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Need2Know: COVID resurgence, James Webb Telescope & Amazon Prime Day

and covid cases are rising once again across the country. All fueled by the B. A. Five omicron variant. Health officials now concerned because that very highly transmissible and it seems to impact people regardless of their vaccination status. Be a five is now the most dominant strain in the country and scientists are also closely watching a new omicron strain. This one's called B A 275. Now it's unclear whether this newer variant will outpace be a five, but it is showing up in more than 10 countries including the US. It does seem to spread faster. Now we are going to sit down with an expert in just a few minutes to answer all of your covid questions and check out these images. Nasa just released. They're from the James webb space telescope and they're changing the way humans see the universe. NASA says the telescope captures the deepest images of the universe humans have ever seen. This galaxy cluster is shown as it appeared about 4.6 billion years ago. The telescope doesn't just peek into a galaxy far far away. It looks back in time, that's because it shows stars so distant. They might not even exist by the time the light reaches the telescope. That is so amazing. Meanwhile, bad news now for president biden and this time it's coming from his own party. A new poll from the new york Times in Sienna College found 64% of democrats wants somebody else leading the ticket in the next election. The President's age and job performance where the two main reasons here in the news even worse when it comes to democrats under the age of 30 94% of them won a different nominee. But the survey also suggests that President Biden would likely defeat former President Donald Trump once again. If the election were held today, 44% of voters from both parties chose biden compared to 41% for Trump. Meanwhile, the world of politics waking up this morning and it's waking up to another january 6th hearing. The Select Committee aides telling reporters on monday that the january 6th committee will convene again today at one p.m. For a hearing focusing on the role of extremist organizations all in the lead up to the violence on january 6th and on the day itself. Now this hearing will, according to the AIDS will examine how far right groups, including the proud boys oath keepers all zeroed in on january 6th. That is the last opportunity to put former president trump back in the White House for a second term. That despite his loss to joe biden in the 2020 presidential election, the Democratic representative Stephanie Murphy and florida and Jamie Raskin of Maryland are gonna lead today's hearings and the AIDS A. L. S. Said the hearing will focus in part on the connection between extremist groups and the former President's allies, Roger Stone, the longtime Republican operative and Michael Flynn retired three star general and former trump national security adviser. One thing, the one thing the committee has not re previewed ahead of today's hearing is a list of any witnesses we might hear from the select committee aides said this is largely due to security concerns for those who will offer testimony which is expected to focus on motivations of those who showed up on D. C. On january 6th. The committee originally planned for two hearings this week, one today and one on thursday aide said the thursday hearing will be moved to next week but offered no details beyond that. Of course we'll have live coverage for you today at one p.m. Eastern time on cheddar news turning now to some of the business stories we're following for you this hour. Prime Day is here amazon officially kicking off the two day event at midnight with thousands of hourly deals. But this year there's some stiff competition. Target got the jump on monday with target deals day. That event is being billed as three days of show stopping events with no membership fees. That's clearly a dig at amazon Prime's annual $139 membership walmart also competing with deals of their own that after surges in demand, retailers fighting themselves with massive amounts of Overstock which they're just trying to reduce through mid summer discounts. Meanwhile hate those self checkout machines at the supermarket while a lot of other people do too. That's because in a recent survey of shoppers by radiant, 67% said they've had a failure at the self checkout line stores like machines because they can hire fewer cashiers and reduce labor costs. The customer errors and thefts are cutting into those savings. The trend is expanding walmart Kroger and Dollar General all testing out stores with self service checkout only. And if you're planning a trip to europe soon, while the euro's loss is now your game. For the very first time in 20 years, the exchange rate between the euro and the U. S. Dollar is now nearly the same. The two currencies are less than one cent away from parody. The euro has dropped nearly 15% this year. Well, that's good news for travelers. It's not so good for us companies who do business overseas.