the house committee investigating the insurrection now says it wants to interview the former vice president about the january 6th ininsurrection. we begin this story in chicago where the nation s third largest school district canceled classes after the teachers union voted to refuse in-person work. they voted to switch to remote learning due to a surge in covid cases, the move leaving tens of thousands of students ca it comes as the rapid spread of omicron shows no sign of slowing down. the united states now averaging more than 550,000 cases per day. that s an increase of 358% since last month. about 113,000 americans, and it s important to stress nearly all unvaccinated are currently hospitalized with covid, up 90% over the last month. we expect to hear from the white house pandemic response team in just moments. let s start with cnn s omar jimenez live in chicago for the latest on the showdown between the teachers union and the district. we re hearing teachers are bein
disease does it cause, and how well does it evade immunity, including vaccines? dr. anthony fauci says you won t very any answers from this single case. having a single person who had what would be considered a breakthrough infect because the person was fully vaccinated doesn t really tell you much at all because we have breakthrough infections with delta, people have been vaccinated, fully vaccinated. very often, more often than not they have mild illness. the world health organization is advising people in certain high risk groups to postpone travel because of the variant. don t cancel christmas yet. dr. fauci says you can enjoy a safe holiday with your family including traveling if you are vaccinated. president biden is set to visit the national institutes of health today, we are will lay out a nine-point plan to help tackle the next phase of this pandemic. cnn s jeremy diamond and natasha chen are covering this this morning. run us through the steps the biden administ
and cnn this morning continues right now. good morning, everyone. we are following breaking news this hour out of greece. a train full of passengers colliding head on with a freight train. so far at least 36 people have been confirmed dead. we are hearing harrowing stories from survivors who say that the train cars quickly filled with smoke and with flames. worried that the death toll could go up. one of america s prominent mayors, lori lightfoot, defeated. and the price of insulin, that is just moments away. we begin with that devastating train crash that we were talking about in greece. it has killed more than 36 people and injured dozens of others. you can see the images here of the aftermath. it s a passenger train. it was carrying about 350 people at least. it collided head on with a freight train. multiple cars derailed and several caught fire north of athens where this happened. it it left carriages and heaps of debris in the wake. both were traveling on th
Chicago. it made national headlines and became a talking point for republicans and the former president. shootings and murders dropped last year, but other crimes, including carjackings and robberies are up according to police. so the candidate who won the most votes had a tough on crime message and made it a focus of his campaign. omar jimenez live in chicago, the windy city. called the windy city not because of the wind but because of the hot air and politics and now that is coming to the fore. good morning to you, omar. reporter: good morning, don. yeah, politics in chicago is a unique scene when it comes to major cities. when you look at what happened here, i mean, violent crime has been an issue, obviously, for a long time in the city. i spoke to mayor lori lightfoot midway through her administration and she told me if people don t feel safe, literally nothing else matters. and this appears to be at least
Are appearing on state tv saying they are concerned about the overall process, the modernization of the railway systems. 350 people, kaitlin, were on that passenger train and we are waiting for more news. rescue efforts are on the go, three days of national mourning also announced. yeah, there will be major questions about the decisions that were made here. thank you so much for that update. now to chicago where the mayor there losing re-election. in a race that was dominated by the issue of rising crime. lori lightfoot failed to make the cutoff for the runoff. a democrat who was endorsed by chicago s police union received nearly double her votes. i am grateful we worked together to remove a record number of guns off our streets, reduced homicides and started making real progress on public safety. under mayor lori lightfoot s watch violent crime spiked in