With the school year just getting underway, pediatric COVID cases are soaring to an all-time high.

President Biden will lay out new strategies to fight the pandemic today.

But the question is, will it address the rise in cases among children?

Plus, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is brushing off Senator Joe Manchin' demand to pause on a $3.5 trillion

economic package. The question is, can Democrats afford to lose his vote? And the annual

Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade will return to New York City this year, but with new COVID

protocols in place, the question is, how exactly will organizers keep spectators safe? It's way too early for this.

Good morning and welcome to way too early. The show that is now thinking about nothing other than that big Thanksgiving dinner.

I'm Jonathan Lemire on this Thursday, September 9th. We'll start with the news. Pediatric COVID cases

are surging to record highs as millions of students across the country return to the classroom this week.

The most recent data from the American Academy of Pediatric shows weekly pediatric COVID cases have surpassed 250,000

for the first time since the start of the pandemic.

About one and four new coronavirus cases are now in children.

NBC News correspondent Carrie Sanders has more.

The return to the classroom potentially dangerous, with a quarter of all new COVID cases now children,

and with families at odds over how to keep their kids safe.

My child, my choice.

The battle over masks still raging with a judge ruling Florida must stop enforcing mask bans,

a major blow to Republican Governor Ron DeSantis.

This is what hurts communities.

We see dictator-like behavior is what he's doing.

Also in Miami, a stark warning from the school superintendent after three teachers and 10

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