It is good to be back with you on this second hour of chris jansing reports. At this hour, a story first reported by Nbc News. The biden family, privately discussing what a possible Campaign Exit would look like stressing it needs to be on his terms. His timing. Plus, new reporting that the mood on Capitol Hill has shifted to when, not if biden drops out. As another eight lawmakers say the president cant win. And Donald Trump said his big theme was unity, but did the final version of his Rnc Speech deepen political divides instead of bridging them . And the global outage triggers havoc and blue screens of death around the world. From grounded flights to hospital outages, even billboards going blank in times square. Weve got the latest on whats being called historys largest i. T. Outage. Our Nbc News reporters are following all of the latest developments, and we begin at the White House with nbcs Monica Alba. What more do we know about the conversations that are happening with Joe Biden
Place. Should the president choose to bow out, with the Pressure Building among his party. Now, recent Ap Polling finds that 65 of democrats do not believe the President Should withdraw, undermining his assistance that only party elites and insiders are the ones that want him out. The official word from the campaign is there is no update to report. Heres what the President S Campaign Manager had to say today on morning joe. We know that weve slipped a bit from the debate, and we know that the president has to prove to the american people exactly what he believe, that hes in this to win this. He can do this. The Mounting Pressure from democratic lawmakers is showing no signs of subsiding as new Mexico Senator Martin heinrich and nine more House Democrats joined The Public call for biden to step aside today. Nbc news has just learned at this hour, as we speak, Vice President harris is going to be holding a call with major democratic donors to address urgent, emerging needs. Joining us no
Survive that january insurrection, now again reliving those memories. Im Hallie Jackson in washington on this friday morning, with a lot to get to on this busy morning. Weve got Gabe Gutierrez outside Pfizer Headquarters in New York, city, Shaquille Brewster in baton rouge, louisiana, dr. Ashish zha, dean of brown Universitys School of public health. Good morning to you all. Gabe, lets talk about the fda meeting. When will we know whether that panel will take one single vote on pfizer boosters for everyone ages 16 and up or whether they might break down this decision into different age groups and do it that way . Hi there, hallie. That is the Big Question right now. We expect to know more sometime this afternoon, but right now, that advisory panel is under way, that meeting is under way. Just a short time ago one of the first speakers cautioned the advisers on that panel not to pay attention to political or moral considerations in this case but simply to look at the data. Of course, as
we also talk with a scientific adviser to puerto rico s governor about how the u.s. island territory is dealing with the flood of new infections. also, on this, as a combination of covid and winter weather, it makes for another terrible travel day in the air. and on the ground, as well. on capitol hill, senate democrats are making voting rights their first big priority for the new year. and out west, a one-time silicon valley star now faces jail time after she was convicted of defrauding investors. and new instability in haiti, as the prime minister was forced to flee an independence day event after a deadly shooting at his office. his office says that it was an assassination attempt. and we begin this hour with our top story, evolving coronavirus pandemic. just in the last hour, the head of the cdc, dr. rochelle walensky, approved a third dose of the covid-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11 with compromised immune systems. she also approved a smaller window between the c
property, no doubt. what else are they doing? how nervous are californians about this, guam? alex, today is the day to prepare for people here in southern california. , so you have a mix of people who are concerned, and others that aren t really preparing, because they say they live in an area that doesn t flood. others don t really know what to do. so, possible flooding. california is an area that has a lot of hills of not. and so, people who live in low areas understands what can happen when they get a lot of rain. but people that i ve spoken to tell me they have no idea what a tropical storm means in terms of that rain. some of received say they might gets about a year s worth of rain in just a few hours. so, they just know it might be an overwhelming amount of water. you see some of the people who are collecting sandbags. there s locations like this set up all over san diego county for people in those low areas who, months ago, experienced a lot of rain in california an