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Good morning. how can i help? i need help connecting with my students. behind every last minute save, ok, that works. and holiday surprise, thank you! a customer service rep is working unseen, making it happen. and at genesys, we're proud to help them help you everyday. right now many of you are probably in the midst of some holiday preparations. whether that's traveling or hosting a gathering or still figuring out what you're going to do. good time to take stock of where we are. you know, six or eight weeks ago things were looking not so bright for this holiday season. covid cases were risi...

Falling rapidly. a top expert says the country has passed the peak of the omicron outbreak. david mackenzie has more. >> reporter: dispatched south of johannesburg, this paramedic says omicron is nothing like delta. >> even then, it was only covid, covid, covid, covid, covid, and nothing else. >> reporter: we were with them during the chaos when the delta wave of covid-19 ripped through south africa. severe patients crashed quickly. the team spent hoiurs looking fr hospital beds. charities looked to set up clinics, scrambled to get oxygen cons entree tors to save lives. with omicron, they have...

>> yeah. that point is a key one because first of all, there's also -- there's a lot of delta in the country and there's a lot of hospitals -- there's a lot of hospitalization in the country from that delta wave that never sort of subsided, right? we had sort of one and then it was moving northeast. but also you've got these staffing issues. i have already started to hear in new york city like you've got a lot of staff in new york city hospitals that are testing positive. so you have staff constraints there. you write that basically you say you can't surge a circuit that's been burned out. and...

Florida. when i spoke to the operator, he told me in all of their sites across florida, they have seen about a 50% increase in the demand for testing compared to what they saw at the peak of that delta wave. that gives you an idea of the unprecedented demand they are dealing with here in south florida when it comes to testing after the holidays. i should namention the county i distributing free home test kits. they are quick to say while supplies last. >> it is amazing to be so far into the pandemic and have an issue like that. while supplies last. leyla, thank you. president biden will disc...

Have high hopes if i were them. >> and is there any sense, jeff, on how quickly a ruling might come? >> well, you no he, one of the more remarkable things with samuel alito, who was very hostile to the biden administration, said well you know, some of this starts -- some of the requirements start on monday. shouldn't we issue an order today? and the supreme court almost never does something the day of an argument and it looks like they are not going to do something today but that was just indicative, i thought, of how quickly the conservatives want to work, want to move in this area. they have...