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i everyone, thank you for tuning in to this hour we bring you tomorrows news tonight. we have our great lineup of reporters to share their scoops. we have melanie zanona, danny freeman, diane gallagher, and omar hernandez. great to have all of you back here tonight. tonight, new information about the chokehold incident in new york city subway that killed a 30 year old man. graphic video shows the 24-year-old suspect with his arm wrapped around jordan a least neck after one witness said...

a deadly chokehold by a stranger on a new york city subway car. why this incident spaurrked a homicide investigation and important conversations about mental illness and vigilantism. and then the fight gets under way to overturn an abortion ban in one state, a ban dating back to 1849. you heard that right. years before the civil war. decades before women could even vote. were talking to the attorney general who filed the lawsuit. welcome to "the lead." we begin in our politics lead. ...

Consensual abortions. so the law does not apply to a consensual abortion and they argued that today in court. i think we have a soundbite, but i bet we do not have time for it right now. >> no? they say very quick. >> ive had heartbreaking conversations with doctors, for example, who talked about patients who come in who have either had to have made emergency decisions, the doctors have had, too if they are not sure they can provide the care their patients need. they have talked about patients w...

Bret. >> bret: okay. jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn. thanks. the cdc is changing its timeline for when people should receive their pfizer covid booster shot. the news coming amid an onslaught of criticism over the agencys shifting guidance as we have been talking about on certain recommendations. and some states see a sharp rise in covid hospitalizations this week. correspondent jonathan serrie has the story from atlanta. home of the cdc. >> although most omicron cases are relatively mil...

About the well-being of our kids. one of the factors has been the stability in their lives. school is a big part of that. so getting the vast, vast majority, 96% plus of kids back to school in the fall was a really important step. one of the things that ive been saying for a few weeks now is that during this omicron wave, these are going to be tough weeks and theyre going to be emergency decisions that some schools will need to make on pulling back from in-person for a short period of time if th...

The accelerator. get our kids 5 and above vaccinated. it is more critical than ever. >> thank you for being with us this morning. appreciate it. >> of course. thanks so much, john. so as berman mentioned, happening today, the chicago teachers union is set to hold an emergency vote on whether to walk out of the classroom and move to virtual learning amid a spike in covid cases, even as the citys mayor insists schools are safe and will remain open. joining us now to discuss is the chicago teache...

>> well, john, look, i know these are tough, tough times for parents and for educators. as you mentioned, im a dad of two kids. one of them is old enough to be vaccinated. my son is 5 and now fully vaccinated. but my daughter is under 5 and she is not eligible yet for a vaccine. my wife and i are planning to send her to school. our school has the appropriate layers of precaution. it is a public school, in washington, d.c., and we feel proud of what theyre doing. in the next few weeks, schools ar...

Before i do any of that, i want to say theres a general issue about the shadow docket and whether or not theyre rushing emergency decisions without analysis, and then theres a specific issue of the use of the shadow docket with respect to these abortion decisions, and you heard justice alito saying, well, this is just procedural, and it didnt, you know, overrule roe vs. wade. and i think that really cuts the bologna way too thin because the fact is, as a result of the supreme courts use of the s...

Reprieve. a temporary restraining order stopping the right wing group texas right to life from bringing lawsuits against planned parenthood and other clinics while litigation continues. several states are planning to pass their own versions of the bill now that they know what the supreme court did. the court makes emergency decisions. as "the new york times" points out, the court spent less than three days dealing with the case. no oral arguments. the majority opinion was unsigned. one paragraph...

Protocol to get fda approval for this, but again, other americans wouldnt have gotten this. >> absolutely. and thats actually some of the real news in this book, is fitting together how a lot of that, those emergency decisions were made. and the interviews with the medical professionals who again were hoping that the president would come out of this, with a different attitude, toward the coronavirus. remember, this is all taking place one month before the election. and so covering it, we were do...