received the covid vaccination in january with no press releases or disclosures made at that time from the white house. all of this as will johnson & johnson started shipping out millions of doses of its single dose coronavirus vaccine. the first of those shots, expected to be administered within the next day or so. joining us to cover all of these stories, nbc news correspondent, mike is covering the white house and tara palmieri, co-author of the political play book. just 13 days left before the enhanced unemployment benefits expire. will democrats be able to get this bill through congress? what is standing in the way right now? reporter: i think they will. the senate could pass it at the end of the week. then it gets kicked to the house and then back to the senate for another vote. they ll have a lot of late nights. but they pretty much figured out how to do it without republicans and reconciliation. a lot of progressives were hoping to see this $15 minimum wage come thr
erica: you could see a few low 70 develop and in the south bay and in today with a high of 64 degrees as we look ahead in the forecast a seven day around the bay shows lots of sunshine clear reason conditions as head into the weekend temperatures trending above average we are looking at the dry conditions for the most part in the next seven days there is a potential for what whether it could be developing around here in the bay area of the full details on that coming up in my next report erica: here is a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza a very liken this is coming from all of the approach is over at the san mateo bridge traffic rose pretty well in both directions the drive times a 12 to 13 minutes and over at the golden gate bridge southbound traffic delay for a keep in mind we do have some catching dense fog developing in the santa rosa area of care is a live look at the san rafael bridge we re seeing speeds over about 50 mi. per hour all along pretty like conditions
james: certainly visibility is being reduced in the east and in the south they also santa rosa visibility under mild out for the stretch to 101 it is the cloud cover to the sloth and because of that we could see the lead for incoming flights to fall about a problem at the low clouds could very well be tough. here is where temperatures are now again a lot of the force to low 50s who have a complete forecast coming up at 615. george: we had word earlier from the chp and about reports the wrong way driver that was hit in the wrong way is on 0580 and interstate 680 to that issue has been resolved without incident according to the sea is treated to the pleasanton police department pursuit and the suspect apparently eluded officers but the good news is there were no incidents resulted from mid there is however an accident reported westbound on 580 at half yard that could mean delays out a little more into dublin and we already had an accident on the nimitz freeway southbound here
quorum call: mr. nelson: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. nelson: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. nelson: mr. president, the hour is nyi and now washington is awash in the rumor that there might be some progress being made. i hope so. if there was anything that was made clear to this senator in the reelection in one of our biggest states in the union, it was that the people want us to come together and to stop this bickering, the ideological rigidity that we ve seen, excessive amounts of and the excessive partisanship. and that is a huge, huge turno turnoff, because i think logical rigidity and excessive partisanship are impediments to getting people to come together with commonsense decisions for solutions. mr. president, obviously, there s an easy way, and hopefully that is what is being tweaked at the moment in a final solution with the presi
days from the president election, and nowhere is the campaign battle being waged more fiercely than in the battleground state of ohio. 18 electoral votes are at stake there. president obama took them in 2008. our brand new cnn/orc poll is just coming in and it shows president obama leading in ohio right now 50% to mitt romney s 46%. but that s within the sampling error. it s a statistical tie in other words. our chief national correspondent john king is joining us. john, break down the numbers for us. no state right now is more important than ohio. you can make that case. no state is more important than ohio. you mention it s within the margin of error but yet another poll showing the president with a small lead in ohio. he s had that pretty much across the general election season. what s driving it right now? in a battleground state like ohio, the president is getting democrats, romney is getting the republicans. the candidate to win election day is likely to win the state