white house and washington for politico, yamiche alcindor, the white house correspondent for pbs news hour, and christopher gold smith an army veteran. what are they doing to get the former vp and sean hannity to talk? that is a tall order? reporter: the committee is asking, they have not yet subpoenaed sean hannity. they are asking for him to come speak to the committee. they say that they have information about his communications with the former president and people close to the former president leading up to and on january 6th and perhaps after as well. the committee released some of those text messages that they have obtained including one text message on december 31st to the former president s former chief of staff, mark meadows that says we can t lose the entire white house counsel s office. i do not see january 6th happening the way he has been told. after the 6th he should announce he will lead the nationwide effort to inform voting
numbers. when you say all these people are quitting, they re not quitting to sit on their couches. they re finding better jobs. reporter: they are, you know, i m at the beach cafe, and this is a perfect example that we re calling this great resignation. they have lost employees, emplo. people who have decided that they re not going to be servers, cooks, dish washers. they re going into other industries. and they re finding it extremely difficult here, as they are across the country, to find people to take those jobs in, again, what has been named the great resignation. across the country, americans are quitting jobs at record rates. they call it the great resignation. i m going to quit my 9:00-to-5:00 job today. reporter: labor department data shows that 4.5 million americans quit their jobs in november, the biggest number on record. that s 3% of the workforce. in florida, be nice restaurant group director greg bear says
weekly and we have their results. reporter: so all classes learning, athletic events at chicago public schools are canceled today, steph, but the school buildings do remain open for children who need to get their meals at school and admin and staff who do wish to come in and work. the school district saying they should have a plan by later this afternoon on how to conduct remote learning going forward, steph. that teacher mentioned pcr tests. does the teachers union have specific asks? because the city already spent $100 million to reoutfit and make the schools safer. what s missing? reporter: well, the problem is, steph, and i ve been reporting on this throughout the school year, right, is that testing, something that teachers asked for wasn t as firmly implemented as the public school system said that it would be at the beginning of the year. and that s clearly continued when they re asking for pcr testing weekly. the school district, though, is
vaccination, that you are doing social distancing, and you would like to see testing protocols in place, whether it s, you know, a once a week rapid test or pcr testing, but we do see across the nation major shortages in terms of the ability to test, which puts stress on all of this. i do think over the next two weeks we re going to see more and more schools closing. they will be challenged in terms of the number of teachers and staff who are healthy and able to continue in the classroom. there s going to be a period here where most schools are not going to be able to pull it off. take us to florida. cases there are off the charts, and anecdotally people say omicron you don t get that sick. if you re vaccinated it s not that big of a deal. the hospital where you re at has more covid patients than it ever has in the last year and a half. what s going on? reporter: that s very true. florida s seeing the largest percentage increase, stephanie, since the really start of the
these days, hiring is a challenge. we have to put a lot more effort in than we used to. reporter: raising wages doesn t solve this problem? paying different rates, it doesn t seem to make a difference. reporter: the nearby tarp and river brewing once had 53 employees. now they re down to 28. it has been a challenge. especially to keep people. there has been so many employees that we have had that have been here with us since the day we opened three, four years long, that have left to go into other industries. reporter: it s not just restaurants. the great resignation is impacting nearly every industry. after seven years as a police officer, rachael drewsbik decided to make a change. with everything going on, with covid and everything in this world, i decided that i needed a change and some growth. and i was able to start a company with one of my great friends. reporter: kyrsten walden left her social media marketing job of five years in august.