good morning, everyone. i m poppy harlow. so glad you re with us on this christmas eve. merry christmas eve to those who celebrate. sadly, another covid christmas and right now the omicron variant is disrupting the holiday season in more ways than one. cases are up dramatically as millions travel to visit friends and family. this morning more than 400 flights have been canceled due to staffing shortages. in new york, new infections were up 34 persian in one day forcing officials to scale back new york city s new year s eve celebration. and all week, all across the country, we have seen hours-long lines for tests, but here s what s different from last year. this is really important. we know so much more about this virus and hospitalizations are not surging. vaccines would protect from severe ill ens and death and many hospitalizations are readily available. just this week the fda authorized new treatments for those infected with covid. our aviation correspondent pete muntean s
donald trump still support conservative politics. it is not just in virginia, the race for governor in new jersey remains neck and neck. a virtual tie at this point between the incumbent democrat governor phil murphy and challenger jack ciattarelli. that race less than 2,000 votes apart. another shock for democrats who saw murphy coasting to another term in office. the biggest winners of the night on issues, policing, education, and the economy. in new york, cnn projects that eric adams will be the next mayor. the former brooklyn borough president and former retired police captain ran on a pro police platform, promising to crack down on crime as well as police abuse. in minneapolis, the site of major anti-police demonstrations and protests last year, voters rejected an aggressive bid to overhaul policing in that city. they voted down a ballot measure that would have abolished the minneapolis police department to replace it with the department of public safety. let s begin
5,000 votes ahead of his republican challenger. meantime, a major disappointment in virginia, a state joe biden won by ten points just last year. cnn says youngkin will defeat mcauliffe. mcauliffe just conceded that race. a number of agenda items, battle measures across the nation. winners of the night, the biggest winners, policing, education and the economy, including in minneapolis, where voters rejected a bid to replace the minneapolis police department with a city council run public safety department. decisively so. first, let s begin on that tight race where the incumbent phil murphy has, though in recent hours, added to his count this morning. john berman is at the magic wall. so it s inching up his margin. where are the remaining votes concentrated, what does that mean for where this is likely to go? . inching up by 67 votes. it was 61 votes all night long. you can see it growing bit by bit here. where is the remaining vote? right now 85% of the vote in. let s l
and winsome sears will be the first woman of color to serve as lieutenant governor, the first black woman to win statewide election in virginia. she s also a former marine. but the drama at this hour is the race in new jersey too close to call. the democratic incumbent is fighting as governor against jack chai ciattarelli says he wants to declare victory, not prepared to do so until the numbers come through. which number is going to prevail. right now, what we re seeing, you would rather be phil murphy than jack chaittarell trying to nail down what type of vote for new jersey that s been a challenge. talking to both sides, republican side and democratic side, they ve seen the same thing. why phil murphy trailing by 2,000 prefer to be in the position that he is right now, a couple reasons, mercer county where trenton is, the state capital, the vote by mail is outstanding here. murphy is winning the vote by mail by massive margin. vote by mail which is a pretty good size coun
new criticism after the brutal murder of a georgia nursing students. feds confirming the suspect is an illegal im grant. more details today as we say hello. brand-new week starts now on monday. dana is out this week. hello to our friend. thank you for having me. i m aishah hosni. the suspect is from virginia with a prior arrest in new york city fueling concerns over who exactly is coming into this country and bill, where are they going when they come in? that s suspect illegally crossed into the u.s. in september of 2022. at the same time, he was crossing over, the biden administration was insisting that the border is safe. we have a secure border in that is a priority for any nation, including ours and our administration. we re certainly doing a lot more to secure the border. we have taken unprecedented action over the past year and a half to secure the border. president biden: we have a process in place to manage migrants. the border is not open. we re doing every