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Tokyo just reached a six month high for covid cases and recorded three state days with more than 1,000 new cases. will ripley is joining us from tokyo. this is not going in the right direction. >> reporter: it certainly isn't. the last month or so, the numbers have been trending up and now they are seeing their highly daily cases since january. this is one week out from the opening ceremonies and tokyo is in its fourth covid-19 state of emergency. restaurants are banned from serving alcohol, there is already that spectator ban, first in olympic history. so the venues and taxpayer spent billion...

The events held in the host city of tokyo without spectators. so the multi-billion dollars venues will not have any japanese citizens aside of a handful of olympics officials and vips and staff members and journalists. when they applaud, they'll hear their own echo. even the torch relay has been moved off of public streets. only family and friends of the torch bearers allowed to attend. so people can't line the streets and participate in any way in the games. restaurants are forbidden from serving alcohol so people cannot gather at restaurants and watch the events in any sort of social way. it...

To the point where southwest, you know, had to suspend serving alcohol in flight. so a lot that these flight crews are dealing with these days. the faa has extended its zero tolerance policy, which basically makes stronger enforcement mechanisms for this type of unruly behavior. the faa is saying as of late may that they had gotten more than 2500 reports of unruly behavior by passengers sometimes having to find passengers like that up to 5 -- fine passengers like that up to $52,000, jim. >> people are just out of control on these flights. these recent incidents keep piling up and this might be...

January 17, 2021 at 8:59 AM PATERSON, NJ - Members of the Paterson Police Department and Paterson Fire Department shut down three businesses that were reportedly “functioning as ‘after-hours’ party locations by remaining open after 10:00 p.m. and staying open until the early hours of the morning Friday into Saturday.  According to Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale the complaints stated that the establishments would lock their doors to appear closed, but patrons were inside behind tinted or covered windows.  The report stated that officials first visited La Fuente Bar, 43 Ellison...

Morgan radford joins us with the latest from there. let's talk about the situation. what is it like there? >> good morning to you. we're here in old havana, in front of the iconic museum of the revolution. right now you can see this area is usually bustling on a weekend, but right now the bars are closed. restaurants have stopped serving alcohol. and even concerts were canceled yesterday as people here openly wept in the streets. but then inside their homes, there is a different conversation, private conversation, that is happening, and a lot of people are saying they hope that this might mean...