particularly for students and even more so for younger students. let me explain. we ve been talking about this idea for some time. it s now official from the cdc. but they re specifically saying for all students, elementary school students, they can maintain just three feet apart when mask use is universal regardless of what is happening with community transmission. that s for elementary school students. so that s going to be a big deal. but they also say, kate, that for middle school and high school students, they should still maintain at least six feet apart if the community tr transmission in their community is high. so making a difference between older and younger students. for all elementary schools, regardless where you live in the country, guidance is now going to be three feet. but if you happen to live in a community where community transmission is high still, at about 41% roughly of counties in the united states do have high transmission, if you live in one of those
The president insulted an entire nation, Congress Pushes off their unfurred business until next year an local family struck by tragedy gets a message of hope in time for christmas. Your news starts now. All eyes on the road and on the weather it was a ryan knee day to start the relied weekend but if you still need to get last minute gifts or head out of town, how is the weather going to be . Lets check in with the person that knows . Gwen jointlies us now. We got mixed, had some rain earlier, now out of the picture, its moved off to the northeast, however, where theyre seeing snow. And a little bit of wintery mix. Now, were going to deal way change in temperature, take a look. Arctic air mass to the north will head our way we reached a high in the mid 60s. We now well see things take a reverse. Across the area. In the meantime getting a little bit of now. It was a mild treat for mother nature. Its coming. Nations capitol we got 49 at baltimore, 44 at gaithersburg, 50 at fredericksburg.
Cars that 67 degrees. And livermore the temperatures well cant score down in the next few hours you see all the clout cover and were dealing with a pretty extensive marine a lead that will burn off by the after them. This blocking and humid as it has been the past few days. ran the thunderstorms around the area. Focus on high today. Concord hitting a high of 80. It did agree the sunnyvale. Were anticipating one weather. to mild concede time is up another 10 degrees. The looks like in the inland areas that it will be 94. Eighties and the upper stateside. Will continue the pattern of morning fault with plenty of sunshine into the afternoon and it looks like dry conditions for the next seven days fit them right now the top traffic Emergency Repair work on westbound 580 between green belt and tabasco world. traffic is light in the area appeared and estimated to add to open up that oclock this morning. They can be as a potential disaster for everyone come in that direction. The plants shoul
And somehow he decided it was a good idea to vent to a reporter from london. Good day. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington where in just two hours president obama will hold his first full press Conference Since april. Hes expected to respond to the outcry over those Surveillance Programs according to congressional briefings on those reforms. Will that satisfy critics . We have a super panel. Chuck todd, chief White House Correspondent and host of the daily rundown and contributor and host of in play, and a washington Diplomatic Correspondent and a senior political reporter. We know from congressional sources hell talk about surveillance top of mind. Its been a problem to the white house. He also obviously has the putin problem. What has their thinking been about the criticism of the nsa program . Of all things on his plate, snowden leaks, the question of what does nsa do and what is surveillance about, politically had a bigger impact than the other various controversy. Some argue are poli
Drawing some criticism from some republicans. We have Fox Team Coverage with garrett tenney, Aishah Hasnie and Steve Harrigan. We begin with david spunt, hes at the white house. David. Reporter since President Trump took office a little more than three years ago, he has repeatedly criticized his predecessor, the 44th president , barack obama, in a very public way. Things escalatessed yesterday when the former president said this. This pandemic has fully finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what theyre doing. A lot of them arent even pretending to be in charge. If the worlds going to get better, its going to be up to you. Reporter trump was at camp david this weekend. He arrived on the south lawn earlier this afternoon and he hit back. Listen. Look, he was an incompetent president. Thats all ky say, grossly im competentes. Reporter President Trump and members of his team say they did not have a proper playbook to deal with the Coronavirus Cr