a long fight kept all chicago public schools out of the classroom until late tonight. here is chicago s bay your just a little while ago. i will always be on the side of our children and their families. i was you when i was a kid growing up in my public school. i needed my school. my school made a difference in my life. i m not standing here today and just ahead, will they or won t they? two of the former president s closest allies playing coy over whether they ll talk to the committee investigating january 6th. gop congressman jim jordan who we know spoke with the president the former president that day speaking to cnn tonight. if they offer you the opportunity to speak in a public setting, would you be willing to do something like that? letter. read my letter. the letter doesn t say that specifically. that s our response is the letter. are you still because you said before that you were, you know, you didn t have anything to hide. i have nothing to hide.
field has the latest on the spike in covid-19 cases. if you look at the uptick, it is actually almost a vertical increase. reporter: amid a tsunami of new covid cases, the daily average topping 400,000 for the first time. the fda making major moves to adl add layers of protection, shortening the window between the initial doses of a vaccine and the booster shot for everyone from six months to five, and authorizing a third dose of vaccine for some immunocompromised children between the ages of 5 and 11. all that as the omicron surge brings with it a growing number of hospitalizations. more than 100,000 people are currently hospitalized with covid-19 for the first time in nearly four months. but even that stark figure is lower than we ve seen during another surges. the one group that that may be a problem for is very young children, toddlers who have trouble with upper airway infections. we are seeing rising hospitalizations among that pediatric segment. reporter: schoo
everything. we are in reactive mode, constantly. there are now growing concerns about sole shortages of health care workers. late today, the cdc revived s guidelines saying, those workers who tested positive, who are asymptomatic can come back to work after seven days if they have a negative says, adding that isolation time can be cut further if there are staffing shortages. in many parts of the nation, lines to get a covid has continued to stretch from blocks, ahead of the holidays. supplies of at home tests continue to run out. nbc news reports the dozen or so companies who are authorized to make those tests are scrambling to step up. the white house is pledged to send out 500 million tests to americans, but that starts next month. today, the administration was asked for more details about that program. we re just working to finalize contracts. as we understand, it they will be a website that people can go to, starting next. week we ve been planning for the website
pollyanna. i feel pollyanna gets a bad name. having read several of the book, she just had a good perspective on things. she tried to stay positive. his idea of people will find their moment. why would they have a moment when this is what is rewarded? why are people surprised that the republicans are closing ranks around gosar? one, they like what he is doing. they like that he is making fun of people they don t like. not so much joe biden, but they re learning to dislike him. and they certainly don t like aoc. yeah. why would they go after him? and now you give them reason to close ranks because they say you overplayed your hand on the left. okay. so here is the thing. you have to understand, or feel at least that you you have to understand that you re in a bad place, that you re in a bad way, that you re doing something wrong, that this isn t the way to go. i don t believe the people who are running the show in charge of the party that they even understood at this
why would they have a moment when this is what is rewarded? why are people surprised that the republicans are closing ranks around gosar? one, they like what he is doing. they like that he is making fun of people they don t like. not so much joe biden, but they re learning to dislike him. and they certainly don t like aoc. yeah. why would they go after him? and now you give them reason to close ranks because they say you overplayed your hand on the left. okay. so here is the thing. you have to understand, or feel at least that you you have to understand that you re in a bad place, that you re in a bad way, that you re doing something wrong, that this isn t the way to go. i don t believe the people who are running the show in charge of the party that they even understood at this point. i love john. part of the congress that he was involved in, and even the folks who come on this show or come on the network, as former lawmakers, it s not the same as when they were there