news. pfizer now testing an omicron-specific vaccine, this as schools are struggling with how to handle high amounts of positive cases among students. we ll be speaking to one superintendent whose district has gone remote indefinitely. is this doing more harm than good? and we ve got other breaking news this morning. after decades of status quo, the s.a.t. exam making a huge change that could impact millions of high school students across the country. it might be time to toss your number 2 pen similars. we start with the tense standoff between russia and ukraine, tensions growing more urgent by the hour, the pentagon putting 8,500 troops on heightened alert as the u.s. weighs military action. none have been deployed as yet. but they could be moving from other parts of europe to neighboring countries like poland and romania. this comes after president biden joined a 90-minute video conference about the crisis with european leaders. the white house posting this photo of the p
good morning. nice to have you with us. right now, millions, multiple states under winter alerts as millions are heading back to work, back to school after the holidays. take a look at this snow. capitol hill is covered this morning. the federal government in d.c. officially closed today because of those winter storms. and more than 2,000 schools are forced to cancel classes or g go remotely because of the weather and also covid concerns. but breaking news, the fda has approved pfizer booster shots for those 12 to 15 years old. and elizabeth cohen is joining us. tell us the significance of this. reporter: yes, i think a lot of parents of children ages 12 to 15 have been waiting for this, children that age have been able to be vaccinated since may. so it has been well beyond six months for many of those children since their second shot, they want to know should we get a booster since a booster seems to help protect against illness for the omicron variant. so let s take a
service and fbi have come up empty, failing to find fingerprints, video or dna to link any individual to that small bag of cocaine found in a west wing lobby. another massive hack from china on u.s. organizations, reaching as far as the in box of the secretary of commerce, even as secretary of state blinken today was trying to warm up relations with a top chinese official in indonesia. i will get reaction this hour from senate intelligence committee chairman mark warner. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell back from the nato summit in lithuania. president biden continuing his foreign trip in finland today, nato s newest member. was pressed whether the allies could trust the u.s. to remain in nato despite opposition by trump republicans to remain in the alliance. president biden also was trying to patch over differences the u.s. has with allies, including great britain, our closest ally, over not giving ukraine a clearer time line of when it could join nato once the wa
and he added: nato head jens stoltenberg then presented a smoother path to membership. it would remove some of the bureaucracy, including scrapping a key part of the two step process, called the member action plan, that the bloc agreed to back in 2008. our europe editor katya adler reports now from vilnius. disappointed, volodymyr zelensky put on a brave face today for supporters in the lithuanian capital. translation: i came here today believing in partners, in a nato that does not waste time. ukraine will make nato stronger. nato will make ukraine safer. a very different tone from his tweet earlier in the day, when he blasted the military alliance as absurd and weak for not agreeing a timetable for kyiv to join the club. as confirmed by nato s secretary general. the invitation will be issued when conditions are met. this is not the picture of absolute unity nato was hoping for at its summit, which leaders here know vladimir putin is watching closely from moscow. this is u
iga swiatek, is knocked out as ukraine s elina svitolina reaches the semifinals. good evening. a second young person has made serious allegations about the bbc presenter accused of sending money for sexually explict photographs. bbc news contacted a young person who revealed that they first came into contact with the male presenter on a dating app. our special correspondent lucy manning has the story. tell us what you know? just to be clear that this is a different person to the one who has been written about in the sun . this individual in their early 20s was first contact enormously on a dating up first contact enormously on a dating up by first contact enormously on a dating up by the presenter and after they first connected on the up the conversation moved to private messaging and at this stage the presenter revealed his identity until the young person not to tell anyone. but individual has told bbc news they were surprised to find out who it was. they felt that they wer