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work. good morning, mark. public school students are not going back to class today, city leaders and the teachers union escalate their fight over remote learning after voting to move to online after deciding the city didn t have strong enough protocol in place. it was rejected. now for a second day in a row classes are cancelled altogether. the union says they are trying to protect themselves. students and families are at risk, contracting the coronavirus. we ve been failed by the mayor and public health office. todd: lightfoot says the union s moves are illegal and urges them to return to class quickly. parents say this dysfunction is having a huge impact on their families. our children need to be in school with masks, with social distancing, they are doing everything they can to keep kids safe in school. there is no reason for them to be at home. my kids are being held hostage at home. todd: biden administration insist schools, including chicago, have fundin ....
the first one hitting tonight, it could bring freezing rain to i-95 again tomorrow morning during the commute. the next storm moving across the country set to hit new york city, philadelphia, the northeast. tonight, at this hour, 30 states from california all the way to the east coast already under winter alerts and ginger will time it all out. tonight, the cdc under growing scrutiny after suggesting people infected with covid could leave isolation after five days without any test to make sure. well, what the cdc is now saying tonight about a test five days later, and dr. jha is standing by. we ask him, what kind of test is actually best to know whether you might still be contagious? the major headline involving former new york governor andrew cuomo tonight. what the albany d.a. has now decided on whether to prosecute the case. the court battle involving prince andrew unfolding here in new york. the continuing fallout involving jeffrey epstein and what the judge h ....
during the commute. the next storm moving across the country set to hit new york city, philadelphia, the northeast. tonight, at this hour, 30 states from california all the way to the east coast already under winter alerts and ginger will time it all out. tonight, the cdc under growing scrutiny after suggesting people infected with covid could leave isolation after five days without any test to make sure. well, what the cdc is now saying tonight about a test five days later, and dr. jha is standing by. we ask him, what kind of test is actually best to know whether you might still be contagious? the major headline involving former new york governor andrew cuomo tonight. what the albany d.a. has now decided on whether to prosecute the case. the court battle involving prince andrew unfolding here in new york. the continuing fallout involving jeffrey epstein and what the judge has now signaled today. tonight, the house committee investigating the attack on the capit ....
the announcement comes after president biden said americans should be concerned but not alarmed with the rise in covid cases. his remarks today coming after the u.s. became the first country in the world to record 1 million new cases in a single day. nearly doubling the previous record set less than a week ago. the president also saying the federal government is adding new test sites around the country each day after pledging to send out a half billion free tests last month. a promise that has made little to no progress as some schools revert back to virtual learning. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening to you, bret. after public pushback the cdc now says people should use a rapid test after a positive covid case after five days of isolation if you can get one and if you want to. and if you test positive, you should keep isolating until day 10. it is another shift in policy after setting ....
a. today it s another week, potentially another shift in cdc guidance which could leave many americans scratching their heads wondering exactly how to approach the latest coronavirus wave. just a week ago the isolation period for people infected with covid was shortened from ten days to five, so what could potentially be changing now? here s secretary-general dr. mur thy this morning at cnn. guidance on shortening the isolation period was one that the cdc issued last week. they have certainly received feedback and questions about the role of testing in shortening that quarantine period and they are actually working right now on issuing a clarification on that. i would expect that any day now. so stand by for some sort of clarification potentially involving testing. meantime, where do we stand as a country? omicron now accounts for 95% of enough cases in the u.s. in the last week, and while those infections do appear in most cases to be milder, we know the nation s h ....