Labor day afternoon with us on this special edition of deadline white house, with just 64 days to go before the election, the sprint to the finish is in full swing today. Vice president kamala harris and governor tim walz are wasting no time flooding the zone with a flurry of campaign events across the battleground states. Using this labor day to make their case to union voters and organized labor. Vice president harris kicked things off in detroit, flanked by michigan governor gretchen whitmer and two of the most powerful voices in organized labor. Shawn fain of the united autoworkers, and randi weingarten of the american federation of teachers. We celebrate unions because unions helped build america, and unions helped build america s middle class. It is true across our nation and it is true here in detroit. For generations, in detroit and across our nation, the brothers and sisters of labor have stood together to righteously demand fair pay, better benefits, and safe working conditio
With norah odonnell, reporting from the nations capitol. Odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us. Were going to begin with breaking news on a potentially Game Changing vaccine against coronavirus, at the same time infections of the virus in the u. S. Are now growing by the millions. Tonight the Biotech Company moderna says it has developed a vaccine that is nearly 95 effective and capable of preventing severe illness. The company says with emergency approval from the f. D. A. It could start giving the shots to highrisk patients and healthcare workers as soon as next month. Well on wall Street Investors reacted enthusiastically, pushing u. S. Stocks to new highs, even as experts warn the country is plunging deeper into a deadly and dark winter for the pandemic. And as we come on the air the u. S. Has surpassed 11 million cases. Thats a million new infections in just one week. That is two million since the beginning of this month. And hospitals, well, they are reaching a brea
The u. S. Iowas governor is now reversing course issuing a statewide mask mandate. Stricter Public Health orders are also being imposed from philadelphia to california where governor gavin newsom said the state needed to pull the emergency brake on reopening. The action comes as the u. S. Faces 14 Straight Days of new cases surging past 100,000. Yesterday more than 166,000 new infections were reported in the u. S. , the Third Largest in a single day. Ian lee has the latest developments. Ian, why are Health Officials most concerned about next week . Reporter annemarie, we talk about super spreader events where a lot of people congregate in one place and the virus spreads. Doctors are worried about a super spreader holiday. As we know, next week is thanksgiving and its typically one of the busiest travel periods of the year because folks are visiting friends and family, but doctors warn if that happens this year, we could see a further spike of coronavirus cases on top of the current one
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Us with your thoughts with your first name, city and state at 202 7488003. Or you can go to twitter at cspanwj and facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Whether it is rental assistance, help with your mortgage, you thinke costs, or your state needs aid from washington, help with colleges and schools, whatever it is, whatever economic aid do you need . That is our conversation this morning. Joining us on the phone is eric watson, congressional reporter with bloomberg coming year to give us the latest. Where do negotiations stand in washington . Guest we are still at a stalemate. There was a latenight meeting between mark meadows, secretary mnuchin and schumer and pelosi. There is talk of a standalone bill to a expand to extend extend Unemployment Insurance. Schumer and pelosi are united, and polling numbers show americans want a massive stimulus package with the American Economy stuttering, so they are insisting on more than a barebones package. They are wanting to see one of and locally, st