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The message, lindsay. >> it looks like new york city is once again becoming an epicenter here and you created a lot of waves of one of your tweets is the positivity in new york city doubled in three days. what do you think the priority should be right now? >> thank you for having me on to discuss this issue. this is an incredible challenge. this strain of the virus spreads so much more rapidly than the previous strain does. one thing new york city has in its favor is the high rate of people that have gotten those two important doses but the priority is to make sure we get the additional dose i...

Vaccine mandates, and 5,000 demonstrated in london and police officers were hurt in a confrontation with protesters. what steps is the government taking there? >> reporter: good morning, lindsay. the government here had been reluctant to impose any new measures beyond having to wear a mask at large venues, and the situation here is not good. london has become the epicenter of the omicron variant and cases of omicron in this country are doubling every 48 hours. there's been a massive surge of covid cases in the country as well, and there were 90,000 new cases in a 24-hour period. however this m...

Members, and we have a national responsibility as well and i have confidence joe manchin will understand and we will find the agreement there to be made. make no mistake, joe biden is in charge. >> manchin and kyrsten sinema are also standing in the way of voting rights legislation. for more on what this gridlock means for president biden's agenda, we turn to josh letterman in delaware. josh, what do you make here of all of this latest news happening? >> lindsay, it started at $3.5 trillion, got cut in half, and the priorities is a question mark heading into the new year. while the reality is ...

We're also hearing from the white house that this will be a stark warning about what is to come in the months ahead with president biden wanting to really level with the american people that next few months are going to be very difficult and also to give them the very latest science about what is safe and not safe as we head into the holidays, lindsay. >> josh letterman, live in delaware, thank you. coming up, two weeks without food. they're physically drained, mentally drained, but our next guests say they are committed to a hunger strike until congress passes the voting bill that we just t...

Good morning. it's sunday, december 17th. i am lindsay riser. we begin with the address that president biden is going to give the nation tuesday about the sudden surge in covid cases across the country. he's expected to announce new steps to beat ban this variant surge days before christmas. this is what the president is trying to turn around, all 30 states on this map in red or orange have seen rises in the last two weeks. >> a nation on edge, with the omicron variant spreading at an alarming rate. it's now being reported in nearly all 50 states. >> for the unvaccinated, you are looking at a ...