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Issues. all of a sudden those restrictions got lifted and people don't need to be in quarantine. that's a great opportunity for the virus to mutate because it gets to infect lots and lots of people. the more people it infects, the more chance it has to sort of change things up and turn into a new variant. does it mean it's going to turn into a horrible variant? absolutely not. that is why you do surveillance. various countries around the world, they take samples from people's noses. is the this a new variant or something we've already seen? countries take samples from people 's noses and they ...

In china and spreading? >> they're not panicked, but they are for sure concern. you talked about this surge in china. viruses love surges. it gives them an opportunity each and every person they infect. it's a new opportunity to mutate, to become something bigger, better, stronger. also, they might mutate into something that's not so strong, but they might mutate into something strong. so what each country does is they monitor the variants in their country, and they raise their hand and say, wait a second. i'm seeing something bad here. that's what happened with omicron in south africa. the au...

Infections this week compared to last week. eight states holding steady. 34 states, the clear majority of states reporting fewer new covid infections this week compared to last week. that is good news. now the good news is from a high base line. this is the peak of omicron. thursday, 576,000, nearly 570,000 new cases. that's a big number but down 28% from the january peak. the seven-day average. which the experts say this should continue down. omicron shall recede. time for the biden administration, if you look at the headlines. a number of experts have said, what next? please tell us what nex...

David, i just spoke with the family attorney who says that boy's mother could be days away from crossing into the u.s. to have her asylum claim heard and that boy could be released into the custody of his uncle as early as tomorrow. david? >> matt gutman continues to follow the situation on the southern border for us. matt, thank you. in the meantime, next tonight to efforts to expand the supreme court by some democrats. but tonight, house speaker nancy pelosi saying she won't support it, saying she won't bring that bill to expand the court to the floor, saying the president's infrastructure...

On many issues, the supreme court is composed of nine unelected men and women. the american senate is the most unrepresentative upper house in the democratic universe, with the exception of britain's house of lords, which is utterly powerless. california's 38 million people have the same representation in the senate, as do wyoming's 576,000. state and local governments battle federal power. private businesses and other nongovernmental groups are part of this mix. there are aspects of this system that many americans don't like. i think the senate in general is a broken institution, from its rep...