from new york. it shows the rate of hospitalizations among the unvaccinated. that's the top line that you see versus the vaccinated. that's the bottom line. add to that, this important context, the cdc says that some hospitalized patients tested positive after being admitted for other ailments. that's an important note. >> that's something we'll explore more deeply as we move forward. we are also following developments out of chicago. teachers will be back in the classroom today. welcome developments there for parents and students. students will return to in person classes tomorrow. this after the chicago teachers union struck a deal with the mayor over covid safety protocols. we're going to speak with a chicago public schoolteacher who is also a parent in just a moment. plus, hours from now, president biden and vice president harris will speak in atlanta as part of a push to pass voting rights legislation through congress. but, we should note this, it is interesting, a coalition of voting rights groups say they will not participate or attend in the president's speech. we'll have more on why in a moment. lots to get to this morning. our reporters, correspondents, guests, standing by to bring you the latest. >> but we begin this morning with the new covid infection surging to near record levels. cnn's senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us with more and, elizabeth, breakthrough infections now account for a growing share of hospitalizations. but we should note the risk to the unvaccinated still remains very high. >> that's right, bianna. the bottom line here is that with omicron, if you're fully vaccinated or even better fully vaccinated and boosted, your chances of ending up in the hospital are really teeny tiny. if you're unvaccinated, omicron poses a much, much more serious threat to you. so, hospitalizations as we can see in this graph, hospitalizations are surging, surging, surging. i do want to add some context to this. these are hospitalizations of people who have covid, not all of them are in the hospital because of covid. in other words, some of them are in because they're having cancer surgery or they had a heart attack or for whatever reason and when they test them, which is now routine in the u.s., they find out they have covid. that's an important piece of context that needs to be in there, that is the way we have always done the statistics over the past two years, but now it is even more important to remember that because so many people have omicron. it is just, you know, almost saturating the country. and many parts of the world. that's super important to remember. but vaccinated versus unvaccinated, this graphic will really make your jaw drop. when you take a look at the red line, that's the unvaccinated who have covid-19 linked to hospitalizations, the green line is the fully vaccinated. so red is unvaccinated. green is fully vaccinated. you can see the difference right there. i would say in black and white. but in green and red, but the difference is so stark, you're protecting yourself by getting vaccinated and you are protecting others. bianna, jim. >> elizabeth, thanks so much. well, in person classes, they will start today in los angeles. that is the country's second largest school district and this despite more than 60,000 school staff and students testing positive for covid. but that, bianna, as we know is the reason they waited an extra day, right? wanted to get a baseline level of positive tests before they opened the schools. >> and to test all the students before they came back. cnn correspondent stephanie elam joins us now. stephanie, does the school district have a plan if too many teachers or staff call out sick now? >> reporter: they do. what we are seeing here, remember, lausd has 640,000 students and they said some 62,000 staff and students have tested positive. that means they're not going to be able to come here back to school today. but they're also saying that when you look at the positivity rate for lausd, they're saying that number is just shy of 15%. for the county overall, it is above 21%. so this is why they're saying they are all systems go and they do believe it is safer for the kids to get back into school. on top of that, they're saying if teachers are not able to come in, because, let's say they tested positive, they say they have some 4,000 credential district staff who will be able to step into those classrooms and keep those classes going. overall there are some 1,000 schools in lausd and they have not closed any of them down during this academic session. they're saying. and they're saying because of the fact they're requiring vaccination for the teachers and staff and that they have 90% of the students that are vaccinated, they say they have upgraded their filtration systems, and that really hard core rule of masking indoors and outdoors, all of that is helping keep their schools open. though we're in the mitdst of te surge, it is safer for the students to be back in class. >> it looks like they have their plan in place. a tale of two different cities, really, jim, between los angeles and where we turn next, and that is chicago. the bitter four-day standoff between the chicago teachers union and city officials over covid safety measures appears to be over. teachers will be back in classrooms today, and students return tomorrow. >> cnn's adrienne broaddus joins us from chicago. a deal came through late last night and this is one of those issues here which is frankly bipartisan, right, that you have a democratic mayor in addition to many republicans calling for those schools to open. so how did they manage this? what did they agree on? >> reporter: well, jim, i can tell you if you talk to the union president, he will tell you this deal or this agreement isn't perfect. the union members didn't get everything they wanted. but from their perspective, it does have measures in place that will help in the fight against covid. for example, the city, and the district will provide enhanced weekly testing . on top of that, the city and district will provide students and staff with kn 95 masks. there is also a provision for upgraded contact tracing, where people will be paid to do the contact tracing. and here was another sticking point, a threshold or metrics in place, triggering schools individually to flip to remote learning while in the middle of high transmission of covid. and when we say high transmission, we're talking about guidelines outlined by the cdc. getting here wasn't easy. here's what the mayor had to say. >> this was not necessary to happen. and i'm glad that we're hopefully putting this behind us and looking forward, but, you know, there does come a point where enough is enough. >> tired. i wish it hadn't gone that way. ultimately i'm very proud of the fact that the members of the chicago teachers union stand around this. and we're going to keep doing what's right as we go forward in the city. you know, it was not -- it is not a perfect agreement. >> reporter: students returned to the classroom tomorrow. and rank and file members still have to vote and ratify this agreement. and for some students in this district, it's not just about learning. nearly 70% of students enrolled in the district depend on free and reduced lunch. they'll have those meals now. jim and bianna? >> thankfully the children getting the aid they need, academically and in terms of nutrition as well. adrienne broaddus, thank you so much. joining me to talk about all of this is catherine rhodes, a chicago public schoolteacher and a parent. good morning to you, catherine. thank you so much for joining us. i would imagine you are quite relieved that your children will be going back to school and you hear that there is some sort of agreement between the city and the teachers union. what do you make of the agreement thus far and do you have faith it will be lasting? >> the members still have to vote. and from what i heard and read, they're very disappointed. so i think they'll be voting today and tomorrow. so we'll see what happens. i'm certainly relieved to go back to the classroom. and see my students. and my kids are really excited to go back too. >> yeah. can you describe for us what the last week and a half has been like for you? you have said as a teacher you feel safe going back to the classroom and you feel that the mitigation factors are in place to keep both yourself and your children safe. that doesn't seem to have been the case with many other teachers there in the district. but what has this been like for you in the interim? >> it's been frustrating to sit at home, healthy, and wanting to be in the classroom. i, you know, disagree that we should have a district wide shutdown. when you send kids home, you got a million kids who will be spending time in shelters or bedrooms of friends, and safe havens, and we know that places that are legible to the state are where you can do those basic mitigations, like masking and ventilation, regulations. and cps schools have been doing that. and, yes, i feel safe. my kids have had one reported case in their elementary school building all school year. i think you just have to realize that, you know, you can't do those mitigations for whatever people are substituting schools with. and when you shut down schools, you're ignore, the multitude of dangers outside of the classroom, like abuse and hunger and lack of heat and violence. and these are things that, you know, families in chicago are really struggling with. it is a very extreme measure to close schools. >> yeah. i was struck by something you said in a recent interview, as a teacher, i feel supported, not so much as a mother, not so much as a parent. you had a unique perspective of being all three there, mother, parent and teacher. are you an outlier amongst your other colleagues? why is it that you, yourself, feel safe and you listed all the reasons why, and yet so many of your colleagues don't seem to feel safe to return to the classroom? >> i don't have a good answer for that. i don't know why a teacher across the hall from me is, you know, is fearful of going back. i know there are a variety of reasons, it may not be personally that they feel like they're at risk, but they're afraid of spreading it to students and then students going home and spreading it to their families. i mean, you know, what i would have to say to that, what we do as teachers is incredibly important to work. and if you are worried about contracting covid, then you got to, you know, get vaccinated and boosted. and encourage your students and families to get vaccinated. and i don't think there is anything cruel about expecting teachers to do their job in person. i think it is actually a function of believing what teachers do is crucially important. >> and you mentioned -- >> i talked it a lot of teachers who agree, though, with me, and they're just, you know, they don't want to speak out against the union. >> yeah, well, you are indeed speaking out and we're thankful that you are joining us and giving your perspective. we should note, over 90% of the teachers there have been vaccinated. so just grateful that you will have some reprieve in your life and get back to some sense of normalcy, your children will be back in class and you hopefully will be back at school teaching. catherine rose, thank you so much for joining us. >> yep. thank you. important interview there and perspective. president biden heads to atlanta to make his pitch for a voting rights bill. some of the most prominent voting rights groups are not planning to show up. details on why and what they're demanding from the president. plus, a federal judge questions former president trump's actions on the day of the insurrection. how that could impact the civil lawsuits filed against him. and after a 40-year drought, the georgia bulldogs are the college football champs. reaction to their come from behind win, won't want to miss this, straight ahead. i just wish more people knew how easy it was to get health coverage. i'm only paying $52 a month for there are quality plans for even less. my job doesn't offer health insurance, but with the new law, i found an affordable plan and only pay $47 a month. actually, a friend of mine recommended healthcare.gov and now we're paying less than $60 a month for coverage. i was skeptical at first, but it is real. i'm covered with no monthly payment. new law. lower prices. more people qualify. at healthcare.gov ♪ (peaceful music) ♪ ♪ ♪ (battle sounds from phone) ♪ ♪ (battle sounds stop) ♪ ♪ (dragon roar from phone) ♪ ♪ narrator: on a faraway beach, the generation called "our greatest" saved the world from tyranny. in an office we know as "oval," a new-generation president faced down an imminent threat of nuclear war. on a bridge in selma, alabama, the preacher of his time marched us straight to passing voting rights for every american. at a gate in west berlin, a late-generation american president demanded an enemy superpower tear down a wall and liberate a continent. american generations answering the call of their time with american ideals. freedom. liberty. justice. for today's generation of leaders, the call has come again to protect our freedom to vote, to fortify our democracy by passing the freedom to vote act and the john lewis voting rights act because america - john lewis: we are not going back, we are going forward. feel stuck with student loan debt? ♪ move your student loan debt to sofi. earn a $1,000 bonus when you refi- and feel what it's like to get your money right. later this morning, president biden will head to georgia to make an urgent speech to attempt to push congress to act on voting rights legislation. >> cnn's jeremy diamond joins us now from the white house. how far is the president expected to go today? >> reporter: well, listen, bianna, president biden is expected to make his most forceful push yet to pass those two voting rights pieces of legislation that have been stalled in the senate amid republican opposition. and reluctance from two senate democrats to change the filibuster rules to get those pieces of legislation passed. the president is going to be using the backdrop of georgia both as a symbolic place for the civil rights movement, but also as a place where you have seen the state legislature there pass increased restrictions on voting over the last year. and the president is expected to throw his weight and the weight of the presidency behind making changes to the filibuster in order to pass the voting rights -- these voting rights pieces of legislation. spelling out more clearly we're told what kinds of changes he's willing to support and to make the case for that. the president in this speech is also -- this also comes after he made that fiery january 6th speech last week and the president is going to look at this as a quote, unquote turning point in this nation. talking about the role that the senate needs to play in moving the nation forward towards more voting rights legislation. he's expected to say and so, quote, the question is where will the institution of the united states senate stand? and clearly president biden believes changes to the filibuster are necessary, but, again, senators joe manchin and senator kyrsten sinema so far resistant to any changes to the filibuster which makes the path forward very, very difficult. bianna, jim? >> multiple senators expressing at least hesitation. jeremy diamond at the white house, thank you very much. this is notable, prominent voting rights advocate stacey abrams will not be attending president biden's speech today. she says she has a scheduling conflict. but she is not alone. a handful of voting rights groups have decided against going, instead calling on biden to stay in washington unless he is prepared to announce a clear path to passing legislation. joining me now, marc morial, the president of the national urban league. marc, thank you for taking time this morning. >> thank you for having me. good morning. >> cliff albright, is not alone in his criticism of the biden plan on voting rights legislation. i want to play his criticism and get your reaction. have a listen. >> we would have loved that the president used the presidency as a bully pulpit for the past seven, eight months, while we were fighting for vote rights, even getting arrested outside of the white house begging him to do so. at this point, we don't need another speech. we don't need him to come to georgia and use us as a prop. what we need is work. >> we don't need another speech, what we need is work. i wonder if you agree. >> we need the full weight of the presidency, the prestige of the president and the vice president to be fully behind the passage of these two bills to protect american democracy. and i think regardless of whether you believe the president should make a speech or whether he should be in georgia and i believe he should make a strong statement, and he should be here in georgia, the point is we're all united on the ultimate objective, which is to protect democracy, and also to pass these two bills. all of us in the civil rights and voting rights community are united in that outcome. i think that's what we ought to keep the focus on. today is important because we have been encouraging, demanding, asking, please ding, begging, saying to the president and the vice president it is time to put all of the prestige and power of the presidency behind this existential threat to the future of the nation, which is what the attacks represent. >> this speech, it has got the prestige, certainly has the symbolism, things like being in john lewis' home district here. but what is the plan is the question, right? because the president -- democrats don't have the votes. they don't have the votes. what is the plan to get it passed? >> it is going to come down to the will of the senate and the will primarily of the senate democrats. their courage and their conviction, as to where they stand in this moment of american history. >> don't we know that. don't we know that, though, when we say -- by the way, manchin is not alone as politico notes this morning, other democratic senators, manchin, sinema, mark kelly in arizona, john tester have at least raised questions or expressed hesitation about this. that puts them well short of the votes they need. >> i say it is time to call a question, jim. put it on the floor. let's see where people stand. let's see how they vote. let's see if they choose between an antiquated, outmoded filibuster that is being used, or whether they're going to stand in light of january 6th, in light of this tsunami of voter suppression laws in favor of and in support of the protection of american democracy. it is time to call the question in the united states senate and i hope that the president is going to say that today. let's let the senate have a vote. let's see where people stand. let everyone turn their cards up. and i am hopeful and encouraged that they'll do the right thing. but we're going to continue to keep the pressure on the united states senate. and let me say this, i am absolutely taken aback by republican members who have thwarted this bill when they were 15 years ago at the white house celebrating the passage of a prior extension of the voting rights act. so republicans cannot be let off the hook in terms of why they have flip-flopped in their position on voting rights, a number of them have. several who were there in 2006 remain in the united states senate. so call the question on all of these members. democrats and republicans, where do you stand? >> well, we'll see that, the question is then what happens next, of course. marc morial, good to have you on the program this morning. >> always, jim, thank you. >> that speech from the president expected to take place this afternoon, of course. we'll be covering that as well. well, still ahead, a possible major development that could put former president trump in civil jeopardy. a federal judge is questioning trump's claim of immunity from allegations that he incited the violent attack on the u.s. capitol. we'll have details up next. and we're moments away from the opening bell on wall street. futures point down now, slightly, this morning. investors closely watching the reconfirmation hearing of fed chair jerome powell today, looking for any signals once again regarding the fed's upcoming moves on inflation or crucially interest rates. that hearing starts in the next hour. we'll keep a close eye on it, stay with us. power e*trade gives you an award-winning mobile app with powerful, easy-to-use tools, and interactive charts to give you an edge, 24/7 support when you need it the most. plus, zero-dollar commissions for online u.s. listed stocks. 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>> this was a five-hour hearing so there are are a lot of questions this judge asked of both sides and this really was the first time that these lawsuits trying to hold trump accountable for the insurrection are getting looked at closely by a judge raising lots of legal questions. in this one, the judge didn't really show his cards on how he's going to rule, but he did push trump's lawyers quite hard on this question of whether trump could be liable for conspireing with the crowd that he said, you know, walked to the capitol and then did not call them off this is what mehta said, the words are hard to walk back, he's talking about trump's words on january 6th, you have an almost two hour window where the president does not say stop, get out of cap theitol, this is what i wanted you to do. isn't that from a plausibility standpoint that the president plausibly agreed with the conduct of the people inside the capitol that day? now, the judge also said that it is -- this isn't the only legal question and none of these legal question are going to be easy for him to decide on. there will be a decision in the coming months. and some of the arguments, there are lots of them, that trump's lawyers and others are making to try to get this lawsuit stopped right now including that they're protected by the first amendment and that trump, when he was president, anything that he said or did should have no liability whatsoever in a lawsuit like this. >> it is interesting, though to get a window into the judge's thinking at least on this very issue. lauren, meantime, we know the house committee has been trying to speak with one of trump's chief allies in congress, of course. that's representative jim jordan. he still won't commit to cooperating with investigators, but hasn't yet said no. definitively, right? >> well, there is basically over the last 48 hours been several developments. on sunday he sent a letter to the committee saying that he didn't plan to cooperate because he said he didn't have any relevant information. however, yesterday, my colleague, ryan nobles, pushed jim jordan as to whether or not he had ultimately ruled out participating in the select committee's inquiry and this is what he had to say. >> if they offered you the opportunity to speak in a public setting, would you be willing to do something like that? >> we have the letter, you can read my letter that's our response. >> you said before you didn't have anything to hide, so -- >> i got nothing. i got nothing to hide. but, i mean, i got to tell you, like i said in the letter, i have real concerns with -- i have real concerns with any committee that is going to falsify change evidence and lie to the american people about it. that's why we put it in the letter. >> and ultimately this raises a serious question, how far is the select committee going to go to get members of their own body to testify before their committee. are they going to subpoena somebody like jim jordan ultimately? are they going to subpoena someone like scott perry, another republican that they think has relevant information who has so far refused to cooperate with the committee? that is a huge question looming and we may get answers in the next several days or weeks. jim and bianna? >> and, do they have other witnesses who could corroborate without that testimony, open question here. lauren fox on the hill, katelyn, thank you. critical talks between the u.s. and russia may have hit another roadblock. we just spoke with cnn to the u.n. ambassador to nato. we'll have that cnn exclusive interview next. for investors who can navigate this landscape, leveraging gold, a strategic and sustainable asset... the path is gilded with the potential for rich returns. at fidelity, your dedicated advisor will work with you on a comprehensive wealth plan across your full financial picture. a plan with tax-smart investing strategies designed to help you keep more of what you earn. this is the planning effect. do your eyes bother you? 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>> we'll see, things have not worked in the past. alex marquardt, thank you very much. jinteresting words followin this meeting with the russians from wendy sherman because in very clear terms she laid out all the things that the u.s. and nato are not willing to do, which struck me as notable. i want to play that sound quickly and get your reaction. >> we will not allow anyone to slam closed nato's open door policy, which has always been central to the nato alliance. we will not forgo bilateral cooperation with sovereign states that wish to work with the united states. and we will not make decisions about ukraine without ukraine, about europe, without europe, about nato, without nato. >> those statements stand in direct contradiction to several of russia's demands. i wonder if you believe russia heard that message in geneva. >> well, i'm certain they heard it, jim. because secretary sherman, who you and i have known for a long time, does not mince words. and i'm sure that if she said is that clearly in the briefing with all of us she was probably even more clear in the room. that said, the big question here is what is this conflict all about? is it really about ukraine, in which case there may be some diplomatic room to go move things around, or is it really about the larger demands that putin has voiced for some time, many years, and has now crystallized in this proposed treaty, which basically would call to the united states and nato to go back to the lines prior to 1997, before nato expanded. and keep all weapons including nuclear weapons and forces out of those countries? >> and, david, we know that's just not going to happen, which is why it raises the question whether putin wants an off ramp at this point in terms of what goes on and ukraine, and as we heard from the deputy foreign minister of russia yesterday say that russia has no plansen separating ukraine, but things look quite different on the ground. i want to read from your own reporting from "the new york times" that in addition to the 100,000 military personnel surrounding the border, there are now aircraft that have been spotted there as well. what does that tell you about russia's intentions? it hasn't built up the number of troops, but the addition of aircraft could suggest they are in fact planning something immentally. >> that's right, bianna. we are trying to figure it out. you are, the u.s. intelligence community is. there are a couple of possibilities here. one possibility is that putin simply hasn't made a decision about whether to do full scale invasion. and he really couldn't do one until a hard freeze takes place in the area because his heavy armor would sink in the mud otherwise. and so we have a few weeks on that. second possibility is he just tries to expand the area in eastern ukraine that they already took in 2014. third possibility is that he tries something that would give him influence, but perhaps not trigger the sanctions. another cyberattack that brought down the power grid, similar to what they have done before in ukraine. we just don't know. he may not know. >> yeah. as you know, a lot of the folks making the decisions and developing the policies now are veterans of the obama administration. joe biden, of course, among them. and the read on 2014 when russia previously invaded ukraine, by the way, still controls crimea, for folks at home, just to remind them, was that the sanctions weren't hard enough, folks underestimated russia's commitment, et cetera. do you believe the administration's response shows learning from those lessons? >> definitely, jim. it shows that they have learned that the 2014 sanctions were insufficient. and the evidence of that is clear. the sanctions were intended to force russia to leave crimea. they are still there, nearly eight years later. the question now is are they sufficient. and so what they learned is merely going after banks and financial institutions is not sufficient. the russians have done a pretty good job of sanctions proofing themselves. the new sanctions have two new elements. one is technology, including perhaps consumer technologies into russia. and the second one is that the u.s. would help fund and arm an insurgency should the russians occupy parts of the country. the question in my mind and i'm sure even in the minds of many of the administration is this enough to make putin recalculate. >> yeah. and this ahead of russia's meeting with nato, typically they have been more bitter towards nato than even the u.s. we'll see what comes out of that meeting tomorrow. david sanger, thank you, as always. >> thank you, bianna. well, this just in to cnn, we are learning more about a ground stop for planes issued on the west coast yesterday. how that may have been a response to warnings of a potential north korean missile launch. more on that coming up next. somt memories growing up, were cooking with mom. she always said, “food is love.” so when she moved in with us, a new kitchen became part of our financial plan. ♪ i want to make the most of every meal we have together. ♪ at northwestern mutual, our version of financial planning helps you live your dreams today. find a northwestern mutual advisor at nm.com (birds chirping) ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ (phone beep) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (music quieter) ♪ (phone clicks) ♪ ♪ looking to get back in your type 2 diabetes zone? 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i'm curious, in your many years covering the aviation sector, have you seen any precedent for something like this? >> there has never been a national groundstop in the united states since 9/11, jim, which makes this so unusual that this alert would have gone out to air traffic control facilities on the west coast. we're hearing recordings now from some airports on the west coast, burbank, california, also hillsborough, oregon, also an official in san diego, california, tells us, there was this national groundstop yesterday. although this u.s. official has told us now, to cnn, that this was not a nationwide ground stop and that this information came because of a norad concern about this north korean missile launch which would have happened around 5:00 p.m. eastern time yesterday. so the timing does possibly line up here. just want you to listen now to some of these air traffic control recordings from air traffic control site in burbank, california and flights were essentially urged not to take off, they said there was a national ground stop, this he could not take off and in some cases the flights were ordered to land. just listen now. >> we're currently doing some gate hold procedures. there's ground stop, all departures, all airports right now. >> okay, all right, we'll just monitor you and any updates and do you have any idea how long it will be? >> the message we got it is until further notice right now but as soon as i get an update i'll reach out to all of you guys. >> some sort of national security situation going on and we're not saying, allowing aircraft to maneuver at the moment. >> so why did they get this message and pass it on to the flights on the west coast yesterday afternoon on the west coast, still unclear here, if the north korean missile ever really posed a threat. officials have told us in the past that north korean ballistic missiles could not pose a threat to the united states. the faa still not commenting on all of this, despite our multiple attempts to get in touch with them. >> those are quite a group of words to hear in a cockpit, a ground stop. and even remarkable how calm the pilot was in response to it. >> thank you very much. still ahead president biden expected to use his speech in atlanta today to try to put pressure on the senate to change filibuster rules for voting rights but even some voting rights groups say the president at this point is all talk. not nearly enough action. we will have live team coverage next. we ll, would you look at that? 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