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The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

Teachers Union President: Chicago’s Mayor Is “Being Relentlessly Stupid”

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

CNN

News

3.2865 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Anger and confusion are growing as America’s schools struggle with reopening plans due to the Omicron crisis. Chicago is cancelling class for more than 300,000 students for a fourth day as the president of the Chicago Teachers Union calls into question the mayor’s plans. Investigations are underway for one of the deadliest home fires in decades. A faulty space heater sparked an inferno in a New York City apartment building that killed 17 people, including 8 children. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Happening now growing anger and confusion as America's school struggle with

0:08.2

reopening plans due to the amachron crisis. Chicago cancelling classes now for more than 300 the of all kinds are reeling from staff shortages as new COVID

0:24.3

case counts keep shattering records. Also tonight, investigations are underway

0:29.3

in one of the deadliest home fires in this country in decades.

0:35.0

Officials say a faulty space heater sparked the inferno in a New York City apartment

0:39.6

building that kills 17 people including a children.

0:44.0

Now they want to know if the alarm or door systems malfunctioned as well.

0:49.0

And the tennis star Novak Jokovich is now planning to compete in the Australian Open after a judge ruled he can stay in the country

0:56.7

but the drama over his visa and vaccine status may not necessarily be over.

1:02.1

We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States

1:04.6

and around the world.

1:06.0

I'm Wolf Litzer.

1:06.9

You're in the situation room.

1:08.2

We begin this hour with the amokron surge here in the United States taking a

1:18.2

worsening toll on America schools, hospitals, and businesses.

1:22.8

CNN's Alexandra Field is following it all for us.

1:25.4

She's joining us from New York, Alexandria.

1:27.6

So many organizations and institutions in this country right now are overburdened and in some places like Chicago

1:35.0

this situation is clearly boiling over.

1:40.0

That's right. Well stress, delays, frustration, cancellation.

1:43.3

It is all part of the omicron surge and all parts of the country.

1:46.5

In Chicago, they are locked in debate, but in so many places we are seeing a will we haven't

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