seen that widely across the uk for quite awhile. any snow should clear away quickly and we robertjenrick was a close friend and ally of rishi sunak s even he doesn t believe this new emergency legislation will work. we ll talk to a former conservative attorney general, labour s chair of the home affairs select committee, and a former conservative mep. also tonight. sorry for the pain and the loss and the suffering. an apology from boris johnson to relatives of those who died during the pandemic. at the covid inquiry he admitted both he and the scientists underestimated how fast covid was spreading. we should have twigged, we should collectively have twigged much sooner. we ll speak to michael rosen, who spent 42 days in a coma with covid, and was outside the inquiry this morning along with other protestors. also us funding for ukraine is on the brink of collapse. what will that mean for president zelensky and president putin? hello. the emergency bill published by the gov
at the time. but we hear that the decisions he made, there is nothing he can say to you that can improve things. what would you like him to say? things. what would you like him to sa ? , ., , things. what would you like him to sa ? , . , ., things. what would you like him to sa? say? anything he has to say could have been said say? anything he has to say could have been said a say? anything he has to say could have been said a long say? anything he has to say could have been said a long time - say? anything he has to say could have been said a long time ago i say? anything he has to say could l have been said a long time ago that we are nearly four years since the beginning of the pandemic. it is continuing, people are continuing to die every week. i don t think he has got anything helpful to say at this point other than to tell the truth about why decisions were made and why failures happen in the kale that was at the heart of his government. do you think he can be
new complication for schools as students return to the classroom after the holiday break. here s nbc s stephanie gosk with more. reporter: across the country the vast majority of students are back in in-person classes but new numbers from the american academy of pediatrics show just how fast covid case numbers are rising among children. in the week leading up to christmas, pediatric covid cases reached nearly 200,000, but troubling new numbers from the american academy of pediatrics show an even more dramatic statistic. the very next week a 60% jump in cases of children getting covid, more than 300,000. i simply have never seen anything like what we re experiencing now. reporter: according to an nbc tally, the case numbers are leading to record hospitalizations of children with covid in nine different states, and while some of those children are being treated for other conditions when they test positive, doctors say a significant number are getting serious cases of covid. covid
us in a very different point now than we were one year ago. so they re trying to find a way to talk about this that seems more optimistic than to suggest game over, we just have to deal with covid-19 the way it is now forever. i thought it was interesting we also heard wa len si responding to some of the barrage of criticism about the loss of credibility for the cdc about the way the administration has handled this. she was pretty frank and saying look, this is difficult. we re talking about science and circumstances that are constantly changing and evolving or trying to provide the best information in realtime that we can, but that information is necessarily going to change because of how fast covid is changing. and that sometimes gets misconstrued as poor communication creates this confusion that so many americans around the country are dealing with. and in speaking of communication, the white house has put a presidential address on covid on the calendar for thursday. are we to ass
reporter: the fda authorized booster doses for children ages 5-13. some parents hope the extra dose of protection will help their kids stay in school. i just would like it if everybody felt confident in the booster and all the kids got vaccinated. i don t only want my kids to be safe. reporter: families facing difficult choices in the weeks ahead. later today the president will be meeting with his covid response team to talk about resources and case numbers. then he s going to be addressing the nation. back to you. heidi we just heard about the record number of children hospitalized with covid. i know you ve been following the massive numbers of teachers calling out sick with covid. we ve found that a number of