vaccination status. and the tributes pouring in for a legendary oscar-winning trailblazer. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening many of us have taken some comfort in the belief that illness from the omicron covid variant is generally mild while that s true for many, some eye opening numbers tonight from the cdc offer important perspective. children under the age of five are being hospitalized at the highest rate since the start of the pandemic. the group of course not yet eligible for vaccinations, but the unvaccinated in general are driving overall hospitalizations to the highest level in a year over 126,000 this evening president biden seeking to assure us that covid as we re dealing with it now is not here to stay we re going to begin tonight in a place where all the numbers we talk about every night here translate to people, patients and medical workers whose lives are being upended by this virus. i want to warn you some of this may not be easy
teachers forcing chicago public schools to cancel class a third straight day. devastating to see my children have to suffer. dumping snow on the mid south. when the sun comes up, you will be able to see at least 4 or 5 inches of snow. we have the worst of the storm really happening right now. winter storm warnings posted jersey up towards maine. speak life , ainsley: speak life by toby mac. we love him. he has participated in our concert series. always a big crowd when he is there. out there on the fox plaza. the tree is still there unfortunately we have to take it down this weekend. if you are in the new york area, come by, take pictures, come say hi to us. the snow is here. my daughter woke up this morning with me she is back in bed. she went to the window it s snowing. so exciting steve and brian. brian: the answer is it is snowing. new york did pretty good so far. on the rildz. the plows are out and so far we are handling it. but nothing seems further away
brian: monday, february 12th. this is fox & friends. this is the easiest things we have to do today. everything else is hard. the kansas city chiefs win the super bowl again. we are not done. we have a young team. we are going to keep this going. on 3, 1, 2, 3, how about those chiefs. brian: will cain has the recap from the overtime victory and that is will live. ainsley: plus a fox news alert. defense second lloyd austin is back in the hospital as he transfers power now to his deputy. steve: in other news, dhs secretary mayorkas says don t blame him for the border crisis. it certainly is a crisis. and, while we don t bear responsibility for a broken system. steve: more of that broken system business second hour of fox & friends starts right now remember mornings are better with friends. like you. oh, what a night yeah sing it i can t even lie what a time to be alive oh what a night. brian: super bowl fantastic commercial for las vegas. looking
this is the five. it s a full-blown media mutiny against the elderly man with a poor memory. the liberal press is openly . the liberal pres eis now calling for joe bide tonight step aside as they question his age and cognitive decline. 86% think he s too old to serve. that includes 7 pp3% of democrats. that s probably why they re running these back to back a hit pieces. one is from the editorial board saying the quote challenges of an aging president. and one column aing it more bluntly. saying quote, it s not should joe step aside. it s how. they send his army of smooth talking democrats to talk about his mental state and blame the media. he s sharm and on top of things. one thing joe biden is ever going to do is quit. the most difficult part about preparing interest a meeting with joe biden is preparing for it. because he is sharp, detailed oriented and focused. if the press is focused erelentlessly on things that don t folks on his body of work. you re ba
ainsley: it is 8:00 8 on the east coast, it is monday, this is fox and friends. steve: kansas city chiefs are super bowl champions again, twice in a row. i give god the glory. he challenge us to make ourselves better. viva las vegas. steve: will cain is viva las vegas, mr. las vegas and he is coming up. brian: and president biden skips the super bowl sitdown and puts out there instead. i ve had enough of what they call shrink flation. brian: so natural. this as voters from his own party say he is too old to serve. ainsley: and defense secretary lloyd austin is back in the hospital and transfers power to his deputy. dr. marc siegel will respond. steve: remember mornings are better with friends! all i do is win, win, win, no matter what. everybody hands go up, go up, and they stay down and they stay down. ainsley: live shot of ooh li allegiance stadium and kansas city chiefs take them down in their second super bowl win. the chiefs came back an