that said, cases are still up big time, particularly in the southeast where states like florida, louisiana and georgia have all seen their numbers go up more than 500% in the last two weeks. across the nation more than 3,000 schools have opted to shut down, but thousands more are using some combination of testing and masking protocols to keep their kids in-person, in school. the reaction from parents across this country, frustration, confusion, anxiety and fear. in other words, it feels like 2020 all over again. that is what president biden will be confronting when he updates the public on the fight against covid later today. meanwhile, a combination of covid sick-outs and bad weather is still causing huge travel issues at airports around the country. more than 1,000 u.s. flights have already been canceled just this morning and more than 18,000 since christmas eve. speaking of bad weather, willie just mentioned it, you have got to look at this. this is i-95 in the state of
a year ago this week? new insight this hour into what the january 6th committee is learning. and looks and sounds like a page from the old testament. we re going to find out why fish were literally falling from the s sky. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start in the health lead. major new announcements from the food and drug administration today about pfizer s covid vaccine. the fda today recommending the pfizer booster for teens ages 12 to 15. shortening, for everyone, the recommended time between your second pfizer shot and the booster and okaying a third dose for some immunocompromised children between 5 and 11. more than 115 million americans have been fully vaccinated with the pfizer vaccine and now the cdc is going to meet this week to decide whether to sign off on the fda recommendations as parents are stressing about sending their kids back to school given the recent spike in pediatric hospitalizations due to covid. though we should note almost all of t
it is 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 pacific. i m chris jansing in for jose diaz-balart and there is a lot going on right now. in less than an hour, the white house covid-19 response team will hold a briefing on latest efforts to combat the coronavirus. it comes as new data shows the u.s. hitting a record seven-day case average. more than 262,000 daily u.s. cases as of yesterday, breaking a nearly year-long record. overall, the u.s. has now surpassed 53 million cases since the pandemic began, which is why federal strike teams are heading to hospitals and testing sites to help, including now to pennsylvania and georgia. there s also growing confusion this morning, over the cdc cutting its isolation guidance to five days for asymptomatic people who test positive for covid. the cdc director defended that guidance this morning and clarified why. i want to be very clear and say, if you have the capacity to stay home for longer, if you still have symptoms, we are not saying you have to
rattles the u.s. charles kicked us off with the very latest from atlanta. merry christmas. good morning. good morning and merry christmas, griff. taking time off to spend this holiday with their family. the omicron is certainly hard at work. u.s. daily covid cases up with more than 260,000 americans testing positive. according to john s hopkins university 3354 deaths were reported. more than a 50% increase in a single day. hard to find at home test kits is surely complicating matters. cvs and walgreens announced their limiting the number of tests folks can purchase due to a significant increase in demand long lines form at testing sites around the country while demand swells at unimaginable proportions. we have had people in sheer exhaustion. people are just exhausted. we cannot keep staff because they are just so worn out. new york state positive covid cases are turning up at record levels. more than 44,000 daily new cases reported on friday. new york city mayor bill d
remember, but he says he changed his mind after being blind sided by the subpoena to verizon. he came to the conclusion that they are still going to try to question those personal private conversations that i had with the president of the united states and other senior officials in the west wing. and, quite frankly, their scope is way the court is going to have to determine that. committee members note meadows himself gave the capitol riot committee 6000 pages of documents voluntarily but is now refusing to testify about their contents, claiming executive privilege. here s congressman adam schiff. it s a very superficial filing meant to try to obstruct and stall. it won t be successful. we intend to move forward and hold him in criminal contempt, and expect and hope the justice department will move with equal a alacrity. i was surprised by the lawsuit. i don t think it will do him any good. ryan nobles on capitol hill. reporter: there was a lot of news on the se