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jeanne moos, cnn, new york. hello again, everybody. thank you so much for joining me. happy new year. i'm fredricka whitfield. news just in to cnn, an update on buffalo bills player damar hamlin. he continues to make a remarkable recovery after suffering a cardiac arrest on the field during monday's game. hamlin is now breathing on his own after having a breathing tube removed late thursday. the 24-year-old also surprised his teammates in buffalo yesterday, facetiming with them on a phone from his bed in the hospital in cincinnati. cnn has more live from the hospital in cincinnati ...

Open dispute over the course of a week. democrats say this really illustrates that republicans are not ready to govern. fred? >> all right. eva on capitol hill. thank you so much. so with the speaker now in place, a new republican majority will finally get to work ushering a new era for the biden administration. we were we have more from the white house. arlette, what is the president saying about this new house majority, the few speaker, and their expressed missions? >> reporter: fred, president biden congratulated kevin mccarthy for winning that speaker's race just days after he called tha...

For. [ applause ] >> cnn has more live from capitol hill. eva, what finally pushed mccarthy over the edge? he was very confident just ahead of that 15th vote. >> reporter: fred, in the words of one of mccarthy's key opponents, congressman matt gaetz, essentially this group of detractors were running out of things to ask for. ultimately enough of those never-kevin lawmakers voted present. that isn't a ringing endorsement of mccarthy, but it lowered the threshold necessary for mccarthy to secure the speakership. mccarthy also, though, made some other key concessions. for instance, will require o...

Them that abortion regulations on top of existing health care issues among women will further impact recruitment. >> this is fuel to the fire. >> reporter: what do you want people to know about women veterans, especially with these restrictions in place? >> we stood side by side, shoulder to shoulder when we served. there was not a problem. i was the most visible service member. now i'm the most invisible veteran. why? why is that? >> reporter: we pressed the va on why they aren't expanding their services today to include abortion care. but for now these women will continue to speak out, joe, ...

>> we are back with the fox health alert, cdc under fire accused of not reporting the deaths of two children suffering a mysterious polio like illness. parents a the agency is intentionally downplaying the seriousness of the disease by not publicly announcing the death. there have been 80 confirmed cases of the illness and 219 under investigation across the us. no more performing union duties at the va on the taxpayer's time, donald trump ending the practice called official time that let hundreds of medical staff is due union tasks while on the clock at the va. the change is meant to redirect ...