♪ welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is thursday, december 16th, and i'm brianna keilar with john berman. the dilemma facing colleges and really the whole country as coronavirus cases are shooting up and cases are definitely shooting up, rising quite a lot here. cornell university encapsulating the situation. 1,000 new cases reported on that campus. the university president reports they are seeing no severe cases among students, none. so what is the most important medical headline here? is it 1,000 new cases, is it no severe cases, and what is the right reaction to these events? cornell, princeton, middlebury college all are moving fall semester final exams online. nyu says it strongly encourages students to take their finals from home as well. but is that necessary with almost no severe cases? several schools issued booster