get every noon everybody i m yasmin vossoughian. president biden arriving at the white house moments ago he has a busy afternoon ahead of him a call with house speaker kevin mccarthy scheduled on the debt deal and briefing calls with house and senate democrats it is coming as congressman on both of the highway for that actual bill coming from that tentative agreement to raise the debt ceiling in avoided default. we did a conference call, our confidence was over 95%. we overwhelmingly clearly excited. did i get with what i want? no today get all of what they want? no. i am very pleased. we are at a good place. now comes the race against time for the president and house speaker mccarthy to sell it to enough for their party members to get it passed ahead of a june default. no two people have more on the line in all of this. president biden just returning to the white house. nbc news white house correspondent allie raffa is there for us. president biden stopped for a moment
the subpoenas for the move comes after the homeland security inspector general told congress the secret service deleted checks after the messages were requested as part of an investigation into the attack. on the flip side, the secret service is pushing back saying the texts were raised during a preplanned system migration before the request from these the director general was received. on friday, committee member jamie responsible to the reporters about his plans to get to the bottom of this back and forth. as of right now, which we know is that there was a representation or seemed to be some contradictory representations about that, so we need to get to the bottom of it. but of those texts are gonna, we are determined to find them. keep in mind, the secret service was in a unique position to witness trump s actions both before and on january 6th. the washington post reports, quote, the secret services text messages could provide insight into the agency s actions
u.s. history. we are also live in texas now officially 100% open, during this covid crisis the state s mask mandate gone. the move being celebrated by some, slammed by others. and in minneapolis day two of jury selection in derek chauvin s murder trial now getting started. what we know about the three jurors already seated and what it might mean for the trial s outcome. i m hallie jackson in washington with you this morning, and we are live from both ends of pennsylvania avenue with nbc s leigh ann caldwell on capitol hill and carol lee at the white house. we ve been talking about this bill for months, it is set to pass within a matter of hours but may be a few hours longer. at this point we had expected debate to have begin, that is not the case at least as of 10:01 eastern time this morning. that s right, hallie. house speaker nancy pelosi and democratic leadership are so convinced that this bill is going to pass that they held a press conference yesterday touting the
Surviving the next wave. This state will host a pair of Runoff Senate elections that will determine which party holds the senate. Lets begin with the latest on the americModerna Vaccine rollo. Morgan chesky is standing by as the rollout for vaccine number 2 is under way. Morgan, its magic going on in the building behind you, a fedex truck is ready to load those vaccines on. And i have never cared more about a fedex truck than i have in the last seven days, every time i see one on the street i think to myself, yay, go fedex, you got vaccine in there. Reporter absolutely, ali, in fact there are many fedex trucks lined up behind me at this mckesson plant in olive branch, mississippi. The second historymaking weekend here. We know after that cdc Advisory Panel approved emergency use of the Moderna Vaccine that the crews inside were also busy packing up those vaccine kits, a little different than what we saw with pfizer. Each kit that goes into these boxes here behind me will contain a vacc
Restrictions. New jersey is one of the latest tot relax its orders, reopening state and county parks and golf courses today. But not everyone is in a rush to reopen. Delivery workers are also protesting, saying theyre risking their health by going back to work. In an executive order, the president deemed meatpacking workers essential, forcing them back on the job. But they say conditions in their plants are not up to par. I work around almost 1,700 people. It is essential that people have things to eat and food is still being processed. But we start with testing and treatment. The food and Drug Administration has issued an emergency approval for the antiviral drug remdesivir to treat severely ill covid19 patients. For more, lets bring in a Family Medicine doctor and assistant professor at Georgetown University school of medicine. Doctor, thanks so much for being with us. Tell me, what do we know about remdesivir . Thank you for having me, alicia. So remdesivir is an antiviral drug whic