strong messages. so what do they say will be the takeaways? that s exactly right, jim. the expectations are very low. they re saying, do not expect any deliverabilities. that s consistent with what they said in the past, that they really can t expect any deliverables coming out of a meeting with vladimir putin, who is so unpredictable. that s exactly what they re trying to accomplish here, is more predictability. that means there s not going to be any kind of grand breakthrough here. just incremental things. so perhaps more cooperation on counterterrorism, cybersecurity, perhaps a discussion of the hostages, the prisoners that russia has taken, american prisoners, and a potential prisoner swap there. things that perhaps they can point to that are small, but that can move the relationship forward in a you know, a meaningful way, so that there are no misunderstandings. and the biden administration, well, the president himself actually said yesterday during a press conferenc
democrat says doing nothing is not an option on voting rights, but chuck schumer has had a math problem, and it s a familiar one. we begin today though with the staggering new covid numbers and the disruption and anxiety they are causing across american life. more than 1 million new infections were reported monday, yes, that number is bloated because of holiday weekend reporting backlogs. still, look at the numbers. the united states nearly averaging nearly 500,000 new covid cases a day, more than 100,000 americans are hospitalized right now with covid-19. it s the first time that count has hit six figures in nearly four months. pandemic high pediatric hospitalizations are a troubling sub set that have overall count. impact is everywhere you look, and it s an understatement to say that it can be confusing, more than confusing. many businesses that can are shifting back to work from home. yet officials from the president on down say it s imperative that we keep kids in schools
announced more than 44,000 new cases. that s a 14% jump from just yesterday s record-breaking day and washington, d.c. is reporting a whopping 386% increase in infections over the last week. it s a it s all against this broc drop that the cdc is making a big change announcing it s shortening the isolate period for covid positive health care workers. they can now return to work after seven days of a negative test instead of waiting ten days, all in the hopes of relieving some of the intense strain put pont health care system. cnn s elizabeth cohen starts us off this hour live with more details on this. elizabeth, what s driving this decision by the cdc? so, hops which are already so overloaded, kate, they could get even more overload federal a lot of health care workers, doctors, nurses and others get infected with omicron and have to stay home even though they might not be terribly sick so the cdc has really placed the power of making these restrictions on the hospitals.
unlike last year we have tools to gather safely this year, but hardships remain. there are struggles to find tests and testing. u.s. cases just spiked 48% from last week and right now new infections are topping the wave we saw from delta. hospitalizations are also up. the cdc is taking action before the winter wave now shortening a time that health care workers have to test after testing positive. airlines today pushing for that same guidance and staffing shortages are grounding hundreds of christmas eve flights. people are stranded and mask mandates are still in place and the fatigue is real and so is the loss. right now roughly 1,500 americans are doing of covid each day, most overwhelmingly unvaccinated. over 815,000 mesh lives now lost to this virus. our hearts are with those families, especially this holiday. several covid headlines to get to to start us off this hour to. begin we start with our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. let s go through what the cdc
trump have over his time in office over the people who worked for him and the documents they were producing at that time? so far we have seen trump lose at the drill court level, lose at the appeals court level and they are rejecting literally almost every single argument he has brought before the courts. now it is in the hands of the supreme court. they really, because they are the supreme court, can do whatever they want to do on any of these arguments, and everything about this will have major implications about what happens as the house select committee continues to pursue information not just from the trump white house but from other witnesses, witnesses like the chief of staff mark meadows, his handwritten notes about january 6th are included in these records trump is trying to keep secret this. s other notes, schedules, call logs, all kinds of information about what was happening in the west wing up to january 6th and on january 6th are included in this, and everythin