the agency now reducing the number of days from ten to five if you're asymptomatic. the cdc also now recommending the same amount of time for vaccinated people to quarantine if they have been exposed to the virus, with no quarantine at all if you're boosted. dr. anthony fauci says the new changes are part of an effort to get people back to work faster, amid major concerns about staffing shortages at hospitals, airlines and businesses across the country, because of the omicron surge. >> and president biden is grappling with a failure that could have been foreseen. the omicron wave has exposed shortages in access to testing. many americans are wasting in long lines for tests, if they can get them at all. speaking to governors on monday, the president acknowledged that steps to scale up testing capacity were not enough to meet demand. >> it went from no over the counter tests in january, to 46 million in october. 100 million in november. and almost 200 million in december. it is not enough. it is clearly not enough. if i had known we would have gone harder, quicker, if we could have. we have to do more. we have to do better. and we will. >> now, the president has pledged to distribute 500 million testing kits beginning in january. that won't help this week's holiday crunch. let's go to leyla santiago live outside a miami testing site, where some people have been waiting for more than two hours. >> reporter: yeah, john. we have been here all morning long, and we have seen that it is very busy. we talked to one woman that got here at 3:00 in the morning. she had to wait three hours to get a test. this is something that the organizers here expected to see somewhat of a surge in demand for testing, but they said that what they're seeing now is unprecedented, something they have never seen before at this site, which is one of the busiest sites in south florida. they have increased the amount of workers here, by 50%. but, still, again, to your point, very, very long lines. listen to what two friends told us that waited in line. >> it is way more chaotic now. everybody is freaking out. that's the same thing that happened right before the first shutdown, you know. everybody is, like, going everywhere about it. >> how would you -- >> there is a spot right by my house where i would go. it would take less than five minutes. i would just walk there. and that's it. and now the line extends to the next street. it is crazy. >> reporter: and so now miami-dade county says that it will be opening four to five new sites to try to meet that demand over the coming days. we should also mention that they were distributing test kits that people could take rapid tests at home over a two-day period. they distribute 150,000 of those. and now they're all out. so they put in a new request to the department of health to try to get more testing supplies here in miami-dade county. john? >> 150,000 tests and already out. the demand is there, we got to increase the supply. leyla, thank you very much. on top of that, there is new government data on the pandemic that will be of concern to parents. the cdc and health and human services departments say the number of children in the hospital with covid-19 is getting close to a peak that was reached in early september. new york city is reporting a fivefold increase in pediatric hospitalizations and for more on that let's get to cnn's senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen and, so, elizabeth, parents obviously are watching this closely, but you say they should not be panicking just yet. >> right. and the reason why is that these numbers are still really small. they're still a very small number of children who are ending up in the hospital, thank goodness, with omicron. the concern is that these numbers are getting bigger and let's -- we'll talk about why, but let's look at the numbers. if you look nationally, what we're seeing according to cdc data is that for the week ending december 18th, there were 201 children in the hospital. for the week ending december 25th, there were 260 children in the hospital. so that's a big -- still a small number, but a big difference. if we look specifically at new york city, december 5th, through 11th, there were 22 children in the hospital with covid. december 19th through 23rd, a shorter time period, but more recent, 109 admissions. so that really tells you something when you look at the differences in those hospital admissions numbers. now, this may be a case where so many people are getting omicron, it is so transmissible that the more children who get omicron, the more are going to end up in the hospital. in other words, it is not so much necessarily that omicron is more dangerous for children, it could just be that there are so many more children getting omicron. that hasn't sort of been figured out yet, but we shouldn't conclude, my goodness, omicron, more dangerous for children in and of itself, that's not necessarily the case. but, still, a concern to see these rising numbers for children. kaitlan? >> yeah, especially given children under 5 are that last group ineligible to get vaccinated yet. elizabeth cohen, thank you. for more on all of this, let's bring in the dean of brown university's school of public health, dr. ashish jha. in your view, the cdc changing this isolation period, cutting it for people who are asymptomatic, that's a key phrase in this new guidance, from ten days to five days, was this long overdue? >> first of all, good morning, thank you for having me back. yes, i codo think it was long overdue. i've been calling for a shortening of the isolation period for a long while now. for two reasons, one, the evidence suggests most of the spreading that people do happens for a couple of days before they have symptoms and two to three days after they have symptoms. waiting five days is reasonable. second, asking people to be isolated longer than they need to be. it is hugely burdensome to them. i think this cdc move is exactly right. if people follow what cdc laid out, it will still keep people safe and let them get out of isolation more quickly. >> and, doctor, you made the point, this is about incentive structures and if there is a more reasonable window, rooted in sound science, that will increase people's ability or instinct to participate. we see the distinction between asymptomatic cases and symptomatic, but what about for folks vaccinated versus unvaccinated? should there be a distinction there? >> i think there is. i -- even though i applaud the cdc's decision, this is not how i would have done it. i think they should have done this a bit differently for vaccinated versus unvaccinated. we know -- when they have a breakthrough infection shed for much shorter period of time, so this is really reasonable for vaccinated people. i think they could have made that distinction, i wish they had. >> i do think it is surprising they did not make that distinction or recommend that people get a rapid test at the end of the five days as these discussions were going on behind the scenes. i do note something you noted earlier, ten days of isolation was a lot. especially if you're a single parent or relying on hourly wages. do you think this is going to make people more willing to follow the guidance? >> i hope so. i hope so. look, anytime you put a really high burden on people to do something, they're less likely to do it. so if you are an hourly wage worker and you feel reasonably fine, maybe mild symptoms, you're much less likely to get tested if you know that a positive result will mean ten days of not being able to work, of being isolated. five days feels more reasonable to a lot of people. i think as long as it is the right thing to do from a science and public health point of view, that's what we should be doing. i think it will milwaake a difference. >> doctor, we're seeing a fivefold increase in pediatric hospitalizations in new york city. so do you expect cases to spike after the break when kids return to school. if so, do you think some communities, no one wants to do this, but do you think some communities should consider delaying opening schools in person by a week or so? >> yeah, so what we know is that most kids get infected from their families and people around them. so i don't think that schools are the major source of spread. a lot of this spread happening now is because kids are spending time at home, with older siblings, with parents, grandparents, uncles, friends. that's how a lot of the spread is happening. i have seen no evidence of getting kids back into school somehow caused infections to go up further, so i think kids should get back to school and we now know how to keep kids and teachers and staff safe in schools, so i would like to have everybody back as soon as they're able to get back. >> that's great. >> and part of that aspect of keeping kids in school, keeping teachers in school is testing. and so you saw president biden yesterday acknowledging pretty bluntly they need to do better when it comes to testing. we are seeing this nationwide shortage of those rapid at home tests, it is very difficult to just walk into a store and get one. and what we're hearing from officials like dr. fauci is that they believe they're going to have this solved by mid-january. in a few weeks. how critical is the window we're missing right now for testing? >> i think it is incredibly critical. i cannot believe this is where we are two years into the pandemic. everybody saw it coming. we knew we needed more tests. i think the administration dropped the ball on this. they focused a lot on vaccines, which is terrific. vaccines are really important part of this. but did not pay enough attention to testing. and i think it has been really costly in this holiday season. i hope we fix it in january and february. we're going to have to have a real effort to make sure there is plentiful cheap ubiquitous testing everywhere in the country. that's where we should be in this pandemic right now. >> certainly you make a good point. vaccines have got to come first. without testing, you're flying blind. two questions about testing. do you have any concerns about the efficacy of these rapid tests for the omicron variant, and then how often should people ideally be taking the at-home test if they can get them, once they go about their normal lives. >> two great questions. all the data so far suggests the rapid tests work fine against the omicron variant. the different companies are also testing it out, but the preliminary data suggests it should work just fine. i'm not super concerned. in terms of how often you should be testing your set oself, it d what kind of life you have. people should test before they get together for the holidays or for a new year's eve party. if you're in a high risk situation, maybe testing a couple of times a week just to make sure you're not infected and walking into a nursing home infected, that kind of thing can make a big difference. and, of course, if you have the mildest of symptoms, get tested because that's a good way of identifying the disease early. so lots of different context and that's why we need tens of millions of these tests widely available every day for people to use. >> one quick question for you, going abroad for a moment, you're seeing in italy where there is concern about new cases, they're imposing an outdoor mask mandate, hoping to curb the surge there, saying unless you're playing a sport, you have to wear a mask when you're engaging in outdoor public activity. do you think that is something that is appropriate in a time like this, where we are in this pandemic when it comes to vaccines and treatments and testing? >> i don't. here's why. we have not seen much evidence there is spread in the outdoor setting. theoretically it can happen and i'm sure it has happened, but it is pretty infrequent. i want to make sure if we ask people to change behavior, we focus on the high risk situations. outdoors is not particularly risky. indoor large gatherings, absolutely essential people wear masks. i want to focus our attention on those much riskier situations and not get distracted by things that i don't think are going to make a big difference. >> dr. ashish jha, thank you for your insight as always. >> thank you. not all airline flight attendants are exactly happy with the cdc's new five-day isolation rules. you'll hear why from their union boss. that's coming up. and the stories that had people hungry for the truth this year. the most popular fact checks of 2021. such tree-mendous views. i'm at a moss for words. when a cough tries to steal dad's punchlines, he takes robitussin naturals powered by 100% drug-free ingredients. are you gonna leaf me hanging? soothe your cough naturally. ♪ when you have nausea, ♪ ♪ heartburn, ingestion, upset stomach... ♪ ♪ diarrheaaaa.♪ try pepto bismol with a powerful coating action. for fast and soothing relief. pepto bismol for fast relief when you need it most. fact checking can be a thankless job. but, hey, somebody's got to do it the political landscape in 2021 provided a seemingly unless supply of work for journalists like glen kessler, he joins us now to discuss the most popular fact checks of the past year. glen, good to see you. >> glad to be with you. >> let's start with number one, the most popular article you published this year, debunking the claim that the taliban had seized $85 billion of u.s. weapons. walk us through that one. >> right, so that's the -- that $85 billion number, it is actually 83, technically, was the number for all money appropriated to afghan security forces. but only about 75 billion of it even got to afghanistan and then less than 30% of that even went to weapons. so you can see already way lower than $85 billion, you're in the $20 billion range, and a lot of those weapons, that's a figure over 20, 25 -- 2020 years, so the actual number of weapons that were abandoned, most of which before the army left they disabled is much, much smaller. >> that is a key fact to disrupt that partisan stat. another popular piece you dealt with this year was the origins of the coronavirus. there was a lot of pushback, but then evidence started coming in that sparked some serious investigations. and certainly no one should be calling that a conspiracy theory now. walk us through it. >> right. so what i did there was i -- i created a timeline that led readers through all the key events and the articles by scientists and, you know, expert opinion that led people to more increasingly decide that the lab leak theory was possible, i mean, most experts still believe the coronavirus emerged out of nature, you know, from an animal to a human, but there are questions raised about the way that that lab was operated and some of the tests they were doing in that lab that gave new credence to that theory. that fact check helped readers understand how the scientific consensus had changed over the last two years. >> and certainly the lack of chinese transparency and cooperation doesn't help clear that up, but it does raise additional questions. you also fact check number three the political origins story spread by representative lauren boebert, republican from colorado. she claimed she began to allow her staff to carry guns after a man was killed outside her restaurant. but, wait, what's the real story, glen? >> right, yeah. i obtained, you know, coroner's reports and police documents, but what happened was there was a guy involved in an apparent drug transaction and several blocks away from her restaurant, and then he collapsed as he was running away. and it had nothing to do with a murder. the way she described it, he was killed in a fight or something like that. the fight took place far away from her restaurant, and, you know, it was determined within a day that this had been a drug overdose. so it was a story that was, you know, convenient for her politically, helped ex-mplain h politics and why she went into politics and why she let her staff carry guns at the restaurant, but it was very far from the truth. >> for sure. to one, to point out it is not republicans telling tall tales all the time. biden falsely claiming that the georgia election law that imposed new restrictions on voting ended early voting hours. but that wasn't exactly true, he was it? >> no. there are issues with what people can raise about aspects of that law, but for some reason the president kept harping on the idea that it would cut voting hours, and actually it expanded voting opportunities in large parts of georgia. and it didn't affect voting hours on election day. this is something he said about three times, and we could never get an explanation as to why he kept saying it. interestingly, we fact checked joe biden more than any other politician or person this past year, but fact checks about biden don't initially get the eyeballs you would expect. >> maybe volume issue as well. real quick, to number five, it is about january 6th. you fact check claims from representative jim jordan that nancy pelosi denied a request for reinforcements on january 6th from the national guard. >> there is no evidence at all to support that. this is an example of how some republicans have tried to reframe january 6th and point the blame in other directions. pelosi is a common person that they would blame. in this case, this was a tweet by jim jordan, we looked into it, there also has been lots of public testimony, there is absolutely no evidence to support what he claimed. >> thank you, glenn kessler, for all that you do, wrapping up 2021. here's to 2022, i know there will be more fact checks ahead. up next, the just released body cam video in the shooting death of a 14-year-old girl by police inside a los angeles store. and the cdc's new five-day isolation rules, the nation's largest flight attendants union is speaking out against the change. we have that next. works on that too, and lasts 12 hours. 12 hours?! who studies that long? 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>> they communicated continuously and they gave the suspect an opportunity to surrender. they announced they were coming on the second floor, suggesting he make himself visible and surrender and he did none of that. while as tragic that this young girl lost her life there was no way to know she was on the other side of the wall we saw, for the most part, there weren't any patrons or customers on the second floor, and so let's not forget there was a young woman who we saw just moments before being savagely beaten by this man with this chain, with a lock on the end of it. while it is not a gun, be clear, that's a deadly weapon. he could have easily killed her. >> no question about it. and just as clear is the heart breaking tragedy of this young girl's death. elie what is your reaction to sergeant dorsey saying there was no fault with the officers s he? is it possible that the officer could face criminal prosecution? >> prosecutors will have to do a complete investigation. but my initial instinct based on what we know far is similar to sergeant dorsey. this is an unthinkable tragedy. the law in california says a police officer is entitled to use lethal force to discharge his or her weapon if it is necessary to prevent immediate threat of death or great bodily injury. the video image we have seen shows the officers walked into the scene of a rampage. this individual -- mr. lopez is his name, he was on a rampage, he was hitting people with a heavy metal object, which as sergeant dorsey noted can do real damage. they walked right past a bloody woman. it is a tragic situation, we have to get all the facts. but i do think that ultimately the shooting will be ruled a justified shooting by the police. >> what is that process for determining if the officers acted reasonably under the circumstances? >> yes, so, under the law you have to look at what the officer reasonably knew at that moment. the law says you can't go back and use sort of perfect hindsight and say, well, for example, there was this person -- this young woman behind the wall there, there is no way based on the evidence we have seen that the officers could have known that. police and prosecutors have to get every bit of evidence here, they have to run the ballistics, they have to review every second of surveillance video, body cam video, interview everyone who was there, police officers, bystanders, get the complete picture and make the legal conclusion. >> sergeant dorsey, put us in the police officer's shoes. this is a clothing store, open during shopping hours, middle of a busy holiday season, so what is the protocol when it comes to assessing that kind of environment and ensuring that others are not in the line of fire, understanding there was no way to see the young girl and her mother behind that wall. >> we can see the officers on scene asking some of the people exiting the store or working in the store are there any customers upstairs? they knew he was on the second level. and so they're being observant as they're going up the escalator to that second level and perusing their environment, looking left to right as they're walking, trying to locate the suspect and you don't see anyone until they encounter the victim. what is in the mind of the officers in that moment, they're responding to a code three call, red lights and sirens, shots fired, possibly an active shooter, that's what was in the mind of the officers. the suspect hitting this woman with that lock probably sounded to the witnesses like gunfire. and that's what the officers were responding to when they encountered the suspect. i give you there was some distance between them, but they did not have concealment, there was a clothing rack between the officers and the suspect. had he been armed as they were told and believed, he could have done great damage to the officers, fatally wounding one of them if they had not acted in the manner they did. >> what is next in the investigation? what is the process? >> so, state investigators will get involved now because there was a fatality. they'll do their findings. they need to be transparent and accurate and move quickly here. a prosecutor at the state ag's office and local prosecutors will sit down and make a determination whether to put the case in front of a grand jury, whether to seek an indictment or not. >> we'll see what goes forward. thank you for clarifying this tragic situation for us. sergeant sheryl dorsey, elie honig thank you. coming up next, airline flight attendants are calling out the cdc's new isolation guidelines for people who test positive for covid. there were some record-breaking holiday sales. how supply chains may have played a part. 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>> well, the issue here is that we have not kept track of vaccines like other countries have. there is real operational issues with being able to put this in place. if there were a policy that put that all on the airlines or the frontline workers working there, it just wouldn't work. there is no way to get that done. in coordination, we can continue to work on this and work to see how we work through the operational issues. it is more important than ever that we redouble efforts to try to do that, in light of the new cdc guidance around the quarantine team. >> would airlines have to extra people if there were a mandate? >> we would have to have a way to track vaccination status of travelers more easily and likely to have the government taking part in tracking that vaccination status at the airports, not putting that on the airlines. it is something we should look at and i'm glad that dr. fauci continues to say it is on the table. >> do you think there should be w one? >> we all know the pandemic is not going to end until everyone is vaccinatevaccinated. right now there are still infections happen on the planes at the same rate as our communities. we don't want to add it to the spread of the virus, the continuation of it, the mutations of it. and the more that we can do to get people vaccinated, the better off we're going to be and this pandemic can get back to the freedom we had prior to it. >> sarah nelson, thank you for joining this morning on all of this. >> thank you. up next, a retail report card for holiday shopping. did supply chain issues and inflation hurt the bottom line or help it? 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>> we have gone over that. did you think covid is not a serious illness? what is your thought on it now? >> it is a big deal. >> joining us now is the correspondent you see there, cnn national correspondent miguel marquez, who has been covering this pandemic since the beginning. i want to ask you, what was it like in those early days, when you're going into hospitals, there is no vaccine yet, there is no protection for you like that, you're relilying on the mask, the goggles you're wearing, the scrubs you're wearing, what was that like putting that on and talking to people who were on ventilators, who may be taking their last breaths, who aren't seeing their loved ones? >> it was fear inducing. we had no idea what we were dealing with, whether it was me, frank, the photographer who went with me on the front shoot, andy did the second shoot in new york, very early on, doctors were still trying to grapple with what was happening to their patients, they had no clue how to treat them. some idea, but everything they were trying was failing and they were very, very frustrated. the number of doctors crying and nursing staff crying and patients sort of staring off in the distance, and unable to breathe, it was shocking. so coming home, stripping everything off, jumping in the shower, keeping myself isolated from family and friends for as many days as possible, you know, it was a very scary taime. >> that brings me back to how far we have come, in knowledge of the virus as new waves come in, and the fact that we have vaccines. as you cover it now and we confront the fact that it is a pandemic of the unvaccinated, breakthrough cases aside, not leading to as many hospitalizations and deaths, how does that change your perspective? >> this pandemic, this virus, it reminds us how much we need each other. we need each other to wear masks everywhere, we need each other to get vaccinated. it shows us how distrustful this country is. everybody was cheering at 7:00 p.m. every night for workers, healthcare workers to go to the midwest, the south and all over country and to see people in hospitals and they moved on, they just don't care, it is beyond their ability to take in anymore because they don't think -- either they don't believe it is real or they just can't accept it is happening in their community. to see it go from cities to rural areas to everywhere in the country, it has been an experience. i covered iraq and afghanistan, this has been worse. >> wow. that says a lot. i know risk -- taking a risk is part of the job. you're going in there to tell people's stories. that's how you were taking the risk, going into the hospitals, talking not only to the doctors and nurses and those in charge of staffing the morgue there, but also to tell people's stories who were in the rooms, on the ventilators, in these hospital beds. so i wonder if there is anyone whose story will stick with you. >> so many. the nurse who was getting ready to retire in michigan, in lansing, michigan, whose hub was d dealing with a health issue an she got me into tears. i cried more in the last two years talking to people and how difficult it is for them to come to work every single day and deal with the same thing over and over and over. >> that's what we do. and that's what you do in telling their stories. it is all about telling a story about something bigger than ourselves. that's one of the things this pandemic has taught us and you helped show us. thank you, miguel. >> miguel, thank you so much. you did such good work for cnn and it really showed. and it was really powerful for someone to go in there to show what it was really like. i think it was a big lesson for a lot of people at home who were maybe like that woman and didn't think it was a big deal at first. and then realized quickly how serious it was. >> oh, yeah, thank you, guys. all right. >> now it is time for the good stuff. and the power of social media and how it helped one man find his lost wedding band. bob mann and his wife were eating at one of their favorite florida restaurants when he unwittingly dropped his wedding ring. that's when michelle entered the picture. >> i'm walking and all of a sudden i look down and see a gold ring. i said, that looks like someone's wedding band. all i thought was, oh, my god, what if it was my ring or his ring? i would want someone to try and find a way to get it back to me. >> she found the ring and posted a picture of it on social media, noting that it had an inscription inside of it. when someone recognized it, they alerted the manns who described the inscription on the ring and michelle returned it, just in time for christmas. >> i asked him if he had lost a ring. he said, no. he said, wait a minute. i don't have my ring on. he thought it was in the bathroom. he couldn't find it. it was great they would follow through with that. >> i think they were more enthused than we were. >> she said she plans to get her own husband's ring inscribed, just in case, and maybe a phone number would work. >> that's good. i think not romantic, but practical. >> yeah. exactly. sometimes the practical can be romantic. >> in some cases also for many husbands, that kind of knowing it will come back to you, even if you lose it, will be helpful g . >> we needed some good stuff, thank you. >> we did. good to be with you this morning. we'll be back tomorrow. right now, cnn's coverage continues right now. good morning, everyone. so glad you're with me. i'm poppy harlow. jim has the week off. we begin with a major shift in guidance from the cdc, dramatically reducing the recommendations for isolation and quarantine times for people who test positive with covid or who have been exposed to someone with covid-19. so here's how the new guidance works. this is a quote from the cdc. people who test positive should isolate for five days and if asymptomatic at that time they may leave isolatio

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