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Bad situation right now. i am very concerned about people who are unvaccinated. those who are vaccinated and vulnerable, those who are immuno compromised and elderly still boosted but there is a lot we dont know about the severity of disease this variant causes >> i mean, i was very stressed by some of the images you sent since you live in new york of people lining up at testing site bringing folding chairs, seniors, kids wrapped in blankets because it is not a hospitable environment for them to...

You hearing from local officials about the numbers of people and how hard it may be to get appointments or get a shot or a test? >> its busy, alex. it has been busy really throughout here in santa clara county or san jose, home of silicon valley. they have done a lot of things right during this pandemic, particularly after logging some of the very first covid-19 cases in the country back in 2020, a bad winter surge last year. so vaccinations like this, sites like this are plenty busy. theres als...

Very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. wshg welcome, everyone to alex witt reports. we begin with breaking news and the surging number of omicron cases across this country. u.s. reporting almost 120,000 new cases yesterday. just in the past few minutes, the white house saying the president will deliver a speech about this. we have nbcs josh letterman with the president in wilmington, delaware and scott cohen at a testing site in san jose, california, and dr. ...

Anymore. >> i think whats really, really, really important to understand is that its the booster that increases your protection again and makes it much safer for you, much less likely to go to the hospital, much less likely to die, and much less likely that youre going to spread infection to someone who is at greater risk. >> reporter: important to note for the people that are getting boosted today, they will not be fully protected next week at christmas. so what the experts are saying is if tha...

Do you see more folks showing up to get tested along with trying to get that booster? >> reporter: yeah. this is encouraging, yasmin. this is the vaccine site for santa clara county, on the fairgrounds, and elsewhere they have a testing site. both are very busy. thats a good thing particularly on the vaccination side because while this county has done -- and this state really has done relatively well on vaccinations, theyre still not where they need to be on boosters. in california -- in santa c...

All right, so we told you a short time ago that there will be no live audience for "saturday night live" tonight due to covid fears. now we have some breaking news from the nfl on the omicron variant. according to a statement just released, the league is set to adopt new policies after this weekends games which will include, quote, a more targeted testing plan, more flexibility for players to attend meetings virtually, and offer high-risk player out-opt for the season. it comes as the spread in ...

York city. this positivity rate in new york, this is remarkable. >> reporter: remarkable, doubling in just three days, jim. it is causing a lot of anxiety in the city. im at a testing site here on 57th street. the line is about 100 people deep or so. this is about a two-hour wait just to get tested. lines we havent really seen in probably several months, maybe even a year or so. but all these people have been waiting here now, for a couple of hours, waiting to get tested, just to go inside. many...

Look at the grand opening sign for a testing site when vaccines are widely available but free at-home tests are not. new york governor kathy hochul will join me live in just a moment. and look at this scene at a drive-through testing site in miami, a line of cars going on and on and on and on, as far as the eye can see. if you didnt know any better, you would think this was from last year. its not. so let there be no doubt, were in the thick of a delta surge with an unstoppable omicron surge spr...

Its pretty astounding. were talking about a 40% increase in just one day. and i dont know the situation now, but when i saw you earlier, there was a line wrapped around the corner at a covid the testing site, and it strikes me that here we are, more than a year and a half into this pandemic, and people are still having to wait in line for tests for north of two hours. what are you hearing from folks on the ground there? >> craig, your eyes didnt deceive you before or now. look at this line that ...

500,000 homemade -- home tests, not homemade tests. it makes testing more easily available with more sites, longer hours. shimon prokupecz is live in new york where, as you can see, people are already lining up to get tested this morning. shimon. >> reporter: yeah, kaitlan. and people have been online since 5:00 a.m. the testing site behind me opens at 7:00 a.m. but i want to show you the line here. it continuously has been growing. they are positioning some of the people here to stand this way ...