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My high-five of the week goes to amy schneider, the jeopardy contestant who just keeps winning and making history. shes won 23 straight games this week, making her the winningest woman in the worlds history both in number of wins and on the money list. her take of $855,000 puts her fifth on the all-time list. schneider is also the first trans contestant to qualify for the tournament of champions. no matter what happens there she has my high five of the week to fall back on. well be right back. i...

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Country take care of patients and that is a problem. the problem is that most parents dont know if they have dealt or omicron and they are flooding the emergency departments. this is just going to be collateral damage for those people who truly need to go to the e.r., heart attacks and strokes and things like that. >> it is a pain our next guests are all too familiar with. their father, dale, a retired iowa school superintendent, waited 15 days for a bed that his hospital could not spare because...

Indebt victim, his family says of the coronavirus pandemic. joining me now are two of dales kid, anthony weeks and julia semansky. welcome. i am so incredibly sorry for the loss of your father. how are you guys doing? anthony, ill start with you. >> its been a hard time. around the holidays we acutely felt the absence of our father, and i think that were lucky to have each other, and i think we did get together for the holidays to support each other, but its definitely been a hard time, and i th...

Who was on the phone so long? and he said well, havent you heard about that baby jessica? ive been on the phone with firemen in texas and weve been talking about how to get that little girl out of the well, and get her some food while shes down there. and thats just who he was. he reached out to help people. he was a good neighbor. he cared about people, yet he was a very humble, humble man. >> anthony, julia, your dad sounds like an amazing, amazing man. i am so incredibly sorry for your loss. ...

Because of these unvaccinated people that there was no room and space for him? >> yes. after my dad had passed we met with a couple of different surgeons at iowa city and one of the surgeons said almost minutes after he passed, your dad needed specialized care, and we were, like, yeah. we know, weve been waiting to get in to get that specialized care and later we talked to the second surgeon and she said that typically in the last -- they would have taken that, but in the last 18 months to years...

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Care. and we were like, yeah, we know. weve been waiting to get in to get that specialized care. and then later, we talked to the second surgeon, and she said that typically, in the last -- they would have taken dad, but in the last 18 months, two years, its made it more and more difficult because the covid people, primarily the unvaccinated, have been clogging up the system, and so theyre unable to get people in. >> anthony, your dad did everything that he should be doing during this pandemic. ...

He was. he reached out to help people. he was a good neighbor. he cared about people. yet, he was a very humble, humble man. >> anthony, julia, your dad sounds like an amazing, amazing man. im so incredibly sorry for your loss. were thankful, though, that youre sharing your message with us and his story today. happy new year to you. thank you. >> thank you. coming up next, everybody, we are following a severe weather outbreak across the south. and water rescues in kentucky as well. also ah...

Of kids, and joe manchin is well aware of this impact. the build back better initiative is alive and well. >> so, legislatively, congresswoman, what do you think has to stay, and what could feasibly go? because we know at this point even this $1.75 trillion price tag may not get over the finish line, considering where senator manchin currently is and the stalemate now that the white house is at with the legislation they want to get across the finish line along with so many democrats in washingto...