here in new york city for the fifth day in the ghislaine maxwell trial. the judge going in to the courtroom and telling the jurors that there's a major concern about the huge spike in covid cases here in new york city. she told them that if somebody has to quarantine, if they get sick on the injury, that could lead to a big delay here in the trial. this is what we know about what has unfolded in the courtroom. the jury still appearing to have questions about this case. right now ghislaine maxwell facing six federal charges including child trafficking charges. prosecutors said she groomed under age girls for her boyfriend, jeffery epstein. the jury requested copies of the testimony for all four of maxwell's accusers asking the judge to identify enticement, which is part of the two charges that maxwell. there's still no verdict. >> the more time goes on, defense attorneys are happier from their perspective that the jurors are looking at the facts and it's not a slam dunk for the prosecution. >> during the more than two weeks of graphic testimony here in new

pete, citizen ship thing is totally overrated in new york city new york city city council wants to give 800,000 noncitizens the right to vote. pete, here it is, man they seem to be worried about foreign interference and elections. but what's to stop you from coming over here and voting in elections in new york city anybody thought of that? >> absolutely nothing, dan. it is not even illegal to do illegal things in new york anymore. why qowld it be illegal to do things that legal citizens are only able to do, of course, it is the logical extent and it reel views a bit of a motive about what's going on in our southern border. why would you seal border when you think you're getting future voters who can land in new york city and continue to allow you to do your bidding as you wreck the city? so this surprises nobody and reveals everything. dan: well, that's great you went to that angle and segues into second story so joe biden is extremely popular. just not here -- in ghana, so this is a video of a migrant from ghana thinks joe biden is polling well over there. check this out. [inaudible co

but this new mandate will hit a 184000 private businesses across the city of new york. they will be required to have vaccinations for all of their employees. quite a dramatic move and there's been quite a negative reaction in response. made a blast you will impose a 1st in the nation vaccine mandate for all private sector workers in new york city . build up last year isn't a mayor. he's a tyrant. just spoke to catherine wild, the president of a prominent n y c business group, we were blindsided. there is no full warning, no discussion, no idea about whether it's legal, who he expects to enforce it. new york city announces covey vaccine mandate for private businesses going when no city has gone before, because it's potentially unenforceable, and will probably get stuck in the courts until well after the mer to parts. at the end of the year. now the new york city mayor expects that this will survive any legal challenges. we already saw a situation where for a moment jo biden's, federal mandate was put on hold by the courts. but then later upheld in the court of appeal. an

not new year's day but the end of mayor bill de blasio in new york city. the worst mayor in american history. tonight we say good-bye to bill de blasio. in just a few short years he ruined new york city by almost every measure, he's been an utter disaster. since bill de blasio took over, murders in new york city spiked 50% and rapes up 26%. according to a report looking at data from the american housing survey, new york city is the dirtiest city in the country. new york city had more than 2 million homes with pest infestation including rats, roaches and nice. a state audit confirmed with the filth with sidewalk found to be dirt. under bill de blasio new york city transit is disgusting too. according to documents this year, subway cars have blood, vomit, urine and feces. in june there were 130 incidents of soiled train cars covered in poop, vomit and urine. when bill de blasio tried to run for president this show challenged him for that. >> the city is getting dirtier. a producer said he was this a crowded subway car and a man dropped his trousers and defec

in 1871, "the new york times" charged tweed with having looted the new york city treasury to the tune of $45 million. now, that may be chump change these days, but at the time it amounted to a sum greater than the entire annual u.s. federal budget before the civil war. so this is a lot of money. this is a lot of money. at the time of the indictment, tweed served as the city's commissioner of public works. again, it seems like a kind of a minor bureaucratic job position, nothing that would carry with it great power. as i've said before, his true political power lay in his position as head of tammany hall. as head of tammany hall, he controlled the selection of candidates that the democratic party would run. he picked the candidates. and he was in charge of making sure that those candidates -- oh, yeah, jack. >> i'm sorry. wasn't tweed accused of stealing $45 million? >> yes, yes. the tweed ring is -- they all shared in it but he was the focus of the investigation. he was recognized as the power behind the throne. if you're going to focus on somebody to indict, it was going to be tweed.

david lee was going over the numbers. 91% of the people in new york city are vaccinated and yet new york city along with the state looking at the highest number of covid cases ever. the people there must be thinking, we're doing something wrong here. what are your thoughts on this? >> well, and we just all read this morning that was over 50,000 cases in one day in new york. you're right, with that number of vaccines. i remember one of the very op-eds that i wrote about covid-19 when all of this started was about testing. in particular, rapid testing. if we have the ability -- i'm sitting in south carolina. it's not here in the way it is in d.c. and new york. it's yet to come. already testing kits over the counter are off the shelves. you can't find them anywhere right now. rapid testing is one way where we can look at where the hot

long lines for testing here in new york city. the health commissioner saying cases have tripled in just a month. averaging nearly 3,800 confirmed and suspected cases every day, calling the numbers tonight, quote, alarming. this is being seen across the country. from orlando, florida, tonight, they have found omicron in nearly 100% of waste water samples tested this week. samples tested just a week ago, authorities say, did not detect the variant. dr. jha is here to answer your questions. i know a lot of concern, especially with the holidays approaching, but first, the news on johnson & johnson, the vaccine and this new variant moving quickly. abc's stephanie ramos leading us off tonight. >> reporter: tonight, a cdc panel voting unanimously to recommend that going forward, americans who have a choice should get pfizer or moderna vaccines over johnson & johnson, after a review of rare blood clots linked to the vaccine. >> they have 15 yeses, 0 nonos. it passes as listed here. >> reporter: nine people have died from thrombosis out o

it's caroled to over into the new world and carried over violently where in new york city new york city, orangemen would march through irish catholic sections of the city kind of rubbing their face in it, and riots ensued. that's an example of how old world resentments carried over, but tweed is representative of the possibilities of american life. most of his followers in politics were, in fact, eye -- irish catholics. tweed realized that he was in this cosmopolitan city, many different ethnic groups. ethnic groups also could vote, and you don't get votes by alienating people or dragging up old battles. so he was, tweed -- though by native anglo perspective was a little more american by virtue of being presbyterian -- nonetheless, kind of opened up to the catholic community, especially the irish catholic community. and we see this in his inner circle, the so-called tweed ring that is associated, again, with this, with this corruption. the next image i have sent out to you is of that of the tweed ring. you see a ring of people all accusing the other person of corruption. but there are f

york city schools? they have an interest in the mayor's race, what about them. paul: jason, what is the motive here? proponents as people are subject to new york city rules and laws so they are to have a say, what is your response? >> they may say that but i see it as essentially an extension of city movement on the left we've seen, the border with mexico, abolish ice him and grant the state to everyone in the country legally. the hope is that the voters will vote democratic in gratitude for doing that so that is really what is going on here but i am bothered by a proposal like this. we take citizenship very seriously, he pay seven, you pass 100 question about the constitution and the bill of rights and so forth and we should not undermine that and i fear this is what the proposal with. paul: so you think it is a democratic party expansion plan that they expect once they allow these people to vote, they are basically going to push progressive policies, is that what you think will happen? >> i believe th

>> i go all over new york city all the time. the city is more orderly and safer than it's been for many years. we will keep making it better. >> sean: bill de blasio didn't do anything to fix the filth. he supported removing the roosevelt statue out of a museum. he removed a statue of thomas jefferson from city hall where it stood for 187 years. it's no wonder hundreds of thousands of new yorkers fled the city before covid. the population dropped byro over 200,000 from 2017 to 2018. the largest drop since the '70s. over 300,000 fled between march and october this year alone. former president trump summed it up best. bill de blasio is a joke. >> mayor bill de blasio taking questions for the first time as a presidential candidate, trading jabs from donald trump calling de blasio the worst mayor in the u.s. if you like high taxes and crime, he's your man. the voters who know him best in new york city, a quinnipiac poll showed 76% sak he should not run. >> sean: he cost taxpayers $320,000 for his security detail. he hasn't paid that

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just here in new york city. we're on 42nd street, and i want to give you a sense of how much of an urgency there is for people to get tested. this is just one of the testing sites here on 42nd street in midtown manhattan. you can see a couple of dozen people there waiting about a dozen or so. but if you turn around this way, i want to show you something else as we come up the 42nd street here, you'll see as we get closer, there is another testing site as well. just a block away with even more people waiting to get tested. there is a shortage of tests here in new york city and new york state there is around the nation, quite frankly. but particularly here in new york city, we've seen long lines like this of people wanting to get tested. especially now, given that busy holiday travel season and given how this really is the epicenter here in new york city. the problem is there not enough test sites, because many of them work blows down this year. when people thought that this pandemic was over here in new york city

he's run the police departments of america's two largest cities including two tours as new york city's police commissioner. but just to put it in perspective, the murders of 1990, compare that to other years. >> there is no comparison. 1990, 243. last year over 300. >> it was the 585th homicide of the year. brian watkins murder, that the police commissioner says caused everyone to pay attention. >> i'm damn angry. of course i am. >> beginning with then mayor david dinkins. >> actually the headline around that time, dave, do something. meaning, dave, do something about the horrific crime rate, and the brian watkins' stabbing was an accelerant that added to that whole fear. >> many of you got the call this is going to be a big one, a lot of eyes, a lot of press on this one. >> and the nature of the attack. the wolfpack. >> wolf pack. it was a name the media had given to another group of five teenagers who just the year before were arrested for brutally attacking a jogger in central park. bratton says law enforcement had a strategy in dealing with the so-called wolf packs. >> you had to g

i knew about your new york city transit work. i didid not know from big city policing are i would call big city. talk about some of the challenges how are they if they want to beat back with the kingsley brothers back in the 60s. in boston i visited the superintendent and chief the highest ranking uniformed office within ten t years. but i moved ahead probably too fast. they weree some innocent enough mistakes i made. had had become back. they were not satisfied i was in a sense locked into a closet this transit system served. after thinking about it, i took the risk. from a 2800 person to a 68 person department that was widely disrespected and thought to be totally ineffective. >> probably were the best decisionsob i've made in my life it gave me so much intimacy with getting into a small organization trusting my bill to turn the organization around model as the outsider coming in. learn so much i was assisted greatly by bob wasserman also with the boston police department. bob at that time wasng consultinghi it was chief of ope

new york city, nearly 6,000 new cases on sunday alone. hospitalizations in the state are rising, but not spiking. that's important. new york city mayor-elect adams said he expects omicron to be, a quote, fast and temporary phenomenon. the current mayor says still deciding whether to go ahead with the new year's eve celebration. omicron does not have appeared to deter holiday travel. 2 million passengers for a third straight day. cnn's jason carroll is live in times square with more. jason, good morning. >> reporter: well, erica, a lot of concerns here in new york city, as you know. for now, the ball drop celebrations are still a go. all this as city and city officials keep a close eye on those covid numbers to see what they will do next. new york city is already dressed up for the holiday season. behind all these costumes and celebrations, there is one major concern, the looming omicron coronavirus variant. >> it's going to take over. and if you look at what it's done in south africa, what it's doing in the uk, and what it's starting to d

the new york times has a quote from the president of the business group partnership for new york city, she says, we were blind sided, there was no forewarning, no discussion. why the surprise? >> i don't think anyone should be surprised by what we're seeing with the omicron variant, with the extraordinary growth of cases that we're experiencing in this city and all over this country. look at our country like germany, right now, shutdowns, restrictions, we cannot let that happen. we had take decisive action. this omicron variant moves fast. we have to move faster. that's why we did this. >> doesn't take long to call a business association. >> we talked to business leaders for months about the reality of the delta variant. and the whole reality of covid, you know what they tell us, one, when the government acts, it makes it easier for them to act. they like to see the government lead. we did that with our own public employees, our own public schools. we proved it works. and then what we also heard from business leaders is whatever you do, don't let us go back to shutdown. don't let us g

so talk about the challenges of managing something that large as a new york city police officer. >> the toughest management job i had is because the intimacy you would affect everything. ever tenets and sergeants and the corporation counsel and then it all came into that office with the district commander. nypd in some respects, people laugh when you say it's easier but it was. the talent pool i in that organization, i had almost 1000 captains and above. twenty-six deputy commissioners with phenomenal expertise and legal matters. i didn't have to go far to get a question answered. just pick up the phone when you call in the commissioner calls they jumped in the answers were like that. with transit police so the beauty of it and then to have an extraordinary super bowl team. and then john miller was my first press commissioner. but thene said three times. and then to identify giuliani. but then with the lapd in 2002 and then counterterrorism in 2014. so you see the the job that $200,000 a year. but then in the first time with my second go around 2014, they had friends and colleagues over

york state and new york city, which is really driven by fossil fuels we realize the only way to clean that up was to build renewables

in the case of new york city there's 456 stations in new york city. at any given time there are 4 to 5000 train cars running through it, and now it's almost 6million writers . the transit experience was my most satisfying. transit in new york was separate from the city police with 25,000 in the housing police but they were a dumping ground in the sense of police officers people say where you work. i work in transit. well, they just were not well thought of. in two and half years we got the department nationally accredited as the nda. we had a great team working in the union and when i talk about having good relations with unions when we receive national accreditation in santa monica the union paid for the whole 60 person team to go to california. can you imagine that because they felt so proud of about the idea that they had become accredited around gettingthis reputation in new york as the marine corps of new york city police department's . i have so much fun in transit but is also allowed me to reckon later that department across the river because i

but this political club in new york controlled new york city politics for much of the late 19th century and into the middle of the 20th century. and the image that you have here is very much an image of tammany hall. it certainly suggests evil and corruption. again, from nast's perspective and the perspective of that first political culture, that is what tammany is. political evil and corruption. the reading that you have for today, however, on tammany hall, he is a different and more positive view within the culture itself. first we are going to look at some of the history, the most relevant history of tammany hall in the middle of the 20th century. and then later we will look at some selections from tammany hall on what perhaps you could say is the response from the second political culture. the first political culture, looking outward, saying this is corruption. and from within, of course, you know, it's not destroying american culture. it's just a different kind of virtue. a virtue very much rooted in community, as we shall see. mast again, writing from that first political culture,

a mighty city of new york city overall crime is down 80% since 2019 and the overall country was down -- 40%. the cops could do something about crime. we will have to prove once again on 21st century crime at this time let's do something about race relations also. >> host: our time is winding down and i just want to thank you for the opportunity to sit with you and have this discussion and again i see it over your shoulder but i have my copy, "the profession." let me tell you something this is a very good book. it is -- you not only talk about your career and the issues you are confronted with you are actually teaching a lot in this book and you go into the description of qualified them immunity and i found that to be very worthwhile. anyone who's interested in leadership they should read this book because it's written by one of the foremost leaders not only in policing but exoneration as the path to his current legal career. good evening, everyone and welcome to this important event of the wisconsin

a mighty city of new york city overall crime is down 80% since 2019 and the overall country was down -- 40%. the cops could do something about crime. we will have to prove once again on 21st century crime at this time let's do something about race relations also. >> host: our time is winding down and i just want to thank you i have my copy, "the profession." bill bratton, and let me tell you something. this is a very, very good book. it is -- you not only talk about your career and the issues you were confronted with. you are actually teaching a lot in this book. you go into the description of qualified immunity and some of the other things and i really found out to be very worthwhile. so for anyone who's interested in leadership, they should read this book because it's written by one of the foremost leaders, not only in policing, but in this country, and that's bill bratton. it's really my honor just spent time with you. god bless. take care. >> guest: thank you so much always. >> host: and you owe me a a signed copy. >> guest: it's on the way. >> "after words" is available as a pod

this is the outgoing mayor of new york city, bill de blasio announcing this bold move. as of today, we're going now say 1st in the nation measure, our health commissioner will nouns, a vaccine mandate for private sector employers across the board. now all city employees have already had a mandate, teachers, firefighters, police officers, emergency medical professionals, others have all been already required to have vaccinations. furthermore, all religious and private schools in the city have also had a mandate for all of their staff. but now this takes it to yet another level, and a $184000.00 private businesses are going to be required to have a vaccine mandate to be coven. 1900 vaccinations will become mandatory for private businesses that receive no government subsidies or not in any way connected with the state or the city. now this has created a bit of a fire storm reaction. take a listen. may a de blasio will impose a 1st in the nation vaccine mandate for all private sector workers in new york city . build up last year. isn't a mayor heater tyrant just spoke to ca

it will donate 60% of clean energy to new york city, all renewable, solar and wind power in new york state. based upon that -- go ahead. >> no, no. i was going to jump in and try to bring miguel in to explain how he's going to do that. >> right so i was going to say, based on the success of that, we really -- in speaking to our government partners across the country, we realize that this problem urban load centers and dirty grids is something that's consistent throughout the country, and we realized we had a business opportunity to help clean that up, and we reached out we did a search and hired who i

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but this new mandate will hit a 184000 private businesses across the city of new york. they will be required to have vaccinations for all of their employees. quite a dramatic move and there's been quite a negative reaction and response made it a blast. you would impose a 1st in the nation vaccine mandate for all private sector workers in new york city . build blasio isn't a mayor. he's a tyrant. just spoke to catherine wild, the president of a prominent n y c business group. we were blindsided. there is no full warning, no discussion, no idea about whether it's legal, a who he expects to enforce it. new york city announces covey vaccine mandate for private businesses going when no city has gone before, because it's potentially unenforceable, and will probably get stuck in the courts until well off to the med to parts at the end of the year. now the new york city mayor expects that this will survive any legal challenges. we already saw a situation where for a moment jo biden's, federal mandate was put on hold by the courts. but then later upheld in the court of appeal. a

take a look at new york city de where it is building rapidly. vaccinated people are on the orange line. it's still relatively flat. on the one hand, early lab research on omicron suggested it could be unprecedented and destructive. on the other, hand the real world data out from south africa is now a little bit from denmark and uk, does not seem to bear that out. which offers some real cause for optimism. so how do we square those two? doctor dave a. chokshi, is a new york city had department of -- it is great to have. you've got quite a task on your hands. first of all what data are you looking at in your perch as the head of public health in new york city. to understand what this variant is doing? >> thank you so much for having me chris. yes, we are following data not just day-by-day but often by multiple times a day. the key is our epidemiological data, following the numbers of data and hospitalization and death. but we are also following our vaccination numbers very closely. as well as the proportion of cases that are estimated to be omicro

private employees in new york city must be vaccinated by december 27th. if you are not vaccinated you are barred from working in new york city. the owner of this salon telling us this is just another blow to their recovery. >> we have no idea what the actual regulation would be. what this would consist of. i don't want to force my employees to do something. we were getting back on track and this will set us back indefinitely. >> there is more uncertainty for these businesses. because the turnover of power. this goes into effect at the end of december. just 5 days later bill de blasio is out and eric adams the new hair will start his term. he has yet to say whether he will enforce this mandate. lots of questions around all of this for the hundreds of thousands of businesses in new york city. >> sandra:ar all of these salons and all they have done through shutting their doors and operate outside, i am happy to see how busy they are behind you. every chair filled. so many stylists there. good to see. john i was looking at madison's do. did she just spend 3 h

new york city -- because was controversial. and we started making the phone calls back. and it turned out that i was the first female to where pence on the floor of representatives. not against the dress rules. it will have to research this. but it wasn't as set out -- they didn't think that there would be females on the floor back then so there are no strict rules. i made glamour magazine, i was [inaudible] it was all because i had pants. >> this was all external, your colleagues don't comment. >> not at all. i would be very surprised if they noticed. >> before we go, i want to give you a chance to talk about a story about the delegation -- can you talk to us about that? >> i got to become very close with bob dole during the yugoslavia crisis. at the time, we had an arms embargo and what was happening was the civil war onset was going on but it wasn't up to the croatians and throughout the yugoslavian area. so i had visited there once, i want to croatia, i just wanted to get him back to with what was going on. it was the early

>> so i visited a hospital a couple days ago in new york city. a very busy new york city hospital. and they had a whole floor, absolutely filled with covid patients. the majority of which had been unvaccinated. a few have been vaccinated. but on the icu floor, 100 % of the admissions to the icu were unvaccinated. you know, we have two americas. the vaxed and the unvaxed. and the difference between those groups is going to become increasingly stark. those people that die and go to icus are going to be unvaxed. so what could be a more clear message than that to people? >> yeah. i don't think there is one. doctor, thank you so much for that. and thanks for the words of advice for this new year. we appreciate it. >> sure. >>> and we are still waiting on verdicts in two high profile faces this week. juries returning to deliberations in the ghislaine maxwell and elizabeth holmes trial. in new york the discussions are ongoing. this morning they requested the use of a white board and post-its in a note to the judge and asked for clarity on the term enticement. he pleaded not guilty to char

in his 1900 speech to the new york architect said, new york city has one god, the god of money. nothing has change. and in a 100 years, new york city dre my money, but a mission we want to build is going to build this. but how do you with, if you build a private skyscraper for your client? how do you contribute something to the city? you have to make some gesture to the public like well worth building. i mean, they spent a ton of money on the coupon on the, on the spire of world war, which was mr. will words office. after all, took a private office of a millionaire, but it's something glorious it's, it's, it's, it's like a church, it represents aspiration. ah chrysler building has that incredible sort of needle that was put on to it at the very end. so i think there's a lot to be said that within the private world of money there was an ambition to, to add a civic dimension to it. i think that's part of what makes new york still a very, very interesting city, as opposed to many other cities that have a lot of tall buildings. but so what york's grid system initially brought in to

new york city enacting likely the toughest mandate. anyone who works in new york city must have at least one dose by december 27 of the vaccine. children as young as 5 will also have to show proof of vaccination for many indoor activities. >>> president biden will hold a video call with president putin of russia. they are expected to talk about russia's military activity near the ukraine border. president biden will warn they could face crippling sanctions. >>> senate democrats have just a few weeks to pass the build back better by christmas. it needs the support of every democrat a few colleagues may hold it up. >> president biden is pitching straight to americans saying the pln will lower the cost of prescription drugs. >> everyone has less money in pockets because of high drug costs. >> the proposal would allow medicare to negotiate prices for certain drugs. impose a penalty for companies that increase prices faster than incrsing prices due to inflation, cap costs for seniors and those with disabilities and lower the cost of insulin

carley: new york city councilman joe borelli joins us now. what do you make of the vaccine mandate on private businesses, even kids as young as five and the mayor's defense of it? >> it's appalling in general. the one thing the mayor did say that is accurate is that the vaccine mandates implemented did increase the vaccine rates in new york city. the problem is, this is done through gun boat diplomacy and now the mayor has clearly crossed the line of doing something that he has absolutely no ability to institute or enforce. he can't bust down the door of insurance companies, round everyone up at the water cooler and demand to see people's papers. some businesses are not licensed by the city itself so the mayor's doing something he fundamentally doesn't have the authority to do and i think the courts are going to uphold that as we've seen the biden vaccine mandates for the private sector be continually struck down in federal court carr we're going carley: we're going to have to wait to see about that. kathy hochul announced an indoor mask mand

it bit of news out of new york city. kailey: mayor bill de blasio talking about the vaccination requirement, saying it is now required for kids ages five to 11 to be vaccinated to enter restaurants. he is also saying they will impose a mandate for private sector workers starting on december 27. we knew already mandates in place for public sector, but now that will be extended to the private sector in just a matter of weeks. jonathan: dear may, tk -- dear may, tk. to go out -- dear me, tk. to go out in new york city now, you either get a vaccination or you cannot engage in public society. i have to say, new york city is probably already there. it is pretty close to what we have seen take place in europe. you show up at the restaurant, so your vaccine passport, and you have to show photo id as well. tom: we had the photo id thing this we can. that was a bit of a surprise. we want to dive into the politics of washington as we can come about we want to dig a moment with greg event with greg valliere, -- with greg valliere wi

york city, over 71% of all new york city residents are now fully vaccinated. that is critically important and we're now layering on booster doses to add yet more protection. >> yeah, i want to put up the data because new york city is an interesting case study. 71% fully vaccinated across all age groups. another 8.2 partially vaccinated. so that's almost 80% of the city, at least partially vaccinated. it's a place that has high levels of antibodies from previous infection obviously because it took the worst -- one of the worst outbreaks in the entire world in the first wave back in the spring of 2020. and i guess the big thing that everyone is going to look to in this city is with a city of vaccination rate this high and omicron completely dominant, what does it do to severe illness? what happens to hospitalizations? that's going to be an indicator of what phrase of the pandemic they're in and what it means to the rest of the country if they can expect similar outbreaks? >> that is the critical question. we feel a lot of humility. this is my fourth wear in new

while omicron rips across europe, new york city is racing to contraa dangerous surge. elise. >> reporter: good evening meg, new york city, radio city music hall, difficult decision for fans ever the rockettes. >> turned off the lights. the rockettes cancelled the christmas spectacular through the end of the season. while on broadway -- >> we were so excited to see hamilton. we flew a long way to get here. >> some performances are cancelled because of outbreaks among cast members. >> we get here and there's a closed sign on the door. >> covid testing sites are swamped from miami to new york, reporting some of the highestn numbers since the start of the pandemic. narly 22,000 in the state on friday alone. >> it has affected my plans already. i've had to probably shut down a christmas eve party i've been attending with my aunt for 45 years. >> reporter: by noon the city had run out of tests. >> you can find another test right? >> tomorrow i can go over to 97th street i hope. >> reporter: the newest wave is affecting the sports world. football hockey and basketball games h

>> new york city's service industry is decimated. it is impossible to find employees without the mandate. now we are tackling on top of that that employees need to be vaccinated in order to work. it is ridiculous. unfortunately we see omicron, your last guest said it spreads largely through the vaccine, i don't see what the mandate is doing other than shutting out people from coming into businesses and children especially. there was a video circulating online on social media where a little boy was being pressured out of the restaurant because he wasn't vaccinated. it is inhumane what we are doing, discussing what we are doing to children and the fact that police officers stood there and didn't support the most vulnerable is unbelievable to me and i feel like the mayor deblasio has a hand in this and like i said before we have to look to eric adams now. i'm hoping adams has a chance now to be the most successful mayor in history if he were to look at these mandates, do away with them and encourage businesses to flourish again, encoura

again, the new york city mayor and new york state governor are very clear on this issue. so they will be fined, it starts today, the fines start at $1,000. we will have to see how that really goes. also remember because of omicron, a lot of businesses went back to virtual businesses in the last week or so, so we will see a slow start after christmas weekend. and we will have to see if there are any demonstrations or people really refusing. i do see, on a personal level, some people still refuse to mask when they are in stores even though there was a mask mandate everywhere. so you do see these outliers. and we will have to wait and see if there is any critical reaction to this. courtney keely talking to my colleague lucy hockings. more now from india, where a new night—time curfew is being imposed in delhi from tonight to try to contain a growing number of coronavirus cases. the restriction will last for six hours each night. our south east asia editor anbarasan ethirajan has the latest from delhi. this is one of the first steps being announced by not only the governmen