. >> reporter: connecticut government, ned lamont, once the mask mandate to end on february 28. >> 90% plus have had some level of immunity. >> reporter: on the west coast, -- >> i am over it. >> reporter: vaccinated californians won't have to wear a mask indoors unless a local government has its own ordinance. >> i am 69 years old. i may be one of the holdouts. i let the general public come into my store, elect whether they wear masks are not. >> reporter: oregon is also ending its indoor mask requirement next month. laura podesta, cbs news. >>> for more covid testing of vaccines as well as the resections across the bay area, had to kpix.com. >>> san francisco is on hiring spree in response to the emergency declaration in the tenderloin. the city announced it hired 100 public health workers to address the drug overdose crisis . the physicians include doctors, pharmacists, and health workers meant to address mental health and substance abuse. it is all part of the emergency declaration order. you are still 100 positions lefty phil. the city hopes to have those field by march 1st. >>> h

joining us right now to talk more about it is governor ned lamont of connecticut.nks for being with us today. we have seen just in the last week or so i believe it's eight blue states that have said that they are going to be ending mask mandates now or very soon after. and there's been a lot of discussion about this, just what prompted this at this point when the cdc is still saying people should be wearing masks even if they're vaccinated >> hey, good morning, becky. yeah, we worked on this together as governors throughout the region we thought this was a good time. we think it's a good time because our infection rates are back low hospitalizations are way down. most importantly people have the ability to keep themselves safe now. they have the ability to get the booster, wear the mask we've got n95 masks to everybody. you're going back to school we want you to get tested to prove you're safe. i think we can do this safely. >> is there frustration that the cdc didn't kind of move sooner to find an off-rampor to describe when they thought things should be changing?

connecticut governor ned lamont is recommending the legislature to allow the mask mandate to end on february 28th >> 90%-plus of our folks have some sort of immunity. >> i'm over it. i think a lot of people are. >> reporter: over in california, vaccinated won't have to wear a mask indoors unless the local government has an ordinance. >> i'm 69 years old. may be one of the holdouts. i let the general public come into my store, elect to wear a mask or not. >> reporter: oregon is also ending its indoor mask requirement next month. many other republican-led states like texas and florida ended their mask mandates early last year, anne-marie. >> all right. laura podesta in new york. laura, thank you. >>> breaking overnight, president biden's top science adviser has resigned. eric lander, the author of science technology and policy, turned in his resignation yesterday. this comes hours after the white house confirmed an intern investigation found credible evidence that he bullied and mistreated his staff. before the resignation, the white house said it had reprimanded lander but indicated he would

we are cheering each other on. >> connecticut governor ned lamont. at least not for now. >> you love it too, mika. >> we move too much. i do love it. i started my reporting career there. my god, i was in local at channel 3 eyewitness news. i anchored eyewitness news with dennis house. remember that? >> he's still there. >> i know. thank you for joining us, governor. >>> at least 3,000 municipal workers in new york city must show proof of covid vaccination or face termination starting today. that equates to less than 1 percent of the city's workforce but is still believed to be the largest worker reduction in the natio in response to a vaccine mandate. new york city mayor eric adams says if people who choose to remain unvaccinated lose their jobs, they won't be fired. they will effectively be quitting. so far about 95 percent of the city's 370,000 workers have received at least one dose of the vaccine. all right. garrett haake, thank you very much for being on this morning. what are you looking at today? >> congress is out. we will see if they're able

governor ned lamont is thinking uh-oh, i don't want to get in trouble, i want to vote democrat, but i want mask mandates done, why is governor biden upset at blue state governors? i continuing exposes theater of it all. >> carley: public sentiment has definitely shifted. look at the trucker protest, supposed to be a couple hundred and ballooned into thousands gets international attention. president biden needs to read the room and he could turn this into a powerful moment for his presidency and say we are shifting from pandemic to endemic thing. covid is seer serious, we've dealt with serious things before. we are in a different place in our understanding of the virus and people are saying enough is enough, go back to normal life. >> todd: through the first year of biden's presidency, has he demonstrated proclivity for reading the room? he is doing the exact opposite day in and day out. when you have to campaign, if you are a mid-term runner, you are like, joe, stay home, we are good, we can do this on our own. he is not reading the room and democrats don't want to be tied to that. >>

new jersey phil mufr and ned lamont announcing they will soon lift them. >> because of the dramatic decline in our covid numbers, effective monday, march 7 issue state wide school mandate will be lifted, huge step back to normalcy6789 >> end the mask mandate, connecticut, we've earned it. >> griff: the white house is not ready to unmask the kids. >> press sect. psaki: our advice to every school district, abide by public health guidelines. the cdc says masks can delay, reduce transmission. >> griff: some are still backing the mandates. >> in the end, democrats have overplayed their hand on mandates. they will lose their populous. >> griff: republicans see opportunity in november on this issue, pointing to the red wave that swept virginia in statewide elections. >> todd: cohost of "the view" ripping into stacey abrams over this photo of her not wearing a mask indoors with a group of masked school kids. listen. >> shouldn't she have read the room a bit there? i am shocked, stacey abrams is one of the most intelligent people in politics, brilliant. it was hypocritical she was not wearing a mask

connecticut governor ned lamont ending in schools and child care centers on february 28th. in oregon and delaware, those school mask mandates set to be lifted on march 31st. those are the timelines. this will start in the garden state in new jersey. governor phil murphy at his press conference yesterday. this video courtesy of the governor's office. >> yeah, we wouldn't be doing this if we didn't recommend that you could lift it. but you also, you have to know your own health situation. if you've got some, i would think co-morbidity or if the district thinks there is a particular outbreak in that community. but all other things being equal, healthy child, going to school, they're going without a mask on march 7th. but, again, two things. you have to reserve the right as a district, reserves the right to keep something in place and, secondly, think most importantly, an individual based on their own health reserves that right. and we cannot stigmatize a decision like that. listen, we're trying to get, give it all the unpopular decisions we made when politics was really on the

. >> ned lamont's response to covid put connecticut in danger. he sought the guidance of ex-governor cuomo. >> monday i'll meet with governors cuomo and -- >> we hear so much about all these things, man day-to-days, restrictions, tearing people down. today we lift people up. >> dr. fauci, let's have a debate, dpok or the to doctor, and give the american people the truth about covid-19. >> i call on my fellow americans, do not comply. do not comply with the tyranny and with the gestapo showing up at your front door. you know what to do. >> look, those are three of the most extreme examples of republicans talking restlessly, desantis, mandel and oz there. and they want to go on offense on covid, which is a turnaround politically we saw from two years ago. the bottom line, this pandemic is not going away. democrats need to figure out their covid messaging in order to figure out their midterm message, and the box is white house is in is the public wants to get to normal, yet we all know when the next variant comes and the next fight comes, there will

in connecticut, governor ned lamont will end his state's mask mandate on february 28th including school children, except it really doesn't, because governor lamont is allowing the school districts to decide if students wear masks or not. today, the biden administration always the loyal followers of science said they're in favor of leaving mask decisions up to teachers unions and school boards. boards. >> it's always up to school districts. that's always been our policy from here. >> reporter: unless public health guidelines conflict with teachers unions demands. in the meantime, delaware is taking a different approach. governor john carney is ending the state mask mandate this friday unless you happen to go to school in delaware, then the mandate goes until the end of march or whenever the schools decide it's ok in new jersey, governor phil murphy says it's time for the garden state residents to learn to live with covid but apparently it's not time to take off the masks so he's extending them to march 7th including schools, unless schools choose otherwise. if there's any confusion about

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well, that time has governors murphy of new jersey, ned lamont of connecticut, jon corzine of delaware, gavin newsom of california, now kathy hochul of new york . what we're not celebrating your vision or your covered stewardship. we're outing you for your cynical, destructive, ineffective, meaningless device and frankly illegal abuse of power these past two years. here's a california versus texas covid case is look like on a graph. the green is texas. you get a point. the math mandates made no difference. dropping them isn't about cases declining. it's about democrats chances in november declining, although apparently the white house is willing to sacrifice the midterms with masks. >> cdc continues to recommend that any ask is better than no math . there is a really important tool to stop the spread, especially about highly transmittable omicron burisma guidance is very clear, which is that we recommend masking in schools. that is the recommendation from the cdc. >> they just can't stop themselves and they call the america first fanatics. meanwhile, don't let any of the math commissar

yesterday, i read you the quote ned lamont said.elieve it's time to end the statewide school mask mandate and allow each and every school board to decide what is best for their schools. from a public health if he has been, you have earned this freedom. >> brian: thank you, we've earned the freedom. isn't that great? we did everything we were supposed to so we earned it. and if we are bad for a day punish us because we didn't earn it then. >> will: i suspect in that statement you are beginning to hear the set up for the celebration to be announced on joe biden's date of the state of the union. that interview he went on to say it's a bit premature. what you are seeing is some of these governors wait 20, 30, 45 days. in other words, announcing the r08 backs now but actually being implemented in march. my suspicion is that's when you will see the federal government moved as well as joe biden can announce some type of mission accomplished during his state of the union and give us our freedom back. >> brian: will, like he did in july when