turning over documents as both seeds wait to see if the supreme court will weigh in on whether the former president can keep his records from seeing the light of day. and tributes continuing to pour in for betty white, the national treasure passing away just short of her 100th birthday. a look at her life and career ahead. we do, though, want to begin with the coronavirus pandemic, testing facilities nationwide swamped by crowds waiting for covid tests as omicron continues its rapid sweep across the united states with more than 360,000 cases reported on the final day of 2021. the situation has become particularly desperate in raleigh, north carolina, where facilities are struggling to keep up with the demand for tests. with me are liz mclaughlin in raleigh and dr. kavita patel. happy new year s day, everybody. thanks for joining us on this holiday weekend. we appreciate it. liz, let me start with you on this one and just kind of walk me through what s happening in north c
I had gotten tested on december 17th, i believe. i didn t get my results until december 27th and at that point it didn t really matter whether i was negative or positive. i was, by the way, negative. but this is going to continue. okay, great, thank you. we haven t caught up on testing, dr. patel. what are we to do now, returning from, of course, these holiday breaks, gathering with family, getting back to work, kids going back to school? what can we expect with this omicron variant? yasmin, i expect numbers are going to get even worse, and i think you re right to point out that testing or the shortage of testing and the short kind of ability to get a rapid at-home test and now even limited sensitivity to those rapid at-home tests to omicron, kind of all that put together means we re going to see more and more cases. we re hoping these cases will peak over the next four to six weeks, but do the math. if we re at 500,000 a day, we know that s an undercount, then we re looking at a
Platform has been eroded. things would actually be, i think, significantly worse if he still had access to places like youtube in particular, which was his biggest audience driver right before the 2020 election. i mean, you know, you ve seen examples where there have been 8,500 new extremists from his campaign joining local gop precincts across the country, all in the guise of saving the next election. some of which have actually said they re bringing baseball bats, they re ready for violence. but to your point, it does demonstrate the fact that there s a lot of durability and high demand for what he has been able to construct. so, i think it s good that there has been a little bit of a ceiling there, but i think part of the reason we wanted to give this designation isn t just a consequence of how much damage he s caused but to remind everybody that just because he doesn t have access to these big platforms, he actually still has enormous reach and influence that may be under the radar
And, the hits won t quit, with peacock premium included at no additional cost. all that entertainment built in. xfinity. a way better way to watch. good afternoon, everybody, and happy new year s day. i m yasmin vossoughian. coming to you a little bit early today. we are covering a lot of news on this holiday weekend. the new year starting with a continuing surge in covid cases that makes it feel like we haven t moved an inch on this crisis in the past year. we re answering your questions this hour, so you don t want to miss that. plus, the latest on devastating wildfires in colorado that have wiped out whole blocks. a live report coming up next. and new information today in the january 6th investigation, another key figure in the case