week and monitor players more closely for symptoms including upon entering the building. you are seeing a lot fewer games being played today. teams two games being postponed just today of those three i mentioned. >> yes. something tells me this won't be the only wave of postponements in professional sports in general. coy wire, thank you so much. >> got it. hello, everyone. thank you for joining warning. dr. fauci telling cnn the country needs to brace for a tough few weeks to months bett joe manchin a key moderate vote announcing this morning he's a no on the legislation. i cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. i just can't. i've tried everything humanly possible. i can't get there. >> all right. let's go first to the pandemic. new cases. and hospitalizations rising the strain is spreading quickly, one expert saying there is a tsunami coming for the unvaccinated. monitoring developments and will start with you, you are in new york which is the seeing thousands daily. which is really where a lot of people are turning to right now, that is really the key here especially as new york state officials set yet another day for positive covid cases. nearly 22,000, two consecutive days and that certainly speaks to the importance right now of people getting tested. we hear from mayor bill de blasio compressing the urgency of getting tested but also confident that this may just be a temporary reality. >> we expect omicron to be a fast and temporary phenomenon. we expect these next weeks to see very, very big surge in cases. more than we have seen previously. and then we expect, after a period of time, but it will dissipate. this temporary reality demands an urgent, immediate step, now. still a lot of people waiting up to over two hours in the cold. so the city taking steps to make sure they have other options including opening other sites and providing some of those on. >> two hours in the cold is quite long. >> cases in los angeles also rising quickly? >> yes. i should mention that the california department of public health released new numbers today. showing the 3%. it's relatively low considering california by saturday, that number surpassed 8700. we have not seen that go past 3000 since late august, early september. this is a stark increase in hospitalizations, that is a threshold we haven't really seen since early october. the state department of health had noticed an increase in positive test cases in the days following thanksgiving into early december, that is why they already instituted new policies for the state starting december 15th. saying that we would do this for one month and then reevaluate at that time. those policies include universal indoor masking across >> they define megaevent as 1,000 people indoors or 10,000 people outdoors. also recommending that anyone arriving in california get tested three to five days after arriving here. we already have seen just like in other parts of the country events get cancelled and postponed. that includes ucla men's basketball game against cal poly on wednesday. that's cancelled because of covid cases. the rams versus sea hawks rescheduled. and the anaheim ducks game postponed. a lot of this we're seeing the effects of the rising numbers happening right now. >> yeah. it reminds me of dominos. i feel like the chips are slowly falling. appreciate both of you. thanks. we are also following major developments on a critical piece of the president's agenda. today senator joe manchin delivering a likely death blow to the build back better plan saying he won't vote for the legislation. >> i cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. i just can't. i've tried everything humanly possible. i can't get there. >> you're done. this is a no. >> this is a no on this legislation. i have tried everything i know to do. >> for more now, let's bring in suzanne malvo. tell us about the reaction there on the hill. it seems like there's been a fair amount of surprise. >> surprise and really a flood of reaction. when you think about it here, because both the senate and house are on recess for the holiday over the next couple weeks. but people have been fast and furious in their reactions here. primarily over twitter. just representative barbara lee of california really remitting a lot -- representing a lot of moderates and progressives in here statement saying she's not surprised but infu rated own disappointed. she says those who are going to lose out are care givers, primarily black and brown women, those who are poor. those who are homeless as well as the climate. the environment. there were many provisions in that bill that addressed that. on the other hand, and on the other side, you've got the republicans who are celebrating today. statements from senator john cornyn as well as thune who both tribe this as -- describe this as a christmas gift for the people saying it would have cost more in gas and inflation. nevertheless, we have seen over the past months and particularly this last week leading up to the self-imposed christmas deadline, a lot of intense conversations going on with manchin and his doctoring democratic colleagues. they all tried to convince him to go along with them. needing the simple majority to pass this through. he was the last hold out. they started off at $6 trillion. went to 3 trillion. and somewhere behind about 2 trillion to 1.75. he ultimately said 1.5 trillion was the final offer. but he did express concern about the extension of the child tax credit, extending that. he thought it went beyond one year. if you worked it out to ten years, said it would be a lot more. his colleagues, the democratic colleagues said look, this is not -- that is not what this bill is. this bill is paid for. and so there's a great deal of frustration and perhaps a sense of wasted time here in what they were doing, these back behind the scenes discussions with the president and with his colleagues. they are now accusing him of not being truthful and not really being a faithful negotiator. take a listen. >> we cannot allow one lone senator from west virginia to obstruct the president's agenda to obstruct the people's agenda. all i want for christmas is a senator that has compassion for the american people and not contempt. >> i hope that we will bring a strong bill to the floor of the senate as soon as we can, and let mr. manchin explain to the people of west virginia why he doesn't have the guts to stand up to powerful special interest. if he doesn't have the courage to do the right thing for the working families of west virginia and america, let him vote no in front of the whole world. >> the big question is what is next. i talked to senator dick durbin. he said perhaps allowing them to have eggnog and fruitcake, go home, perhaps they'll come back with a better attitude about negotiating. i asked him why is he optimistic here. he said because the american people need this. obviously that was not a convincing enough argument for senator manchin, and the question becomes can they put forward legislation that deals with specific issues, piecemeal, perhaps, the child tax credit portion or health care, that democrats all democrats could get on board and maybe even some republicans as well. >> oh, what a drawnout frustrating process for so many involved. suzanne, thank you for your reporting. so one senior administration official says the white house tried to reach senator manchin this morning, but he wouldn't take the calls. senior washington correspondent joe johns is joining us now at the white house. what's that about? and it sounds like the white house was blind sided by this? >> yeah. it does. and look, on the one hand anybody who follows the headlines including the president of the united states knew these negotiations were not going well. on the other hand, they apparently thought they had something still to negotiate, because manchin had come with his own proposal and he thought they were going to work their way through that when manchin abruptly pulled the plug. according to our reporting, sent word through an aide, something like 30 to 40 minutes before he went on tv to make this announcement, and when the white house reached out to him, apparently by telephone, either he didn't take the call or simply they couldn't get through. so that's the background, but the sharply worded statement that came out from the white house today clearly the kind of thing that aggressive -- progressives have been asking for. a much more aggressive stance from the white house toward joe manchin. here's a bit of it. i'll read it to you. senator manchin promised to continue conversations on the days ahead and work with us to reach the common ground. if his comments on fox and written statement indicate an end to that effort, they represent a sudden and inexplicable reversal in his position, and a breach, the statement says, a breach of his commitment to the president and 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unless it's going to put a burden or unless we have to go back and make adjustments. but we should be up front and pick our priorities. that's the difference. so it hasn't shrunk in the desire. the intent is always there. what we need to do is get our financial house in order but be able to pay for what we do and do what we pay for. >> joining me now, nina turner, a former democratic state senator from ohio and the co-chair for bernie sanders 'presidential chain. let's start with your reaction to the big fat no. >> well, we could have predicted this. progressives like myself and others have said this time and time, that senator joe manchin was going to be just who he is, senator joe manchin. i believe strongly the squad, the members of the squad deserve an apology, because they were right. as they were fighting and holding the line, saying do not decouple the bif from the build back better, look what happened here. we see senator joe manchin doing what he's always done which is to stand in the way of the american people being able to have some relief in this economy. >> what did you make of his attempt at explaining, though, where he stands? he's saying that he wanted lawmakers to prioritize some of these social safety net programs. >> i think it's laughable. he just voted for $778 billion military budget. more than what was even asked for. i didn't hear him asking for the same playing field as he's asking -- he didn't put the same prescriptions or demands, if you will, on that military budget as he is doing on build back better. and amara, this is the going. people have been talking about the stats of west virginia, how people are suffering in that state. people are suffering all over this country. but it is very clear that mr. manchin does not care about that suffering that the d behind his name certainly stands for his donor class. those are the only people who can get his attack. he's full of it. >> wow. there needs to be good faith. there needs to be trust. there needs first base a basis for negotiation yerks and i think we're all confused like what in the world happened? according to a reporting from kate lynn collins and john har wood, the white house was totally surprised. they knew that manchin was headed in this direction, right? but didn't expect that he would already make this final decision. how do you explain this disconnect? >> i'm surprised that they're confused at all. when this is what mr. manchin has been saying the entire time. earlier this week, the vice president was interviewed and asked who is the president. she answered the question. the president is joe biden. there is a difference between being the president and having the power. and what we do know is that although mr. biden is the president of the united states of america, it is very clear that mr. manchin has the power. when you have the overwhelming majority of the democratic caucus in both chambers of the congress in support of build back better, we've got to begin to ask ourselves why is it one person from west virginia gets to decide the fate of child tax credit. gets to decide the fate of paid family leave. gets to decide the fate of millions of the working poor in the barely middle class. nobody should be surprised. i am here to say this is an indictment on the system and the system is controlled by people, and it is time out for playing games. and the president needs to go and have somebody gas up air force one. and go ahead and go do straight up battle with senator manchin which he has been making it known this is how he feels. you cannot say you love america when you are going to allow people to -- the child tax credit to go away. he's saying his owner donors matter more to him than the people. >> it looks like your video is freezing there. yeah. i mean, we heard the -- from manchin as well on fox news that he was also concerned about inflation, and i understand nina turner is back. sorry we lost you for a second. good. we can hear you, nina. can you hear me? okay. unfortunately, we've got a bad connection. that is a shame. we will leave it there. nina turner, thank you so much for that conversation. turning to other news now, and a former georgia senator, a republican who held a long career in politics has died at the age of 76. he served as senator for nearly 15 years until he resigned from office in 2019. citing health concerns. when he announced he was stepping down from the senate, the late democratic congressman, john lewis, he was also struggling with a terminal illness honored isakson in a speech and went over to embrace him in the aisle. >> i will come over to meet you. the georgia governor said the peach state lost a giant and remembered isakson as one of its greatest statesmen. we're back in a moment. 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in a survey from october put numbers behind the country's collective anxiety. about a third of adults say they're so stressed about the pandemic they struggle to make even basic decisions in their day-to-day lives. it's one example of how the last 20 months or so have impacted our mental health. we have a doctor, a psychiatrist and assistant professor at george washington university and a new york types contributor. she's joining us now. doctor, this is a very important conversation. i'm glad you're here to talk about it. i mean, give us a sense of the american mind set right now. what are people struggling with? >> yeah. absolutely. it's great to be here. thank you for having me. the past two years in particular for parents and care givers has been a time of unrelenting stress and burden. you know, one disappointment, one trauma after another, i don't have to kind of spout off the numbers for our listeners that are parents or care givers, but i will say that the levels of depression and anxiety that we're seeing in particular for parents right now are really skyrocketing, and prepandemic, the numbers that we would look at in terms of depression or anxiety were in the range of 10 to 20 whereas during the pandemic, we're seeing that one in three mothers, one in three parents in that range are experiencing clinical levels of anxiety or depression. there's actually even some studies that are showing numbers as high as 70% in particular for moms of very young children that are experiencing clinical levels of anxiety. so, the stress is really high. the other important thing to keep in mind is that it hasn't gotten better in terms of levels of stress and in terms of mental health symptoms. we're still at the same place when it comes to the mental health crisis that we were nearly two years ago, which is really disappointing. >> right. is it going to get any better? there are so many factors that are weighing on our stress right now, right? i mean, inflation -- things cost so much more. and if you're already struggling to make ends meet, that's not helping the cause because you're going to have to gas up, you still have to buy milk and eggs. and also the crime issue in many major cities including here in atlanta. i feel like i'm constantly looking behind my back. i'm always concerned about the safety of my children that of course you have the pandemic and worries that, oh, my goodness, are my kids going to be in quarantine again? are they going to be sick? can you talk about all of these factors and how they kind of combine and weigh our minds down? >> yeah, absolutely. i think you hit the nail on the head that there are just all of these external stressors that are out of our control. and when it's outside of your own control, that's when it's the most traumatic, and that's when it's the most distressing. so, back in february i actually wrote a piece for the "new york times" that was called "this is betrayal not burnout." and i think it's really important for us to come back to the fact that our systems, our social structures that are supposed to be supporting us, so things like you were just talking about paid parental leave that we still don't have, affordable childcare that we still don't have. so when something like the tiktok violence crisis happened just two days ago when schools were shutting down, we don't have childcare, we don't have affordable childcare in our country. so that stressor, that demand falls on parents mostly on mothers. and to have that be out of your control is really, really distressing. so what i see in my practice is, like, this feeling of just powerlessness. and it's not unfounded. because, again, this is betrayal that we're all experiencing. >> yeah. i can identify with that just not having control of what's going to happen to my child or are they going to be put in quarantine, and if they are then she's home. then what do i do about childcare? there are so many things to think about in this pandemic world that we're living in, right? so, what can we do, especially looking at omicron now and, you know, again we heard from a doctor earlier that we're two to three weeks behind europe, which is going into lockdown. we're already seeing here in the u.s. huge events being canceled, professional sports postponing games. so we're seeing this looming wave, or it's already here, and now we're, i think, stressed even more about what's to come. so how do we, i don't know, deal with this? >> yeah, absolutely. that's always the million-dollar question, right? and i think as we're looking at this week before christmas, so many families, especially families that were vaccinated and, you know, were kind of looking at, okay, maybe things are going to be okay, and then the rug got pulled out from underneath us. so i think there's a couple things. one, i think we do have to trust in the vaccines and trust in science and do everything that we can in our own individual parts to be good citizens in terms of public health. the other thing that i think is really important this time of year is to really nourish a sense of both/and. so you can be worried, you can be scared, you can be uncertain about what's going to happen, and you can also feel grateful for the joyful things that you do have in life. so it's not one or the other. whenever we're in periods of uncertainty, it can be really easy to get into what's called black and white thinking where you only focus on the negative. instead i think now is a time where we can try and really practice that feeling of allowing it all, you know, being worried about the future but also acknowledging the good that we do have. and i think you can model that for your children as well and be honest that, yes, there is a new variant, you know, the holidays might look a little bit different, we might not be traveling. but here are the other traditions and, you know, values that we can still live with and we can still celebrate. >> yeah, that's really good advice because we must be deliberate about what we are thankful for and perhaps say it out loud. maybe that's what helps so many of us. really, i wish we had more time, but we're going to have to leave it there. doctor, thank you, appreciate your time. and i appreciate yours. thanks for joining me today. i'm in for fredricka whitfield. 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