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The holidays are here and people are ready to gather, hug and feast. But is California in a better place this year when it comes...

Not yet. not yet. you can see there is the lead prosecutor right there, who made the closing arguments yesterday for the prosecution and you can see people milling about. in a moment, they will bring the jury in and we will bring you this rebuttal the second it happens. in the meantime, the state of michigan is under high alert amid soaring covid case counts and hospitalizations. michigan leads the nation with the most reported covid cases in the last seven days and health officials say it is a ...

Pediatrics has come out and said that there is no evidence that any of these covid vaccines affect fertility nor do they affect puberty. weve also heard from the american college of gynecologists and obstetrics that they recommend women and pregnant women get vaccinated because they agree theres no risk of fertility issues related to the covid vaccine. >> help put it in context in terms of the case count that weve all looked at every day for 18, 19 months now, at times depressing. the trend line...

Reported on average yesterday, down from 109,000. theres been progress in the case counts and hospitalizations are trending down and deaths gratefully starting to trend down. 28 million children in ages 5 through 11 and adding that and what impact is it likely to have, might it have on the trend lines? >> i think it will keep that trend line going down. you know, weve heard, john, children are less seriously affected with code of, thats right, but they are not immune to covid. over 2,000 childre...

Hospitalizations have made another slight drop, according to the Kings County Department of Public Health, but masking and precautions are still advised as pediatric cases have gone up.

Because i tried everything else possible. the mandates are working. >> again, you dont have to jump into the politics of this which can be pretty dice. from a public health perspective, what you heard from the president there. he waited to see if people would do it voluntarily and then decided because of this, these case counts and hospitalizations and deaths we have no choice. mandate it. make sense? >> yes. im sure this is enormously frustrating for him. i mean, he figured out a way to mass pr...

Fewer cases per day. whats the data telling you guys where we stand right now of our fight in pandemic. >> we feel like we are due for -- >> we seem to have lost nicks feed right there. nick, are you still there, do you hear us? >> yeah, we got you back. >> talk to those about covid. lets see if we can make it work. this is the good news today. the case counts have fallen under 100,000 around the nation. some pockets still a lot in the upper midwest, some hot spots. the broader trends are lookin...

Proud of where we are. these statistics about vaccinations are terrific. we are certainly on the downward slope of the delta surge in many states but still to stay wary. were seeing increasing case counts in the mountain west and in some states in the northeast. we know that there are still a lot of folks who are unvaccinated in the u.s. and there are even more people who are unvaccinated across the kbl globe. so the best thing for now is to keep our guard up and to feel very excited about where...

Ended up going in that direction, and i think its a open question right now, but i think theres no question about the fact that the white house believes that the posture they have taken over the course of the last six weeks has been entirely martd and pass paid off politically and through the health policy. >> you do see case counts going down and lets get one other piece of covid news. the drug-maker merck asking for emergency authorization that cuts the risk of hospitalization and death from c...

State hit the most deaths of any of the 50 states. back in july and august, we were seeing cases here in florida on a weekly basis hit above 150,000. last week, according to the florida department of public health, the case counts were just above 25,000. so, again, good news. and everyone here is hoping that that good news holds. throughout this pandemic, as you said though, governor ron desantis has been very staunch against any kind of mask mandates or vaccine mandates. and that trend is conti...