Newscast: 01/19/22

The remote City of St. Paul says 12 people tested positive for COVID-19 so far this week, its largest spike since the start of the pandemic; despite lower hospitalization rates overall, the transmissibility of the omicron variant is causing staff shortages in health care facilities and schools in Alaska; and a look at how some Alaskans with loved ones near Tonga are fairing after the massive eruption.