We re talking more than 248,000 cubans who are apprehended crossing the border through mexico over just the past year. in fact, that s up for over 43,000 the year before according to customs and border protection. nbc news reached out to the white house for comment which referred us to the department of homeland security and dhs has declined to provide additional details on the record. but the flights will begin soon. going back to a country for 62 years that has no human rights and repression has been on the increase since last year. morgan radford, thank you so much for being with us. really appreciate it. that wraps up the hour for me. i m jose diaz-balart. you can reach me on twitter and instagram at jdbalart. follow the show online. thank you for the privilege of your time. yasmin vossoughian picks up with more news after a quick break. m. yeah. i respect that. but that cough looks pretty bad. try this robitussin honey. the real honey you love, plus the powerful cough relief y
Travel when it comes to this trip? reporter: far, kaitlan, and it s going to hit the furthest point on the 25 1/2 day journey today, actually. and that is about 270,000 miles from earth, hitting that record today. but the record for the furthest that a spacecraft designed to carry humans has ever flown, that was hit on saturday. and it was artemis and the orion capsule surpassing the record set by the apollo 13 spacecraft back in 1970 at 248,000 miles. so something else really interesting about this mission, kaitlan. apollo 13, that was the mission where an oxygen container exploded, putting the entire crew in jeopardy. now one of the mannequins on board the orion flight is named after one of the engineers during the apollo 13 mission that saved all of those
Can t top this skin shop now at olay.com the u.s. seeing a rise in jobless claims for the first time in weeks. 248,000 claims in weeks. 28,000 more than the week before. overall figure still sits near a pandemic low. this comes as president biden heads to ohio to tout his economic agenda and plan for improving infrastructure. i m joined now by massachusetts congresswoman and assistant speaker katherine clark. congresswoman, welcome to the program. great to have you on. as you know, this is a very complicated subject. on the one hand, the economy
Topping 250,000 per day. as of this afternoon shattering the previous high of some 248,000 cases nearly a year ago. this ongoing surge is hitting as we near the end of year two of an exhausting battle with covid, the virus now everywhere. that is challenging officials from the white house all the way down to the local level. yet as of tonight slightly less than 62% of all americans are fully vaccinated. fewer than 38% of those fully vaccinated are boosted. today the cdc said omicron represents roughly 59% of all covid cases in the united states. that is a very big change from last week when the agency had the number at 73%. there is also growing pushback to the cdc s latest guidance reducing the isolation period for people who test positive but show no symptoms to five days down from ten. critics say this evolving
Topping 250,000 per day. as of this afternoon shattering the previous high of some 248,000 cases nearly a year ago. this ongoing surge is hitting as we near the end of year two of an exhausting battle with covid, the virus now everywhere. that is challenging officials from the white house all the way down to the local level. yet as of tonight slightly less than 62% of all americans are fully vaccinated. fewer than 38% of those fully vaccinated are boosted. today the cdc said omicron represents roughly 59% of all covid cases in the united states. that is a very big change from last week when the agency had the number at 73%. there is also growing pushback to the cdc s latest guidance reducing the isolation period for people who test positive but show no symptoms to five days down from ten.