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york. thanks so much for getting an early start with us. i m laura jarrett. and i m paula reid in for christine romans. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. we have reports from los angeles, moscow, bough jing, delaware, rome and mexico city. basically everywhere. welcome to early start. paula, so nice to have you again today. we begin with a major change when it comes to how we live with the virus and frankly each other. the cdc has officially shortened its recommendation time isolation time for people who test positive with covid. instead of staying away from each other ten days, the cdc says stay home for just five days if and this is key here if you are asymptomatic by day five. the agency says this change is driven by data that shows most covid transmission is actually happening one to two days before someone has symptoms and in the two to three days after. it also comes as businesses across the country fashion the strain ....
a new covid wave across the u.s. disrupting holiday travel plans for millions of americans. president biden s agenda remains in limbo despite that promised christmas deadline. we ll hear from the vice president about what s next for build back better. and the world remembers archbishop desmond tutu. he helped end apartheid in south africa. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. we begin with the growing concern over the rapid spread of the omicron variant in the u.s. as cases surge, so does the demand for tests. this is the scene at testing sites around the country. long lines with people often having to wait hours to get tested. and the nation s top disease expert says access to testing has got to get better. we should be using testing much more extensively than we have, even in a situation where you have people who are vaccinated and boosted, but the situation where you have such a high demand, a conflation of events, omicron star ....
do that. people are no longer embarrassed to watch televtelev. we have seen the news and it s us. slowly but surely the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be pupon us. as we begin the 80s. nine out of ten people were watching only one of three networks. more than 30 million people are addicted to it. what is it? it s television s primetime prairie pot boiler of dallas. a move like that will destroy all of you and ruin our family name. brothers or no brothers, whatever it takes, i will stop you. dallas, the one hour show that captivated america for 13 years. dallas rooted in the 1970s. this character, jr as a pop phen phenomenal. tell me which you will be staying with tonight. whatever it is, it s much more delicious than the i am looking at now. you could do something so unexpected that it would become news over night. [ gunshot ] . the national obsession around who shot jr is hard to imagine how obsessed we were with that question but w ....
still, covid is once again dominating our daily lives. schools, sports, work, all face this uncertain future. colleges are sending students home. more and more companies are delaying the return to the office. the nba and nfl rolling out new safety measures and cancelling games. even secretary of state anthony blinken cut his trip to southeast asia short after a journalist on the trip tested positive for covid. five months ago president biden said the virus no longer controls our lives. now people everywhere are lining up to be tested before joining family for the holidays. and to be clear, that s a good thing. new projections show winter holiday travel is about to roar back, so people should get tested. aaa estimates that more than 109 million americans will travel during the week between christmas and new year s. a number approaching the pre-pandemic record. and after sacrificing so much for so long, people want to be together again. it s understandable, but the re ....
stake was their promise to save america, at least in their own minds. and by save america, of course i mean save their re-election chances. in 2022 and 2024. and so for three quarters of a year, the sales pitch has been on. we are hard at work on build back better which includes so many policies families need so very much. i think build back better is going to help build this country back better and we re going to keep negotiating. it s important for us to get the build back better act over the finish line. for the american families to make it in the next year, we have got to make sure that build back better is passed. will: build back better did not make the finish line. it stumbled right at the ribbon. and its death, by the way is good news for americans. why is that? because right now this country is facing the highest inflation rate it has had in 39 years. and, according to brand new fox business poll released just an hour ago, it is inflation that is far ....