Indian country but also an issue for all of rural america. Its why i included in my opening remarks the fact that we in 2014 established nearly 10 million of contribution toward expanded Broadband Access. We have completed the rule making process to institute and implement the new farm bill provisions you referred to. Thats now putting us in a position to begin making decisions about where resources go. We announced today the project in mexico which is the first project under the substantially Underserved Trust Area provisions of a previous farm bill. Thats 5. 5 million that will be committed to expanded Broadband Access in new mexico. We are very much committed to this. I would say that there are two specific ways that you can address the issue. One is through our normal program, Distance Learning telemedicine program. Now with the new farm bill rules well certainly be prioritizing areas that are most in need. Working with the fcc to make sure that they put pressure on Telecommunicati
Emergency use authorization for the Moderna Vaccine. More than 230,000 new cases and 3,300 americans died yesterday. The cdc now projecting that it could reach 391,000 deaths by january 9th. Thats about three weeks from today. Were witnessing an economic split screen. Nearly 900,000 people filed for unemployment last week. Thats the highest number since early september. While the s p 500 hit a record high in anticipation of a covid relief deal. Joining us now mike memoli with the Biden Transition Team in delaware and kara lee across from the white house. Lets start with the breaking news about. Mike, youve been working your sources. We now have a pick, president elect joe biden making his decision on his interior secretary. Tell me more about it. Reporter thats right, ayman. Yesterday we heard president elect joe biden talking about his cabinet and now congresswoman deb haaland from new mexico is his choice to lead the interior department. Whats interesting about this, ayman, it was se
Top Covid Task Force officials. Welcome to thursday. It is meet the press daily. Im chuck todd. Congress created an independent, Bipartisan Commission to definitively figure out what happened and how to prevent it from happening again. And nearly 3,000 americans died on september 11th. More than 308,000 people have now died from covid in this country. The cdc director predicted over the nemonth, at least, well se 9 11 levels of fatalities every single day. Nearly 3,300 deaths were reported from covid yesterday alone. That was the single deadliest day of this pandemic. If the death toll alone doesnt highlight how badly we need a full accounting of what happened, theres this. House investigators on a subcommittee specifically devoted to the pandemic disclosed they discovered communications within hhs showing that one of the president s top science advisers specifically said of low risk groups that, quote, we want them infected. That was basically a herd immunity strategy focused on prote
Real votes. And Steve Kornacki at the big board. Will be waiting for those to either trickle in or crash into the computer. In georgia the warning has been coming up to tonight. Early vote drops first. To the viewers, we need to temper and tamp down some emotions that may be coming when they see the pile of early votes from some of the 159 counties across georgia. I think theres you like a good mystery novel. We have a lot of mystery and suspense. Not just in the results but the sequence. We can look back at november and we can disearn a couple things. Theres the possibility talking to the county officials i keep peering over. Any second we could see results pop late this map. I have the sense that some soft counties maybe changing their sequence from the thnovember election. Some might be faster reporting it out. It will vary. Fulton county ill click on it. Its the biggest in the state. Where atlanta is. Suburbs here as well. 10 of the state. All the votes that will come out of georgi
City of grenades. Demonstrations have been triggered by a fuel price hike announced by the government on wednesday. Price of gas will more than doubled, protest as, according the ousting of prime minister. I know he who took over the country after the 2021 assassination of president driven enemies. Chinas president has vowed to work with russia to instill stability and positive energy into a world in turmoil. Shes in pink as hell talks with the russian president Vladimir Putin in his back, his tongue or tensions increase with the west over the war, raging ukraine. Their 1st face to face meeting since the invasion. She said he was happy to meet putin and was willing to work with russia to support each others core interests. The leaders met him aside, lines of the Shanghai Corporation organization summit, which was created as a counterweight to u. S. Influence who didnt count. She is his most powerful ally. But for the 1st time, appeared to acknowledge that china had concerns about russi