vaccines can outpace the spread of the highly contagious delta variant. right now it is not looking good. more than half of u.s. states, mostly republican led, have a vaccination rate below the national average. the new surge beginning to imperil return-to-work plans. last night republican governor of alabama, kay ivy, said bluntly in an interview most of her colleagues will not say, that the blame for much of the continued suffering in her state rests squarely on the shoulders of those refuse to go get vac nated. what is it going to take to get people to get shots in arms? i don t know. you tell me. folks are supposed to have common sense. but it s time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks. it s the unvaccinated folks that are letting us down. wow. one might think governor ivey s frustrations could represent a crack in the republican firewall against covid protections. and even in washington there are signs republicans are beginning to acknowl
thing we were talking about. that was my i am trying face. i m trying and failing. todd: after cookie monster we can do whatever we want. you are watching fox and friends first on thursday morning. todd: president biden expected to take on healthcare after declaring climate change a national security priority. jillian: griff jenkins as republicans call the order and assault on american energy workers. reporter: these orders send a clear message, climate change will be a cornerstone of this administration, deep cuts to oil and gas and coal emissions while doubling wind energy production declaring climate issues matters of national security. when i think of climate change, answers to it, i think of jobs. a key plank of our billback recovery plan is building a modern, resilient climate infrastructure. climate change will be at the center of our national security and foreign policy. it reporter: this after president biden halted the keystone pipeline and a band drilling o
consumer confidence rises as president biden declares christmas shipping problems solved. we re also working to unstick bottlenecks between the ports and the stores. yuccas: day three and still no verdict. the jury remains out in the manslaughter trial of a former minnesota police officer. the capitol riot investigation: why the house select committee wants to speak to a republican congressman who is a top ally of former president trump. the war on cancer: how close are we to a vaccine for breast cancer? and a new york school teaches lessons in kindness, both inside and outside the classroom. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell reporting from the nation s capital. yuccas: good evening, and thank you for joining this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. i m jamie yuccas in for norah o donnell. we begin tonight with a major milestone in the fight against covid. the f.d.a. has authorized the first antiviral
collapse now national news, did carl watson dupe nbc? what s going on there? all of that plus stephanie grisham s confessions and much more. but first here s a new take on an old slogan. one of the battle cries of the trump era was, this is not normal. well, it s still true right now in the biden era, the media is guilty of normalizing some of the abhorrent, abnormal, sometimes destructive behavior happening on capitol hill and beyond. look at the coverage of the debt ceiling in the last week. like a hostage taking, both sides digging in at an impasse, standoff and somehow it s magically resolved. there s a sigh of relief. this is not normal. sticking with d.c. examples, this week we saw more evidence the rise in nilism is practically a gop requirement, an entire apparatus committed to memorizing the attack on the capitol building. you don t see this video on fox or newsmax. what about the trump confidantes refusing to obey subpoenas from the 16 select committee? when tha
victims call now $30 billion in trust money has been set aside. you may be entitled to a portion of that money. all when 808592400. that s when 808592400 de of major legal twists as former president donald trump faces a doubleheader of battles in new york. in one case, partial victory. and the other, his legal team failed to get the delay they were seeking were on top of all of these developments plus acts of defiance. a top israeli official says the country will not cease fire after the un security council passed a resolution demanding one prime minister benjamin netanyahu just canceled a planned trip for a delegation of israeli officials to dc plus developing now the justice department saying in his identity quite a group of hackers behind sweeping attacks on us companies all on behalf of the chinese government. we are following these major developing stories and many more. it s all coming in right here to cnn what is the top of the hour on cnn news central on boris sanch