young to be vaccinated masking is the most effective strategy for preventing transmission in schools. their data shows, quote, more than 7,000 children and adults acquired the coronavirus attended school while infectious because of close contact with those cases more than 40,000 people required quarantine through contact tracing and testing, however, we found only 363 additional children and adults acquired the coronavirus. we believe this low rate of transmission occurred because of the mask-on mask school environment, both the infected person and close contact wore masks. in other words, there s a less than 1% chance of passing covid on to a peer or adult in school if universal masking is in place. this is sound research from reputable health experts but then again so is this. on the same day, another article was published prominently on the home page of the wall street journal with this headline, the case against masks against children, it s abusive to force kids who str
how is it going, sir? peachy. i, still, am flummoxed by um the misinformation over the vaccine. people refusing to get vaccinated. and also, refusing to wear masks. um, every day, seems like it gets worse. and i don t mean that. i am talking about the people who are dying, who are actually coming down with it. especially, the children. if you saw martin savidge s report tonight. just heartbreaking. people who are seen with significant cases and hospitalizations are getting younger. part of the metric here is ignorance. but part of it is, also, arrogance. this misplaced sense of righteous indignation and resistance that they believe is a false manifestation of freedom. this is not an issue of freedom. of course, you ever the freedom to make choices about your own body. let s put to the side the irony that so many of these people don t want to afford that freedom to women. but what we re saying is, does it mean it s the right choice? and these suggestions. uh, i thi
warnings from an expert straight ahead this hour. but i want to start now with cnn s supreme court analyst steve ladek and global affairs analyst susan glass here to talk about what is going on with breyer s official retirement has not happened but that s the word that it s going to happen soon. good evening to both of you. susan, president biden gets a supreme court pick, a chance to turn a new page in his presidency, a way to shore up the base and fulfill a big campaign promise. but still, it probably won t be an easy road, will it? in these divided times that we re living in right now. you know, nothing is easy, don, anymore in our politics. i mean, for president biden it s really full circle. as the chairman of the judiciary committee he was around three decades ago helping to preside over the confirmation hearings of justice breyer. now he ll get to pick his replacement. i m struck by the initial tone from conservatives which has not been fire-breathing, you know, this
the witnesses. and loved ones of those who were at the festival still may not have answers. this as houston officials have set up a hotline to report missing people. cnn s rosa flores is in houston. rosa, what else have you been hearing from the witnesses? reporter: you know, from the individuals i ve talked to, they describe the chaos. they describe how the people short never the crowd had more trouble breathe, the people taller in the crowd were able to gasp air. they describe it as a mob and how for some of them it was their survival instincts that kicked in. they wanted air and they wanted water. i talked to two individuals who say during travgs scott s performance at multiple interviews, he stopped to say and point to crowd of people that needed medical attention. they themselves couldn t breathe. take a listen. it was going on for over two hours. it just got worse and worse. you couldn t breathe. it was so hard to move your arms and so hard to breathe. i was pushi
increase in lawlessness with mock murders up a whopping 116 percent. and other violent crimes jumpin by 30 percent in 2019. what is the solution to all of this? she is backing a ballot measure to replace the entire city police force as she blames the officers themselves for the crime spike. a reduction in police in our city. it is due to two things. one, to not fulfill their oath of office, and to provide the public safety they are owed to the citizens they serve. the minneapolis police department s multifunctional police department in our state and probably in the country. kayleigh, al dear she say th officers don t uphold their oath . all too often they don t come home. meanwhile she says this behind the safety of her private security team she has spent thousands on to prepare for herself. how much of a dense ideologu can you be. she is to attacking her police officers intercity and endangering her city in doing s in. not only that, damaging her party. after the midte