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Restrictions unfairly target african travelers. for more we want to bring salma abdelaziz in london. varying restrictions, different approaches in many, many countries. in the uk, they were among the first to bring in travel restrictions. what can you tell us as well about this very extensive booster campaign now under way? >> reporter: paula, this country is trying to ramp up its booster campaign to basically what it was like at the beginning of the vaccines, when everyone was getting their very first shot. already gps, doctors here, are being told to put aside any nonemergency care, delay ap...

>> reporter: the city is preparing. on friday the governor of new york declared a state of emergency, signing an executive order that will go into effect this friday limiting nonemergency, nonurgent medical procedures to help with hospital staffing as well as supplies. this is all in preparation, because no omicron variant has been confirmed in the u.s. but the governor says it's coming. the new york city health commissioner says it's probably just a matter of days before we have the first confirmed cases of the omicron variant here in new york city. also mayor bill de blasio announcing that m...

Season, we're going to be really in a bind because we don't have room already as it is. >> new york has already announced a state of emergency, which is going to mean that its hospital systems can already start cancelling or delaying appointments for elective or nonemergency procedures. and while massachusetts hasn't announced a state of emergency, already there are discussions here about what it's going to look like if on top of the delta variant, on top of burnout and exhaustion, they also are fighting a new variant. it's going to be days, maybe weeks, up to month, until we have a full pictu...

Really inconvenient time for the health systems here in massachusetts and new england more broadly. there's been a spike in cases over the last several weeks. mostly driven by the delta variant. on friday after thanksgiving, massachusetts announced over 5,000 new cases. but the real concern here around hospitalizations is not so much that right now the hospitals are overflowing with covid patients. although about 40 people are being treated for covid behind me in mass general right now. it's really the other pandemic-related stresses on the entire system. burnout is a huge factor that we consi...

February 23rd, 202, 1:08 p.m. mr. arbery walks up to the open, unsecured construction site, the olson video, off by an hour and five minutes, remember. heard the video from inside 220, mr. arbery does not take anything. just does what he always does, wanders around, and leaves. not a burglary. okay? how would you know what his intent was? well, did he steal anything? no. did he leave like he always does? yes. it's a sunday afternoon and mr. albenze calls the nonemergency police line at 1:08. i said to him, why didn't you call 911? because this was not an emergency. it wasn't an emergency. mr. ...