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Sadness. is there any reason to be optimistic here? if look at new york city and washington, d.c., two of the places where omicron started to surge first, the new york city case count down 23% from the first of the year, the d.c. case count down 13% from the first of the year. is that evidence to you that in the places where omicron hit first it is cresting and receding and that perhaps in the week or two ahead we will see that elsewhere? >> yeah. we are seeing some signs of hope that there are some places that look like they might just be getting beyond the peak and actually in these places t...

Now, across the rest of japan, the case count is nearly doubled every day this week. as the 6th leg of infection seems inevitable to prevent the rapid spread of cases in certain parts of the country, public broadcaster nhk reports the japanese government is considering authorizing a quasi-state of emergency ordinary for three prefectures. yamaguchi and okinawa. quasi-state of emergency is enacted. that means the local government will be able to limit the hours of operation of bars and restaurants and potentially impose fines on those bars and restaurants, isa. >> so potentially more restrictio...

Those are in short supplies. >> scott cohen from sympathy, thank you. joining me now california congresswoman sara jacobs a member of the house democratic steering and policy foreign affairs and armed services committees. welcome back to the broadcast. good to see you. as we talk about omicron racing through our state, in l.a. as we look at the numbers, the highest number of covid cases in one day was just recorded about 43,000. in san diego county, that includes your district, the cases are not as high in number but the effects are still very wide ranging with a growing case count impacting...

Get an update on how chicago public schools will operate remotely going forward later this afternoon. but the teacher's union has made it clear that they will not go back in person until they get a better agreement they say from the mayor or covid cases decrease here in the city of chicago. chuck. >> maura barrett on the ground in chicago, it sounds windy which means it sounds cold. i hope you warm up here in a minute. thank you, maura. let's go down to sam brock where we have a different type of staffing and shortage issue and that is in hospitals and the issue of hospitalizations. you're i...

Covid relief. this comes as ohio has deployed its national guard to hospitals this week. ohio's case count is at its highest point in just over a year. joining me now is a doctor who works at one of those hospitals where the national guard is being deployed. dr. brooks watts a chief medical officer at the metro health system in cleveland. dr. watts, thank you so much for being with us this evening. look, it is easy to get lost in all the numbers and cases. what do things look like for you right now as a doctor working every day in the hospital? >> thank you. we're -- we're in crisis here in no...