come on home. breaking news. massive tech outage impacting millions of people around the world. crowd strike, a large provider of virus protection said the outage was due to a system update and not a cyberattack. they apologized and said it fixed the problems but issues are lingering. major disruptions to 911 call centers, airports. thousands of passengers were stranded. the outage took out multiple billboards in new york city s times square. musk calling it the biggest i.t. failure ever. first to this. fox news alert. president biden self-isolating with covid in delaware as pressure intensifies in washington. new report says the president s family is starting to discuss what a possible exit plan for the 81-year-old would look like. his team says that is not going to happen. this is the faulkner focus. i m john roberts in for harris this friday. a week filled with a deluge of reports. democrats at the highest levels quietly urging the president to step aside. one says even
sent them to the capitol. this morning we bring you new video that could be used at the trial showing how trump s rabid supporters followed his cues during the siege. you don t concede when there s theft involved. we already voted, and what have they done? they stole it! we want our country back! much more on that in just a moment. we begin with the effort to speed up vaccine delivery. joining us now, dr. sanjay gupta. sanjay, you were listening as the president said by next week they ll increase the amount of vaccine shipped by 16%, that this summer by this summer, they want to purchase 200 million more doses of vaccine. what s important here when you look at this and see what the administration is doing? what s your most important takeaway? i think the most important thing is we, obviously have to have enough vaccine, but the pace at which these vaccines actually get to administered, meaning shots going into arms, i think is really critically important. i guess we
accept unilateral decision of work stoppage. i m urging teachers, come to school, teach your kids, your students need you. mark mered ith with the latest details. good morning, kevin. chicago public schools said it had no choice but to cancel itself after the vote you mentioned from the union not to allow in-person learning. the union says it is choosing to favor virtual learning so teachers can feel safe given the sharp rise in covid-19 cases. the teachers union says as the pandemic continues, we will do everything to ensure our classrooms are healthiest and safest for your children to learn, thrive and grow. lightfoot is furious and says the decision made within the last few hours forces parents to scramble, figure out child care and she says remote learning will hurt students in the long run. we can t ignore the reality of what we experienced in 2020 and 2021. when remote, our children suffer, there is no disputing that reality. kennedy: teachers union is expected
which will win out. breaking news tonight. president biden s on the defensive about the lack of a sufficient number of covid tests in the country. as the highly contagious omicron variant spreads rapidly across the country, americans standing in line outside in the cold winter air or sitting in their cars. sometimes for hours. just trying to get tested as they prepare to spend the holidays with family and friends. and the president acknowledging his administration is struggling to meet the growing demand, but he is denying that it dropped the ball. no, i don t think it s a failure. i think it s a you could argue we should have known a year ago, six months ago, two months ago, a month ago. i have ordered half a billion of the pills. 500 million pills. excuse me. 5 500 million test kits that are going to be available to be sent to every home in america if anybody wants them. but the answer is, yeah, i wish i had thought about ordering half a billion pills two months ago b
we re going to take apart this potentially game changing covid pill authorized by the fda today and take hold of this encouraging new data that appears to show omicron might not be as ominous as it sounds. and also take in this rare moment of harmony between presidents biden and trump in our pandemic fight, never say never. this country could use some doses of good news as we now see omicron all over the map of the united states. the variant that arrived 22 days ago has spread to all 50 states, along with d.c. and puerto rico. but that shouldn t necessarily be as frightening as it looks. dr. fauci highlighted data today from africa where omicron was first detected that shows this new covid strain poses a 70% lower risk of severe disease than the delta variant. fauci also pointed to data from scotland appears to back it up. that study found a two-thirds reduction in the risk of covid hospitalization compared with delta. so that s welcome news because maybe, as omicron spreads