Him to reconsider. The new response from the white house and in just a moment, jacob blakes father, sister, and family attorney will join me right here. All of it happening against the backdrop of clashes in portland. What were learning about the killing of a man who supported a far right group and the confrontations between Donald Trumps supporter and counterprotesters before that moment. Im hallie jackson. Thanks for being here. Erin, President Trump in the last hour is out with a lot more comments about portland after another night of protests there. Tell me what youre seeing on the ground. Reporter thats right, hallie. The president tweeting this morning that this city is a mess and that if the mayor doesnt clean it up, he will send in people to do so. Worth reminding our viewers that the last time federal agents were sent to the city of portland to protect a courthouse it escalated the situation. This is the latest in a war of words between the president and the mayor of portland.
The shot in a Public Health and Public Relations push to build confidence. Even with some mixed messaging coming from his boss. We look ahead to a final decision from the fda any minute after the agency says it plans to approve the countrys second covid vaccine, this one from moderna. We likely will see shots in the arm by the early part of next week. And not a moment too soon. Some hospitals in california are forced to turn parking lots into patient wards with zero available icu beds in the l. A. Area. None left. We are watching that and were live on capitol hill where it is a race against the clock to pass a new covid relief bill to try to avoid a government shutdown. The midnight deadline is coming up as leaders try to hammer out the last minute details to get millions of americans a financial lifeline. The options ahead as we speak to one of the Top Democrats in the house, James Clyburn is joining us on more for when we could see a deal. Im Hallie Jackson along with our team. Carol
johnson s fellow conservatives was stark in his criticism of president biden for criticizing the afghan forces and also calling for a real coalition outside, absent the united states, to do whatever is possible to try to as he put it hold the line in afghanistan. he said patience has shown to be successful, and the implicit suggestion there was the united states showing a real lack of patience here, hallie mike, it s important reporting, thank you. toby, let me go to you on this. we now know that we will hear from defense secretary austin, coming up this afternoon, secretary austin is going to, it s my understanding what i m being told he will brief at 3:00 this afternoon. i got to tell you, toby, one of the things that i ve heard, i ve had conversations with veterans who served in afghanistan, has been and one vet and we ll hear from them later in the show put it succinctly. i want to hear from secretary austin. he said general austin, how he knew him in the military, this is a guy
the state voted to sanction districts with a mask mandate in place. we look to the significant news that is expected to come out on booster shots for a lot of people. we ll talk about that in a second. reporter: hallie, broward county school district kicks off this school year in the middle of a political tug-of-war, something that s been frustrating for parents, administrators and teachers as they want the focus to be on kids getting back to the classroom after a year and a half of disrupted learning. instead, this district is now facing sanctions. last night the first punitive measures against the school district for requiring masks. broward is staying and sticking to that mandate. they say they are looking at the data, last week the state reported more than 31,000 covid cases among those under the age of 19, and here in broward county, they are still reeling from the loss of three educators just last week, and hallie, i spoke to parents coming to drop their kids off this morning,