from washington because the color to tell you, this is something that will have a devastating impact on the nation s economy echo amtrak, the nation s cross-country railway system, is canceling all of its long distance trains ahead of a plant workers strike that really threatens to do damage on a scale that we have not seen in quite some time back of that announcement effectively cancels all planned trips except for those along the northeast corridor between boston and washington, d.c. the companies as our changes are all trains can reach the destination before the strike, which could begin as early as friday, and in case you re wondering, yes, we are talking about major cost because tthe strike could cost up to $2 billion per day per, we are talking about 60,000 workers plotting a walkout for better conditions. there s still time to get this resort, but there s only a few days left or they have a construct that is available that frankly needs to be adopted, but if this goe
push for unity doesn t seem that go even heard from her in a while. hawaii senator mazie hirono being criticized for these shocking comments after senator lindsey graham s call for a nationwide abortion ban. because this is an all right attack on women in this country because that is how i see a pick of this is how more and more women and those that support our right to make decisions about our own body this is a literally, call to arms. todd: you know what it means when you see literally a call to arms. in the wake of violence against pro-life organizations, republicans are slamming senator hinono, one director tweeting what exactly does crazy mazie hirono mean when she says this is a call to arms in our country? sure sounds like she is calling for violence. lindsey graham s response to critics of his bill. i m proudly pro-life, and i
engines and new launch vehicles. i think we re going to be fine, and i think it s going to hurt russia far more than it will hurt the united states. reporter: the europeans space agency is also distancing itself saying it is very unlikely it will e go forward with a joint mission this year to launch and land a robot on mars. russia suggesting they would allow the international space station to crash. their space director tweeting who will save the iss from an uncontrolled deorbit and fall into the united states or europe. i think that relationship may be changed forever. i m not sure it can ever go back to what it was. reporter: the international space station, though, currently occupied by seven astronauts including four americans and two russians. how tied together are each nation s efforts in space? so from the space station, it s highly coordinated. talking about the size of a football field in orbit.
that a federal vaccine mandate for the country is something the white house is not considering. joining me now to discuss is cnn chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. great to see you, sanjay. so, the white house is celebrating this encouraging marker today with the covid data director tweeting, milestone monday just in, today we hit 70% of the adults with at least one of the doses, adding seven-day average of newly vaccinated highest since july 4th. so, as we know, the administration is nearly a month late hitting this milestone. but what does reaching this milestone now tell you, sanjay? well, we re going in a better direction, obviously. it s kind of interesting, pamela, just interesting traveled back from japan, there are so many countries around the world that don t have access to these vaccines, and but the num going up gets us closer to more
open but the social media director tweeting out awhile ago, pushing back against senator sharrod brown who had criticism of the president. the white house was there videotaping the whole thing. so we ll see what comes out of that and what they try to release from that visit today. on the way out the door this morning the white house, the president pushing back on his critics that say that his rhetoric as joe biden was talking about is emboldening white supremacists. the first question in full disclosure was my wife working for abc who asked that question of the president. listen here. apparently we don t have that. what do you say to your critics that believe your rhetoric is emboldening white nationalists? my critics are political people trying to make points. the president did agree though with one of his