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trouble for air travelers. crime and punishment, calls for leniency are growing after a truck driver is sentenced to more than 100 years in prison for a deadly crash. we begin with the omicron variant surging across the u.s. the seven-day average of new coronavirus cases is near 200,000 a day. that is up 166% in the last month, nearly the record numbers from last january. the most important metric, hospitalizations, are steadily rising with more than 71,000 americans sick enough to need hospital care right now. tragically, more than 1,400 americans are dying each day from covid. and with people gathering for holiday celebrations, this surge is expected to worsen. listen to what dr. anthony fauci told cnn this morning. we re certainly going to continue to see a surge for a while. i fully expect it will turn around. i hope it turns around as sharply as what we ve seen in south africa. now, testing centers across america are seeing very long lines with some people ....
and cdc reducing isolation time for health care workers have tested positive, as some of the airline industry push for the same. a guilty verdict for minnesota police officer kim potter after four days of deliberations. we will speak to daunte wright s mother ahead. hail the hero. tsa agent jumping over the conveyor belt to save a choking baby. all of that caught on camera. you re going to want to see it. good morning to our viewers in the u.s. and all around the world. it is friday, december 24th. very merry christmas eve. it is last call now for shopping, gift wrapping. santa likely already starting his deliveries. he s out there making the rounds. so is covid. for the second year in a row, the pandemic bringing a lot of folks the equivalent of a lump of coal. airlines struggle with a shortage of flight crews and operations staff. overnight, the cdc announcing a big change in its covid guidance. health care workers who test positive for covid-19 but are asympt ....
unfamiliar, we were established about 15 years ago by four from the u.s. senate of the late senate senator howard baker and bob dole on the republican side, senator george mitchell and senator tom daschle on the democratic side step as our name would imply, we seek to find bipartisan solutions to the challenges facing policymakers this politically polarized environment we find ourselves in today step two days report is the third in a series we have issued, tracking federal expenditures, dressing the opioid act epidemic. this was led by a chief medical advisor and our senior policy analyst. they work with the bipartisan task force composed of former cabinet members and state officials and experts from both parties. our goal was and continues to be to find bipartisan solutions to allocate the federal dollars and mandatory in addressing mandatory spending in addressing this crisis. i think the report comes at an important time. last november, the cdc released divisio ....
happen with this court. i do. but i m not on the courts, and certainly i m not on that court where that texas judge decided to, uh, turn upside down the whole process that fda you has used for years for many drugs. cnn s elaine to train is in washington. for us, elena. i mean this was a controversial decision to be sure. so what our members of congress, saying this is all about? well for the reaction has been pretty disparate immediately after the court s decision was announced, democrats began railing against the ruling. they held press conferences. they span the airwaves, and some even went so far as to tell president biden that he thinks that they think that he should ignore the ruling altogether. now republicans, meanwhile, have been far less outspoken, but we did hear from a few today who were pressed on the issue during the sunday shows that includes congressman tony gonzalez. he is a republican from texas, and he had some pretty harsh words for the biden. ministr ....
pandemic-era policy, set to expire in just under three weeks. new reporting on how the biden administration is getting ready at the border. meanwhile, charges dropped what we re hearing from alec baldwin since prosecutors announced the actor will not face criminal charges for his role in the fatal rust shooting we ll break down the latest push against transgender rights across several states and we ll bring you inside the billion dollar latin music industry breaking records around the world. and we begin this morning with the news that president biden appears to be on the verge of announcing his re-election campaign three sores familiar with the matter tell nbc news the president will make his intentions to seek a second term official next week the tuesday will be four years since he launched his last run to the white house. a new wall street journal poll out this morning gives the president a three-point advantage over donald trump among registered voters. that ....