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Now to the latest developments on the coronavirus outbreak. the hospitalization rate of kids too young to be vaccinated is now at a pandemic high. the number of cases in children under the age of 5 has nearly doubled over the last several weeks sparking some major concern. >> we are still learning more about the severity of omicron in children, and whether these increases we are seeing in hospitalization reflect a greater burden of disease in the community or the lower rates of vaccination for these children under age 18. >> new york will require health care workers to get booster shots as the...

Only memorial along with president barack obama delivering the eulogy. the senator died december 28th from complications from pancreatic cancer. he was 82 years old. josh, we have president biden certainly in las vegas for that memorial, but still facing a lot of challenges back in washington. that includes covid as well as the economy, so what's the latest? >> reporter: yeah, those two issues there, alex, covid and the economy are really combining to form a perfect storm for president biden. just as he is scrambling to put together these half a billion home covid tests that are going to be se...

The hospital, so why would it not protect us in the grocery store. the type of mask is important. the reason why the cloth masks and surgical masks aren't necessarily as great, and particularly the cloth masks is that they don't filter out omicron, but secondly for the surgical masks, we know they are loose fitting and if you can have air come around the sides of your masks that means covid-19 can get in. think about cigarette smoke. if someone is in a corner in your room smoking a cigarette, you can still smell the smoke over in the far corner of the other room. that's how omicron works. it s...

That would be dangerous for putin. >> could one of the options be nato implements some sanctions against russia and says, look, back off, and then we'll back off. i mean preemptively say we're putting them on you. we threatened to and here they are. >> that would be an approach to think about carefully. i think the nature of the sanctions that are being discussed, alex, are so sweeping that they would almost have to be used after putin conducted the actual invasion, and we've made that crystal clear to him from president biden through tony blinken down through every level. my successor is supr...

My question for america is if we don't hold our children sacred, then what population do we? j j yeah, that is a sobering question. masking with the new questions around which kinds of masks people should be wearing. research has shown that cloth masks and surgical masks may not provide enough protection against omicron. so what do we do? do we have to all upgrade toon n95? and by the way, prices are surging on those. >> completely, and it's one of those things where capitalism will kill us. i just want to say that upfront. it has guided how we're even rolling out global vaccinations and we kn...