at the terrifying moments when the hostage situation came to an end after an hours-long terror attack on a texas synagogue. the rabbi is sharing new details about what it was like inside. hello and welcome to this special edition of "the lead." i'm poppy harlow in for jake tapper. we begin with our health lead. the u.s. surgeon general is warning the next few weeks of the pandemic will be tough. dr. vivek murthy says omicron cases have not peaked nationally and that means this virus will keep spreading at a breakneck pace for now. a crush of covid patients means some hospitals are running out of uninfected health care workers and space to treat other patients in the intensive care units. more than 156,000 people are now hospitalized with this virus. cases in parts of the northeast do appear to have crested. a huge relief for those areas. but as nick watt reports, it's far from a national trend. >> the covid forecast is