Today is tuesday january. Eighteen will tell you what the nations top doctor has to say about this latest covered nineteenth surge. Also new details about how the hostages in a texas synagogue were able to get away and what the gunman was saying during the stand off us, another change to the winter olympics, just two and a half weeks before they start a massive asteroid. You might be able to see from home today and this really does seem like the golden age of tv scripted series are hitting a record, welcome logo, to the is all the today's news in around ten minutes, fast, fair, fun and on the go, I air command e thanks, so much for being here, you're ready. Let's do there, even though this latest covered nineteenth surge seems to be letting up a bit in some places. Top health officials say overall, the search is still going. Strong the number of new daily covered nineteen cases has been going down in the northeast but nation wide, the. U s is now report

nearly eight hundred thousand new infections every day. So that's an all time high and it's more than eight times what the? U s was reporting. Six weeks ago, so the? U S, surgeon general told cnn quote the next few weeks will be tough, doktor murphy says the entire our country is not moving at the same pace. He says the peak is still coming to places that detected the armor, variant a little later than others, and with that, It says: nationwide, hospitalizations and deaths will continue to rise or right now about one hundred and fifty thousand people are in the hospital with cover. Nineteen and nearly eighteen hundred americans are now dying from the virus. Every day that death rate is up about fifty three percent,

since january. First, so doctors are again urging every one who has not gotten vaccinated, get to get their shots and to mask up around other people. Ask over nineteen continues to evolve. Scientists just keep learning new things about it. Like this week, another two groundbreaking studies came out. The first one is out of Israel. There are scientists conducted the world's first trial into a fourth covered nineteen vaccine dose. They were setting both the pfizer and modernity. Shots and early results show even a fourth dose is not good enough against COMECON. Experts say, even though each shot seems too these antibody levels more and more people who get all four doses are still getting infected with covered nineteen, their worst lightly fewer infections among those who got a fourth dose ass compared to those who did not, but not enough to really recommend it. Yet for now, though, they're going to keep reading

Meanwhile, another new studies seems to explain why some people lose their sense of smell after they get covered. Nineteen. It says, there's a genetic risk factor that makes certain people more likely to have that symptom experts say they hope. This study helps patients in a couple of ways. First, it might answer the question why me, and perhaps more importantly, it might actually helps It is fine treatments about one point: six million americans are still not able to smell six months after they got cove it. It's not fair, though how many of them had that genetic risk. New information is coming out about the hostage situation at a texas synagogue over the weekend, a couple of the hostages who are now safe people to share their stories. They safer eleven hours they tried talking to the armed gunmen who trapped them inside the building. They were hoping, he might see them as human all, while trying to make subtle moves towards the door,

but things got more dramatic when the gunman ordered them to kneel. At that point, the rabbi grabbed a chair and threw it out the gunman. He and the other hostages then ran toward the door. Once they got out the elite, swat team went in and moments later. This aspect was dead. Remember this What happened at a synagogue in fort worth texas suburb of colleagues, will about thirty miles, north west of dallas the rabbit in another hostage say they were prepared because after seeing threats, just synagogues around the? U s, they got security training, and now they say everyone should try to do the same thing just in case. Meanwhile, the whole situation is under investigation. Authorities still don't know inexact motive. though the gunman did ran about a pakistani scientist who went to prison for trying to kill american service members and the suspects brother says he was on the phone with. During the stand off and the gunman never said he was going to harm the hostages, but that he apparently said quote I've come to I oh and remember how. Yesterday we told you, two teenagers were also arrested in the uk. Will now

we see new sites, law enforcement sources who say they were there. Gunmen children is not clear whether they were involved or not. At last check, they were still being held for question to be continued. Exports now say saturday's your water volcano eruption was the biggest recorded anywhere on the planet in more than thirty years. Remember it happen. You're. The pacific island nation of tonga. Over the weekend. It's an ash, gas and steam more than twelve miles and the air and triggered soon ami. Now most people who live there are still cut off from the rest of the world. The natural disaster caused damage to an undersea cable, so it could take us on his two weeks to restore all communications like phone and internet service and because people there have not been But to reach the outside world, hardly anyone knew how bad the damage was until yesterday, new zealand and australia that military flights to assess the damage, the good news is they found there aren't signs of mass casualties. The bad news is significant. Damage was reported, beach resource were completely wiped out, as well as a lot of other.

Homes and businesses. The priority now is to get supplies to the people of tonga, but the airport is still closed. Still. Both the united nations and red cross say they're getting ready to respond and their hoping the airport will be reopened. Fight tomorrow. More news is coming up at first. Let's take a quick break to thank our sponsor is something stopping you from achieving our goals. I've had in my life, where I realized fear or at other times burn out, was prevented me from doing my best work and being my happiest self. But when you get to the core of what's going on We can do something about it and better help once to help better help, will assess your needs and help match you with your own licence, professional therapist, and if you dont, like your matthew, can easily switch councillors until you find the right one for you, then you Connect in a safe private, inconvenient, online environment is also up to you, whether you communicate be a text, a phone, call a video session or all of the above you'll get timely and thoughtful responses. And of course anything you share is, confidential. I want you to start living a happier life today as a listener. Yogurt

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the nations biggest airlines are urging the binding administration to keep five g technology away from major airports. Despite a planned launch for tomorrow, chief executives from several airlines, including american delta, southwest united and more wrote a letter to the federal government they're asking to once again delay the five g roll out near certain airports. The letter points to efface findings that safe, gee could interfere with the airplane instruments and the airlines worn, it could mean entire fleets of planes could be grounded and thousands of passengers stranded. The exact said it could also affect cargo planes, begin the nations. Commerce, too halt to already eighty anti and t and agree to buffer zones around fifty major airports. The companies also agreed to postpone the launched two more weeks, but those two weeks, our up as of tomorrow late. Last night, airlines were already considering starting to cancel some international flights for later this week and as of this morning, no response

from the binding administration or the two communication companies soap statement. Today, a massive asteroid will fly by planet earth. The asteroid is named ninety ninety four pc one because it was first discovered in ninety ninety four at its bigger than the tallest building in the world. It is classified as potentially hazardous because it crosses earth orbit. One astronomer says: if it were to hit earth it could cause a complete catastrophe and destroy everything within a twenty five mile radius of the impact while it does sound kind of terrifying aids not going to get that close. It will be one point: two million miles away from earth today around four fifty p m eastern time. Still it's the closest the asteroid will come for the next two centuries. You probably will,

not be able to see it with the naked eye today, but as astronomers say, it is big enough to see if you have a backyard telescope and pointing in the right direction at the right time or just check out the live stream called the virtual telescope project by the way nasa is preparing just in case, any asteroid in the future could cause catastrophic effects. Here on earth the so called dark mission launched in november last year, but the true test will happen. This september, a nasa spacecraft will hit an asteroid on purpose to see how it impacts the motion of a near earth asteroid in space. There are now more original tv series to watch than ever before, after a dip in twenty twenty. The number of original scripted television sets Please hit a record high in two thousand twenty one. According to fx research, there was five hundred and fifty nine adult scripted original series last year. That's sixty six more than the year before and more than double the number from a decade ago, that's across broadcast, cable and streaming

this is in fact get this in twenty eleven. There were just six original scripted series on streaming services, yet you heard that right, just six. Of course, more streaming services have since launched. So there are more companies creating content, more competition and more places. Just dream new series that they were the main as today's now it's time for trivia tuesday, when we ask a different trivia question every week, the first thanks to our sponsor as part of my morning, routine every day I take two capsules of sea the daily symbiotic. I get on an empty stomach as they recommend it. I just love how they make me feel, so this is a pre, an programme.

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Dot com such newsworthy or use the code newsworthy. I check out ok now back to trivia tuesday. Today's trivia question is how many sides does the home plate in baseball? Have you can answer the question and play along on instagram just find and follow us at newsworthy pod and look for the trivia quiz in our instagram stories today? As for last week's trivia question, how many times was martin Luther king Jr arrested? The answer? Is twenty nine, the civil rights leader dedicated his life to the nonviolent struggle for civil liberties, justice and equality here in the? U s, and in doing so was arrested many times mostly on misdemeanours related to civil protest. Here, just a quick run down of the most notable in nineteen. Fifty six king was arrested along with rosa parks and more than one hundred others for organizing the Montgomery bus boycott in protest of parks treatment. Those arrests are said to have been part of a get tough campaign to intimidate the boy.

This boy cutters! There are thirteen month mass protest led to the supreme court ruling that segregation on buses was unconstitutional during this king emerged as the prominent national leader of the civil rights movement, but then, in october, of nineteen sixty m o k was arrested after refusing to leave his seat during a sit in at a segregated atlanta restaurant. He was sentenced to four months in jail, but after an intervention by then presidential candidate John Kennedy, he was released. Another one of his most famous arrests happened in april of nineteen sixty three. He was arrested in birmingham for demonstrating without a permit. It was during this jail time. He wrote his letter from Birmingham jail, one of kings, biographer said kings. Only felony charge came in nineteen sixty when he became the first person ever criminal we charge in alabama on tax fraud. He was eventually accord. I thank you so much,

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