risk or who work in high risk environments. and elizabeth cohen is here. tell us what it means. we can remember that back around the middle of august, president biden said that boosters for everyone and now, well, that is what it looks like we re on the road to that happening. if you remember in september, pfizer received authorization to have boosters, but only for certain people, for people over 65, for people with underlying medical conditions. and while that was a good hefty percentage of americans, it wasn t everybody. so now what will happen if the fda give as green light to this is that anyone over the age of 18 will be eligible to get a booster. and it will be interesting to see will the cdc say that everyone is eligible but we really only want to encourage specifically certain people should get boosters. it will be interesting if they put sort of people in different categories. but at the end of the day, it will be if this passes anyone over age 18 will be eligib
dana: nearly 60% say the president isn t paying enough attention to the most important problems. this according to a new poll from cnn. it underscores the achilles heel with the white house. administration struggling to give a straight answer for just about anything. the latest is the michigan oil pipeline whether or not the president will shut it down in the middle of an energy crisis. dana: last week the proposed $450,000 pay-outs to migrants. he called the report garbage and the white house walked it back a day later. bill: the number of americans left stranded in afghanistan. that figure is changing by the day ranging from 100 to 450 still. dana: messaging on vaccines is muddled at best. recent booster roll-out prompting more questions than answers and two dozen states are suing over a vax mandate. griff jenkins watching the vice president s trip to france. steve harrigan now to the border and the white house and the north lawn where peter doocy begins our cov
come on, let s see this. i m not going to jump, i promise. stephanie, the funniest part of the entire story is here we go. i tried to save it. willie geist. you know, willie said that the best part of that whole thing mika and i were just dying laughing i was in hysterics. but willie said, as he s running, jump and he s swinging you around, it s straight out of a movie. he looks over at your husband and your boys and they re like, this happens every day. it happened in a grocery store, it happened during a sale a few weeks ago. she runs up to somebody that puts out the turkey runs up, hey! but how about willie? he didn t break pace. he hugged you, put you down, kept running. under four. people kept saying, oh, my gosh, you delayed him, maybe cost him a few minutes. i argue, i supercharged him. without me, it would be four and a half hours. the cape was all of it. by the way, you joke, but at 17 miles, i needed something. i didn t know it was go
what parents need to know as more shots go into little arms. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. our national lead, the horrific deadly tragedy in texas over the weekend. houston s mayor telling cnn it could take weeks if not months to get answers into what unfolded at the multi-day music festival where eight people were killed and dozens injured over the weekend. the crowd of 50,000 packed so tightly that when rapper travis scott took the stage, concertgoers were crushed and trampled as waves of people in the crowd moved toward him. videos show attendees trapped against barriers, barely able to move. others trying to reach out and help them escape. at one point, scott appeared to notice something wrong in the crowd. what the [ bleep ] was that? concertgoers had been trying to warn event staff about the disaster as it began unfolding. the screaming stop the show. stop the show to no avail. the concert continued for more than 30 minutes after a mass casualty event
our own catie beck is live in houston, texas, and zack despart, a reporter with the houston chronicle, covering this story from the beginning. zach, astro world, a huge concert, supposedly had a plan for mass casualty events. what broke down? that s a great question, stephanie. at this time, we re not sure about that, because none of the organizers want to talk with us about what went wrong. yesterday, we secured from them the actual operations and safety plans that they had put together. the entire purpose of that is to keep patrons safe. the plan is quite details. 56 pages long. lists what to do in all types of emergencies, including mass casualty events. talks about how to communicate with the public, about emergencies, about evacuations, about what to do if something goes wrong. it s clear they didn t follow some parts of it. it s not clear if they followed any key parts of it at this time. okay, but that s the thing. there s a big difference between a plan and ac