president biden during all of this is a period of people getting ready to travel for the holidays. he s appealing directly to people who have not yet gotten the vaccine. for unvaccinated, we are look at a winter of severe illness and death for unvaccinated, for themselves, their family and the hospital they ll soon overwhelm. but there is good news. if you re vaccinated, you have your booster shot, you re protected from severe illness and death. period. joining us now is dr. ali khan from the university of nebraska college of public health. we re seeing lines around the block here in new york city to get tested this morning already before they were even open. we have seen the positivity rate shoot up in this city. we saw testing lines in miami as well. these case numbers, the case numbers, i understand that s not hospitalizations and deaths, but the case numbers really seem to be shooting up. what s going on here? so thank you, john. what s going on is more of delta. so
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
who broke the news is trying to save face. what is the story here? well, the president s right, it s fake news. plus dr. anthony fauci on the biden team s winter covid plan and what he knew about the former president s positive test. and why that blogger from mar-a-lago is throwing a tantrum over the maga primary in ohio. i might have to hold my nose and vote for hillary clinton. i didn t vote for trump because i can t stomach trump. i think that he s noxious. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. for as long as i ve been working the world of american national politics, covering politics, there have been two ways of thinking about opponents of abortion, at least from progressives. those who support abortion rights. one is that the opponents of abortion, people who call themselves pro life, are sincere in their belief, well intentioned, but just wrong. and the other is that they re being fundamentally kind of dishonest, that
abortion actually is a means to control women s bodies, to preserve traditional gender roles, patriarchy, and it s not really about the sanctity of life. i have to say, i have always been much more sympathetic to that first view, you are well-intentioned but wrong. and i think it s partly because i was raised catholic. i have been around people my whole life, including loved ones, my beloved grandparents who went to the march for life every year. who sincerely oppose abortion. i know kinds of people who really believed in what the pope called a seamless garment opposed to wars like the iraq war, death penalty, visit people in prisons and also opposed abortion. i think that experience has made me feel a little defensive about the notion that the anti-abortion movement, which called itself the pro life movement, is actually all about controlling women and their bodies. and people in that moment really do use life as this kind of beacon. they use that word life, sanctity of, lif
eye out for omicron, and cnn has learned that the biden administration is requiring stricter covid testing for everyone headed to the u.s. so talk about these new restrictions. reporter: i think at a moment where there s peak uncertainty with public health officials in terms of what omicron will bring to the united states, some assumptions that it is already here at this point in time, is a recognition they need to constantly be evaluating in real-time what precautions they have in place and shift those if they need to. that s the case here. tightening, likely tightening the timeline for all travelers entering the united states. as it currently stands, vaccinated travelers have to have a test within three days of arriving in the united states. the president on thursday is likely to announce, according to sources, that timeline will be shifted down to one day, just 24 hours. i think what it is a window into more than anything else is we saw it with the travel restrictions to