travel restrictions. hello and welcome, everyone. it is friday, october the first, and president biden begins this month with his ambitious domestic agenda in turmoil. a crucial vote never took place on thursday to authorize $1.2 trillion to fix america s roads as well as bridges. that bill already cleared the senate with bipartisan support, and house passage should have been really a sure thing. the party progressives are refusing to support the infrastructure bill until they get a firm deal on a sweeping as well as extensive plan to dramatically expand social programs and address climate change. and without their support, well, house leaders had little choice but to postpone thursday s vote. here s cnn s ryan nobles on cal to hill. reporter: the vote did not happen.
ryan nobles, cnn, on capitol hill. well, as ryan was just saying after the infrastructure vote was postponed, the white house said negotiation on both spending packages would resume first thing today, this friday. here s what some members of the progressive caucus said after that delay was announced. take a listen. i think that there s broad consensus among moderates, conservative blue dogs and the progressives that both of these bills need to get done. now, the size of what needs to get done within them is what we are discussing. and what we re having a family discussion about right now, you all just happen to be seeing our kitchen table as we re having that discussion that s being led by our speaker nancy pelosi. the reality is that there is a whole group of people, people who need child care, people who need paid leave, people who need housing, people who want to see action on climate change. this is all part of the build back better agenda, which is the
decline. this is due, in part, at least to an increase in vaccinations as you see there on your graph. nearly 200 million adults have had at least one dose. that is those age 18 and up. states are increasingly cracking down with vaccine mandates. first there were deadline days for health care workers in can have. cnn s jason carroll takes a look at how well health systems are meeting that requirement. reporter: deadline day in the nation s most populist state, all 2 1/2 million health care workers in california must be fully vaccinated or risk losing their jobs. cedar sinai and u.c. davis both show more than 90% compliance. we have patients, older patients, immunocompromised patients. these are safe and effective vaccines. these have to be mandated for health care workers. reporter: in other parts of the country, we re seeing the
hospitalizations are trending down, and death rates are projected to as well. and here in new york, a group of public school employees is asking the u.s. supreme court to put a stop to the city s vaccine mandate. court papers filed thursday, lawyers basically arguing instead of allowing these employees to opt out and not receive a vaccine and get weekly testing, instead the lawyers argue that the mandate, quote, forces unvaccinated public school employees to go on unpaid leave for nearly a year. they go on to argue that it places an unconstitutional burden on some of the public school teachers here. jason carroll, cnn, new york. well, the debate over masks has tempers flaring in one alaska city. they wanted to hear from members of the community before imposing a mask mandate due to rising covid cases. on day three of testimony, four people were arrested for disrupting the meeting while most people opposed the mandate,
the sea water could cause toxic gases. so far the air is safe to breathe and the lava is now forming a new delta off la palma. and this is the scene in hawaii as one of the most active volcanos is erupting once again. observers noticed lava spewing from the volcano wednesday hours after increased seismic activity. officials say it is not a present danger to nearby residents on hawaii s big island. the most recent eruption began last december and continued for five months. now, tropical storm warnings are up for bermuda as hurricane sam gets closer. it is a powerful cat-3 storm and is expected to cause some high waves along parts of the u.s. east coast later this weekend. let s get more on that and the other tropical storm in the atlantic. cnn s derek van dam has more. derek. that s right, isa. hurricane sam still a major category 4 hurricane as it churns over the central atlantic. we still have victor to talk about as well.