Good evening tomorrow, President Biden will address the nation about his plans to reverse

the staggering rise in COVID cases and deaths that's worse now than one year ago.

In fact, today the CDC said the rise in deaths may continue over the next four weeks, even

as hospitalizations possibly and we cautioned possibly stabilize.

This is despite the fact that more than 75 percent of adults are now vaccinated.

However, as the CDC also noted today, the pace of vaccinations is down by 26 percent

from a month ago.

We should caution these vaccination numbers come after a holiday weekend.

Officials tell CNN the president is going to lay out a six-point plan with obvious political

economic and public health repercussions.

And we'll talk about that more tonight.

But right now we want to focus on what officials say will be one element of that plan, which

is safeguarding kids and schools.

The spike in cases comes not only as America's schools reopen, but as new data from the American

Academy of Pediatrics says one in four, these new cases is in a child.

Not only that, the organization says there's been a 250 percent increase in infections

of children from five weeks ago.

Vaccines are, as you know, unavailable for those under 12.

But one thing that appears to unite alerts while the Democrats, Republicans and parents

at this moment, is that kids should be in school, which leaves a mask as one of the next

best lines of protection.

But as we've seen most notably in Florida, mask mandates have become deeply polarizing.

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