isolate if you want to. moving again as hundreds of people stranded. if she didn t have bad timing and bad communication skills ainsley: that is a shot of will charlotte, north carolina. a good southern town, a banking town. and about an hour away from my parents. 66 degrees is the high. 36 degrees is the low. 40 degrees right thought. sunny with a few clouds in the sky. good morning, gentlemen. lawrence: hey, good morning, ainsley, in for steve today. so good to be with you guys. happy new year. i hope you had great vacation, ainsley. hey, brian. brian: thanks for saying hello to me eventually, lawrence. all about ainsley in the beginning. i love ainsley the big selling point on that town it s a banking kid. honey, get the kids i would love to go a banking town to get away. come on. ainsley: all the girls said when we go to college we are moving there because he that s where we will find our man. brian: i don t think lawrence said that. that he was different. i
the latest from that briefing as we get it. right now we re following the urgent battle to defend voting rights. senate democrats eyeing a rule change to pass a voting bill without requiring 60 votes. ahead, the exclusive nbc news reporting about republican dark money and how they are trying to sway one democratic senator in particular. we ll give you one guess who that could be. and then i ll talk to the mayor of tucson, arizona who signed a letter to the senate urging them to pass legislation. also happening right now in capitol hill, the chief of the u.s. capitol police testifying about changes they have made since the attack on the capitol almost one year ago. so far he says that of the more than 100 recommendations made by the inspector general, they have implemented or are addressing 90 of them. more on that in a few moments. we are also following some breaking news in philadelphia. a devastating fire. we just heard officials give us an update. 13 people killed includ
during the commute. the next storm moving across the country set to hit new york city, philadelphia, the northeast. tonight, at this hour, 30 states from california all the way to the east coast already under winter alerts and ginger will time it all out. tonight, the cdc under growing scrutiny after suggesting people infected with covid could leave isolation after five days without any test to make sure. well, what the cdc is now saying tonight about a test five days later, and dr. jha is standing by. we ask him, what kind of test is actually best to know whether you might still be contagious? the major headline involving former new york governor andrew cuomo tonight. what the albany d.a. has now decided on whether to prosecute the case. the court battle involving prince andrew unfolding here in new york. the continuing fallout involving jeffrey epstein and what the judge has now signaled today. tonight, the house committee investigating the attack on the capitol now
closed nationwide. we need our children to be in school. i think the term distance learning is like a contradiction in terms. philadelphia, you know, when children aren t in schools, they re many aren t getting the one decent meal they get during the day. the instance of child abuse basically disappears because you re not picking that up in school. most importantly the socialization and social development. the kids surely missed last year. i think we need to do everything we can to get children back to school. it s a precious thing. because it s a precious thing we need to treat it preciously. 77 of philadelphia s 215 schools are shifting to 100% online today. schools in detroit, l.a., atlanta, milwaukee, seating, cleveland, washington, all also going remote or they re delaying their start for at least a few days after the holiday break. in many cases, they re waiting for covid tests, rapid tests which are scarce, or pcr tests which take days to return results. in louis
administration is taking to combat it. the white house still has not offered comprehensive details about its plan to distribute half a billion tests for free. joining me now is dr. vivek murthy. how much higher do you think it will go and when will it peak? well, john, you know, it is troubling to see these numbers, to see how high the cases are going, to know our hospitalizations have increased like this. unfortunately this is the consequence of an extraordinary transmissible variant, the omicron variant. as troubling as this is and as tough as the next few weeks may be there is something important we have been learning during this experience and that is that our vaccines, especially when combined with boosters, have remained extremely effective at keeping people out of the hospital and it is saving their lives. it is why we have been encouraging people to get vaccinated and boosted. when i talk to doctors in the emergency room and colleagues in hospitals around the coun