trace?e: back to you as the news breaks. thanks, will. the other big story, big breaking story of the day a rare joint appearance from the top military leaders afarming an attack against a nato ally is an attack against all. >> it does feel different. in terms of what we've seen in the past of russian exercises et cetera. this is larger in scale and scope and the massing of forces of anything we've seen in recent memory. the cold war days are when we saw something like this. >> trace: russia has expanded its military build-up to include medical materials, presumably to treat casualties. in moments, michael waltz that warns putin is trying to rebuild the soviet union and ukraine is not tend. mark meredith with more. >> we heard from pentagon officials that outline not only where things stand right now but how dire and deadly things could get if russia were to ultimately invade ukraine. the top military brass say they believe president putin has yet to make a decision on a potential invasion.

>> i'm trace gallagher. wildfires in the west and a record wave of covid causing uncertainty for parents and students preparing to return from winter break. ♪ ♪ >> we are scared to start on january 3rd without a testing. >> there are not enough adults of there, you need to go remote. >> school district under pressure from teachers unions to go virtual if their demands are not met as the nation's students face testing and other hurdles to return to the classroom. >> making the efforts to make sure the kids are safe and protected is great for me as a parent. >> as critics of remote learning pushback... >> the children come first, not last. they've been a very neglected group over the last couple of years. >> we will ask education secretary miguel cardona how the administration plans to keep kids in school. plus... >> president biden: it's not enough, it's clearly not enough. >> trace: abide no administration facing backlash over being behind the ball on covid testing. >> president biden: my message to the gove

trace? >> trace: a lot of concern that little has changed. thanks, benjamin.gallagher from wisconsin. he sits on the armed services committee and calling to investigate doctors fauci and collins in an effort to sweep this under the rug. you hear benjamin's report there. there's concern that very little is being done. come on, the more we dig into this, the more we find that opposing voices were shut down. it is dangerous and it's still happening. >> it's looking more and more like a massive cover-up. precisely the opposite of what true scientific inquiry is supposed to be about. those scientists that we trusted with immense power to guide us during this pandemic appear to have lied to us. we now know thanks to bret baier's reporting, a lot of people like josh rogan, at the beginning scientists e-mailed dr. fauci flagging concerns with the viruses genomes saying it wasn't natural. days later they changed their tune. so what happened? why the effort in various journals to label anyone who was demanning and investigation of the lab leak as a conspiracy theorist.

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good morning, trace. >> trace: good morning, i'm trace gallagher. this is "america's newsroom." let's look at the numbers. the u.s. added 199,000 jobs last month. about half of what analysts were projecting. unemployment falls to 3.9%. >> dana: inflation continues to outpace wage growth as employers struggle to fill a record number of job openings. let's go to the white house where jackie heinrich is standing by. what does it mean for the biden administration? >> good morning, dana. this disappointing jobs report comes as the omicron variant is threatening the economic recovery while inflation is at its highest pace in four decades. this is bad news for the administration. the bright spot here is unemployment fell to 3.9%, the lowest we've seen it during the pandemic. administration is likely to highlight this as an achievement for them. but the report covers the week including december 12th. that came before the omicron spike ahead of christmas that really surged the cases across the country. economists say now policymakers need to be very careful. >> can't get close to the gdp

>> trace: there is john kirby there. he is talking about russian troops amassing on the border of ukraine. they are increasing and talking about the weapons and these assets put inside ukraine to push back the russian troops. new reaction from the pentagon after russia said there is little ground for optimism in negotiations as putin gets closer to an invasion that could happen any time. jennifer griffin just got out of the pentagon briefing room. >> this is the first time we have heard the pentagon press secretary outline which troops and bases were notified of 8500 troops on prepare to deploy orders. not ordered to go yet, but element of the 82nd airborne at fort bragg, they are alerted. the 18th airborne core is always on a tight alert system. they are the ready response force down at fort bragg. at fort campbell kentucky members of the airborne and in colorado they have been notified and bases from arizona to ohio. john kirby outlined those troops. putin knows that the u.s. and nato have ruled out sending troops to u

bill has the day off. >> trace: good morning. i'm trace gallagher.surge, covid vaccines have been approved for children as young as 12. reigniting the debate on remote learning. the 25,000 member teacher union is sent to vote on whether to shift schools online until they feel it is safe to return. parents are divided on the issue. >> i would love my children to be able to go to classes as nor. at the same time, their safety is paramount. >> we feel okay about setting the back right now. >> we saw that developmentally, it was best to have them back in class. >> dana: live in chicago with mark. i bet a lot of parents are waited with baited breath to see what will happen. >> the chicago's teacher union has a long list of demands. if they are not met, they are threatening to go on strike. the union wants all chicago schools, all 340,000 students to go completely remote for two weeks to limit the spread of an possible exposure to covid after the holidays. they want more testing for schools, but more masks, and a clear plan on one schools will be planned,

hi, trace. >> trace: i'm trace gallagher. the president left the capitol following his speech at the capitol. those remarks targeting the previous administration for the january 6th. >> president biden: because his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our constitution. he can't accept he lost. even though that's what 93 united states senators, his own attorney general, his own vice president, governors and state officials in every battleground state have all said he lost. >> dana: that speech was about a little over 20 minutes. kamala harris tried to push for legislation to be passed by the u.s. senate to federalize u.s. elections. one of the things she is in charge of in addition to immigration and other things that the vice president was supposed to be leading on. >> trace: mitch mcconnell made it clear he is willing to look at the electoral count act and the way that congress certifies these elections but you have chuck schumer on the other said saying no, he doesn't want to play what he called small ball.

hi, trace. >> trace: good morning. i'm trace gallagher. in a new memo manhattan d.a.felonies to miss dem enors including some robberies, weapons possession charges and drug dealing offenses. >> dana: "new york post" calling it a free pass saying the woke new manhattan d.a. won't lock up bad guys for a slough of crimes. does it contradict the mayor's tough on crime stance. we have to guest to weigh in. let's start with senior correspondent eric shawn if new york city for us to give us an update. hi, eric. >> good morning, dana. well, you can do the crime and now not get the time. that's is the message from the new progressive district attorney of manhattan. a stunning departure from law enforcement practices bragg will stress diverse and alternatives to jail time. he will no longer incarcerate law breakers unless its murder, a felony. his goal is safety and fairness and also wants the defendants' race to be considered. his office will no longer largely enforce some trespass crimes. resisting arrest and sex work and it could mean no jail time for armed robbery, stealing

>> good afternoon, trace.n one thing, the math. democrats have never had the opportunity to confirm a justice with the bar lowered to a simple majority over a filibuster, mcconnell in 2017, he dropped the threshold to end the filibuster from supreme court justices from 60 votes to a simple majority, nuclear option two, and then gorsuch, kavanaugh, and amy coney barrett. all democrats must stick together along with the vote of vice president harris or democrats need to poach the votes of a few democrats, and manchin and sinema. manchin would like a centrist nominated to the court. >> and i'm curious, chad, just quickly before we go on to more of shannon bream. curious as to this whole notion that you know, the tie breaking vote in the senate would be kamala harris. the whole idea that kamala harris potentially could be a supreme court nominee. just chatter, pretty much, have you heard that at all where you are, chad? >> we have heard the chatter. only the vice president may break a tie in the senate. never been

contact tracing. i know in the beginning that principals and support staff and community school coordinators and all of the entire system was being used to contact trace and take over classrooms if employees had a teaching degree. it just seemed to me like you have such a substitute shortage while this would be a great way for the city to help out to do the contact tracing for you so that all of those school employees could be helping out in the classrooms and making sure that students continue to learn and that classrooms didn't have to double up. in the worst-case scenario schools shut down. i wonder what contact tracing looks like these days? what group contact tracing means? i know director su was working on a much better system that wouldn't be involve much contact tracing. i am wondering if you could give an update, explain and update that and tell us if that is happening and how do we help contact trace? every school employee should be helping you keep the schools open, quite frankly. we want t

i'm trace gallagher. this is "america's newsroom" paired the virus is causing holiday hangover for travelers. airlines to cancel flights, more than 3,000 today alone for bad weather making things even worse. >> dana: also not helping, makes messaging from the cdc. adding the recommended isolation time and have for infected americans. that's feeling a public debate about whether a negative test should be required. >> trace: getting that test is easier said than done. americans are standing in line for hours and of the time for results as long as four days. >> dana: we have team box coverage for you. i know max like cancellations. mark has reactions. let's first go to washington where kevin is standing by. >> great to see you. lots of moving parts in this story and from the white house perspective, probably not necessarily a good thing. you may recall the president said back in april of last year that covid deaths and cases were way down, and we are making great strides in the fighting as the pandemic. now

so conduct tracing is an extraordinarily old and very sensible way of going about tracking and tracing disease. i spoke was shown mcdonald, who spent more than 10 years building, deploying and critiquing. mobile technologies in humanitarian disasters, such as infectious disease control, when the patient has positive interview a person to know where they've been during that period. and then we use that information to try and track down other people in my contact with in terms of the big change in contact tracing apps from from analog to digital is that we're moving from a process that connects people to treatment to a process that communicates less and communicate in rest in the absence of treatment capacity has a very different effect on a population. it can cause fear, it can cause people to go seek more treatment than they otherwise might. and so i think that there's a lot to be examined about the fundamentals of assumptions that go into the digital transformation. that hasn't stopped governments and health authorities from jumping on board from italy to india, more than $150.00 fall

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i think trace put up a great point.feeling when you like to do president the first year that there in the white house or in office, you don't really feel about revealing it in inflation and crime, parents are extremely frustrated. i know joe biden touted that 95% of schools are open but last week there still over 4400 schools were closed in unesco and unicef, the number that they said is estimated the pandemic generation will lose $17 trillion in future earnings because of knowledge deficit. these are things that parents are seeing everyday americans cannot twice been reflected in the polls. david: tommy, this is been a key issue on the border, right now biden 59% disapproval of how he handles the border, 37% given approval where are the 37% they are clearly not living right across the border in el paso or anywhere near the border. on that key issue, how does he recover it is he willing, i don't think he is. tomi: i think that is part of the problem i don't think he's worried about recovering his image to the american p

i get the traces argument some points or speeches. lot of stuff begins on a wednesday, you get to send it let people end up leaving only so many people can go into the stadium. have the parties out of the parking lot, he got through to 50000 people over four days in arizona for example. i've been to a lot of super bowl spirit of watch this. the monday think i'm all about productivity in the economy, so if it helps that i think it would transition. i don't go either way but i do like the idea of a saturday super bowl and then we get to sunday, sleep it off, go to church, do whatever you need to do and pray for your team or wait for your team. >> go to church but i don't know if you were going to go to work they're going to go to church. we will see maybe this kid is onto something. >> of your team loses you might want to pray. >> there you go, david. stick around the big saturday swap are wild and they are next. ♪ music ♪ >> vo: so when my windshield broke... i found the experts at safelite autoglass. they have exclusive technology and

. >>> contact tracing. it's no match for omicron. >> trying to catch omicron via contact tracing is like trying to catch a bullet train on a bicycle. >> states trying to manage the spread >>> the new report on mistakes made in the gabby petito investigation. >>> the web telescope surprising everyone, including nasa. >>> and can you save the world in 15 minutes? the simulation that gives you a chance to try. >> announcer: live from cnbc, the facts. the truth. "the news with shepard smith." >>> good evening president biden suffered two major defeats today that have imply implications for all of us one on voting rights and the future of elections nationwide the other on his administration's most aggressive and controversial efforts to curb the pandemic. a vaccine or testing mandate for businesses today the supreme court blocked the white house from forcing large private companies to either mandate vaccines or require employees get tested weekly and wear masks. the rules would have impacted more than 80 million

we're here with tracee ellis ross. want to say stole -- did you liberate anything from the set? >> yeah. i asked to liberate a piece of art that had been on the wall. it has not made it to me i am still under the hopeful idea that it will show up at my door in a package. i don't think i got the piece of art i wanted i did, however, take as much wardrobe as i possibly could fit in my car, because bow johnson had a great wardrobe and at one point, i was loading the back of my car and an abc executive walked by. and i was like, "either turn around or know i am helping the wardrobe department and i am bringing these things to the cleaners the cleaners is on the way home, and i just want to help them out to get all this stuff cleaned up so you can pack it up. >> seth: that was very, very kind. you're a very charitable person. i'm sure he bought that hook, line, and sinker >> absolutely. and you know, everybody knows that about me. i'm helpful. >> seth: very helpful. now, this is a time to embark on new experiences, when you

anthony, speak for tracee. >> i cannot speak for tracee. [ laughter ] we might as well just get rid of, that california king looks mighty comfortable that y'all are in all the time. >> well, you know, for some reason, that was the most comfortable bed that tracee and i have ever been on, and, you know, we spend several thousand dollars for mattresses in our private homes. this mattress was $32 from a goodwill shop and it was the most comfortable bed that we could ever lay on. whenever we did a scene in the bedroom, we would never leave to give the scene -- the second team to set it up. we would just fall asleep on there and take quick naps throughout the day for eight years. >> you have all been together for eight years filming this show. >> okay, i'm back. >> there she is. >> now you're back. >> it was these. it was the airpods. what happened? >> now, it's okay. >> are you talking about our bed? are you talking about our bed? >> yes. anthony covered it pretty well for you though. he had you covered. you've all been together for eight years doing this show. what was it like on that fin

the government uses big data to quickly trace and - big data to quickly trace and control_ big data tole who are - big data to quickly trace and | control people who are close contacts _ control people who are close contacte— control people who are close contacts. . . , contacts. the negative impacts of lockdown — contacts. the negative impacts of lockdown are _ contacts. the negative impacts of lockdown are quite - contacts. the negative impacts of lockdown are quite bad. - of lockdown are quite bad. people _ of lockdown are quite bad. people are worried. two years on the borders here remain all but closed. international flights are at a bare minimum. china's communist party leaders are sticking with their zero covid promise. in the run—up to hosting the olympics, china has shown how far it is willing to go. international mail is the new enemy. authorities in beijing this week claimed that a package from canada brought omicron in. we were in contact with someone in another receiving a delivery from abroad. she didn't want us to name her, but, deeply frustrated, she sent as a text mess

the sense of anticipation is huge as she joins the trace specialist to get a look. so the up, she gets her 1st glimpse inside the trunk. they continue their ascent. joseph is 30 meters toll at its widest point. the trunk is nearly 7 meters. horizontal plane passes right through the middle of the hollow trunk. clearly the work of humans, the higher they go, the more evidence they find that the tree could indeed have been used as a hide out another plank. it can't be a coincidence. we so at least 5 shelves, wooden shell, for wooden shove and one metal. and probably that a semi broad there is that still we have this se archival research is ongoing. they used as a says, as elevation point to fight took just like to observe the situation. and from the holes, we have like 1234. so m, it's incredible that the dis survive the war. additional drawing footage helps to document one of the most incredible hide outs used during the nazi occupation. it would appear that this majestic looking tree helped to save lives. a bosco's camera could help to turn up more evidence to suppor

we did in florida, because they were only they were contract tracing of hundreds of upon thousands of millions of cases. looking at new york with the outbreak, and highest of 382,000 cases of 382 team. and climbing, climbing, climbing, and this photograph is showing this that they are starting to pass, but as the governor of new york said, it is a glimmer of hope. >> and it is not just the u.s. officialing are worried that people are starting to worry that they will develop omicron, but it is a fast-moving virus. >>> no secret that the ongoing pandemic is making the staff shortages at our hospitals worse. >> it is hard to get the nursing staff, and hard to get the agency nurses. there is almost no amount of money that you can pay to get some of the nurses to an extra shift, because they have been through a lot. >> the sheer number of patients who don't have covid, delaying the surgeries, and joining me is ed young, staff writer at the atlantic, who wrote a piece about this dire situation. one e.r. doctor in new jersey told you that you don't want to be inured now, and ed young, this i

how far back they can trace it, i'm not sure, they are watch thanksgiving and do trace this stuff. back, not sure. you are looking for actual arrest here when 13 year old dies and person that got that into the hands of the kid. >> todd: what i worry, anyone od on this stuff by being around it, you don't have to be involved in anything involving drugs, what can parents do to protect kid? >> you look at this instance here and connecticut, what is important, parents should try to find out if narcan is available in their schools. know the sign of opioid use and overuse, most of the states do not require narcan, in the schools. you will see that change relatively quickly here in the northeast as quickly as today, schools will reverse their policy. there is stigma about being narcan in your school, if your school has an opioid problem. it is like a fire extinguisher, you will probably never use it, but it is great to have it around. in hartford, this teacher is doing cpr, and it had no effect on stopping death, only narcan have. some school nurses have narcan, the prosecute is, they got

thanks, jim gray. >> trace: tune in tonight. let's go. 7:00 p.m. that is "the story" of monday, january 31. more that is back tomorrow. "your world" right now. >> sandra: the u.n. security council meeting on russian aggression. russia says what aggression? the security council says that have no proof on military action. the ukraine says their actions tell a different story. i'm sandra smith in for neil cavuto. this is "your world." we have fox team coverage with lucas at the pentagon and steve harrigan in kiev where folks are gearing up for what could go down. we begin with lucas. >> u.s. officials say 5,000 more russian troops have arrived in belarus as the u.s. will be ready for anything. at u.n. head quarters in new york, the president's u.n. ambassador sounded the alarm. >> colleagues, the situation we're facing in europe is urgent and dangerous. the stakes for ukraine and for every u.n. member state could not be higher. russian's actions strike at the very heart of the u.n. charter. this is as clear and consequential threat to peace and securi

the very last trace of jewish life invention would have disappeared. but the foundations intervention changed all that all plan with her natalia is now working with them to preserve this last piece of living history from benjamin's jewish past. good. we believe that's an this is part important part of engine history. this is important part of polish history. in the pre war, benzene, there were about 80 such places. and in, in, in the, in the, in the area had to be hundreds, such places in poland. there, there was thousands of such places and almost everything was destroyed with people during the war. together, they're working to challenge the culture of denial, refusing to let the past be forgotten any longer. the foundation has produced a map showing sites that highlight benjamin's jewish history that natalia wants to know if any war time hiding places may have survived in the town. in florida, p. o. through jak of vanco believes there's unlikely to be anything in the town center. for one simple reason. a all the population was re settled till to the

probably will be possible to the out in gara dark to try the traces. and the caller could also show us where it was exactly to hiding place. with creative ideas, natalia romika, those around her are seeking new ways of making the past accessible. even for those who don't want to hear about the holocaust, yet vega could be, let's get, needs know convincing. i instead natalia's here to show her the model of her home with the basement hide out but they plan to exhibit this model to the public and tell the stories of those who survived. thanks to the hideout talked i got to put it up to 30 papers, squeezed into the bunker twice as many as it was designed for he but here downstairs was they had very little air and whenever they heard an unfamiliar voice at the door, they were gripped with fear of the cellar, had they been discovered? would they be betrayed? ah, natalia romika says the high dance ah, the architecture of survival. her role is to bring them to life. whether it's a 650 year old oak tree, the ground beneath the barn and bench in or an undergroun

here's andrea canning and "without a trace." >> it's a sad fact of american life. families separated from their loved ones. gone without a trace. nationwide, there are almost 100,000 active missing persons cases. since december 2013, "dateline's online missing in america" series has been telling some of those heartbreaking stories. one of the first came from the heartland. where not everything is serene and pastoral. this is the quad cities. urban. industrial. gritty. four cities split by the mighty mississippi river. two on the iowa side, two in illinois. these days, the quad cities is a sometimes uneasy mix of old-fashioned midwestern valus and modern urban life where crime is an unescapable part of the landscape. this is where carrie olson went missing in december of 2013. >> she had a heart of gold and she made you always feel welcome. >> amanda smith and carrie were bffs from the moment they met as 11 year olds at a neighborhood pool. >> we were just swimming one day and sparks just flew. >> how dolittle girls have sparks? what was it about carrie? >> she was

i'm with nature future school and they, they said that there were some traces of one blood, a poison, a substance. and it seems to me absolutely obvious that no valley was poisoned and was yelling at bush and russia requested some information from germany, but russia didn't bring criminal proceedings, and germany refused any assistance for you. so what did you, what do you think? there is a report by the o. p. c, w. and as you are a member of the apc w, you must have seen this report in your care do continue corporation with the oversee w. because when we find ourselves him, and am i not human of ari tear horrible, but dear european court of human rights, i, rosa herbs here, o p c, w. leah, pine tree. simply the capital of europe for all was thumb, the goal of her mas, of hopes, who mr. inactive for food would fad on your t shirt much. i thought it was a pretty double. you know, it's, whoa, whoa, whoa, you knew? yesterday i watched hearing news is whitaker, i'm sorry, i'm gonna start from afar. i watched the world. you over usually lose you lose hearing years where city schools are wi

trace amounts in mountain view san jose livermore and a little bit around a 3rd of rain. oakland hayward and half moon bay. there. looking at our temperatures right now. we'll just talked about it. we're in the 40's across the map. that's a chilly map right there. so make sure you bring your jacket no matter where you are in the bay area will back to you. let's take a quick look at traffic conditions outside. here's the bay bridge toll plaza. thinking this is about as bad as it's going to get or it's very good, i should say because you can clearly see a lot of people still off. >> no problems. if you're crossing the east bay across that span and into san francisco on the bay bridge. from their san mateo bridge picking up just a little bit, but still no problems. the right side of screen. of course, if you're a veteran of this, you know, that's the commute direction from the east bay on to one o one richmond sandra fell bridge. you shouldn't have any problems at all. that's the lightest. i think of the mall, one set of headlights coming to the toll plaza and on the way to

bay vacaville san francisco and the south bay you see trace amounts of rain there.day and thursday where we starc to see drier conditions in the forecast and then another weak system arrives friday santa rosa half an inch of rain with trace amounts in the south bay your seven-day forecast. you can see here rain again on friday. we'll back to you. holiday light when it comes to traffic. conditions says the bay bridge toll plaza any other time of the year. bumper to bumper. no problems. if you're crossing that span into san francisco. >> and from there, let's head to the san mateo bridge to the other workhorse, maybe a little bit thicker in volume. then the bay bridge, but still no problems to talk about. but there is a problem to talk about the omicron variant continues to surge throughout the country. health experts hope cases will peak over the next few weeks and then go back down. basil john joins us live from dc with the very latest. good morning, basil. >> but we'll get morning as the massive influx of covid-19 cases. it definitely affected many holiday plans. a