updated ids guidance on how long health care workers should isolate if they get covid-19. shortening the time from ten days to seven days if they are no longer positive and if they are asymptomatic. let s go to our national correspondent athena jones more on the omicron surge as the holiday travel rush is underway. reporter: with holiday air travel surpassing pre-pandemic levels, according to the tsa, tonight long lines at airports and at testing sites. this whole thing is frustrating. reporter: as people scramble to do what they can to keep themselves and their families safe through the holidays. doctors are applauding the fda decision today granting emergency use authorization to a second anti-viral pill. this one from merck that people could take at home. adding another covid fighting weapon to the nation s armory. but they stress even these game-changing medications must be given within five dies of onset making timely access to tests all the more important. we ca
I mean the idea here is even after she shot and killed 20-year-old daunte wright, you heard her through her own police camera saying, oh, my god, and she was talking about the reaction to it. it was very clear that she believed that she had made a tragic mistake and was going to cost her her own freedom and end up in jail. so there was already this notion of this person believing understanding what had gone wrong but i think the jurors look at this case, again, two things could be true. that they could be sympathetic towards here and the idea that being a tragic mistake, but we prosecute mistakes all of the time. because we have the ability to prosecute things that are negligent, that you created an unreasonable risk and didn t take precautions against it. in our law we give officers a benefit of the doubt, wolf, and in that we say because of your expertise and your training and your ability to deal with stressful situations, we re going to give you what no one else is supposed to have
Breaking news tonight, guilty verdicts in the manslaughter trial of former police officer kim potter, convicted on two counts of manslaughter in the shooting death of daunte wright. omar jimenez has been updating the trial and tell us what happened. reporter: well, wolf, when the verdict was read, daunte wright s mother burst into tears and kim potter stood there motionless. it was later on that write s mother said today we ve gotten accountability and that is what we ve been asking for from the very beginning. there was also celebration outside of the courthouse when the verdict was read and including from some that didn t they the verdict would be guilty after 27 hours of deliberations and over three days total, three and a half days total. the crux of what they were
Wright, a father and son and family member. and when you move forward and talk about the factors playing into sentencing, we are expecting to hear victim paktd statements where members of family will detail how this has devastated their family dynamic and it is likely to going to be something that will play in the sentencing when we get there in mid-february. but something that the father said, he said i don t usually speak much, this is after the verdict. but he said one thing that he wanted to make clear, there was a lot of nights they didn t know how they would get through. but that they looked to the messages they were received and saw support and that is part of what held them or kept them together throughout this whole time because with all of the fanfare and all attention and legal back and forth at the center of it all is a family going through a tragedy and trying to find a way to grief through it all and of course this family was the embodiment of that. well said, indeed.
Conduct because you have 26 years of experience and know that the distinction between a firearm and a taser, in the event you were careless and make a mistake and take someone s life, that is tragic and also criminal and that is what the jury said. so i think today is a big moment because notwithstanding what this jury looks like and what daunte wright looked like, this jury fought and tuggled and went after each other but they reached a conclusion that was consistent with the law based on the facts in this case and that is a really big deal. unanimous decision. i at one point thought maybe there could be a hung jury. but it didn t turn out to be that way. potter took the stand in her own defense and became very emotional as she recounted on that routine traffic stop. what impact do you think her testimony had on the jury? i think it was very impactful in the sense of eliciting an emotional response from the jury, to look at somebody who had remorse. and a demonstration of re.