break quarantine after five days, and then wear a mask for five days. i think that s perfectly fair. dr. ramirez, though, why not a distinction between those that are vaccinated versus those that are unvaccinated when it comes to quarantine time after testing positive? well, i think we re at a different point in the pandemic, yasmin. you know, now we re at a place where a lot of the american public is vaccinated. not nearly as much as we wish there were and as many as there need to be to fully protect the public. but at this point, you know, it s getting increasingly difficult for people to differentiate between those people who are unvaccinated and vaccinated and have a policy that s actually implementable at a realistic level. and this is something that the cdc has received a lot of criticism for over the last year. and i think they re trying to consolidate all of their guidance into a place that s reflective of where the country is with our overall vaccination status. sam, tal
all right. so this morning, an investigation is underway into the death of a 14-year-old girl, killed during a police-involved shooting. the lapd released new body camera footage of the incident, saying that they were pursuing a suspect after 911 calls reported that there was someone armed and attacking people in a burlington store where they opened fire. valentina orellana-peralta was in a nearby dressing room, apparently killed by a stray police bullet. according to the l.a. times, valentina and her mother had recently come to the u.s. from chile. nbc s priscilla thompson has more on this incredibly tragic story. yasmin, this incident occurred just days before christmas, and now, the lapd is releasing the 911 calls, the body cam footage, and the surveillance video from inside
over the holidays. flights canceled across the board. how are things looking today again as we check in this hour? yasmin, good morning. i ve been out here talking to a lot of passengers as they come in and out of here. a lot of them tell me their flights are delayed already this week. they re coming back or they re delayed today and arriving early, hoping to get out. there s been a common tale. but i ve been refreshing my flight-aware web browser to try to find out what s going on with the latest numbers. here s where we stand right now, roughly 800 cancellations today, more than 1,000. this is today. and to give you some perspective on that, all of yesterday was 1,400 cancellations, domestically. 7,700 delays yesterday. the delays are the biggest part of this. as we look at a double whammy right now of sorts with the weather in the midwest, chicago, minneapolis, and out in the pacific northwest as well. that s all being snarled.
hi, everybody. it is 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 pacific. i m yasmin vassoughian in for jose diaz-balart. we have a lot to get to this morning, including the big news from the cdc. new guidelines for those two test positive for covid are exposed to the virus. here is what you need to know. those who test positive but have no symptoms should isolate for five days instead of ten and wear a mask for five days. the new guidelines apply to everybody, including the unvaccinated. the quarantine time for someone exposed to someone with covid has also been cut. those boosted or vaccinated within six months can skip quarantine, test on day five, and wear a mask for ten days. those who are not boosted or unvaccinated or were vaccinated more than six months ago should quarantine for five days instead of ten, and then wear a mask for
joining me now is yasmin vassoughian, also with us, one of the teams where medical teams were sent to help with the surge of patients. how are they doing? you know, jose, i have been reporting from outside this hospital over the last two years to the beginning of this pandemic to when they first received the first doses of this vaccine to this surge now. if you take a look at the graph of the hospitalizations across the state of rhode island, they re on the other side of this thing. it s peaked, and at this point it s coming down. across the state, the numbers are still fairly high. as of two weeks ago, you had over 500 individuals hospitalized in the state of rhode island. that number has now come down a bit, to just under 500. but you compare that to numbers in november, when you just had over 100 people hospitalized. those numbers are still fairly