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i think the union is not listening to science, right. so, the union, the ctu is not the cdc. they don t get to decide what the thresholds are. you know, we have, we have the cdc and the department the chicago department of public health. they are both saying it is safe for students to go back to school. in fact, it is arguably the safest place for students to be. cnn s omar jimenez has more from chicago on what sealed the deal. reporter: the standoff between chicago public schools and the chicago teachers union is over. teachers will be back in class tuesday, and students will be back in class wednesday. the core of this dispute, of course, was the chicago teachers union didn t feel the school district had provided adequate resources to come back in-person safely. some of the major sticking points over the course of this dispute, one was the timing for returning in-person, given the recent surge in covid we ve seen in the community. and the metrics on when to ta ....
the years of the 60s which end in a few hours have a bad reputation that is not entirely justified. some things got worse, obviously. but tv and other news coverage is better, not worse. we simply developed more demanding standards. when i think of tv, i think of the 70s. what is this world coming to? the american public was hungry for more. more was allowed that hadn t been before. it was the last decade where it was a campfire television, where there was one in the living room. i want to watch an all-black show for a change. oh, where are you going to find one? here s one the los angeles lakers against the milwaukee bucks. young people were interested in relevant things. and so television began to reflect that. this is cbs. really it was very simple. you had three channels plus pbs. when the decade turned over into the 70s, television was very rural. hee haw! the beverly hillbillies. cbs had the beverly hillbillies. green ....
pattern here as more of these companies take the spike in cases into their own hands, and the response which is fairly blunt, in the case of citigroup, if you are thinking of coming back to work as of january 14th and you re not vaccinated, don t worry about it. welcome, everybody, i m neil cavuto. we re going to explore the confusion over omicron. the good news is that it is not as dangerous. so while these spikes in cases look alarming, the fact of the matter is overall hospitalizations and certainly deaths are not nearly indicative of that spike as you might think. we re going to explore that in a lot more detail, the administration s handling of all of this. for that, we go to lucas tomlinson in washington. reporter: good morning, neil. some medical experts think the silver lining with omicron variant is an immunity boost. president biden insists things will get better despite a record-setting number of cases almost two years into the pandemic. no, i don t think ....
on two carbines policy sedate for the the first, is the government s vaccine or testing requirement for private business. with more than 100 employees. the second, is the vaccine mandate that would affect most health care workers. most american businesses are holding back on the mandate. now, the u.s. supreme court will decide whether the biden administration biden administration county force their hand. now kennedy? hello. hello hello. the biden administration has been reminded time and time again that executive power is limited. including the prior decision to strike down the conviction when the supreme court wrote, quote we expect congress to speak clearly, when authorizing an agency to exercise power with such vast economic and political significance. here, what is clear is that there is not even a hint that congress authorized any agency to issue vaccine mandates for the entire country. kennedy. kennedy: yeah, the osha mandate was a giant workaround. one that ....
that said, cases are still up big time, particularly in the southeast where states like florida, louisiana and georgia have all seen their numbers go up more than 500% in the last two weeks. across the nation more than 3,000 schools have opted to shut down, but thousands more are using some combination of testing and masking protocols to keep their kids in-person, in school. the reaction from parents across this country, frustration, confusion, anxiety and fear. in other words, it feels like 2020 all over again. that is what president biden will be confronting when he updates the public on the fight against covid later today. meanwhile, a combination of covid sick-outs and bad weather is still causing huge travel issues at airports around the country. more than 1,000 u.s. flights have already been canceled just this morning and more than 18,000 since christmas eve. speaking of bad weather, willie just mentioned it, you have got to look at this. this is i-95 in the sta ....