work and school. flight personnel and bad weather has led to thousands of flights canceled. that leads to problems getting home. today there was at least 1,000 flights canceled. the west is in the grip of a shattering new spike of covid infections. the 7-day spike of cases has soared. experts warn it will only get worse. but the good news is, we want to make sure we emphasize this, hospitalizations are well below their previous peaks. the white house is urging people not to take the omicron variant lightly, though. the vast majority of the country seen in dark red is struggling with the surge of 50% or more in new infections. so it s kind of like a very interesting, somewhat complicated issue where you have a virus that might actually be less severe in its
was brutally killed in the bronx. she was so bubbly, so kind. she always had this book with her where she always wrote about poetry. what do you remember about february 24, 1999? gosh, i remember that day like yesterday. i was the last person who probably saw her alive other than her killer. mineral lee left school and vanished. after a grueling search, her body was found four days later in a dumpster, two miles from her home. she had been strangled. it was like mineralese is dead. they don t know who he was. this killer is still out there. yeah, we were all on edge. the hardest cases we deal with as medical examiners are those
ideas, as you mentioned, and some of them are finding mainstream routes to power. there was a story going around about 28 elected officials who have ties or memberships in the oathkeepers which is a private army, militia style group. there were others who were elected directly to public office out of their sort of events of january 6. so these two paths are both open. one is something that presents a threat of authoritarian rule, and the other presents a threat of civil war and attacks on civilians. both of these threats have to be confronted because both are inherently at odds with democracy. kathleen bleu, scary stuff there. thank you so much. thank you. a 13-year-old girl goes missing while walking home from school. her body is found days later. and the case goes cold for more than two decades until finally
systems just deciding to start with remote learning altogether. in washington where you are, parents, and, rather, students and staff have to have a negative test before returning to class. in the nation s largest school system here in new york city, they re taking a different direction than we saw last year. for example, instead of sending an entire classroom home, if someone has been exposed to covid, they will instead send rapid tests home with students and staff. those that are asymptomatic and test negative can return to class. those kids with symptoms may not attend school until they have a negative test that s about a day apart. as for kids who test positive, they will have to isolate for ten days. basically the big goal here in new york city when it comes to their return to school is to try to return to some normalcy here and to try to limit disruptions. as we heard earlier this morning from the former commissioner of the fda, dr. scott gottlieb, he s basically urging many scho