the cdc is only part of our nation's public health system. have talented public health professionals at the state, local, territorial and tribal levels. over the course of time, her investment in the public health system has gone down. if we don't have robust public health teams and departments, laboratories epidemiologists, communicators at every level, we are vulnerable. so much of the funding for nations public health at the public level comes from the government. when there is a public health crisis, there is a lot of money thrown at the public health system but it's one time funding. that one time funding is not an effective way to build systems that will be there when you need them, the time to invest in your public health system is not at the start of a crisis. it's every day so the public health is there to do the daily functions that are needed as well as being ready to respond when there is truly a crisis. whether it's coming up with a way to have public health independent of the federal system is challenging and hard to do but you

can you say a word about how the cdc and u.s. aid in the state department and other agency, dod for that matter, how you look at that as a collective, how you see your role in that, the agency's role in that collective u.s. government response overseas. dir. walensky: it's a great question and i'm glad i can answer it because i do have a much better sense. we speak with one voice. i see the cdc's role there as critically important at the table, the forefront, but much of that is technical expertise. teaching to -- it's the old term , you want to make sure that you are providing the technical support, but also fostering towards independence. so, that's a lot of what we do based on our infrastructure, the teaching, and, as you say, in some countries i've seen aware this region of the country was doing covid vaccinations it's being done by a, this one was being done by cdc. other places we are all doing the entire country, but we are looking at different areas, but laboratory systems are not just the same. workforce, laboratory syste

what does that look like at the cdc? many people don't know how challenging it is for people to diverge from their day jobs and be deployed overseas for the ebola crisis or in the united states. what would it take to get the workforce where it needs to be, and how do we do that? dr. walensky: that is a very important point. 20,000 in the cdc, and most people don't know that during most of our pandemic response, we had 2500 are deployed to hotspots, so that is 25% of the agency at any given time that was working. that means two things. one is they had to be deployed. agreed to be deployed. nothing else stopped because they were deployed and the response. what we have to do i think as an agency is make sure that there is a vote for everybody in our agency and the response. i call them unsung hero calls. i call heroes who maybe have not been seen or heard for the work they are doing, but somebody booked all the flights for people that deployed, up all night booking flights all night long. that person was deployed, right? we

it was led by the cdc. this exercise lasted eight long months. t the same year that the virus came out, all these agencies seem so clueless. the cdc led this exercise and involve 87 hospitals and 12 states, the pentagon, the department of health and human services, the defense department and everything -- and everybody seemed so clueless when the virus it and i do not understand. can you explain the crimson contagion experiment? guest: i think it is really important that you got the information you needed to make your decision about vaccination. but i do not want to let it stand in terms of safety and effectiveness in terms of the vaccines. when i look at the impact of this virus in our nation and losing one million of our citizens from this disease globally, there are more than 10 million children who have been orphaned by covid. there are thousands and thousands of people in our country experiencing something called long covid which continues to affect their lives in very negative ways. i am very respectful of does not -- of the virus and what i

he he attacked the cdc. he attacked the nih and dr. fauci.earing and social distancing. so it became a political game. i think that political game made it more difficult for anybody who was trying to deal with a historic crisis, a pandemic, in our nation at that moment. i think the cdc can do a better job. but let's not take pleasure in their problem. their problem is our problem because we're going to have future medical issues to deal with and we want them to perform in a better way. >> i don't think anybody is taking pleasure in it. nobody's taking pleasure in the mistakes the cdc made. what they are saying is there there were other opinions out there. those opinions were shut down. the cdc we know now was wrong on many occasions they were wrong. but if you had a differing opinion and a different point of view, even well known doctors, they were shutdown and they were villainized. >> no, they were trying -- i think a lot of people now are trying to say, trump was right. trump was wrong. if you're saying he was righ of things. he was wrong

and it's not the cdc.pandemic had to deal with a lot of really strong politicization of not only the pandemic but the science in terms of people saying oh, don't get the vaccine or masking doesn't work the cdc going back and forth and president trump says it's like a common cold. it will be gone in two weeks. cdc just didn't handle this very well he? have to be better at communication and messaging. this idea that they are somehow to be, you know, a piÑata, i just -- i find that in they. but, again, it's being politicized. >> bret: mollie? >> well, there is a point that it wasn't just the cdc that messed up how we responded to the pandemic. people were unwise to take their guidance. particularly because, as morgan notes their guidance was contradictory. it wasn't rooted in fact. politicians have to -- it's easy to say the cdc says this so we are going to shut down the entire economy. we are going to shut down schools that can never happen again. i think it's good that the cdc understands that they have com

the head of the cdc ordering a complete overhaul of the agency. cdc director dr. rochelle walensky with the scathing review of her own agency's handling of the covid pandemic here in the u.s. calling public guidance confusing and overwhelming. preparing for sweeping changes, including faster responses to new health threats. all of this coming as the biden administration says new covid boosters targeting the original strain and omicron subvariants could now be available to millions of americans within three weeks. >>> also breaking tonight, once nicknamed america's mayor, former trump attorney rudy giuliani tonight testifying for nearly six hours before a special grand jury in georgia. the target of a criminal investigation about his false claims of election fraud. what we've learned tonight. steve osunsami live in georgia. >>> a crushing defeat for congresswoman liz cheney. an outspoken critic of former president trump. he fought back, endorsing her opponent. and tonight, cheney will now leave the congress at the end of this year. but what she's now vowing and what

the cdc plays an important role helping americans live healthier lives. that is not something you want to jettison. even if all you are concerned about is these infections and the demings. two thirds of covid-19 hospitalizations were attributed to obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure. preventing these chronic, debilitating diseases help you become more resilient for emergencies we will inevitably face. we need improvements in their outbreak response whether it is better communication, they need congress to provide them the authority to collect data. they don't have that authority on a regular basis. they need to make sure they streamline the way they take scientific evidence and communicated to the public. we need to be specific about these solutions as opposed to knee-jerk reactions. host: at the fda there has been a suggestion to reorganize the food program to change how they handle that. taking food out of the fda's mission. guest: the reorganization is fine. food needs to be elevated. it is the first initial and the fda. there is a 100 year histor

the u.k. we didn't see it here. oftentimes cdc made their suggestions and their guidelines based on data that was out of date by the time they made the statements. of. >> you know, dr. siegel, now you have school districts, for example, who are still mandating masks for kids, all the way, you know, from 3 on. point of the cdc guidelines which just changed this week. so, it seems like it doesn't catch up that the authorities in different places make decisions based on guidelines that may have evolved or changed and this is part of the problem. >> this is a huge part. that's the central problem. because the one word i didn't use yet is politicization, right? that the cdc is also under the umbrella of the white house and there is also the teachers unions only out to protect the teachers and so cdc makes guidelines and, bret, me, as a physician, i take guidelines with a grain of salt. but, public health officials and then governors and local municipalities were using cdc guidelines to make mandates that didn't fit the science. cdc cou

walensky the director of the cdc asked for this review of the cdc. i think that review was very well-done it laid out areas where the cdc needs to improve, and the bottom line is that she's committed to making those changes, and i think that's really important to your broader question, yeah, you know, our government agencies weren't designed to manage a once in a century crisis like this i think while many of them performed admirably there's no question in my mind that these agencies could have done better >> if i can let me turn to the vaccines now. we've been told a dual strain version if you will covering older variants as well as omicron may be ready in just a few weeks. who will be the first in line? is this essentially going to be a third booster? >> yeah, you know, lester, here's why the fda has pushed us to build these vaccines the bottom line is that this virus has evolved substantially since the first vaccines were built. this is why we've seen waning immunity. the vaccines coming in a few short weeks are specifically designed for the virus

19 pandemic appeared. >> quick meet expectations along the way progress westhampton governor about the cdclan to reorganize and the state in play in his state's republican senate primary. we will also ask energy secretary jennifer when americans will start to feel relief from the presidents inflation reduction act. only on fox news sunday. [applause] then a divided country awaits new details about the justification for the fbi search of mar-a-lago part we will ask our sunday panel that leak and the heated rhetoric around the fbi. >> we can hold the attorney general accountable for the decision he made. without attacking rank and file a law enforcement personnel. >> plus we will dive into fox news poles on what is top of mind for voters in critical states as republicans aim to take control of the senate. >> all right now on fox news sunday. ♪ and how low again from fox news. the fault midterms are fewer than three months out of the white house is hoping it's a big climate and tax bill will ease voters a doubts about democrats. but the administration is still battling high inflation and a lo

as far as trust in the cdc. i was watching what was happening in the world and their response to covid specifically south korea. hydroxychloroquine helps to get the zinc into your cells and if you get it into your cells it helps protect yourselves from covid attaching and attacking yourselves in the first place. the cdc came up with hydrochloroquine to fight malaria. it is a safe drug. i printed out a two-page right up on it. it was touting how safe it was and how many people were taking it. guest: i would just say that the preponderance of evidence is clear that hydroxychloroquine is not an effective treatment for covid-19. there is not a specific recommendation for zinc as a treatment but many people use that. in terms of south korea, their success was not because of hydroxychloroquine, they had masking strategies and social distancing and they coupled that with vaccination. there are lessons to be learned from countries around the world and that is what we need to be doing. host: to silver creek, georgia. this

but the cdc guidelines on masks was wrong. e to the tests they were trying to create and deploy. they were telling people to take their temperature, not realizing there was asymptomatic community spread. are we at the point where you cannot rebuild public trust? is the agency worth reforming? >> well, the way you rebuild public trust is be transparent. and i think that's in the report. better data, better accountability, better transparency. but they also have to believe, and this gets to the culture piece, people can understand complicated issues. it's your job as a public health official. that's what public in public health means. your job is to take complex situations and data and create graphs so that people can understand why you are making those recommendations. recommendations that are created out of lack of transparency and out of a black box where you can't really follow the logic is what leads to fracturing in trust and you really have to work to re-establish that. it can be done, but they have to change how they coll

the cdc is in fix itself mode. >> one of the reasons cdc got it fix itself mode because they were behind on testing again and we heard it from the local doctors and hospitals here in new york where we didn't have the tests we need. we were behind the 8 ball and underestimated the number of cases like at the beginning of the covid pandemic. the way to get around the fear, your point, is to say who is at risk. is it men who have sex with men with multiple partners? that's the primary group. where are the tools we need? i talked to the governor of new york about this is other day. we still don't have the vaccines in new york we need. we're the epicenter here. we're scarce on the vaccine. let public health officials come out and say we still don't have this vaccine. it is a problem. here is what you do. they change it to give a lesser dose but we need more information. the more information we have the less fear we have. >> harris: the white house talked about purchasing more vaccines. they won't purchase vaccines necessarily or put money toward some of the treatments and those things for cov

she believes the cdc can still contain the outbreak.s news, los angeles. >> the cdc director emphasized the review was internal and not mandated by the white house. > >> three major pharmacy chains have been ordered to pay more than $650 million in damages relate today the opioid crisis.o ohio counties sued wal-mart, cvs,d walgfor their role in fostering a black market market for prescription drugs. l three companies said they will appeal. a federal judge signed up with san francisco in its lawsuit against walgreens. san francisco's $20,000 trash can is is already trashed. a little bit bit of major wear and tear. it is one of the three designs the city is now experimenting with. >> i mean, i feel like for its cost, there shouldn't be so many many malfunctions. it looks a bit disorderly. >> we want to see why it is broking. we want to see what they can do to break a can. is it just normal wear and tear? if tear? if so, we don't want to use the hinges. >> the city says this is all part of the testing process. and process. and they are asking for for public feedback on those cans. if you w

the head of the cdc ordering a complete overhaul of the agency. cdc director dr. alensky with the scathing review of her own agency's handling of the covid pandemic here in the u.s. calling public guidance confusing and overwhelming. preparing for sweeping changes, including faster responses to new health threats. all of this coming as the biden administration says new covid boosters targeting the original strain and omicron subvariants could now be available to millions of americans within three weeks. >>> also breaking tonight, once nicknamed america's mayor, former trump attorney rudy giuliani tonight testifying for nearly six hours before a special grand jury in georgia. the target of a criminal investigation about

what kind of remarks you give rochelle walensky for some of the cdc? rd for her not too. she was getting a lot of criticism from both sides of the aisle for the cdc botched response. this goes back to the trump administration in the early days of the pandemic when the cdc botched the test samples. it contended the covetous and then refused to allow private labs to develop their own and deploy tests. these have continued over the biden administration. the problem is the democrats seem to think the problem with the cdc are different than the actual problems are. they blame the quote unquote confused and communication for the real problem with the cdc is it has tried to expand its scope into areas like social and environmental issues that really are not its purview. gun violence is the case in point for the cdc moratorium or tried to impose an illegal eviction moratorium across the country. the cdc is supposed to be doing, is supporting local public health officials gathering data and helping inform policy maker decisions not imposing eviction moratoriums

>> there are 21,000 employees the cdc. it was johnson engineering grad student put together a website that allowed us and the world to track this virus. that is a disgrace. that is not something you tell the cdc go fix yourself now, let them read a statement some publicist wrote for the director to read, we're sorry about the response. how about some action. they don't have a messaging problem. they have a bad decision problem. they have had a series of bad decisions by the director. elizabeth: we have a lack of leadership problem in this country. so again the gao is basically cdc is coming out ahead of what the gao is going to slam them for next week on bad pandemic policies. let's watch senator rand paul on all of this. watch. >> i think they need to step back and get back into the advice game, not the mandate game. i think it ironic we won't let the world's greatest tennis player because he is not vaccinated djokovic yet we'll let thousands ane in unvaccinat. talk about hypocrisy. maybe talk to the cdc about that. elizab

because, yes, the cdc is tasked with all of these things. ious diseases, covid, monkeypox, polio. do you think there's enough in here for the average american to grasp on to and say, i understand, and i might feel those changes? and also, if the agency eventually does want to ask congress to compel states to turn over data, do you think that can make a difference when we do have some states, for example, florida, refusing to turn some of that over, as it pertains to covid? >> so, first, you know, the proof is going to be in the pudding for the public. is the communications more clear? is the communications better and more timely? second, i do think that there are two aspects to this da. and you're 100% right. congress has to give the cdc the ability to make predictions and respond are only as good as the data that we have. it's personal that places like google and facebook have better data than the u.s. government. and that's because we have antiquated systems and states don't have to give the data. but the other part is, the cdc has to put t

saying this about changes of the cdc. ays from early failings on testing, the world changing flip-flop on masking the complete lack of evidence to damaging school guidance devised in conjunction with teachers unions, the cdc has been a disaster since the pandemic broke out. the organization has been so overwhelmed with politically motivated decision-making that many top employees have left the broken institution. that's one side of the argument tonight. >> and it's a good, strong argument to make. especially about the cdc. when you're talking about what has happened at the cdc and their response to the coronavirus, it seems they put politics before people in right now what you're hearing and what they want to redo is revamp the communications department, which again, if not a policy issue for them, it is a communication issue, it is something you here across the biden administration. i remember one questioningly cdc made you a tin hat conspiracy theorist, so the first step to recovery is admitting there's a problem. it's g

walensky says the cdc will focus on getting information to the public more rapidly, developing a more nimble work force, and addressing equity in health care. cdc officials say they hope to have these changes finalized and under way by early next year, but first the reorganization plan has to be approved by the secretary of the department of health and human services. anne-marie? >> bradley blackburn in new york. thank you very much. >>> former president trump's chief financial officer is expected to plead guilty today and testify against the trump organization. allen weisselberg is charged with taking more than $1.7 million in off-the-books compensation and failing to pay taxes on it. the plea deal will require him to speak in court today, and he could also serve as a witness when the trump organization goes on trial in october on related charges. he's expected to receive five months in jail. >>> former vice president mike pence could become a witness in the house committee investigating the capitol riot. pence spoke in new hampshire yesterday saying that if there was an invitation t

what you think about the way the cdc is handling that? the monkeypox the cdc really meet all the same mistakes they made with coed. if you think about it was seen with zeke a and sars and the government just is not respond quickly to these sort of actions. look at monkeypox. we miss the opportunity to contain it. hospitals and local labs were not allowed to test for monkeypox. they were very afraid to call up the risk factors because of the sensitivities around that community of the men who a sexual activity with other men. but it turns out that research is in 98% of monkeypox cases from the largest study done when people identified as gay and bisexual and 41% at hiv. the reason that's important is that is the community that we need to help get the vaccine to effectively. jon: one of those not in the high-risk group? what should they be concerned about? >> if they are not in that height risk group there are many other pathogens about 20 that represent a higher risk of infections than monkeypox. they said be assured and recognize they are i

. >>> plus, the blockbuster mea culpa from the cdc, the overall proposed today after what the agency's own director said was a botched response to the covid pandemic. >>> i'm hallie jackson wait lot to get to here in washington. good to be with you. we're joined by former federal and state prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst tolly ferheyi weinstein. talk about this rudy giuliani court appearance and your expectations from what he might be saying to that grand jury today? >> well, hallie, if he has any sense and if he's learned anything from his own law experience in law enforcement and someone who has put countless witness into the grand jury himself he should only say one thing, after saying his name he should take the fifth in response to every single question. as you said, he has been notified that he is a target of this investigation, and statements that he makes can be used against him. >> we are looking -- i want people to see -- the left side of your screen, a live shot, what are those reporters and cameras doing right now, we're not 100% sure but this is the door rudy giuliani m

what does the biden administration went to see it comes to the cdc and the fda specifically? guest: we will wait and see. they haven't officially announced they are doing a internal review. i think the fda is the same way but i want to also make a point that we talk about this federal leadership and coordination that is required but there is a flipside. you can have the best federal response but if you don't have that complementary states and local public health infrastructure which we have under invested in, that response to those frontline workers, if they don't have the data and the workforce, if the capabilities are there to do surveillance or testing, scenes or interventions, we won't see the optimal responses to any of these challenges and in this country, we have under invested in that state and local public infrastructure. we are at a $13 per capital -- r annual gap -- $13 per capita annual gap -- host: what is an example of a state doing that well and not doing it well? guest: states who do it well, they have the ability, whether it is a pandemic or the opioid, diffe

putting the cdc know what the plan is and providing the location -- letting the cdc know what the plan is and providing the location. thinking about the house and ballroom community, it attracts a lot of younger folks who are black and brown. a great strategy to connect with that community. those tend to be smaller events and no-hit the threshold of 50,000. it is a way to extend the equity plan to not only look at the larger events but also more local, smaller events. >> kevin, another question? >> cnn. >> thank you for taking my question. i have two. the first is on funding. i was wondering on if you could give us an estimate on how much funding the administration estimates it needs to do everything you need to do to try to contain monkeypox and whether they are going to be -- there is going to be an official request made to congress or obligated by the request for covid funding. i had a follow up southern decadence. in particular i am interested in hearing from the governor. he talked about getting vaccines to the attendees but if you have talked about the time it takes to get full i

i'll make you the head of the cdc and the fda right now. what's the one thing you're going to do that you wish they would do right now? >> i think, really, we have to focus on two things. it is tough to have a laundry list of things. the two things are really vaccinations and packs loaded. you can help vaccinated and unvaccinated folks. different strokes for different folks. all with the goal of helping people not get very, very ill. >> we appreciate the inside. i'm going to take the promotion back. you can go about your day job now. >> thanks so much. >> take care. >>> a fight in a gym in contra costa county turned into a shoot out in the parking lot. we are now learning who people think is responsible. football is back. we are live at levi stadium tonight as 49ers fans are getting ready for game one of the preseason. >> beautiful weather for football. we've got 80s in dublin. get ready. ocean air conditioning about to go away this weekend. >>> new details tonight on a deadly shootout in an east bay gym. a teenager has been arrested for sh

. >>> and we have the cdc plans overall. dr. scott gottlieb weighs in it is thursday, august 18th, 2022 "squawk box" begins right now. >>> good morning welcome to "squawk box" here on cnbc we are live from the nasdaq market site in times area. i'm rebecca quick an along with andrew ross sorkin if you twyou want to see what i happening with the futures, things are positive. dow futures indicated up 50 points nasdaq up 27 this comes after a down day for the markets yesterday. the first time in five sessions the dow was down it fell by 172 points. s&p was down 0.76% nasdaq off by 1.25%. in the early going, we are looking at green arrows. >>> treasury yields are picking up we saw this happening before the fed hewas out before the minutes the 10-year treasury is yielding 2.88%. you can see the 30-year treasury at 3.12% you have crude oil prices which rose a little bit yesterday. still well below $90 up another 1% to $89.16. brent at $94.96. natural gas up 1.2%. andrew >>> thank you, becky the fed talk with the meeting and officials in

i would like to walk you through the data cdc is releasing today. data as of august 20 third showed that over 207,000 doses of vaccine have been administered in these 19 jurisdictions. it demonstrates the vast majority of doses administered, nearly 97% our first doses with consistent week over week increases in vaccination. while we are encouraged by the scale up, there are many people eligible for second doses and very few administered so far are recorded as second doses. i would like to take this moment to emphasize this is a two dose vaccine and it is important to receive the second dose in the series. i encourage providers to highlight the importance so all acts need people optimize protection from the vaccine. that administration data also shows that among the first doses given, a majority of recipients have been adults 25 to 39 with 53% of first doses ministered in this age group so far. the majority of first dose recipients, 92% have been male and 6% have been administered to women. regrettably, we at cdc are not receiving data by gender and c

>>> right now on "america this morning," overhall at the cdc, new details on why the director announced changes at the agency, abc news obtaining the review showing top cdc officials admit major mistakes in response to the pandemic. what's next for the cdc. >>> courtroom showdown, a judge holding a hearing today on whether to release the affidavit used to justify the s maa-lago report on the millions of dollars in donations to trump in the days after the search. >>> new video of the moments before a deadly shooting at a youth football game, what it shows and what we hear from witnesses who say a former nfl star instigated the brawl that led to the shooting. >>> alligator ambush, drone video capturing the moment a gator attacks a man in florida. >>> in hot water, what the mayor of venice offered to anyone who can help track down these water skiers. >>> and mariah carey wants the title of queen of christmas, but she won't take the crown without a fight. it's thursday, august 18. ♪ all i want for christmas is you ♪ >> announcer: from abc news in new york, this is "america this morning." >>

>> absolutely. >> reporter: jose, the cdc says people as young as 6 and as old as 91 got sick, adding that with some not getting tested, it's likely the number of cases is even higher meanwhile, the cdc says investigators are now trying to determine if the suspicious lettuce was used by any other businesses jose >> jesse kirsch, thank you. >>> president trump is vowing new legal action in response to that search on his florida home, but it may not just be a legal fight ahead for the former president with new political challenges inside his own party growing too. monica alba has more. >> reporter: tonight, former vice president mike pence wrapping up a two-day visit to iowa and hammering home his differences with his former boss, telling the associated press that he never took classified documents from his time in the white house. it comes just a day after he defended the fbi. >> we can demand that they reveal why the search warrant was executed against the residence of a former president of the united states without demeaning the rank and file men and women of the fbi. >> reporter: fo

just to go through what the cdc is now saying about covid-19, here is some of the guidelines.ot differentiate people who are vaccinated versus on vaccinated. they will no longer recommend 6 feet of social distancing. no longer recommend for those who are exposed to covid-19 and removing the school guidance. what are your overall thoughts on these new guidelines from the cdc? >> they represent a huge change and how the cdc is recommending how to deal with the pandemic. rather than the spread of the disease which is tremendously harmful, it is coming to reality. let's use the tools to protect the vulnerable. we have drugs to treat the disease. we have very large fraction of the population already recovered. the documents finally recognizes natural immunity. it is recognizing that a lot of people have the vaccine as well. 100% of the american population has protected immunity either by the vaccine. it recognizes that reality. it is a huge step forward, i think. >> carley: to drill down onto the cdc guidelines, they said they will not differentiate people vaccinated and unvaccinat

rochelle walensky, the director of the cdc. she's sort of taking a step back and looking at the response that the cdc and officials in this country have had responding to all of this. what would you recommend or tell her? >> she's a very close friend of mine. we connect on a daily basis. she's doing a very brave thing to seriously look at what she had missed -- what serious missteps at various parts of the response to covid. she's open-minded enough to look at that and say they need to be a change in the culture of the cdc and be much more attune to the public health aspects of what they do versus the academic aspects. to take advice from outside consultants and to look at things with a more open mind. so i think she's doing the right thing. i have strongly encouraged her as her professional colleague and as her close friend to do that. so i think it's admirable what she's doing. >> neil: finally, doctor, i talk to a lot of ceos in particular of late who have said to a man or woman that they would hire you in a nano second if th

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the cdc is changing the rules when it comes comes to covid again. good afternoon, i'm amanda starranti. amanda starrantino. more than 30,000 students return to school school today in oakland. masks are no longer required, but stil strongly recommended. the district encouraged students and and staff to test for covid before coming in today. for the kids and teaches coming back, the cdc is expected to ease covid-19 restrictions. cbs news has obtained a draft document on on the updated guidelines that are likely to involve two key areas for students. covid testing and social distancing. nancy chen reports from new yor. new york. >> reporter: the cdc is trying to simplify and streamline a wide number of its covid-19 rec. starting in the classroom. according to a draft document od document obtained by cbs news, thanges could allow schools to relax their social distancin, distancing measures, which have already been effectively phased out by the cdc. they would also deemphasize so-called testing strategies where students exposed to the virus take regular

well, the head of the cdc announcing some major changes. rochelle walensky ordering a reorganization, saying the covid-19 response did not reliably meet expectations. it will focus on making the health protection agency quicker responding to new threats, helping the agency release data faster and make any guidance easier to understand. l >> gillian: also this, rudy giuliani is in court testifying before a georgia grand jury. he is a target in the criminal probe. >> jacqui: calls growing louder for the justice department to unseal the affidavit in the mar-a-lago raid. a hearing on the matter tomorrow. will we see what's in that document? >> the fbi to do what they did when clearly 50% of america strongly supports donald trump, without giving any explanation, not just to the american people, but to the leadership in congress is very disturbing. for every veteran homeowner who needs money for their family, it's a new day in america. air force, pararescue, five years. home values are at record highs. the newday 100 va loan lets veterans borrow u

. > >> the cdc eases covid guidelines in the classroom. what this means as students across the bay area get ready to to head back to school. > >> we are taking a closer look at the debate on monkeypox messaging. should we be treating treating the virus like an std? > >> monkeypox cases continue to climb along with demand for the vaccine. there is nearly 1900 reported cases state wide and about 500 of those are right here in san francisco. >> a steady stream of people lined up for the monkeypox vacce monkeypox vaccine, some got there before the sun ever came p came up trying to get a shot. the clinic reopens tomorrow at 8 8 am. aside from getting vaccines, there is some debate on how health officials should approach this. >> this is about messaging and reducing stigma about getting monkeypox. sean is here to expl. to explain. >> reporter: this is a balancing balancing act because you want to make sure resources get to those who need the most quickly while also doing the work now to to prevent monkeypox from spreading to more people who ars

the cdc admits failure and announces a major overhaul. >>> a part of 9/11 history. >> it's the remembrance of everybody who died. >> closes at store. >>> good evening. former president trump exacting revenge on his biggest critic in his own party. congresswoman liz cheney facing a brutal loss in wyoming. pre-election polls indicated she was almost certain to lose her re-election bid, but she went down even worse than expected. she finished nearly 40 points behind her trump backed opponent . former president trump calling congresswoman cheney a fool. now the two rivals could be facing off in 2024. this woman cheney telling the today show's savannah guthrie, this morning, that she is considering a run for president. >> that's a decision i'm going to make in the coming months. i'm not going to make any announcements this morning. it is something i'm thinking about and i will make a decision in the coming months. >> she is not wasting any time taking on her next big move. nbc news confirming she filed to transfer her campaign cash to a new organization and she is promising to do whatever it ta

so, you get about a third of the country that really does not have the trust in the cdc, and that is ignificant concern. if you think about the times that we are in. even with the most current cdc guidelines, only about 19% of people polled said they really, fully understand those guidelines. that is a concern. so, what the cdc is outlining his several things. one, they want to get information out more quickly. i think that that is an obvious one. they want to translate the science into practical knowledge easy for people to understand. i their own admission, so much more came out over the cdc over the past couple of years was geared towards fellow scientists, as opposed to the average citizen. that has to change as well. prioritizing that communication and also thinking in the future about potential future public health emergencies. i mean, we are dealing with covid still, but also monkeypox and polio, so some of these changes that need to happen, the cdc need to happen now, while the cdc is still functioning and still very, very busy. but again, that trust at a time when you are dea

when covid hit the cdc couldn't wait to tell us how to live our lives. were closed, businesses closed. travel halted our kids were muzzled with masks. at the end of the day it turns out the cdc was flat out wrong. >> i think our public health infrastructure in the country was not up to the task of handling this pandemic. we learned some hard levies over the last three years. and as parts of that is my responsibility, the agency's responsibility to learn from those lessons and do better. we made some pretty public mistakes and we need own them. >> will: credibility burned the cdc why do we turn and trust them when it comes to anything else? they clearly got it wrong with covid and they have undermined that credibility time and time again. so, look, it's no surprise they have no clue how to handle monkeypox. but the last few months the cdc has acted like we are on the verge of another pandemic. in the beginning they told us to mask up on planes so we don't catch the virus. trying to trick people into thinking that monkeypox is as contagious as covid. that'

a day after the cdc makes a statement about its management, the white house is set to make an announcement about vaccines. a new york city sex offender arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and back on the streets tonight. we will show you his later alleged crime sucker punching a stranger. america's gripping new legal drama vum tr svdoj in a florida courtroom on thursday and matt has that story tonight. >> during that in person hearing, federal judge bruce rineheart says he's inclined to release some of the affidavit on the raid at former president trump's home. the justice department has a week to suggest any redactions but the judge will have the final say. judge rineheart ordered some of the documents represented to the search warrant to be unsealed including the application for the warrant. the affidavit will likely reveal the inform ant and what information they supplied. >> the justice department objects to the affidavit's full rest, saying it would compromise its investigation an potentially threaten safety of witnesses. media organizations have requested the entire affidavit s

the cdc is set to undergo a self-imposed shakeup after dr. gency fell short in its covid-19 pandemic response nearly three years in to the pandemic. former cdc director robert redfield will react here on a "the story" for the first time. first we go to peter doocy. hi, peter. >> gillian, covid is not the only reason the cdc has their hands full. they're doing some soul searching as we have been reporting. there's a memo, part of it says that we must take our concrete lessons learned from covid-19 to improve how we deliver our science, guidance and programs to the american people. but the white house is saying those mistakes, not the cdc's fault. >> our government agencies weren't designed to manage a once in a century crisis like this. while many performed admirably, there's no question in my mind that these agencies could have done better. >> so biden officials are bake hi blaming bureaucracy. there's skepticism that the cdc has the ability to clean itself up now that they have been caught flat-footed in dealing with monkey pox. >> it wasn't

monkeypox. >> cdc has released estimates the director of the cdc is calling for drastic changes within the agency to better deal with health emergencies. it follows criticism of the agency's response to the covid-19 pandemic. cdc director doctor rochelle walensky said in a quote and our big moment our performance did not reliably meet expectations. reforms include an overhaul of how the agency analyzes and shares data as well as changes to how quickly the cdc communicates information to the public along with that will come a new executive council, an equity office and a more streamlined website. the course correction comes as public health officials work to fight the latest challenge monkeypox. the virus has been declared a global health emergency with more than 35,000 cases now identified around the world. and the cdc director says some of those changes have already started to be implemented. others will take time due to training protocols right now. they were shot. >> well, still to come on the kron, 4 morning news. okay. so let's go to this upcoming story. east bay firefighters were

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