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Nearly every single u.s. county is still seeing high transmission according to the cdc and so many local officials are keeping mask mandates in place. do you think we need maybe a different set of guidelines to measure where we are right now with this pandemic? >> well, i think the guidelines are clear. we have to articulate them. if you're vaccinated and boosted, we have to step it up as adults. we can completely unmask our kids in school and still come out ahead if we had the same vaccination rate as singapore. people like to compare themselves to the u.k. or france and look at their policie...

And the actual virus. we have over 2,000 people dying every single day. we know that the longer it takes to get up the hill, it takes that longer to get back down the hill. people should understand there is hope. we're seeing cases going down. we're seeing many ore and more people get vaccinated so that's critically important. i think we are headed toward a brighter spring, a brighter summer but we have to pick up the pace with vaccinations and boosters. >> i hope you're right. with cases on the decline, nearly every single u.s. county is still seeing high transmission according to the cdc and...

Transmission. it measures new cases per 100,000 residents. and nearly every u.s. county, as you see there, is still considered high. cnn's nick watt reports, some public health experts are saying this yardstick needs to change. >> i will be shocked if this is stopped. >> i don't see this going away. >> okay. so can when can we return to normalish life? live with covid-19? lift restrictions? right now cdc bench mark is 10 or fewer cases per 100,000 in a week. and all those red counties are now at 100 plus. ten times too high. >> we may need to rethink that with this new omicron strain. we may s...

>> reporter: well, that window to make a decision on whether or not to recall the governor, that window is closing. voting has already started the election is underway pop lus county here in california, you can see more than 400 of these ballot drop boxes there all over the county for people to drop off ballots. we've seen people dropping them off since these ballot boxes. they tell us they will probably wait until the last couple days or maybe not send the ballots in at all. kate? >> really. wow, great to see you, thanks so much. >> "outfront" now is a political correspondent for news califor...

Size of a u.s. county, he asked a visiting congressman whether the lawmaker could responsibly spend that kind of money back home, he said hell no, that's what you obligated us to spend and i'm doing it for communities that live in mud huts with no windows. so why does the pentagon get so much money for this war. why does congress keep saying, here, take whatever you need for this war. why wihave we spent nearly a trillion dollars in afghanistan when you can't actually spend that much money there. much of that money is going, according to the papers into the pockets of afghani officials, taliba...