scientists looking to learn? it s way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that wishes it asked for that telescope for christmas. i m jonathan lemire on this monday, december 27th, and we ll start with the news. the highly contagious omicron variant continues to fuel record-breaking surges in covid cases. increased testing over the holidays has uncovered about 200,000 new infections per day. in new york state alone, more than 400,000 people were tested on christmas eve, not including at-home rapid tests, and nearly one in eight of those came back positive. the state reported nearly 50,000 new cases sunday, breaking the record it had set the day before. florida reported nearly 33,000 new cases on christmas day, also breaking its record from the previous day. over the weekend public health expert dr. ashish jha said it
targeted no-mess relief. icy to dull pain. hot to relax it away. pain s no match for the icy hot patch. all right. good morning. it s monday, december 27th. the most snow in the morning here on cnn. i m jim acosta. i m kiran chetry. we want to get you caught up on what s going on and then we ll tell you about our skeleton crew here. the few and weary who made it in. we re firing on all cylinders this morning. be many snowed in. a monster blizzard wreaking havoc across the northeast this
northeast nightmare. a dangerous blizzard blows up from the southeast. the tremendous snowfall and travel headaches. new weapon. the latest generation of police tasers. and a big debate over safety. and, bargain blitz. the post-holiday bonanza in the stores and what it means to the retail business. it s monday, december 27th. from abc news, this is world news now. yesterday i went out to try to beat the storm. and i left a certain store here in manhattan. as soon as i left the flakes started to fly and people scurried. it was like they knew what was going to happen. it s still going on. that is our top story this
and without disrespecting e of the two holiest of holidays for christians and the families of all of the senate not just the senators themselves, but all of the staff. okay, hold it right there. that s not about having time to review a 2000-page spending bill. senator kyl s objection was about congress being in session around christmas, because it disrespects christmas. senator demint had a similar complaint telling politico, you can t jam a major arms control treaty right before christmas. what s going on here is just wrong. this is the most sacred holiday for christians. well, both senators are right. for christians christmas is a holy day. what s not a holy day for christians is monday december 27th, tuesday december 28th,
the staff. okay, hold it right there. that s not about having time to review a 2000-page spending bill. senator kyl s objection was about congress being in session around christmas, because it disrespects christmas. senator demint had a similar complaint telling politico, you can t jam a major arms control treaty right before christmas. what s going on here is just wrong. this is the most sacred holiday for christians. well, both senators are right. for christians christmas is a holy day. what s not a holy day for christians is monday december 27th, tuesday december 28th, wednesday december 29th and all those other days between christmas and easter. what senators kyl and demint should have said was actually said by harry reid on the senate floor earlier today which gives me the lazy pleasure of having harry reid do the rewrite for