pathogenicity, but so many people are getting infected that the total amount of people that would require hospitalization might be up. so we can t be complacent in these reports which are likely accurate that it is ultimately in the big picture less severe. we re still going to get a lot of hospitalizations. some school districts facing a spike of child covid cases have announced at least a partial transition to online learning. cnn s polo sandoval is in new york for us and it has seen a record number of cases just this past week, so polo, how have schools frprepared for their return? reporter: they re doing what they can to make sure itthe children are safe. they re adapting to this way of teaching, not just the covid era, but specifically the spread we re seeing with the omicron variant. there are some taking a very aggressive approach, including in the atlanta area. there are multiple school
began. cnn s melissa bell joins us now live from paris. many people are a symptomatic, the numbers are probably higher, aren t they, melissa. reporter: that s right, we heard from the health minister yesterday at the parliamentary committee, a million people could be contaminated in france right now. the number was probably much higher than that simply because there are many people who don t yet realize they have it. here in france, the omicron variant is not yet the dominant one. it is still the delta variant he explained to the committee yesterday that is causing that stress on the hospital system. and that we re seeing such fast rises in. but omicron is not far behind, he warned, with the number of cases doubling every two to three days. it should soon be dominant here in france as well. and what he explained as well, max, i think this was interesting, that whilst omicron was three times less dangerous than previous strains, it was leading to six to seven times more infections. th
the u.s. senate to, quote, protect the heart and soul of the nation by changing filibuster rules to pass new voting rights legislation. i ve been having these quiet conversations with members of congress for the last two months. i m tired of being quiet! and a frightening scene when a man storms the cockpit of an american airlines flight and tries jumping out of the window, just moments before takeoff. it is all caught on video right there. first, let s get right to our top breaking story and bring in cnn chief business correspondent christine romans, and, christine, the white house was more or less expecting a high number, but i guess the question is will it moderate in the coming months as some have predicted. have we reached peak inflation? yeah, and that is the biggest question out there, right. these are numbers that are not news to the american families who are paying more for just about everything. let s walk through these numbers. 7% this headline year over year
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here are ten states cnn is watching as the most likely to flip. four of them currently held by democrats, six by republicans. alice, to you first, which of these races are you focusing on as pick-up opportunities? what is it going to take to flip them? it s going to take really galvanizing the republican party together and really capitalizing on the division and the low morale in the democratic party, which is in full swing. i happen to look at georgia, my home state, because it was a pivotal race earlier in 2021, and i m looking at georgia to see the raphael warnock race get flipped back to republican hands. i see georgia as a big pick-up opportunity, and certainly other states across the country can galvanize and focus on what we see as a low morale problem with the democrats, and also the low accomplishment in terms of the