getting frustrated with the lack of clarity. even the media which blindly carries joe biden s water on everything is asking, what the heck is going on? it s not a trick question. i feel like you have treated it like a trick question. people just want to know what the white house position is on whether or not teachers have to be vaccinated for kids to return safely to school. rachel: it s not just the vaccine issue. questions about antiscience lockdowns are giving them problems too. contra state and california, california basically and locked out of their numbers aren t that different from florida. so much of this virus we think we understand and we think we can predict. but it s a little bit beyond our explanation. this is a virus that continues to surprise us. it s very hard to predict. rachel: time after time, when posed with a simple question like when are you going to open the schools? we get answers like this. our goal is that as many k-8 schools as possibl
the movement of logistics and supplies, he has prepped the battlefield. and censuring kyrsten sinema. arizona s democratic party leaders coming together in a unanimous vote siting the senator s voice to protect the filibuster over her constituents right to vote. congressional democrats reacting. if you are a democrat and you can t uphold the fundamental right to vote for all citizens, regardless of race, then there s a problem. arizona s party chairwoman will join us and break down what went into that decision. plus, just hours from now, these streets are going to look a lot more crowded, with up to 20,000 people marching against vaccine mandates at our nation s capital. police are warning it could be a target for far-right extremists with groups like the proud boys promoting the protest on social media. good morning, everybody. it is sunday, january 23rd. we ve got a team of reporters and analysts following the latest this morning from washington, d.c. to tampa, to
the moment a car spins out into a ditch. and in airports tonight, millions lining up under strict covid protocols. amid the rush, this remarkable image. a tsa agent leaping over the checkpoint conveyor belt to save a baby who had stopped breathing. the urgent race to get covid tests before christmas. long lines stretching for blocks and supplies dwindling. david muir pressing the president. is that good enough? no, nothing s been good enough. the omicron variant now driving cases past delta s peak. infections more than doubling in just three weeks. but tonight, a new weapon in the fight against covid. the fda approving a second an anti-viral pill with merck. and new data out of the uk suggests omicron patients may be 50% to 70% less likely to be hospitalized. a new accuser comes forward, publicly claiming actor chris noth assaulted her. what she alleges he did. remembering american literary legend joan didion. a pioneer of new journalist, who offered unsparing obs
in california, tv crew captures the moment a car spins out into a ditch. the flooding in the west completely submerging cars with people inside. some areas becoming too dangerous for rescue efforts. and in airports tonight, millions lining up under strict covid protocols. ami amid the rush, this remarkable image. a tsa agent leaping over the checkpoint to save a baby. the race to get tested before christmas. long lines stretching for blocks as the omicron variant now drives cases past delta s peak. infections more than doubling in just three weeks. and a new weapon in thes fight against covid. the fda approving a second an anti-viral pill with merck. and tonight, new data out of the uk suggests omicron patients may be 50% to 70% less likely to be hospitalized. the demand for testing grows. the president s promise of half a billion new tests, not expected until after the holidays. david muir pressing the president about the state of the u.s. pandemic response nearly two year
cnn has learned the president will announce the purchase of half a billion at-home rapid tests and a new plan to distribute them free to americans who request them. this as 73% of cases in the u.s. are now the highly contagious omicron variant, outpacing delta as the dominant strain. that s up sixfold in just a week. now, so far it appears most cases of omicron are relatively mild but it s so contagious it is crippling already overwhelmed hospitals. the resurgence has the nhl on ice. the entire season will be put on hold starting tomorrow till at least after christmas. let s bring in jasmine wright in washington. the there is covid exhaustion, now there is this. the vaccine is unreachable. what is the white house plan here? reporter: well, christine, a major part of the plan is making those 500 million tests free and available to americans. now, this kind of is a reversal from the white house who made light really of sending free tests to americans when asked why they