meanwhile, the supreme court justices are now considering arguments in a case involving a devout christian s lawsuit over being required to work sundays. fox news chief legal correspondent and anchor of fox news sunday shannon bream has details from the high court. hi, shannon. hey, gilian. after the plaintiff in this case gerald groff took his case with the postal service, they then contracted to then begin deliveries on sundays. i can t work those shifts because that s when i observe the sabbath. the two sides were age to work together to get his sunday shifts covered but sometimes it didn t work and there were shortages and the postal service it began to impact morale. after multiple rounds of discipline. groth resigned before he actually faced termination. justice sotomayor asked why this situation isn t the very definition of an undue hardship on the employer not undue burden to force the employer to give other employees greater work or
them. greg: that s true. red tape is a good thing for the government. eliminate red tape, then we re all out of a job. there are so many things that we could do that are different than the way we re doing things now but it s all tied up in so much bureaucracy. greg: it is a drift right now and that s the point they are making, martha, we spent, i don t know, $800 million on a homeless program and nobody knows where that money went in new york city. disappeared with the mayor s wife. basically built a tent city in new york, and then eric adams, the mayor, just recently took the whole thing down and now they have been moved into hotels, in the city, that cost $500 per night when they weren t being used for that purpose, and they are trashed. greg: yes. there are corona bottles all over the place. people complaining at work there, there is just complete chaos. i don t understand this. i don t understand the situation isn t, let s keep finding somewhere to put everyone. this
this weekend when all americans can come together and have something in common, which i think is clearly replaced baseball as our national pastime, and that s a good thing. your other chart, john, says, do you support or oppose congress regulating player health and safety. that s one that gets at some of the problems, the cte, what we have seen around ta, that s something that concerns die hard nfl fans. exactly. because there s so much passion for the support, i think what we have seen, especially the last week is americans really trying to protect players across the league, including the fact that if the nfl isn t doing its job, 66% as you can see, 2/3 of all americans, and a higher number of die hard fans say congress ought to intervene to make sure that basically our players and family members are taken care
the mayor called the e-mail a mistake. now, the district s inspector general is looking into the incident. the sun news leads with former president donald trump s expected campaign visit to south carolina. this will be his first 2024 presidential campaign event since he announced his candidacy in november. it will be held in columbia later this month. an exact date or venue has not yet been announced. and the capitol reports maryland hospitals are strained and reaching capacity, 92% of medical, surgical, and intensive care beds are occupied statewide, as patients are battling, covid, rsv, and the flu. officials say the situation isn t an emergency like it was this time last year, but they fear it could get worse because of a new, highly contagious strain of covid that is on the
germany, greece, and sweden are the latest to join the growing list of countries requiring a negative covid test for travelers from mainland china. videos shows crowded hospitals as patients wait for care. despite scenes like this, the chinese government insists the situation isn t as bad as it appears. beijing is pushing back against situations it s not reporting the full scope of the current outbreak. cnn s kristie lu stout joins us now from hong kong with more. it s a difficult narrative to stick to though. we keep getting these images. reporter: yeah, absolutely, especially in the face of mounting evidence. look, earlier today china officially reported only five new deaths caused by covid-19 for january 5th. the previous day reported only one new death caused by covid-19 and these figures are remarkably low and do not match the video, the footage that we ve been screening on cnn of absolutely