week ago. but hospitalizations are increasing at a more gradual pace. four states hit their peak this month before starting to decline in just the past few days. maine, michigan, new hampshire and vermont saw more people hospitalized from covid than ever before. now new cdc guidance aims to shorten the isolation period for people who test positive but have no symptoms from 10 days to just 5 days. elizabeth cohen joins me now. give us the full details on these updated guidelines. >> these guidelines have their supporters and they also have their critics. sort of the bottom line, the base of these guidelines is that the cdc and other scientists learned that people are most contagious either right before they have symptoms or just for like two or three days afterwards. so the thinking is we have a shortage of essential workers, doctors, nurses, people to fly planes, flight attendants, why are we keeping people isolated if they're probably no longer contagious and they no longer have symptoms? so let's look at what the cdc is recommending. they're saying if you have covid-19, you've tested positive, but you don't have symptoms or you have symptoms but they're getting better, isolate for five days and in the five days after that wear a mask when you're around other people. if you have been exposed, meaning maybe someone in your household has covid, you might have it, you might not, but you've been exposed, here's the directions, if you have been vaccinated and your second shot was within the past six months or if you have been boosted, then they say don't quarantine but do wear a mask for ten days. the reasoning behind this is that the cdc says having a booster shot, that's 75% effective against omicron and so basically, again, the thinking is you're -- you're almost certainly -- you're 75% protected, why do we want to keep you out of work if most likely you're not going to get covid or if you do, it likely will be, you know, your chances of transmitting it are much smaller. >> elizabeth cohen, thank you for all of that. so doctors across the nation are seeing more children in the hospital with covid. cnn's alexander field is on this story. how sick are the children there? >> there is a clear trend that we are seeing. in the last week alone, we've seen a 35% increase in pediatric hospitalizations and the numbers can seem alarming on the face of it, because if you just look at new york city, you're talking about a five-fold increase in pediatric hospitalizations since december 11th. you have another hospital in chicago that is reporting a four-fold increase in pediatric hospitalizations. so these numbers are clearly climbing in these younger age groups, but what does it all mean? really, alisyn, there's no indication at this point that the virus has become more severe for young children, but what we are understanding from the medical experts is that given the amount of virus that's out there right now, given this spike in cases, as you see the case count climb, hospitalizations naturally climb. children become a part of that. children remain far less likely to become severely ill than adults. but there are cases of it. when we see a surge, you see more kids going to the hospital. we're hearing from children's hospitals all over the country that they're bracing for this to become worse and that's because of the high transmissibility of the omicron variant. that coupled with the fact that people have been traveling and doing holiday get-togethers last weekend and next weekend. so really these doctors and hospitals are preparing for the possibility that they will see cases continuing to spread among younger people. what can you do about it? how can you protect your child? we're hearing very clearly once again from dr. fauci if your child is eligible for a vaccine, you should be getting your child vaccinated. children are still among the least vaccinated in this country. of course not all children are eligible. those under five years old don't yet have an approved vaccine. >> all right. thank you for all of that. let's talk more about it with primary care siju matthew. you're a primary care physician. tell us what you're seeing in your practice. are you seeing more kids get sick? are the families that you're seeing who are sick, are they more sick than they were in previous waves or less? >> hi, alisyn. nice to be on with you again. what i'm seeing in our major hospital system are a lot of break-through infections, but so far these infections tend to be milder. even amongst the kids. just as the reporter mentioned, when you have a surge of cases, this virus or this variant, omicron variant is multiplying every two to three days. we could get to over 500,000 daily cases by new year's eve at this rate. when you have a large number of people that are infected, you will see that proportionate number also fall sick. generally speaking so far the infections tend to be less severe. alisyn, i try hard not to use the world mild because to a lot of people they think it's a common cold. that's not true. what might be mild for you could be severe for somebody else. >> that's such a great point. i read that you had tweeted that you are in support, i believe, of the cdc's new guidelines for isolation. they halved them from ten days to five days. we're hearing also from front line workers, hospital lees, airline employees that they are not crazy about the new guidelines. let me play you their thoughts and get your reaction. >> cdc should also be recommending, if they're going to fall in line with what the airlines want, that the airlines also say how they are going to implement this to make sure it's only for people who are asymptomatic, who are coming back to work so that people are not forced to come back to work when they're still sick and how they're going to implement ensuring that masks are worn at all times, including on the flight deck. >> this is not the time during the surge of a new mutant variant, this is not the time to be lessening. our staffing concerns have not been addressed. measures like this will make it worse instead of better. >> they make a couple of good points. is a surge the time to shorten the isolation period? >> well, a couple of things regarding that. we're not really dealing mostly with the delta variant. remember, the omicron variant, the good news if there's anything good about omicron, is that the half life is shorter. that means it gets into your system, you fall sick, and it also is eliminated most of the time from your body much quicker than delta. if you're vaccinated and boosted, the cdc guidelines makes the most sense because you have less of a viral load, you're mostly infectious two days before and about four days after you develop symptoms. in fact, there are some studies to show that if you are asymptomatic, fully vaccinated and boosted, you may not even be contagious. i can completely understand the voice you played from a lot of employees that feel like, hey, are we bringing you back too soon? but i still think that if you look at the science, ten days is way too long. most people, if you isolate for five days and add, by the way, a rapid antigen test to get out of isolation, that's one thing cdc did mention, then you are perfectly fine going back to work. >> as long as you can get a rapid test in a timely fashion. that's another issue for another day. i wanted to ask you about the booster shots. right now, as you know, they are highly recommended six months after your second dose of the vaccine. you think that time, that window should be shortened. to what? >> i think that basically if you look at the number six months, it's fairly arbitrary. there's not necessarily a hard core science behind it. now, six months is on the mall because after you get that second shot, you want the body to recover and develop what's called immune memory. so six months is optimal, but you can shorten it as close to four months to actually get the booster shot. the reason that i say that is you also want to time it when the infection is at its peak. with omicron, lots of people are getting infected. lots of breakthrough infections. this is the time to balance getting longer durability with actually controlling the infection. that's why i think four months will actually be a much better idea in the surge than waiting that extra two months. >> are other health officials listening to that? do you think that we will see it now recommended four months after your second shot? >> i'm hoping that on your show that people will be listening. people like dr. fauci, the fda. i think, again, if you look at the science, six months is optimal, but a lot of virologists -- i've spoken to quite a few at cdc who silently agree that four months should be the interval time to attack the surge that we're seeing right now. >> we'll see what happens. dr. matthew, thank you very much. great to talk to you. >> thanks. well, the parents of that 14-year-old girl who was killed by police are talking publicly now about their experience and their grief. this comes as this new video was released showing the moments leading up to this tragic shooting. we have the latest from los angeles ahead. later, how filling up with gas could drain your wallet even more in the new year. we'll explain. so we only pay for what we need. -hey tex, -wooo. can someone else get a turn? 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>> they want to see justice. they want to see accountability. right now they're heart broken. they're devastated. they're calling for full transparency and full accountability. >> now, the lapd chief has called this incident tragic and devastating. a very tragic accident. it is under investigation by state prosecutes who will be determining whether any charges are warranted here. alisyn, hearing directly from the family, just so sad. you get the sense of that grief that they are feeling now in the aftermath of this incident. valentina's father addressing us a short time ago saying they bought christmas presents for valentina. now instead of giving them to his daughter, he will be taking them to her grave site. he also said he is seeking justice, noting that while other families this holiday season are spending time with their loved ones, he now has an empty seat in his home. >> it's all so awful. josh, thank you very much. let's discuss what justice might look like in our two to four things legal edition today. can we look at it from the police perspective for a moment? from the family's perspective it is a horrible, devastating tragedy. from the police perspective, there was a suspect with a metal bike chain and bike lock and assaulting various women in this store. when the police got there, first they got a call there might be an armed -- that there was an armed suspect possibly with a gun. when they got there, they found one of the customers bleeding on the floor. so obviously a very high stress, obviously a high stakes situation for the police. do you think that there could be legal charges against the police in this case? >> alisyn, such a complicated case. my heart goes out to this family for the loss of their teenage daughter. i have two daughters myself, i can't imagine the pain they're experiencing right now. you're right, from the police standpoint, they arrive at a chaotic scene where a suspect assaulted multiple women and they see a victim on the floor bleeding. their job is to nullify the threat that is in that store. at the same time they have an obligation to make sure that in trying to prevent that suspect from harming other people, that they don't harm people, innocent victims like this 14-year-old girl. i think what's troubling to so many in the los angeles community is that the officers arrived, guns ablaze and fired a weapon. this one officer fired a rifle without knowing who else was in his line of fire. an investigation clearly is needed to see what tactics were used. this is all happening at a time that the los angeles police department is in this moment of self-reflection about what tactics should be used in similar situations. >> we heard josh there say that the family wants transparency. i must say, they've released this video very quickly. you know, in an effort at some of that transparency. let's turn to another case, that's ghislaine maxwell. as far as we know, i think this is day five of jury deliberations. the jury sent 12 notes at this point to the judge. yesterday they asked the judge for the legal definition of enticement. clearly they are working this case somehow. what do you see in their questions to the judge? >> some confusion about these jury instructions and about some of the evidence. they wanted to review transcripts of some of the key witnesses during the trial. we saw in the kim potter case that, you know, that jury stayed out four days, four days plus and everyone was thinking, you know, maybe that meant -- signaled what the outcome of that trial would be. given that, i don't think you can make a prediction about what the outcome of this trial will be. jurors have their own process. they go through their own methodical way of going through the evidence, applying the facts to the mrau. not clear what they're thinking. we know there's serious charges against maxwell. she faces up to 70 years in jail if she is, in fact, convicted of the charges. >> now to the next case. it is fascinating and horrifying. there are these content moderators at social media companies like tiktok. apparently what they are subjected to in terms of screening the content that the rest of us see, something like 12 hours of having to -- every day, this one woman who is suing the company describing. all of this psychological trauma after she has to screen hideous violent and graphic video every day to figure out if it's appropriate to put on tiktok. she is suing for ptsd. what do you think of this case? >> i think she probably has a case, but the question is who the case is against. there's a question on who she sued. tiktok is not apparently the employer in this situation, she works for a third party employer, that third party employer has some kind of contractual obligation or arrangement with tiktok. so there's some issues as to who the employer is and who the appropriate defender is. if you take the allegations at face value, they're disturbing allegations, watching rape videos, murder videos, having to do it 12 hours a day without many breaks. the question of, you know, post traumatic stress, there's probably not a big fight about the impact on your mental health from watching those videos. the question in this case is going to be who is responsible. >> i really didn't understand until i read the notes of this case what these human content moderators are subjected to. as you say, animal mutilations and beheadings, stuff like that. of course that has an impact. tiktok and others say, well, we get you mental health, you know, help, if you need it. i don't know if this -- if this could ever work for anybody's full-time job. it seems like there has to be a better way. >> it seems horrific as a job. i can't imagine how someone could be prepared even with mental health counseling to go to work every day and subject themselves to the horrors of these videos. for me, what was equally disturbing was that these types of videos are on tiktok. we know that tiktok skews to a younger generation. so are 12-year-olds, 13-year-olds, 14-year-old kids watching these videos? that was equally alarming. i wouldn't be surprised if we don't see more lawsuits not just from the content moderators but from parents whose children perhaps have some kind of a mental health issue as a result of watching some of these videos. >> we'll continue to follow all of this. thank you. >> thanks. the demand for covid testing is super high. we'll take you live to a testing site to see just what it looks like at this hour. stay with us. their car insurance. ow! i'm ok! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ only in theaters december 17th. do your eyes bother you? my eyes feel like a combo of stressed, dry and sandpaper. strypaper? luckily, there's biotrue hydration boost eye drops. biotrue uses naturally inspired ingredients. and no preservatives. try biotrue! psoriatic arthritis, made my joints stiff,... ...swollen, painful. emerge tremfyant®. tremfya® is approved to help reduce joint symptoms in adults with active psoriatic arthritis. some patients even felt less fatigued. serious allergic reactions may occur. tremfya® may increase your risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms or if you had a vaccine or plan to. emerge tremfyant® with tremfya®... ask you doctor about tremfya® today. - [narrator] introducing the grubhub guarantee: our promise to deliver the food you love on time, and give you the lowest price, or you'll get $5 off your next order. when it comes to autism, finding the right words can be tough. finding understanding doesn't have to be. together, we can create a kinder, more inclusive world for the millions of people on the autism spectrum. go to autismspeaks.org let's break down subway's new baja chicken & bacon. look at that coverage by that pepper jack cheese on that new rotisserie style chicken then boom! here comes the new baja chipotle sauce up the gut, and... great, now i can't even see what i'm calling! save big. order through the app. every day in business brings something new. so get the flexibility of the new mobile service designed for your small business. introducing comcast business mobile. you get the most reliable network with nationwide 5g included. and you can get unlimited data for just $30 per line per month when you get four lines or mix and match data options. available now for comcast business internet customers with no line-activation fees or term contract required. see if you can save by switching today. comcast business. powering possibilities. as you know, many americans are struggling to find covid tests. some waiting in line for hours. cnn's leyla santiago is at a testing site that is seeing unprecedented demand. do we know how many tests they're administering there? >> alisyn, this is the busiest site in miami-dade county. yesterday they administered 9,000 -- nearly 9,000 tests just at this site. the health group that runs this site says across the county they did 60,000 tests. let me put that in perspective for you. when you compare that number to the peak of the delta variant wave, that is a 50% increase that they're seeing here. so, yes, that means long lines. lines that are anywhere from three to five hours depending at what time of day you come to get a test. listen to what some of the folks that had to wait in line told us. >> it's way more chaotic now. everybody is speaking out, but that's the same thing that happened right before the first shutdown. everybody is like going everywhere about it. >> how would you compare it? >> there's a spot right by my house where i would go. it would take less than five minutes. i would walk there. that's it. now the line extends on to the next street. it's crazy. >> so as a result of this increase in demand, today miami-dade county opened two new sites for testing. that's for on-site testing. let's talk about those take-home rapid test kits. miami-dade county distributed 152,000 kits over a two-day period. they are all out now and they say they have an additional request into the department of health for more. alisyn? 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>> well, the trends are that the housing market still remains pretty hot. home prices in october were up by 19.1% from the year before. that's according to the case-shiller home price index. this is the second straight month where we have seen prices slow down. those price gains decelerate, but they're decelerating from really high levels. this is the fourth highest reiting sreit i reading since the index began tracking home prices. the top four readings all occurred this year. this is truly a historic housing boom. we have a chart that visualizes this. you can see that last decade home price gains were pretty calm. it was modest gains. prices really exploded during covid. that's for a few factors. one, borrowing costs are historically low. and, two, there's so much demand right now for housing. there's very, very limited supply. there's arguably never been a better time to sell. but, alisyn, this is also creating some headaches for home buyers, particularly first-time home buyers and people who are relocating. >> absolutely. that graph is incredible to look at what the prices have done over the past decade or more. thank you very much. >> thank you. okay. so historians got a pleasant surprise when they opened a time capsule, this was found under where a robert e. lee statue once stood. we'll tell you what was inside. inner voice (kombucha brewer): as a new small business owner, i find it useful to dramatically stare out of the window... ...so that no one knows i'm secretly terrified inside. inner voice (sneaker shop owner): i'm using hand gestures and pointing... ...so no one can tell i'm unsure about my business finances. inner voice (furniture maker): i'm constantly nodding... ...because i know everything about furniture... ...but with the business side... ...i'm feeling a little lost. quickbooks can help. an easy way to get paid, pay your staff and know where your business stands. new business? 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we've all done time capsules. you can only imagine later what those who come after us think about our time. >> absolutely. it's really cool. thank you. 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>> i would not. >> you can send liz cheney home. back home to washington, d.c. >> at number eight, democrats have issues of their own. >> given the circumstances, the best way i can help now is if i step aside. >> facing multiple allegations of sexual harassment, which he denied, governor andrew cuomo of new york resigned. >> virginia, we won this thing! >> glen youngkin claims the governors race in virginia. >> a very big night for republicans, and a major, quite frankly, a major wake-up call for democrats. >> and gavin newsom, the democratic governor in california successfully fights off a recall there. >> thank you to 40 million americans, 40 million californians, and thank you for rejecting this recall. >> number seven -- messy withdrawal from afghanistan. the biden administration scrambles to evacuate american citizens and tens of thousands of afghans from the country ahead of an august 31st deadline. 13 u.s. service members and more than 170 afghans are killed in terrorist attacks outside kabul's airport in the chaotic end to america's longest war. >> it's time to end the forever war. thank you all for listening. may god protect our troops. >> at number six, the big lie gives birth to an amateurish aurdit of the 2020 election results in arizona which ends up confirming what americans already knew. joe biden won arizona. >> the ballots provided to us to count in the coliseum very accurately correlate with the official campus numbers. >> as new gop-driven restrictive voting laws crop up in statehouses across the country. >> i'm going to sign it right here. it's going to take effect. >> florida, your vote counts. >> number five, president biden and his team try to show democrats can deliver with big legislative victories first on covid relief and then infrastructure. but the question remains, and is build back better social spending plan passed through the senate? at number four, double trouble for the gop in georgia. as republicans lose two senate runoff races in january. >> jon ossoff, the democratic candidate in georgia, he is defeating david perdue. >> gop insiders blame trump grumbling that his election lies backfired. >> he is hereby acquitted of the charge. >> trump becomes the first president in american history to be impeached for a second time. this time for inciting the insurrection at the capitol. once again, republicans stand in the way of a conviction. >> democrats falling short of the 67 votes needed to convict trump. this is the second time donald trump has been acquitted in an impeachment trial in the u.s. senate. >> at number two, an event that would normally land at the top any of list of big political stories, the inauguration of a new president. >> preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. >> the constitution of the united states. >> but it was far from a typical transfer of power as trump tried to scheme his way into staying in office. pressuring state officials like georgia's secretary of state. >> so, look, all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state. >> number one story of 2021 -- american democracy under attack. january 6th, the insurrection. >> we fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. >> in one last ditch attempt to halt a biden presidency, a violent mob of trump supporters and members of far right groups stormed the capitol, some chanting they want to kill the vice president. >> hang mike pence! hang mike pence! >> rioerts clash with police. eventually they smash their way inside, sending lawmakers running for cover. >> everybody stay down. >> a trump supporter is shot dead by a police officer as she and others attempt to breach the speaker's lobby inside the capitol. first responders are beaten with the american flag and sprayed with chemicals. as nightfalls on a shameful scene, a scene of american democracy is left battered. and brian sicknick was assaulted by chemical spray. he suffered strokes and died the next day. haunted by january 6th, a handful of other officers later die by suicide. and the trials of the insurrectionists begin. true to form, trump went on to lie about what happened at the capitol. he never showed remorse, never apologized for what he did. trump has so far escaped any accountability. instead he's been emboldened by republicans who have largely adopted his lies as their own. his lap dogs in conservative media and disciples in congress echo his toxic rhetoric. it's now the subject of an investigation by the january 6th house select committee. that probe and its findings may alter the political landscape for 2022 and beyond. jim acosta, cnn, washington. >> 2021. what can we say? other than, bring on 2022. you can do that with don lemon and me in new orleans. and also these guys. anderson cooper and andy cohen. they'll be here in new york. so join all of us for a very festive cnn new year's eve. it's going to start friday at 8:00 p.m. eastern only here on cnn. i will also see you tomorrow. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. a new warning from children's hospitals. "the lead" starts right now. in one pediatric hospital they are seeing a 1,000% increase in the number of kids testing positive for covid compared with the delta surge. but does that necessarily mean serious illness for those kids? does it mean hospitalization or worse? a pediarician from that hospital is here to explain. and if you are confused by the new cdc isolation guidance, you are hardly alone. some health experts bashing the cdc and the biden administration about what they say is reall