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and donald trump s two children have been subpoenaed. what happened next? it s way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that, frankly, is unimpressed with 2022 so far. i m jonathan lemire on this tuesday, january 4th. the u.s. has set a global record for covid-19 cases in a single day. more than 1 million new infections were reported on monday alone, according to data from johns hopkins university. that s nearly double the previous record set just last week. to put things in perspective, the highest single-day recording is over 1 million from india. still, a million. that is staggering. with so many americans struggling to get access to tests, others who are using take-home tests whose results aren t getting reported to the government is much higher. meanwhile there are mixed responses to students returning to the classroom this week after the winter break. nbc news correspondent stephanie gosk has the latest. reporter: wit ....
its seven-day average of new infections soaring to an average of more than 386,000 new cases a day. in only one state, maine, cases are down. iowa is holding steady, but the vast majority of the country seen in dark red here is struggling with a surge of 50% or more in new infections. hospitalizations and deaths are lower than their 2021 peaks, but the avalanche of new cases has the cdc predicting that more than 44,000 people could die of covid-19 in the next four weeks. and that underscoring the anxiety of millions of parents who will send their kids back to school as early as monday. some school districts facing a spike in child hospitalizations and they have already announced at least a partial transition to online learning. cnn s nadia romero is covering the pediatric surge, but first let s get with pal low sandoval on the airline cancellations. it is a real nightmares for travelers. reporter: it certainly is. airlines continue in their efforts to try to mitigate ....
eric: he s the devil. look at him. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha la la la la sha la la la la la sha la la la la sha la la la la la la anthony: it s the spicy, sensualist heartland of all the things i love about china. the collision between very, very old and very new. an exploding middle class. a lot of history. and food that can burn you down to a charred, smoking little stump. sichuan province, located in the southwest of china. over a thousand miles from beijing. a region so fertile and lush that it s been referred to as china s breadbasket. and its capitol, chengdu. despite its ever-growing skyline, it hasn t lost its deep culinary roots and traditions. man: heart. anthony: and i figured if i m going back to sichuan i should bring a friend. someone unused to the, how shall i say, level of heat commonly found i ....
by the end of this hour, i ll be seen by many as a terrorist sympathizer, a zionist tool, a self-hating jew, an apologist for american imperialism, an orientalist, socialist, fascist, cia agent and worse. so here goes nothing. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha la la la la sha la la la la la sha la la la la sha la la la la la la anthony: i was raised without religion. one side of the family long ago, catholic i think. the other side, jewish. i ve never been in a synagogue. i don t believe in a higher power. but that doesn t make me any less jewish, i don t think. these guys sandbagging me at the wailing wall, they don t seem to think so either. man: jewish, my friend. anthony: only half. man: jewish? anthony: yes, so that makes me jewish. man: so now for first time, we need you to go for bar mitzvah. two ....
this. of all the places, of all the countries, all the years of traveling, it s here, in iran, that i m greeted most warmly by total strangers. the other stuff, it s there. the iran we ve read about, heard about, seen in the news. but this? this i wasn t prepared for. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha la la la la sha la la la la la sha la la la la sha la la la la la la anthony: thank you. merci. so, good to be here, finally. it s taken some time. like, a lot of time. like, four years i ve been trying. finally! tehran. city of nearly 8 million people. capital of iran. this neighborhood feels kind of like, there are neighborhoods in rome this feels a lot like. after all this time, i finally had my chance to see a country i d heard so much about. the weather s nice, too. i don t know what i was expecting, but it s nice ....