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As a surge in cases of a more contagious Covid Variant is worrying Health Officials there and now here at home. Thanks for being here, everybody. Happening rival at this hour, President Biden is meeting with nato allies in brussels. The president will soon be meeting with turkeys president on the sidelines of this summit. This is President Bidens first inperson gathering with nato leaders where this morning he is calling the alliance critically important and a sacred obligation in stark contrast...

Tomorrow, of course, is the one-year anniversary of the insurrection and of the beginning of what now is the largest investigation in justice department history. take a look. more than 700 people have been arrested, but the feds still have a lot of work to do, and they are asking the public for help to identify at least 350 people involved in the violence that day, including 250 who arrested police officers. they will deliver an update on the investigation today. that case count is impressive, b...

Case count ever. a new study estimating that 75% of people in the uk experiencing cold-like symptoms, likely have covid. paris is now requiring people to wearing a masks even outdoors. the government there says omicron is now officially the dominant variant. sydney, australia, meantime, preparing for its famous new years fireworks as cases there, though, continue to skyrocket. spectator will need tickets to see the show from most vantage points. rome, athens, berlin and london, among many euro...

Variants. we have a lot more protections than we did previously in place. the biden administration committed $130 billion to upgrade and to improve schools and we also have to remember where are the students going to be if they are not in school? some of them might actually be isolating at home bull many of them are going to be in less safe day care, child care settings, might be hanging out with their friends or in other peoples homes, places that dont have the kind of protective measures that ...

It is the top of the hour on this final day of the year. good morning, everyone. im poppy harlow. thanks for being with me. jim is off today. as covid cases spike, new years eve celebrations are scaling way down. the countdown to 2022 has already reached zero in certain parts of the world. the story feels similar to where we were a year ago. this time its the omicron variant forcing cities to reduce and in many cases cancel the festivities. in new york, the times square celebration is moving for...

Sadness. is there any reason to be optimistic here? if look at new york city and washington, d.c., two of the places where omicron started to surge first, the new york city case count down 23% from the first of the year, the d.c. case count down 13% from the first of the year. is that evidence to you that in the places where omicron hit first it is cresting and receding and that perhaps in the week or two ahead we will see that elsewhere? >> yeah. we are seeing some signs of hope that there are ...

Now, across the rest of japan, the case count is nearly doubled every day this week. as the 6th leg of infection seems inevitable to prevent the rapid spread of cases in certain parts of the country, public broadcaster nhk reports the japanese government is considering authorizing a quasi-state of emergency ordinary for three prefectures. yamaguchi and okinawa. quasi-state of emergency is enacted. that means the local government will be able to limit the hours of operation of bars and restaurant...

Those are in short supplies. >> scott cohen from sympathy, thank you. joining me now california congresswoman sara jacobs a member of the house democratic steering and policy foreign affairs and armed services committees. welcome back to the broadcast. good to see you. as we talk about omicron racing through our state, in l.a. as we look at the numbers, the highest number of covid cases in one day was just recorded about 43,000. in san diego county, that includes your district, the cases are n...

Get an update on how chicago public schools will operate remotely going forward later this afternoon. but the teachers union has made it clear that they will not go back in person until they get a better agreement they say from the mayor or covid cases decrease here in the city of chicago. chuck. >> maura barrett on the ground in chicago, it sounds windy which means it sounds cold. i hope you warm up here in a minute. thank you, maura. lets go down to sam brock where we have a different type o...

Covid relief. this comes as ohio has deployed its national guard to hospitals this week. ohios case count is at its highest point in just over a year. joining me now is a doctor who works at one of those hospitals where the national guard is being deployed. dr. brooks watts a chief medical officer at the metro health system in cleveland. dr. watts, thank you so much for being with us this evening. look, it is easy to get lost in all the numbers and cases. what do things look like for you right n...