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Schools and school districts to go to remote, even though everyone wants to be in person right now. there is not a teacher or parent or school administrator or union head who would not tell you that, of course, being in person is the best, and that is what we are trying to do, but the fight right now is with omicron and making sure that if people are sick, they stay home and isolate and that you have enough staff to be able to run a school and run a school safely. vaccines, boosters, ventilation...

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But if covid cases and the number of people needing to isolate continue to rise, staff shortages could make that difficult. joining me now is labours shadow education secretary, bridget phillipson. thank you forjoining us. the education secretary said they are doing everything they can to keep schools, that is the priority so there will be masks, testing on—site schools go back properly and more ventilation, and a potentialfor merging classes. as the government on the right track?— on the ri...

But i still believe very firmly and passionately that the children belong in the classroom. we have better tools. we know what works and i believe with omicron our default should be in person learning for all students across the country. >> last hour i was speaking with dr. vin gupta and said if a school district is following proper protocol, if they have the ventilation in place that you talk about then we also do want parents to feel confident that they can begin to send their kids back. i won...

Illness for adults and students is not as great as with delta. we know that. mostly what we know, pamela, this is after two years is that if we put in place all of the mitigation strategies beginning with vaccinations and boosters, now we know enough and our students can get vaccinations and theyre preparing for boosters for them. we know that wearing masks work. we know distancing when possible works. we know that hand washing and ventilation, all of those things work and what we have to contin...

And the environment. good morning. good morning. the education secretary nadhim zahawi has sought to reassure parents that the governments priority is to keep schools open. speaking this morning, he said a variety of mechanisms are being put in place for pupils — as well as masks — including onsite testing, more ventilation and the potential for merging classes. and mr zahawi said he doesnt want students to wear masks in the classroom for a day longer than necessary. his comments come just 2...

Open, which he decided is important, what do you do? >> i think the key is ventilation and were not talking enough before that. masks help but keeping kids in a well-ventilated space is critical and thats something that would require a lot of investment from the city, upgrading all the schools and making, not all of them but many parts of the schools and that should have started two years ago. closing schools is the last thing that we want to have to do. there are so many other things that could...

Vaccine but we need to do a lot more to tackle this information —— misinformation that is around and people who hang around schools peddling misinformation to children and parents. so we have to ramp up methods around the vaccine addressing what can be achieved with the booster, where there is political will to do it. lets make sure children are absolutely central to our thinking when it comes to the pandemic. theyvejust to our thinking when it comes to the pandemic. theyve just been an afte...

>> we got real close and a lot of hugging and just making sure everyone was okay. >> reporter: rescuers climbing up towers to retrieve riders. across the country, treacherous travel. whiteout conditions hitting the texas panhandle. this winter weather follows a new years day storm system that brought heavy snow and flooding rains to several states. in kansas, low visibility causing multiple car crashes. life-threatening flash flooding slamming parts of arkansas. those same areas now battered by ...