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Mentioned, greece, for example, closing restaurants and bars at midnight. also restrictions on the number of people that can be around a table, and how many people have to be around a table as opposed to standing. in austria, perhaps one of the most severe places in terms of regulations around europe, closing bars and restaurants two hours before midnight, paula. >> yeah. obviously, we thought these restrictions would be a thing of the past. they are not. jim bittermann there covering all of it ...

>> reporter: well, yasmin, the ball is up in times square, but officials here are hoping to keep the crowd count down tonight. theyre only going to be allowing around 15,000 people into the viewing area to watch that ball drop, and this is an area that would normally hold four times that. so that is one of the measures that has been put in place to help keep people safe. also when those viewers show up, theyre going to be required to show their id and proof of vaccination and theyre also going t...

Picture actually looks like. and thats because according to chicago public schools data, between december 26 and january 1st, of the more than 35,000 covid-19 tests that were returned, more than 24,000 of those were declared invalid. these past two weeks, chicago has seen its highest daily case rate of covid-19 since the pandemic began. christine, laura? >> all right, omar, thank you so much for that. omicron case counts are breaking records, but health experts say hospitalizations are the imp...

Surprise, given the rampant increase in this variant. all of this comes on top of a surge largely due to the delta variant that has seen cases rise across the country. here in new york, we have had four-consecutive days of record-case numbers, statewide. it is causing confusion and, frankly, exhaustion, especially among overworked frontline workers, one of whom you will hear from in just a moment. i am john berman in for anderson. and now, lets be clear. as negative as these headlines might soun...

It has been exemplary, you know, and i think that is the lesson to the world who are a few weeks behind south africa in this course with 0micron. you can get there, but you have to do what it takes and, unfortunately, were not seeing that everywhere. do you think it might be slightly too soon to start easing restrictions as south africa is doing with curfews? 0h, absolutely not, not here in the us. we are seeing sky—high numbers. we have broken records for case positivity rates in case counts ...

They vote in november is different. >> right, right, and it is a shift in the message from the president who did campaign on literally shutting down the virus, and this is a question that the white house has gotten several times from reporters in recent days and the recent weeks, and this seems to me one of the first big acknowledgements that in some form that the drives is here to stay which is something that public health experts have been saying for some time now, that pittsburgh penguins we ...

In wilmington, delaware, following the president, to talk more about this. the president has a lot on his plate in the coming year, but we got to start with, of course, the surge of omicron. two major things here hes dealing with, high case loads across the country and you have a major testing problem. what are they planning to do to deal with this? >> yeah, yasmin, i think if you were to ask most top biden administration officials if there was a list of things from 2021 that they wish they coul...

The governor will join us live and bret baier is also here to react. plus the latest from capitol hill is the heated covid hearing continues. we are monitoring that as case counts hit records high. the latest on bob sagets death with the autopsy complete, now his death is still a mystery. come join us as "america reports" at the top of the hour. >> harris: and bill marr is refusing to write off trump voters. at the comedian who is currently on tour in the southeast says a bill in icing those who...

It is, as you point out, this burning wildfire of omicron could help protect us from delta. which by the way, the cdc kind of put out another statement today stating that the estimate of how much of the country is omicron might have been slightly an overestimate, as it was reported, a forecast. and it is really about 59%. either way, we still have some delta in this country and your point is that we could look to omicron potentially being the beginning of the end of this pandemic. we know pandem...

Something going on here that everyone should be awake to now which is you have a lot of anchors and pundits who are -- theyre basically conceding a little bit to conservative media or to critical media or independent media about the way that people were demanding shifts and the way that these numbers were covered, you know, demanding, for instance, a distinction in case counts between people who are hospitalized with covid as opposed to because of covid. things that have been demanded for by a l...