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thanks, jesse. >> jesse: see ya. >> bret: good evening. i'm bret baier. following two major stories president trump has filed appeal with the colorado supreme court with the decision to keep his name off the primary ballot. we will have that plus analysis with brit hume and shannon bream in just moments. but we begin with the crisis at the southern border. more than 50 house republicans are in eagle pass, texas tonight meeting with border officials. getting a first-hand look at the migrant crisis that is forcing the biden administration to go on the offense. the white house placing b...

Infections are expected to increase even further as more people return from holiday gatherings. correspondent jonathan serrie has that story from atlanta. >> after taking a backseat to covid throughout much of the pandemic, the flu has returned with this year's season already causing more than 7 million illnesses, 73,000 hospitalizations, and 4500 deaths according to the cdc. emergency room visits for respiratory infection suggests rsv activity has started to decline while the number of flu patients has surged past covid by 37%. experts say this is not a reflection on the severity of this seas...

Getting close to the peak we saw in early september. in new york city the number of kids in hospital with covid increased five fold over a peer week period according to state data. a doctor in chicago said the number of young patients at children's hospitals has quadrupled. this is happening ads the education department stresses the importance of safe in-person learning. >> this is such an extraordinarily contagious virus, it's getting not only adults, but it's getting down into children, spreading among them. and even if the proportion of children who get serious illness is small, if you in...

People that need hospitalization. so it will be good to have those health care workers back in the bedside. >> president biden was just asked about this move in the context of sort of everyone else, is he supportive of lessening the isolation period for other people that are fully vaccinated. if they get covid. listen to what the president said. >> do you think the isolation period for covid should be shortened for everyone? >> well, i just listen to my -- my team, the docs and they think we should keep it the way it is for now. >> do you agree? >> i'm inclined to say what is good for the goos...

Tennessee, according to the cdc tennessee is a state with one of the highest rates of new infections and that's where we find nbc's liz mclaughlin joining us from knoxville. welcome to you. how is the hospital staff handling the increase in covid cases there? >> reporter: alex, not just in tennessee, but in a growing number of states hospitals are having to prioritize care. here in eastern tennessee, it's been hit especially hard. tennessee now tied with west virginia for the worst covid outbreak now, the most number of covid cases per capita in the u.s. now, here in eastern tennessee they had...