today as covid cases skyrocket. we have the latest for you. a u.s. judge is not buying donald trump s immunity claims, why the former president s reaction or lack thereof during the riots may work against him. and the georgia bulldogs end their drought, stunning alabama and winning their first title in 41 years. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. welcome to the show, everyone. it is tuesday, january 11th. and we have a lot of developments to report on the coronavirus pandemic today and starting this hour in chicago where the teachers union has voted to return to in-person learning tomorrow after four days of schools being closed. more on that in a moment. meanwhile, the cdc could be changing its recommendations what kind of masks people should wear. the washington post is reporting advisers are expected to endorse n 95 or kn 95 masks. that comes as the number of americans hospitalized with covid continues to rise as you can see th
in the coronavirus pandemic. an ominous milestone, but one that requires important context. covid is pushing many hospitals to the brink, but really, more specifically, the unvaccinated are pushing hospitals to the per brink. more than 141,000 americansized shy of the all-time high established in january 2021. that record will likely be broken today. this includes people who are going to the hospital because of covid and those who show up for other things, a car crash, a broken arm, but turn out to also have covid once they get there. also, crucially, the large majority of hospitalized patients are unvaccinated or only partially vaccinated. look at this chart from new york city. it shows the rate of hospitalization among the unvaccinated. that s the top line. and the vaccinated, the bottom line. look at that chasm, mammoth gap. a stunning gap. two different worlds there. in the meantime, the testing shortage does remain problematic. the white house says the first of 500 mil
welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is tuesday, january 11th. i m brianna keilar with john berman. new this morning, voting rights advocates in georgia are speaking out on their plans to boycott president biden s speech today in atlanta. they say without a concrete plan to pass election reform laws that have, so far, been blocked by republicans, and also some resonant democrats, the president shouldn t bother coming. here s what the founder of black voters matter told us here on new day just moments ago. he gave a very passionate speech, not only the one he gave for the commemoration last week of january 6th, but, remember, he gave a very passionate speech back in philadelphia, back in july. but then literally for seven months, we heard nothing else about voting rights from him. so now is not the time for another speech. and to be clear, we believe in using the presidency as a bully pulpit. we would have loved that the president use the pr
i think the union is not listening to science, right. so, the union, the ctu is not the cdc. they don t get to decide what the thresholds are. you know, we have, we have the cdc and the department the chicago department of public health. they are both saying it is safe for students to go back to school. in fact, it is arguably the safest place for students to be. cnn s omar jimenez has more from chicago on what sealed the deal. reporter: the standoff between chicago public schools and the chicago teachers union is over. teachers will be back in class tuesday, and students will be back in class wednesday. the core of this dispute, of course, was the chicago teachers union didn t feel the school district had provided adequate resources to come back in-person safely. some of the major sticking points over the course of this dispute, one was the timing for returning in-person, given the recent surge in covid we ve seen in the community. and the metrics on when to take the