extended pandemic unemployment benefits expiring today in the wake of a massively disappointing august jobs report. there s no question the delta variant is why today s job report isn t stronger. i know people were looking, and i was hoping for a higher number. the president blaming the surging delta variant. but amid holiday-weekend travel and packed stadiums and celebrations, america is acting like the threat from covid is over, even though the fact is we re actually much worse off than we were a year ago. the seven-day average of new cases up a stunning 300% from labor day just last year. the first thing we have to do, we can t be having 150,000 new infections per day. that s pandemic numbers. that s the first thing we ve got to crack that one, right away. so, it may be the worst possible time for any confusion about the booster shots. the white house may have to scale back the booster rollout this month to just the pfizer vaccine at first. moderna boosters may be
americans. as unemployment benefits pushed through the pandemic expire today. 7.5 million people are said to lose their jobless benefits today. 3 million are using a 300 dollar state boost to their benefits. labor secretary marty walsh today, saying states can choose to use other funds, to extend those benefits. we ve allowed the actually using rescue plan money. to extend the unemployment benefits in their state. if they need to. the rate is different all across the country, so really it is about how we continue to get the economy back and running. meanwhile millions still struggled to find work in the middle of the delta variant surge. many will soon be facing the reality of losing their, housing is the supreme court struck down biden s eviction moratorium extension. let s talk about this. joining me now former clinton labor secretary an offer of the assistant who rigged. it how we fix it. maria, founder of footsore media, her memoir was once i was. you and the politi
americans as unemployment benefits to protect workers at the height of this pandemic expire today. 7.5 million people are set to lose their jobless benefits this week. labor secretary marty walsh today saying states can choose to use other funds to extend those benefits. we ve allowed governors across the country if they need to to look at using cares money excuse me, rescue money if they need to. the rate is different all across the country. it s about how do we continue to get the economy back and running. meanwhile millions struggling to find work. many will soon face the reality of losing their housing as the supreme court struck down president biden s eviction mary tore yum extension. let s talk about this. marie ya, her memoir is once i was you, and back with us, susan del percio. i m going to start with you. finally i ve been getting out and about. i was in arizona, mississippi where the delta variant is just on fire. i m thinking about the people most affect
white house, headed for the northeast to get a firsthand look at the damage left by hurricane ida. elsie huge parts of new jersey and new york remain decimated by deadly flooding. ida killing at least 45 people in those two states. some swept away by cars, others drowning in their own homes. new disaster declarations mean parts of both states are eligible for federal aid, but even that is fraught with complaints from counties left off the list of those eligible for aid. and down in louisiana which got hit by ida first, more than 400,000 homes are still in the dark, nine days after the storm rolled through, and high temperatures continue to raise the misery and risk. all three regions are at risk of more severe weather in the coming days. we have all of the angles covered. shannon petty piece at the white house, allison barber in new jersey, and some brock in louisiana outside new orleans. thank you all for joining this morning. sam, nine days have passed, still hundreds of th
without power. overseas secretary of state tony blinken saying that the united states has denied a hostage situation exists with americans stranded at an airport in northern afghanistan, but he acknowledges with no diplomats on the ground they have no way of verifying these reports and thousands of citizens don t know if they ll ever get out. raf sanchez in doha, qatar and admiral stavridis. i want to play what we heard from the secretary today and he was there with secretary of defense lloyd austin with the situation at mazar-e-sharif at the airport during a press conference in doha today. one of the challenges has been that, as we understand it, there are groups of people who are grouped together some of whom have the appropriate travel document, an american passport, a green card, a visa and others do not, and it s my understanding that the taliban has not denied exit to expect holding a valid document, but they have said that those without valid documents at this point