voting rights. and the late john lewis, who was bloodied and battered in selma on march 7th, 1965, marching for the right to vote. so i think it is important that the president does that. he can do both things. he can try to strategically pass this legislation and come to atlanta. i don t think atlanta is just a photo-op. ebenezer baptist church means so much to the community. senator warnock will be there, who resides over martin luther king s pulpit. i think it is more than a photo-op. thank you both for being with us this morning. thank you. thank you. this morning, the u.s. poised to break a record in the coronavirus pandemic. an ominous milestone but one that requires important context. covid is pushing many hospitals to the brink, but really, more specifically, the unvaccinated are the ones pushing hospitals to the pebrink. 141,000 americans are
or she feels, that s one thing. but if it s just unlimited, and you can hold it up forever, which is what the case is now, that, to me, i am not in favor of. yeah. congressman clyburn, thank you so much. i appreciate your time. again, happy new year to you. same to you, and thank you so much for having me. so facts first. the attack on the capitol was just that, an attack. but despite the evidence, the pictures, the video, the lies just keep on spreading. our very own daniel dale is here to tell us the truth, and he s next. nothing kills more viruses, including the covid-19 virus, on more surfaces than lysol disinfectant spray. lysol. what it takes to protect.
shortages at the irs are creating a nightmare scenario here. every tax season is busy, but the irs says the backlog of inprocessed cases is, quote, several times worse that be past years. and centers can t keep up. the irs said it was unable to answer two-thirds of the calls it received last year. two-thirds of the calls they couldn t pick up. processing centers for paper tax returns also hampered by covid cases among staffers. the irs says it needs more money, the tax code is more complicated, the funding is the same. the biden administration wants $80 million more for the irs to hire staff and upgrade technology. that s part of build back better. that s, of course, currently stalled in congress. so what does it mean, brianna, for you and me this tax season? okay. re refund might be delayed so file early. the irs is accepting your tax returns starting january 24th. that s two weeks earlier than last year. it s moved up the beginning of tax season.
director of the cdc, dr. rochelle walensky, was asked, how many people are in the hospital for covid versus with covid? some hospitals, up to 40% of the patients who are coming in with covid are coming in not because they re sick with covid but because they re coming in with something else and have had covid or the omicron variant detected. do we have a clear picture, who exactly is being admitted for covid? we have a clearer picture, but, you know, this is data that s not been really that forthright. the data that, think i, dr. walensky is talking about is from new york state. i ll show you that. this idea of incidental covid. you go into the hospital for something else, and then you get diagnosed with covid inside the hospital. we don t know how significant that is all over the country, but we do know in new york state, there s a significant