maryland that are having record high hospitalizations. they even have an emergency declaration there. new jersey s largest hospital system also bracing to break 2020 records and 1,000 military medical experts have been deployed to try to deal with overcrowding in the icus, with cases exploding, dr. fauci says more trips to the hospital will be a key indicator to watch. very often, you can t just forget about the number of people who are infected because that s the forewarner of what might happen with hospitalization. as you get further on and you see less severity, clearly hospitalization is the important thing. against this backdrop, the cdc is defending the way that it has changed the guidance for isolation time, cutting it in half, for people with few symptoms. today, meanwhile, the president of the american nurses association saying this. we believe that the guidelines are premature given what is known about omicron. it seems to tip more towards economic needs as op
our top story is a special report on a big issue in u.s. government and politics. some consider it the elephant or donkey in the room this year. the gap between most of the powerful people who rule over and run the governments of our nation, the government branches. you re looking at judicial and i m going to get into a couple. they rule over the rest of the population. this is a gap that i m going to get into with you, the lifetime members of the supreme court and all the people their decisions impact, it affects many and the citizenry. it applies to both presumptive nominees for president. it may be canceled out between the both of them but has many, many americans asking why are u.s. government leaders so old? why are they so much older than other leaders of u.s. institutions? why are they so much older than the citizens they lead democratically. if these are arbitrary, should our society try to look at reforms or democratize the institutions and not out of simplistic agei
a.m. local time. there s still the emergency response. russian state media that is our source for this says 40 people have been counted among the casualties. that s 40 people killed and over 100 injured. there are no official claims of responsibility that have been verified at this hour. this is a very significant attack, especially when you think about the wider context of the region and some unrest in the region. russian news reports state that three gunmen in camouflage opened fire with automatic weapons and threw explosives. there are some accounts on video on social media that give some insight into what we think occurred. this attack comes just five days after vladimir putin announced a six-year term as president that would continue in what they call within russia, an election. many observers would call it something else, not a free and fair democratic process. this also comes just about a month after the very mysterious death of the main opposition leader that puti
parents rights, and a lot of people. let me walk you through why this is the stop story now. a few years ago, few might have been able to predict what is happening in a university has been forced to halt in vitro fertilization after a local judge has ruled they will treat those frozen embryos as, quote, children. they feature of image of god. this came out of alabama where two clinics are holding those procedures. that rule, like a long water of republican antichoice matter. we ll return to that in a moment. the rule sending shockwaves across the nation as they see this effort to limit right, to limb medical choice, and potentially interfering with family planning techniques, procedures by parents who want to have kids. this is a crackdown on parents trying to have children. it does not appear to create criminal liability for ivf providers in the practice of ivf or the crazy of those embryos. the legally extreme ruling would be pared back on appeal. there is no nationally re
my baby and 12-year-old who actually liked having the home. my husband, it s great to be back the beat with ari starts right now. welcome back, we missed you. i missed you too, my friend. i have two thoughts. one of them, it s weird. when you are gone, no news, no developments. you picked a good time. i m not sure if you know that. no. really? i did not watch a second. i did not watch a frame of news . mike was on one night and i didn t know what they were talking about, i ve turned it off. it s like turning on work. i had this anxiety that i would have no idea what was happening, and i came in and we are talking about russia, disinformation, talking about trump threatening juries, here we go again. we are back. that s the other thing i was going to ask you. within whatever you feel like sharing, because people have their own lives, but how are you feeling? do you have any great pieces, insight, feelings about stepping away, have you been? it was magical. i