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plus, new details about novak djokovic s health before his trip to australia, as he waits to learn whether he can defend his grand slam title. details in a live report from sydney. and russia helps the president of kazakhstan restore order amid signs he is making a power grab following deadly anti-government protests. and we begin in the united states, where the rampant spread of the omicron variant is hurting health care and education. in chicago, a standoff after the teachers union voted to teach remotely while the city wants in-person learning. on saturday, the mayor of chicago rejected a new proposal from the teachers union. but as they battle it out, classes have been canceled, meaning many kids are now stuck at home. meanwhile, a record number of children under age 5 are in hospitals, infected with the coronavirus. and the numbers you see there represent the number of kids under the age of 5 per 100,000 in the population who are hospitalized. and with the fa ....
a peaceful planet. we re not thinking of anything else. they re trying to do what no one else has ever done before, find a new way for humanity. america in the early 60s, it was a real good time of prosperity, but it was also kind of a stagnant time in terms of spiritual growth. things were kind of at a standstill. the baseline culture was materialism, and also the feeling that the culture itself didn t honor the human spirit and didn t honor creativity. [ applause ] in the early 1950s, the nation recognized in its midst the social movement called beat generation. a novel titled on the road became a best-seller. when kerouac s book comes out, it became a revolution, defined a new generation of what being beat means, and it defined it as a spiritual revolution. that if we re living in an age of conformity, if everybody s trying to work for the corporation, that you re losing a sense of self. i was traveling west one time at the junction of the stat ....
when i tell people my story, they don t believe it. i guess i wouldn t believe the story if someone else were telling it, but i m telling it. and it s true. every word of it. it started when i was born. 56 years ago. but the real story began when i was 19 years old when i went to college. it was 1980. it was the first day of school at sullivan county community college up in the catskills about 110 miles from where i grew up. so i drove up there alone. i at least had this really old car. it was a volvo and it was a 1970 volvo. had like 130,000 miles on it. the car was burgundy and the hood was green. actually, the car was called the old bitch. but the old bitch got me there. sullivan was a community college. this wasn t some longstanding institution of higher learning. all these station wagons are dropping kids off. i was nervous. i just got to the school. i didn t know anybody. i was a freshman. i was never the captain of the football team in high school. so i was nev ....
what we re thinking about is a peaceful planet. we re not thinking of anything else. they re trying to do what no one else has ever done before, find a new way for humanity. america in the early 60s, it was a real good time of prosperity, but it was also kind of a stagnant time in terms of spiritual growth. things were kind of at a standstill. the baseline culture was materialism, and also the feeling that the culture itself didn t honor the human spirit and didn t honor creativity. the early 1950s, the nation recognized in its midst the social movement called beat generation. a novel titled on the road became a best-seller. when kerouac s book comes out, it became a revolution, defined a new generation of what being beat means, and it defined it as a spiritual revolution. that if we re living in an age of conformity, if everybody s trying to work for the corporation, that you re losing a sense of self. i was traveling west one time at the junctio ....
rich edson on how the white house is reresponding to this. kelly o grady on lax on how travelers will try to deal with this. we begin with rich. good afternoon, neil. the white house says president biden is pulling out all the stops to deal with this new variant also going in to the holiday season and indoor season in the wintertime. you have a number of restrictions and guidelines that the white house announced. the president was at the national institutes of health where he said that fighting this pandemic should not be political. this is a moment that we can do what we haven t been able to do through this whole pandemic. get the nation to come together. think of it as a patriotic responsibility other than somehow denying people their basic rights. martha: the white house is pushing booster at home testing and traveler rules. the government will require travelers coming to the united states to test for covid-19 within 24 hours of their departing flight. previous ....