imposed around the dpglobe. the rocketts calling off the christmas spectacular. in ireland, a curfew begins at 8:00 p.m. rio and paris deciding to cancel planned new year's fireworks shows. the world's health organization warning today that cases of the omicron variant double in under three days for countries already seeing infections. in the u.s., covid hospitalizations are at levels not seen since september. now, an admission from vice president kamala harris. she says we didn't see delta coming. i think most scientists did not. she goes onto say we didn't see omicron coming and that's the nature of what this awful virus has been which as it turns out has mutations and variants. harris adviser tells cnn the vice president was referring to the exact kind of mutation and not the prevalence of the variant themselves. we have more on growing signs that a winter surge is on the way. >> reporter: covid-19 infections and hospitalizations are rising in the u.s. promptin ing disruptions an cancellations as the country enters another holiday season. radio city music hall announced the christmas spectacular shows are cancelled for the rest of the season. new york state reporting that on thursday, it had the highest singling day count of new covid 1 19 cases. positive cases jumped 154% in less than a week. the previous high was on happy 14th when there were 19,000 cases reported. the omicron variant has opinion identified in 40 states. it's too stooon to assume if th omicron variant will cause milder disease. >> it doubles every two to four days and you have to look at the projections of what that means and we're in for a lot of cases of people getting infected with this virus. >> reporter: in states like oregon, officials are warning of severe illness and a surge of hospitalizations now that omicron has been detected in the state. in hawaii the governor said the state is seeing an alarming increase in number of covid-19 cases. vaccines are still the best way to fight covid-19, officials say. >> we still have 50 million or more people in this country who have not yet even gotten their first vaccination. that is really unacceptable if we want to get through the challenge of a delta which is bad enough. we're looking it straight in the face and over your shoulder is coming omicron. that's a very tenuous and difficult situation. we've got to do the things that are available to us. vaccination, boosting, masking when you're in an indoor setting. the biden administration scored a significant victory friday in its court battle to especially force various federal vaccine mandates with an appeals court ruling the government can especially force a vaccine or testing rule for companies with more than 100 employees. >> we will win this war with this virus but we will win it only because and because we apply the things that we have. the interventions. we're so fortunate that we have a highly effective and safe vaccine. we know what public health mitigations work. we have just got to hang in there. we can't give up. >> we have tools to do it. we need the american people to do their part. to protect themselves, their children and their communities. >> reporter: they noticed a tripling of new cases in the last month. it prompts the mayor to go back and reemphasize that previous guidance for people to get vaccinated an boosted and to get tested especially as people prepare to gather for christmas in only about a week. we saw that today just outside of this urgent clinic here in new york city where there was a mass i line of people helping to secure a spot to come back later to get tested. >> it's uplifting to see so many people are trying to be responsible and get tested before they get on their way. that's bit of positivity there. great to see you. thanks so much. for more on this, let's bring in dr. sherif. he's the president an ceo of the hospital in nj pnl. he served as the new jersey state health commissioner. welcome. i feel like a broken record when i spew out these facts. omicron variant in 40 states. we're starting to see a surge of people in hospitals and certain parts of the country. is this the new normal? is this going to be cyclical with covid spikes every year around this time. >> i sure hope not. the trends we're seeing over the last couple of weeks are concerning. first of all, we're seeing long lines outside of our testing clinic. more demand we have seen in many months for testing because folks are getting sick. we're also seeing a doubling of hospitalizations just over the last two weeks and earlier this week, 46% of folks hospitalized for covid-19 in our hospital had opinion primarily vaccinated but not yet boosted. we're reallye ing immunity as w delta variant. we really want to get to the indemonstratic phase of this. we need folks to get not only vaccinated but poosted. what we're seeing is just not sustainable. >> what would be indemic stage look like? >> nobody really flows the exact percentage where we reach herd im[ music playing ]ty. it's been a moving target especially as we have new variants like omicron that's inif he canning folks that are previously vaccinated. what the booster penetration is now in nn nj only about 37%. it's nowhere near enough. we need to see above 70%. 75% at least if we're going to se reduction in transmission and the risk of hospitalization going down. one really concerning thing is that the imperial college of london just released a study that's questioning whether omicron is less severe. >> what do you think about this debate that is ongoing about the definition of being fully vaccinated. dr. fauci says that term could be semantics. do you think for companies, you know, or governments that are implementing vaccine mandates that they should now include mandated booster every six months? >> i don't know the federal government is looking at that question closely. i do think it needs to be addressed. to say someone is fully vaccinated implies they are max ma'amly protected and that's no longer the case. you need that booster six months and especially after a single dose of johnson & johnson. you need that booster soon two months after. you're not maximumly protected just by being fully vaccinated according to the current definition. >> right. i do want to ask you about vice president kamala harris comments to the l.a. times that the administration didn't see the delta and omicron variants coming. this is an administration that has tried to separate itself from the trump administration to show it has been on top of the pandemic and harris' team is saying she was referring to the exact kind of mutation not really the prevalence of these variants themselves. just curious to know what you think about, you don't have to dive too much into politics but how has the administration's response been and what more needs to be done? 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>> these documents were provided by a central figure here as the house select committee members seek to understand how this all unfolded. he was the subject of a su subpoena. he handed over around 1500 tek text messages and within those communications, he's handed over and testified about whun indications we had with members of congress prior to january 6th. that includes a couple of phone conversations he had with representative paul gossert as well as text message exchange with who he believes was representative mill brooks. he also testified about conversations that he had with representative mo brooks staff. this highlights this wealth of information that the house select committee has from the very people who have been subpoenaed as they try to sift through this communication and come to conclusions how this happened. >> thank you so much for break it down for us. as the january 6th committee continues to investigate the capitol riot, the scope of the probe continues to expand. my next guest monitors extreme elements of the republican party. a party he once was a part of and warns some fringe groups who took part in the capitol siege continue to plot and organize ways of over taking the gop. ron phillip is a former state and federal prosecutor. he's long time republican who wrote a piece for the washington post. he says i monitor trump's die hard base. they are still plotting out in the open. ron, good to see you. that definitely is a stark warning. please elaborate on what you mean by that. what are these extreme groups plotting next? >> what we saw really was in march and april of this year. a lot of the organizers, including mr. alexander and planners of january 6th sort of fanned out into around the country, created their own organization, created their own websites, started touring around the country, speaking. really using election frauds conspiracies, covid conspiracies and vaccine conspiracies and anti-crt rhetoric to sort of get people whipped up, get them active for a variety of different reasons and have been targeting local governments as we have seen. school boards, county commission, city commissions, those kinds of things. >> in your pose you say you started monitoring groups on social media that you felt were trying to take control of the republican party. you write what we're seeing is many of the activists and the influencers who promoted and attended the rally that became the violent attempt to stop the certification of pbiden's election have turned their attention to school boards, city and county commissions and secretaries of state and supervie vors of elections. ron, why this strategy of going local? >> well, they are softer targets for one thing. they know they can't go back to d.c. and try something like that again. they are e focusing on easier targets. organizations that are more vulnerable. easier to pbeat in elections. easier to intimidate. they post school board officials and county commissioner's home addresses and phone numbers. they if to those place and harass them. they follow their cars around. they're trying to get them to quit so they can take over local governments. really the interesting thing is all of these people are in one place right now in phoenix, arizona. all of the same speople i'm talking about in one place this weekend where they will share their knowledge with each other. >> how powerful are they? how big are they? how concerned are you? >> they're dgaining if influenc and power. you'll see that. what you see when we watch these conferences like the one in phoenix this weekend which is being sponsored by charlie kirk's turning point usa, if you watch them as we do and watch the break out rooms an what's going on, there's speakers that come in that talk about all kinds of different covid conspiracy, vaccine conspiracies, crt and they're training activists in audience to go back out into their communities, create subchapters, local chapters. they are getting indoctrinated pretty heavily this weekend. who are the headliners? tucker carlson, donald trump junior, madison cawthorn. they are all there this weekend along with qanon people all mixed together in one place. >> this is frightening. it's also eye opening. we're talking about real virus infecting tens thousands of people. this is a political virus we're seeing spreading throughout certain pocket of the country. let me ask you this. you used to be a republican. you're not anymore from what i understand. if the republicans take back the house in 2022, which your biggest concerns? >> well, for one thing, i posted this last night on twitter, more and more members of congress are calling for doctor fauci to be prosecuted and put in prison. that gives you one example. these are members of congress. the stuff that we saw last year in qanon chat rooms is now being said on the floor of congress about locking people up and stripping all of the democrats off -- all the democrats should be stripped of committee assignments if they retake power and should have to go through ke vip mccarthy for committee assignments. it's pretty frightening that a lot of the fringe conspiracy stuff that's been out there over the last couple of years has opinion legitimized and you hear it from members of congress. there's so many candidates endorsed by trump that are in this ilk. we could have a doubling or tripling of the number of the members koof congress in text congress that will be frightening. >> our democracy under threat right with this kmps under way in arizona. it's eye opening and i know you're a criminal defense attorney but your research is very important and we would love to keep checking back in with you because what you're finding as you monitor these extreme elements is something we need to keep our eye on. thank you so much. >> any time. >> we'll be right back. one role of a lifetime...one sore throat. but she had enough. she took new mucinex instasoothe sore throat lozenges. show your sore throat who's boss. new mucinex instasoothe. works in seconds, lasts for hours. feel stuck with student loan debt? 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couple of hours ago i was with a group of ceos in the city and university leaders who i meet with quarterly. we had a presentation from the group who has been helping us with police reform in the city. i asked the question, had our training been different -- had our training been different, would that have turned out differently. the response was we don't know. we are working toward with our training is to make sure that it's not just deescalation but that we don't get to the point where you need deescalation. with the killing of rashar brooks, it was a horrible time in our city because it was shortly after the killing of george floyd and in so many ways for so many, it represented all of the things that people had been angry about but on the other side, it was the out cry, where is the support for our police officers. in that moment i made the best decision for the information i had and the options i had before me. i felt it was the best decision. you don't get do overs in life. i can't say i would do anything differently. i know i made the best decision i thought could be made. >> chief shields has offered to step aside as police chief so the city may move forward with urgency in rebuilding the trust so desperately needed throughout our communities. i do not believe that this was a justified use of deadly force and have called for the immediate termination of the officer. >>. >> it's my hope on the heels of that tragedy we're able to avoid another tragedy. >> all of this is happening in middle of the pandemic and covid hits you and your family very personally. your husband gets covid. you do as well. how did your personal experience and that of your family help r redefine your leadership role or your perspective on how to move forward? >> i believe it really brought my disagreement with the governor to a head. it was a tough experience and my husband had a tough time with covid. my oldest son was the week before my husband and i were infected. e we were waiting 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