portman told reporters, we ll get it done, but i don t know if we ll make anybody s arbitrary time line. schumer has also set wednesday as the deadline for senate democrats to finalize their larger $3.5 trillion infrastructure big which they plan to pass through budget reconciliation. that bill deals with human infrastructure such as paid family leave, universal pre-k, and subsidies for community college among others. the wednesday deadline is set in order to get ahead of the month long august recess and to avoid crashing into fall deadlines to fund the government and lift the debt ceiling, who issues that will inevitably become contentious because everything is contentious these days. meanwhile, we re already seeing results of president biden s efforts to support the country s human infrastructure in the form of a temporary child tax credit. the white house estimates the provision will cut child poverty in half. as of now the credit is only for this year, 2021. but if it wer
in the icu, with two on ventilators. a poll last night by abc news and the washington post found that only 6% of democrats say they aren t likely to get vaccinated. whereas, 47% of republicans fall into that camp. of course, the virus doesn t stay contained by political boundaries and the ferocious delta variant which now accounts for an estimated 57% of all cases. poses a risk to not only those who choose not to get vaccinated but also kids are and those for medical reasons can t get vaccinated. so how do we reach the vaccine hesitant? can anyone persuade them? what about the person on whose watch the vaccine was developed in record time, former president donald trump? you would think that donald trump would be eager to remind that the vaccines were formed on his watch and relative to warp speed. relative to the times he spends complaining about the 2020 election results he hardly mentions it. last week, he send out a missive saying that his administration did a, quote, gr
covering the infrastructure debate, and in mississippi and california covering the dangerous spread of coronavirus. in fact, that is where we will start. nbc s allison barber is outside a hospital in jackson, mississippi, where they are starting to see a rise in children hospitalized with covid. las vegas an indoor mask mandate is back in america s second largest city and i want to bring in dylan byers and dr. patel. let s start in mississippi, one of the least vaccinated states in our country and now children make up 7% of icu covid patients statewide there. what are you hearing from folks on the ground about the crisis? reporter: yeah, the numbers are rising here. they re rising quickly. that s what s giving a lot of doctors concern is the rate at which they re seeing these numbers really start to pick up. we are outside of a children s hospital. it s part of a larger medical system. one of the largest in this state. they say they have seen hospitalizations pick up across
eligible americans have had at least one dose. we have new insight today on when younger kids could be able to get one. elizabeth cohen kicks us off. eager parents of kids 12 and under want to know when are the shots ready. yes. it hasn t been approved for them yet. so the pharmaceutical companies are doing clinical trials with children for various doses to make sure that it is safe and effective for them. let s take a look at what we re hearing from pfizer. they seem to be first out of the gate in this area. pfizer is telling us that for children ages 5 to 11, that pfizer might be asking the fda for emergency use authorization for children in this group in september. usually just based on history. it then takes several weeks for the fda to process the application. i can t imagine even if they apply september 1st, i can t imagine it would happen in october or november. as for younger children, pfizer says they could have data later in the fall, maybe as late as november for
credit will be a boon to struggling families and fight now to make it permanent. cases now rising in 47 states. the surgeon general says misinformation is killing americans. we re losing time here. the delta variant is spreading. people are dying. we can t actually just wait for things to get more rational. if you re on the fence about whether vaccination is going to help you. listen to the numbers. unvaccinated people going into hospitals and dying. vaccinated people essentially not. why are we waiting, folks? we re standing by to hear from the president and vice president. we ll take you there live when that event begins. until then, we start with this. the top house republican is going to visit donald trump today. the former president calls mccarthy my kevin. and mccarthy is making clear his loyalty to donald trump. this week, this is full of new trump outrages. some in statements from the former president including moments ago, spreading more lies about the 2020 e