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Well, welcome to your weekend. we are so grateful to see you through the lens, so to speak. thank you for waking up with us, hey, boris. >> hey, christi, good morning. it is saturday, january 8th, and we start with growing concern for our nation's kids as the omicron variant fuels a surge in hospitalizations. federal data shows a record level of covid hospitalizations among kids, averaging nearly 800 new hospital admissions a day. you can see on this chart, it's the highest it's ever been, an 80% increase in just one week. >> wow, 80%. states across the country are facing -- or racing, i shoul...

Think about relying on those policies around masking, testing, increasing vaccinations, to get those case levels under control right now. >> you're talking about two to three weeks as a lagging indicator for the number of hospitalizations, dr. blackstock. have we gotten to two to three weeks? it feels like we've been dealing with this for some time. we announced it or learned of it back on thanksgiving, announced the first few cases here in the united states, just a few days later. >> right, so those are the first few cases. but now we're hitting case numbers of hundreds of thousands a day. no...

It's at 9:00 p.m. tonight. don't miss it. you are live in the "cnn newsroom." in washington, the sudden covid surge in weekend getting in the way of those who need medical help for other reasons. 40 hospitals are stopping all non-urgent surgeries for the next two weeks as bed space is running low. many people who are filling up hospital beds across the nation are too young to get vaccinate. a record number of kids under 5 years old are in hospitals infected with the coronavirus or kids under age 18, new hospital admissions are at a record level. averaging nearly 800 a day. it's fuelling scho...

Good-news story for the average american. that's what you want to hear. >> let's talk, karen, about hiring from your perspective. linkedin has new data. does it show things moving in the right direction? >> it absolutely does. we're seeing jobs created this month at an unprecedented rate. we saw hiring a record level of 8% on the month and 27% relative to a year ago. so for us it's been absolutely a banner month in terms of labor market and it suggests to us that employers are looking beyond the virus right now. they're ready to hire. and it also suggests based on our data that we're seeing a ...

You are sitting in the land of cheap gasoline — where everyone expects it to stay cheap. joe biden made that point that this will have an impact and it will go two ways, how ready and for how long do you think the american public will be prepared to bear this? we will find out, i guess! today, in the united states, prices hit a record level, all—time record, without adjusting for inflation. the president's opponents have, for the last year, have been scoring a lot of points with the rising prices at the pump, which matters significantly in the united states both for consumer confidence and...