people who you do not know what their vaccination status is. >> overseas the netherlands locking down. israel putting travelers from canada, germany and the u.s. on their no-fly list. and the u.k. not ruling out new restrictions. >> over the last 24 hours, we've had the largest number of new cases since this began. also tonight, democratic senator joe manchin dealing a potential death blow to the president's ambitious social spending plan. >> i've tried everything humanly possible. i can't get there. >> he has never negotiated in good faith. >> i think he's going to have a lot of explaining to do. let him vote no in front of the whole world. i'm pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom on this sunday. just days before christmas and the prospect of a new year, sobering warnings tonight in the fight against the coronavirus. the delta variant is driving this new surge of cases and hospitalizations in the u.s. for now, at least. the nation's top expert on infectious diseases, dr. anthony fauci, says the inevitable takeover by the omicron variant will stress test a health care system already on the brink. he says americans need to brace for a tough few weeks to months ahead. his boss shares the bleak assessment. >> all of the other previous variants pale by kcomparison in terms of the rate by which this is spreading, doubling every two three days, first in south africa, now in parts of europe, and the u.s. is on that exponential curve right now. we're in for a world of trouble, i'm afraid, in the next month or two. >> that is not what we want to be hearing. the numbers provide no comfort, either. more than 125,000 americans on average are testing positive every day. hospitalizations in the u.s. have increased nearly 20% in two weeks. and the statistic that's hardest to swallow given all the tools we now have, the u.s. consistently losing 1300 people to covid every day on average. the white house says president biden's tuesday speech on the omicron threat will also speak to the unvaccinated and deliver, quote, a stark warning of what the winter will look like. across the country, people are lining up at covid testing sites as a busy holiday week and gatherings bear down. cnn's polo sandoval is at barkley center in new york. polo, how busy has it been? >> reporter: hey, pam. it really has been quite the busy last few days here in new york city. you know, when you hear, obviously, the recommendations coming from authorities is for people who are not vaccinated to get vaccinated. for those who are to get boosted. you get all sorts of people down here in downtown brooklyn. let's show you the crowd we're seeing in downtown brooklyn. for several hours now, we are seeing multiple people turning out for all sorts of reasons, but many people turning out to actually get tested because this is what authorities have been recommending for it a very long time, pam, which is if you are vaccinated, get boosted. if you aren't vaccinated, get tested. i want you to hear from the folks who are tested. many have been vaccinated, but before they get ready to see family and friends for christmas, they just want to make sure it's going to be safe. >> i have a couple friends who haven't been vaccinated had covid, so i'm trying to play it safe for the family. >> to be safe. you never know. even when you vaccinate, you can still get it, so it's better to make sure that you're vaccinated. >> reporter: when it comes to the actual numbers here, again, about 72% of new york city residents are actually vaccinated, so that's certainly a good thing. we all have some optimism with mayor de blasio earlier today, which is this -- >> we're having some trouble there with polo's connection. thanks so much, polo. in just a few minutes, dr. meg ranney joins us to discuss if there is a baseline immunity in the u.s. and how that will affect us. she'll also talk about the severity of the omicron variant and she'll answer your questions. the covid surge is also forcing other nations to take strong measures. israel is adding the u.s., canada and eight other countries to its red no-fly list. london's mayor says further covid restrictions are inevitable, and the netherlands are all in lockdown while the french prime minister warns that omicron is spreading at lightning speed. let's check in with our international correspondents. >> i'm in tell aviv where israe has added ten more countries to its no-fly list, including the united states, canada, and turkey. that means israelis are banned from there unless they get special permission, and israelis returning from there have to quarantine and spend eight days in a quarantine hotel. once they get a negative pcr test, they will be allowed to go to home quarantine, only after they have signed for the authorities to be able to track their movements. there are now 175 cases in israel. that's up from 89 a few days ago, and there are further 380 cases which are highly suspicious of being omicron. >> i'm scott mcclain in london where the head of the house service in england expects one in five staff in london to be out sick with covid on christmas day thanks to an omicron-fueled surge in new infections. government scientists say a new set of restrictions is needed fewer rather than later to avoid near peak levels of hospital admissions. but the government is still in wait and see mode because there are still question marks about the severity of illness omicron actually causes. the cautious british approach is in stark contrast to many mainland european governments which are facing protests over severe or new restrictions. friday night france closed its borders to british tourists even if they're vaccinated, and now germany has officially followed suit. >> we're here in europe. the covid situation is not making holiday celebrations easy for a second year in a row. the netherlands are locking down thanks to a spike in cases and hospitalizations. ireland just instituted another curfew on pubs and restaurants, and the u.k. is grab ppling wita staggering number of new cases on the omicron variant. covid is still causing spikes in deaths and hospitalizations across the region. france canceled its famous new year's eve fireworks display, and in rome, there will be no concert yet again. even those who are boosted can't escape some of the pain. the new measures prompted some to take to the streets in protest. it also prompted many others to finally get vaccinated or get their boosters. >> and our thanks to our correspondents around the world for their reports. new tonight, massachusetts and our elizabeth warren says she has covid-19. she tweeted in part, today i tested positive with a breakthrough case. thankfully i am only experiencing mild symptoms and am grateful for the protection provided against serious illness that comes from being vaccinated and boosted. she goes on to urge others to get their shots, too. democratic senator joe manchin may have just dealt a fatal blow to the signature piece of president biden's domestic agenda. a massive social safety net bill that included money for everything from universal pre-k to paid family leave. >> 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. >> an administration source telling me tonight that white house aides discussed with president biden what approach to take in that damning statement released earlier about manchin, with biden giving the final sign-off on that statement according to a source. the biden administration said it was important to lay out exactly what were transpiring, adding, there were too many things that sounded like he was going back on his word. also, it was biden himself who was wanting to speak to manchin earlier in the day. and manchin wouldn't take his call. with the senate evenly divided and republicans united in their opposition, democrats needed every last vote to get this bill across the finish line. so where does this go from here? cnn's joe johns is at the white house and suzann malveaux is on capitol hill. what are you learning that caught the white house, president biden, off guard? >> you sort of characterized the statement there. it was the textbook version of the sharply worded rebuke, and it was aimed straight at the senator from west virginia. there was a surprise here at the white house, quite frankly, but the surprise wasn't that the negotiations were going badly. everybody knew that. the surprise was the timing because white house aides said joe manchin actually came to the president and delivered to him his own proposal that contained many of the things that joe biden wanted included. white house aides thought they were going to go ahead and negotiate their way through that in the coming days when the senator from west virginia essentially sends word that he's going to blow up the negotiations entirely, pull the plug on national tv and about 30 to 45 minutes before he went out on tv, he sends an aide to deliver the message of the white house. the white house tries to reach him and he doesn't take the call. here's just a taste of the language from that statement that the white house press secretary put out. senator manchin promised to continue conversations in the days ahead and to work with us to reach that common ground. it goes on. if his comments and written statement indicate an end to that effort, they represent a sudden and inexplicable reversal to his decision and a breach to the president and the senator's colleagues in the house and senate. so they really thought they were going to continue to negotiate, pamela. >> they sure did. suza suzanna, i want to go to you because the switch from democrats have been swift. >> reporter: a lot of lawmakers said they weren't surprised by this, but they don't mean in a sense they got a heads up, they just mean it in the sense that they didn't trust him from the beginning. we heard from representative barbara lee tweeting out. she was saying, look, she wasn't surprised. she is unfeuriated, she is disappointed, she said manchin just keeps moving the goalposts here. whether or not joe manchin is a democratic player when they talk about how they want to move the president's agenda forward here. we heard from bernie sanders who put it out there quite plainly, his frustration and his anger, that perhaps there should be a vote on the senate floor regarding this even if manchin does not approve of this, just to get him on the record and potentially to shame him. here's how sanders put it. >> 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 interests. if he doesn't have the courage to do the right thing for the working families of west virginia in america, let him vote no in front of the whole world. >> and, pam, just to remind our audience what this is all about here, this is about a tremendous agenda here, very ambitious regarding clean energy investments, child care, paid family and sick leave, the child tax credit as well as home health care and medicare, housing, education, grants and, of course, home investments for energy and climate change provisions. this is something that the democrats are going to have to look at very carefully if they're going to get some of these items, very significant items, done. do they propose it in kind of a piecemeal fashion so they can get kmanchin on board and perhas some republicans and move forward on the child tax credit that way? that is something they have to think about in the coming year if they're actually going to address this. it looks like this ambitious agenda as it's laid out now just is not going to make it through. >> it's 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>> so this is a very preliminary study that has not yet been done in humans. it's really based on lab research. if this is shown to be true, it would mean that omicron is much more like the common cold than prior variants of covid, which would be great news. of course, there are other bad things that covid does as well. it doesn't just get into the lungs and cause that dreaded covid pneumonia, it also causes kidney problems, blood clots and more. time will tell if omicron causes those problems as well as the covid pneumonia. >> the delta variant is still the dominant strain in the u.s., but omicron cases are rising qui quickly. as an emergency room physician, what are you seeing in your own hospital? >> i don't know on a daily basis whether the patients i'm taking care of are infected with omicron, delta, alpha or beta, all i know is they are covid positive. in my state, our hospitalizations are about half of what they were last year at this time, but our emergency departments are absolutely overwhelmed, not just with covid but also with all the other diseases, injuries and illnesses out there that have not been adequately treated for the past year and a half. our hospitals are at a breaking point with a current covid wave, never mind the exponential spread of omicron that's already being reported across the northeast. >> i want to ask you about covid testing. a lot of people scrambling to try to get a covid test right now. can it effectively detect the ones on the market right now, if you know? 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>> unlikely to catch both at the same time, but there are definitely a lot of reports out of south africa of people who caught delta and then caught omicron. so having had delta doesn't put you at protection from omicron, but unlikely to catch both together. >> a second viewer asked, with new variants rising every few months, with omicron being partially immune-evasive, will we ever get out of the pandemic phase of covid, or will we continue to have pandemic waves in the future? >> i wish i had a crystal ball to be able to answer that question. what i, and most experts, are expecting is that at tom point covid is going to become endemic, the same way as the flu and many other infectious diseases, some that are parts of the fabric of the world but don't cause these major surges that overwhelm our health care system or economy. when that starts to happen, i can't say. maybe it will be march, maybe not. >> very quickly, what if you have asymptomatic covid, you've been fully vaxxed, you've been boosted. can you still pass it on to high risk family members? 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>> i talked to some who are very matter of fact about it saying if the republicans take the majority in the senate, they would not confirm a replacement nominee from joe biden for steven bryar's seat. they are taking it even further and being very clear that that is where things are headed. that leaves senate democrats and the white house in a very tough spot over this, because they want stephen bryar to retire, they want him to retire as soon as tomorrow, but they're worried if they pressure him, he will stay on the bench just to show he is not devouting partisan politics, and they are very up in arms about what to do. >> let's talk more about justice bryer. he's 84 years old. joan, what are the odds of him retiring? >> it's nice to see you, pamela. i actually think the odds are pretty strong for retirement this spring, for him to finish out the term that ends in june, but to give word to the white house before then. before he went on the bench and before he was even a law professor, he was a senate judiciary committee staffer. he knows the score, he knows what things are all about, and he was around for ruth bader ginsberg. he saw what happened when she didn't step down and was succeeded by amy coney barrett with the law of the land changing because of that switch. i spoke with him a few weeks ago when he was on one of his book tours and i asked him how he felt about all the pressure from people, and he was well aware of it, but you might want to just listen to what he said about the noise from democrats for him to go now. >> the truth, i think, is, you can always hope for your more mature self, which is there sometimes. and this is a country in which every day i see this in this do document, but number one, it's called freedom of speech, and that means freedom of expression. >> so you want them to say what they want? 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joining me now are anxiety a specialists. i've so been looking forward to this segment because i think people are dealing with this heightened anxiety. chris, i know you wrote this op-ed about what you are going through. we'll get to that in just a second. john, i wanted to go to you to lay it out for us. i think the reality that this pandemic is far from over kicked in for many of us. how dosubject. we are seeing an increased need for services across every facet imaginable, so coping is what is on everybody's mind right now. how do we cope with something that seems so relentless? we think we got it and we learn, nope, we are still back where we started again, so the answer to your question is how do we cope? first i think we need to own the fact that it's normal to be anxious. when we're dealing with high anxiety, we get frustrated with ourselves, so we need to make sure we're compassionate and not turning on ourselves. we're all doing the best we can with what we've got. other strategies for coping which is super important is the future, the unknown, and the more things we can put in our life that are present focused, whether that's through meditation or exercise or connecting with the things that bring you joy, those can be very helpful as well. of course, it should always be said that it's never too soon to ask for help. everybody has the right to ask for help when they need it. >> i've asked for help and it did help me tremendously. my anxiety is so much better than it was last year when i went through a really hard time in life. so, chris, you write on cnn.com that your covid anxiety is only just now spiking. you said thanksgiving like you were feeling good about things, and it was like right after it took a turn for the worse. what's been going on? >> yeah, i think the issue is, the thing i've always been good at in life is following the rules. and this, to your point, pam. you know, there appeared to be some set of rules with this, right? like for the first year we were social distancing, we were wearing masks, we were avoiding big crowds, we weren't traveling as much, we were keeping our circle tight, and then we were getting the first shot of the vaccine and the second shot of the vaccine, and in my case, at least, the booster shot. i have two kids under age 12, getting them vaccinated. today actually marks the day that everyone in my family, my immediate family, my mom, my wife, myself and my two boys are either boosted or fully vaccinated. i had circled this date on the calendar like, awesome, december 19, before christmas. and up until tuesday, i felt pretty good about that. that's something that drives anxiety for me and others, the uncertainty. i was actually okay when there was a set of rules we could follow. i didn't enjoy not going anywhere for months on end, but at least if we followed these rules, we'll get this outcome. now it feels like, well, we followed all these rules and the outcome we wanted isn't there, and it feels like this could go on in perpetuity. whether it can or not, that's how it feels. i think that's what is tough. >> you hit the point, uncertainty is really the driver of so much anxiety that i've learned in my own life because it's sort of a realization that things aren't in your control as much as you want them to be in control. i'm wondering, jon, what you are seeing. the "new york times" is reporting that mental health professionals like yourself, they are experiencing a huge uptick in demand, and some are actually having to turn patients away. walk us through kind of what you're seeing and what patients are grappling with, whether it be, you know, ocd over germs, whether it be moral scrupilocity, parents concerned they'll give their kids covid, all of that. >> all of the above. i think it's important to remember we were in a national mental health crisis before covid. and since the pandemic, things have only gotten worse. so we're seeing an increased need for services and shepherd provides a lot of different services and still it keeps coming. especially in children and adolescents. i think what's also happening is we're seeing children and adolescents coming in with mental health concerns when also their parents have mental health needs which aren't getting met, but of course parents are putting themselves second. people will often talk about, okay, ocd, wash your hands a lot, covid must be really hard for you. that's true, but what i'm seeing at the centers for adversity and anxiety is not so much a health anxiety, it's an increase in anxiety across the board. i'm also seeing a large increase in, you said it, moral scrupilocity. am i a good person? could i help someone else? then there are other thoughts that come with ocd. these people are suffering in silence, and it's a terrible recipe, because with the pandemic they're spending a lot of time alone and they're doing less of their social activities that keep them in the present, they're spend ag lot of time re ruminating. people are turning in to themselves because they're turning in the wrong way. >> have some self-compassion. i think that's important during this and don't be afraid to ask for help. jon hirsch field, chris cilliza, thank you for being here. this pandemic doesn't seem to have an end in sight, at least for now, and anxiety is just on the rise. thank you both. >> thanks, pam. three retired generals with a warning about a possible insurrection in 2024. one of them, brigadier general steven anderson joins me next. adding lysol laundry sanitizer kills 99.9% of bacteria detergent alone, can't. learning about our history with ancestrydna®, inspired us to learn more about our culture and where we come from. ...right here? 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>> thank you, pamela, for having us on. yes, it's very difficult for me to talk like this, i was raised in the army to bey, apolitical, but the events concerning the january 6 riot changed me considerably, we cannot afford to be apolitically, i was republican my entire life, voted as such as such, never was active until 2016 when trump took the election, it's now overcome with cowardous but i took an oath to the country i would support the united states constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic and those i work with closely were tremendously concerned about the threat internally, the threat domestically, within the military in particular. so we needed to start taking actions now to prevent for the evenuality in 2024 that he will do the same things in 2020 which he got incredibly close. we were trying to write an article that highlights our view of democracy at risk. we love our country and need to take actions now to mitigate that risk. >> why are you so concerned about what's going on within the military in particular? 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