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0 institution of american life doing enough to respond to the threat of democracy. what do you do about a congresswoman openly running for a quote, national divorce, then as the u.s. hits case records, randi weingarten on whether american schools are ready to handle omicron. and what we've learned about climate change in 2021. the year that is now ending with winter wildfires in colorado and near 70 degrees weather in alaska. when all in starts right now right now good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes. this morning the associated press published an extensive and very well reported story ...

At "new york" magazine where he published "democrats are doing weirdly well in redistricting." he joins me now. this piece, somewhat controversial, people arguing what it means to do weirdly well. the baseline expectations and what your case is about how things are looking, thus far, as state-by-state issues, there are newly drawn congressional maps? >> sure. so basically we're starting off in a situation where republicans control a lot more state governments than democrats do. because the typical u.s. state is more right-wing than the country. and so they have control over the district lines ...

>> we are less than a mile but hour three. >> crazy busy. it's like it was back in, you know, january-february timeframe. >> some taking precautions, as the highly contagious omicron variant has overtaken delta as the dominant strain in just a matter of weeks. omicron has now been identified in every u.s. state, washington, d.c., and puerto rico. >> there are a lot of reasons to be concerned. we know for sure about this variant is that it's incredibly transmissible. each infected person infects, on average, five other people which is much more than with previous variants. >> reporter: for thos...

>> very busy, like it was back in the january, february time frame. >> reporter: some taking precautions as omicron has overtaken delta as the dominant strain in a matter of weeks. omicron has now been identified in every u.s. state, washington, dc and puerto rico. >> there are a lot of reasons to be concerned. we know for sure about this variant that it's incredibly transmissible. each infected person infects on average five other people, which is much more than with previous variants. >> reporter: for those gathering during the holidays, the cdc director stressing that all guests be vaccinat...

Jonathan serrie keeping track of it all in atlanta. jonathan? >> hi, neil. the omicron variant has been detected in every u.s. state except for oklahoma and south dakota so far. and texas has confirmed the first omicron-related fatality. this one involving a man in his 50s, lived in the houston area. he was unvaccinated and had underlying health conditions. take a listen. >> of course we're going to have hospitalizations tragically deaths like what we see now. but the evidence shows that for those vaccinated and with the booster is much less likely. >> with holiday gatherings around the corner...