Officials invite the public to help top off Columbia Airport’s new terminal
A beam-signing and topping-off ceremony will take place at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Columbia Regional Airport.
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President Biden announces new winter COVID-19 plan
Columbia, Mo. (KMIZ.) President Biden announced his plans to keep people safe as the omicron variant hits the US. President Biden’s Winter COVID-19 Plan includes: Boosters for All AdultsVaccinations to Protect Our Kids and Keep Our Schools OpenExpanding Free At-Home Testing for AmericansStronger Public Health Protocols for Safe International TravelProtections in Workplaces to Keep Our
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Insider Blog: Why it feels more like spring and how we got here
There’s a stew of factors that are contributing to Thursday’s near-record warmth. Ingredients in this warm up consist of abundant sunshine heating the surface, dry air allowing for a quick warm up, support aloft, and existing above average temperatures. We’ve been on the south side of the jet stream for some time now, allowing for temperatures
Continue ReadingThe rescue of Parwana: 9-year-old child bride is taken to safety in Afghanistan
By Anna Coren, Rebecca Wright and Abdul Basir Bina, CNN Driving through a snow-capped mountain pass, the young mother huddles together with her six children in the backseat of a car after leaving their makeshift camp in northwestern Afghanistan. Carrying only a blanket for warmth, 9-year-old Parwana Malik balances on her mother’s lap beside her
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Tracking one more mild day before cooler air returns for the weekend
TONIGHT: Mostly clear and cool with lows in the mid-40s. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny and mild with highs in the mid-upper 60s. EXTENDED: I’m tracking another weak front to move in tomorrow, pulling in winds from the north and keeping our temperatures in the mid-upper 60s during the day. Can’t complain with this type of weather for
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Missouri state officials dispute reports of mask mandate study
By comparing the seven-day averages of Missouri counties with and without mask mandates in place, DHSS found that both case and death numbers were lower during the peak of the delta variant in counties that enforced mask-wearing.
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Women share how access to abortion impacted their lives — whether they chose one or not
By Madeline Holcombe, CNN When Sam Blakely found out she was pregnant, she balled up her shower curtain and put it in her mouth so she could scream as loud as she needed to without her roommates hearing. After a night out, a coworker had brought her to her home and raped her, an experience
Continue ReadingStricter testing requirements for travelers coming to the US will take effect Monday
By Kaitlan Collins and Paul LeBlanc, CNN The Biden administration’s new, stricter Covid-19 testing requirements for all travelers coming to the United States will take effect on Monday, an administration official told CNN. The new rules will require each traveler flying into the US from another country to test negative one day before their departure,
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Latest US travel rules: What you need to know about the changes prompted by Omicron
By Marnie Hunter and Forrest Brown, CNN Just when we thought US travel rules were starting to stabilize, along came Omicron. The dominoes fell quickly after South African health authorities informed the world of their discovery of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in late November. The Biden administration rolled out controversial travel bans on
Continue ReadingSchumer details plan to pass Biden bill by Christmas amid growing skepticism about timeline
By Manu Raju, CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is still insisting that President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better bill can pass his chamber by Christmas — even as doubts grow that such a timeline is achievable given the procedures of the Senate and the lingering differences among Democrats. In a letter
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Peng Shuai: Human rights activist Peter Dahlin says IOC is putting Chinese tennis star at ‘greater risk’
By Ben Church, CNN Human rights activist Peter Dahlin says the International Olympic Committee’s calls with Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai are putting her at “greater risk” and that they are “obviously staged.” One of China’s most recognizable sports stars, Peng publicly accused a former top Communist Party official, Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli, of coercing
Continue ReadingAbuse directed at London Hanukkah party bus investigated as a hate crime, police say
By Sharon Braithwaite and Nina Avramova, CNN London Metropolitan Police are investigating a video that appeared to show a group of men spitting at group of Jewish people celebrating Hanukkah earlier this week. The video, filmed from inside a bus dubbed a “Hanukkah party on wheels” in central London on Monday, shows passengers subjected to
Continue ReadingBiden outlines new steps to combat Covid through winter months
By Kevin Liptak and Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden announced a new strategy Thursday aimed at fighting a potential winter surge of Covid-19 without enacting unpopular lockdowns as the pandemic approaches its two-year mark. Biden’s multi-pronged approach puts a heavy emphasis on expanding vaccinations to the remaining Americans who have resisted getting shots, and
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Why baseball’s billionaire owners and millionaire players just can’t get along
By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Major League Baseball’s string of 26 straight seasons of labor peace came to an end early Thursday when the owners locked out the players. That’s bad news for fans of the sport, even if there isn’t a single game canceled as a result. In the world of labor relations, a
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Where are all of the consoles? How gamers are handling the global shortage
By Jennifer Korn Like many gamers in recent weeks, Nicole DeSantis, 33, from outside Philadelphia, combed through social media sites trying to find insider information on where to get a PlayStation 5 this holiday season. Stemming from the global chip shortage, video game consoles this year are particularly hard to come by. After successfully scoring
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A battle is brewing at the WTO. Here’s why it matters for a global Covid-19 response
By Aditi Sangal, CNN Business For the past year, member nations of the World Trade Organization have been deadlocked over a proposal made by India and South Africa to temporarily suspend intellectual property rights to boost production of Covid-19 vaccines and therapeutics for low-income nations. The proposal is backed by more than 100 countries, including
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Tracking another warm afternoon
THURSDAY: We’re starting off mild this morning and we’ll only go up from here! Our record high is 72 and plenty of sunshine will help us make a run at that this afternoon. TONIGHT: We’ll hang on to mostly clear skies overhead as lows settle down in the middle 40’s. EXTENDED: Winds will shift out
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Columbia motorcycle shop promotes safety after deadly crash
Gilbane Motorsports has put a memorial for Skylar Maddox Dec. 2, 2021 and a sign to remind drivers to watch for motorcycles when driving.
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Tracking near record warmth this afternoon with continued warmth on Friday
TONIGHT: Temperatures have already climbed into the mid-to-upper 60s this morning. Our record high is 72 and plenty of sunshine will help us make a run at that this afternoon. Overall, the warmth and clear conditions continue into the overnight, with temperatures dropping into the mid-40s by early Friday. TOMORROW: Friday is another well warmer
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German health minister says there are not enough vaccines for start of 2022
By Arnaud Siad, CNN Germany hasn’t ordered enough vaccines nor stocked enough to keep its vaccination campaign going through the first quarter of the year, Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said on Tuesday, amid fears that the country’s fourth wave of the pandemic might continue to spiral out of control. “I have been working for days
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