york. thanks so much for getting an early start with us. i m laura jarrett. and i m paula reid in for christine romans. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. we have reports from los angeles, moscow, bough jing, delaware, rome and mexico city. basically everywhere. welcome to early start. paula, so nice to have you again today. we begin with a major change when it comes to how we live with the virus and frankly each other. the cdc has officially shortened its recommendation time isolation time for people who test positive with covid. instead of staying away from each other ten days, the cdc says stay home for just five days if and this is key here if you are asymptomatic by day five. the agency says this change is driven by data that shows most covid transmission is actually happening one to two days before someone has symptoms and in the two to three days after. it also comes as businesses across the country fashion the strain of emp
xxxx many frustrated americans are waiting in long lines for tests if third quarter earnings conference call get them at all. speak spe speak to governors on monday, the steps he took to scale up capacity were not enough to meet demand. it s not enough. it s clearly not enough. if we had known, we would have gone harder, quicker if we could have. we have to do more. we have to do better. and we will. reporter: the president has pledged to distribute 500 million testing kits beginning in january. but that won t help this week s holiday crunch. let s go to cnn s leyla santiago outside a miami testing site with more. lela? reporter: john, we are still seeing very long lines here. people telling us at times they ve had to wait up to three hours to get tested. so much so that the county, miami dade county now plans to open four to five new testing sites in order to meet this unprecedented demand for testing of covid-19. as the omicron variant tares across the country,
i m john avlon with kaitlan collins. and we begin with the cdc cutting the recommended isolation period for many infected americans in half. the agency now reducing the number of days from 10 to 5 if you are asymptomatic. the cdc also is now recommending the same amount of time for vaccinated people to quarantine if they are exposed to the virus with no quarantine at all if you are boost. tr dr. anthony fauci says it is part of an effort to get people back to work faster amid major concerns about staffing shortages at hospitals, airlines and businesses because of the omicron surge. president biden is now grappling with the failure that could have been foreseen as the omicron wave has exposed shortages in the u.s. and access to testing. many frustrated americans are now waiting in long lines for tests if they can get them at all. speaking to governors on monday, the president conceded that steps he took to scale up testing capacity weren t enough to meet the demand. we wen
A recap of the day s headlines and a look at what s in store for tomorrow.
A recap of the day s headlines and a look at what s in store for tomorrow.
today there are no allegations that a key justice department official continued to communicate and trade information with dossier author christopher steele long after the fbi had cut steele loose for linking to the media. also breaking: the possibility that house judiciary chairman bob goodlatte is preparing to subpoena bruce ohr, christopher steele, and a number of other current and former fbi and doj officials. congressman trey gowdy, chairman of the house oversight committee investigating these issues joins us. welcome. thank you. shannon: i want to talk to some of the new text. these are being reported between doj official bruce ohr and christopher steele. steele asked ohr if he could continue to help feed information to the fbi just want to check if are okay. still unable to help locally? 2016. i am still here and able to