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Cases are really hitting record highs in many places, but as you said, restrictions are going the opposite way. they are getting looser. and so you mentioned austria. yesterday, the austrian chancellor said that while the mask mandate for crowded places is going to stick around, the rules around the curfew are getting loser and the rules around the number of people allowed at a gathering are getting looser as well. austria is even making things easier for the unvaccinated. and remember, austria has not been kind to vaccine holdouts. they've been under a stay-at-home order since november. so wh...

Explicitly made. to invade this country. something that u.s. intelligence estimates is 70% of the way in terms of troop deployment, ready to go. >> are these diplomatic efforts going on, that you referred to, are they making any progress? french president mac rondo warned this could take months to resolve. >> any russian troops will be seen as a positive sign. that is largely to do with climate. the ground will be frozen until maybe the beginning of march, mid-march. then it turns into a quagmire, very difficult to move large amounts of troops across if that is indeed putin's intent. so anythi...

So the states that are saying sometime march, mid-march, end march. that makes lite of sense. to stop them next week, california's rate is twice what connecticut's rate is. i think you've got a problem there, but even without a mandate you've got high immunization and mask usage rates. >> what about schools specifically? how concerned are you about the fact -- and we're talking about the 5 to 11-year range. the vaccine uptake hasn't been enormous. it's under 50% almost everywhere, well under. >> right. really, these vaccines just became available for kids relatively recently. we're seeing a st...

V low covid cases as the reason they are getting rid of mask mandates. new jersey, california, oregon set a timeline to roll back mandates in march. new york governor will announce her decision on whether to lift or keep masks in schools and businesses. that's coming tomorrow. >> many health officials agree the data shows it's safe to take off masks now but others think it still too soon. >> i think this is the right time for governors and local officials around the country to lay out their pathway to removing indoor mask man ddates. this is a very different time compared to last year. >> stat...

And could actually worsen the already difficult u.s. inflation. you know, access to three major border crossings have been cut off by the truckers, and those who are i guess you call them the like-minded demonstrators. and they started out, they started out protesting covid mandates and restrictions in canada. but that list of the grievances, it's been growing and growing, and it's grown in the two weeks since all of this started. and now there are concerns that that list of grievances and that convoy could actually form here. in fact, the dhs has warned now in a bulletin that super bowl sunda...