Time need needed for schools to make adjustments. Carley most people assumed Cdc Guidance would change as we learned more about the virus. This is for the rest of this School Year. Just a few weeks. But we do know the virus doesnt traditionally spread in schools well ventilated. A lot of parents are wondering why are students being masked . There are a lot of adverse effects that could happen. One parent wrote an oped in Usa Today, let my children take off their masks. The science says it is safe. That Mom Hadley Heath manning bows it on to say, there is reason to believe young childrens emotional and verbal development depend greatly on human faces. Suffering from being surrounded by adults and people wearing masks in public places. The time to free children is is come and gone. The woman that went viral said take these masks off my children. Pete the sad reality there doesnt feel like real Pressure Or Ability to push administrators across the spectrum to make the move about masks. It
And families. We will not expel unaccompanied children. Martha more in a moment. A russian cyber attack and now more than 1,000 u. S. Gas stations have no fuel at all in that region of the country. Leaving drivers on edge. Watch this. Its a little nerve racking. Its crazy. This is my third gas station. We finally found one. Martha a stunning new economic report shows that Throwing Trillions at the covid economy while it was starting to reopen is starting to drive Prices Higher at a rate not seen in over a decade. Lots of warnings that this would happen. Pretty much everything you buy is seeing rising prices. David asman and Brian Kilmeade are here on the couch with me, which is an interesting experience. Looking forward to that. But first, Edward Lawrence in virginia with more on the growing gas crisis. And then to the white house with peter doocy. Peter . Martha, youve mentioned all of those Different Things going on, but the focus of this first meeting with the Republican Leadership
with a closer look at wall street s big finish. three straight years of gains, gerry. this is phenomenal. it is, jackie. great to see you. of course what we re seeing today is a sell off at the end. markets finishing lower on this final trading day of 2021. let s take a look back at what the tumultuous year had to offer. 2021, the year of the retail trader. another year of big gains as the s&p 500 settle 70 record closes, more than double the pace of 2020. leading the way with the strongest performance was the energy sector. oil climbed to 70-year highs sparking calls for $100 barrel oil in 2022. some stocks doubled in value this year. moderna, a leader in mrna vaccine innovation, ford which set ambitious goals for produces electric vehicles and chip maker nvidia with disruptions. we saw the briefly return to normal. stay-at-home stokes that performed so well like the streaming services, peleton and zoom, came falling back to effort as lock downs eased consumer spending. as
alaska airlines canceled some flights as well. there s been disagreement in the industry on how to handle this new pandemic surge as air travel rebounds to pre-pandemic levels. cnn s pete muntean has the latest from regan national airport. reporter: christine, paula, things are getting busier by the moment here at regan national airport. some of the numbers we have seen are already higher than where they were back in 2019 before the pandemic. the tsa screened 2.08 million people at airports across the country on wednesday. that number actually higher than the same day back in 2019, 1.84 screened back then two years ago. just a bit of context here, though. that same wednesday two years ago, that was christmas day itself when passenger loads are low, but even still we have seen numbers at or near 2 luis palomino per d 2 million per day. there are long lines to get tested for coronavirus. this one at b.w.i. thurgood marshall airport, there was a line for testing either earth b
on omicron. what it found about the risk of hospitalization. the holiday travel rush two days before christmas. over 100 million on the roads. air travel now topping pre-pandemic levels. and the hero tsa agent leaping into action to save a baby s life. the deadly winter storm on the move. flooding and up to nine feet of snow. we re tracking it. former president trump taking his fight with the january 6th committee all the way to the supreme court. vladimir putin taking new aim at the u.s. and what he said about the possibility of war with ukraine. and celebrating one of america s all-time greatest authors. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. a former minnesota police officer is back in custody and likely facing prison time. whether kim potter meant to fatally shoot daunte wright, a jury in effect today said she should have known better. they found the officer guilty on two counts of manslaughter, rejecting her defense that she mistakenly f