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Harry, what are americans saying? >> you were mentioning earlier on about the sanctions and how they might be playing a role in russia. what we see here is americans are very much in favor of that. look at that. 83% favor it. that is ugg significantly from 2014 when there was a russian incursion in east ukraine. a clear bump up in support for sanctions. in terms of other actions the u.s. could take. the united states should do more? 62% of americans overall agree. this is interesting. no partisa...

For example, paying rent is really, really high right now. so its either they go out and get something or they might miss that to pay rent on a monthly basis. >> reporter: jose, these sanctions that the biden administration is expected to announce are going to be lasting more than likely months, not weeks. but the big question becoming how is the united states going to make up for the lost oil, which is still in the single digits when you consider both crude oil and petroleum products, but its a...

Americans can hang in there. whats your thought on that? >> thanks for having me, chris. a small percentage, and this is a reflection of the poll theyre referring to, a very small percentage of the bump-up in gas prices has to do with the conflict in ukraine right now. weve seen prices rise due largely to energy policy adopted in the last year, shutting down the keystone xl pipeline, the thumbs down for the mediterranean pipeline, and green lighting the nord stream 2 people line, which thankfull...

Suggesting that its about up to 30% more contagious which means you get a lot more distinctal positives which means we have to get away from asymptomatic mask testing that we do it in the hospital that we cant sift out who is in the hospital for covid versus with covid. we are seeing an up tick in the u.k. and even parts of western europe i can guarantee were going to see an increase in case numbers we keep testing like this in the united states. question is whats happening here. we think that t...

Suggesting that its about up to 30% more contagious which means you get a lot more distinctal positives which means we have to get away from asymptomatic mask testing that we do it in the hospital that we cant sift out who is in the hospital for covid versus with covid. we are seeing an up tick in the u.k. and even parts of western europe i can guarantee were going to see an increase in case numbers we keep testing like this in the united states. question is whats happening here. we think that t...

Suggesting that its about up to 30% more contagious which means you get a lot more distinctal positives which means we have to get away from asymptomatic mask testing that we do it in the hospital that we cant sift out who is in the hospital for covid versus with covid. we are seeing an up tick in the u.k. and even parts of western europe i can guarantee were going to see an increase in case numbers we keep testing like this in the united states. question is whats happening here. we think that t...

82% during the peak of the initial covid outbreak. what could be the impact of that, and for people dealing with other diseases? >> were all losing sleep about this because the fact that we were so focused on covid for 2020 and the first portion of 2021 that everybody elses health issues got put on the back burner. the downside is were doing a lot of catch-up to avoid seeing bump-up of rates of people suffering from cancer and heart issues in the future. >> dr. compton-phillips, thank you so muc...

And they are not willing, again, even to run right up to it. so i think thats a good thing for democrats. while i think republicans are governing or -- they are not even governing. but whatever they are doing, from a position of fear. democrats are governing from a position of being afraid of what that fascist caucus has in store. and i think that that is going work for democratic voters. and i fully expect that we are going to see a bump up in enthusiasm among democrats because we have already ...

Of people getting vaccinated. thats the way were all going to be protected. best way to protect our kids is to have adults vavaccinated. i support these moves. we see this for some organizations that have mandated like the airlines, theres a bump up. there were threats people would quit. thats not happening. they are getting vaccinated which shows the mandates are working. >> you are not going quit your job. unless you want to be broke and poor and sit home with no money and do your research on ...

Or where were you before the storm even came? >> so, just in the last week we started to see just a slight decrease in our number of patients admitted every day. obviously in the last 48 hours, weve seen less people. our concern is always that those people are at home, that theyre not able to get to us. yesterday we knew that there were quite a few people who were unable to call ems because we had such a communication problem around the region with cell phone towers out. but overall we hopefully...