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nonetheless good to be back together with you. dana: you weren t the only one, bill. 3% of the labor force up to 5 million workers were forced to stay home as well. that s a huge chunk and schools, your businesses, hospitals, factories, across the board. bill: and you have significant issues that so many people are still dealing with, the issue of testing kits, the issue of therapeutics. all of that we re two years into this and there are still issues front and center for us today. talk to the doctor about that coming up. dana: also covid treatments in short supply the fight against the pandemic appears to be going woke. the fda issues new guidance healthcare providers can consider race or ethnicity when administering potentially lifesaving drugs. marc siegel what you need to know. mark meredith has details on this. good morning. bill, welcome back. president biden due back at the white house in the next few minutes. he was at camp david for the weekend. given ....
hello, i am arthel neville. we await a pivotal supreme court decision on president biden s covid vaccine mandate. it s whether the federal government can force millions of workers to be vaccinated. justices hearing oral argument on measures involving two separate mandates, one for federally funded of care workers and one for large private businesses. first, lucas tomlinson live with more on president biden s new strategy and missing service. some medical experts think the silver lining to the new omicron violent immunity boost, president biden says things will get better despite record number of cases nationwide. i don t think covid is here to stay but having covid in the environment here and in the world is here to stay but public as we are dealing with it now is not here to stay, the new normal doesn t have to be, we have so many more tools we are developing continue to develop to contain covid and other strains. that s not what we heard in the campaign tra ....
storming the capitol at the behest of the sitting president of the united states. because you ll never take back our country with weakness. the president of the united states, egging these supporters on. you have to show strength and you have to be strong. the two people who are second and third in succession in that building. everybody who works in the capitol building has been put at risk because these protesters don t believe the election was fair. stop the steal! stop the steal! [ screaming ] tear gas inside the u.s. capitol. the chamber doors have barricaded. the glass has been broken in the gallery door. this is an insane moment right now. nothing like i ve ever seen before. this is the first time we ve seen an evacuation from the capitol of members since 9/11. that was one year ago today, one year almost to this very minute. i was anchoring alongside chuck todd and andrea mitchell. the three of us watching as our democracy was attacked. a ....
growing pressure to deliver with many people having to wait for hours to get tested during the holiday rush. now after promising to distribute tests the president wishes he had done it two months ago. rich edson starts our coverage live at the white house this morning. good morning, rich. good morning, julie. the white house is trying to get those tests out some 500 million of them where americans will ideally be able to go online early next month, order them, get them delivered to their homes. they still have to get the contracts signed and get all those tests out. this was the omicron variant arriving just in time for the holidays. americans have waited hours in line for covid tests, face shortages of at-home kits. president biden said last week his administration should have implemented a more aggressive testing strategy two months ago. the federal government needed to insure enough tests so anyone getting together for the holidays could have tested beforehand. u ....
happens going forward. the stunning set back of the omicron variant sweeps across the nation. president biden saying he is sending americans a half billion testing kit. the new york times reporting the contract to buy the tests isn t even signed yet. good morning, everyone. i m julie banderas. benjamin is here. benjamin: i am benjamin hall and this is america s newsroom. if that weren t enough, the newspaper also reports that the website to order the testing won t be up and running until next month meaning the president dialing back his comments that the u.s. was near victory in the fight against covid. now admitting his efforts so far are falling short. president biden: nothing has been good enough. but look, here we are. last christmas we were in a situation where we had significantly fewer people vaccinated, emergency rooms were filled. you had serious back-ups in hospitals that were causing great difficulties. benjamin: rich edson is live at the white hous ....