Outfront tonight its coming for us, its a beast. A quote and a chilling warning from a doctor in louisiana, voice raising the alarm about what is now again a growing number of covid cases across the united states. The number of cases is now rising in all 50 states. Look at that map of new cases compared to the prior week. You can see, right, if youre green or, you know, yellow, you know, youre sort of steady or improving. Orange youre bad. Red is terrible. And you see that dark red blanketing all most the entire country and its not just cases that are up. Hospitalizations are now also on the rise. One state surging is florida. The white houses covid Response Coordinator Jeffrey saying one in five covid cases in the united states are in florida. You can see the spike there from a month ago. Tonight, the States Governor Ron Desantis is taking a different Tax Selling Campaign Merchandise Hocmocking Dr. Fauc selling hats and shirts that say dont fauci my florida. Telling cruise lines they
member is sick, or because they don t have childcare. just look around, no doubt you are noticing the workforce shortage. many of the stores you shop at, from big box to mom and pop, are closed. or if they re open, they re running on limited hours or limited supply. same goes for restaurants as servers and cooks fall ill. and from boston to new york to kansas, hospitals already overwhelmed with patients are now dealing with staff shortages as well. same thing goes for childcare. those centers and schools were kids go. in chicago, in person learning is suspended for a fourth day as the teachers union pushes for regular testing before anyone comes back to the classroom. mayor lori lightfoot says the time to return is now. we know that the safest place appears to be learning in schools. we ve spent hundreds of millions of dollars to make our schools safe. i won t allow the teachers union to politicize the surge or pandemic in general. people are nervous, they re scared, i ge
a year ago this week? new insight this hour into what the january 6th committee is learning. and looks and sounds like a page from the old testament. we re going to find out why fish were literally falling from the s sky. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start in the health lead. major new announcements from the food and drug administration today about pfizer s covid vaccine. the fda today recommending the pfizer booster for teens ages 12 to 15. shortening, for everyone, the recommended time between your second pfizer shot and the booster and okaying a third dose for some immunocompromised children between 5 and 11. more than 115 million americans have been fully vaccinated with the pfizer vaccine and now the cdc is going to meet this week to decide whether to sign off on the fda recommendations as parents are stressing about sending their kids back to school given the recent spike in pediatric hospitalizations due to covid. though we should note almost all of t
but new york city is moving ahead for now with the new year s eve celebration in times square. there ill with be fewer people, all must be vaccinated and masked, it is important to note so far we have not seen a dramatic spike, though, thank goodness, in hospitalizations from the variant. and the data show omicron cases seem for the most part to be lesshospitals are preparing for staffing shortages. they say healthcare workers who test positive but are asymptomatic can shorten their isolation period. the white house is lifting the travel restrictions on eight countries in southern africa. we re covering all of the travel headlines with our aviation correspondent pete muntean at reagan national. joe jonhns joins us at the whit house. this just came, what is the news from the biden administration? you got it there. eight african countries, you know, this travel ban went into effect on november 29th. we re told the president is expected to lift that travel ban as of 12:01 a.m.
guilty of first and second-degree manslaughter. and i promise we are going to end this show on a happy note with moments of joy. and the real santa, the real one. so stick around for that. but we begin the reidout tonight with a status report on the american public. 2021, the year that was supposed to make up for 2020 has been a roller coaster, to put it mildly. it started with a limited audience capacity ball drop in times square, followed five days later by a violent attack on our nation s capitol. not by foreign terrorists, but by american ones. they even brought a noose to lynch mike pence with. and from the moment we saw these scenes of hundreds of screaming, in some case violent insurrectionists storming the capitol on january 6, defecating on the ground, beating capitol police with their own shields, we knew that nothing would ever be the same. for the first time in 245 years of u.s. history, a defeated president of the united states had refused to leave office with