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Suspended all of its games for the next several days over the christmas weekend, in an attempt to slow the spread. right here in the nations cap capital, the mayor, muriel bowser, announced the reinstatement of an indoor mask mandate, that starts today. in new york, which has seen a threefold increase in covid infections in the past week, new york city mayor bill de blasio says the city is testing more people than ever. and that contributes to some degree to the number of new infections were see...

Amazing the speed that this has burned through or is burning through the country. we are seeing the biggest spikes in new york and new jersey, not unusual, where we saw the pandemic start, big urban areas. but it is also places where people are testing more. and i wonder what is the likelihood that omicron is actually spreading broadly as well, but in other places where folks just arent testing as much. >> it is certainly spreading below the surface across the united states. if you actually look...

Steps here, testing, what else do we expect? >> reporter: thats right, jim. it is going to be a very different message from the one you might have expected a year ago during that last winter surge. instead, what youre going to see here is the president delivering two clear messages, one to the unvaccinated, warning them of the risk of serious illness and hospitalization if they do not go ahead and get vaccinated. and then another to the vaccinated, perhaps anxious americans, telling ing them the...

So that is some good news when looking at all of this in terms of trying to keep this in perspective. in terms of all the numbers that were looking at and the waits to get testing, everything that new york city is dealing with, the mayor says despite all of that he says he is committed to having the city stay open. >> got to avoid shutdowns, we got to avoid restrictions, we got to keep moving forward, vaccination is the key. >> reporter: again, we keep hearing this message over and over again. v...

Half a billion rapid at home tests sent out for free to those who request them. will this make a difference? i suppose the real question is here, what is the gauarantee tht most at risk people ask for the test? you have a disparity over how much people test themselves. >> there are a number of questions. first, do people know how to use these? are they going to be motivated to do it? ill say my own parents when i said i wanted to rapid test for thanksgiving, my moms question was, if im positive,...

Pretty much and these 20 missile bases weve been studying, these are the sorts of the things that the president would have liked to have seen to be part of the conversation if we were going to lift all the sanctions as the north koreans would want. its a disaster. this is no doubt a disaster but in the end the president made the right decision not to take a bad deal. >> what do you think china is feeling. are they relieved, happy or disappointed? >> i think they are disappointed. they are worrie...

Gordon, i want to ask you and point out a tweet you mentioned trump cannot cajol kim jong-un into giving up weapons, he has to clean up him. it was a huge mistake to let up the pressure on north korea last may. why do you say that? >> well, he did let up the pressure and we have seen virtually no progress since then. its good the north koreans arent testing. they need to digest all of the telemetry, all the information they got from their nuclear detonation and from all their missile launches. t...

Republicans. does that mean he will turn to the emergency declaration? >> it absolutely could. he has been threatening to do so. i would expect in the state of the union he would threaten it again. you have to remember the state of the union tomorrow is on february 5th. we have until february 15th as the deadline for this conference committee negotiations on that. so you would think that the president would keep that threat overhead but not announce a decision, as long as there is a chance for t...

Self-explanatory, and place that over the leak with the same purpose, to siphon the oil up to the surface. another idea they were talking about a couple days ago, something they refer to as just -- basically they would be blasting a great deal of rubber made from tires, even golf balls, to try to seal the leak. then they would use a compress of mud and concrete to seal things off. theyre certainly hoping one of these will work. right now the one theyre really pushing for is, of course, just that...