very well known
[7:20:33]for uh being very aggressive very do whatever it took to win kind of attitude and and he only commanded certain things from the players he just wanted everyone
[7:20:45]to be on time he wanted everyone when he was talking or teaching to listen and third just go out there and play as hard
[7:20:54]as you could and he was happy and and look he went to I believe it was five AFC championship games where she lost
[7:21:03]but uh he finally got the brass ring you know after that and I mean like I said everyone who knows football
[7:21:12]John Madden is synonymous with football and also the Raiders yeah and you know something as we've been playing obituary stories all
[7:21:24]morning long ridges you know something that you just mentioned as as a coach it's so important to have that relationship with your players and it didn't matter what they did from what
[7:21:34]I've learned he was always there for them supporting their every move and challenge am I right you're a hundred percent right he you
[7:21:44]know him and Al Davis I guess the uh you know obviously the owner who also passed away they had this attitude of it was like giving a second chance you know
[7:21:54]they didn't care where the guy came from what background he had what issues they had as long as you came to work and had the mindset that you want to win
[7:22:06]and win at all costs and get it done that's the I that's the site you are uh mentality that uh you know John Madden brought to the Raiders
[7:22:17]and now we have to talk about that amazing presence that he had when it came to the broadcast industry so rich what can you tell us about how he went
[7:22:27]from coaching turned a really prominent figure when it came to uh the Sports World and television he was just one of those type of guys
[7:22:39]that what you saw is what you got and he was himself like he didn't go and become this actor and change and uh you know be
[7:22:49]phony I mean when you were a kid like when I was growing up I always looked forward to you know Summerall and Matt and they were the team they were the
[7:22:58]guys that you wanted to listen to and if you ask players and coaches from that era they would all say the same thing they were ecstatic that John Madden was calling the game you know he
[7:23:10]was going to be on the field and he was going to be talking about them and he really he was like I I you can actually call him the dean of uh you know uh
[7:23:22]color commentating or TV announcing because he just had his own Flair his own style and the words that came out of his mouth sometimes I mean they were
[7:23:32]hysterical but as a football person you understood it and he also he coached as well while he was on TV and what I mean by
[7:23:43]that is you know he would draw things on the board or you know as times got fancier where you can draw on the screen and this and that he really explained the game of football and I I'll tell you
[7:23:55]he's been missed already from leaving the booth but now you know may he rest in peace but he is definitely legendary and iconic and all sorts of
[7:24:06]the professors yeah and obviously even television Rich was not enough I know even as a kid I didn't play video games too much but I feel like at some point
[7:24:16]you had to have played uh Madden Sports what can you say about the line of video games that he then released to the public that are still literally going
[7:24:25]strong today I mean that is incredible you know you want to talk about taking one career and and turning in a new career into a
[7:24:36]new career and then all of a sudden now you are the game I mean Madden football
[7:24:43]is such a big deal to this day I mean if you think about it if you go back into the uh late 1990s and early 2000s you
[7:24:54]had NFL players that were fortunate to be on the cover of this game I mean it was that big of a deal then it turned into the Madden Pole where you had uh
[7:25:06]players from all over the NFL playing each other then you have people playing against NFL players and I mean that that is so legendary that will go on way
[7:25:16]beyond our time and I mean it's just uh it's a career that you definitely would want to learn about obviously if you want to learn about the game of football
[7:25:28]and learn about the coach and learn about John Madden it would be there's a whole glossary of stuff that you can learn and find out
[7:25:37]about him yeah and by the way Regina I wasn't I will say this about Madden I wasn't that goody you know at it I uh I gave it a shot and uh you know I'll
[7:25:48]stick to watching it on TV and I'll stick to uh my my role in ensuring professional football players not playing a game I know I wasn't good at
[7:25:59]it either I tried I definitely tried every time my friends had it I would give it a shot but can say that I was a pro at that game uh you know Rich kind of summing it all up especially as we uh
[7:26:10]literally just uh this past weekend I know that on Fox Sports they made a whole documentary about uh John Madden's life you know to sum it all up what do
[7:26:19]you think uh the sports industry will remember him for most when we look back now at his life and Legacy what are those prominent marks that he has made
[7:26:29]in the NFL you know what if I could sum it up in one word I would say success and and the reason I say that is because
[7:26:40]he he was successful at three different levels the coaching the TV the gaming industry uh the video gaming industry
[7:26:52]not many people have a run like that and to see that happen and to like actually watch it grow in front of you because you know obviously I'm I'm old enough to
[7:27:03]have seen him as a coach I've gotten to meet him as the TV commentator and and then obviously the gaming uh component to this whole thing but I I think John
[7:27:14]Madden is success and also a winner and a real person who really told you how he
[7:27:24]felt and he told you in his own way and he shared a lot of knowledge with a lot of people in his own way and I think everyone should be grateful that we were
[7:27:34]fortunate enough to be a part of his life whether it was personally or through television or through business whatever the case yeah definitely well Rich we thank you
[7:27:44]so much for uh joining us this morning to talk all about his prominent career and the mark that he has made in the National Football industry so uh we hope that you have a happy and healthy New
[7:27:55]Year and we'll be chatting with you again soon thank you so much for being with us you got it Regina Happy New Year to you and the family and the you know save some sun for us people up here up north
[7:28:07]when you get a chance all right a legacy a icon that will be remembered for years to come we will continue to give you more right here on live now
[7:28:18]from Fox especially as we keep you covered on top stories happening across the country when we return here's a look at the memorial that was set up for
[7:28:28]those parade victims in Wisconsin well they are taking down the memorial we'll give you more on that story coming up here in just two minutes thank you
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[7:30:43]we have been staying on top of top stories that are happening across the country new ones and others that have happened where we continue to track the latest out of Waukesha Wisconsin the
[7:30:55]temporary memorial for victims of that November Christmas parade attack have been decommissioned from its place at Veterans Park the mayor is saying the
[7:31:05]reason for this ceremony is to recognize and acknowledge that this Memorial was a community Gathering Place to grieve for those who were killed for those who are injured and for those discard by what
[7:31:16]they witnessed now again this community has been grieving after lives had been lost because of that to parade attack
[7:31:25]and the they did hold a ceremony earlier here today to honor those and talk about this again taking down the memorial
[7:31:36]let's into what they had to say again earlier here today our president here today and all that are watching this ceremony I also want to acknowledge the people we have up
[7:31:47]here we have our some of our aldermen here um Steve Johnson Don Brown Lenny Miller we also have our city administrator
[7:31:56]Kevin laner Police Chief Dan Thompson Deputy Fire Chief Joe Hoffman and I'll introduce our other two speakers as we go through this
[7:32:08]Unity we all have witnessed waukesha's Unity our response to this tragedy was to pour out support
[7:32:18]and love for those who lost a loved one for those who were injured and for those who were Witnesses as a community we have been United in our grief and in our purpose to help
[7:32:29]those who experience trauma we have shown that we would not allow the evil of the tragedy to be how we are defined but to show that we are defined
[7:32:40]by our compassion and our Unity we have been United as a community to continue to support those who experience the worst of that day on November 21st
[7:32:52]and that we will continue to recover and heal we will continue to show that good will win over evil
[7:33:04]we as a community will be survivors and not victims I thank our community for the unity we have shown the reason for this ceremony is to
[7:33:16]recognize and acknowledge that this Memorial was a community Gathering Place to grieve for those killed for those injured and for those scarred by what they witnessed
[7:33:28]many people stood silently before this Memorial to contemplate and to grieve many placed an item here every item placed possessed special
[7:33:38]meaning to those who lovingly deposited their offering miniature was shed here this moment is important because we as a community
[7:33:50]recognize that this place and these items are symbols of our sorrow and grief we also recognize that the removal of these symbols of our Sorrel will not end
[7:34:00]our grief or erase our pain we decommissioned this Memorial not to end our grieving but to move to a new place as a community a place where we will better understand and acknowledge
[7:34:12]our pain all while continuing to help those who are suffering so I think it is important to say that the decommissioning of this Memorial will not mean our Unity with and support
[7:34:23]for the victims has ended we will soon enter a new year and will continue to move forward knowing that this temporary Memorial will not end
[7:34:33]will not be the end but a beginning of our community's response to the tragedy we recognize that we will as a community
[7:34:46]decide upon a more permanent way to recognize our loss our hurt and our pain I ask that we continue to provide care assistance and be unified with the
[7:34:57]victims of the Christmas parade tragedy I know that our community will answer we will and I want to introduce Bonnie bird of the Waukesha County Historical Society
[7:35:09]who will provide a description of the curation process that will be followed to decommission this Memorial Bonnie first I want to say thank you to Mayor
[7:35:22]Riley and to the city for inviting the Waukesha County Historic Society and Museum to be a part of this process that we are able to provide our role as
[7:35:32]historians and curators to the community right now and truly the work that we are going to do already began with the community's creation of this Memorial
[7:35:43]site I was speaking to members who of the this community who have helped mind the site already and help protect these items that work is the work that we will
[7:35:53]continue to do starting here today there will be over the next uh hours this morning an initial Gathering of materials our first step in our first
[7:36:05]priority is to preserve and conserve what we are able to uh we will then spend the next days
[7:36:14]helping to support materials to intervene so that we can make sure that this Christmas parade Memorial becomes the Christmas
[7:36:26]parade Memorial collection and in that collection we are able to ensure that this community in its coming days and
[7:36:34]weeks is able to know that it has been saved and that as we look to the future of how we remember what our community
[7:36:45]did in response to the events with the Christmas parade tragedy we will have this collection to look to and to help
[7:36:54]us recall each item each person who demonstrated the incredible Community Support that was poured out and and
[7:37:04]collected here at this site it is with great humility and an incredible amount of Honor that we are able to do this work uh for those who do want more
[7:37:15]detail as to how this process works you can visit at our website waukeshaacountymuseum.org and you will find on our collections page a full scope of collection statement that
[7:37:26]outlines the material types and what our approach and collection is but a tremendous thanks to the city of Waukesha that we are able to be here today and to begin that work foreign
[7:37:40]thank you Bonnie and I also want to say thank you as a mayor for our community to the indispensable Waukesha County Historical Society
[7:37:50]um they stepped up and and and were working with us right from the very beginning um now you'll hear from Father Patrick Happy who will provide us with words of
[7:37:59]encouragement father happy it is indeed an honor and a privilege to be able to be with you today when our
[7:38:10]churches got involved in the parade a number of weeks ago we were looking at a time of unity for all of us working together little did we anticipate that that unity
[7:38:22]and working together would end up dealing with tragedies and pain and suffering and death and that's the kind of irony that kind of brings us together
[7:38:33]today um it's painful I was taken to the hospital I ended up with a concussion I was in ICU overnight which is by no means important at all compared to other
[7:38:44]things that people have experienced but one of the things that I saw firsthand was people coming together and helping one another I mean that was really the significant
[7:38:56]part of it I was up on the street just a couple blocks away and people were asking what do you need can I give you a help do you need a blanket can I help you to the chair I got to the to the ER
[7:39:06]and a lot of parishioners were around there but people were compassionate and loving and caring and it's that Avenue that element that sticks out with this community
[7:39:17]Waukesha has been through a lot of crap a lot of garbage but out of all that garbage comes a group of people that work together and support one another
[7:39:28]and look for the out for the best in each and every person I was in the hospital and and one of the nurses I think asked me if I was angry and I had to think about that
[7:39:39]um no I really wasn't angry I was frustrated and concerned and disgusted with what was going on but it wasn't anger that was a part of what characterized my emotion because I think
[7:39:50]if you're angry you got to go through anger at one point but if you're angry you can't get to the heart of the matter and the Heart of the matter was a group of people coming together helping one
[7:40:01]another encouraging one another and bringing out the best and that's the thing that I think we remember most we are a group of people that come together
[7:40:10]that bring out the best in each other no matter what the tragedy and bringing out the best in one another we continue to grow and prosper a little bit of anger is good but too much anger stops the
[7:40:22]growth we have been through a lot of difficulty and a lot of problems but through those difficulties and problems we're going to continue to grow and
[7:40:32]prosper and do good things it's that I think probably what we deal with most of all is this is an opportunity for Hope and optimism and growth
[7:40:43]hope and optimism despite everything we've been through we continue to grow and prosper and encourage one another
[7:40:50]because we can get even better thank you thank you Father um
[7:40:59]I'd ask that we take a moment of silence basically that's what this Memorial was all about for people to come here and to
[7:41:08]contemplate and to grieve and so we're going to take a short moment of silence thank you
[7:41:38]this concludes the ceremony um I think for the next three or four hours or so there will be I'm not sure how long it'll take but it's not gonna
[7:41:48]it it it it'll take some time to decommission this site uh as uh Bonnie indicated there's a protocol that's followed
[7:41:57]um and uh they're gonna be it's they're going to be working on it for a while I want to thank everyone who's watching and everyone who who is present here
[7:42:06]today thank you so much and on to the new year and on to um learning how to cope with our grief thank you so much
[7:42:18]video of no way some they did have this makeshift Memorial site here but they are going to be now
[7:42:28]looking for a permanent Memorial site City's mayor has promised that a new Memorial would have input from the community he said I've researched how
[7:42:39]permit memorials have been put together and it's nothing you can Rush it's nothing you can try to decide on quickly there will be a commission put together that will have members of the community some Elder people and they will hear
[7:42:50]from the public too they'll hold meetings they'll try to figure out already I've received quite a few ideas from people as to what should be done I guess what I want to stress is that we
[7:43:00]won't be making a decision or me a decision made by me is made by the city it will be made by the public so again there were six people whose lives were taken as a driver had plowed into
[7:43:11]spectators at this parade and there was also dozens more who were injured we will continue to give you more of the top stories coming to us from across the country of course a lot of people
[7:43:22]talking about covid-19 as well as Omicron is spreading across the states how do we get past that as we look ahead into the new year more to come right here in just two
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[7:45:37]welcome back here to live now from Fox as we've been talking about Omicron we know that the United States has once again hit a new record as we do have a
[7:45:48]highly contagious variant continuing to spread U.S record for daily cases has hit a record high of over 258 000 over the past seven days this is surpassing
[7:45:59]the previous peak of about 252 000 average daily cases set in January earlier this year now this is all because of that fast spreading variant
[7:46:10]Omicron it is estimated to make up more than 58 percent of covid-19 cases circulating in the country U.S health officials urging Americans to
[7:46:21]get vaccinated and boosted against this virus and it certainly had an impact we've been talking about how it's had an impact on not only our holiday get-togethers also some of those of flight cancellations and delays that
[7:46:33]we've been seeing across the country but now many events that people have been looking forward to have been canceled let's go ahead listen into more on that as the UCLA bowl game has been canceled
[7:46:45]let's listen with our Fox 11 team and now we're going to welcome in the man who broke the news this afternoon Fox Sports says Bruce Feldman who was in San Diego set to be a part of the
[7:46:56]broadcast team for the Holiday Bowl Bruce great to have you with us thanks for taking the time the reality car obviously a lot to unpack here you reported that this
[7:47:06]really started within the UCLA defensive line and that they were decimated by covet and yet they were still going to try and play this football game can you talk about that in what ultimately
[7:47:18]became the Tipping Point yeah so let's get into the timeline a little bit so we had our production meetings for our broadcast
[7:47:25]uh yesterday afternoon and we knew from the discussion with these like coaches that their defensive line was really depleted they essentially at that point
[7:47:37]had two able uh interior defensive linemen normally they'd probably have about eight and so the only backup they had for a nose guard position which is usually a guy who's probably 300 pounds
[7:47:49]was a 235 pound converted uh linebacker so Chip Kelly's message to us was look if we can get as long as we have like 11 guys we want to play but they knew they
[7:48:01]were going to be really thin in terms of numbers wise at that particular position that was the position it you know it wasn't as much an issue there was a you
[7:48:11]know really good defensive back who had uh it was going to be out for the game but it wasn't like there was you know all over other parts of the team at that point and and this morning we started
[7:48:23]hearing that they had more the more symptomatic uh cases that led to tests and that led to a bunch more positives and at that point they really had no
[7:48:34]defensive lineman and I think when we're talking about a you know a health risk I think the other issue when you start thinking about it is you're putting out guys to if you just have to put 11 on
[7:48:46]the field where you can't just have a a 230 pound player trying to go up against 300 pound guys for 80 snaps a game at that point that's a real health risk in
[7:48:57]a different way and so when UCLA just couldn't uh you know in this latest batch of of positive cases with guys with symptoms I think it was just an
[7:49:09]unfortunate reality of where we are at this point you know we heard from both coaches about locking it down and really intensifying the protocols to try to keep everybody as safe as possible yet
[7:49:20]like with so many college football teams that travel to other cities they take in the community and we saw that with the UCLA Bruins go into Sea World does college football have to rethink this
[7:49:31]kind of activity especially considering the number of coveted cases we're seeing you know this thing is so so fluid I think there's a lot of stuff that College athletics really needs to kind
[7:49:42]of try to stay in front of because the pandemic just again and we all have our own opinions on this but it seems to be a lot different in terms of now how we
[7:49:54]view it as opposed to maybe a year ago when there were you know it was it felt like it was a different variant there was a lot of other issues involved with it
[7:50:04]um and I think that each program handles this differently who's getting tested are they testing unvaccinated players are they testing players with symptoms I think the other thing that is worth
[7:50:16]noting here is there are there have been players who've been sick with symptoms and then they get tested and they actually don't have covid but the fact that they have symptoms I think that is
[7:50:26]as added to who's getting tested whereas maybe up before there's there's a lot of uh players who are not getting tested because most of these teams are in
[7:50:36]entirely vaccinated so what a lot of schools have done is they've only tested their unvaccinated players and so if there aren't tests and you can't have positive cases unless the symptoms are
[7:50:48]showing up and from what we were told yesterday that was that that it started to become an issue and then it really uh worsened in the last 24 hours Bruce I've only got about 30 seconds left here but
[7:50:59]I want to ask you real quickly we ran a sound bite earlier from Dave Doran the head coach of NC State saying that he felt he was lied to do you feel that there was any deception here of any kind
[7:51:10]you know when we do these production meetings as broadcasters you find out about injuries and maybe players who aren't going to play in games well you don't trap there's no transparency on that where you're not telling it in real
[7:51:21]time you know those coaches uh they do not want that to get out until right before the game so there were players that NC State had who were not going to play in the game we weren't going to be
[7:51:33]talking about that until right before kickoff and so I think that's that's a measure of transparency gamesmanship you can say whatever you want um that doesn't come up a lot I mean as
[7:51:44]far as a day ago UCLA was expecting to play in the game I think it changed this morning and so I get where where uh Dave Doran and his staff and certainly the players and everybody connected with are
[7:51:56]really frustrated and so I think that's probably where that was coming from okay Bruce Feldman thanks so much for joining us we appreciate your time and thanks to our Fox 11 team for that conversation especially as they just mentioned it's
[7:52:07]been frustrating not only for the teams and the players but also fans across the country as we continue to see coronavirus take a toll on some of those
[7:52:17]events now speaking of that we do have a press conference taking place out of Ohio earlier today we heard from the White House covid-19 response team we've also heard from some leaders down in Texas well now Ohio is also talking
[7:52:29]about coronavirus cases as they need assistance from the National Guard because they're seeing a shortage of Staff especially in hospitals we'll be getting into this press conference right here for you I'm live now from Fox in
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[7:54:43]we've been hearing from leaders all across the country talk about this surge of cases and we did hear already here this morning from some of our top Leaders with the White House covid-19
[7:54:54]response team they did answer a question that was asked will this be the peak and they said this Spike will continue to be on the rise so we haven't heard hit that Plateau haven't hit that Peak quite yet
[7:55:05]so right now in Ohio we do have some officials and leaders including the governor talking about how they're going to be dealing with some of these is Staffing shortages that they are seeing
[7:55:15]due to coronavirus they have an update with the National Guard as well as some of their other top officials let's go ahead listen into that right here for you on live now from Fox uh for you and
[7:55:27]we we appreciate what you're doing we appreciate what your men and women are doing we appreciate their sacrifice uh they've been a godsend as we've gone through this pandemic I don't know what
[7:55:37]we would have done without them so thank you very very much sir Let Me Now go to Doc operation officer the Cleveland Clinic
[7:55:47]Dr Wiley is Zone lead uh one up in up in the northern part of the state Dr Wiley you want to just if you could maybe um
[7:55:59]tell us some of the things share with some of the uh with the public some of the things that you shared with us this morning on on the call thank you governor and uh
[7:56:10]thank you General Harris um first of all the governor has mentioned that we have over 5 000 people hospitalized in the United States but let's put that in perspective adjusted for the size of the population
[7:56:21]that is the highest rate of hospitalization for kovid of any state in the United States we also have a positivity rate in terms
[7:56:30]of testing of over 24 percent that's in the top two states in the United States so what does that mean to the Zone which extends from Youngstown to Toledo South
[7:56:42]to Canton and Dover New Philadelphia it means we have over 3 000 people hospitalized within just the northern part of the state and today we set a record not only for
[7:56:53]the entire zone of over three thousand but we had the highest number we've ever had in the Clevelands in the surrounding area of nearly 1500. and in the in the
[7:57:03]Akron-Canton area 111. as we look at the individual County take one like Cuyahoga which is the highest in the state and one of the highest in the United States in terms of number of
[7:57:15]cases per day we're recording nearly 3 000 cases a day with Summit County to our South at over 900. as we take a look at the Cleveland Clinic what does that mean to an
[7:57:26]individual health care System then I'll expand out to the Zone because it means the same to the entire zone I'm obviously most familiar with the Cleveland Clinic today is the first day since the pandemic started we started with over a
[7:57:37]thousand patients with active covid in the hospital we had over 210 of those patients in the ICU and under critical Medical Care
[7:57:48]as we look at the rest of uh the things that we're dealing with our caregivers our nurses and our environmental service workers and our doctors are getting coveted just like everybody else is in
[7:57:59]the community this morning we had the highest number of people out that we've had since the pandemic started over 2 700 of our workers were out now we're contacting them with the new
[7:58:10]CDC recommendations to see how many are well enough to start to come back in and that's going to be a couple hundred in the next couple of days but still this is a remarkable number of people out
[7:58:21]all the hospitals in Northern Ohio have stopped elective surgery they've started to bring people who are not necessarily in clinical care all the time like research nurses in Quality
[7:58:32]Health nurses back in to work within the hospitals to try to take care of these covid patients so what I wanted to stress is the hospital systems are under significant stress in Northern Ohio
[7:58:43]one of the things that we've been helped with as General Harrison is the National Guard in terms of setting up a testing center because our Eds were very challenged with people going to get testing in the Ed now they're going to
[7:58:54]the Walker Center we're running 2 000 tests a day but let me tell you about those tests 36 percent of the people going into the Walker Center for testing are testing positive for covet that's a remarkable
[7:59:05]number much higher almost than any other state that we're seeing in terms of the testing positivity rate so I just outlined a few of the challenges we have many people out with
[7:59:15]covid or under quarantine we have a lot of people in the hospital with covid we have a very high testing rate which is going to predict moving in the future we're probably going to increase the
[7:59:25]hospitalizations we've already cut back on elective surgeries and now we're starting to core down in terms of our actual sites of surgery and bringing them in so that we can so that we can take care of the most essential surgery
[7:59:36]and all the covid patients and all the other patients with heart disease neurologic disease so Governor I'll flip it back to you well doctor thank you thank you very
[7:59:46]very much thank you what for what you and your team are doing we're very very grateful Let Me Now go to Dr Richard Lofgren uh
[7:59:56]CEO uh UC Health down in Cincinnati doctor thank you governor and I I would like to start out by thanking new governor and
[8:00:05]Major General Harris for your leadership and support during this time uh because it truly is a crisis in our health care System right now and at times I really feel like our community doesn't fully
[8:00:17]appreciate what's happening um in our communities related to that you know unfortunately the pandemic is not over and as you just mentioned we are seeing more cases now than we've
[8:00:28]ever seen along the way and I'm in Southwest Ohio and right now we are besieged with the surge but nowhere near what Dr Wiley's experiencing to the
[8:00:40]north through the beginning throughout the fall here we've seen this huge surge with Delta and now the spread of Omicron is just adding fuel to this range of
[8:00:49]fire and as mentioned before in some of our communities one in three one in four patients in the hospital right now have coveted and one of the things I think that I want to make sure that people
[8:01:00]understand is that this not only affects the care of the people with Kobe but also affects people who don't have covert it squeezes out our ability to take care of patients with other life
[8:01:11]series and life-threatening problems such as heart attacks and strokes and to hear the stories around the state that I do for my colleagues when we honor calls to really kind of gut wrenching you hear
[8:01:22]about people coming into the emergency room and they can't breathe and immediately need to be on on a ventilator yet they sit on a ventilator receiving Critical Care in the hallway an emergency department waiting one two
[8:01:34]three four days to get an ICU bed um it's just not the ideal setting for a patient for their family and frankly for their staff I think the other thing that I
[8:01:45]appreciate is that it seems like the stages of this pandemic has been defined in many respects by shortages initially you know we were scrambling because we didn't have enough PPE to protective
[8:01:57]equipment then it was testing you know and then it was the vaccine well right now it's staff you know that the healthcare workers the front line workers through last winter
[8:02:07]did incredible heroic things to really take care of our community double shifts over time um really extended themselves in a way that's incredible but not sustainable
[8:02:18]and as we see right now we've we've we've had uh the staff that are just worn out they've let the industry and so the real issue that we have right now is
[8:02:30]is Major General Harris mentioned isn't you know we have plenty of PPE and equipment we simply don't have the staff and the National Guard is really going
[8:02:39]to be I think an important augment to that but again I want to make sure to convey that really the issue here is that we need to do those things that we
[8:02:50]know make a difference I know it's painful it's painful for all of us in the holiday seasons but we got a double down on those things as you mentioned at work the most important thing is getting
[8:03:00]vaccinated and to get the the booster I also think with a a variant like Omicron on our community which is so contagious that means the things that we do and
[8:03:11]simple things like wearing a mask indoors is really a way in which we can mitigate and reduce the spread allow our hospitals to care for our community as
[8:03:21]it has done in the past doctor thank you thank you very much you know these these viruses go through
[8:03:32]different stages and in different stages in different different places what is your best uh estimate or do you have any in regard to what they're
[8:03:42]seeing in the north uh you may be seeing in this in the Southwest yeah we you know we manage monitor the data on a on a regular basis working through odh in the Ohio Hospital
[8:03:54]Association and model it and uh you know I think that we are seeing that these this when we see a hot spot in one area it does spread through the entire state
[8:04:04]it may be Urban going to rural it may be North going to South and I think we're seeing data that certainly says and I know that we are continuing to see a rise in Southwest Ohio
[8:04:16]um that's not as dramatic as what we're seeing in the Cleveland area but my fear is that we're only a couple weeks behind okay thank you
[8:04:26]Let Me Now go to Jennifer Hollis critical care nurse Riverside Methodist Hospital thank you for joining us we appreciate it thank you governor dewine for having me here today
[8:04:38]I just want to bring everybody to be able to walk a mile in my shoes and kind of understand as a critical care nurse what I am seeing on a daily basis that I am coming into work
[8:04:48]it is beyond difficult our beds are full there's nowhere else to go and we are just as short staffed as everybody else is seeing as well
[8:04:59]so anywhere that I can come in I might have a flex assignment and at that same time so does my co-worker who's sitting right next to me on the same pod so what
[8:05:09]a day looks like when we're coming in is the constant beeping of ventilators and IV pumps and we're wondering where is that beeping coming from and we are rushing praying that it's not a
[8:05:21]life-saving medication that is beeping in that room because I might be caught up in another isolation room and heaven forbid I'm missing something and that is always our biggest fear is that we are
[8:05:31]missing something because we are so maxed we are tired and we are frustrated and we want the best for all of our patients and all of the family members that are coming and
[8:05:43]that seems to be the hardest thing of everything that we constantly feel that we are bearing the weight of is the emotional support that we are needing to constantly provide for our families who
[8:05:54]cannot be there sometimes because they live two and a half hours away or if it's because they feel the weight of the world on their shoulders for feeling guilty because they are the ones that gave their loved one laying in that
[8:06:06]hospital bed covered and that is something that is beyond unbearable to feel that you know you there's
[8:06:15]nothing that you no more can do and for everybody that is scared of this vaccine I I ask you and beg you to look at the complications that come with the
[8:06:26]medications that we have to do to save you after you already have it or the effects that happen from having a ventilator a tube down your throat for that long for laying in a bed for that
[8:06:36]long we always say that for every day that you lay in that bed it's as as if I lay down in a bed for three days and didn't move the muscle atrophy and
[8:06:47]everything that goes along with that it's not just about the medications the vaccine it has to do with everything and if I can do anything to help prevent that I'm begging you to please get
[8:06:59]vaccinated please help our ERS do not go to our ERS just to get tested and please if you are symptomatic and can't get a test because I understand
[8:07:09]that from what I'm hearing that those volumes are low just stay home and quarantine and follow the CDC and odh guidelines
[8:07:19]well thank you very much um I I can't believe the the emotional toll this must take you know when you're dealing with
[8:07:30]families you're dealing with people um you know who who have that covert and you you and your uh other nurses throughout the state have
[8:07:40]been doing this for unfortunately not just months but now now in into years I mean how do you how do you how do you deal with that
[8:07:51]I would be lying if I was saying I dealt with it well I'm grateful um sorry that uh that we have a lot of counselors and we have a lot of support that help us through it
[8:08:02]because it's hard because we take it home every day there's not a patient that I'm not thinking about that when I come into work and I'm wondering what happened to that patient that I took care of the day before and all I'm thinking in my head
[8:08:14]is I'm praying that the family got there to be able to say goodbye that's really hard and I will continue to stand here and
[8:08:24]I've said it before I will continue to fight for you even when you will not fight for yourself and again what do you ask people to do
[8:08:35]please get vaccinated please get vaccinated get your boosters quarantine if you are symptomatic get tested and ask questions to people who understand
[8:08:46]the evidence and we're here listening to you guys but please get vaccinated well thank you for what you do thank you for being on today but uh thank you for
[8:08:56]what you've done and what nurses and medical professionals are doing across the state and have done now unfortunately for a long long time uh we
[8:09:06]can't cannot express uh our gratitude enough words are not adequate but we are we are very very grateful thank you the third one thank you Dr vanderhoff I don't know if you have
[8:09:17]anything else to add and then we'll go to questions well thank you Governor I you know I think unfortunately the picture that you and our guests who are on the front
[8:09:27]lines have painted is that of a very serious situation we're looking now at an impact of code 19 that is unlike
[8:09:38]anything we've seen before in this pandemic but the good news is and uh you just heard this uh from nurse Hollis
[8:09:47]that we have access to a powerful tool that can really Shield us from the worst outcomes of covid-19 and that's
[8:09:55]vaccination so if you have yet to be vaccinated our plea is please get vaccinated if you're due for your
[8:10:04]booster that's very important get your booster keep your vaccinations up to date help your body be able to fight code with 19 particularly as now we're
[8:10:16]on the threshold of dealing with this new variant the Omicron variant being vaccination not only protects you it's going to protect the people you
[8:10:28]care about and we just heard a very um touching description of how important that is so we have to think not only about ourselves but the people
[8:10:39]around us and with covid spreading like wildfire there is really no better time to choose to be vaccinated or to get
[8:10:48]one's booster thank you Governor doctor Dan we're ready for questions Governor first question today is from Laura Hancock at cleveland.com
[8:10:59]happy New Year Governor I am just wondering um the Ohio State Hospital Association as well as the six members of the Children's Hospital Association
[8:11:09]have sent out a letter which they sent to your Administration asking for children to be required to wear masks at school and I was just wondering if you
[8:11:19]are planning to make that a requirement Statewide I believe we did have one this time last year foreign
[8:11:30]the letter that went out uh from the hospitals Children's Hospitals as well as some of our Zone leads around the state I think summarizes very well uh
[8:11:41]this point if you're a parent if you're a superintendent if you're a school board member if you're a teacher we all share the same goals
[8:11:52]we all want our kids in school we want them to be able to start back on Monday or whatever day you start back on and we want them to be able to stay in
[8:12:02]school there's two things that we need all of us need to do if that's going to be possible one is for the parents
[8:12:11]make sure that child is is vaccinated number two is for the schools at least until we get through this
[8:12:22]horrible surge that we are in the schools need to require Mass work they slow the spread
[8:12:32]it's very very important for the schools to do that we asked Dr vanderhoff to comment uh further on that thank you Governor you know what we saw
[8:12:43]was that our hospitals the people who are actually on the front lines taking care of the sickest of patients with
[8:12:52]code 19 have turned to the schools and asked them to apply what they know works of course we're emphasizing vaccination
[8:13:02]very important the governor shared that uh you know our data continues to show that it is largely the unvaccinated who are ending up in our hospitals but in
[8:13:12]addition we have another very good tool that's a tool that's proven itself over the course of more than a year in our
[8:13:21]schools and that's masking so at this time uh the the people who know the people who are taking care of sick children and sick adults are turning to
[8:13:32]the schools turning to parents and saying please let's use the tools that we have at hand that have proven themselves to be so effective
[8:13:41]vaccination and masking doctor one of you could comment uh about what we're seeing in other countries uh
[8:13:50]in regard to the spread of the Omicron um my understanding from what I've read and frankly from also talking with you
[8:14:01]is that this spreads a lot faster than anything we've seen very very very very very contagious and that what other
[8:14:11]countries are seeing is that there is an increase in number of children going to the hospital not a huge increase but an increase a marked increase
[8:14:23]and it's my understanding that comes about not because the Omicron is is more lethal or more tougher but rather it's
[8:14:32]just infecting so many more kids and so you start with a bigger number uh and even though it it might not be as in some ways as serious as Delta but when you got that big number you ultimately
[8:14:44]end up with with some increase in kids in in children's hospitals yes Governor that's absolutely right so it what one of the pictures that we can
[8:14:54]look at is what's happened with Omicron in the parts of the world that are ahead of us uh on this Omicron curve and you know we can certainly look at what
[8:15:04]happened in South Africa and now what is happening across Europe and it is clear that Omicron is spreading and I use the word like wildfire
[8:15:13]um across Europe it's spreading at an incredibly fast pace and early indicators here in the United States are just reaffirming that fast spread now
[8:15:23]with that it means that you have of course more people who are at risk for potentially developing severe illness
[8:15:33]and as we had seen heretofore it is the unvaccinated including unvaccinated children who then become at risk so as
[8:15:45]the pool of children who are infected with covid-19 with this vomocron variant grows with these exponential rise in
[8:15:54]these cases more children are at risk for hospitalization uh so the proportion of people who get sick enough to end up in the hospital with Omicron does appear
[8:16:06]to be lower but when that denominator that number of people were actually impacted gets to be so large uh it's inevitable that you're going to
[8:16:15]see an absolute number of uh people in the hospital grow and sadly this time around our children are also going to be
[8:16:26]vulnerable so we really do have to take steps masking and vaccination to protect them thank you doctor next question is from Joe Ingles at Ohio public radio and television
[8:16:38]thank you Governor dewine Major Harris and Major General Harrison everyone on this call um I want to ask about the numbers if someone tests positive from a home test
[8:16:49]what are their obligations to report how do they do that and what the lack of testing capacity what does odh estimate the real number of people who have
[8:17:00]coveted is and given that a lot of them can't be tested I'll let Dr vanderhoff answer that just a a couple a couple thoughts uh in in
[8:17:11]regard to that um we have put out I'm looking for the number 1.4 million tests uh this December that have
[8:17:22]come from the state that we've distributed many times to the library as many times to the local Health departments we're going to continue at about that pace or close to that pace uh
[8:17:32]as fast as we can get uh new tests in we're going to get them out and I told our team in December when people are getting ready for Christmas uh you know let's get them out let's don't hold
[8:17:43]anything back let's just let's just move quickly on that that represents a relatively small number of the total number of tests that were uh in all
[8:17:54]likelihood taken um in in December um we know that a lot of the quick tests that people are buying they are not re
[8:18:05]they are not reporting but we felt uh and this wasn't even a close call that even when people are not reporting uh letting them have that information
[8:18:17]themselves so they could make rational choices themselves and with that piece of information is very very important so I won't say we did you know Joe we
[8:18:28]didn't it's not that we didn't worry about those ones that aren't reported but we know that a lot of these quick tests are not going to get reported and we're willing to accept that because we
[8:18:39]think there's a lot of good for people to be able to take a test no at least in that snapshot of time whether or not they're they are positive and decide to
[8:18:49]go to Thanksgiving or decide to go to Christmas with uh others Dr vanderhoff you wanna sure take that from there yeah thank you Governor I think the governor actually
[8:19:00]summarized the picture incredibly well and accurately uh as he noted um we've distributed an incredible number of tests Ohio course was one of
[8:19:11]the first states to prioritize widespread distribution of free rapid testing kits and over the last year we distributed about 5.2 million of those
[8:19:21]three kits and 1.4 million of those in December alone so there's been incredible demand and we've been uh
[8:19:30]racing to get uh those tests to people to meet that demand um in fact we're we're seeing thankfully
[8:19:39]incredibly High numbers of Ohioans getting tested to the tune of about 40 000 plus a day and more than a quarter of a million Ohioans were tested just
[8:19:51]during the week leading up to Christmas so uh you know we know that people are are taking advantage of the opportunity thankfully to get those tests and find
[8:20:03]out what their status is now one of the things that tells me that while not every test is able to be recorded that we're getting a very good snapshot a
[8:20:14]very good picture of the activity that's happening is that we can see now and uh unprecedented increase in the number of
[8:20:25]tests that are coming up positive that are actually being reported into us we're now up to about a quarter of all the tests that are being administered across the state coming up positive you
[8:20:35]heard Dr Wiley reference the number of the Cleveland Clinic has seen higher um but as we look across the entire State still very high perhaps not quite
[8:20:47]there um you know what's important is that Ohioans who are um eager to do the right thing have the
[8:20:58]information they need that's more important than us necessarily being able to capture the result of each and every test for a population
[8:21:08]um uh uh um you know uh surveillance perspective again look we know there's
[8:21:20]a lot of people who are testing positive um is that number probably higher than we're reporting yes because people who are doing their own tests are not reporting that but the really important
[8:21:32]thing today is what we've talked about in this press conference and that is hospitalization I mean that is where we have to absolutely Focus we are at a
[8:21:42]different stage now we have vaccines we have them available our emphasis is on getting the vaccines out to people encouraging people to take them encouraging people to get to get their
[8:21:52]boosters what we know from case numbers is always informative is always interesting it helps us understand the scientists and the doctors understand what's going on but you know what we
[8:22:04]have to really concentrate on uh we already know those numbers are very high what we really have to concentrate on is is you know what is going on now in our in our hospitals and in getting more
[8:22:14]people vaccinated next question I was from Caroline Sweeney at wews in Cleveland good afternoon governor and Major General Harris this question is for the
[8:22:25]two of you we know that uh Healthcare professionals are leaving the industry because of burnout we know that with the nature of this virus there could be
[8:22:35]another surge in the future how sustainable is this plan for the National Guard members to come in and supplement um you know work inside the hospitals
[8:22:45]how sustainable is that and if there is a long-term plan for them to continue to come in what does that plan look like
[8:22:55]well let me let me start off no one wants to see see this as a permanent situation I don't think anyone expects it to be a permanent situation
[8:23:07]uh you know from talking to our heads of our hospitals talking to our medical professionals you know we are in a surge we have to
[8:23:18]deal with the surge now we do not expect this surge to last forever uh and if it follows and Dr Benoit you might want to come we continue to listen into Ohio
[8:23:29]leaders talking about the Surge and shortage of Staff members they are seeing because of covid-19 some of you going to be seeing a two-minute break right back in this press conference when you return my comment on what I know you
[8:23:41]don't have a crystal ball and can't tell us how long this Omicron is going to be going but what are we seeing in other countries from Omicron yeah thank you Governor so the big picture is that it
[8:23:52]first we do see that where Omicron is competing with Delta for example across Europe uh Omicron is replacing Delta as
[8:24:02]the dominant variant in doing so very very rapidly early indications are here uh right here in Ohio and the region the United States where Ohio sits uh that
[8:24:13]that same pattern is repeating itself uh if we look at the cdc's estimates it's modeling for where they believe homicron is in our region of the country uh they
[8:24:24]have us pegged in the neighborhood of uh 68 percent of uh the uh viral types in Ohio in the region we sit in is in that that
[8:24:35]ballpark but if we look at the place where it started South Africa uh Omicron took off like a rocket it moves almost straight up infected an incredible
[8:24:46]number of people peaked and now appears to be in a state of uh fairly steady decline again so unlike some of these
[8:24:57]other surges we've seen it has had a more narrow window and as you pointed out I don't think any of the experts are anticipating this will be a Perpetual
[8:25:07]State of Affairs General Harris you want to comment this this is this is a great question because it really leads to the discussion about Ohioans getting
[8:25:19]vaccinated and protecting themselves because we're here to protect critical infrastructure and we consider the hospitals during this crisis critical infrastructure and we're one of the many
[8:25:28]fingers in the dike that Governor dewine has ordered to help that critical infrastructure through this surge we it's certainly not Our intention to stay in the hospitals but we'll stay as long
[8:25:39]as the hospitals need us but I guess the question would be how long does Ohio consider this response sustainable remember that every person that the National Guard deploys or
[8:25:51]mobilizes is coming from somewhere so so how long is it sustainable for your local restaurant to be without with a
[8:26:00]degraded Workforce how how long can can the an already strained supply chain go without those CDL Drivers those people who work at warehouses and whatnot because those are the very people that
[8:26:11]were mobilizing to protect this critical infrastructure right now so really what we're doing is just shifting the pain point to the hospitals where it's most needed because we recognize that we're creating
[8:26:23]pain in other places so our intent is to disengage from the hospitals as soon as the Department of Health and the Ohio Hospital Association tell us that it's
[8:26:33]okay to disengage from hospitals so we can get our members our Guardsmen our soldiers our Airmen back to their families and back to those places in the workforce where they're so important to
[8:26:44]our economy here in Ohio thank you General the members of the Guard will not stay one day longer than they're absolutely needed foreign
[8:26:55]hegarty at wtvg in Toledo good afternoon a question uh we understand that the guard has been mobilized at the Fox Run facility down in Findlay what is the plan for the
[8:27:07]guard to be in these small specialized units not the big hospitals but in these small places where they're needed National Guard even prior to the pandemic
[8:27:18]um every once in a while we have a situation for example in a nursing home where for any number of reasons they no longer have the staff they need we have
[8:27:30]vulnerable people there's no one to walk in the door when that happens the Ohio National Guard walks in the door and so we we do that and we will
[8:27:41]continue to do that uh whenever it's necessary it's not a very usual situation with nursing homes but occasionally it doesn't does in fact happen next questions from Mario Carbone at
[8:27:56]WCPO in Cincinnati hi there and this is for either General Harris or Dr Lofgren I was just wondering I know that there was numbers mentioned for how many Guardsmen were
[8:28:07]around different parts of the state but didn't hear anything for Southwest Ohio so I didn't know are you guys in this region um and also why does it seem like the need might be more up north why are we surging more up there than in the
[8:28:19]southwest region of Ohio uh Joe Harris you want to take the part of the question having to do with where uh deployment is
[8:28:29]yes sir right now uh Dayton is the only place down in the southwest part of the state where we find ourselves and again that's based on recommendations and and
[8:28:38]uh building building the deployment Matrix in in Us in partnership with the Department of Health and Hospital Association uh I can't answer the
[8:28:48]question as to why I think it's more for epidemiologists to answer that question as to why it's it's higher in in the north right now but I can tell you that
[8:28:58]when we look at the charts there is there is a significant difference in the in the levels in the in the northern part of the state particularly the Cleveland Akron-Canton area but we
[8:29:09]certainly anticipate that we'll see similar activity of this disease all over the state which is why I mentioned earlier we have to maintain our ability to lift and shift resources to be agile
[8:29:20]as we do that our service members our soldiers and Airmen are expecting that and that that includes the previous question also about nursing homes or other are Specialized Care Facilities to
[8:29:31]be able to allocate those resources where the crisis is most dire is something that's built into our planning for this operation and that we are incredibly Vigilant about because we
[8:29:42]know it's important to our to our mission partners one thing I would add then to your question is really that is is as Major General Harris mentioned is there is
[8:29:53]constant dialogue across across the three zones and within the three zones about the activity we monitored daily we have conversations about it we
[8:30:04]understand the pain points we understand which hospitals are a diversion because they can't accommodate that we shift patients from load balance in the
[8:30:13]regions within the zones and really what you're seeing right now is that Southwest Ohio does not have the crisis um that they do in the north and this is
[8:30:24]where this Major Harris Major General Harris mentioned is constant dialogue and now he's fully anticipate that we'll be shifting resources as this latest
[8:30:35]surge in particularly this as homo crime starts to sweep across the state uh the demand will likely shift and we'll see the deployment of the resources and
[8:30:45]assets to accommodate them but right now is um is really as overwhelmed as the hospitals are in Southwest Ohio with
[8:30:55]with coveted patients and in non-coveted care it's not in the same situation at this point in time as we're seeing in the northern part so it's the fact that we have dialogue and data that we follow
[8:31:06]on a regular basis that really determines these kind of decisions uh you know it certainly is a day-to-day conversation and I think the thing that
[8:31:16]Ohioans should feel good about is that all the hospitals have put aside any kind of differences they might have whether it's Geographic or competition or whatever it is
[8:31:26]and everybody agreed when the decision was made to send in the National Guard to our hospitals everybody agreed all the way through this we're going to
[8:31:38]be guided by where they are needed most today and so two weeks from now it may be a very different it may be different in
[8:31:46]two days or three days from now but I think it should give people confidence that everybody's on the same page here let's deploy them where they're needed
[8:31:56]needed the most next question is from Amanda huntingmatters.com 19 I've turned to the pandemic becoming
[8:32:10]the endemic can we also expect the state's Health Care system to grind to a near halt every winter impacting wait times for non-coveted care and can we expect regular National Guard deployments based on the pandemic
[8:32:22]severity and also expect another 14 000 additional deaths in Ohio every year so if it's never going to get better how is the health care administration in Ohio going to have to change to accommodate
[8:32:33]this new reality thank you well I'll let Dr vanderhoff take that but I want to start we do not expect this to last forever things will get better there's a
[8:32:43]things are going to get better I think every Doctor Who's looked at this every expert but we've got to do what we have to do today and that's what we're
[8:32:53]worried about Dr vanderhoff thank you very much Governor I would agree with your comments uh one of the things that we have to recognize is that as we look now at the Advent of Omicron
[8:33:04]as uh infectious as it is as contagious as it is the good news is it's already demonstrating that it is less likely to
[8:33:15]cause severe illness than some of the variants that preceded it there's every indication that we are in a process of moving towards a virus that is more
[8:33:25]endemic however we have to remember that uh it also means that we do have to learn to live with covid-19 which means
[8:33:36]we all have to take the reasonable and appropriate steps we need to take to protect ourselves and others from covid-19 just like we have to take those steps with other viruses that are
[8:33:47]endemic and we've learned to live with including the flu uh so I think you'll continue to hear Health Care leaders your own doctors and and other health
[8:33:57]care providers advising and recommending for example that you keep your covid vaccinations up due date that you get a covered vaccine if you haven't yet and
[8:34:09]that each winter as we Face the respiratory virus season all of us take steps to protect ourselves uh being very
[8:34:18]mindful of uh what we have to do to limit spread of respiratory viruses so I I think covid is here to be with us for
[8:34:28]the Long Haul but I I don't think any of us are anticipating uh that we will continue to live in uh at the state that
[8:34:39]we we have had to endure during these early years of of the coven pandemic next question is from Titus Wu with the
[8:34:49]Columbus Dispatch hi uh thanks for doing this um I guess my question is um first you know of the additional 1250
[8:35:01]members um that are being deployed um how many of them are you know our EMTs or your medical staff and then also you know this national uh guard deployment you know this is obviously you know a
[8:35:12]temporary fix it can't you know they can't be there forever um I guess you know and this is for anyone like what ways could there be a more kind of um a permanent solution to
[8:35:23]kind of this understanding that you know the legislator or others can can take action on yeah I mean again again we do not expect this surge to last forever it is not
[8:35:35]going to last forever um so you know when members of the Guard are deployed along our Southern border they're there for a year when they're
[8:35:45]deployed overseas it can be a lengthy time we do not anticipate anything like that uh in regard to this employee deployment but as Joe Harris said
[8:35:55]they will be there as long as they as long as they are needed but this is not something that we look at as this is how we staff our our hospitals or this is
[8:36:05]how we handle our uh Public Health problems on a permanent basis and well Dr Banner if you want to anything or general Harris
[8:36:16]yes sir I will I will I will add that we don't expect to see many medical providers clinicians in this next next wave we've been very deliberate as we've
[8:36:28]screened each one of our critical medical folks to ensure that we don't cannibalize the the capacity that already exists in the hospitals in other words if we've moved the lives of
[8:36:38]medical professional they're that person that the governor spoke of earlier they may or I'm sorry Dr Dr Wiley spoke of earlier there may be a person who's who's being pulled from a
[8:36:49]different department that's not critical to the icus or the emergency department those are the kind of medical professionals that we've mobilized and we've been very particular about that and the rest of them we need to leave on
[8:37:01]their civilian jobs in their civilian workplace so that they continue to do what they do so this next wave I don't expect to see many of the clinical medical folks in that batch simply
[8:37:11]because we've already sorted through them and mobilized what we think is safe for Ohio to mobilize without degrading the capacity of the hospitals that so desperately need it right where it is Governor I think you and the general
[8:37:25]have covered it very well thank you next questions from Alex Ebert Ed Bloomberg good afternoon folks and may you all
[8:37:35]have a blessed and better 2022 than we had this last year um this question is for Dr Wiley um last November you had a call like this with
[8:37:45]most of these people on board in which you raised alarm Bells because there were 300 individuals with the Cleveland Clinic um that had covid-19 or were quarantining um in order to protect the rest of your
[8:37:57]staff it has been quite a year sir and now it looks like you're reporting about nine-fold that amount of individuals that are out you know tell me the difference qualitatively between what's
[8:38:08]happened over the last year and what you're facing now and what life would be like at the Cleveland Clinic without the National Guard members that are that are helping us during this time thank you well let me start with the last part of
[8:38:20]that question first the National Guard has been indispensable in terms of helping us not only at the Walker testing center and decompressing our regional EDS for all the hospitals in Cuyahoga County but also in helping us
[8:38:31]staff our hospitals to deliver food trays to transport patients to do all the other non-medical interventions that we need to run a hospital we certainly have had a significant increase in the
[8:38:43]number of people out it's gone up and down throughout the year right now we're seeing an up and that's really part of the press conference today because there's a lot of things we can't control
[8:38:52]but the one thing we can control is the people who are in the hospital who have covid so eighty percent of the people in the hospital have not been vaccinated and over 90 percent of the people in the ICU have
[8:39:03]not been vaccinated so what we're really asking the public to do is to help us and start to reduce the number of people in the hospital so that we can manage all the other things we have to manage The Strokes the heart attacks the
[8:39:15]neurologic disease everything else that we need to provide medical care for the one thing that the public has control over to help us is to get vaccinated and get boosted when that time is
[8:39:25]appropriate next question is from Candace price of WHIO indeed as we continue to listen in with Ohio
[8:39:41]leaders some of you are going to be seeing a two-minute break can you all hear me now yeah thank you awesome thank you um and thank you all for doing this today I really appreciate it
[8:39:52]um my question and I'm sorry if this was already answered I had to hop off for a minute um with the situation in the state right now as bad as everyone is saying it is um are we are there plans in the near
[8:40:03]future to you know do maths demand and the sort of things that we've seen other states doing to sort of uh slow down
[8:40:13]thread right now we have no plans to mandate mask but um with what is going on today if people
[8:40:25]want their kids to stay in school and schools not have to close down not because of what the state says or medical people say but they want their
[8:40:35]kids to be able to stay in school so the teachers will be able to teach kids will not be out a lot school bus drivers will not be out a lot the best way to do that
[8:40:46]is to wear a mask and you know we're into a very difficult period of time right now we're seeing the Delta uh variant that is driving most of the
[8:40:56]hospitalizations we believe we're also seeing the Omicron which we know spreads very very quickly and is spreading across across the state of Ohio is much
[8:41:05]more contagious so again I would urge everyone to think about kids go back to school on Monday parents have your child wear a mask I know
[8:41:16]that's people don't want to do that but that is the safest thing and for school superintendents and school boards School administrators please consider putting the mass mandate on if you don't already
[8:41:27]have it on at least for a a few weeks while we are at this great great surge we don't have a practical ability to
[8:41:39]really put on a Statewide mask order at this point I don't think it's appropriate at this point we we have the vaccine we have the tools
[8:41:48]the Children's Hospital said today um very very strong letter very very powerful letter Children's Hospital
[8:41:56]saying please please have a mass mandate on when kids start back to school on Monday next question is from Dan DeRosa woil in
[8:42:10]Cleveland good afternoon Governor uh kind of on that same topic it was just announced by the Cleveland metropolitan school district that they are going remote next week that they will take that first week
[8:42:22]at least to keep kids at home is this something you see happening more and more across the state is this something you would hope would happen because of this latest surge
[8:42:34]uh look I I think none of us want to see kids out of school we want kids in school I won't go
[8:42:45]through all the reasons why we need kids in school but that's been articulated very well it's been particularly articulated by pediatricians and particularly our articulated by our
[8:42:56]children hospitals so what I would prefer is people listen to our children's hospitals in Ohio and what the children's hospitals Ohio are
[8:43:07]saying is wear a mask they're saying require mass for your school they're not saying closed schools they want your kids in school just as much as you want your kids in school but
[8:43:17]our children's hospitals are begging you knowing what Omicron has done in other countries they're saying please have children wear a mask
[8:43:27]and even for schools that have not done this for a while I would ask them to consider it it is it is it will make a difference but we want our kids in school next question is from John Reed at
[8:43:41]Governor news service good afternoon for uh Dr vanderhoff and the other medical providers on here um what there's been a lot of talk about you know the importance of vaccination
[8:43:53]what should people who are vaccinated do to reduce their risk of catching the virus to reduce the risk of spreading it if they're asymptomatic uh what what what advice do you have for people who
[8:44:04]are vaccinated well thank you thank you very much uh I I'll kick it off and then turn it to uh my my physician colleagues uh you know
[8:44:14]the good news is that a lot of Ohioans have taken the important step of getting vaccinated we have more than 6.4 million
[8:44:23]Ohioans who are fully vaccinated uh so the the first thing of course is to get the vaccine it gives you that Foundation of protection that's so important but as
[8:44:34]we know from other vaccines that we receive it's also important to keep that That vaccine up to date and that now
[8:44:46]means getting one of the two mRNA booster shots either from Pfizer or moderna and that's particularly important for people who may have gotten
[8:44:57]uh the JJ vaccine originally getting a booster with an mRNA is going to be particularly important given the fact
[8:45:07]that emerging research suggests that the MRI vaccines provide you with a greater degree of protection against Omicron
[8:45:16]that's very very important but uh we've said over and over again that while our vaccines are by Design
[8:45:26]very good at protecting you from severe illness and protecting you from Landing in the hospital uh the way our immune systems interact
[8:45:39]with this virus means that even a well-protected vaccinated person might develop some mild to moderate illness from covid-19
[8:45:50]and while that for them it will probably be like getting a cold they can spread the virus and so we all
[8:46:01]have to be thinking about at a time when there's a lot of virus spreading around what can we do in addition to vaccination to not only protect ourselves but other people and that's
[8:46:12]why when we're thinking about going into crowded environments when we're thinking about um being in indoor spaces with a number of people especially if we're in close
[8:46:24]proximity we should wear a mask let me turn to my colleagues because I'm sure that they can add a lot to this uh Dr Wily would you want to start and then maybe turn it to Dr Lofgren to sure
[8:46:35]Bruce I think you articulated it very well 55 percent of the state of Ohio of Ohio is fully vaccinated as of this morning about 38 or 39 percent are boosted so there's pull still a lot of
[8:46:47]opportunity for people to get vaccinated and even more opportunity to get boosted and those are extraordinarily important against protecting yourself and I would Echo what Dr vanderhoff just said one of
[8:46:58]the most important things if you're already vaccinated is when you're in a situation when you're around a lot of people and you don't know their vaccine status or you haven't uh and they haven't been tested recently or you're getting the family together and you're
[8:47:09]worried about other people are not vaccinated such as those less than five years age or the elderly population who will be more susceptible even if vaccinated that's a time to consider
[8:47:20]wearing a mask to protect everybody with that I'll uh turn it over to Rick yeah I think that I just echoed you know that particular this point in time when
[8:47:30]you have a variant that is as contagious as Omicron um that the importance of masking indoors is takes on a new special role um I know personally if I'm in any
[8:47:42]indoor situation I wear a mask in fact I think that the issues about even wearing these higher surgical masks are m95s to prevent the spread of this virus is
[8:47:52]important as well so if you're fully vaccinated you're doing everything to keep you and your family your neighbors safe great they've been vaccinated great that you've gotten the booster but the next thing to add is to make sure that
[8:48:03]you are wearing a mask indoors maintain social distancing the things we know make a difference and the only other thing I would add is limiting the number of people you come in contact with it is
[8:48:13]an issue about math about how many people you come in contact it goes back to limiting your bubble uh even it's just incredibly difficult during these holiday seasons but these are the things that will keep you your family and our
[8:48:25]community safe next questions from Eric Halpern at wcmh in Columbus Governor doctors named General Harris
[8:48:37]thanks for taking the time today New Year's Eve is just days away do you all have any concerns about numbers going up even more than what we're already seeing with those anticipated
[8:48:48]celebrations and I know as questions continue to be asked especially amid this Staffing shortage for their hospitals that have seen a rise in patients coming in with complications
[8:48:59]due to covet 19. we are going to be stepping away for another two minute break uh you know I think as we get ready to ring in the New Year uh our our plea as as medical professionals would
[8:49:10]be that you think about the steps that you can take to help prevent the spread of covid-19 before you gather now you've heard us uh in answering the last
[8:49:22]question talk about the importance of keeping your vaccinations up to date that is foundational that is really important but you I think also should be thinking about um
[8:49:34]maybe getting some testing before you you gather or staying home if you feel the least bit sick we've talked about
[8:49:44]masking especially in crowded indoor environments proper ventilation you know can can Windows be cracked uh can the Gathering have some component that is
[8:49:56]held out of doors on a warm day and we don't know what maybe you receive will will be like uh and regular hand washing all these things help prevent the spread
[8:50:06]of covid they help prevent flu and other respiratory illnesses um finally I I'd add that if you have
[8:50:15]symptoms of covid-19 which remember can include just mild cold-like symptoms or if you test positive it is vitally
[8:50:24]important this holiday that you stay home this is much too infectious a virus for any of us to take chances with what
[8:50:34]we think might just be a little cold or a touch of the stipples if you aren't feeling well stay home let me turn it over to Dr
[8:50:44]zweiling Lofgren to see if they have anything to add Bruce I think you covered it well Rick the only thing I would add that you
[8:50:55]touched upon Dr vanderha is the importance of actually considering the ventilation this is an aerosolized virus it really is the the air in which you breathe and so it makes a difference on
[8:51:06]terms of ventilations the HVAC systems within buildings they've hided the ceilings that kind of thing is something we don't think about all the time but those are the things that will continue to decrease the spread of this virus is
[8:51:18]it's spread through the air and sort of floats in the air and you need to think about the ventilation it's a very important added piece to of ways in which you keep yourself safe next questions from jatara McGee at WLWT
[8:51:32]in Cincinnati hi everyone thank you for holding this call uh Tara McGee with WLWT my question I know that we um clearly have an issue
[8:51:44]with illnesses in the hospitals and that impacting Staffing levels but I'm also wondering how things like vaccine mandates and burnout are impacting those Staffing numbers so when you look at the
[8:51:54]whole picture of Staff members who are on board and healthy um or maybe not healthy but on board in general how do those Staffing levels compare to last year I mean I'm also wondering if we're looking to the
[8:52:06]federal government for help I know strike teams were just deployed to Pennsylvania the other day are we considering something I'll take the first part of that we are
[8:52:18]in discussions with the federal government in regard to uh National additional help um that they have offered I don't have anything to announce at this point but we are we are talking with them the one thing I might add is that
[8:52:33]um the issue around burnout's very real uh since last year we've had a number of people in this uh nurses uh who have in fact resigned
[8:52:41]um and the you heard from uh the nurse Hollis about the emotional turmoil and Trauma that they've gone through is very real
[8:52:52]um one thing I will tell you is that our our vaccine requirements has not led to any kind of significant decrease in the Staffing levels issues in fact you know it's the fact that we've had the
[8:53:04]requirement I think is help protect our Workforce but the burnout issues and the people leaving the field you know in Cincinnati since I think it's even located we started before the pandemic
[8:53:15]with the nursing shortage we've only exacerbated it um I think they're almost 2 000 nursing vacancies in the in the greater Cincinnati area so it's a chronic
[8:53:26]problem that really was it's extremely exacerbated by the burnout of the in the demands of this pandemic at Cleveland Clinic we're following the CDC guidelines so we've not mandated the
[8:53:38]vaccine we've encouraged it strongly over 90 percent of our employees are are fully vaccinated and the an appropriate number are boosted as soon as they hit that six-month mark
[8:53:48]uh like Dr Lofgren just talked about we've lost nurses due to burnout that's I agree it's real over the course of this almost two-year pandemic at this point it's been very difficult to guide
[8:53:59]families through as we heard earlier in the in the discussion in the Intensive Care Unit where you're there alone where maybe one family member or no family members are allowed in the rooms to try
[8:54:10]to prevent spread of the virus within the hospital so these are very hard situations and we applaud the nurses but certainly recognize the stress that it's caused over the last couple of years
[8:54:22]we've been listening in with Ohio officials again talking about their concern for hospitals Staffing amid this surge we are seeing Across the Nation again
[8:54:32]hospitalizations for Pediatric patients has also gone up 30 percent increase just from last week we're going to step away for a two minute break bringing you more news stories across the country
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[8:56:47]where we keep you up to date on all the top stories coming to us from across the country a lot of our Focus today has been on coronavirus cases as we're continuing to see spikes happen Across
[8:56:58]the Nation of course this morning if you were with us and listening in the White House covid-19 response team was saying that that rise in cases is only going to continue on especially as we still have
[8:57:10]yet another holiday weekend coming up here and once more Dr fauci was urging people to make sure that they're fully vaccinated and if you are going to be doing any celebrations this weekend he
[8:57:21]encouraged everyone to be with people in small groups try to make sure you know their vaccine status as well but of course we've been keeping track of some other top stories here is actually a
[8:57:33]live look outside of the courthouse in New York where we continue to wait for the jury to make a decision after uh we've had this lengthy trial foreign
[8:57:44]Maxwell we are on verdict watch but we have also heard that the judge has talked with the jury members saying if they couldn't come to a verdict here coming up in these next few days that
[8:57:55]they would have to work through that holiday weekend so if we do hear anything else coming out of New York of course this will be something that will be jumping into if there's some breaking
[8:58:06]news of course a verdict came down we'll be sure to keep you updated on the latest right here on live now from Fox also want to give you a live look at another press conference we have coming
[8:58:17]up here outside of Houston where yet another Mega site has been opened up you can see this is a drive-through testing site for Coronavirus we are going to be
[8:58:27]hearing from the mayor Sylvester Turner you can see microphone set up he's going to be speaking out here earlier we heard from some other leaders in Texas including congresswoman Sheila Jackson
[8:58:38]Lee they were encouraging vaccinations for those children who are now eligible especially as we've all been getting together for the holidays kids are going to be returning to their schools after
[8:58:48]their winter break and they are hoping that that would help curb some of those rise in cases so this is a live look at this testing site where we will also
[8:58:58]soon be hearing from the mayor again he will be holding a news conference this coming to us out of Houston Texas so they are at Del Mar Stadium we saw some
[8:59:09]of those long long lines earlier here this morning when our Chopper was up in the air but with this press conference going to be taking place here shortly as well so did want to let our viewers know
[8:59:20]we're of course continuing to keep you up to date on the latest no matter where it is happening you can count on us to give you everything you need to know until this press conference does get
[8:59:31]started what we want to do is continue to give you some of those other updates that have been coming in here to our live now from Fox desk from across the country we did have a New York Governor hokel she was thanking health care
[8:59:43]workers urging parents and kids to get vaccinated before they do return to school on Monday she said that the state does continue to team up with locals for vaccination and testing sites the state
[8:59:54]has ordered 37 million additional tests there's an eight percent increase in bed capacity the governor did also warn people to prepare for a January surge in
[9:00:05]positive rates and hospitalization especially with the new year coming up so it's not only those get-togethers but it's also that cold weather that many of those states have to worry about when it
[9:00:17]comes to those cases and continuing to spread so let's go ahead listen into that update that the governor of New York had just moments ago takes the governor to do that right
[9:00:31][Applause] foreign governor for being here thank you for
[9:00:41]your leadership I know there's a lot of very important issues here in the North country but obviously we're dealing with covid and thank you so much for your cooperation with locals here and your
[9:00:52]leadership on that so I can't tell you what it means to have you here and touring the vaccination site and talking to our our local officials here public officials so thank you very much I want
[9:01:04]to acknowledge a few public officials here we have North Country redc co-chair Jim McKenna we have the administrator in charge of
[9:01:15]Clinton Community College John kowal our Clinton County Vice chair Bobby Hall where's Bobby Bobby back there
[9:01:24]we have Essex County chair Sean Gillen Sean we have Franklin County chair Don debut here's Don mayor of the city of Plattsburgh Chris
[9:01:35]rosenquest our very own North Country Chamber of Commerce president Gary Douglas Clinton County Administrator Mike zerlo
[9:01:47]Clinton County director of Public Health John canosa when we have him for another day cvph president Michelle LeBeau
[9:01:59]cvph vice president and chair of the North Country vaccination Hub Network Dr Wilder retsama my order's there Clinton County Sheriff
[9:02:09]and chair of the board of Clinton Community College Sheriff Dave Favreau president of SUNY Plattsburgh Dr and Yeti
[9:02:20]he's standing back there and we have many Clinton County legislators here other officials to greet you governor
[9:02:29]and I have to say again thank you for being here it's my honor and distinct pleasure to introduce
[9:02:38]the governor of New York State Kathy hokel who has done oh not yet who's done an enormous job a tremendous job and a short period of time that she's been here
[9:02:50]thank you for your cooperation with local officials and state officials that's what we really need in times like this we have many issues here in the North Country to tackle
[9:03:01]covet being the one that's right in front of us and I want to thank you for your leadership all that you've done thank you for being here I'm going to turn the podium over you our New York State
[9:03:11]Governor Kathy hokel [Applause] all right we'll get this um [Applause]
[9:03:28]thank you assembly member Jones we've had a long-standing friendship as I come through I see well we toured that site we went to that little shop we toured the downtown together so I thank you for
[9:03:39]your continued steadfast leadership and your advocacy for this region and our state capitol you're doing an incredible job so so our greatest assignment Billy Jones oh uh uh Mesa Rose mayor
[9:03:50]rosenquest uh I had a chance to uh Spotlight Tracy your wife on uh she talked about the mask requirement we had which we thought was a good alternative to having to close down businesses
[9:04:01]simply say let's make sure that the customers and the employees are safe and wearing masks or having a vaccination option so I want to thank you for the work you do in Plattsburgh but also give
[9:04:11]a special shout out to Tracy as well so um and I also had a chance to catch up on some of the projects that I helped launch as lieutenant governor you know I've been here many many times in the downtown revitalization project I'm
[9:04:23]going to continue to come back I might have to send my lieutenant governor sometimes too but you know I love coming up and so I want to make sure that those are moving on track as well really important to be a catalyst for
[9:04:33]redeveloping our downtowns as well and also many of our elected officials from the legislature I thank our chairman for being here and our our leaders from the hospital system uh Michelle LeBeau
[9:04:44]president of cvph and Dr Rice right with some vice president of cvph and also Gary Douglas is here who I work closely
[9:04:54]with for years as working on the redc working very hard in that space as well and as well as our president Sweeney Plattsburgh and our sheriff and others
[9:05:04]thanks for coming out today I wanted to come by here because there's such an incredible feeling of doing the right thing when you go to
[9:05:13]a vaccination site when a state can team up with our local Partners right here in places like Plattsburgh and other places where I was earlier today across the Norris country and say that these
[9:05:25]communities matter and is our responsibility to give them all the tools they need to help fight the pandemic and setting up a pop-up of vaccination opportunity for people as
[9:05:36]we've done right here today is one of those ways that we can work together and I want to thank everyone who's involved with this a specialty from our Doh team and the other individuals who are
[9:05:44]running this site these sites are very oriented toward making sure we let people know about them and I can have asked the media that's here please let
[9:05:54]people know if you come to this site right here at Clinton Community College there's no parking problems it's a beautiful day come on out they have over
[9:06:03]1 000 slots available I think about five or six hundred books so if I'm a parent and I'm saying the kids are home they're driving me a little nuts today let's
[9:06:13]take them out to get their vaccinations so when they go back to school on Monday and let me put an exclamation point on it back to school on Monday that they are safe so parents I'm pleading with
[9:06:23]you this is a beautiful opportunity if you live anywhere within the driving range of the Clinton Community College come by here today we also have many other sites as well this is a great
[9:06:33]facility a strong nursing program here which is why it's important to put a spotlight on there as we try to encourage more people to go into this incredible profession we are literally
[9:06:43]saving people's lives and that's what I spent the earlier part of my day doing visiting nurses and places in hospitals like Good Samaritan and others across
[9:06:54]Potsdam and Watertown I really needed to leave the capitol where I've been very focused on our coveted response and reporting to the public and working with our health Team and our operations team
[9:07:04]but sometimes you wake up and say I need to see the people who are on the front lines and those are the people that put on their uniforms every single day put
[9:07:15]on the gowns put on the mask put on the gloves and I will tell you when he's seeing their eyes I see two things I see their commitment to doing what's right they want to help people they want to be
[9:07:25]there for them but also there's an exhaustion setting in and they never dreamed that they'd be going through not one winter but two winters of this
[9:07:35]without a clear end in sight because this variant has been wildly unpredictable so when you see a health care worker even the people that were cleaning the rooms as I mentioned I said
[9:07:47]I saw Wednesday I said you're the ones that are keeping these place is sterile and safe for people thank you for even cleaning the rooms everyone in this whole Healthcare ecosystem or the people working our vaccination sites they are
[9:07:58]owed a tremendous debt of gratitude and I'll be addressing this whole industry in my State of the State address in a matter of days because we saw how much we relied on them in ordinary times but
[9:08:10]even even in these extraordinary times when we're dealing with this pandemic so places like Clinton Community College thank you for educating the next generation of health care workers a highly ranked public college and so I want to thank them I want to thank our
[9:08:22]friends at somos for a great partnership they've done an amazing job as well as everyone who's been part of this so what else can the state of New York do for the North country you know I've always
[9:08:32]felt that I come from Western New York Buffalo and you kind of feel like you're so far away from everybody normally pays attention you get that feeling here in the North Country I know you tell me and that's why I try to give all my counties
[9:08:44]all my 62 counties which I visited all of them again this year a little bit of extra attention to say no you're not forgotten I know how important you are and in areas like this it's it's beautiful we understand the high quality
[9:08:56]of life why people want to live here but in times like this Access to Health Care gets more challenging they're on a lot of hospitals down the street around a lot of facilities to go to so so creating this opportunity with the
[9:09:07]pop-up site is important but also for the North country we are also now talking about how important these enhanced masks are the K on 95s and the nine and the um the the
[9:09:18]95 the n95s we delivered over 185 000 of these Mass to the North Country alone this week encourage people to wear them get them out to the businesses
[9:09:29]where they're fulfilling their responsibility to make sure everyone who comes in is wearing a mask if you have to deliver it this is the kind you need to wear we sent over 35 000 to Clinton
[9:09:39]County alone so they are here they are very fashionable make sure you try these on they're very nicely fitted so uh I'll make a new fashion statement with your uh with your new n95 mask we also
[9:09:51]believe in testing and this as I mentioned about getting kids back to schools we are working tirelessly to talk to our school superintendents I was
[9:10:01]on a call with over 500 of them just yesterday to talk about our strategy to make sure that every child gets back into a classroom and we have tremendous respect for the teach teachers who have
[9:10:12]been through crazy times is how nicely I can say it they've been to a very bad place with trying to deal with the struggles of kids being taught remotely and they did an incredible job they did
[9:10:23]the very best they could and they care about the children in their classrooms they want to make sure they're getting the very best education but also we saw with the isolation from remote education
[9:10:34]how much that took children down to a place of just isolation and loneliness and not having that connection with other classmates and their teachers really took an emotional toll on them
[9:10:45]and we're seeing that now that's why we know we have to make sure that kids end up back in school so we are providing over 22 000 tests for schools in the
[9:10:55]North Country let's get them out there's different strategies you can employ and one would be when children return to school make sure they're tested but also
[9:11:06]what has happened before with the with the quarantine requirements in place that children are in a classroom they think they're doing well one of their classmates tests positive everybody goes
[9:11:17]home for 10 days then you come back for a week then another one test positive and you go home for another 10 days I saw this happen with people who work with me and it's absolutely maddening it is so hard for the parents to get back
[9:11:28]to work how they arrange for child care and so disruptive for the children and the teachers as well so we want to Institute fully a test to stay program
[9:11:39]and what that does is it makes sure that you have the test to be able to send home with the children put them in the backpack if someone tests positive in their class let the parents test them
[9:11:49]the next morning and send them back if it's negative test them again in a few days we'll make sure everyone has those protocols but that's why we wanted to have 3 000 of those test kits for Clinton County right there and more to
[9:12:01]come we have ordered no one saw how much we'd need test kits but we truly were ahead of this we ordered 37 million tests to be available
[9:12:12]they're not all here yet but every time a plane flies over I'm saying is that the one that's got my supplies on it because we're literally getting 500 000 here another million here and we're getting them out so they'll be there
[9:12:24]when you need them to make sure your schools have everything they need so we also I have more testing sites it's a neighboring Franklin County we have another testing site going live on
[9:12:33]Thursday and one in Malone as well I'm in Malone that's where it's going to be so Clinton County was selected to be one of six counties for part of a six-week
[9:12:44]partnership with our State Department of Health and our local Health Department this is all about supporting our rural counties make sure they get the vaccination efforts so we did have a couple of pop-ups already here on the
[9:12:54]16th and 18th of December we had over a thousand doses administered in those couple of days which is incredible and our next events will be at shipling
[9:13:04]Champlain Family Physicians Hospital in Plattsburgh on the 30th which I believe is today or today day today okay okay it's not quite New Year's Eve
[9:13:15]I'm really excited I'm so excited to say goodbye to 2021. I really want to be over uh so we have that in addition to what we're doing here today and on the eighth at the YWCA so thank you for
[9:13:25]working on that but let's so the word is out now so you can plan for that but as I'm saying this is the day to come in come right here come right now because there's we're open till seven o'clock
[9:13:36]the lines are not long there's only a few people there people seem really happy it's not stressful and so we want to make sure that we are supporting what somos is doing here today we also have a
[9:13:46]Queensbury site in the North Country so that's what we're doing here in the North Country I do want to touch on some of the Statewide numbers it's just part of this report uh Statewide we haven't had an uptick in the number of positive
[9:13:57]cases 67 000 positive cases yesterday uh that's quite High Clinton County had
[9:14:06]9615 positive cases but we also look at is it that's a factor of how many people are tested and so yesterday we did 362
[9:14:16]000 tests I think about it 362 000 tests in one day that's incredible that's incredible that shows that we've now been able to deploy the resources to make sure people can get tested and that
[9:14:28]is a very positive outcome but that does allow us to see exactly what's going on here Statewide that's 222 per hundred thousand North Country is only 47 per
[9:14:39]hundred thousand so now I don't want to get you too excited uh these are a little bit uh off numbers because of the holiday week we're not quite sure if there's a little bit of Lake time so don't rest on your
[9:14:50]laurels here continue to get vaccinated and do everything you can but a lot of people are getting tests around the holidays which we think is really smart to do sadly we lost 97 Yorkers yesterday
[9:15:01]that is not the direction we want to go it is heartbreaking to know that there's families that will not see the end of the new year with their loved one and we keep them in our prayers and 6 700 New
[9:15:13]Yorkers were hospitalized yesterday so still less than we had this time last year but you know this is an area of concern but as I always talk about what is our Hospital capacity how are we
[9:15:24]managing this can we handle the covet patients in addition to this in addition to the normal patients so we have now seen right now again this could change
[9:15:34]I'm always having to qualify this an eight percent increase in our bed capacity this is good news as we've been circling the state and monitoring where hospitals have particular needs we've been
[9:15:45]deploying individuals extra staff extra ambulances National Guard to help keep our our occupancy at a place we can handle the keeping our capacity high so
[9:15:55]we do have cases where we had to stop elective surgery but we did not want to do that Statewide because we know how crippling that can be for a hospital system we also have that in our tool
[9:16:06]chest if we need to create more bed capacity we've only had 25 hospitals we'll be suspended the elective surgeries so the North country has about
[9:16:14]27 percent vets available that's good we can go a little bit higher but you're not in the danger zone you know 10 percent are under is the danger zone and ICU beds are about 15 so we're keeping
[9:16:25]an eye on that as I mentioned we've had to deploy the National Guard to various places including the nursing home here and why do we do that if you have people who can be discharged
[9:16:35]from a hospital creating more bed space for others but you can't send them to a nursing home or a long-term care facility because they don't have enough staff then you have a log Jam in the hospital
[9:16:46]so we've sent the National Guard to really free up the capacity in the nursing homes more people can be discharged freeze up the bad space so all part of our larger strategy to make sure we're carefully calibrating our bed
[9:16:58]capacity and sending resources where we need to so we're basically preparing for a January search we know it's coming and we're naive to think it won't we just had a few days
[9:17:09]ago families travel all over the country driving some are still stranded airports if you watch the news in the morning how sad it is if you went to visit someone and you're still waiting for that plane to take off because of the quarantining
[9:17:21]rules where a lot of the airplanes Airline staff are not able to work all these reasons but people were with other people not their usual uh family so because they're with extended family and friends we do think there's going to be
[9:17:33]a spike in cases that's going to continue not just in our positive rates but also in hospitalizations and then we have New Year's be great if everybody stood outside and blew off some
[9:17:43]fireworks and not not legal don't blow off fireworks pretend fireworks you know popping the champagne and having some fun throwing some sparklers out and you know having a couple toes have a good
[9:17:54]time but if you can avoid the Gathering indoors with people that aren't part of your immediate family this would be the year to do that so so let's let's prepare for this what we also want to do is make sure we're continue to bring
[9:18:04]money to the communities to help them with their efforts today I'm proud to announce 78 million dollars in federal funds to help communities protect the vulnerable what does that mean I
[9:18:14]mentioned for example nursing homes what else can be done to help protect people in nursing homes communities non-profits municipalities can apply for this to stop the further spread
[9:18:25]through a Community Development block grant and it's administered by our homes and Community renewals so you can apply now visit hcr.ny.gov backslash Community recovery
[9:18:36]so so Mayors and communities and not-for-profits you can apply for this tell us your vision tell us where you believe the vulnerabilities are greatest in your communities maybe it's where
[9:18:47]Farm Workers gather and we need help out in those plan Farms maybe it's places and where people congregate in senior centers wherever you think you need this extra help to protect the vulnerable
[9:18:57]individuals we thank President Biden for sending that assistance as long as well as the help of the elected officials our members of Congress who did support for this Federal who did vote for the
[9:19:07]federal funding so lastly New Year's Eve is coming I do hope we can have a healthier next year but we're going to be smart New Yorkers are if we're anything we're
[9:19:18]tough we're tenacious but we're all so smart and we're going to do the right thing by continuing to share the message about getting vaccinated getting children vaccinated getting the booster
[9:19:28]shots wearing the mask and I said no I sound like a broken record but I'm going to keep repeating it because we need to remind people that this is the way out of this we're not where we were we're not as vulnerable we
[9:19:40]were this time last year we have vaccines widely available we have testing while wildly available widely available and also mine two priorities
[9:19:49]protect the health of New Yorkers and also protect the health of the economy so little coffee shops in downtown Plattsburgh you don't have to worry about being shut down because we saw the
[9:20:01]impact on our downtowns and our small businesses and all the people who lost their jobs lost their livelihoods and how hard that was on New Yorkers we came
[9:20:11]through it but now we don't have to go back there if people will do the right thing if we can up the number of people who are vaccinated and even the number of people who have that first dose it is
[9:20:22]over 95 that's one of the highest in the nation 95 have one dose what is keeping them from getting that second dose anybody vaccinated a month
[9:20:33]or more ago come in today and get your second dose get the second dose because you're not fully protected against this virus and then make sure you get that booster shot so so I do want to wish
[9:20:44]everyone a Happy New Year thank you for being such amazing Partners wonderful Partners whether you're in the not-for-profits almost okay we have been listening to Governor
[9:20:55]Kathy hokel there in New York I believe she's Upstate talking about what the planning is going to be like into the new year for the coveted response there
[9:21:05]and the Empire State she was saying that there is likely going to be the surge continuing into January she says they're not going to be naive to the fact that
[9:21:14]it will continue but she's urging especially school-aged children who are eligible to get their vaccines before they come back to the classroom uh next
[9:21:24]Monday also she was talking about New Year's Eve kind of urging New Yorkers to be cautious when they gather with friends and family to ring in the New Year we have a beautiful
[9:21:36]live look from Times Square and of course on Friday night New Year's Eve we will be ringing in the new year alongside all of you so we hope you uh
[9:21:45]tune in to live now from Fox uh with yours truly I will be following all of the really great Fireworks shows from around the country so you're not going
[9:21:56]to want to miss it so that's 8 P.M to 12 a.m Eastern on Friday night New Year's Eve as we bring in 2022 just want to give a last look because the the ball is
[9:22:07]set to drop there in Times Square as so many New Yorkers will ring in 2022 as well and remember just last week it was
[9:22:16]announced that the celebrations will be scaled back remember they are going to be taking place but there is a vaccination requirement there is a mask mandate in place for the revelers in
[9:22:28]Times Square so I want to thank everyone for being with us here on this Wednesday afternoon I'm Andrew Kraft hope you had a great Christmas holiday we have a lot more where that came from we're tracking
[9:22:38]uh all the news with the Omicron case search Nationwide but we are also tracking many uh of these trials that we await a verdict still uh and of course
[9:22:50]let's go back to New York City because we have a live look outside of the federal courthouse there in lower Manhattan as we await a verdict in the
[9:22:59]galane Maxwell trial the jury is still deliberating this is the fifth day of jury deliberations uh but today they asked the judge if they had to work on
[9:23:10]New Year's Eve and New Year's Day they also asked for transcripts of five trial witnesses to go over yet again and review while the jury deliberates so
[9:23:21]once a verdict is reached we will bring you that as soon as we get it with you know expert commentary legal analysis as we've been doing from the very beginning
[9:23:30]in galane Maxwell's Federal sex trafficking trial now of course we are also following let's head out west because we have a live look outside of
[9:23:40]the courthouse in San Jose California in the Bay Area as we await another verdict and the Elizabeth Holmes fraud trial the
[9:23:49]jury still deliberating in that case as well and we have been following that quite extensively here on live now so we're going to be monitoring these
[9:24:00]trials and these verdicts and these deliberations hopefully we'll get some type of answer in the next couple of days but we have you covered on that front uh I'm Andrew Kraft we're going to
[9:24:10]take just a quick commercial break when we come back Houston mayor Sylvester Turner speaking from a Cova testing site about the need that many and his community have when it comes to getting
[9:24:21]tested for covet 19. we'll have more on that in just a moment thank you
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[9:26:30]Fox I'm Andrew Kraft and we appreciate you being with us on this Wednesday afternoon right now we have a pretty cool live look of this uh map of the country and all the flights that are
[9:26:41]flying around this is from flightaware.com and so as you we've been reporting for the past several days many Americans have experienced a lot of
[9:26:51]delays a lot of cancellations due to you know pilot and crew Staffing shortages because of the rise in the Omicron variant myself included uh just
[9:27:01]yesterday experienced many many delays uh trying to come back uh come back to Phoenix here but right now we want to continue talking about this many of our
[9:27:12]elected leaders officials are taking action especially ramping up testing and testing sites in their Community we're going to hear now from Houston mayor Sylvester Turner speaking just moments
[9:27:23]ago from one of those really massive testing sites in his community okay let me let me thank all of you for
[9:27:46]for joining us today right here at Del Mar Stadium I'm joined joined today by uh Dr Purge director Steve Williams
[9:27:55]um a superintendent Miller House of HISD and Matt Mason the chief of staff for Curative as well as chief chief Kenya
[9:28:04]and then Janice Weaver with my my community service faith-based coordinator look in addition to Fascinations boosters and mass testing
[9:28:15]is another layer of protection that can help protect us from covid-19 and the Omicron variant and as we know the numbers have been have been surging they continue to Surge to give you some to
[9:28:27]give you some sense last week I talked about the number of city employees that were directly impacted by covet last week that number was like 400 and I want
[9:28:37]to say 450 470. today let me give a report on today's city employees if impacted by covid for Municipal
[9:28:47]Employees that number is now 286 for the Houston Police Department that number is now up to 252 and increasing and then
[9:28:58]for the Houston fire department that number is 71 that brings us a total today of city employees impacted by covet to 609 and let me tell you that is
[9:29:09]almost an all-time high even over the last 20 months on any given day so uh that's that's a that's a pretty high number that number continues to grow so let me just say let me just say this to
[9:29:21]the people in the city of Houston please be patient for example with City operations whether it's Solid Waste whether it's public works even as it
[9:29:31]relates to police and fire because a number of our city departments are directly impacted by this Omicron
[9:29:39]variant that includes even 911 311 because we have a number of employees even in those call centers that are
[9:29:48]being impacted and are not able to to work as a result you know we have changed the policy in terms of the amount of time that
[9:29:58]employees would stand down when they were affected by cobit for example when I tested positive I stood down for 10 days this is my well really this is my
[9:30:10]first day back now we're changing the policy and Dr first can speak to it even more specifically to be in line with CDC which means that if a person tested
[9:30:21]positive asymptomatic then those employees will only stand down for five days and then they're expected back at work but they must continue to wear their mask I'm
[9:30:33]certainly saying to all of my city employees that they must wear their mask while they're in the presence of other of other persons or other employees
[9:30:42]that's not an option that is that is a must so the number of city employees has a today that are impacted by covet that number is 609 and again whether they're
[9:30:54]Municipal Employees firefighters or police officers and so in many cases we're having to work through it so please let me encourage people in the
[9:31:04]city of Houston to be to be patient and that's even as it relates to our solid wage Department please please be patient and that is why we are pleased to
[9:31:14]leverage our existing network of Partners to provide robust covid-19 testing opportunities across the city of Houston and it's important for us to work with our partners because as doc as
[9:31:26]director Williams can tell you even employees within the health department have a contact contracted the covid so I
[9:31:35]have even some health employees that are impacted by by this virus and that's why we are working in collaboration with our other partners today at this site at Del
[9:31:46]Mar we're working with Curative and Matt Mason is here and he will speak on that relationship but Curative has been working with us at a number of sites throughout the city Houston and I'm very
[9:31:58]appreciative of that collaboration and they've been very very helpful we've been able to open up Del Mar Stadium because of our partnership with with the Houston Independent School District and
[9:32:08]so I really superintendent let me let me thank you as the mayor and then personally for just being a very very strong partner with the city of Houston
[9:32:18]I call Superintendent house before I came down with this covet at the covet that I had let me put that speak in the past tense and he graciously agreed to
[9:32:28]make Del Mar available and so we are here today this site has an initial capacity of 1 000 daily tests and will
[9:32:36]operate daily from 8 A.M to 6 p.m and even as of and it's by it's by appointment and I think up to this point I think they were close to having
[9:32:45]provided testing for close to 700 Matt can speak more specifically to that but we will reach that 1000 here to here today to manage traffic and say safety
[9:32:57]appointments are required for this site and please visit houstonhealth.org or call 832-393-4220 for appointment information
[9:33:08]and again I want to thank the superintendent for allowing us to use Del Mar Stadium as a testing site and as I indicated to him the city will work very closely with HISD as well as our
[9:33:20]other superintendents in our area because we want to keep our kids in school in-person learning that's a high priority and uh but I'll leave that to
[9:33:31]superintendent house to address the Houston's latest 14-day average in terms of covid-19 positivity rate is 17.3 percent that is up from 7.8 percent last
[9:33:42]week and 4.8 percent the previous week so as you can see the positivity rate is still increasing in the city of Houston to meet the needs of increased demand for testing and that is the number one
[9:33:54]asked for testing the city will continue to look for additional testing opportunities throughout the rest of this well this month will end in a few
[9:34:05]days and into January prior to this particular site the full capacity for the City of Houston in terms of testing was about 27 000. this will add another
[9:34:16]thousand and then we are going to be partnering with some others next week as early as Wednesday of next week and let me just go ahead and announce this a
[9:34:25]ummc will then provide testing capability at at Butler stadium and that that that daily average will be one thousand so that will be Ed Butler
[9:34:37]Stadium um MC will provide testing and again that would be a thousand divaco d-a-v-a-c-o will offer will offer
[9:34:46]testing at Minute Maid Park Lot C that's starting tomorrow and will have an initial capacity of 400 but they have the ability to increase that testing number that will start
[9:34:58]tomorrow men and made Lot C and then uh on next week I believe that's starting on Wednesday if I'm not mistaken uh direct Williams for Express covid
[9:35:09]testing that will be at Dave and Buster and they on Richmond and they will have the capacity to provide testing up to a
[9:35:18]thousand as well the goal is by the end of next week when more people will be returning from their holidays coming back into the City and I'm sure that the
[9:35:30]demand will be even higher next week the goal will be able to take the city's daily testing capacity from where we were as of yesterday twenty seven thousand uh two thirty five thousand or
[9:35:40]more by the end of next week and so I want to thank director Williams for just being in his health department for being very aggressive at reaching these numbers he's saying to me that we can
[9:35:52]get there so by the end of next week the goal will be to increase our testing capacity from 27 to 35 000 by the end of next week and I really want to thank the health department for
[9:36:04]for assisting in that area I haven't said that let me let me stop for the moment and let me first bring up director Williams okay we have been listening to Houston
[9:36:18]mayor Sylvester Turner and officials there from the public health department uh discuss how they plan on ramping up testing in one of Texas's biggest cities one of the country's largest cities
[9:36:30]there they're speaking from this covet testing site this drive-through testing site and this is all amid a rise in Omicron cases Nationwide the country
[9:36:41]surpassing its all-time on average daily record just a couple of days ago for cases Nationwide right now though we do have some breaking news to report we
[9:36:52]want to just show you uh the Dow Jones right now uh we're just getting this in the Dow has hit an all-time high at the moment trading is not done just yet for
[9:37:03]the day it will close in a couple of hours but the Dow Jones Industrial Average just touched an all-time intraday high it's on track for its first record close since November the
[9:37:15]8th of this year and so right now the Dow the S P 500 are on track to close in record territory uh today
[9:37:26]though it must close it must finish up more than 34 points to reach uh that record close for the day but just wanted
[9:37:36]to get that in there for all of you tracking everything related to the stock market the Dow Jones having a very very good day very record day as well we also
[9:37:47]have some news we want to report out of politics and foreign policy circles at the moment because we learned earlier today that the White House put out and
[9:37:57]announced that the president and Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a call tomorrow over security demands and
[9:38:06]of course this is the second a very visible high profile call coming in just a month between the two leaders they will speak tomorrow as Putin has stepped
[9:38:16]up his demands for security guarantees in eastern Europe while maintaining an unsettling buildup of troops near Russia's border with Ukraine of course
[9:38:25]President Biden spending the Christmas holiday at his beach house in Rehoboth Beach Delaware but he will take the call from there according to a National
[9:38:35]Security Council spokeswoman she said the two leaders will discuss a range of topics including upcoming diplomatic engagements the talks come as the U.S
[9:38:45]and Western allies have watched the mass scene of Russian forces along the border growing to an estimated 100 000 and fueling fears Moscow is
[9:38:55]preparing to further invade Ukraine early next year also Secretary of State blinken spoke today with Ukrainian President Vladimir zielinski so we'll be
[9:39:07]following all the latest when that call does take place tomorrow we'll be bringing on some of our friends our National Security Experts to discuss
[9:39:15]what might be happening in the run-up to a possible military escalation between Russia and Ukraine so that's on the table for this call tomorrow also
[9:39:26]nuclear arms control treaties are on the agenda as well uh and this was requested by the Russians this call tomorrow Biden is expected to stress to Putin that the
[9:39:38]United States is united with it with its allies but will demonstrate a willingness to engage in quote principled diplomacy with Russia this is according to the Associated Press for
[9:39:50]now though we do want to take just a quick commercial break of course we were listening to Houston mayor Turner there but many other cities around the country are holding updates and letting the
[9:40:00]public know what they need to know as far as safety precautions uh and the like for New Year's Eve celebrations Nationwide we'll have that and more in just a moment thank you
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[9:42:13]taking a live look right now in Midtown Manhattan looks to be pretty foggy and rainy but just days away for the New Year's Eve celebrations there uh Times Square not too far from where you're
[9:42:23]looking right now of course the celebrations will be scaled back this year and that leads me to preview our celebrations here on live now from Fox
[9:42:33]please join Yours Truly to follow and kind of Revel in all these Fireworks shows from around the country uh we'll be hosting from 8 P.M to 12 a.m Eastern
[9:42:43]on New Year's Eve to ring in 2022 but like I said before the break many leaders around the country are you know urging their citizens their constituents
[9:42:53]to know take precautions especially with this rise in Omicron cases the kova 19 variant so we heard from one today Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot letting
[9:43:03]Chicagoans know what's in store for New Year's Eve and what can they expect foreign executive director of the Chicago office
[9:43:23]of emergency management Communications as Chicagoans get ready to ring in the New Year we want to remind everyone to do so safely Public Safety is our number one priority and the city remains ready
[9:43:33]to respond to all safety hazards with City measures to ensure a safe New Year's Eve celebration the 1.5 mile long display is set to begin at midnight and will be launched
[9:43:44]from five Bridges and Two River launch points along the main branch of the Chicago River the display can be viewed along the Chicago River from Wolf point near the Franklin and Orleans Street bridge to
[9:43:55]Columbus Drive and East to Navy Pier fireworks will also be broadcast live on WGN TV for safety precautions viewing will not be allowed from the Chicago Riverwalk
[9:44:06]oemc is urging pedestrians motorists Spectators and residents to be aware of closures and the central business district during this event at 4 pm the Chicago Riverwalk will close
[9:44:18]east of State Street to all pedestrian traffic the remainder of the Riverwalk west of State Street will be closed based on public safety and operational needs beginning at 11 PM complete closures to
[9:44:29]all vehicular and pedestrian traffic will go into effect for the following Bridges Franklin in Orleans LaSalle Street Clark Street Dearborn Street and
[9:44:40]State Street also at 11 PM eastbound upper middle and Lower Wacker Drive will be closed the vehicular traffic from Lake Street to Stetson Avenue
[9:44:49]we anticipate all streets and bridges to reopen to vehicular traffic approximately 10 minutes after the firework display or when deemed safe to
[9:44:58]do so around 12 30 a.m on Saturday January 1st safety measures will also be in place on the river boats will not be allowed to
[9:45:08]Transit with within the U.S Coast Guard safety zone which includes the area west of the Franklin Street bridge and continuing east of the Columbus Drive Bridge
[9:45:18]traffic controllers will be on hand as always public transportation is strongly encouraged for official information and impacts on CTA service and routes in the area visit CTA website at Transit
[9:45:29]Chicago dash dot I'm sorry.com CTA will once again provide free Bus and Rail rides beginning at 10 pm on Friday
[9:45:39]December 31st until 4 a.m and Saturday January 1st oemc will continue to monitor all city-wide events activities traffic and
[9:45:49]weather conditions from the operations center our 911 floor and coordinate Public Safety resources as needed with the Chicago Police Department Chicago Fire Department and infrastructure
[9:45:59]departments while we make every effort on behalf of the city to keep residents and visitors safe we want everyone to know that they have a role to play as well the public is encouraged to be aware of
[9:46:10]their surroundings and report suspicious activity posing an immediate Threat by calling 9-1-1 if you see something say something by notifying on-site security or call 9-1-1 stay informed of
[9:46:22]emergencies oemc issues several alert notifications to receive notified Chicago texts and email alerts residents can subscribe and notifychicago.org or visit
[9:46:33]chicago.gov oemc I want to wish everyone a safe healthy and happy New Year now please welcome mayor Lori Lightfoot come here
[9:46:47]good morning everyone and thank you Rich for uh setting the table for this important discussion around uh plans for the end of the year both from a public
[9:46:58]safety but also from a public health perspective here today to not only share our
[9:47:11]comprehensive plan to protect your well-being during one of the busiest holidays of the year but also to bring into New Year safely from a public health and Public Safety perspective at
[9:47:22]home and Community safety perspectives as well we put together a number of precautions in place and each leader that's gathered here today will speak to the specific plans for which they're responsible but
[9:47:33]rest assured planning for New Year's Eve starts weeks out we have a comprehensive plan that we all have confidence in but it really depends upon each of you doing your part as well
[9:47:45]in the meantime I want to especially highlight a few uh issues starting first with public health I don't need to remind any of you that we're still in the throes of this pandemic and are
[9:47:56]grappling with the spread of the new Omicron variant which is more transmissible as we're seeing than its counterparts we are still seeing cases rise meaning that we need to be careful
[9:48:06]in Social Gatherings if you're planning on bringing in the new year with loved ones in an indoor setting not only is it vital to be vaccinated and boosted but also to know
[9:48:18]19 status that's why as Dr already will explain in more detail shortly we are recommending to everyone even those who are vaccinated to consider getting a
[9:48:28]covid-19 test before Gathering indoors with a large group and encouraging anybody who's participating with you to do exactly the same I know a number of folks have
[9:48:39]started doing this for weeks but it's a good practice to get in the habit of doing particularly around New Year's Eve and New Year's Day festivities tests can help protect on vaccinated
[9:48:51]children older individuals those who are immunocompromised are individuals at risk of severe disease as well it was further prevent the spread of covid-19
[9:49:02]through households and venues across Chicago Community spread is the biggest challenge that we are facing right now and we've got tools at our disposal to
[9:49:12]make sure that we can address that starting with getting yourself vaccinated speaking of venues I also remind want to remind folks that the mass mandate for
[9:49:24]Chicago remains in effect meaning that a mask is required and all public indoor settings across the city no exceptions many venues will also require proof of
[9:49:35]vaccinations or a negative covet test for entry and as we all now know starting Monday January 3rd any individual age five or older and the
[9:49:45]City of Chicago will be required to show proof of full vaccination to dine indoors visit gyms or enjoy entertainment venues where food and
[9:49:55]drinks are served we are thankful to the establishments that have chosen to implement this vaccination requirement ahead of schedule and many have so please folks if you haven't already
[9:50:06]make vaccinated or help one of your unvaccinated loved ones make theirs that's the best New Year's resolution that you can do and embrace so get your
[9:50:17]go get your booster shot and get a covid-19 test before you participate in any indoor festivities second we can prevent General disturbances and violent crime always
[9:50:28]every day 24 7. and it with regard to New Year's Eve the Chicago Police Department and partners across the city are prepared for large crowds throughout
[9:50:40]the evening of Friday December 31st New Year's Eve and well into the weekend the superintendent Brown will speak to those issues and those plans momentarily many people will be out about downtown
[9:50:51]including children and we want our children to be able to enjoy the richness and greatness of the city and they are of course welcome anywhere but they should be accompanied by
[9:51:03]okay we have been listening to mayor of Chicago Lori Lightfoot there talk about the preparations being made for the city's New Year's Eve celebrations uh she's urging people uh to go get
[9:51:14]vaccinated uh before gathering with their family and friends to ring in the New Year and speaking of that we have a pretty gloomy foggy shot of Midtown
[9:51:24]Manhattan and this is very very close to Times Square of course we have been reporting that uh the Times Square New Year's Eve celebrations will be scaled back this year there will be a mask
[9:51:34]mandate in place and a vaccination requirement in place we're also learning just a couple of days ago that San Francisco's New Year's Eve fireworks show was canceled due to concerns over
[9:51:45]public health and safety amid the ongoing surge of covid-19 cases that decision made by mayor London breed and City Public Safety leaders we're also
[9:51:55]just learning as well unfortunately this is coming to us from Fox 5 Atlanta that in in that City for New Year's Eve the
[9:52:05]peach drop which is like the ball drop in New York City will not be happening the past two have been canceled due to the ongoing covid-19 pandemic so uh yet another city
[9:52:17]canceling their New Year's Eve celebrations the peeps drop in Atlanta is canceled we are going to take just a quick two-minute commercial break when we come back we'll have more on these
[9:52:28]top headlines on this Wednesday afternoon thanks for being with us thank you
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[9:54:35]on this Wednesday afternoon I'm Andrew Crafton we want to thank you for being with us hope you had a great Christmas holiday there are still a lot of headlines left to get to even though many of you are probably enjoying time with family and friends hopefully it's
[9:54:47]relaxing hopefully you didn't have a flight canceled or delayed we have this map up of the country you can see all the flights up in the air at the moment this is from flightaware.com but we had
[9:54:58]been reporting over the last several days many cancellations many delays from basically every Airline major airline due to some of the Staffing shortages
[9:55:09]some due to weather as well and so holiday travel has been quite hectic for many Americans we're also monitoring as well this live look out of New York City
[9:55:20]in lower Manhattan at the moment where the jury is still deliberating it's the fifth day of jury deliberations in the glane Maxwell trial and so we have been learning from inside the courtroom today
[9:55:32]uh the jury had some questions for the judge wanted to review some of these transcripts from Witnesses yet again as they continue to deliberate in the
[9:55:43]federal sex trafficking trial of Elaine Maxwell former confidante of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and so once a verdict is
[9:55:54]reached we will be bringing on Experts legal experts to give their analysis and once that happens we'll bring that to you here we're also following all the
[9:56:04]latest out of San Jose California with the Elizabeth Holmes trial the jury as well still deliberating in her fraud
[9:56:14]case with her now defunct company theranos and of course she took the stand in her own defense Maxwell did not and of course we do have a really foggy
[9:56:25]live look we want to keep it in New York just go uptown a bit there's Midtown Manhattan and you can see kind of Times Square as they prepare for the ball drop
[9:56:35]to ring in 2022 and we of course will be doing the same here on live now from Fox and we hope you join uh Yours Truly here
[9:56:44]to ring in the new year showing you so many of these fireworks presentations and shows from across the country it should be a really spectacular program
[9:56:54]although we were just reporting that some cities are choosing not to go through with their New Year's Eve celebrations like San Francisco and Atlanta due to the spread in the Omicron
[9:57:05]variant for now though let's head back out to Chicago as they are still making preparations for how they will be celebrating New Year's Eve what security precautions are taking place in Chicago
[9:57:17]here's mayor Lori Lightfoot and if they're coming on their own is
[9:57:27]vitally important that they must be respectful to others we have Community norms and we expect those to be upheld particularly with our young people regardless parents or Guardians make
[9:57:39]sure that you know where your kids are on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day Of course that should be a thing but it's worth lifting up no child should be unsupervised or I know their whereabouts
[9:57:51]unknown when it comes to New Year's Eve or New Year's Day and do not simply drop them off downtown and hope for the best that is simply not responsible and I say this as a parent
[9:58:02]we all have a responsibility as parents or or somebody who's a caretaker for a young person to be responsible for the children that are trusted in our care
[9:58:13]and a word to our young people and older adults and I will say the same thing that you I say to my child it's okay to have fun but there are always limits particularly when you're out in public
[9:58:25]you must must be respectful of others that means their people their person but also their property and simply put if
[9:58:35]you're going to come downtown you've got to do so with the right Spirit to have fun but not to cause Mischief or Worse commit crimes and as my mother would tell me if you go out in public and you
[9:58:47]act a fool there's going to be accountability so have fun enjoy yourselves be careful but be respectful of the rights of others
[9:58:57]including the person and their property and as I've said previously many people will be out and about this weekend making our mission to protect Public Safety all the more important and
[9:59:07]pertinent we want people to enjoy the holiday without having to worry about whether or not they are going to be In Harm's Way that's why we're not going to hesitate to take any action necessary
[9:59:18]against someone who crosses the line and commits a crime that endangers Public Safety and as director guidas mentioned we must be safe and Vigilant especially
[9:59:28]in crowds like the ones that will likely form across around the Riverwalk during the fireworks show so please if you see something don't hesitate to say
[9:59:38]something I report any suspicious activity to 9-1-1 there will be also plenty of police downtown so if you need to go to a police officer and let them
[9:59:48]know that you're seeing something right then and right there and they will take action finally when it comes to Home and Community safety we plan on doing everything that we can to keep people
[9:59:58]safe under their own roof but again that depends upon you as many of you know we've had some horrible fires lately so
[10:00:08]first Deputy fire commissioner Mary Sheridan will talk about general safety in our homes and what you can do to make sure your home is protected not only over this weekend but throughout the
[10:00:19]course of the winter so we're calling on everyone to limit large household Gatherings and do not ring in the New Year by firing off a firearm let me say
[10:00:30]that again don't ring in the New Year by firing off a firearm bullets go up but they also come down and every single year when someone makes that tragic
[10:00:40]stupid mistake injuries happen so please folks there's lots of ways that you can celebrate safety but firing off the firearm at midnight show you one of them
[10:00:51]as we go into 2022 covet is reminding us again that we have to think not only about ourselves but our our higher community and City
[10:01:00]after all tributes to the overall protection and safety of everyone in every Community I know this year has been very difficult
[10:01:10]and truthfully the last two people are fatigued people are frustrated people are angry but now is the time for us to take stock to refresh
[10:01:22]ourselves and renew and move forward into the next year with a new commitment to do our part to make sure that we protect ourselves we protect our families we protect our community be
[10:01:33]smart about Public Safety but also be smart about public health that's the way that we can start to put the pandemic behind us let's keep doing the ring by protecting
[10:01:44]ourselves and others so that we may all safely ring in the New Year and with that I'll invite superintendent Brown to come to the podium
[10:01:55][Applause] thank you mayor and good morning um and thank you to Richard guidas for
[10:02:05]hosting us here at OMC I'm glad to be standing here beside many of our city and Public Safety Partners to discuss our plans for this upcoming weekend
[10:02:14]it's no secret that this holiday is a busy busy time for the Chicago Police Department but as many toast the new year with family and friends the men and women of
[10:02:25]the Chicago Police Department will be working to keep everyone safe I want to first thank all the police officers for the Chicago Police Department for their dedication and to include our civilian members for their
[10:02:37]dedication to keeping everyone safe we've extended our officers hours we've canceled days off in order to maintain a visible presence
[10:02:49]and have the capacity to deal with multiple challenges in our neighborhoods in our entertainment venues and in our retail corridors while we encourage everyone to have fun
[10:03:00]as the mayor has mentioned and to celebrate if there are Criminal the appropriate action
[10:03:12]constitutionally legally respectfully but we will take the appropriate action
[10:03:20]safety Public Safety is our top priority and criminal conduct will not be tolerated let me say that one more time
[10:03:30]Public Safety is our priority but criminal conduct will not be tolerated
[10:03:39]we want to deter any trouble before it happens additionally residents can expect to see an increased CPD presidents in our public transit system as well
[10:03:50]we will have officers in and around CTA stations and help every Rider get to and from their destination as safely as possible
[10:04:01]I want to remind everyone watching that as as neighbors we owe it to one another to make sure we are doing everything we can to celebrate safely and responsibly
[10:04:12]with that said I am now speaking directly to the parents of young children I'm a parent of a 15 year old please please make sure you know where
[10:04:22]your children are and where they're headed this holiday Do not drop them off unsupervised anywhere in our city I want
[10:04:33]to be clear if they or anyone of any age are found engaging in criminal conduct they will be arrested
[10:04:43]repeat that one more time if your children your young people or any age are found to be engaged in criminal conduct they will be arrested
[10:04:55]but my daughter asked me repeatedly she's 15 year old can I just go hang out with my friends and it's it is a constant refrain for
[10:05:06]teenagers I'm sure across the city but it is not responsible to send your kids out to hang out with their friends without supervision
[10:05:17]let me share my response okay where are we going where are we going because I'm going to well my wife is going to with your friends to go hang out and I hope that
[10:05:28]each of the parents listening can share that same refrain you want to go hang out with your friends we're going to hang out with with your friends as well the parents
[10:05:39]lastly do not do not shoot guns off into the air to make uh to bring in a new year what goes up the law of gravity tells us
[10:05:50]must come down in many instances people are not even aiming in the air they're aiming at an angle that will the trajectory will strike someone
[10:06:01]across the city so do not shoot guns off in celebration of New Year's a safe and Happy New Year's Eve for
[10:06:11]everyone is our shared goal so we're reminding everyone to think and act responsibly we all want to be uh safe this this
[10:06:20]weekend and we share that aspiration for every chicagoan and there's no reason it can't be if we all all of us not just law enforcement
[10:06:30]all of us do our part with that I'm going to turn it over to chief of Patrol Brian McDermott to share further details into our weekend planning thank you
[10:06:42]right thank you superintendent as New Year's Eve and New Year's Day approach the department will continue to
[10:06:53]coordinate all of its resource resources to ensure a safe holiday season not only in the downtown area but in every neighborhood across the city your entire department will have days off cancel starting Friday morning
[10:07:05]December 31st with a return to normal operations on Sunday morning January 2nd we will have additional Personnel strategically deployed across the city in our violence zones on all platforms
[10:07:16]at our retail corridors and in the central business district on North Michigan Avenue and in and around the Millennium Park area the Emergency Operations Center or EOC is up and running
[10:07:27]CPD Command Staff members will work side by side our partners at the office of emergency management Communications to monitor all major incidents across the city there are multiple fireworks displays at
[10:07:38]Navy Pier at the Riverwalk and on five Bridges at Franklin Street LaSalle Dearborn Clark and State Street RDO Personnel from the first and the 18th districts from the Bureau of
[10:07:49]detectives from the critical critical incident response team from training and support group Public Safety headquarters will be assigned to assist with traffic control and any potential large crowds
[10:08:01]the department has a comprehensive plan in place to deal with any large Gathering whether it occurs in a neighborhood or an essential business district the plan includes coordination with
[10:08:12]multiple City agencies including bacp the building department and the Chicago Fire Department we have communicated and coordinated with Chambers of Commerce and hotel associations we have
[10:08:23]coordinated all right and looks like Chicago there
[10:08:36]over with that that update for what they are planning to do to make sure Chicagoans are safe and secure when they're celebrating New Year's Eve and
[10:08:47]so we were also keeping up there the Dow Jones Industrial Average the the market will be closing a little less than two hours and of course a very foggy New York City as the big output prepares for
[10:08:58]their own New Year's Eve celebrations I'm Andrew Kraft we want to thank you for being with us on this Wednesday afternoon we're going to take just a quick commercial break when we come back we are still remembering the life of NFL
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[10:11:15]this is Andrew Kraft just wanted to throw up the national temperatures right now you can uh wherever you're watching uh check out uh the highs and lows from
[10:11:25]where you are at the moment Phoenix Arizona was quite rainy last night it's still a little cooler on average than normal 54 degrees for the last remaining
[10:11:36]days of December here and so we're going to be moving on to some of these other top headlines of course the sad news that came just yesterday from the NFL
[10:11:47]John Madden dying at the age of 85 last night and the tributes and the remembrances have been pouring in and I just want to read one from Fox News
[10:11:58]contributor Jim Gray who told Fox news's Mike Emanuel today that he was the most popular figure in the history of the
[10:12:08]National Football League Fox's Martha McCallum takes a look back at his incredible life John Madden's booming voice and
[10:12:20]commanding stature will always be associated with football born in 1936 in Minnesota his family moved to California where he was a star of football and baseball player the sports legend began
[10:12:31]his professional football career as the Oakland Raiders linebacker coach in 1967. two years later the 32 year old Madden became the youngest head coach in the American Football League in 10
[10:12:42]seasons he led the Raiders to eight playoff appearances and one Super Bowl title in 1977. he retired in 1979 and quickly transitioned to the broadcast
[10:12:52]Booth winning 13 Emmy Awards while working on all four networks now they're really mixing it up in there hey watch this they're really mixing it up in
[10:13:02]there famous for not liking airplanes Madden traveled to games and custom-built buses known as the Madden Cruiser well known for his Dynamic style the American sportscaster Association
[10:13:13]twice named Madden sports Personality of the Year some people they you know they run in there and they Clyde or something I mean it's in their pool that's what I
[10:13:24]say fans and players enjoyed his tradition of handing out turkey legs to the MVPs at the Thanksgiving Day game Madden also lent his name and expertise
[10:13:33]to popular EA Sports video game Madden NFL applying the same principles he did on the field you never stay the same you say okay
[10:13:43]we're the top game let's just stay right there let's stay right there on top point you don't because the minute you say we're okay we're going to stay there you slip I'll guarantee you that you have to say okay we're here but we're
[10:13:55]going to get better he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2006. Martha McCallum Fox News Martha thanks for that really great look
[10:14:09]back at his life and we have been speaking with uh many sports contributors as well my colleague Regina Gonzalez spoke with one from Fox Sports today uh going a little deeper into his
[10:14:20]incredible life remembering John Madden dead at the age of 85 just last night the same you can say okay we're the top game let's just stay right there let's
[10:14:31]stay right there on top point you don't because the minute you say we're okay we're going to stay there you slip I'll guarantee you that you have to say okay we're here but we're going to get better some wise words are from NFL legend John
[10:14:47]Madden unfortunately passing away unexpectedly yesterday at the age of 85. ever since we learned of this news we've brought you all of the latest developments here on a live now from Fox
[10:14:59]as we continue to honor and learn more about his career as not only a player but a coach and then turned famous sports broadcaster so in order to do
[10:15:11]that I do want to welcome on a guest who's joined us several times for sports coverage before he is a Fox Sports contributor his name is Rich Salgado and he is joining us here on live now from
[10:15:22]Fox this morning Rich how are you thank you so much for being with us how are you doing uh I'm doing great thank you for having me it's uh you know I'm up here up in
[10:15:32]the Northwest so it's a little chilly up here but other than that okay yeah I see you got your hat on thank you so much for uh joining us we did want to contact you for uh this unfortunate news such
[10:15:42]sad news for the Sports World Rich so uh you know it's kind of backtrack for our viewers who may not be familiar with John Madden uh can we first talk about
[10:15:53]you know kind of take us through a timeline obviously he started off as a football player himself what can you tell us well he uh I know he started at Oregon
[10:16:05]University and then he uh transferred but uh he had a short career because he had hurt his knee so um obviously when players are left with
[10:16:16]a choice of not being able to play anymore most of them get into coaching and uh obviously you know he's John
[10:16:24]Madden is football he is legendary he is you know everything you could think of when you talk football so uh he started
[10:16:35]at 32 years old which is the youngest uh you know it's a very young age for an NFL head coach to be named you know back in those days uh now you're seeing eight
[10:16:45]you know guys being 33 34 being head coaches but back then uh that was uh a Monumental uh announcement when he was named head coach of the uh Oakland
[10:16:57]Raiders yeah and he obviously had a very prominent history with the Raiders can you talk to us a little bit about that
[10:17:05]rich you know I understand that he uh let he led them to a number of playoff games and then a Super Bowl also
[10:17:15]yeah he was he was Mr Raider he was the Raiders um obviously I wasn't around uh to be there alive to see all of it but you
[10:17:26]know from the stories he was a player's coach he let the players play and you know obviously they were very well known
[10:17:34]for uh being very aggressive very do whatever it took to win kind of attitude and and he only commanded certain things from the players he just wanted everyone
[10:17:45]to be on time he wanted everyone when he was talking or teaching to listen and third just go out there and play as hard
[10:17:54]as you could and he was happy and and look he went to I believe it was five AFC championship games where she lost
[10:18:04]but uh he finally got the brass ring you know after that and I mean like I said everyone who knows football
[10:18:13]John Madden is synonymous with football and also the Raiders yeah and you know something as we've been playing obituary uh stories all
[10:18:24]morning long ridges you know something that you just mentioned as as a coach it's so important to have that relationship with your players and it didn't matter what they did from what
[10:18:34]I've learned he was always there for them supporting their every move and challenge am I right you're a hundred percent right he you
[10:18:44]know him and Al Davis I guess the uh you know obviously the owner who also passed away they had this attitude of it was like giving a second chance you know
[10:18:54]they didn't care where the guy came from what background he had what issues they had as long as you came to work and had the mindset that you want to win
[10:19:06]and win at all costs and get it done that's the I that's the site you are uh mentality that uh you know John Madden brought to the Raiders
[10:19:17]and now we have to talk about that amazing presence that he had when it came to the broadcast industry so rich what can you tell us about how he went
[10:19:28]from coaching turned a really prominent figure when it came to uh the Sports World and television he was just one of those type of guys
[10:19:39]that what you saw is what you got and he was himself like he didn't go and become this actor and change and uh you know be
[10:19:49]phony I mean when you were a kid like when I was growing up I always looked forward to you know Summerall and Matt and they were the team they were the
[10:19:59]guys that you wanted to listen to and and if you ask players and coaches from that era they would all say the same thing they were ecstatic that John Madden was calling the game you know he
[10:20:10]was going to be on the field and he was going to be talking about them and he really he was like I I you could actually call him the dean of uh you
[10:20:22]know uh color commentating or TV announcing because he just had his own Flair his own style and the words that came out of his mouth sometimes I mean
[10:20:32]they were hysterical but as a football person you understood it and he also he coached as well
[10:20:41]while he was on TV and what I mean by that is you know he would draw things on the board or you know as times got fancier where you can draw on the screen and this and that he really explained
[10:20:52]the game of football and I'll tell you he's been missed already from leaving the booth but now you know may he rest in peace but he is definitely
[10:21:03]legendary and iconic and all sorts of professors yeah and obviously even television Rich was not enough I know even as a kid I didn't play video games
[10:21:14]too much but I feel like at some point you had to have played uh Madden Sports what can you say about the line of video games that he then released to the public that are still literally going
[10:21:26]strong today I mean that is incredible you know you want to talk about taking one career and and turning in a new career into a
[10:21:36]new career and then all of a sudden now you are the game I mean Madden football
[10:21:44]is such a big deal to this day I mean if you think about if you go back into the uh late 1990s early 2000s you had NFL
[10:21:55]players that were fortunate to be on the cover of this game I mean it was that big of a deal then it turned into the Madden Pole where you had uh players
[10:22:07]from all over the NFL playing each other then you have people playing against NFL players and I mean that that is so legendary that will go on way beyond our
[10:22:18]time and I mean it's just uh it's a career that you definitely would want to learn about obviously if you want to learn about the game of football
[10:22:28]and learn about the coach and learn about John Madden it would be there's a whole glossary of stuff that you can learn and find out
[10:22:38]about him yeah and by the way Regina I wasn't I will say this about Madden I wasn't that good he you know at it I uh I gave it a shot and uh you know I'll
[10:22:49]stick to watching it on TV and I'll stick to uh my my role in ensuring professional football players not playing a game I know I wasn't good at
[10:22:59]it either I tried I definitely tried every time my friends had it I would give it a shot but can say that I was a pro at that game uh you know Rich kind of summing it all up especially as we uh
[10:23:10]literally just uh this past weekend I know that on Fox Sports they made a whole documentary about uh John Madden's life you know to sum it all up what do
[10:23:19]you think uh the sports industry will remember him for most when we look back now at his life and Legacy what are those prominent marks that he has made
[10:23:30]in the NFL you know what if I could sum it up in one word I would say success and and the reason I say that is because
[10:23:41]he he was successful at three different levels the coaching the TV the gaming industry uh the video gaming industry
[10:23:53]not many people have a run like that and to see that happen and to like actually watch it grow in front of you because you know obviously I'm I'm old enough to
[10:24:03]have seen him as a coach I've gotten to meet him as the TV commentator and and then obviously the gaming uh component to this whole thing but I I think John
[10:24:15]Madden is success and also a winner and a real person who really told you how he
[10:24:24]felt and he told you in his own way and he shared a lot of knowledge with a lot of people in his own way and I think everyone should be grateful that we were
[10:24:35]fortunate enough to be a part of his life whether it was personally or through television or through business whatever the case yeah definitely well Rich we thank you
[10:24:45]so much for uh joining us this morning to talk all about his prominent career and the mark that he has made in the National Football industry so uh we hope that you have a happy and healthy New
[10:24:56]Year and we'll be chatting with you again soon thank you so much for being with us you got it Regina Happy New Year to you and the family and the you know save some sun for us people up here up north
[10:25:07]when you get a chance all right as we continue to take a look back at his life and Legacy we are going to be continuing to listen into more people
[10:25:18]weigh in with our Fox 11 team 6 46 he reached the absolute Pinnacle in three different professions coaching
[10:25:27]broadcasting and video gaming and he left an indelible mark on each of them Hall of Fame football coach John Madden passed away unexpectedly yesterday at
[10:25:37]the age of 85. the former Raiders coach led the silver and black to their first Super Bowl win and he was just as successful when he made the jump to broadcast booth and he was a just such a
[10:25:49]beloved figure in that role and then of course there's a video game that bears his name it is one of the most popular franchises ever now just last week Brooke Thomas spoke to Tom Rinaldi about
[10:26:00]all Madden the documentary he executive produced and directed which aired for the first time on Christmas Day and Tom joins us now again to uh to talk about
[10:26:10]this loss I mean talk about the timing of it I don't know if you had any clue because from what I'm hearing this was sort of unexpected but a lot of people
[10:26:21]know a lot about John Madden from video games they don't necessarily know a lot about his coaching Legacy certainly the later generations talk a little bit more about that and good morning to you
[10:26:32]good morning to you Tony yes certainly crushing and heartbreaking news for all of us that Fox Sports John was our Collective coach and Cornerstone and
[10:26:42]we're so saddened by the news and our hearts and prayers have gone out to Virginia his wife and Joe and Mike his sons and his five grandchildren you're
[10:26:52]right Tony for a younger generation of folks many of whom likely just received the Madden NFL video game under the tree on Christmas they may not know the story behind that name that he's an actual man
[10:27:04]and that man is a legend in multiple ways as euroxy described from being the coach right now who is still the most winning in Raiders history who has the
[10:27:15]highest winning percentage of any coach with to coach 100 games or more still and became an icon in the broadcast booth and then was fundamental in the development of one of the most
[10:27:25]successful franchises in a massive industry video gaming in America just a complete icon we talk about how he went from the sidelines to the announcer's Booth becoming one of the most popular
[10:27:37]commentators ever I would say right what do you think it was about him that uh people loved so much I I will add this for someone who doesn't follow Sports
[10:27:47]clearly uh and uh closely it was easy to understand him and maybe that's that's what it was I think a Roxy you you're exactly right
[10:27:57]that at core John always viewed himself as a coach and a teacher and he did on the sidelines and he did the same in terms of his approach when he got into
[10:28:06]the booth he wanted men women children the passionate the people who are marginal in terms of their interest in football to understand what was going on Beyond just watching the ball or the
[10:28:18]quarterback or the receiver and his authenticity as you guys know from what you do that's what connects with audience people detect who's genuine and
[10:28:28]real the passion the knowledge that all of that engagement and John just poured through your screen into your living room in a singular way he's one of one
[10:28:39]yeah you know yeah and I think you're you're absolutely right I I think the passion that he had was infectious uh really because I I like the Roxy don't really follow sports that closely but
[10:28:49]boy I sure knew John Madden and he should make me happy whenever I saw him on the screen and that's a large large part of it he was just the guy you wanted to hang out with if you could on
[10:28:59]a on a Saturday afternoon let's talk a little bit about the video game Empire though because uh you know this I think was also very telling about about John he didn't just lend his name to it I
[10:29:10]mean this man was thoroughly involved with everything that he did when trip Hawkins the EA a sports founder first came to him about this
[10:29:20]idea took several years to develop Tripp was very excited Tony he came to him with a game that was seven on seven or eight on eight and John refused to put
[10:29:30]his name on any game that wasn't 11 on 11. 22 players on the field it took years more to ultimately get the technology to catch up to John's Vision
[10:29:40]but once it did it took off as a franchise and it is one of the most enduring video game franchises not only in a country but across the world to
[10:29:50]this day and Tom before we let you go the documentary for those who haven't seen it all Madden really well done is it going to re-air I imagine it will
[10:30:01]it it is and we're we're really thrilled to say it it made its Premier Christmas Day we do want to say quickly eraxia John was able to see it with his family
[10:30:11]it is Den at home and he loved it he asked everyone else in their family what their favorite part was what they thought of it it re-airs on Fox eight o'clock Eastern and Pacific tomorrow
[10:30:22]night and it begins streaming today on 2B ESPN plus and on peacock and a wonderful show of collegiality across the networks John worked for as a
[10:30:34]tribute to a man we're so glad to say received his flowers while he was still able to smell them that's so grateful for that that is so awesome I'm so glad to hear that I didn't know that and I'm
[10:30:45]truly happy to hear that he was able to see the tribute to everything that he was and everything that he meant to so many people and Tom thanks so much for joining us this morning the documentary
[10:30:55]could not be any more relevant yes than it is right now and we'll certainly be looking at it yet again if you saw it it's still good to see it again because
[10:31:06]there's so there's so many nuggets in there that you may have missed one or two the first time around Tom thanks so much appreciate it take care Tom happy New Year guys
[10:31:17]and thanks to our Fox 11 team for continuing to give us some insight on John Madden's life we are going to step away for a two minute break bringing you more news stories across the country
[10:31:27]when we return thank you
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[10:33:28]welcome back here to live now from Fox as we continue to keep you covered on all the top stories a big headline for many of our leaders across the country
[10:33:37]have been focused on handling the surge of cases when it comes to coronavirus more children Across the Nation being hospitalized due to the spread of the new Omicron variant Across the Nation
[10:33:49]there are roughly 260 pediatric hospitalizations a day that's a 30 percent increase from last week now Nationwide 23 percent of children are
[10:34:00]vaccinated according to health officials pediatric cases in New York City Rose five times since the beginning of the month most were unvaccinated now Health officials insist on increasing children
[10:34:12]vaccinations to help prevent this spread it spread a story that we've been talking about here day in and day out we heard and not only from some of our leaders out in Ohio they were addressing
[10:34:22]the surge especially as the governor had to POI even more National Guard troops to help hospitals that are dealing with the strain of patients so that is one of
[10:34:34]those areas that has definitely been impacted but as we just said New York as well this coming at a time when the United States has been setting
[10:34:45]a new record when it comes to those daily cases here as we are going into this next year and so a U.S covet case
[10:34:56]is hitting yet another record just as we've seen for many of our areas across the country now coveted cases have been skyrocketing and medical experts are
[10:35:06]advising advising people to actually step up their face masks so doctors are saying people should replace cloth masks with n95 and a three-layer surgical mask
[10:35:17]to help curb the spread of covid-19 now experts do say those masks mold more closely to the face filter up to 95 percent of particles the advice comes here as the U.S number for Daily
[10:35:29]coronavirus cases does hit that record high topping 258 000 cases over the last seven days and the quick spreading Omicron variant does
[10:35:40]make up about 58 percent of those cases we've been seeing those rise in the cases we've been seeing a rise when it comes to the demand for testing so what
[10:35:50]we want to do is of course go back play out some more of that press conference that we had listened into earlier here today for our viewers who may not have heard we did have a White House Press
[10:36:01]briefing at our White House coronavirus Task Force Team coming together this wasn't only an audio portion so what we'll do is continue to keep an eye on
[10:36:11]some of these pictures coming around the area of those drive-through testing sites this one coming to us from Houston where we've seen a number of folks
[10:36:21]lining up day in and day out to get testing so let's go ahead get that White House covid briefing update as they talk more about what's to come especially as we head into yet another holiday weekend
[10:36:32]hey it's uh it's Jeff science here good morning everyone and thanks for joining what is a phone briefing today we expect to return to our regular format
[10:36:43]next week today Dr bolinski will provide an Omicron in the U.S update and discuss cdc's updated guidance for people who
[10:36:53]test positive for coven Dr fauci will discuss the latest science on Omicron before we turn to the doctors I thought I would provide a brief update on the
[10:37:03]actions the administration is taking to ensure States communities and hospitals have the support they need in the coming weeks for months the Biden Administration is
[10:37:14]full of government surge response teams have been working hand in hand with governors and local Health officials across the country to assess and address needs on the ground more than 13
[10:37:26]000 National Guard members have been activated in 48 states to support the covet response from vaccinations to testing to clinical care
[10:37:37]these are state deployments that thanks to the president's actions are fully paid for by the federal government additionally we have directly helped more than 30 States and territories by
[10:37:49]deploying over 2100 Federal personnel and thousands of ambulances ventilators and other critical supplies on Monday
[10:38:00]the president joined the administration's regular meeting with Governors it was actually our 40th meeting this year to reiterate that we continue to stand
[10:38:10]ready to help them with more support for hospitals more testing and more capacity to get shots in arms this includes an additional thousand military
[10:38:20]doctors nurses and EMTs ready to deploy when and where needed our message to Governors around the country is is
[10:38:30]simple if you need something say something and we will mobilize to quickly get you the resources you need and that's exactly what we've done over the past
[10:38:40]a week or so more boots and supplies have already landed on the ground for example in New York 60 FEMA medical personnel and 30 ambulances arrived last
[10:38:50]week to help transport patients to hospitals around the state and balance patient loads and in just one week we'd established nine federally run testing sites in New
[10:39:01]York City with three more sites opening this Sunday in Arizona 20 FEMA paramedics began providing clinical support across the state on
[10:39:12]Christmas Eve with nearly 40 more medical personnel arriving next week to help administer treatments in Maricopa and Pima counties
[10:39:22]as well as in tribal communities in Indiana 23 military medical personnel started their mission on Christmas Day at University Methodist Hospital in
[10:39:33]Indianapolis in New Mexico 15 medical personnel from the U.S Public Health Service Commission Corps arrived on Monday to provide surge support in Indian country
[10:39:44]today we're sending 15 ventilators to the state and 12 Federal medical personnel will arrive next week to help get more shots in arms in Wisconsin a 23-person military
[10:39:55]medical team is scheduled to start its support Mission at Bellin Hospital in Green Bay on Friday in New Jersey a new federally Run free testing site will
[10:40:05]open on New Year's Day and more sites will open across the next several days in Philadelphia and Washington DC and on top of all of this a million gloves 342
[10:40:16]000 Mass respirators and face Shields and 40 000 gowns the Administration has shipped from Frontline healthcare workers in states in the past couple of weeks alone
[10:40:28]so as you can see we've been working around the clock to Surge reinforcements to communities as they battle Omicron helping to staff hospitals administer
[10:40:37]monoclonal antibody treatments transport patients add testing capacity and get more PPE to where it is needed and you'll see us continue to act aggressively to address communities
[10:40:48]needs in the days and weeks ahead so with that let me hand it over to Dr wilinski Dr wilinsky thank you so much Jeff good morning everyone I'd like to start by walking you through today's
[10:40:59]data the current seven day daily average of cases is about 240 400 cases per day an increase of about 60 percent over the previous week
[10:41:10]the rapid increase in cases we are seeing across the country is in large part a reflection of the exceptionally transmissible Omicron variant in a few short weeks Omicron has rapidly
[10:41:21]increased across the country and we expect will continue to circulate in the coming weeks while our cases have substantially increased from last week hospitalizations and deaths remain
[10:41:32]comparatively low right now the seven day average of hospitalizations admissions is about 9 000 per day an increase of about 14 over the previous
[10:41:43]week this could be due to the fact that hospitalizations tend to lag behind cases by about two weeks but may also lead you to early indications that we've seen from other countries like South
[10:41:54]Africa and United Kingdom of mild or disease from Omicron especially among the vaccinated and the boosted and the seven day average of daily deaths are about 1100 per day which is a decrease
[10:42:06]of about seven percent over the previous week as you continue to watch these Trends I want to emphasize that this virus has proven its ability to adapt quickly and
[10:42:16]we must adapt with it and it is in that context that last week CDC updated our isolation and quarantine guidance for health care workers as we prepare for an
[10:42:27]anticipated surge in covid-19 cases this updated guidance will help to ensure that hospitals clinics and long-term care facilities can safely stay open and remain appropriately
[10:42:39]staffed both to handle hospitalizations from covid-19 and to make sure that we continue to provide the necessary care for those experiencing heart attacks strokes and other illnesses
[10:42:51]swiftly thereafter on Monday CDC also updated its recommendations to shorten the recommended isolation and quarantine period for the General Public
[10:43:01]these updates to our recommendations were made to reflect what we currently know about covid-19 infection including how long a person is most infectious
[10:43:12]Studies have demonstrated that when infection with SARS Kobe 2 people are infected with SARS cov2 people are most infectious in the one to two days before symptoms develop and the two to three
[10:43:24]days after after five days the risk of ongoing transmission substantially decreases let me make clear that we are standing on the shoulders of two years of science
[10:43:35]two years of understanding transmissibility and a lot of information that we have gleaned from a wild type virus as well as the alpha and Delta variants and more that we continue
[10:43:46]to learn every single day about our macron we do know the vast majority of viral transmission happens in those first five days somewhere in the 85 to 90 percent
[10:43:57]range so if a person can isolate for the first five days they absolutely should many are asking why do we do not require a test at the end of the five days of
[10:44:07]isolation for those who are infected we know that PCR testing would not be helpful in this setting as people can remain PCR positive for up to 12 weeks
[10:44:18]after infection and long after they are transmissible of infectious we also don't know that antigen tests give a good indication of transmissibility at this stage of
[10:44:29]infection on the other hand we know that after five days people are much less likely to transmit the virus and that masking further reduces that risk and this is
[10:44:39]why people need to mask for five days after their five days of isolation this science as well as what we know about the protection provided by masking
[10:44:49]vaccination and booster Doses and about our test performance we're all part of what informed our updated recommendations let me walk you through exactly what
[10:44:59]these new recommendations mean for you first isolation refers to what you do when you have coca-19 most likely diagnosed by a positive test
[10:45:10]isolation prevents those who are known to be infected from transmission transmitting the virus to others quarantine on the other hand is different this is what you do when you
[10:45:20]have to be it's when you've been exposed to someone who has disease and are uncertain if you yourself were infected quarantine prevents further spread of
[10:45:30]the virus in the time before someone may develop symptoms or from those who are asymptomatic from their infection if you are infected with SARS Kobe 2
[10:45:40]regardless of your vaccination status you should isolate for five days during periods of isolation it's best for you to wear a mask around those in your household to avoid spreading the virus
[10:45:51]at home after five days if you're asymptomatic or if your symptoms have largely resolved you may leave isolation as long as you continue to wear a mask around of
[10:46:02]others even in the home for an additional five days for those who've been exposed to covid-19 quarantine recommendations are based on your vaccination status
[10:46:14]if you are boosted or have been vaccinated with your Pfizer or modernist Series in the past six months for your J and J shot in the past two months no quarantine is needed however a mask must
[10:46:26]be worn for 10 days following your known exposure and we also recommend getting a test on day five after your exposure if you're not vaccinated or you are vaccinated with your Pfizer or modernist
[10:46:37]series over six months ago or with J and J over two months ago and have not yet received your booster you should quarantine for five days following your
[10:46:47]last exposure after five days you should continue masking around others for an additional five days and you should also get a test at day five if it's not possible for you to
[10:46:58]quarantine it is really important that you do the right thing and wear a mask at all times around others for 10 days after your exposure here we also emphasize that you should get a test at
[10:47:10]day five and if at any point you develop symptoms of covid-19 during your quarantine period or your 10 days after exposure like fevers runny nose a cough headaches
[10:47:21]or body aches you should get a test and isolate until your test results return and of course then isolate if your test returns positive
[10:47:32]now with these updates to our isolation and quarantine recommendations I want to emphasize the critical importance of masking which we know decreases the risk of transmission as well as the
[10:47:43]importance of staying home when you're sick if you are sick or have symptoms it is best for you to stay home and to stay away from others as we continue to fight covid-19
[10:47:52]prevention is truly our best option this means for everyone five and older getting vaccinated and for those eligible it means getting your booster shot for everyone it means continuing to
[10:48:04]follow our multi-layer prevention measures including masking in public indoor settings in areas of substantial or high Community transmission washing your hands frequently and testing before
[10:48:15]Gathering when possible how well each of these prevention measures is implemented as well as adherence to isolation and quarantine recommendations will determine the Outlook in the coming
[10:48:26]weeks and months we at CDC are working to provide updated recommendations using science to ease the burden of lengthy isolation and quarantine recommendations
[10:48:37]however these recommendations will only work if people follow them as we look to the new year I am hopeful that we can come together and do what is in the best
[10:48:47]interest of our loved ones our friends and our communities so with that I say thank you Happy New Year and I will now turn things over to Dr fauci thank you and as we continue to get this
[10:48:58]update with our officials from the White House coronavirus task force team we will be stepping away for a two-minute break be right back in this press conference when we all return [Music]
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[10:51:12]the 10 days after your exposure we also emphasize that you should get a test at day five and if at any point you develop symptoms of covid-19 during your quarantine
[10:51:23]period or your 10 days after exposure like fevers runny nose a cough headaches or body aches you should get a test and isolate until your test results return
[10:51:34]and of course then isolate if your test returns positive now with these updates to our isolation and quarantine recommendations I want to
[10:51:44]emphasize the critical importance of masking which we know decreases the risk of transmission as well as the importance of staying home when you're sick if you are sick or have symptoms it
[10:51:55]is best for you to stay home and to stay away from others as we continue to fight covid-19 prevention is truly our best option this means for everyone five and older
[10:52:05]getting vaccinated and for those eligible it means getting your booster shot for everyone it means continuing to follow our multi-layer prevention measures including masking in public
[10:52:16]indoor settings in areas of substantial or high Community transmission washing your hands frequently and testing before Gathering when possible how well each of these prevention
[10:52:27]measures is implemented as well as adherence to isolation and quarantine recommendations will determine the Outlook in the coming weeks and months we at CDC are working to provide updated
[10:52:39]recommendations using science to ease the burden of lengthy isolation and quarantine recommendations however these recommendations will only work if people
[10:52:49]follow them as we look to the new year I am hopeful that we can come together and do what is in the best interest of our loved ones our friends and our communities so with that I say thank you
[10:52:59]Happy New Year and I will now turn things over to Dr fauci thank you very much Dr wolinski I'm going to concentrate my remarks
[10:53:08]predominantly on severity or not of this disease but before I do I just want to underscore something that we always talk about when we talk about severity and that is the issue of
[10:53:20]transmissibility and immune evasion so very briefly we know now incontrovertibly that this is a highly highly transmissible virus we know that from the numbers we're seeing but I
[10:53:32]think each individual person throughout this country is now seeing around them the high degree of transmissibility with regard to immune evasion very
[10:53:42]clearly now we have a number of tests looking at the effect of Omicron on the evasion of immunity from monoclonal antibodies as well as from
[10:53:51]vaccine-induced antibodies and clearly there is a degree of immune evasion particularly against infection and to some degree against hospitalization
[10:54:01]however importantly in the bottom line message here is that boosters bring back up that degree of protection to a level that is
[10:54:11]approximating what it was before so boosters are critical in getting our approach to Omicron to be optimal now
[10:54:22]let's focus on the severity of disease I'm going to review some preliminary observational clinical data as well as some selected initial laboratory data first
[10:54:34]the data from South Africa there have been a number of reports I'll report here one published yesterday from a large Hospital in the Suwannee South
[10:54:45]African District added to an early report that is very similar covid-19 Hospital admissions from the Omicron wave were compared to admissions
[10:54:57]from previous waves and here is the comparison and hospital deaths 4.5 versus 21.3
[10:55:08]ICU admissions one percent from Omicron 4.3 for others 45 percent of patients required supplemental oxygen with Omicron
[10:55:20]compared to 99 in a prior wave length of study four-day length of stay
[10:55:27]excuse me four days for Omicron 8.8 days for the second wave
[10:55:34]mean average age 39 years for Omicron 49 years for previous waves the author's note in that study that the
[10:55:45]changing clinical presentation of sauce Kobe 2 is likely due to the predominantly high level of Prior infection and to some extent vaccination coverage
[10:55:56]since vaccine level is relatively low in the Republic of South Africa moving on to the United Kingdom in a study of the UK Health Security
[10:56:07]Agency technical briefing preliminary analysis was looked at from Days November the 22nd through December the 19th the risk of presentation to emergency
[10:56:18]care or Hospital admissions with Omicron was 60 percent of that of Delta the risk of hospitalization admission
[10:56:29]alone with Omicron was 40 percent of that for Delta these data were fortified by data from Scottish researchers that showed when
[10:56:40]analyzed data in the Scottish population from November 1 to December the 19th preliminary data suggest that Omicron is associated with a two-thirds reduction
[10:56:51]in the risk of covid-19 hospitalization another study from the UK Imperial College UK report in the hospitalization
[10:57:02]risk analysis of both clinical and laboratory data indicate an overall significant reduction in the risk of
[10:57:11]hospitalization for Omicron compared to Delta in the United States we are getting accumulation of data the spice in cases
[10:57:22]is out of proportion to the increase in hospitalization so if one looks at 14 day averages the data as of last night
[10:57:32]indicate a plus 126 percent increase in cases and an 11 increase in hospitalizations now we must remember
[10:57:43]that hospitalizations and deaths are lagging indicators however all right guys do want to say thanks for being here with us on live now from Fox going to be interrupting this press
[10:57:55]conference here that we were listening into on Omicron because we do have some uh breaking news so let's go ahead breaking news just coming in here to our live now from Fox desk we do know at
[10:58:05]this time that a verdict has been reached in the Elaine Maxwell trial now she recently celebrated her 60th birthday behind bars as she awaited the
[10:58:15]outcome of her sex trafficking trial she again is that British social socialite socialite who is scheduled to turn to the courthouse here and as the
[10:58:26]jury has become has come to their verdict so we did hear this and we do have some live pictures outside of the courthouse you can see a bunch of microphones set up waiting for some of
[10:58:38]that reaction and of course you can count on us to stay in full coverage right here for you on live now from Fox this is what we do everyone who's been here with us knows as soon as we hear of
[10:58:49]some of those breaking news pieces and of course we keep you fully covered in the latest as we continue to wait for the deliberation it has finished the
[10:59:00]verdict to be read and announced and we know there hasn't been cameras inside of that courtroom but we did have people who've been inside helping report
[10:59:10]outside what has happened inside of that courtroom so here you're seeing again those steps just outside of the courthouse as we are all waiting for some reaction after a verdict has been
[10:59:20]reached in this sex trafficking trial again with Elaine Maxwell so here you're taking a live look you
[11:00:06]can see just how many different media stations are set up outside of the courthouse let's go ahead though take a look just at some of that recent video footage that we've had here I we're
[11:00:17]taking a look again at just some different footage of Ghislaine Maxwell who is once again on trial here she had spent over the weekend her it was her birthday over the weekend she was 60
[11:00:29]years old now prosecutors had said in closing arguments that the crucial evidence was the testimony of four women who say there were sexually abused as
[11:00:39]teenagers by of course we all know his name Jeffrey Epstein with help from Maxwell when she was his girlfriend and later when she morphed into his close
[11:00:48]Confidant and an employee valued highly enough that he gave her over 20 million dollars if we do see anyone step up to those microphones of course we'll be
[11:01:00]listening in live to get some of that reaction and we do have our crew working on bringing in some of our own not only legal experts but also working on
[11:01:09]keeping us up to date once those verdict once the verdict is read out so prosecutors did call Elaine Herr the
[11:01:18]lady of the house from 1994 to 2004 saying she had recruited as well as groomed teenagers as young as 14 years
[11:01:28]old to meet Epstein's seemingly his need to be touched and uh by girls and vulnerable girls who came from
[11:01:39]improvised and despairing backgrounds who counted on his claims of wealth and connections to Aid their quest for success and fame in the Performing Arts
[11:01:49]so defense lawyers say she was a U.S government scapegoat after Epstein killed himself in the Manhattan federal jail cell where he was awaiting his own
[11:01:59]sex trafficking trial back in August of 2019 so they did say that the memories of her accusers were corrupted by the passage of time and the
[11:02:11]influence of lawyers steering them towards multi-million dollar payouts from a fund set up to compensate Epstein victims the jury has been reviewing this
[11:02:21]testimony of the Four Women along with the former Epstein housekeeper but they have a given little hint overall as to where they had been and tell now we just
[11:02:32]heard that the verdict had been watched so we do again have a couple different cameras outside of the courthouse let's listen in live foreign at this time we have heard that the jury
[11:03:01]is going to be brought into the courtroom momentarily we do have Maxwell who's in court so this is just some video of uh some other folks who we have
[11:03:11]seen moving around the courthouse here as we've been on this verdict watch for quite a while we do know last weekend the jury had decided not to continue deliberations over the holiday this
[11:03:22]weekend that actually the judge had just said that they were going to have to weak through the work through the weekend if they weren't able to come to their delivery or verdict here headed
[11:03:33]into the New Year's Eve holiday so back out live in front of the courthouse you can see we do still have those microphones that are set up and we are continuing to wait for that verdict to
[11:03:44]be read out again the jury will be brought into the courtroom we're hearing momentarily and we do have Maxwell in court so we do know that she is there
[11:03:53]waiting to hear the Fate now we had the a former housekeeper of Jeffrey Epstein testified that when he had worked at
[11:04:02]Epstein's Florida home from 1990 to 2002 he saw many many many female visitors appearing to be in their late 20s often
[11:04:12]lounging by the pool topless he also testified that two accusers underage teens at the time were repeat
[11:04:21]visitors to the mansion of Jeffrey Epstein so there was some deliberations that had been going on day in and day out whereas now it looks like we do
[11:04:32]finally have that verdict that has come in and we will be waiting closely by to hear exactly what that jury has come to
[11:04:41]with their conclusion so once again we are live outside of the
[11:04:58]courthouse there in that left hand box for you as we continue to wait here on word of what this jury has come to they have re reached a verdict and again uh
[11:05:09]this is just coming in here to our live now from Fox desk and you are hearing it right here we're going to stay in this coverage for you now Maxwell is a British socialite charged again with
[11:05:20]recruiting and grooming underaged girls to be sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein we had judge Allison Nathan inform them that they would have to work through the holiday if a verdict had not been
[11:05:31]reached by the end of the week but that looks like it is no longer needed as there was a verdict now reached here in the later hours of this day so we will
[11:05:43]be keeping a close eye for uh when those verdicts when it is read out we have heard that they will be bringing in that jury momentarily all right and we do have the verdict
[11:06:06]that has just come in we are hearing that she has been found guilty of five of the six counts that had been against her so again she has been convicted of
[11:06:17]helping American Jeffrey Epstein she's the British woman who helped Jeffrey Epstein is sexually abused teenage girls five of her six counts that she was facing they have
[11:06:28]found her guilty for again this just coming here to our live now from Fox desk in this coming at a time when we know that the jury had a lot of evidence
[11:06:38]that they had to be going through so many different pieces of testimony pieces of information that they had to look through so we again do now know
[11:06:47]that the verdict has been reached it has been read out the jury has found Elaine Maxwell count one guilty count two not guilty count three four and five also
[11:06:57]guilty so we will continue to keep you live outside of the courthouse here we do have a couple different shots coming in here to our live now from Fox desk so you can see we do have some of our own
[11:07:08]media Personnel standing here as we are waiting to hear some reaction to this a verdict and then we do also have a close-up of those doors just outside of
[11:07:19]the courthouse if we do have anyone step up to those microphones if we see any other pictures coming from outside of this Courthouse where they may have been able to catch up with some of those who
[11:07:30]played a key part in this trial of course we'll be bringing you that sound right here on live now from Fox so thank you again for being here with
[11:08:25]us on live now from Fox we have just had this come in here to our desk as we had heard there was a verdict that had been reached the jury since that time has
[11:08:35]been brought into the courtroom and they have read out that she has been now convicted of five of the six counts that
[11:08:43]she had been facing thing so let's just go over those counts
[11:09:01]because I know some people weren't able to follow this trial as closely as some of the other ones we've been in they did not allow camera Crews inside of this courtroom but most days we did try to
[11:09:11]bring you some different pieces from what had happened inside day in and day out with our Fox 5 New York reporters so the first count was conspiracy to entice
[11:09:22]an individual under the age of 17 to travel in interstate commerce with intent to engage in illegal sexual activity that does have a minimum of five years in prison that one she was
[11:09:33]found guilty on uh count two was the only one that they did not find her guilty on that was enticement of an individual under the age of 17 to travel with intent again
[11:09:43]these are all pertaining to some of those different accusers who had spoken uh inside of the trial there so count three again is the same for yet another
[11:09:54]individual count four is transportation of an individual under the age of 17 with intent to engage in illegal sexual activity that does have a maximum of 10
[11:10:05]years in prison count five to six trafficking conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of individuals under the age of 18 that does have a five-year maximum
[11:10:15]in prison and finally count six which she was found guilty of was sex trafficking of an individual under the age of 18 A minor which it does have a
[11:10:25]maximum of 40 years in prison so here we are live outside of the courthouse the verdict has been read she has now been convicted and we will wait for or some
[11:10:36]of that reaction outside of the courthouse as this just came in you are hearing it right here live on live now from Fox just a reminder whenever it comes to breaking news you can count on
[11:10:46]us to always be bringing you some of the biggest news stories but also those live pictures so not only do we have our station here zoomed in on that door to see who's going to be stepping outside
[11:10:58]but we do also have our crews ready to go as soon as we do have some of that reaction being given so thank you again for being here with us this coming in here today on Wednesday evening Elaine
[11:11:09]Maxwell convicted on five of the six counts she was facing so while we're waiting here outside of
[11:11:35]the courthouse I know that there's a lot of folks who are interested in some more of what had been happening both inside and outside of the courtroom so let's go ahead listen into some of that coverage
[11:11:46]with our Fox 5 New York team as they are talking about this conviction that just came down here at this late afternoon her name by in court was Jane as a pseudonym she said that she was she
[11:11:57]first met Maxwell while she was 14 years old at a summer camp Arts camp in Michigan when she and Maxwell were rather Maxwell and Epstein first introduced himself to her and then enticed her groomed her then for sexual
[11:12:09]activity when she was underage the fifth and sixth child related to another accuser her name was Carol and she went by her first name and she said that she was 14 when she first met Maxwell and Epstein in Palm Beach and these carry
[11:12:20]the heaviest of the of the penalties there's the fifth town which is sex trafficking conspiracy that that carries a maximum five years in prison but the six count sex trafficking of an individual under the age of 18 carries a
[11:12:31]maximum of 40 years in prison so again gilen Maxwell has been convicted of five of the six charges against her including the heaviest ones that carry the most years in prison when sentencing does occur I do not yet know when they're
[11:12:42]going to schedule sentencing that should that information should come down soon enough we're waiting for more information from inside the court but for now I'm reporting outside the federal court in lower Manhattan Mike Stacks Fox 5 News Lori back to you all
[11:12:54]this news breaking right now Mike nice job thank you well cruise ship that was supposed to return all right so I did want to just bring that portion of our Fox 5 teams
[11:13:05]coverage to you as they did have one of their reporters giving us some updates from outside of that courtroom now we had spoken with him time and time again now every day that this trial was taking
[11:13:16]place over the past few weeks it seemed like we were just hearing more and more pieces of evidence that had been entered into the trial so we know that the jury really had their hands full when it came
[11:13:27]down to trying to look through every single piece of evidence of course they also had six counts so every single count you really have to take a look at that evidence that had been presented to
[11:13:37]you from both sides you know from the prosecution side from the defense team as well and come to make that decision together I also have to be unanimous when it comes to making these decisions
[11:13:47]so we had a little bit of a lengthy deliberation of course that could have been because of some individuals could have been arguing a different point or else they could have been just trying to
[11:13:58]sort through all of that evidence that had been presented to them over those last few weeks in this trial so we are going to be staying in this full coverage right here for you on live now
[11:14:08]from Fox again we have a couple different of our camera Crews outside waiting to hear some reaction we know that there will probably be a few of those attorneys who are inside of that
[11:14:20]courtroom who could possibly step up to those microphones as soon as we do see those shots of course that will be something we'll bring to you right here on live now from Fox and it does look like I even have a third shot that I can
[11:14:31]show to you as well so a lot of different folks interested in this story ever since so we did have uh Jeffrey Epstein's trial not happen anymore
[11:14:41]because of the death of him back in August again of 2019 but here today just reporting it tonight to all of our
[11:14:50]viewers we do have Elaine Maxwell who has been convicted of five of those six counts she was facing here today okay and this is Andrew Kraft here and
[11:16:07]if you're just joining us on live now from Fox We are continuing to cover uh the verdict now reached in the galane Maxwell trial uh she has been found
[11:16:17]guilty on five of the six counts uh those Federal sex trafficking charges that we have been following uh for the last several weeks now uh as especially
[11:16:28]the jury has been deliberating remember we brought you the reporting earlier today uh that they could have possibly gone through the holiday New Year's Eve New Year's Day if they did not come to
[11:16:40]some sort of unanimous consensus right now we're going to keep these shots up of course uh it looks like they do have a Podium set up so if you know any of uh
[11:16:49]the defense or prosecution steps up to the microphones we will bring you that live as well also we are monitoring from one of our great reporters down there in
[11:17:00]lower Manhattan Fox 5 New York's Mike Sachs will be speaking with him but right now I want want to bring in former Federal prosecutor Doug Burns who we've
[11:17:09]been speaking to for the duration of this Doug do you have us thanks for being with us all right we're still working on Doug's
[11:17:27]microphone here but uh just to go over if you're just joining us galane Maxwell has been found guilty of five of six sex crime charges she faces at least 40
[11:17:38]years in prison uh and of course one of these charges was transportation of an individual under the age of 17 with intent to engage in illegal sexual
[11:17:49]activity and so of course this all stems from her relationship with former uh disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein who
[11:17:59]committed suicide in the Manhattan Correctional Facility back in the summer I believe of 2019 and of course uh then
[11:18:11]that's precipitated all of this because as now an accomplice and Confidant of Jeffrey Epstein uh many had believed that
[11:18:22]this trial was in proxy to a trial that could not happen with Jeffrey Epstein of course a jury finding Maxwell guilty on
[11:18:32]five of these six counts and of course we await sentencing we're awaiting some of these statements possibly from the prosecution or the defense if they do decide to step up to the podium here
[11:18:44]we'll be covering all angles of this we'll be speaking with Fox 5 New York's Mike sacks there on the ground as well in about 15 minutes time foreign
[11:20:58]okay and of course uh we did want to bring up all of the shots that we do now have from outside of the courthouse in lower
[11:21:07]Manhattan there and you can see that we are possibly awaiting we haven't gotten this confirmed yet maybe members of either the prosecution or the defense
[11:21:17]will come up to the podium and speak we had just learned this is just breaking now about 15 minutes ago that galane
[11:21:26]Maxwell has been found guilty on five of the six counts on these Federal sex trafficking charges that she was facing
[11:21:35]she faces up to 40 years in prison due to all this and remember for the duration of this trial we heard from four uh star key Witnesses from the
[11:21:45]defense and of course uh some of those we knew their identities I believe two of them we did not and they allege that they experienced abuse under the
[11:21:57]auspices of both Jeffrey Epstein and galane Maxwell testifying in court speaking about their experiences how they came to know Jeffrey Epstein and
[11:22:07]Gillian Maxwell and of course we heard from a number of Jeffrey Epstein's former staff members his his Pilot his housekeeper uh and the like and so right
[11:22:19]now uh you can see that we have multiple Vantage points at the moment where we are just kind of get a sense of what is
[11:22:28]happening outside of the courthouse there in lower Manhattan uh and so we're going to try again with former Federal prosecutor Doug Burns who's been
[11:22:39]throughout the duration of this uh following alongside us offering some really uh great legal analysis uh Doug do you have us
[11:22:50]yes do you have me yes Doug thank you so much for being with us I know this is a holiday week but we had been anticipating this uh but I just wanted to get your reaction uh only convicted
[11:23:01]on five of the six counts uh what did you make of that I don't know if you've looked through what the jury uh has come to uh but just your first initial thoughts
[11:23:12]well first of all they had sent out a note you know and it was kind of technical about you know whether one flight to a location versus a flight yeah so sometimes you'll see you know a
[11:23:24]technical hangout the bad news for the defendant I come right out and say is that for reasons I won't bore you with and really go in the weeds five out of six is essentially the same thing out of
[11:23:35]all six that's not an editorial that's not a political comment I'm just telling you under the United States sentencing guidelines they grouped the different counts together so the conviction on
[11:23:45]five out of six is a very very serious problem for the defense the other thing that's interesting and I don't expect you to remember but when we covered this Moet case I told you that the acquittal
[11:23:55]on one of the camps ironically that's the key can actually hurt the defense because the argument is the jury was very conscientious they separated out
[11:24:05]each count you know thoughtfully and conscientiously so again it's really the lawyers are going to be telling her privately that there's no great joy right no great Victory whatsoever in the
[11:24:15]one count I'm gonna obviously study this just happened what that count was and why I think uh that she was found not guilty on it Andrew but the reality is is that um it's not any big victory for
[11:24:26]the defense oh that's interesting Doug uh because uh all along we had heard from um you know Witnesses testifying
[11:24:35]especially alleged victims to their uh now abuse we can say under uh the guise of Jeffrey Epstein and galane Maxwell uh
[11:24:45]what do you say though uh to critics who will say that Elaine Maxwell's trial was in lieu of as a proxy for whatever Jeffrey Epstein did I feel like those
[11:24:57]arguments right now are moot since a jury just found Maxwell guilty they're absolutely mood I mean you and I
[11:25:07]together when we first started covering the case I told you and we discussed that the defense was playing two cards which are perfectly appropriate you know I used the old poker cliche you play the
[11:25:18]hand that has done you and they came out and said that no no no Epstein's the culprit this is a scapegoating maneuver the only reason she's here is because he can't be put on trial but the reality is
[11:25:29]as you just put it and you're right on the money they tried her fairly and objectively brought in evidence listened to the evidence and they found her guilty so that argument has essentially
[11:25:40]been divisorated defeated okay um I told you also and I'll repeat what the viewers that under aiding and abetting which is assisting someone and
[11:25:51]conspiracy doing joint criminal conduct I said that the jury instructions were going to be really difficult for the defense uh they were going to hear such things as even if you find that her
[11:26:03]participation was lower in the conspiracy she can still be held fully accountable same thing with aiding and abetting even if you find ladies and gentlemen that her role was less she can
[11:26:14]still be held as accountable as the person she was assisting those are very very difficult jury instructions to listen to on the defense side of the courtroom so again you know they were
[11:26:25]prognosticators in all directions saying there were only four why weren't there more but I told you I'm not patting myself on the back for my crystal ball
[11:26:35]skills but I told you that I expected a conviction and I was not surprised at all today Andrew Doug let's talk about the fact that she didn't take the stand in her own defense
[11:26:45]uh I mean in hindsight was uh was that the right move uh considering the verdict that we just heard uh do you think she regrets that decision
[11:26:57]well it's very very interesting because taking the stand is a catch-22 situation real simple which is you have nowhere to go in either direction on the one hand
[11:27:08]you're sitting there and the concept is that um you know they've already proven the case and if I don't take the stand they're gonna find video but on the other hand you can make it a lot worse
[11:27:19]but they didn't understand number one the first examination would have been absolutely withering this person came to the mansion in Palm
[11:27:37]Beach you met her at the door didn't you you ushered her upstairs and it would have been just a death march it would have been brutal so back to my Catch 22 little analogy the point is they had
[11:27:48]nowhere to go she couldn't take the stand and by the way the judge similar to the small small lead analysis excuse me judge could have ostensibly found
[11:27:58]that she was untruthful on the stand not taking the stand actually shows some respect as crazy as that might sound listeners you know the point is not getting up and saying things that aren't
[11:28:09]truthful um so she was in a very very tough box but I can't disagree um and I can't sit here in terms of Monday morning quarterbacking Andrew and say she's here to take on the stand I
[11:28:19]don't believe that at all okay uh Doug uh we appreciate uh your expertise here I just want to throw up on the screen for our viewers uh the charges
[11:28:29]themselves uh and what they were and what she was found guilty and not guilty of and I'm gonna read this in part uh as we know now she was found guilty of sex
[11:28:39]trafficking guilty on count one and that was conspiracy to entice an individual under the age of 17 to travel in interstate commerce with intent to
[11:28:48]engage in illegal sexual activity uh I'm count two though not guilty that was enticement of an individual under the age of 17 to travel with intent to
[11:28:59]engage in illegal sexual activity guilty count three conspiracy to transport individuals under the age of 17 a minor to travel in interstate commerce with
[11:29:10]intent to engage in illegal sexual activity guilty count four transportation of an individual under the age of 17 with intent to engage in
[11:29:20]the legal sex actual activity guilty count five sex trafficking conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of individuals under the age of 18 and guilty count
[11:29:30]sick sex trafficking of an individual under the age of 18 minor Doug what are we looking for as far as the sentencing phase goes these are very very serious
[11:29:42]counts yeah let me uh let me make something clear that I think everyone will find extremely interesting a conspiracy is an agreement to no crime and one overtact
[11:29:53]or step towards it you do not have to Comm commit the crime as dumb as that sounds so you and I say let's rob a bank tomorrow Andrew you agree with me I say
[11:30:04]here's the Implement we're going to use I hand it to you that's an overt act we then don't rob the bank we can be guilty of conspiracy I know that gets a little complicated so what we had here is three
[11:30:14]pairing we had conspiracy to do something and then doing it conspiracy doing it conspiracy doing it three pairs now the conspiracy camps carry a
[11:30:25]five-year cap because doing a conspiracy to do another crime has its own five-year limitation that's the good news for her the bad news is the
[11:30:35]underlying two that she got convicted of carry much much more exposure than five years so quick glance By Me Maybe last week of the United States sentencing guidelines book
[11:30:47]um shows me that no you're talking about very very significant prison time I have no hesitancy in just giving you a ballpark sort of conceptual
[11:30:57]approximation he's looking at around 12 to 15 years Andrew okay and of course uh Doug and we had been speaking you know she has been held
[11:31:06]in custody for the duration of this trial I believe since July of 2020 uh the judge I believe did not Grant her
[11:31:15]bail citing her as a Flight Risk and so she has been in custody for the duration of this she appeared in court today as
[11:31:25]the jury read out the verdict and of course we had learned really so much more into Jeffrey Epstein's Affairs uh
[11:31:35]the powerful influential men that uh you know he commiserated and converted with throughout the duration of his escapades
[11:31:44]and she was alongside him uh throughout entirely and of course we heard the testimony from those four victims who say uh that galane Maxwell not only
[11:31:56]procured uh the the abuse but participated it herself yeah no I mean look um first of all let me address the bail
[11:32:08]point so everybody understands when somebody's held on bail you could question it you know as a lay person and just hear me out wait a minute why is somebody serving prison time they
[11:32:18]haven't been convicted of anything um but they're being held because of either a flight risk or B a danger to the community here it was Flight Risk
[11:32:26]but now that whole line of uh reasoning is gone she has now been convicted by a jury and faces sentencing so you know
[11:32:36]again not to be a broken record you had significant evidence I mean if you really want to keep this simple and I was telling a long time colleague of mine this on the phone yesterday you
[11:32:47]know four people didn't just come into the United States district court and just make up a remarkably consistent stories in great detail I know that sounds ridiculously Elementary but you
[11:32:58]know again jurors use their common sense now this deliberation also you know was pretty meticulous okay they asked for Post-its and magic markers and they asked questions about the jury
[11:33:09]instructions and then of course they wanted to hear you know the testimony again of the principal Witnesses some people got a little fooled by that I got
[11:33:20]to be candid with it oh my God that means someone that said that they're having trouble with what the witnesses say not at all not at all all that means
[11:33:30]is that after you know 12 days Etc the jury doesn't remember every word and somebody raises the hand and said I'd like to look through the transcript or have them read the testimony it's very
[11:33:40]normal it was a very normally progressing jury deliberation okay and back to your point your question at this point Everything's changed in terms of
[11:33:50]bail she's not convicted and again the sentencing is going to involve some very very serious prison time unfortunately for her we don't know yet a sentencing date
[11:34:02]still too early for for that to be announced I would presume since she's been in custody this whole time she'll be remanded back into custody after this
[11:34:12]was announced today uh just in your view do you think there will be any more civil lawsuits in the in the wake of this uh you know for any you know compensations uh to to the victims
[11:34:24]themselves uh now that they have gotten uh really a successful decision a successful verdict in their eyes Justice being done in their eyes is the is the
[11:34:36]uh Jeffrey Epstein Gillian Maxwell Saga finally over will you make a very good practical and then also sort of a technical legal
[11:34:47]point the Practical point is you know now that she's been found guilty you know doesn't that pave the way ostensibly for more civil litigation the answer is yes uh the legal point is
[11:34:57]there's some stuff in the weeds saying that once somebody's been convicted you know that basically consists of sort of a finding against them that could be
[11:35:07]used in a civil case one other point though I would make Andrew is that you know she will absolutely of course be remanded because analogy is convicted
[11:35:18]there's no change on that um she will get credit of course I know you know this but worth just laying it out so get credit for the time she served right while she was in custody of
[11:35:30]waiting um the actual completion of the case so she'll get time served on that day for a day um you know again it was interesting
[11:35:40]because one of the cats I Believe care is a mandatory 10-year minimum okay and so the judge knew that vis-a-vis the bail argument as well and during the
[11:35:52]battle argument they can make the point about how strong the case is and if the judge feels it's a strong case and knows that there's a 10-year potential mandatory minimum involved then the
[11:36:03]judge knows that she's going to get time served Etc now had she been acquitted hypothetically in the law school classroom then you turn around and say wow she had to serve all that time even though but that's now completely
[11:36:15]academic to your point but you will see I think more civil cases and then the other point which you and I have been discussing is they have set up a fund to compensate victims um so you may see more activity
[11:36:26]vis-a-vis that bondanger and Doug we will be uh speaking a little bit later uh in the Stream tonight uh with some victims rights Advocates kind
[11:36:36]of getting that angle uh to this story you know uh that has really captivated America's attention for the last three to four years of course at the height of
[11:36:46]the metoo movement uh in early 2017 Jeffrey Epstein uh was one of the uh most uh Infamous uh and notorious
[11:36:57]names coming out of all of that and of course I know we you know can't help but Focus too much on Epstein because this is what really precipitated this trial
[11:37:07]uh and I know that's simplistic to say and kind of obvious but uh you know his actions stemming back from the early 2000s of course his conviction in 2008
[11:37:19]uh that was uh you know later uh he served a little bit of time and then it was overturned that led to remember Doug the uh resignation of Alex Acosta a
[11:37:30]former president Trump's labor secretary he was the U.S attorney in Miami at the time and he faced a lot of pressure and heat for uh you know mishandling that at
[11:37:41]the time back in 2008 and then of course he's arrested again uh and then dies in that Manhattan jail cell uh by his own hand in 2019 and then of course Elaine
[11:37:52]Maxwell is arrested and so I think it's important to give the timeline for our viewers how we got here today and if you're just joining us it's now 3 40 uh
[11:38:03]here in Phoenix Arizona at 5 40 on the East Coast as we are taking a live look uh at the courthouse the exteriors of the courthouse in lower Manhattan as
[11:38:12]Elaine Maxwell has been found guilty of five of the six counts uh in her Federal sex trafficking trial we are going to be hopefully getting uh some statements
[11:38:24]either from the prosecution or the defense there is a Podium set up in the likelihood that that happens we'll also be speaking with Fox 5 New York reporter
[11:38:34]Mike Sachs he's on the ground he'll be live for us uh in a few moments here he's been following this as well um uh but Doug while we have you and we appreciate your time and we hope you had
[11:38:46]a a great holiday I know this is quite a busy story that we had been anticipating because the jury and the judge I don't think they want wanted to go you know two new year's eve two New Year's Day
[11:38:57]because that was a likelihood this morning they could go through the holiday until a verdict was reached well now now you're raising something
[11:39:09]really important very interesting excuse me and that is that you know obviously we're going to go through you know we necessarily the lawyers will go
[11:39:19]through the trial record you know to see what if any legal errors may have been made that would possibly be the grounds for an appeal but one of the Appellate issues which I don't necessarily think
[11:39:31]will be successful but hear me out is you do have this notion of a judge coming in uh today yesterday saying you know we have this horrific pandemic
[11:39:42]that's worsening every minute and by the way she tells them today you may have to sit Friday which is the day of New Year's Eve by the way you may have to
[11:39:53]sit Saturday and Sunday I've been in a couple of rodeos like this one time my judge said I'm going to be at a conference Friday this was Wednesday afternoon Friday Monday and Tuesday so
[11:40:04]if you don't reach your verdict you're going to come back next Wednesday and of course that was raised on appeal as being unintentionally coercive okay so
[11:40:14]again I don't you know I have to think about it a little more I don't think it's necessarily going to be a winning argument but I do think the defense will raise the notion that because of the pandemic and it wasn't really judge
[11:40:25]Nathan's fault on any level I mean she had to do that but again you tell a jury in a big case that by the way you're going to sit Friday of New Year's Eve
[11:40:35]Saturday New Year's Day Sunday the day of the New Year's okay and then they come back with the verdict you know right before all of That's supposed to happen it's kind of interesting now the
[11:40:47]counter argument right we Learners like to give you both sides counter argument is wait a minute they deliberated for considerable period of time they sent out a number of notes a high number of
[11:40:59]notes they asked for read backs they asked for clarifications on instructions and they were very conscientious they they sent on that note last night saying we're making progress to me last night
[11:41:10]reading the few leaves Andrew I said they're going to have a verdict tomorrow that's what I thought and so the point is I think they'll raise that argument about coercion but I don't think they're going to be successful but I'm glad you
[11:41:20]mentioned it because it is interesting anytime a judge starts telling a jury about scheduling woes right and then all sudden it's like well if you don't reach a verdict we'll come back you know next
[11:41:31]Friday a week from today that can have a coercive effect but again I don't think it'll be successful and of course Doug uh we will be watching uh if there is an appeal made
[11:41:42]uh by the defense uh what that will look like in the days and months ahead uh of course we're just getting more reaction in and I want to read this statement this is coming in from the U.S attorney
[11:41:54]for the southern district of New York Damien Williams uh who just released this statement in reaction to the verdict he says quote a unanimous Jury has found Goliath Maxwell guilty of one
[11:42:06]of the worst crimes imaginable facilitating and participating in the sexual abuse of children crimes that she committed with her longtime partner and co-conspirator Jeffrey Epstein the road
[11:42:17]to justice has been far too long but today justice has been done I want to commend The Bravery of the girls now grown women who stepped out of the shadows and into the courtroom their
[11:42:28]courage and willingness to face their abuser made this case and today's result possible I also want to thank the career prosecutors of the southern district of New York York who embrace the victim's
[11:42:39]Quest For Justice and have worked tirelessly day in and day out to ensure that Maxwell was held accountable for her crimes this office will always stand with victims we'll always follow the
[11:42:51]facts wherever they lead and will always fight to ensure that no one no matter how powerful and well connected is above the law that's a statement coming in from the southern district of New York
[11:43:02]U.S attorney Damian Williams in reaction to the verdict here and of course and Doug I want to get your uh kind of reaction to this uh you know it's not
[11:43:13]confirmed if the defense side or the prosecution side will speak I know the media sets up uh you know microphones in a Podium uh in the chance that they do and they of course did on another high
[11:43:25]profile jury verdict we had just reported on you know mere weeks ago in Justice smilette's case both the prosecution team and the defense team
[11:43:34]came out in front of cameras uh and said what they had to say that remains to be seen here but let's talk about going Maxwell uh the the woman the person a
[11:43:45]British socialite she comes from a long and storied family over there in the UK her father Robert Maxwell was a
[11:43:55]publishing Tycoon uh publishing magnate there across the pond and so she was very very wealthy and then of course she met Jeffrey Epstein uh and and you know
[11:44:06]we've heard so many words uh describe their relationship Confidant um friend girlfriend uh you know
[11:44:14]romantic partner and the like uh and so they rolled with a very high powerful group of people Doug and a lot of that came out during this trial the The
[11:44:26]prominent names uh who she uh had had uh commiserated with with who Jeffrey Epstein uh had met and spent time with
[11:44:35]as well and so uh quite damning uh to some people you know still alive uh who hung out regularly with Jeffrey Epstein and Glade Maxwell well that's always been a big you know
[11:44:49]back story on this of course which is you know what's in the black book and you know what individuals flew on the jet what individuals went through the
[11:44:59]island you know the Virgin Islands of course um that does raise an interesting first of all the U.S attorney statement real quick was very clear and very strong and
[11:45:10]if they come out you know a little crystal ball stuff I mean the U.S attorneys the prosecutors will say things right along those same lines they'll thank the agents for their tireless work in the case and so on and
[11:45:21]make statements about The Bravery of the victims coming forward so I think the U.S attorney covered all of it very very well there the defense will come out as sure as the sun's gonna said you know
[11:45:32]we're disappointed with the verdict um we're going to mount a vigorous appeal and we expect there to be exonerated through that process that's fine not to be good or quick about it but that's the summary of the highlights
[11:45:43]of what they're saying now back to your point this is a fast generating story obviously you had a man good better and different and he was bad who was at the absolute Pinnacle of American society
[11:45:54]it's hard to not be with presidents flying all over the world on our private jets luxuriating in these multi-multi-million dollar properties in
[11:46:03]Palm Beach New Mexico Manhattan and the Virgin Islands the lifestyle was just off the charts and people are fascinated and somewhat simulate about it when the history books are written about the case
[11:46:15]you know James Patterson wrote Filthy Rich all the books have been written but when the ones are written from this day forward you're going to hear a tale of a woman who became sort of hopelessly
[11:46:25]compromised because of her relationship I'm not defending her I like to say you know you have one side the other side I'm going to tell you what really happened she was in a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein it became perfectly
[11:46:36]apparent to her that he was interested in underage girls obviously and she lost her moral compass because of her relationship with him and participated
[11:46:45]full ski tips forward in it and paid a huge price today obviously um so to your point though the the point
[11:46:54]I wanted to make is that if I Doug Burns have a client convicted in let's say a security sport case in the southern district of New York my experience in
[11:47:05]the last 35 years is I call him up and say look now that it's been convicted he wants to cooperate they pretty much laugh in your face and they say politely look that boat sailed a long time ago
[11:47:16]Doug you know that we asked him to cooperate a year and a half ago you remember I called you a bunch of times I said we wanted to come in and proffer which is you know the initial statements
[11:47:26]however hang a footnote somebody wiser than I said there's an exception to every rule right Andrew so the point is let's say that when they tell her she's facing 10 or 15 years of
[11:47:38]mandatory time she has to do 85 of that time um maybe they might approach the prosecutors and that becomes something
[11:47:50]that's very hard to handicap because on the one hand maybe they're not so interested in you know titillating you know to avoid type information but then to flip it right on its head maybe they
[11:48:01]are so I'm going to be sitting back to see if there's a possibility that we at least hear something about that it's it's very hard to say I don't imagine that they would allow her to come in and
[11:48:12]cooperate but you know you know to quote Lotto or whatever it is you never know you know Doug I'm gonna uh get your thoughts on something that seems like quite basic uh and Elemental but
[11:48:23]throughout the duration of this I had been getting a lot of uh social media messaging you know where is the media where are they covering the galane Maxwell trial but of course uh you know and this might be news to to some
[11:48:34]Americans but you do not have cameras uh or cell phones inside of a federal courthouse we were relying on reporters you know kind of their uh filing their
[11:48:45]reports their tweets uh also uh sketches from courtroom artists to give us a sense of what was happening behind closed doors and of course that's why we
[11:48:56]did not uh get to see the verdict read out live as we have in some of these past trials that happen at the state level I don't know if you can offer something to kind of you know elucidate
[11:49:06]some of our viewers about why that is the case why those rules are in place well first of all personal note among my proudest possessions you'll find this
[11:49:17]interesting are six beautiful courtroom drawings you know with me and them from trials in federal court as you said and they're beautiful you know these gorgeous drawings but the point is
[11:49:28]um in federal court they made a balancing test decision okay the Public's right to know every minute of a trial you know versus maintaining decorum I happen to agree
[11:49:39]with the latter maintaining the decorum because as you see sometimes in some of these televised trials you know not to be overly cynical but people know they're on camera okay they kind of milk
[11:49:50]the moments things take 20 minutes that should take five minutes so it's answer a very good question you know this trial was handled much quicker okay you and I
[11:50:01]had discussed remember although at the beginning this is going to be a six week trial the defense got up to proudly announced that they had a three-week defense case turned out to be two days
[11:50:11]not being dismissive or sarcastic but it went much much quicker okay and so the point I'm trying to make is that had this been in state port on camera gavel
[11:50:21]to gavel I think the trial would have been at least double in length Okay I think the media coverage you know would have been more and that's no criticism of the media every show would have been
[11:50:32]okay victim number two is now going to be cross-examined let's go into the courtroom you know and we've all watched trials on TV for years so I like the
[11:50:43]federal model better I think it moves in a more streamlined fashion of course it gives me it's interesting as a legal expert less of an ability to really know
[11:50:54]the trial record and I find that interesting you know had I been watching the trial you know much much more 80 percent of it for example I would have been able to give you opinions on for
[11:51:04]example what type of legal mistakes they might be able to claim on appeal things like that but of course you know I'll be able to look at the trial record if I so
[11:51:14]desire at some point probably but the point is the distinction you raise is important and I'm glad you did and that is the distinction between a federal trial where there's no cameras in court
[11:51:25]and we get those beautiful sketches and Renditions that are you know dramatically put in the media in the papers and on TV versus State Court you know where the judge knows that he or
[11:51:37]she is on camera and I can sense it from the standpoint of human nature that you know there is some mugging for the cameras in these State Court trials I had a federal judge put me in one time well I was pretty
[11:51:49]friendly with and he was disgusted by the OJ situation because no I cannot believe how long this child has taken if I were trying this case Doug trust me it'd be four or five weeks and that
[11:52:00]would be the end of the