right now, 37 states detected the new variant. west virginia becoming the latest. in new york, the positivity test rate is doubling at a speed never seen before. forcing officials to debate whether new year s eve at times square, expecting a return to prepandemic crowds of thousands, should be canceled now. in a sports world, the nba and nfl and nhl are all changing covid-19 protocols in hopes of preventing the cancellations of games. and this year s miss world competition in puerto rico is now postponed after 23 of the 97 contestants tested positive. we should say this as well, amidala amid all the warnings there is a silver lining. despite record-breaking daily case rates, hospital admissions continue to be lower than previous waves. still, g-7 health ministers are calling omicron the biggest current threat to global public health. our team following all of the latest. let s begin with shimon prokupecz on the ground in new york city. this positivity rate in new york, this i
tomorrow. we re lucky tonight to have ruth marcus andalia litwood joining us. and ruth wrote this masterful piece in the washington post that when i went to read it, it offered the option of listening to it. i will always take that option so i can do some other things. and i went to press the button and it shows the number of minutes. i thought it was going to be 6:30. it was whoa, almost an hour or something like that. there must be some mistake. no. it s that long and it just a masterful encapsulation of basically my whole adult life of watching the supreme court and what has happened to it. it s an excellent way to get through a workout, i discovered. and read by ruth in her own voice. didn t get some high-priced actor to do it, ruth marcus. and it really it really is masterful and really ramps up to tomorrow perfectly. ruth is genius. and when you see her tonight, you can tell her if she doesn t feel like reading the next one, i hereby volunteer, because i love rein
around once in a blue moon, it feels like. tomorrow we will have a double one. we will see. paul gosar was on our program complaining nothing has happened to him and no one has taken action against him. she is going to see that action taken tomorrow. she will join us tomorrow night after that. so it will be interesting. that s very smart booking. i m jealous. but i will also say that we are also getting into this, with this class of republican members of congress, sort of the in the trump era, this will be the second pro-trump republican member of congress who has been stripped of all of his or her committee assignments. this happened to march march already. it could be the cause for a new caucus in the house. those of us stripped from our committee assignments for associations with violence and white supremacy. the committees will not miss them. that s true. fair enough. thanks. thank you, rachel. house speaker nancy pelosi gave house republican leader kevin mcca
this sort of quick injunction, temporary injunction just to sort of figure it out, it remains to be seen if that is even going to happen. we just have to watch. last night i wouldn t think, tonight i d be reporting on the same breaking news as last night. you knew he was going to appeal. why did he go to the same judge when she just denied him the day before. two theories. one, they stink. two, they had to exhaust all remedies before appeal to the next level. you could argue either way. they obviously thought they needed to do this so they did. now the archives are supposed to deliver these things starting friday, the 12th. between now and then, that was the judge s reasoning. you got time. go to the d.c. circuit court and get them to stay it. because i m not changing my order. now they ll do that. they ll run over to the d.c. circuit court and try to get a stay, pausing this before they can appeal. will the appellate court do that? depend on the three judge panel you get.
instructing lawyers to argue the case before another report. unless the former president can get an emergency court order stopping the transfer. let s discuss with paula reid and former u.s. attorney harry litman. good evening. paula, another major employee for the former president. what can you tell us? don, this is the second time in 24 hours that judge tanya chutkan has ruled against former president trump in his ongoing question q exist to keep secret his records. now, last night chutkan ruled that as a former president trump does not have the power to keep his records secret if the current president wants them released. after that decision trump s legal team asked the same judge to bide the president time, delay the handing over of documents which is expected to begin on friday. not surprisingly, judge chutkan denied that. we know, as you said, trump is expected to appeal her overall decision. he now has the opportunity not only to appeal it, but to ask the appellate c