asymptomatic and if you keep wearing a mask. it is welcome news for industries struggling with staffing shortages amid the latest covid surge. airlines, hospitals, others all dealing with massive disruptions. several states are now nearing peak pandemic level hospitalizations. new infections fueled by the highly contagious omicron variant are rising rapidly. the u.s. now averaging over 237,000 cases a day. that represents a 66% jump over the last week. cnn s senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is here now with more. elizabeth, some may be confused by this new cdc guidance. there s still a downforce. what does it all mean? first of all, people are confused because it s confusing. this guidance is extremely difficult to understand, and i think it s really going to be controversial. some people, experts i ve talked to said this is right way to go, others have said, hmm, this could be problematic, especially as schools go back into session next week. let s take a look
the wrong direction which is why in new york city multiple broadway shows have cancelled performances this week because of covid infections two months after being reopening and despite vaccine requirements for cast, crew and audience members. the metropolitan opera announcing it will require all eligible audience members and employees to receive a booster shot. colleges, including princeton, cornell and others are shifting the last days of fall semester online, and today france just announced it is banning all non-essential travel from the united kingdom which just broke its daily record for new cases. the head of the eu commission warning the omicron variant is set to become the dominant variant in europe by mid-january. cnn s paolo sandoval is joining us in new york where entertainment, education to government services are all being upended. let s go one by one here. first, several broadway shows cancelled again. the met soon to require boosters. what else are you learning?
we re counting down with just hours until these records could be released to lawmakers. cnn s kara skinnel is following the breaking details. what more do we know? the former president has filed a motion with the appeals court here in washington, d.c. asking them to briefly stop the national archives from turning over records to the house committee investigating january 6th. the former president s lawyers saying there are big constitutional issues at play here and have asked the court to briefly pause these records. they were due to be turned over by 6:00 p.m. tomorrow. now in this filing the former president is saying that, you know, one of the one of the things here that they are hoping to persuade the appeals court to do is they have reached an agreement with the house but they have an expedited briefing schedule which means these briefs could be done by as early as monday or tuesday of next week which would put this before the appeals court if they agree to take it up
of course shouldn t be confused with the country moldova. it s the latest village to come back under ukrainian control. meanwhile, ukraine says russian forces have made few advances in luhansk and the donetsk region. despite heavy bombardments on a number of fronts. russian forces have been trying to move south from the kharkiv region in an attempt to surround ukrainian forces defending d donetsk. and new drone footage shows stunning devastation. the drone appears to have been used by the russian military as they track ukrainian troops amid intense street fighting. for more on the situation in ukraine, let s bring in isa soares in lviv. isa? very good morning to you, kim. we are keeping a very close eye this morning on the besieged city of mariupol. it s just after 8:00 a.m. here and humanitarian corridors announced by russia are now supposed to be open to allow civilians to evacuate from the azovstal steel plant. there s no word yet on whether fresh evacuations have actual
week of september, fifth right after labor day. meanwhile, a judge will hear mark meadows request to move s child out of georgia tsai s or sue federal court. that core data is now set for august 28th. also this, evening we are learning more from a new legal filing about what special counsel jack smith was looking for in donald trump s twitter account. earlier this, year smith got a search warrant to access a whole range of information from trump s account, including direct messages, draft, with and location data. the former president is now, facing i want you to think, about this a total of 91 separate felony charges after separate indictments. his republican backers, claim all of these charges are just the result of corruption and conspiracies against trump, but please remember, those charges, many one charges represent the work of multiple grand juries, which are made up of every day americans. there are separate judges, prosecutors, and investigators, not the so-called dee