eric: it was loud, shaking, and scary as hell. so says one of the passengers and now the national transportation safety board is investigating the cause of that engine mishap when the united airlines flight that was forced to return to the denver airport yesterday afternoon after a suffering an engine failure after takeoff. nobody on board or on the ground was injured. aircraft debris from the engine rained down on homes and gladder a denver suburb. hello, thank you for watching the fox news channel. this is america's news headquarters. i'm eric shawn. hi, arthel. arthel: high hi, eric. hello, i'm arthel neville. we are following the crisis in texas.

nearly a week since the deadly winter storm struck the lone star state, it's still struggling to get safe water to millions of residents. meantime, the white house's $1.9 trillion stimulus plan could go to the floor later this week but many on the right say it's still with too many liberal earmarks. we have live team coverage today. david spunt is at the white house, casey siegel is in dallas, tracking the winter storm's aftermath. christina coleman is live in los angeles with more on the united airlines engine failure. >> reporter: no one was injured but there was significant damage on the ground and some terrifying moments in the sky. fortunately, the flight crew was able to land the plane safely. take a listen to the mayday call. >> we're experiencing engine failure. we need to clear. mayday, mayday, united 328,

heavy mayday, mayday. >> departure, heavy mayday, experienced engine failure. need to return immediately. >> reporter: one of the jet's engines exploded yesterday, shortly after the hawaii bound flight took off from denver. it's unclear what caused the right engine to malfunction. ten crew members and 231 passenger as were on board united's flight 328 when the incident occurred. passengers described hearing a loud bang. can you just imagine hearing and seeing all of this while you're flying somewhere? a frightening moment for passengers for sure. >> i could see the flash but i could also feel the heat from it. so immediately we knew something bad had happened. >> it was all of a sudden a lot of turbulence and then like a really bright kind of bang and

flash. >> reporter: on the ground, people in the small community of broomfield north of denver watched the boeing 777 soar through the sky with one engine on fire. debris fell on at least two houses. people were in one of the homes at the time. the ring from the engine narrowly missed a house. neighbors surveyed the metal in some front yards. miraculously, no one was hurt. >> we heard this big bang. it missed being directly above us by less than 10 feet. so yeah, it would have -- that big a piece would have gone through our roof. >> reporter: now, as for the passengers on that flight, they were transported back to the terminal at denver international yesterday and offered a new flight to honolulu. meantime, the faa and ntsb are investigating the cause of this engine failure. arthel. arthel: , i could not imagine

seeing that from the plane itself. >> reporter: me either. arthel: thank you, christina coleman in los angeles. eric. eric: that we are. and they certainly are too. so for more on what caused that engine to peel off, let's bring in commercial pilot, robert moore. so robert, we heard what the passengers said. a white flash, a big bang and we saw the video, black smoke trailing from the damaged engine. was it an explosion? what do you think appears to have happened here? >> it was certainly an explosion, eric. that's what blew the kowling off. the fan, the part that most people see when it's on the ground in front seems to have remained intact. at this point we're not sure exactly what happened or why but, again, the main concern for me would have been that some of those pieces of the cow lookerring that left and hit the

ground could have gone the other way and come through the cabin and that would have been a chaotic situation. eric: that's exactly what happened two years ago, southwest 737 had a piece of a fan blade broke off, pierced a window, killed a woman, sadly. >> that's true. this time the airplane was still down in a low altitude so the pressure differential itself wouldn't have been a big difference but the problem would have been if it had come through the cabin and hit somebody. that would have been really bad. eric: yeah. look at this video. we're taking a look at the damaged engine right now. they are, though, designed, are they not -- i mean, this is a testament in a sense to the safety of the way aircraft are designed as well as the skill and training of the pilots that if there is a problem, the engine doesn't fall off, doesn't blow up the whole plane. >> that's absolutely true. that's why i think there's as much media coverage of this last

18 hours as there is, because this doesn't happen very often and it's because the faa, the ntsb and the industry, the manufacturers, the airlines, have gone through such incredible efforts over the last 20 years to try to make air travel as safe as possible. eric: this did happen two years ago, similar triple 7, united airlines, boeing 777 departing from san francisco international airport to honolulu, on descent that triple 7 suffered an engine surge and a compressor stall. and the same thing happened. do you think that this is a repeat of a potential engine surge and compression stall and can you describe what that means? >> well, it's going to be really hard to -- what they'll do, when the airplane is towed to the

hangar, which i'm sure it's been by now, they'll remove the engine from the aircraft and take it apart piece by piece and i think that will really give us the best indication of what happened. but i think that compressor stall or no, the most important aspect is that the engine hung together. the explosion, whatever it was, caused the cowling to go but the engine stayed intact and again, that's what it's supposed to do normally, the cowling is supposed to stay there too but in this case it wasn't that big a deal. eric: by the way, the 777 2018, it actually took off last night at 7:00 from denver to honolulu and in about two hours from now that plane that had the incident in 2018 is going to fly from honolulu up to san francisco. so it does show that they can go through this and analyze the situation and in that case the

engine fan blade ripped off. finally, robert, is they anything more that the industry can do to prevent these in terms of inspection, hairline cracks or are with at the point where they do as much as they can do and this sometimes occasionally happens? >> i think i'm not a mechanic, i'm not an engineer, i just drive these things. but i think that you need to continue to train the pilots and the flight attendants and we don't want to make shortchange of the role the flight attendants in the back had for trying to keep people calm and keep them safe during this emergency but also with the mechanics on the ground, there's no room for skipping steps or saying, well, we'll get to it later or maybe it will cost too much. we don't do that normally and i think even though the economy and the flying industry has suffered a pretty awful blow in the last year, we have to make sure that we don't change

anything because that's how we will keep the public safe. howie: and when we get on board the next flight, be sure to tip your hat and thank the copilots and the pilots and the flight attendants. >> absolutely. eric: they do a remarkable job. they are trained for this, to keep us safe and they do that. robert moore. robert, thank you. >> you're welcome. eric: arthel. arthel: well, the house is planning to vote this week on president biden's nearly $2 trillion coronavirus relief package but some republicans say the proposal includes earmarks for policies that are unrelated to the pandemic including an underground rail project in silicon valley. david spunt is live at the white house with more on this. david. >> reporter: hi, arthel. earmarks are a very real thing here in washington, d.c. a critical few days lie ahead for this $1.9 trillion covid

relief package before it gets to the house floor. it's expected to get out of the house committee as early as tomorrow so we'll continue to watch that. meanwhile, president biden was at a pfizer vaccine manufacturing facility in michigan on friday, taking a tour, a way to get updates on the vaccine distribution while at the same time pushing that covid relief plan not only to a purple state like michigan but the rest of the country. >> this is the united states of america, for god's sake. we invest in people. do we not invest $35 billion to help people keep a roof over their heads? i could go on. but you get the point. i'm grateful that the senate and the house are moving quickly. i'm prepared to hear their ideas how to make the package better. >> reporter: congressman jason smith on the house budget committee said in a statement to fox news in part, democrats are rushing to pass a nearly $2 trillion spending bill that will

enact bailouts for state governments that locked down citizens and radical policies that will destroy gobbles and raise the cost -- destroy jobs and raise the cost of living. smith and republican colleagues are crying foul at several earmarks in the bill, approximately $100 million for the bay area rapid transit system, public rail system in california, approximately $1 billion for other similar transportation projects, around $200 million for museums and libraries and $270 million combined in arts and humanities endowments, this is not mentioning the $15 proposed minimum wage. president biden said he is in favor of hiking up the minimum wage, it may not be the right time right now. the white house saying they want to get $1,400 payments to americans in need as soon as a possible. the reason it's $1,400, not 2,000, we heard a lot of talk about 2,000 a couple months ago because when president trump was still here at the white house people got $600 so that's the

difference. arthel. arthel: that would add up to the 2,000. okay. thank you very much, david spunt, in washington. >> thank you. arthel: eric. eric: for more on what we can expect in the stimulus billet's bring in republican congressman from wisconsin, mike gallagher. he sits on the house transportation and infrastructure committee. let's start with the transportation earmark. it's $100 million out of a $1.9 trillion bill. you are on the transportation committee. what is your view of this request? >> well, the obvious question, eric, is what the heck did this have to do with coronavirus? the obvious answer is nothing. absolutely nothing. the bill isn't about coronavirus. it's about nancy pelosi and chuck schumer exploiting the crisis to funnel billions of dollars to california and new york in a cynical attempt to get reelected. these are not serious people. they can't be trusted with leading this country. if you think that's too harsh,

consider who the democrats are working for right now, the teachers unions. eric: let me interrupt you. that sounds a little harsh to say you can't trust them to lead the country. the mass transit systems have been hit hard by coronavirus, the head of bart, part of the sans fran bay area transportation says tells, say they'll have to have tons of layoffs, they've lot billions of dollars, cut service across the country and they need money, they need this money because it is correct directly re-- directly related to coronavirus. what would your response to be for that. >> for a brand-new underground rail project? i don't think that holds water. i'm on the transportation committee. let's have the debate through the committee process in transportation and infrastructure and let's move a bipartisan infrastructure bill not saddle is in a budget reconciliation process on a coronavirus bill. it's actually not about the coronavirus right now. so i just think -- we saw this with the last bill that worked through congress. we haven't spent half the money

that went through the last bill. we have to be targeted and focused. i think there's a lot of republicans, myself included, who are willing to do more to make sure that vaccines get widely distributed, are willing to do more to make sure hospitals have the costs covered that they're taking on for administering the vaccine and that's the best way we can actually open up this economy, not stay shut down and that's the best thing we can do to help people economically is to allow them to go to work, allow teachers to go to school, and allow parents to have somewhere to send their kids during the day. eric: and in terms of what you think there will be, the president proposed $290 billion for 11 million americans, checks of 1,400. if you make up to 75,000. what do you expect will be in the final bill? >> well, we don't know. because the other part of this process that is a huge problem is it's tightly controlled at the top and as you know, as we saw with the last iteration, the last second they plop 5,000 page bill in front of us with no

opportunity to amend the bill and force members to vote in a few hours. members of congress are not reading the bills they're voting on and taking trillions of taxpayer dollars and spending it in the process because of the bad process in d.c. so i hope that we'll step back from this, i hope president biden will consider a bipartisan approach that goes through the committee process, allow for amendments rather than ramming it through as quickly as possible when we haven't even spent all of the money we passed in the last round. eric: meanwhile, there hasn't been a lot of bipartisanship in washington it seems but you having you're working with democrat jason crowe, you're both veterans on the war on terror. tell us about the idea, it's the global war on terrorism memorial to be built on the national mall to join the world war ii, vietnam and korean memorial.

>> anyone that has gone to the memorials, knows how powerful an experience that is. if you've welcomed an honor flight home, coming back to your district or met them in washington, d.c. it's one of the most powerful experiences you could ever have and so as a veteran myself, i'm teaming up with my democrating colleague, jason crowe, an army veteran, in order to authorize a place on the national mall for memorial that is a recognition of those who served in the global war on terrorism. wars that may not have a definitive end date but nonetheless contain a ton of stories of heroism, of men and women that paid the ultimate sacrifice keep our country say. as you referenced, at a time when the country is divided, i can't think of anything that can bring it together as much as the shared recognition of the sacrifices of our veterans. so we're trying to get this done. we hope to get it done this congress. and we are trying to get as many co-sponsorship as possible. and my dream is that one day the men and women i served with in

uniform will have some place to go to in d.c., a memorial that honors their service. eric: you served in iraq in marine corps. thank you to your service, also to congressman crowe. how do people help? where do they go? there's a foundation dealing with this. >> there is a foundation. for our opinions, the best thing -- purposes, the best thing is to call their member of congress and ask them to co-sponsor the bill. we need to force the speaker to put the bill on the floor, get it passed and get it on the national mall. call your representative in congress and get them on our bill. eric: the global war on terrorism he memorial. congressman, gallagher, thank you for coming on and thank you for your service in the military to our country. >> thank you. eric: arthel. arthel: cold weather beginning to loosen its grips on texas after those winter storms slammed the state. temperatures plummeted to 30 of0

year lows, leaving millions of homes and businesses without power and water. nearly half of the lone star state population is still under boil water advisories. meteorologist adam klotz is live with the forecast. so where is this weather headed now, adam? >> arthel, you said it, kind of finally, finally here we're seeing some things begin to warm up across, yeah, particularly the southern stretches of the united states, so temperatures already at 57 degrees in the dallas area as we speak. there is winter weather out there, in places where you typically can deal with it. we're looking a at snows moving across the upper midwest. across the south we're going to continue to stay dry. no more snow on the way. we do have one more cold morning, this is looking at tomorrow of morning, we see fairly widespread temperatures getting below freezing. that's just tomorrow morning. last week it was below freezing almost the entire week. the daytime highs are bumping up there. this is where the cold air is, the arctic air that is tall way

in the southern border, mostly staying in the upper tiers of the country the next couple days. with that, threes plenty of time for the snow to continue to melt. this is the forecast in dallas in the week ahead, maybe rain and thunderstorms but none of the winter weather that they aren't used to dealing with. across the country, monday you see the temperatures really beginning to pool up, it gets warmer for folks as we continue into tuesday. the same is true on wednesday. so some warmer air really for a lot of folks across the country as we wrap up the month of february. back to you. arthel: very good to hear. meteorologist adam klotz, thank you. eric. eric: it certainly is. in texas, the conditions on the ground in some places still horrible. long lines forming at food banks and propane filling station as the folks in the lone star state are trying to get back on their feet in the aftermath of the historic deadly storm. we will have a live update on the situation in texas and how you can help our fellow americans straight ahead here on

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food after a week-long freeze caused widespread you power outages and created water issues. thankfully, temperatures are warming up in the lone star state but still millions of texans are without water or they're under boil your water notices in order to make it safe to drink. casey siegel is live at a water distribution center where they're handing out the water in dallas. you got a cap on. so it's not as warm as one would hope. hey, casey. >> reporter: hey, eric. the wind is blowing so i'm trying to protect our ear as much as we can. this has just really been one catastrophe after another. as you said, this is a water distribution site in downtown dallas. organizers tell us that they really have not been as busy this weekend as they thought that they would be and that appears that the need is going down. of course, that is a good -- a bit of good news with all of this. the state is continuing to climb out of freezing, above freezing.

most of the snow has melted and the roads have really greatly improved. some 14 million people, however, are still without safe drinking water. that's about half of the state under some type of a boil advisory. some last through at least tomorrow. as repairs are made to he frozen infrastructure. in those communities people have been lining up for fresh water. others have frozen pipes meaning no service all together. >> we had no water at all for the last two days because of the city having water problems. and we got online with our local water department and they had no information at all about any repairs or what to do. it's been very difficult. i even thought about getting snow to bring it in to melt to flush the potty. there was our next step. >> reporter: other basic staples

like food has also been in short supply which has led to thousands of people showing up at area food banks across the state. fortunately, with the roads back open and these warmer temperatures, trucks are back on the road making deliveries, so store shelves are becoming restocked with supplies and things appear to be getting better at this point here in texas, eric. but just an absolute week of misery for so many. eric: that's encouraging and hope of course it gets better after what you've gone through. casey, thank you. arthel. arthel: for more on this right now we're going to bring in the mayor of galveston, texas, craig brown. thank you for joining us. and if you could start by telling us what is it that you need most at this time? >> well, right now we've got water. we've got electricity. we have a number of individuals that are still out of their homes because of broken pipes and can't get water into their

homes. we need water. we are bringing that in. we have helicopters coming in this afternoon to deliver water to our city. and we also need plumbing companies and plumbing supplies. we're out of that. we need to get these leaks fixed and get our residents back in their homes. arthel: and how long until all have water power and will have completely recovered from this catastrophe? >> right now, electricity and water into your home unless you have broken pipes, closed the water flow to your house. we have water back. so it's going to be something that still will be a concern here for a little while and-but the concern right now is the food and water getting to all of these people, making sure they have the amenities they need as they're out of their homes. arthel: is there a particular food bank there, mayor, that your people can get to so we can let everyone know where to

donate? >> yes. we're working with all of our nonprofits here in the galveston food bank. we'll be distributing food here shortly to all of the residents. we have listed our boil notice for the residents. the waters is potable water in our city. that happened about 10 minutes ago. arthel: okay of, okay. listen, there that's been shirking of responsibility and a blame game going on. what are you, mayor brown, demanding or requesting of state, local and national leaders representing texas to avoid such a catastrophe in the future and should part of the calculus include carbon emissions and climate change? >> well, about five days ago our city sent a letter to governor abbott here in texas, requesting an investigation into determining what the concerns were that produced this and setting up some type of solution

so we don't have this again. we're leaving that up to our of state legislature and to the federal government, since that is where really the control lies on this. local governments had no control in this and that's what made it frustrating for us. arthel: what about your local utility company, the company that runs all the power there, that didn't weatherize systems, so seems there is control there that the local government, not federal, but local government, perhaps your governor, your governor of texas, governor abbott, it's his house now, so-to-speak, those guys should have weatherized their equipment? yeah? >> by all means. there's no doubt about it. this is something i understand the state legislature and those at the state were made aware of and ercot, the electric reliability council of texas that allocates electricity, they were aware of this. they knew about this. i understand they did not follow through and there was no enforcement at the level to make

sure that they followed through with that. that needs to be addressed immediately. and i'm hoping the governor will do that. i've gotten i'm put from him that he's setting up investigations and will be addressing this this coming week at the state level. arthel: investigations are important. but if there's not orders to ercot to weatherize but protect the system, if you will, then it goes nowhere. so what is he going to do? >> that's exactly right. i understand that there will be an order issued by the legislature here coming up here shortly that will make it mandatory that they winterize and move on that very quickly. arthel: okay of. well, listen, we wish you all the best and i want to remind our viewers and listeners if they want to help you, mayor craig brown, they can contribute to the galveston food bank, water is needed, food is needed and also any plumbers in the

vicinity can come and help you as well if they can. mayor craig brown, thank you so much for joining us and we wish you the best, sir. thank you. >> thank you very much. arthel: take care. eric. eric: that we do. meanwhile, up in new york state, the empire state, the backlash against its governor, andrew cuomo, that continues over how he handled covid related deaths in those nursing homes during the pandemic. coming up, what some democratic state legislators are now saying about that situation and him. and don't forget, we've got our streaming service, fox nation, our four part series riddel, the search for james hoffa continues on that. latest episode, number four, you can see what we found buried in new jersey that may reveal the secret when the snow melts. it's on fox nation, with all the great programming there, right now. [♪♪]

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arthel: time for some top headlines. the ntsb launch ago n investigation into what led to the crash landing of united airlines flight in colorado yesterday. the plane touched down safely and no one was hurt. the aircraft was heading to honolulu but officials say it suffered a critical failure in the right engine shortly after takeoff from the denver airport. engine then caught fire, causing huge chunks of the casing to break off and fall to the ground below. former president trump set to make his first major public aperns since leaving office one week from today, scheduled to deliver a speech at the conservative political action conference in orlando, florida, february 28th. we're hearing the focus will been of the future of the gop. and current president biden paying a visit to former presidential candidate bob dole who announced he's starting treatment for stage 4 lung cancer.

the 97-year-old kansas republican is a close friend of the president, when they were in the senate together, from 1973 to 1996. eric: that shows wonderful bipartisanship. meanwhile, in new york state, there are calls from fellow democrats to strip new york democratic governor andrew cuomo of his emergency powers to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. and there's even talk in albany of instigating possible impeachment proceedings against him. all that, the result of how he handled the state's nursing home crisis amid the coronavirus pandemic. this comes as the fbi and u.s. attorney's office in new york are reportedly launching an investigation into how of his administration handled the pandemic. aishah hasnie live in new york city with more details on this controversy. hi, aishah. >> reporter: hi, eric. yes, you're right, impeachment talk is heating up today. in fact, ron kim, the democratic

state assembly man told fox news yesterday that on monday there are several meetings planned and state lawmakers on both sides of the aisle want to talk impeachment. now, this bipartisan outrage which includes threats to strip cuomo of his emergency pandemic powers reelly surrounds a -- really surrounds a laundry list of items, from the order to you allow covid patients back to nursing homes to delaying the release of nursing home data, giving facilities and hospitals legal immunity and allegedly bullying and intimidating state lawmakers. >> these were all democrats who were stepping up, elected officials and others. they are making news now but this is something that's been known for a very long time, this is his style of operating, out of fear, making people believe there will be repercussions if you cross him.

>> reporter: that's congressman lee zeldin. by the way, he's been mentioned as a possible gop opponent to quo mow when he da -- cuomo when he runs for re-election. progressive democrat ron kim tells fox news he will no longer support cuomo for governor. now, meanwhile, white house press secretary jen psaki on abc said the biden administration is leaving all of this to authorities to work out and whether the president still thinks cuomo is, quote, the gold standard for leadership on the pandemic, well, psaki would not answer yes or no. listen. >> well, it doesn't always have to be a yes or no answer, john. i think the president is focused on his goal, his objective as president of the united states. he's going to continue to work with governor cuomo of just like he'll continue to work with governors across the country. >> reporter: of course, eric, the governor is denying any wrongdoing. eric. eric: aishah, thanks so much. arthel. arthel: for more on this we're going to bring in washington times opinion editor, charlie

hert. also a fox news contributor. how can governor cuomo effectively explain that he did not intentionally try to cover up the real death toll when a key member of his staff appears to dispute that? >> yeah. no, it's kind of -- it's going to be pretty tough although he does seem to be maintaining a pretty hard stance that he did absolutely nothing wrong to the point that he's actually blaming people that worked in the nursing homes for being the ones that actually caused so much of the additional deaths that appear to be you now -- we're looking at possibly 1,000 or more that were caused by the -- by supposedly caused by his directive. but, you know, the larger problem here isn't just his directives, the march 25th directive. it is this effort to conceal these numbers and the thing to remember is, at that point

during the pandemic there was very little that we knew. we were still grappling in the dark about exactly how many people were being affected by this and who it was that was being affected by this the most and so in real-time, this was a life or death situation and you had the governor cooking the books and of course another big concern is the fact that you had so many in the media, cnn in particular, that they were so busy heaping hosannas on governor cuomo, calling him the gold standard of handling the pandemic and calling him the love gov and all of this stuff. all of these things, they were so focused on that, instead of asking the tough questions that needed to be asked because like i said, those numbers were so crucial at that time. arthel: yes. and i get all of your points there, charlie. a couple things, though. first of all, you talk about it was at the beginning of the

pandemic and certainly let me be clear, making no excuses for no one, there is no excuse for -- listen, people lost their loved ones and i would have been fit to be tied if i was in that situation. i understand how the relatives were feeling. that said, it was the beginning of the pandemic. a lot of people didn't know what was going on. we didn't know what directives were. there was that. i will say that to your point, you know, you said you that felt like the governor was cooking the books. at the same time, no blame here, just laying out the case here, at that same time, kind of to your point, that was also when former president trump wasn't really revealing what was really happening quite frankly either. also, in terms of calling him the love gov, i was one of the people who watched his daily briefings, and there were a lot of things that he did right. again. that doesn't excuse what is happening now. but just to be fair, we want to put that out there.

now, meanwhile, of course the fbi and the u.s. attorney's office in brooklyn, they're investigating how the cuomo administration handled the new york nursing home scandal there and, again, no room for politicizing deaths of elderly patients. my question to you, charlie, should cuomo of critics consider pressing hard for answers without appearing to be out for political blood, giving the governor an opportunity to call this a partisan persecution. >> i think you're making an excellent point. because we were in a pandemic and there were so many unknowns, i think that the public would give a lot of leeway to public figures who acted in an honest to combat this and made mistakes. that's not what we're talking about. we're talking about mistakes that apparently potentially criminal activity was used to try to cover up those mistakes. that's where it gets bad. arthel: what do you mean,

criminal -- >> the degree to which so many democrats sought to politicize the pandemic from the very beginning and that's where i think the public gets a whole lot less forgiving when you have politicians trying to politicize this from the beginning and i don't think republicans were nearly as bad at that as democrats were. arthel: okay. i have to go. because i'm up against a hard break. we'll have to continue. there's other things i want to follow up on. charlie, thanks a lot. and we'll be right back. retirement income is complicated. as your broker, i've solved it. that's great, carl. but we need something better. that's easily adjustable has no penalties or advisory fee. and we can monitor to see that we're on track. like schwab intelligent income. schwab! introducing schwab intelligent income. a simple, modern way to pay yourself from your portfolio. oh, that's cool... i mean, we don't have that. schwab. a modern approach to

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reopen. critics say that would be impossible under new cdc guidelines, including hybrid learning in areas with high transmission rates which would affect about 76% of students who are currently enrolled in what the cdc calls red zones, according to recent numbers. meanwhile, frustrated parents in california holding protests to get their kids back in the classroom. parents in oakley, california, switching their focus to in-person learning after the entire school board resigned after members were caught on a hot mic mocking parents over school reopenings and teachers unions across the country have resisted demands to send teachers back to the classroom without vaccination plan in place, publicly both president biden and vice president harris have dodged questions about whether they would or would not -- whether or not they believe vaccinating teachers should be a requirement before schools reopen for in-person learning.

however, white house officials have said the president and vice president support new cdc guidelines which require teachers to be -- which don't require teachers rather to be vaccinated before returning to the classroom and arthel here in georgia the state has not awed authorized educators to receive the vaccine so that has caused some to cross state lines into areas like alabama where they are approved to get that vaccine. so sticky situation, arthel. arthel: definitely. thank you. sorry we crunched your time. we'll be right back. struggling to manage my type 2 diabetes was knocking me out of my zone, but lowering my a1c with once-weekly ozempic® helped me get back in it. ♪ oh, oh, oh, ozempic® ♪ my zone? lowering my a1c and losing some weight. now, back to the show. ozempic® is proven to lower a1c. most people who took ozempic® reached an a1c under 7 and maintained it. and you may lose weight. adults lost on average up to 12 pounds.

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