Jan. 6 Insurrection Revisited, Blinken to Israel, COVID Resurgence.
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Is likely the largest law enforcement investigation in U. S.

history. Three years at the january six interaction at the capital, the FBI is still making arrest .

and asking for help to find suspects.

I'm Scott Simon. I'm a sarasi co, and this is up first from M. P. R. news.

About eighty people are still wanted for allegedly attacking law enforcement officers.

We request the public continued assistance identifying individuals who committed crimes on january six.

Twenty twenty one will have more on that. Plus in the middle .

is sector state. Blinking is expected to try again to get israeli of moderate attacks on gaa.

Also, cover is surging again, but fewer people are ending up in the hospital.

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the FBI has rested worth and twelve hundred people in connection with the january six .

riot so far in P, S, tom drives bog has been covering this investigation for three years.

welcome. Hey, thanks.

So I think people might be surprised that arrest are still being made in these cases three years later. Like where does this investigation actually stand right now? Yeah.

I think that is pretty surprising to see how many cases are still happening to this very day. But you know, keep in mind, this is believed to be the largest single criminal investigation in american history. The FBI estimates that around two thousand people from every state in the country took part in the riot in some way, and outside researchers actually think that number is even higher.

But the F. I is dealing with just an enormous number of tips from the public, tens of thousands of hours of video footage, social media posts. And this week, the top federal prosecutor in dc, Matthew graves, gave a presentation and said they still need help finding suspects.

On the occasion of this anniversary, we request the publish continued assistance identifying individuals who committed crimes on january six, twenty twenty one, particularly the roughly eighty still uni dense fied individuals who were believed to have committed act of violence against the enforcement officers.

And we should say these tips from friends, even family members, open source researchers online. These have been crucial in many of these cases to actually making arrests. And the government is working against the clock if trump wins the presidential election this year, he could end these investigations as soon as he takes office.

Even if these investigations continue. The statue of limitations for these crimes is set to run out on january fifth, twenty twenty six, at five years after the attack. So there's quite a bit left to happen in this investigation still.

Um but as we mentioned, there have already been more than twelve hundred of rest. So where are those cases in the pipeline that .

the majority of those folks who have been charged around nine hundred or so people have already pleaded guilty to one or more charges or they've been convicted at trial and there's a light range of charges. I kind of put them into a few buckets mentally. Probably the largest are these relatively low level people who entered the building, nothing else.

Then there's the people who who the government has intentionally and corruptly obstructed the proceedings of congressmen to the counting of the electoral college votes, and then there's the people who committed violence against police. And at the most serious end are the people who have been convicted of seditious conspiracy against the united states. And the two major cases on that citified conspiracy charge involved members of the far right extremist groups, the proud boys and the old keepers, and the government succeeded in securing convictions against the top leaders of both groups.

And what kind of sentences have people gotten? What.

as you can imagine, with all that range of conduct, the sentences really vary, but on the highest. In those sidi ous conspiracy cases, you have the former al leader of the proud boys in ricara o sentence to twenty two years in prison, and the leader of the earth keepers to our roads sentenced to eighteen years in prison. And there is also been fairly stiff sentences for people convicted of assault against police.

Just this past week, there was a man convicted of assaulting cops with pepper spray and fleeing. Actually, after his trial, he was just sentenced to ten years in prison. And then on the lower end, a round of third or so of defendants received no jail time at all.

They may have a fine to pay probation. Sometimes requirements to fully like mental health treatment. Judges really have a lot of discretion at sentencing. And in addition to a lot of the conduct of the defendant, they are looking at things like whether someone has expressed .

remorse for what they did and what your sense like how people really express remorse for what they did.

It's really all over the map. I don't think I can make any sort of sweeping judgment about that. There are definitely people you hear expressing a lot of regret for what they did.

They said they get caught up in the moment where they feel like they were lied to by trump and they regret what they did. And there are other people who are totally unrepentant, proud of what they did. Even there is this one case that I can think of.

A defendant told his judges sentencing that what he did was, quote, unacceptable, that he disGrace the country. He said he apologized to members of congress in the capital police, and then after he got out of prison just recently, he has fully embraced the false conspiracy theories, calls himself for political prisoner. He says that january six was a set up by the feds.

And I think one factor in how people interpret their conduct that day is what former president trump has said he has fully embraced. January sixth, in his campaign for real election, he says that there was beautiful. He calls the defendants patriots, promised them pardons in many cases. And I think that redirect caz .

had effect that in pr. Investigative correspondent IT tom, drive back. Tom.

thank you so much. Thank you.

Antony blinken is meeting with foreign leaders in the middle ast this weekend.

The secretary of state's visit comes as israel war with a mouse, threatens to wide in into a regional conflict .

and that after a top of moss leader was assassinated in mini suspect.

israel was behind the killing. Though IT hasn't claimed responsibility, is Lawrence .

freer follows this from television laun, thanks for being with us.

Things we're having me, Scott.

The war in gosh has been going on for three months. Is this possibly a new front on the border with lebanon?

I mean, that certainly the fear, tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from both sides of the israel lebanon border, their iied sirens blaring across northern israel today. Lebanon hezbollah militia says IT fired dozens of rockets across the border this morning, and it's calling this just an initial response to the airstrike that killed a hamas leader this past week. As you mentioned in lebanon's capital beirut, israel says IT has sent tanks, artillery and air strikes across the border into lebanon on for the past few days. Israel's s defense minister yoof glan inspected troops yesterday at the northern command, and then he recorded this video clip.

and in which he says israel .

prefers a political settlement with hezbollah ther than a military one, but that we are, quote, close to the point where the hour glass will turn. Those are his words.

That's the northern border with lebanon, a gazza in the south. What's latest from there?

So this week, defense minister golan announced new phase of gaza fighting. Israel is withdrawing thousands of troops from northern gaza and says it's focusing on finding homos leaders and israeli hostages that are believed to be held in southern gaza. But, you know, israeli air strikes and shelling continue pretty much all over the gaza strip.

Health officials there say more than one hundred and twenty people have been killed just in the past twenty four hours alone. Np is gaza producer. Anazeh is in rafa.

That's the southern most city dian, gaza. It's actually where israel told people to fly too. And now israel is conducting air strikes there. Yesterday, IT hit a house and our producer baba spoke to a woman named sofa.

non, whose sister was killed there.

SHE says this airstrike went straight into a room with women and children, and SHE asks, what did these women and children do to deserve this? now? Raa, where he is in southern gaza, has absorbed more than a million evacuations from elsewhere across the gaza trip and and water .

conditions like there.

horrible shortages of food, fuel, water. People are scavenging for material to make their own tense to sleep in uns f the U. N children's s fund says ninety percent of infants and todd's under the age of two in gaza are now victims of what he called severe food poverty.

No, israel says IT has eased its blockade on supplies entering gaza, but aid agency say not nearly enough aid is getting in. One un. Official says gaza is now, quote, a place of death and despair.

These are the conditions in which you were secretary Anthony blinkin is arriving. What's going to do there today?

He's in turkey, create and then Jordan. This is part of a regional tour that will include stops here in television and in ramua in the israeli occupied west bank. To know IT comes amid a tensions on the israel lebanon on border, as I mentioned, but also possible tensions in the us. Rael relationship. Blinkin is expected to urge israel to tail its military campaign in gaza and also take part in talks about laying plans for gaza rebuilding and who will be in charge there.

Amperes learn for you until levive.

Thanks so much. You're welcome, Scott.

If you're sneezing or sniffling, you're not alone.

The centers for disease control and prevention says that its peak season for respiratory viruses.

with most of the country experiencing high or even very high levels of cold flu. And covet and be your .

health corresponded being wrong, joins being. Thanks so much for being with us.

Thanks for having me.

Excuse me, what's out there?

Well, there is a lot, a lot of virus out there, Scott. We are, as you mentioned, in the thick of winter respite ory virus season. So there's are a fee. There's flu, this COVID, there's common cold viruses, and they all get to boost during the holidays when people travel and gather. I talk to amy corby, who runs the national wastewater surveilLance program at cdc, and he says, if you look at the wastewater data cover levels right now are even higher than they were last season.

But still he says we are still very far below the levels that we were seeing in twenty twenty .

two with .

the old ron peak.

Um so we're not looking at that kind of you know really massive wave of infections. This is more on what what we saw you.

Even though level of hier last year at this time, other coped metrics like E, R visits and hospital ization rates, those are lower this year. The C, D, C says.

does that mean we're changing? But I referred to as our relationship with .

code in some senses. yes. I mean, what that means right now is that covin infections are causing serious disease less often than they did in previous years, but covered still as the most serious virus right now. Last week, for instance, to put thirty five thousand new people in the hospital, at least twelve hundred people died from IT, and that is a lot more a than flu. So far this season, hospital capacity has been generally stable, which is good news because that means that people who need care can gently get IT.

What about the new cover variant though?

okay. So the dominant variant right now is one called j and one here in the us. That was first detected in september.

And by thankfu, giving IT was responsible around eight percent of U. S. cases. Now it's up to sixty percent. And jin one IT is considered an omron variant, though there's been some debate over whether deserves its own greek letter since IT has a lot of genetic differences, but the symptoms are about the same. And the tests of vaccines and the treatments that we currently have to work against IT.

what should people be doing now.

given all of this, well, public health officials are really leaning into encouraging people to use the tools we have. So that starts of awareness. You know, there are maps of the cdc and local health departments are putting out that can help people figure out how much virus is circular, where they live, and it's not too late to get vaccinated.

You know, half of U. S. Adults have not got ta flue shot this season. Four out of five haven't gotten the covet booster. And this is especially important for older adults who are at higher risk of dying from these illsley. And lastly, if you are sick, like a lot of people are right now, the advice is to stay home so you don't spread IT on, get tested in case you qualify for some prescription medications that can help you get Better, and to generally just take good care of yourself and .

the people around you. Thanks very much. Health responded.

You will come, Scott.

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