family lived and went to church. that person found the judge s home, shot and killed her son, and injured her husband. these acts and threats of violence are not associated with any one set of partisan or ideological views. but they are permeating so many parts of our national life that they risk becoming normalized and routine if we do not stop them. that is dangerous for people s safety, and it is deeply dangerous for our democracy. in a democracy, people vote, argue, and debate. often vociferously in order to achieve the policy outcomes they desire. but in a democracy, people must not employ violence or unlawful threats of violence to affect that outcome. citizens must not be intimidated from exercising their constitutional rights to free expression and association by such unlawful conduct. the justice department will continue to investigate violence and illegal threats of violence, disrupt that violence before it occurs, and hold perpetrators accountable. we have marshall
church. that person found the judge s home and shot and killed her son, and injured her husband. these acts and threats of violence are not associated with any one set of partisan or ideological views, but they are permeating so many parts of our national life that their risk becoming normalized and routine if we do not stop them. that is dangerous for people s safety. and it is deeply dangerous for our democracy. in a democracy, people vote, argue, and debate, often vociferously, in order to achieve the policy outcomes they desire. but in a democracy, people must not employ violence or unlawful threats of violence to effect that out come. citizens must not be intimidated from exercising their constitutional rights to free expression and association by such unlawful conduct. the justice department will continue to investigate violence and illegal threats of violence, disrupt that violence before it occurs, and hold perpetrators accountable. we have marshalled the resources of
covid-19 team. it s an important update, given that it s about the omicron variant and the latest data on it. and what we are seeing play out across the nation. not just with the disruption, and the data and what it s looking like with hospitals and you will hear from president biden on it tomorrow. of course, anderson there s questions for the president president facing this. one of those that we asked today or tried to ask him, the new cdc guidance that shortens the isolation period if you tested positive from ten days to five days if you have no symptoms or they are resolving according to the language from the cdc, today i asked him if he thought it should come with a testing recommendation. you saw the doctors saying they believed it should, not just saying you can leave the isolation period as long as you are wearing a mask. which is what the current guidance is. he said that he will talk about it later on, whether he talks about it, or will address it is yet to be seen.
a year ago this week? new insight this hour into what the january 6th committee is learning. and looks and sounds like a page from the old testament. we re going to find out why fish were literally falling from the s sky. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start in the health lead. major new announcements from the food and drug administration today about pfizer s covid vaccine. the fda today recommending the pfizer booster for teens ages 12 to 15. shortening, for everyone, the recommended time between your second pfizer shot and the booster and okaying a third dose for some immunocompromised children between 5 and 11. more than 115 million americans have been fully vaccinated with the pfizer vaccine and now the cdc is going to meet this week to decide whether to sign off on the fda recommendations as parents are stressing about sending their kids back to school given the recent spike in pediatric hospitalizations due to covid. though we should note almost all of t
last two weeks, hospitalizations are growing at a much slower rate, just 35%. and the death rate may be the most important number has actually gone down. all of that is the backdrop for millions of kids heading back to school this morning, and confusion doesn t even begin to explain the feeling out there. some districts are bringing back masks, some are ramping up testing like here in new york city, while others are going virtual all over again. according to one data company, nearly 2,200 schools have announced that they are going to be closed starting today. bottom line, because there are no federal rules, schools, towns, districts, they have all their own rules, they are essentially on their own. that is why you ve got places like madison, wisconsin, where cases are up almost 50%, they re going virtual, but in houston where cases are up more than 600% over the last two weeks, schools there are open with masks and testing. and while covid is making a mess of the school situa