Disease control says, though, that vaccinations for teachers, in her personal opinion, are not a requirement. This as the Obama Administration says decisions should not be made immediately. Also want to make it clear that there is increasing data to suggest that schools can safely reopen and that that safe reopening does not suggest that teachers need to be vaccinated in order to reopen safely. The doctor spoke to this in her personal capacity. Obviously, shes the head of the cdc, but were going to wait for the final guidance so we can use that as a guide for schools around the country. Eric so what could that final guidance be for parents across the country who have been home schooling their kids on zoom and all of that . Lucas tomlinson In Washington with more on what we can expect. Reporter good afternoon. Chicagos democratic mayor, lori lightfoot, says shes had it with the teachers and wants them back in the classroom as quickly as possible. My patience is up. We cant wait hours and hours and hours and have no response other than were working on it. Thats not good enough anymore. Its similar are my not good enough anymore simply not good enough anymore. Reporter earlier tennessee senator Marsha Blackburn responded. If i were lori lightfoot, i would fire every one of these teachers that will not go Back To School in chicago. If. Reporter Teachers Unions are also resisting returning to the classroom in l. A. , boston, cleveland, philadelphia, San Francisco where the city actually sued its school board as well as here in the nations capital. At the white house, jen psaki was pressed on the issue. President biden use the power of the bully pulpit to help cajole teachers who are unwilling to go Back To Schools to go back . Im just going to reject the premise of the question. Were going rely on cdc guidance which, again, is not officially out yet to determine the best way to do it. But there are several mitigating factors that weve seen to date that will help make it safe. Yes with an asterisk. If you are the spokesperson for the white house, you could certainly say that, but you are not. Reporter joe biden was the top recipient from the Teachers Unions by a long to shot in 2020. More than 98 of the teachers donate to democrats. The cdc director says the teachers could get back to the classroom with or without shots. States such as mississippi and florida have recently returned for inperson learning in Public Schools while adhering to longstanding cdc guidance on mask wearing and social distance. The new cdc director walked back those comments two days later at the white house. She says shes working on that new Official Guidance due out next week. Everything, arthel . Eric thanks so much. Coming up, we will delve more into this and whether or not it is safe to send your kids Back To School. Dr. Nicole saphier will be here to tell us and get her take on how schools can reopen safely. Arthel well, New York City turning Yankee Stadium into a mega center for Covid Vaccinations as Governor Andrew Cuomo says hes aiming to expand eligibility for those with several medical conditions in the coming weeks. This comes amid a chilling warning, doctors now raising concerns about the South African strain of the virus, saying it could reinfect people who have already been sickened by coronavirus. Alex hogan is live in the bronx, new york, with more. Alex. Reporter hi, arthel. Well, longer lines growing here at Yankee Stadium. The bronx is one of the highest positive testing rate for covid19. Now, this new Vaccination Center is aimed at diminishing that disparity between who really has access to the vaccine. I mean, i tried everything day and night, i was up until four in the morning, and i couldnt get anything. Every time i got onto a web site it kept telling me theres no appointments available. Reporter nationally minorities are significantly undervaccinated and also disproportionately harder hit by covid19. Here at Yankee Stadium the shots are by appointment only for bronx residents. Governor andrew cuomo addressing the uncertainty around the vaccine itself. Theyre skeptical, theyre cynical about the vaccine, and theyre not willing to take it. All the polling datas has that shown data has shown that you have a higher rate of hesitancy in black and latino communities. Reporter the rush to administer vaccines met with more concern over the spread of the more highly transmissable variants of the virus. Medical experts warn of super bowl celebrations that could lead to another postholiday surgery. More than 26 million americans have had the virus, taking the lives of more than 459,000 people domestically. Across the country 36 Million People receiving the first vaccine so far with more than 7 million fully vaccinated, that is about 2. 3 of the population and about 10 of the population has at least already received one vaccine. Now, back here at Yankee Stadium there are 15,000 appointments in the first week, thats averaging out to about one or three shots per minute. Now, all of these Vaccine Appointments have already been booked with the next available appointment not until next saturday. Arthel . Arthel lots of questions, scenarios playing out across the country like you just reported there in new york. Alex hogan, thank you very much. Eric. Eric well, President Bidenen says he could prevent former President Trump from receiving classified Intelligence Briefings. You know, its a tradition that is usually a courtesy for excommander in chiefs. But President Biden is considering cutting off his predecessor citing his, quote, erratic behavior, saying theres no need for mr. Trump to receive those briefings while others point out the president s meeting in 2017 with top officials from russia when he allegedly let slip some classified intel information meeting them in the oval office. Meanwhile, the Biden Administration could be facing a new Immigration Challenge as the surge of migrant families arrive at the southern border. Mark meredith live in wilmington, delaware, where the president spending the weekend. Hi, mark. Reporter eric, good afternoon. The white house has long said that it doesnt spend much time focused on President Trump and the past administration, but as you mentioned, theres now some controversy after President Biden was asked in a c or bs cbs Interview Whether or not he thinks President Trump should still get access to classified information. As you mentioned, something thats become a tradition for expresident s. Heres what President Biden had to say. Whats your worst fear if he continues to get these Intelligence Briefings . Id rather not speculate out loud. I just think tata theres no need for him to have that intelligence briefing. What value is giving him an intelligence briefing, what impact does he have at all other than the fact he might slip and say something. Reporter so far no response from former President Trump on this new criticism from President Biden, and theres no requirement that trump be given access to this classified information. But this is creating some new controversy. We heard from one republican senator who told fox news she thinks its a mistake to limit the former president s accessment s access. More of the double standard, double speak by hockey says that is coming from the hypocrisy that is coming from the Biden Administration. This is one of the things that will remind people why they did not want more of obama biden. Reporter more of the president s interview is set to share on super bowl sunday. Meantime this weekend, the president is out of washington enjoying the weekend with his family here in delaware. No Public Events on his schedule. His staff, though, continues to deal with a number of issues, one of them being immigration with reports of a surge of migrants trying to reach the southern border. This week the president signed three Executive Orders tied to border policy, hes giving officials three months to come up with new policies they can work on as they try to address some of the border issues theyre going to be facing. Ingration not likely to be top of mind for Congress Next week that as they get ready for the second Impeachment Trial Set to begin just a few days from now. Eric the president and the first lady are going through some of their personal items at home to see what they want to bring back to the white house tomorrow. Mark meredith, thank you. Arthel well, meanwhile, Congress Passing a budget resolution setting in motion a way to fast track President Bidens 1. 9 trillion Coronavirus Relief of plan. The Measure Passing without any republican support. Fox news contributor john bussey joins us now. John is also the Associate Editor for the wall street journal. So here we go, john bussey, Congress ApprovedPresident Bidens 1. 9 Trillion Covid relief package with no republican support, pushing it through by way of reconciliation which you know but well remind everyone that means instead of the normal senate rule of 60 votes needed to approve, Reconciliation Calls for a simple majority of 5150 with Vice President harris being that tiebreaker. So can the Biden Administration expect political payback . Well, maybe. I think that he is very intent on getting a large package through. Theres disagreement over this, and weve heard it. Some republicans are saying that this is too much, 1 is. 9 trillion 1. 9 trillion. Mind you, theres already been 4 trillion spent on packages meant to sustain the economy through this crisis. The president says too small is not the way to go right now. The republicans say, well, how about 600 billion or 618 billion instead of 1. 9 trillion. Weve just authorized 900 billion back in december that hasnt all been spent yet. The president is saying, look, you know, youve got to get out front of these things. We saw a weak jobs number in february, theres a lot of hesitance about getting back to work. Those teachers that you were talking about earlier, they dont want to go back to the schools. A lot of the Public Schools have not had the money to put in sufficient safety, safeguards for teachers. Theyre just afraid of getting sick. So with that kind of hesitance broadly in the economy, the president feels that you need this stimulus, and you need to spend money not just on putting 1400 in the pockets of people who need it, therell be income caps on that, but you need to fund vaccine distribution, and you need to get money to school, ask you need and you need to get money to states and localities that are born the brunt of spending on the coronavirus and now need some help from the federal government. Arthel right. And then when you talk about getting to the money that the Biden Administration feels is needed to take care of all those issues that you just outlined there, during President Trumps term republicans used reconciliation for trumps tax cuts for wealthy individuals, corporations which ended up costing 2 trillion in lost revenue for the u. S. Over the next decade. Those tax cuts alone caused the federal debt to increase by 3. 1 trillion under President Trump. Now President Biden, what he wants to do is use reconciliation to approve, you know, the 1. 9 Trillion Covid relief package to help americans and toal heal the economy that you just highlighted again. So President Biden saying rolling back some of President Trumps tax cuts to cover will offset the cost of the covid package. I mean, do i have that right, first of all, and what can the republicans say to push back on that . Yes, you do have that right. Both parties have used reconciliation in the past. Its a way of fast tracking it past the hurdle of twothirds of approval for legislation. Theres restrictions on reconciliation. For example, President Bidens not going to get his desired increase of the minimum wage to 15 an hour. Why . Because reconciliation says, no, you cant kind of bolt on topics that arent specifically related to the Budget Proposal that you have in mind here, that Budget Proposal being money needed to address the covid crisis. So hes not going to get that. And republicans, again, have used this in the past just as democrats have, so this is sort of a nondenominational tactic. And, yes, the Republican Administration ran up the National Debt and annual Budget Deficit substantially. The year ending october 30 you saw a 3. 1 trillion Budget Deficit, that was a record are. But these are extraordinary times, and you can understand why money had to be spent early in the coronavirus crisis. Maybe not enough was spent, i think thats what biden would argue at this point. One thing to note, theres Disagreement E over who should get the 1400 of additional Stimulus Check from the government. Whats the cap going to be . Is it going to be 50,000 in income . Is it going to be 75,000 . Richard rubin, our tax reporter, has an interesting story on wsj or. Com for those viewers who are concerned about getting that check, you might want to file your taxes early because a lot of incomes went down in 2020. Irs will measure who gets the check based on last tax return. If you made more in 2019 and thats the only one they have on record, you may not qualify for getting the check. But if you file early in and 2020 income dropped, you might, in fact, qualify. Arthel okay. Theres a lot still to be, you know, figured out here, and well keep reporting on it. John bussey, thank you very much for joining us. Pleasure. Arthel eric . Eric well, arthel, getting your kids off the screen and back into the classrooms. Coming up, well have more on the fight on inschool learning, the health pros and cons. Dr. Nicole saphier is here about that and the latest on the vaccine front. She joins us next to tell parents what you should know before they go back the school. We are the thrivers. Women with metastatic breast cancer,. Standing in the struggle. Hustling through the hurt. Asking for science, not sorrys. Our time. For more time. Has come. 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