what kind of -- paint a picture hear. is it a city shutting down or is it a city wanting to persevere? >> reporter: well, this is your picture right here, chuck. i mean, take a look. you talk about eerie, you talk about deja vu. this testing line stretches down the street, people have lined up well before 6:00 this morning, it opened at 7:00. the line is two hours long. we've got the rockettes, they've canceled four shows today, all four of their shows because they've had breakthrough cases among production. the governor of new york tweeted 18,276 cases reported wednesday. that's the highest we've seen since january 14th and that winter surge. we also know omicron is spreading more rapidly in new york and new jersey than the rest of the country, about 13% of positive cases are omicron compared to the national average of about 3%.