good evening and welcome to washington come on bret baier. chicago schools could gradually start to be open for in person learning this week under with the chicago mayor is calling a tentative agreement with the teachers union there on covid-19 safety protocols and rolled out vaccinations for teachers. the deal if approved by the members of the unit would avoid a possible strike in the nation s largest school district. chicago is only one of many communities across the country fighting to get students back and side schools. i will speak in just a few minutes with the director of national institute of infectious diseases, dr. anthony fauci. we began with senior correspondent mike tobin in chicago, good evening. from a snow we chicago almost after a year after board with class on a computer and some not logging on. grades slipping, depression on the rise and apparently back to the classroom but as we see across the nation dealing with a pandemic, nothing is easy. at long
we re in tampa and colder than i thought it would be. it was an amazing experience. we want to tell everybody about it. bill: over the next couple of hours we ll share a lot of anect dotes we experienced together. when we showed up here yesterday afternoon. the super bowl you have to arrive early. security a mile long everywhere. it was true here but with covid on top of all of that it made for an interesting and dare i say often uncomfortable experience. dana: difficult to get around. people were trying to be helpful. i noticed masks were required. everybody was wearing them. hard to get instructions from people on where to go in a mask but i also remember that at the flyover during the national anthem with jasmine sullivan and eric church was the first time in a year i felt that rush of patriotism and excitement and being with your fellow americans. that was pretty cool. bill: a great moment. also i think we also got a chance to see how america is going to change and
around 2:30 early this morning when an irate angry inmate attacked correctional officer. the officer then got jumped by other inmates and everything just escalated from there. now nobody was tiebl break free from the jail but it was a dangerous situation. this is what people could see from outside of the building. keep in mind, this facility is located in the heart of downtown st. louis just blocks away from bush stadium where the st. louis cardinals play, and near other businesses, and city hall. there were 633 inmates in the jail when the attack happened. but the inmate uprising was contained to fourth floor of the building. the situation wasn t fully under control until hours later around 10 a.m. this morning. 65 inmates were transported to another jail and remaining inmates who participated in the revolt were moved to different areas within the facility. so the big question here, how were the inmates even able to do all of this? well city official say there s an issue wit
list, quote, this decision has nothing to do with our view of the representable conduct of the houthis and the kidnapping of american citizens. removing them from the terror list because that would somehow improve humanitarian consequences of a terrorist designation. how does this link to iran? we will investigate and is breaking news on the iran nuclear program as well. the lincoln project loses another cofounder, jennifer warren is leaving because of the grotesque and inappropriate behavior, her words, of cofounder jeff weaver. the project responds is actually leaving because he wouldn t pay for more money and give her a tv show. by the way republicans are pushing the congressional sergeant at arms to find nancy pelosi. apparently say; 509 am at february 2nd she didn t fully clear the new metal detectors as some republicans are facing $5,000 fines themselves for skipping that same security measure. kevin cork kicks us off with a 17 of the biden administration. this is a r
outburst that was ongoing, christina. a very dangerous situation. officials were able to get it under control this morning in the city of st. louis. a very upset an irate inmate attacked an officer early this morning and everything escalated romare bearden take a look at this disturbing video. authorities say the inmate attacked the guard and the guard was jumped by other detainees. nobody was able to break free from this jail by 115 inmates did take part in the chaos breaking out windows setting fires and throwing things on the fourth floor of the building. this is what people could see from outside the jail. this facility is located in downtown st. louis near other businesses like the city hall in a stadium where the cardinals play in several new stations. as for the correctional officer who was attacked, he went to the hospital for some injuries. he was pretty banged up but he has since been released so some good news there. eric and arthel. eric: meanwhile in terms of t