it is sunday, september 5th. i m ali velshi. we hope you re enjoying your labor day weekend and thank you for spending part of it with us. unfortunately for the nearly 10 million americans out of work as a result of the covid-19 pandemic federal assistance is set to end by the end of the holiday weekend. on top of that the latest jobs report revealing a major hiring slowdown, a direct result of the latest covid-19 surge across much of the country itself a direct result of the delta variant and americans who refuse to get a readily available, life saving vaccine. daily new cases of covid-19 are now back above the 150,000 mark. think about that. it is 2021 and that s what we re doing. daily death tolls are now back around 1500 per day. hospitalizations are pushing the health care system past the breaking point in areas and states with high, unvaccinated populations. the pandemic tempered outlook on the future continues to play a role in president biden s approval ratings which a rash of
democratic heavy hitters turning out to help california governor gavin newsom as he tries to keep his job. the message they are hoping breaks through to voters in the final days before the recall election. welcome to your sunday, september 5th. we are so grateful to have your company, as always. good morning. hope you are enjoying this sunday. good morning, christi. good morning to you, too, boris. for the second time in less than a week president biden is visiting an area of the country that has been ravaged by hurricane ida. tuesday he travels to new jersey and to queens, new york, to survey the damage, and this is following his visit, of course, to louisiana last week. yeah, there have been at least 50 storm-related deaths
corporate americans take on the fight against texas new abortion bans, some companies are stepping up. we are really spitting on the legacy known as rbg, to be perfectly honest. a look at the other republican led states sizing up the texas law, and with all those governors have in common. plus, a weekend that honors the american labor movement, millions of those laborers are set to lose their pandemic unemployment benefits. a new pressure on president biden and congress, as delta fuels a disappointing job report. and mccarthy once again at the center of the january 6th probe drama. committee leaders calling him out what they say are baseless claims, absolving donald trump of responsibility in the riot. this, as far right extremists plan another capitol hill rally for this month. we say good morning, everybody. it is sunday, september 5th. i m candice gibson. i m lindsay reiser. we are happy you are spending part of your holiday weekend with us, in the last hour, candace calle
it is sunday, september 5th. we are so grateful you are spending part of your labor day weekend with us. good morning, christi. good morning, boris. yeah, happy labor day to everybody. maybe a little extra day this there for you, we hope. so we re talking about president biden, he is preparing to visit another area of the country ravaged by hurricane ida. he will travel to new york and new jersey this week to survey the storm damage. that follows his visit to louisiana last week. yeah, there have been at least 50 storm-related deaths across six states in the northeast. the remnants of hurricane ida brought unprecedented rainfall that led to catastrophic flooding in that area. along the gulf coast gas remains in short supply. people have been waiting in line for hours to fill their cars and gas cans to power their generators. still more than 700,000 people remain without electricity. the power company, entergy,
considered the most dangerous in the world, johannesburg, south africa. anthony bourdain, parts unknown, season two premieres sunday, september 5th. set the dvr now. at 9:00 p.m. only here on cnn. four ex-vanderbilt football players have now pleaded not guilty to rape and sexual battery charges. they re accused of sexually assaulting a woman in a dorm room while she was unconscious. campus officials called police in june after watching surveillance video of that dorm and star vanderbilt suspended wide receiver chris boyd played not guilty to being an accessory in an alleged coverup kavinoky joins me in atlanta. darren, you first. extradition. two of these guys, i guess, live in california.