divides in virginia. a judge blocked a government letting all schools opt out of local mandates. joining us is peter hotez from texas children s hospital. new jersey s governor tweeted this morning in explaining why he s lifting the mask mandate in march, starting march 1st, the first monday in march, balancing public health with getting back to some semblance of normalcy is not easy but we can responsibly take the steps due to declining covid numbers and growth in vaccinations. what do you take from the governor s reasoning here? he s partially right. we can t ask students to mask in perpetuity and at some point masks to come off. the question is will we reach that by march 7th?
nominating process. advance presidential primary to first monday in march. moving ahead three months after holding june in past years. under the current projections. change puts california fifth in the process after iowa, new hamp shire, nevada, south carolina. to join super tuesday when dozens of states have held their contest. let s get a check on the weather. bill karins. it s been a surreal september. i can t remember a time you weren t tracking a significant storm. thankfully quiet. florida going to get a tropical wave. done with maria being a hurricane. down to a tropical storm. race out to sea. done with any affects whatsoever. just rip currents at the beaches. careful over the next day or two. now we re going to focus back in the western caribbean. go into october. development region. gulf of mexico or the western
i want you to take a listen and then we ll talk. i m also going to meet with democrats and see if i can get a health care plan that s even better. so i will negotiate with democra democrats, but from the republican standpoint, we have the votes. we ll vote in january, february, or march. a couple things here. how realistic is it that he can bring the republicans and democrats together on something so particularizing of an issue and why not do this beforehand? well, yes, why didn t we start talking about a bipartisan piece of legislation back in january, have committee hearings, bring both sides together. right. a lot of people have been especially democrats have been wondering why didn t we try and do this the old fashioned way rather than push it through with just republican support. they do not have the republican votes now despite what the president keeps saying.
may be the first monday in march, it s not over yet. they caught a break in philly, but if you re traveling more than 2,000 flights have been cancelled so far. we ll get a check of the forecast coming up. plus, president obama enlisting democratic governors to help him fight for an increase in the minimum wage, but will the storm around washington and ukraine overshadow domestic issues again? we ll talk to caroline maloney after the break. [ ship horn blows ] no, no, no! stop! humans. one day we re coming up with the theory of relativity,
my heart if he had been there addressed israel s top lobbying right now. are people on the extreme ends of your party holding the group in washington. speaking to the american/israel rest of you hostage here? pub lk affairs committee or apac, biden said president obama is not bluffing on a shared strategic commitment. let me make clear what that commitment is. it is to prevent iran from it s a very busy first monday in march, and we are acquiring a nuclear weapon, period. period. watching several developing stories. the president is filling out his end of discussion. period. second term team tapping and president barack obama is candidates to lead the energy department and the environmental not bluffing. joining us now from protection agency as well as washington is former ambassador naming his pick to be the next mark ginsberg, a former middle white house budget director. east adviser to president carter. vice president joe biden tells ambassador, in light of repeated from a