does he feel the nba season could be postponed or canceled like the nhl. as we look at minnesota. what a beautiful shot. you are working a double shift. i have a lot of shopping to do. you will stay here until 7:00? new couch. bill: good morning, everybody. fox news alert. what s next in om omicron. we re about to find out. president biden laying out his strategy. the dominant strain now in the u.s. four days before the big day, good morning. santa coming down the chimney. i m bill hemmer, good morning. somewhere up there is a children s album i do believe. dana: you never know. that s exciting for next christmas. i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. it is a pretty big day. bill: did you know that the week ending last week that 73% of all new cases are omicron?
doing. dana: a friend of mine who went through - i m asking every family buy one less toy and send in the money to tunnel to towers.org and we ll make sure that it comes to these kids in this area. one less toy. i think we can do that. we spend so much money on christmas let s make sure that we give and we do good with to help these families. nice to see you there. give everybody our best. it is going to be a holiday. they will never forget it, unfortunately. nice to see you on the ground. tunnel to towers, thank you. dana: they do such great work. amazing. they are everywhere. bill: soldiers and firefighters and people in kentucky. amazing organization. dana: did you know that today is the before we go.
dana: there is a fox business poll out last night asking the country do you think 2021 was a good year or bad year? 70% said bad year. and so if you are at the white house wrapping things up and legislative agenda is in tatters, poll numbers are what they are. omicron is waging and you are way behind in testing and the cdc are slow to get the treatments approved. what do you think they do? take a few days off and regroup in the new year or power through and try to figure out a way to right their ship? they have to find a way to right their ship. next year will be a bad year for them no matter what. this whole year has been bad. inflation, the border, afghanistan, we were all going to be covid would be in the rearview mirror by july 4th. all of these things have combined to create a very bad atmosphere for this administration. second worst presidential
weeks. seems to me like that s pretty fast for a variant to be discovered and pass through a certain measure of society. that s a really great point and we re seeing the same thing in the u.k. right now. i would call it a hot fire. it is burning like a hot fire and spreads very fast. even the case numbers we re seeing are nothing compared to what is actually out there. 250,000 new cases over the last 24 hours. there is a lot of asymptomatic spread going on. the virus reaches the hostess that are susceptible and burns out. that s what s happening in those two countries right now. it is leveling out. we may see that here. the fastest way to get there with mild cases is to be vaccinated and boosted. that s the fastest way. again, i want the treatments out there. we may have that hope in a few weeks from now but we can t count on it. dana: dr. siegel do you think there is any way the white house will ask the cdc to revise protocols for people testing positive though they might not have
bill: anita vogel on that in los angeles. they did not get the quality of education despite the best efforts of the parents and teachers who struggled alongside their children every day just to deal with the circumstances we dealt with last time. we are know a different circumstance and so part of our winter surge plan is we re committed to keeping our schools open. dana: the governor as new york state set daily covid records. her position is not universally shared. schools across the nation are planning to go remote again as the omicron variant spreads. emily oster. los angeles last year there were many in person school days were lost in the period of a month due to quarantine measures. so now they are saying they ll