a number of manchin's fellow democrats in the biden administration are outraged over his decision in this act. in an interview with fox news manchin said they should be focusing their attention towards the pandemic. top u.s. health workers are warning of the omicron variant. they're averaging 120,000 cases a day at johns hopkins. cnn's natasha chen is in los angeles where they're seeing cases rise again. >> reporter: los angeles county public health is reporting a rise in the number of confirmed daily cases in the past week. on tuesday there were about 1100 positive test cases but by the weekend, on saturday and sunday both seeing more than 3500 positive covid cases and on sunday that number may even be a bit low because of the lag in weekend reporting. so within just a week's time frame we're seeing the tripling