I. C. U. Nurse there says in her view, what she s seeing, it s critical. It s not normal. This is not okay. We can t live this way. I m never going to accept this as our new normal. We ve had lots of very sick young patients that normally we, you know, with the first couple rounds of covid we didn t see or wouldn t have necessarily been i. C. U. Level. Here are some of the numbers. Last week more than 23,000 children caught covid19. That is nearly double what was reported at the end of june. It comes as children in some major school districts are now heading back to class. This month or in a couple weeks. Let s begin with cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. Listen, the data doesn t lie, right? it s clearly coming back principally in unvaccinated areas. Tell us what the numbers tell you. Jim, you know, we thought we were done with this, and now here we are and there are two reasons for this. One, this delta variant which has been called a variant on steroids, and also that
wealthy americans bracing for a tax hike. add to that the pressing issues on the president s priority list, the pandemic and his new vaccination goal, the migrant crisis on the southern border, and unprecedented attacks on voting rights in dozens of states. arlette saenz join uss in wilmington, delaware. that is quite a to do list. the president succeeded in getting the covid relief legislation passed, but this infrastructure bill sounds like another animal entirely. it certainly is, ana. and this is going to be a massive $3 trillion package that will certainly face an uphill climb over on capitol hill. but the president has stressed that focusing on the recovery is the next step of trying to get this pandemic under control as far as it goes with the economy. now, just to run you through some of the items that will be in this proposal. on wednesday the president will be unveiling the infrastructure portion of this bill that are planned. and that will include funding for roa
this kind of language, this kind of hate cannot be condoned. i m phil mattingly in for pamela brown. you re in the cnn newsroom. travelers coming to the united states about to run into a list of tighter restrictions and that takes effect in just a few hours at the stroke of midnight. it s an effort to limit the spread of the omicron variant. all in bound travelers must test negative for covid-19 and for the past day before they are allowed to enter the u.s. including vaccinated and american citizens. nadya has more. these stricter travel rules come as u.s. covid-19 cases are absolutely on the rise again now averaging more than 100,000 cases per day, the highest in two months. what does this mean for the landscape? this is what the biden administration was trying to prevent, the winter surge. we hit a pandemic record of thanksgiving travelers going through airports according to tsa. we have a new variant omicron that s showing up here in the u.s. and dozens of other coun
committee will decide whether to hold trump ally steve bannon in contempt for defying its subpoena and refer the matter this sets in motion a process which really hasn t been used in decades. now, bannon is hanging his defiance on a claim of executive privilege, but that s something the current white house vigorously opposes. cnn has obtained a letter from white house deputy counsel that states the biden administration will not support any attempt by bannon to refuse cooperation with the house committee. this issue took on more urgency last night. former president trump suing the january 6th committee and the national archives in a bid to keep documents under wraps. the committee calls it a stall tactic. the white house is doubling down on its position, claiming trump abused the office of the presidency and attempted to subvert a peaceful transfer of power. the national archives will turn over documents early next month if the courts do not intervene. so what happens now?
your mom s a star this week. he is usually the main star. she didn t care. this is cameos. no respect for what we do. so here is the thing. my mom has been on my other podcast, silence is not an option. and she takes over. and when she s on the podcast everybody loves her. oh, my gosh, don. i think your mom and my mom should do a podcast. forget about us. they re way more interesting than we are. chris, your mom chris mom turned 90, by the way. she looks fantastic. she looks younger than you. oh, she turned 60, i m sorry. 60. the 90 upside down. yes, i screwed up. here s the funny part. my mother wasn t supposed to be on the podcast. she heard me talking about her and came down to where i was because she wanted to make sure if i was going to be talking about her i would push her program, and she came down with a business card and gave it to me and said read this. anyway, it s one of those nice surprises. honestly, we talk about the times, what s happening