majority in the house. so, it s understandable that and almost justified that mccarthy is not wanting to ruffle any feathers before this important vote on january 3rd. all right. nbc news capitol hill correspondent allie raffa thank you so much. thank you for getting up way too early with us on this thursday morning. morning joe starts right now. and there it is, the u.s. capitol. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, december 29th. and we re going to get right to the news. prosecutors are turning up the heat on congressman-elect george santos, after the revelations he lied about his resume. we re going to have more on the investigation by a fellow republican district attorney. plus, the very latest on the weather emergency in buffalo, new york. first, the snow, and now concerns about flooding and questions about the response to the deadly blizzard. and we re following the latest on the southwest airlines meltdown. more cancellations and delays
director of the children s e.r. where they saw a 60% rise since 2020. at one point, you were so busy you brought hospital beds to the interim? we got hospital beds to any flat space we could find. reporter: it s been all hands on deck. because of the surge in rsv, you don t work with kids but you re being trained. exactly. reporter: a lesson when omicron numbers were surging. how do you guys cope? i think that we lean on each other, because we went through something that was so difficult, i m sure there s some level of trauma bonding per se. reporter: when you re sprinting during a marathon, burnout is inevitable. we re already stretched. they be you get the surge which it s hard to handle. reporter: harder to handle when you don t know if there s a finish line? yeah.
chinese government yet is really the big question. if that happens or even if inklings of movement in that direction happen, i think is enormously consequential to somebody like tiktok. qm. enormously consequential to somebody like tiktok. 0k, jim anderson. somebody like tiktok. 0k, jim anderson, thank somebody like tiktok. 0k, jim anderson, thank you somebody like tiktok. 0k, jim anderson, thank you for - somebody like tiktok. 0k, jim anderson, thank you for your | anderson, thank you for your time. let s see how the asian markets are faring today. it isa it is a mixed session happening in asia following some declines on wall street the night before. as you can see, flat in japan. hong kong down over 1% but the losers today are the tech stocks, interestingly stopping if we look at the next board because the nasdaq, the tech weighted index and the us had an over 1% decline, this was following on record highs the day before on wall street, so choppy times for financial markets as
we believe daily deaths will peak first week of january, 2,000 daily deaths, not too different than last year at this time. yet, here s the hopeful part, he found march is when we expect things to really start to subside. we expect 76% of the country will be fully vaccinated amongst eligible individuals by the end of march. the remainder, given those astronomical omicron numbers, will get light at the end of the tunnel. everybody will be having a happy spring. just to repeat what you were saying, 2.6 million cases estimated every single day because frankly not everyone is getting tested and not everyone has the access to get a test and some people are asymptomatic who wouldn t think to get a test right now. dr. vin gupta, thank you so much for joining us. we always appreciate the clarity of your responses to our questions. thank you, sir. still ahead, we could soon
unfortunately, it s unfortunate that these ruling came down tonight. we should note that some of the court met in person, although several people were arguing to strike it down, tested positive, it seems positive it seems interesting, that s a workplace issue. you probably would want them in the court with you. they some of them chose to report remotely. there are some issues with testing and maxing specifically. to regulate the spread of covid in the closet they are? i think the fact that you looked at the omicron numbers are so high right now, we re making a decision based on not having another protocol or safety in place that would keep