Surging om krob cases are fueling a pandemic of cases across the u.s. as parents return to work, try to, and kids head back to school just days before the anniversary of the january 6th insurrection. lawmakers hint at the coup attempt and 40 million people are under a winter storm warning stretching from alabama to new jersey. we ll have the latest forecast. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. monday, january 3rd. we begin 2022 with cases surging like we haven t seen before in the pandemic. it s causing staffing shortages across businesses and amongst had health care and airline workers. we ve started a new day and more than 1600 flights canceled. more than 14,000 flights canceled since christmas eve.
Mark, we are learning more about how some of the vulnerable are faring during the pandemic. children under 5 years old are unable to get vaccinated. according to the cdc, hospitalizations of kids in the age bracket have risen to the highest levels since the start of the pandemic. including in that are hospitalized children for covid. hundreds of kids across the country have been hospitalized. a sign that omicron is surging among all age groups beyond kids. hospitalizations are soaring right now and faciliies are maxed out. 128,000 patients were hospitalized for covid. that is not far off from the record a year ago on january 14th. 142,000 people treated in the hospital for the virus then. cases are sky rocketing. on monday, january 3rd, the
that is my full knowledge right there. i have hit the ceiling. it covers a lot. no, no. i think the bee gees lived there a while, too. all right. enough day continues right now. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. including australia. i m john berman with brianna keilar. it is monday, january 3rd. happy new year. we do begin with breaking news. more than 25 million people are under winter storm warnings and advisories this morning. parts of the eastern u.s. could see significant snowfall. chatted myers says over a foot. this is the first major winter storm of the season. snow emergency in effect for washington, d.c. the federal government will remain closed today. and washington, d.c. public schools are closed until thursday because of the storm but also because of coronavirus. with case numbers
Cloth masks aren t going to provide a lot of protection. that s the bottom line. this is an airborne illness. we now understand that. a cloth mask is not going to protect you from a virus through airborne transmission. it could with something with droplets, but not something like the coronavirus. welcome back to morning joe. it is monday, january 3rd rd. jonathan lamire and reverend al sharpton are still with us. we learned three weeks last hour. the mayor of new york city is going to clean up the subways. he s going to keep school open for the kids, and three, go vegan. that guy has an energy level like nothing i ve seen. there s an awful lot of confidence. that guy is not leaning back. he s not back on his heels. he s aggressive, and he wants to kick start new york.
It s way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that believes that 2022 has to be better than the last two years, right? i m jonathan lemire on this monday, january 3rd. the highly contagious omicron variant continues to fuel an unprecedented surge in this pandemic. according to data from the new york times , the average number of daily infections across the united states has doubled since christmas day. we re now at 400,000 new cases. hospitalizations are also rising, and while not at the same pace, the sheer number is enough to strain hospitals across the country, however, there s encouraging news out of south africa where this strain originated. the governments there said the surge in cases has peeked without a significant increase