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a row on sunday. new york city, an early epicenter of the pandemic, seeing a spike in cases officials say is being driven by omicron. >> we have to move faster. that is why we're focusing even more on vaccination and we do know that vaccination helps address omicron. >> reporter: the city set to decide this week whether to go forward with its famed new year's eve celebration in times square. testing lines hours long throughout the city as officials plan to begin to distribute half a million rapid tests as early as today. and also up ending the world of sports and education and tram in the recent days, forcing "saturday night live" to cancel and the rockettes to cancel the rest of the season. after multiple broadway shows from hamilton to harry potter cancel performances due to covid cases. the nba, nhl and nfl also postponing games. and the nfl now changing its testing protocols. no longer requiring testing of asymptomatic fully vaccinated players. covid striking maryland governor larry hogan and members of congress with massachusetts senator elizabeth warren, new jersey senator cory booker, and colorado congressman jason crow all testing positive for the virus. >> right now you need that third dose. i wish we could call it a booster. it is a three-dose vaccine. >> reporter: and with doctors reminding us that basic mitigation measures like masking could help stop the spread. washington, d.c. is reinstating a indoor mask order only lifted at the end of november. d.c. is experiencing the lieist case council since pandemic began. the new order will be if place starting tuesday, december 28th, lasting through the end of january. victor. >> athena jones, thank you so much. and let's bring in former health commissioner dr. leana wen. let's start with what we've learned from omicron. the surge is della but omicron is spreading here. we heard this morning from the zrr who said they're on the back end of their slope. that is a steep mountain but a very narrow one. what should we glean from what we're seeing in south africa? >> well, i would love for the u.s. to also have the experience of south africans, of the province where johannesberg and they were reporting from, it would be great to see a rapid spike by a rapid downward trajectory, but we don't know whether the experience from south africa would apply here. the population is younger than here in the u.s. also, it is expected that a lot more people in south africa were exposed during earlier waves and we have deep pockets within the u.s. of lots of unvaccinated individuals and so i think it is too soon to say what will happen an the most important thing that could be done now is for us to take precautions including for those people still waiting on the booster shot, what are you waiting for. please get that booster now. >> let's talk about the moderna booster, the company said this is not published or peer reviewed but they say that that booster shot, moderna shot increases significantly antibodies in the fight against omicron, is this the news that we've been waiting for or still too soon to know the effectiveness. >> i think it is the news that we're waiting for because we're seeing this consistently for pfizer as well. that we know it looks like two doses of the vaccine till protect you against severe disease. but the protection against symptomatic disease declines a lot. but that is restored with a third dose. i hope that we'll continue to see these results as well. but again, more information weighing in favor of getting a booster at this point. >> all right, as we're seeing the trajectory of numbers here, this is a time we try to get people answers to their specific questions. so i've asked people on twitter and instagram to send me the questions at victor blackwell and let's go through a few of them. i'm start with michael who said how long does it take for the full effect of a moderna booster to go through. let's start there, with that question. >> yeah, what we have said is if you are considered to be fully vaccinated, this is prior to the booster, that it is two weeks after your second shot. and it looks like for the booster dose, that that would be similar as well. so you do get a protective. even after a few days. but ideally you're considered to be fully boosted if you will two weeks after that booster dose. >> there is a second question from michael here. what do you recommend for gatherings with infants who cannot yet be vaccinated? i know you have two young children who are under five. >> that is right. and so i would say to use additional precautions. because we're dealing with something that is to contagious ought this point and the whole idea with herd immunity is you combine with others who are fully vaccinated. so everybody around you is fully vaccinated and boosted. also i would take additional precautions because this is an infant with very little immune protection and so i would have everybody who is going to be visiting the infant be tested right before the visit. in addition to being fully vaccinated. if there are unvaccinated people there, if you're not able to get rapid tests, i would not see the infant indoors, i would try to visit outdoors only and if you have to be indoors for some reason, everybody should be wearing a high quality respiratory k-95 mask around this infant. >> i know marcus. hey marcus. with more people getting at home covid tests how soon after exposure could a person test positive with the at-moment test. good question. >> it is a very good question. so the at home tests are not perfect. no test frankly is. but we should not let perfect be the enemy of the good if that what the at-home test does is it shows whether you are infectious, you are carrying enough virus to inspect other people at that point in time. there is to point in getting a test three days ago and when you should be getting a test right before you're seeing somebody or getting together with friends. as to when you would want to get that test, after exposure you usually get a positive result three days after exposure. so if you just got exposed to somebody who has covid, don't get tested right now. wait three days and nen that period of time quarantine yourself or if you're fully vaccinated, least make sure thaur -- that you're wearing a mask. >> the mayor de blasio said the city has not yet made a decision on if it will cancel the time square event for crowds to show up. right now you have to be vaccinated and if they hold it. but for people considering going there or to the peach drop in atlanta or any of the similar events across the country, what would your advice to them be? good or not good or if you are vaccinated your fine? what do you think. >> i do not that i that mayor de blasio should cancel the event because it is outdoors. the events that are safe should be kept and also the events that have fun for people, too. we can't be canceling everything. if we're going to be living with covid for the foreseeable future. would you say if you choose to go, make sure your vaccinated and boosted and wearing a mask, even though it is outdoors there are a lot of people packed around you, wearing a three-comply surgical mask and don't care a cloth mask, there is no place for them in light of omicron. so wear a high quality mask, a three comply surgical mask and if your visiting elderly relatives or immunocompromised people, wait three days and get tested and then see the vulnerable people. >> don't cancel everything fun. that is the headline i got there from you dr. wen. thank you so much for being with us. all right. to that point, the spike in cases is happening just as a lot of people are getting together for the holiday eecvents and pos shows that people are tired of mitigation measures. and this is bipartisan. 64% of republican, and 63% of democrats till tell monmouth university they're warn out by the changes to daily life. and a number of people are willing to social distance today, versus a year ago dropped by more than 30%. let's bring in brian stelter on this point. brian, i was out in harlem on saturday, and less than a block from one another there was a store front covid testing location, a mobile covid testing location, maybe 40 people in each line, but we also know there were long lines to see the new spider-man movie this weekend too. >> that is right. and that is our new reality. there are long lines and people crowding into movie theaters at at same time there are long lines for testing. this is the kind of confusing moment we're in with covid where different people are taking different choices, taking different steps. and i think i certainly have sometimes fallen victim to this, where you feel like everybody is taking more precautions than you is being overly careful and then everyone taking less is ignorant. i think we need to have some slack in this moment. because people are making different choice joyces about where they are seeing 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pelosi an where does it go. >> the best encapsulation in the last 24 hours was from a democratic senator a short while ago would said take a breath. that is where democrats need to go from what transpired over the course of the last 24 hours. when you listen to what leaders like nancy pelosi have said, chuck schumer in a letter to his colleagues this morning, one thing is clear, nobody is giving up. whether it is the white house or democratic leaders. the big question now is particularly given the fireworks an the scathing comments going back and forth over the course of the last day, whether or not they could actually get things back on track. when you talk to democrats both here at the white house and on the other side of pennsylvania avenue in the capitol, they believe there is still not only going to be an effort but a potential pathway with senator manchin. there were areas that senator manchin was supportive of. they might need to change the length or what is in the bill, perhaps the duration of them, but there were potential areas of agreement. there is no question about that. i think the real question right now is, is senator manchin done completely and if they want to figure out a deal, they need to restart everything altogether or could negotiations continue after everybody breathes and enjoys some holidays. that is the open question right now. it is very interesting to see what jen psaki said when she started her briefing in 10 minutes since it is the first thing we've heard from the white house since the scathing 700 word statement yesterday. >> i wonder how much that statement, if there is something to bel is vajed hurt that effort that could start at the beginning of the year. thank you so much. let's bring in margaret, cnn political analyst for axyos and ron brownstein and senior edit for for the atlantic. welcome to you both. i want to play more of this radio interview that senator manchin did today in which he talks about some of the strategy that progressives and potentially the white house took to try to get him to come on board. listen. >> they just never realized that because they figure, surely to gott god we could move one person. surely we to badger and beat one person up and get enough protests to make that person uncomfortable enough. and guess what i'm from west virginia. i'm not from where they are from and they could beat the living crap out of people and think they'll be submissive. period. >> margaret, the strategy that we saw from progress ifrs was to try to pressure manchin. he said i've been in the same place since march. and with phil there, as i mentioned, how does this statement from jen psaki if that is what they have to negotiate with. >> victor, it is really complicating messaging, isn't it? senator manchin is right, he's not running for president. he doesn't hold a nationwide political office. he is a senator in the state that voted overwhelming for donald trump. so when progressives come after him and he pushes back, that helps them among his actual constituents where he'll have to stand for the re-election. i think the white house calculation is that they needed to push back with the same sort af -- of aggressiveness or force that they felt his message had been delivered. and that is for two reasons. number one, the white house is feeling, most democrats are feeling you don't accidently stumble into fox news to make a sunday interview that blows everything up a few days before christmas. that is a deliberate process. and the other that of course biden has to consider his audience and his audience is not just the national electorate but his base, his base was demanding an aggressive response in kind to manchin's move. >> ron, when you consider what we heard from senator manchin there, we know that leader schumer said there is going to be a vote on build back better and this is what we heard from senator sanders that he wants to see happen with, and i guess to or for senator manchin. let's play it. >> 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. >> okay. i mean, i don't know why that should be like some consequence or that progressives think that manchin would be embarrassed by this vote. he's been in the same place and said the same thing for months now. >> yeah, and i don't think a public vote really is the lever. but with all due respect to senator, his statement was absurd. it was ridiculous. the only thing that democrats have done is try to bully him is ludicrous. they allowed him to rewrite the bill, ins of the size and energy provisions and gone double and triple back flips to find a formula acceptable to him in the knowledge that he is one person with the party and that is a part of what makes this so remarkable, victor. if you did a census of every elected democrat from mayor to governor to house member to senate to the guy who got 81 million votes for president, they would all be in favor of passing something along the lines of what the house did and joe manchin is saying my view as part of this big collective should outweigh everybody else when she's in a state -- you talked about whether progressives could pressure him. west virginia is a state that ranks 44 new jersey child poverty. ranks 45th in extreme child poverty and 49th in the share of white kids who are in poverty. and the projections are that this bill would have cut child poverty in the state in half. so i mean, there is that pressure within the state, too. that reality, it is 50% above the national average in diabetes, big winner in the provisions limiting insulin costs that are in the bill. so he's making a very conscience choice to make a statement as he has done before of identifying himself as the rock in the road, blocking liberal democratic priorities but the losers on that are not just progressives in san francisco and new york, it is a lot of low income families in west virginia. >> yeah, go ahead. >> you know, i was going to say, i think if you take manchin at his word and many people won't at this point, but if you take his word, he's saying he's not opposed to a lot of the programs. although he has taken issue with some including the child tax credit and the way that that would be structured but he doesn't want the funding for two or three years and he wants to have a better understanding of who is able to take advantage of it so the middle class are not taking advantage of programs that should be just dedicated to poor people like his constituents. there is nuances, but no one is negotiating the details because right now this is all sort of road kill. >> ron, let me come back to you with this. immediately after we heard from manchin that he is a no on this, goldman sachs downgrading the gdp outlook for the first quarter. that it would go from, they believe from 3% growth to 2% growth, downgraded second and third quarter as well. politically, asize from the no that manchin, is consequences in a election year. >> the economic blow and the political blow are both enormous, right. i mean, if you're talking about the signature economic agenda item of a new president, they've often gone through tush lentz water as you know, there are a lot of near-death experiences on the bill big. but in the end reagan and bush passed their tax cut and obama passed his stimulus plan and trump passed the tax cut in the end usually the president gets their core economic program through in the first year and if minchin is willing to sink this, i think in the full knowledge that he will greatly increase both the economic and political risk for democrats in 2022. and don't forget, if he runs for re-election, it will be in a presidential year. so unless he is thinking about changing parties, which doesn't seem to be a real plausible option given his opposition to the trump tax cuts and support for convicting trump in the past, he is going to be on the ballot as part of a refer ends um on this administration so he's making a calculated choice with enormous risks for the country and his constituents and his party. >> margaret, for the white house, this blow on the agenda, the legislative agenda coincides with the timing of the new surge, delta is surging, omicron is spreading. the president was elected in large part to get the country on better footing in this fight against the pandemic. and there is a correlation between the numbers and the trends of those cases and hospitalizations and deaths and his approval numbers. >> it is 100% true for president biden and in a shorter term for the democratic party. the question is what are you running for re-election on. what are you running on. his hope was to say we got covid under control and omicron is putting a wrench in those plans for president biden. it is very complicated to argue well thank goodness i helped make the vaccine available to everybody, it would be so much worse if you didn't have the vaccine. that is a difficult argument to viscerally make to the public. and so with the supply chain problems, the inflation problems, you're the president, the buck stops with you. these are intractable problems and very difficult to turn around. but that is his lot in life. so he would like to be able to say both the infrastructure bill, which has already passed and some of the bbb provisions he would very much like to run on those, the longer the delays, the more out of reach that is for him. >> we'll see what the path is forward on omicron and the pandemic tomorrow. the president giving an important address on that. margaret, ron brown strstein, g to see you. >> thank you. the jury in the kim potter manslaughter trial is deliberating after several hours of closing arguments for attorneys. the prosecution called shooting death ever daunte wright a clol ossal screw up. >> but first a look at other events we're watching today. ...so at at&t everyone 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wright died at the hands of a highly trained officer. focusing on her years, decades of experience. she was certified to use the taser, she said she intended to pull back in 2002. listen in to some of what the prosecution said. >> this was a colossal screwup. a blunder of epic proportions. accidents can still be crimes. if they occur as the result of recklessness or culpable negligence. you're not going to find the word accident or mistake or error anywhere in your jury instructions. >> reporter: she told members of jury they will not see that it was a mistake or error anywhere in their jury instructions. by contrast, defense attorney earl gray told members of the jury this was a mistake and he challenged them, when their back deliberating to think about this question, he said, and i'm paraphrasing here, how could potter act recklessly if she doesn't know she had a gun in her hand. listen in. >> a second later she shot him. tragically. but she didn't know she had a gun either. and then he said, you shot me. and being alone, what does he do, does he say help me out and he takes off and you see the video, he goes like a jet. >> reporter: the defense arguing wright's actions led to his death. meanwhile, members of jury will deliberate until 6:00 p.m. tonight unless they reach a verdict before that time. they will also be sequestered and in the deliberation room they have a laptop, it does not have internet access but they could replay the body camera videos at will. also in the deliberating room with members of jury, the glock that killed daunte wright, it is not loaded. the ammunition was removed and they also have the taser potter intended to pull that day. this is an opportunity as their deliberating to look and feel the difference of the two weapons. victor. >> fascinating there. adrianne proudous in minneapolis for us. thank you. health experts warn a grim winter of coronavirus is in ahead, but that is not stopping millions of people already traveling for the 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