lines and in airports plagued by delays and cancellations from winter weather and staffing from covid issues. we have fox team coverage tonight. rich edson at reagan national international airport virginia where omicron surge and winter weather. a lot of snow in washington continued to cause chaos. jacqui heinrich at the white house where it appears the purchase of 500 million covid test kits has still not come to fruition. we begin with jonathan serrie in atlanta. good evening, jonathan. good evening, bret. for now it appears the expansion of the fda s emergency use authorization applies only to boosters manufactured by pfizer. the cdc director rochelle walensky is expected to sign off on the plan later this week. the fda s announcement comes as many students return to school from holiday break. under the plan everyone 12 and old we re qualify for fires booster as soon as five months after completing primary doses. some immunocompromised children would also qualify for
good afternoon this is president biden s last full day in delaware for the holiday week, tomorrow he returns to the white house and a host of challenges many of them are focused on testing coming off the holiday week couple of weeks of long lines americans waiting hours to get covid test. the administration is trying to buy 500 million of them to send out for free though it s unclear when adobe available doctor anthony fauci said the at-home antigen test are accurate especially more americans use them. the very good when they re given sequentially if you do them two or three times over a today. at the end of the day there is good as the pcr. president biden faces a series of covid related court challenges the supreme court friday will hear cases involving the administration mandate for employees at larger companies or healthcare workers to be vaccinated or tested. the federal judge also blocked a federal vaccine mandate for those involved in the headstart program in 24
elections. i am edward lawrence in for neil cavuto. this is cavuto life and we are bringing in the new year with 2022, many of the same covid challenges as 2021, covid cases rising to the highest level since the pandemic started forcing businesses to change course and americans to sort through the change in guidance, business owners left to sort through mixed messages at all private employers are forced to impose vaccine mandates. it is a huge burden on his business is already hurting from covid cancellations. he joined me now. happy new year to you and let s hope 2022 is for the foodys a better year for you. the incoming mayor eric adams says he will keep the vaccine mandate in place and this is one of the most strict and far reaching in the nation. what do you think of that mandate and its effect on you? it is excellent in that health is the priority, to get ourselves through covid. saving keeping customers and personnel the priority. edward: are you seeing customers star
in the case of children. and a troubling sign, pediatric hospitalizations have jumped nearly 50% in the last week, approaching a peak not seen since september when the majority of covid cases were caused by the delta variant. and even these staggering numbers may not show the full picture. in miami and all around the country, people are lining up, some before dawn, to get tested. some are waiting hours, others scheduling days in advance. and for those lucky enough to find at-home tests, the positive results are not reported to the cdc. now the fda is raising doubts about those tests accuracy, especially with the omicron variant. cdc director richelle walensky says the nationwide shortage of tests was not driving the decision to cut the isolation period from ten to five but what the nation can tolerate. we re going to talk to elizabeth cohen. elizabeth, can you break down some of these numbers for us. jessica, let s take a look at what s happening with cases. we have surpas
110 years. the district attorney says that s too much time behind bars, but what do the survivors think? let s go out front. good evening. so good you are with me. i m poppy harlow in for erin burnett. out front tonight, breaking news. the cdc shortening its recommended kwarn teenage time for all americans who test foifbz for covid now saying people should isolate for five days instead of ten, as long as they don t have symptoms and also wear a mask around others for an digzle five days. that is also the quarantine guidance for those exposed to the virus who are not boosted. saying boosted individuals do not need to quarantine but should wear a mask for ten days after exposure and get tested on the fifg day. this comes just hours after president biden told the nation s governors on a conference call today, quote, we have to do better. wh when it comes to testing. do you know how tough it was for some folks to get a test this weekend, shows that we have more work to do. it s