Monday, January 31, 2022

The United Kingdom considers taking additional steps to back Ukraine. But how can NATO nations help a country outside their alliance? People without vaccines and boosters are far more vulnerable to the omicron variant. How can U.S. slow the rate of deaths? Also, New England normally shrugs off snow storms. But the storm last weekend was massive. We take a trip to Cape Cod, where coastal homes faced not only winter weather but beach erosion.

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