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Took of them sitting at that meeting into propaganda, and the line was, saved you a seat. so its very effective in terms of recruiting, and in terms of, you know, getting their message out. but its also very effective in terms of, like you said, just getting the policies that they want in place. you know, i actually called the north carolina board of health and talked to the head of the board of health after they came to that meeting, and she said, i dont think theyll be back, because we did awa...

For free lunch today. the teachers are at home. teachers refusing to return to the classroom until the omicron surge ends or new safety measures are put in place. but wait, they told us they have a 90% vaccination rate. they told us that remote learning has a negative impact on childrens mental health. the science has told us that part. in fact, in this first week of the year, were seeing more school districts across the nation going backwards to remote learning. the american federal teachers un...

These masks. >> thats right. >> now we have plenty. we have plenty now. we need to get them out and instruct people how to use them. right now were seeing up to a quarter of the people that wear their mask on their chin under their nose. thats nothing more than a chin diaper. it doesnt help. we have not done a good job educating the public about the importance of quality masking and what we can do to reduce the risk of transmission. not only do we have to distribute the product, like you said an...

Today and january 4th. here in atlanta, we could see about a quarter of a million travelers on sunday alone. >> those challenges still to come for days ahead. elwyn, thank you. president biden tonight celebrating the new year in delaware. the president speaking for the first time about his call with russian president vladimir putin yesterday. he says he told putin the u.s. will not tolerate any further escalation by russia regarding ukraine. >> i made it clear to president putin that if he mak...

Over in-person learning playing out across the country. cnns polo sandoval is looking into this. polo, what is the latest from your vantage point? and good morning to you. >> christi, boris, good morning to you. were seeing in schools across the country, schools are essentially reintroducing those measures. trying to curb the omicron spread right now. give you an example, in new york, we just heard from kathy hochul yesterday who will introduced a new wave of measures, stricter masking, testing ...

Leading health officials about a testing requirement for a smomic individuals to get back to their routines now they they shortened the isolation period to five days. how do you do that with the testing shortage? this is a critical question that the president will be facing when he meets with advisors later this afternoon. >> if you have covid, you should quarantine yourself. and if you become a smomic it is reasonable to wear a mask and go back into the world for five days while wearing a mask....

Essentially saying there is nothing we can do here, this is up to the states and private businesses to take the lead here. jen psaki was asked about this as well during her briefing. she wouldnt answer whether the white house would take another swing at this in terms of rewriting some of the regulations in an attempt to see this. it is ironic when you think about it that on a day when democrats are debating changes to phil buster rules a supreme court that includes three justices that were confi...

The country after the covid relief bill. what grow tell them, these school districts? >> yeah. you know, really importantly i want to remind people that in the fall of this year we had a delta surge, and we were able to safely keep our children in school before we had pediatric vaccination. fast forward to now, we have pediatric vaccination. of course, every jurisdiction is going to have to make these decisions locally. but what i will say is the most important thing we can do is get to our chil...

>> appears the federal government is going agency by agency as a work around to get congress to act. the risks imposed here are not unilateral. there are risks to those who choose not to be vaccinated, that they are trying to avoid. >> to this issue of providing a masking and testing option for unvaccinated employees, justice alito brought up is it workable at this point, we know how tough to get your hands on a test, and scale of tens of hundreds of thousands of americans could be tricky. argum...

Member of their households who is not yet eligible for vaccinations, how is that all going to work? >> alicia, is it safe for kids to be in school for in-person learning? is it safe for teachers and staff to be in school? absolutely, yes. if everyone is getting vaccinated, everyone over the age 5 and up can get vaccinated, is eligible to get vaccinated, and absolutely should get vaccinated right now. and in addition, they should be layering some of those other measures. in particular, mask weari...