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highest of the entire pandemic. and many experts warn it will only get worse. in only one state, maine, cases are down. in iowa, well, it s holding steady. but the vast majority of the country seen in dark red on this map is struggling with a surge of 50% or more in new infections. hospitalizations and deaths are lower than their 2021 peaks, but the avalanche of new cases has the cdc predicting that more than 44,000 people could die of covid-19 in the next four weeks. let s start with polo sandoval on the big picture. reporter: the u.s. is shattering records this week with ab average of about 356,000 covid infections reported every day in the past week, according to johns hopkins university. as the world rang in the new year, the latest surge is sweeping across the u.s., pushing cases and hospitalizations to unprecedented levels. experts warning a turning point could be weeks away. given the size of our country and the diversity of vaccination versus non-vaccinati ....
year with a massive fireworks show. of course, this is live right now. you re seeing as they are ringing in the new year, a little bit ahead of us here in the united states. but look how great that fireworks show looks. a lot of places have canceled their fire woirks shows, we saw a light show instead. i think this makes the case for keeping them going. i love fireworks. and those are absolutely beautiful. sydney is a great city. and that is really just great to see. fireworks, bring in the new year, already happening down under in aussie. meanwhile, here in the united states, it is still december 31st. i m kaitlan collins. in with john avlon for one more time this morning. thank you for joining us this whole week as we have been in here. john, back home in 2021, it is coming to a close with an unprecedented spike in covid cases. fueled by the omicron variant. health officials are urging new year s eve revelers in the united states to keep their parties small, maybe ....
homes. south side of lewisville had catastrophic losses as well, dozens of homes. damage assessment is continuing today. we won t have final numbers until late tonight or tomorrow, but we fully expect this to be 500 or more homes lost. the fire burnt in an interesting dynamic with mosaics. you can see how the wind and topography drove it certain directions, devastated some neighborhoods and blocks and left neighbors standing and intact. i know residents want to get back to their homes as soon as possible to assess damage. in many of those neighborhoods that are blocked off, it is still too dangerous to return. we saw still active fire in many places this morning and we saw down power lines and a lot of risk that we re trying to mitigate. as soon as residents are able to get back, we re going to let them back. that s our goal. don t want to keep people out of their neighborhoods or their homes. last night there was a boil water announced for city of lewisville. that now ....
in northern ireland, the isolation period for people with the coronavirus will be cut from ten days down to seven provided they have a negative lateral flow test. hello and welcome. the british socialite ghislaine maxwell has been found guilty of recruiting and trafficking young girls to be sexually abused ghislaine maxwell by the late american financier jeffrey epstein. the 60 year old was found guilty on five of the six counts she faced including the most serious charge, that of sex trafficking a minor. maxwell faces spending the rest of her life in prison after she was found guilty by a jury in new york, but her lawyers say they are already preparing to appeal against the conviction. our north america correspondent aleem maqbool reports. court sketches show the moment ghislaine maxwell s victims have waited decades for. after five days of deliberation, jurors decided she was guilty on five counts linked to the sexual abuse of teenagers. and it was four of her vic ....
there are a number of updates from around the world on the pandemic as the omicron variant continues to spread rapidly stop we will take a look at france, the uk and india in particular but first let s go to the united states which has now recorded its ever seven day average of new covid cases according to the tracker maintained byjohns hopkins university. the moving average of new cases was 265,427 as of tuesday surpassing the previous peak of more than 251,000 reported nearly a year ago. one of the remarkable things about this latest spike here, as elsewhere, seems to me, is that the numbers are, you know, sort of stratospheric, but we haven t seen the complete panic and breakdown of health services, which you might have expected, given that these numbers are so high. they re the biggest numbers since the start of the epidemic, as you say, tuesday, 180,000 daily cases, which is nearly double the 100,000 that we recorded at the end of last week, and every expectation t ....