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System does relatively work. the idea we could have a mass transit system in an urban environment that is safe is a bad way to think about it. you want to make it safer. one way to make it safer is go do means thats harming people. guns and other weapons but guns and then you go to the response capability. after something bad happens, im not excusing it but we can measure success in the fact that there was a quick response. no one died. both luck and planning benefitted new york yesterday. i kno...

Analyst homeland security j. lets start where they left off. how many times have we talked about hardening soft targets. these attacks that happen on trains. they have happened in schools with armed guards. they have happened in stores with guards. they happen at public events with lots of police. is it realistic to put officers in these places and would it stop some of these attacks? >> no. i think we have to be really honest about the risk calculation that were making in the society. im not sa...

Theres no consequences for deciding to have the most aggressive public health policy. i think what youre seeing now in a number of countries is a recognition that theyre making a risk calculation, and because getting covid does not necessarily mean death any more. which was a lot worse in 2020. so youre making those tradeoffs. so call it risk minimumization, and the tradeoff in schools or closing scoots are too great at this stage. we need to treat schools and education like critical infrastruct...

A risk calculation, and because getting covid does not necessarily mean death any more. it was a lot worse in 2020, so youre making those tradeoffs. just trying to minimize the risks, and the tradeoff in closing schools are too great. we need to treat schools and education like critical infrastructure. you dont turn off the water or electricity. you do not close down the school as a first measure. maybe as a last measure if things are bad at that school. but the sweeping school district closures...

An attempt to cut off ukraines supply of weapons from the west. this sprawling training facility, used for nato military drills, dangerously close to the polish border. >> we will defend every inch of nato territory. >> reporter: 20 miles away, air raid sirens the morning after shattering the citys sense of safety. lviv has been the destination, the relative safe destination for people fleeing violence in the east after the last couple of days for refugees, for residents, for anyone in this city...

An hour and a half ago or so we heard air raid sirens. this is getting increaingly close and this western city has been the safe haven. this has been where everyone fleeing the violence of the east has come and the departure point for anyone going off into poland and elsewhere. hundreds of thousands of people who have decided to stay in lviv, dont want to leave the country and become refugees, who believe in their country and for various reasons want to try to wait it out. as at tacks get closer...

Thousands and not setting up in tent city. sleeping in church basements, in factories, shops, airbnbs. the sense and worry, of course, thats going to change peoples risk calculation. the fact there was an attack just two hours away from where i am on a military base a well-known base according to ukraiian officials we spoke with. russians lost 30 cruise missiles. only 8 hit. a lot of damage, though, from those eight and 35 people died, the death toll and 135 people injured. worried, though, in t...

And frustrating. >> heres a statement from princeton. all of us are frustrated. and protect the health and well-being of students, faculty and staff. what will this do to the overall college experience that has been chipped away over the last two years? >> i am a junior and my college experience has been ruined by covid. we have to take into consideration this virus is not going anywhere soon and vaccines were promised, theyve got to let students begin to do their risk calculation and a 0 risk s...

Appreciate the reporting. lets talk more about this. joining me, a senior scholar from john hopkins center for health security. thank you for joining me this christmas day. merry christmas. im sure as you know millions of families have begun gathering despite a surge in covid cases. again, president biden says if youre vaccinated and boosted, you dont have to cancel holiday plans. whats your message to families today that are together? how can we continue to be safe? >> i would tell the families...

In the places as well. early information we have, what can you tell americans about how they should stick with the information and the new variant? >> americans should not be surprised they are going to see omicron ferry cases erupt in every one of these states in the country including their own state, this is a more transmissible variant is going to do it showing the folly of these, its not something that would be preventable but what americans should remember is the vaccine is still the best w...