his top military adviser says a hold on military promotions by one republican senator is having a negative impact not just on those officers but their families. air force chief of staff general charles q. brown is up for the chair chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. alabama republican senator tommy tuberville is blocking more than 250 military promotions over opposition to the pentagon s abortion policy. chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin leads us off tonight with that from the pentagon. good evening, jennifer. good evening, bret. the pentagon said this months long standoff with the senator from alabama is now threatening readiness and benefiting russia and china. general c.q. brown is the president s pick to be the next chairman of the joint chiefs but his confirmation and that of 265 senior officers are being held up by one senator tommy tuberville of alabama. for the first time in 150 years, the marine corps is without a come dantd because of
Right now runners are arriving to get ready for the marathon. Were joined by news4 jim handly. Good morning, jim. Reporter adam, angie, they are up and about. We got a few stragglers already arriving at the runners village. Count on 30,000 participants here for this 39th annual Marine Corps Marathon. Im joined by the race director. Rick, come on in. Flawless event last year. What are the biggest concerns, challenges for you this year . Probably only one thing we dont control even though we have a navy chapdelaine that we impose on him because of the connections he might have is to control the weather. Absolutely gorgeous running conditions. A little windy for our jump because what we do today will have one of the biggest american flags coming in. Not only that, one of our american heroes, the marine corps has only six medal of honor recipients and one of them who received the medal of honor from the president back in june is running his first marathon well make him do his first jump in
china which is highly likely to transpire. dr. anderson acknowledging as well that, quote, the ccp is not a trusted partner; however, i can tell you the committee still wants answers from fauci and collins we will see where it goes. bret: griff, thanks. bret: new information tonight indicating students who lost classroom time during the covid pandemic are not yet making up the learning loss. correspondent jonathan serrie looks at the numbers tonight from atlanta. despite an unprecedented $130 billion in federal spending to help schools reopen, a new study from a leading education research group found student progress stalled during the last school year. looking at test scores from 6.7 until public school children grades 3 through 8 nweu researchers estimate the average student would need an additional 4.1 months of instruction to catch up in reading and 4.5 months in math. much like carrying a debt
year. and doctors say the country has tools to get kids back in class safely. you have actually heard the chicago commissioner saying it, right? vaccinate. any kid in kindergarten and up is eligible for vaccination, boosters, masks, all depending on the age with boosters but everything else, vaccinations, any any kid can have. and that s important because every parent knows now that remote learning is not good enough, and there is science to back that up, too, or statistics. according to an education research group, nwea, the math and leading levels for kids in just grades 3 through 8 were lower than normal this fall. not something any parent needed to have a study to tell them but these are among the reasons that officials want kids in the classroom. omar jim nenez, members are jus beginning to vote. what are huh everything? yeah, erin, so voting should be underway among the 25,000
los a the 60,000 positive students and staff will miss five days and not ten like new york. 50,000. schools are navigating on their own. as we mentioned last week, in the void, one of the nation s most prominent children s hospital is promising to lead. they say keep schools open for community transmission. they suggest disconditioning weekly testing of asymptomatic students, teachers and staff and saying they should allow covid exposed to continue to attend in person. this is radical to many. agree or not, now is the time for radical thinking. remote learning is taking a terrible toll. remote learning is in a solution here. okay? the education research group found math and reading levels