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2020 closing ceremony. and speaking of olympics, the winter games in beijing do start in just about two weeks. relatively speaking, the case count is extremely low compared to other countries. only 87 new cases reported yesterday. but because of the countrys zero covid policy, if even one case is reported, it means mass testing and lockdowns. currently more than 20 million people across the country are confined to their home. that includes several neighborhoods in beijing. as far as athletes com...

Hospitalized with covid, but in new york and d.c. where omicron surged first, the case count is finally trending down, and the party of trump is the party of revenge. the former president targets a republican senator who told the truth and kevin mccarthy promises if he gets power he will use it to punish democrats. we begin the hour though with the president and his consequential visit today to georgia. voting rights is his focus as he visits some of atlantas civil rights landmarks. remember, bo...

Are just fearful of it. >> reporter: people you treat, come in not believing they have it? >> some of them dont believe they have it. they dont believe its a real thing. ive heard that. >> reporter: with nearly a third of kentuckyians testing now positive for the coronavirus, the state has smashed its record weekly case count, more than 72,000. the unvaccinated or partially vaccinated accounting for nearly 80% of those cases, nearly 85% of hospitalizations, and more than 83% of deaths. sherry ka...

>> sam stein, leigh ann caldwell, thank you both. oregon is calling in more national guard members to aleve nate the pressure on hospitals there, fueled of course by the omicron variant. governor brown requested an additional 700 troops be deployed to hospitals across the state adding to the 500 called off last week. jacob ward joins me now. what are hospitals facing in oregon right now? >> chris, the oregon health authority reports cases as of tuesday were over 700 and that means an increase ...

Death count. dr. fauci says a close look at the case count suggests we are close to a turning point. >> what we would hope, as we get into the next weeks to month or so, well see throughout the entire country the level of infection get to below what i call the area of control. theres a big bracket of control. control means youre not eliminating it, not eradicating it, but it gets down to such a low level, its severalal integrated into the general respiratory infections we have learned to live wi...

Confirmed and growing covid case count, both in that olympic bubble, in the so-called closed loop of thousands of athletes and coaches and journalists and organizers, but also outside in the general chinese population in beijing, which is supposed to be walled off from the athletes. there, the chinese authorities are struggling with outbreaks of omicron and of the delta variant, and theyre using some extreme measures to try to stamp it out. millions of people having to get tests. if you try to b...

If everything sticks to script well be feeling like things are back to normal, you know, a year down the road. >> mark zandi, grateful for your insights. appreciate it, sir. >> sure thing. lets get political perspective. with me, nia-malika henderson and ryan nobles. the president has had a tough few months. when you look at the polling, the covid case count, up and down, especially inflation numbers on the economy in his face. so the president didnt want to stop talk there. he was happy. he w...

Buildup on the border continues. well bring you a live report from kyiv. plus, more information on north koreas latest missile test, its 7th this month. were live in hong kong with the details. and the winter olympics are just around the corner, but the covid case count among olympic personnel is growing. well bring you the latest out of beijing. ♪ >> announcer: live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with rosemary church. good to have you with us. and we begin with a new push for d...

About that right now. >> as we tee it up, where do you see the sweet spot? if you look at the overall national case count, down 39% from the january peak. thats certainly the trend you want to go. but were still looking at nearly 500,000 cases on sunday. thats still an enormously high case count. if you look at washington, d.c., theres an indoor mask mandate, indoor event vaccine mandate here in d.c. when the indoor mask mandate was lifted in november, 15 cases per 100,000. then the mayor reinst...

Area. they have spare the air days when things arent so good. they make changes until it gets better. the same can a ply here. hospitalization capacity and say we need to make sure the critical infrastructure is safe, our kids are protected. and having these very clear gates, very clear guidance thresholds are really important. the ones from last summer are now out of date. we need to get a much clearer sense of what the goal is and that gives people something to shoot for. >> absolutely. we all...