this is the biden american rescue plan. it will be followed by the american recovery plan. this is bipartisan legislation. it may not satisfy the partisans on both sides of the capitol. we could have had a bill that was, you know, a fraction of the cost of this one. it could have gotten bipartisan approval and support. it s not focused on covid relief. it s focus zblienktda. people recognize that speaker pelosi s socialist agenda is bad for america. as a great man once said, and so it goes. the bill headed to final passage, the white house was announcing an increase in the number of vaccines shipped out. 600,000 additional doses from both pfizer and moderna being sent to states this week. the white house also says the seven-day average now for shots administered is over 2 million a day. there was a development on another front as well. the fbi released new video that shows that suspect planting pipe bombs that were found at the republican national committee and the
anticipating an fda decision on that soon. yeah. a lot of parents breathing a sigh of relief with that news coming around the corner. me being one of those parents. meghan fitzgerald, talking about the fda reviewing boosters. the next two days are pretty important when it comes to the review. today you have moderna being reviewed. tomorrow it s j&j. as well as when it comes to mixing and matching vaccines. what are we hearing from this meeting so far from the fda? yeah. yaz min, a lot to unpack. we know they are speaking with the experts and carefully going through these findings. as you said, this is an incredibly important process here that we know will take hours. we re expecting them to not conclude until later this afternoon and as you mentioned tomorrow they re going to pick up with j&j and, of course, unpack that nih study. that s really interesting.
sources tell us that those shots will be advised eight months after recipients were fully vaccinated. and, if you have plans to travel this holiday season, that plan will include a mask. the t.s.a. will extend its federal mask mandate on planes, trains, and buses into january. of next year. tonight, as texas deals with a surge in new covid cases and hospitalizations, there is breaking news about the texas governor, who has been a staunch opponent of vaccine and mask mandates. he s tested positive for coronavirus. governor gregg abbott is fully vaccinated, and is receiving a regeneron treatment. but there is video of abbott at a packed, maskless event just last night. so there s a lot of news to get to. cbs david begnaud is going to lead off our coverage tonight from lafayette, louisiana. good evening, david. reporter: good evening, norah. in addition to the people who got pfizer and moderna being told they need to get a booster, we expect that federal officials will say, if you got