things are hard to find. that's because they are. we'll look at the chaos. welcome here in the united states, canada and around the world, i'm kim brunhuber. this is "cnn newsroom." live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom." with kim brunhuber. encouraging developments in the u.s. critical numbers for covid likes cases, deaths and hospitalizations seem to be trending downward. there's been an unprecedented demand for covid booster shots in recent days. more than 7 million people have gotten an extra dose of vaccine so far. it's now outpacing the number of people getting their first and second shots. and experts warn the pandemic is far from over. cnn's amara walker has wore. >> reporter: there's good reason could be cause ofly optimistic. >> we certainly turned the corner. we have passed the peak. hospitalization it's and deaths are trailing off. these are very, very good signs sflp in the next couple of weeks, we'll see the surge ending. >> reporter: health officials say it's not over yet. >> it's not a reason to take our foot off the accelerator. we have to keep getting vaccinated. >> reporter: while dr. scott gottlieb predicts the delta variant may be the last surge of the pandemic, he disagrees. >> i disagree with dr. scott in the spring who said we wouldn't have any cases in the summer either. because we still have 65 million americans who are not vaccinated who could be. this surge is over, obviously on the way down but we'll have more surges in the future. >> reporter: nationwide, hospitalizations are down by fewer than 75,000 beds occupied. and it's dropped below 100,000. the vaccination rates continue to slow the average number of people starting the vaccination process has dropped. more than 40% over the past two months, according to cdc data. and when it comes to vaccination rates among children eligible for the shots -- >> only 33% of the 12 to 17-year-olds were given the covid-19 vaccine here in the south. most of the southern states, compared to 80% in the northeast. so, once again, you have this geographic divide where parents are holding back on vaccinating their adolescents, and probably holding back on younger kids as well. >> reporter: more shots will be in arms soon. the fda will meet to discuss boosters of moderne nra and j&j vaccines. and the fda will meet again to consider the pfizer vaccine for children 5 to 11-year-olds. if recommended a panel of cdc advisers will decide whether to recommend a vaccine for this age group. the panel is expected to meet on november 2 and 3rd. keep in mind, if they have that from ages 5 to 11 years old, can shots go into arms. judging by the time line, very unlikely that children will have the vaccination by halloween. we're as learning that children have similar results as adults do contracting the pandemic. early on in the pandemic, it was believed that adults were more affected. this study suggests that children play a similar role in transmitting the virus. in atlanta, amara walker, cnn. the pandemic is blamed for lower than expected jobs numbers leased friday. chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins has more on the data and president biden's reaction. >> reporter: a big economic miss as the american recovery hits a road block. >> jobs numbers also reminds that you we have important work ahead of us and important investments we need to make. >> reporter: u.s. employers adding only 194,000 jobs in september, well below the half million that economists were expecting. >> we'll have to make it faster. >> reporter: president biden pinning on the delta variant that peaked. >> based on a survey that was taken during the week of september 13th when covid cases were averaging more than 150,000 per day. since then, we've seen the daily cases fall by more than one-third. >> reporter: the president highlighting the drop in the unemployment rate. >> for the sit since march 2020, the american unemployment rate is below 5%. >> reporter: but the drop from 5.2% to 4.8% could be in part because some people are leaving the workforce entirely. as biden's labor secretary struggled to explain why many jobs are going unfilled, even after the enhanced jobless benefits came to an end. >> two months ago, everyone was asking me questions about the $300 keeping people out of work. the $300 is gone. we didn't see the great growth there. >> reporter: the latest figures adding to the white house's headache as they face concerns about inflation, a worker shortage and oil and gas prices at their highest levels since 2014. >> what we're seeing in cases, one, the pandemic is wreaking havoc as far as people going back to work. >> reporter: democrats are still battling it out over the scope of the president's domestic agenda on capitol hill but the president says the jobless report makes the case for new spending and tax cuts. >> america's still the largest economy in the world. we still have the most productive workers and most innovative minds in the world but we risk our edge in the nation if we don't move. >> reporter: and president biden and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell did speak on friday. that came the same time that mnl sent a letter to the president that republicans are not going to assist democrats in lifting the debt ceiling. given the fix they put in place now to avoid a government default. something is that would be unprecedented for the united states. it's just a temporary fix. not a long-term one. kaitlan collins, cnn, the white house. staid media reports that washington and beijing are now negotiating the trade sanctions that currently exists between the world's two largest economies. u.s. trade representative and the chinese premier met virtually on friday. during that meeting the chinese official reportedly argued to have u.s. tariffs and sanctions removed. the u.s. said it raised concerns over chinese trade practices seen as harmful to american workers. china is demanding answers from the inside about an incident involving the u.s. nuclear-powered submarine in the south china sea last week. cnn correspondent oren liebermann has more on the rising tensions between the two countries. >> reporter: what's important about this story, not only the accident with a nuclear-powered submarine, but the context on which it happens on saturday a sea wolf class submarine was operating in the south china sea when it hit an underwater object. it's unclear at this time what that object is. there were a number of sailors injured, 91 life-threatening injuries able to make it to guam to see what happened and what went wrong there. the key is where this happened. u.s. said it happened in the international waters of the indo pacific region but we've learned from defense officials that it happened in the south china sea. the u.s. says that's international water, mostly under international law. china claims most of the china sea has its friction under water. and the u.s. and uk and other nations doing what is essentially a multinational force led by china's carrier strike 21. they, too, were operating in and around the south china sea. it's a show of force by china, as we see more aggressive actions from the chinese against taiwan. we saw it not only on the day of the accident, where the chinese through more than 30 million tear aircraft, but also a couple days later when they through more than 50 military aircraft into taiwan's air identification zone. earlier, the minister said they could make a move to take over taiwan by 2025. that's part of the friction among beijing/washington relations. jake sullivan jut met with a high-ranking chinese official trying to set up a meeting with president biden and xi jinping. there's still this underlaying tension between taiwan and the south china sea. oren liebermann, cnn, the pentagon. after days of flexing against taiwan and the region, the chinese president say are china is committed to peaceful reunification with taiwan. xi jinping said he'd use reunification with taiwan as inevitable. and said supporters of independence are on the wrong side of history. president xi made the remarks commemorating the revolution of 1911 celebrating the birth of china. snvn's ivan watson joins us more from hong kong on president xi's speech. ivan, what struck you the most about what he said. >> you know, i think the tone and much of the message has been part of beijing's position for generations, which is that it believes taiwan to be a breakaway region of its own territory. it denies it any sief sovereignty. and insists that it must be reunited under beijing's rule. even though there was no time when the communist party was in power in beijing that it actually controlled taiwan. he was saying this is inevitable. it's going to happen. and he proposed doing it under the one country/two systems formula which was applied to hong kong, when it was handed over to britain to chinese rule. with an agreement that hong kong would enjoy autonomy and democratic freedoms for 50 years under international treaties. i think brint would argue that that agreement was ripped up over the course of the last year and a half, when beijing pushed for the crushing of organized political opposition and free press, in the city, over the course of the last year. xi jinping also had a stark warning for foreign supporters of taiwan. saying that they are basically messing with china's internal matters and they need to respect china's territorial integrity and national security issues. kim. >> all right. so what's been the response from taiwan then? >> well, this message from xi jinping, the speech came on the eve of taiwan's own national day all that day which, of course, is something that beijing does not recognize. taiwan's president's office put out a statement saying that public opinion there rejects the one country/two systems formula, using the crackdown in hong kong over the last year, as an example for why. and insisting that taiwan defend its own democracy and freedom. there's another statement that came from the taiwan main land affairs council that said, quote, the future. side rests in the hands of its population of 23 million people. and urged beijing to avoid a policy of intrusion. harassment and destruction. and to focus instead on peace, parity, democracy and dialogue. so the disagreement on both sides of the taiwan straits continues. taiwan with its population of 22 million people and system of democratic governance. china a behemoth of 1.4 billion people, where dissent is very promptly and quickly crushed. and censorship is part of the way the country is governed. kim. >> all right. thanks so much. ivan watson in hong kong. still to come on "cnn newsroom," defying congress. a trump ally is refusing to cooperate with the committee investigating the capitol insurrection. we'll have the panel's response after the break. plus, a suicide bomb tears through a mosque, killing scores of people, raising even more doubts about 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for steve bannon, mike meadows, and cash ketel, former acting secretary at the time said some have been responsive. while mr. meadows and mr. patel are reacting to the committee, mr. bannon will continue to hide under the images of the former president. bannon told the house select committee until issues of the house executive committee are resolved we're unable to respond to the documents and testimony. public has publicly slammed inquiries into january 6th, comparing to the early investigation. >> democrats, they made it up. it was a hoax. now, they're doing it again with the january 6th, okay. they're doing it again. >> reporter: and on thursday, a lawyer instructed not to comply with the request. according to documents, scavino, meadows were instructed to withhold documents. bannon was instructed to hold anything concerning privileged material. democrats are fighting back. and a january 6th committee said they will enforce the subpoenas even if that means holding witnesses like 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pursue how criminal networks are financed. a u.s. el gags is set to meet with senior taliban representatives in doha this weekend. is it will be the first meeting of its kind since the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan at the end of august. u.s. officials say they'll focus on safe passage out of the country for afghans, americans and other foreign nationals. a state department official says the u.s. also intends to push the taliban to respect the rights of all afghans, including women and girls. at least 46 people are dead after a third explosion in afghanistan this week. the suicide blast tore through a shia mosque in the city of kunduz. more than 140 others were injured. isis-k later claimed responsibility saying a suicide bomber blew himself up in the crowd of worshippers, cnn's clarissa ward looks at what the growing violence means for the taliban as they try to rule the country. >> reporter: the taliban's whole appeal to people here is the promise that they can provide securities. after decades of war, they have essentially put themselves on a platform saying we are the ones who can bring about an end to the fighting. and so when you have these sorts of terrorist attacks, the likes of which we've seen just over the last few days, hitting soft targets, hitting mosques, hitting innocent people. the bombing today in kunduz attacking the shia mosque. that's exactly the sort of ugly, sectarian violence that afghans have become all too accustomed to but are also deeply sick of. the question then becomes can the taliban get a grip on the situation? can they try to contain the threat posed by isis-k. we have seen that isis-k has claimed responsibility for this attack. and one can only assume that they will continue to try to hit these soft targets. the taliban spent years being the insurgency. now they're the ones in charge and they have to grapple with an insurgency. and they're seeing themselves that it presents a number of challenges. a mysterious syndrome that 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>> you know, people are seeing that things are slowing down. >> reporter: slowing down and piling up at sea. and at the ports of entry. this is what happens when a global economy snaps back after the covid slump of 2020. american consumers are back, buying with force, but the supply chain is struggling to catch up. >> we need to have an amazon state of mind in this industry. by that i mean, amazon changed everything. >> reporter: while shoppers clicked 24 hours a day, asia stopped due to covid. and longer work hours, and port of long beach is just experimenting now with around the clock operations. >> what this is a wake-up call for everyone in the industry to realize you can't operate in. >> reporter: the goal, with the next link of supply chains, moving containers out of the port. >> every day, five, six hours in the harbor. you have to wait like six hours. >> reporter: six hours? >> i was in there for nine hours. >> reporter: nine showers reuben ponce lost because he could have been delivering merchandise. >> i can't do the rounds. >> reporter: national data says there's a truck driver shortage, but ponce says the problem is even more basic than that. >> the port is backed up, us, the truckers are backed up, everyone's backed up. it's a big problem. >> reporter: so it's like a chain reaction then. >> exactly. exactly. >> reporter: delayed trucks means delays at warehouses like canton food company in los angeles. >> i have about eight containers in the harbor somewhere. from china and vietnam. >> reporter: filled with food? >> filled. just waiting. >> reporter: that means for this warehouse, empty shelves with no date to fill them. basic economics are at place. scarcity drives up prices. so it's almost doubled in price. >> i would say maybe at least 75%. >> reporter: prices for ingredients that this restaurant owner has to pay. >> all of the different products that you have to substitute, you had to change, now 30% more. 50% more. 100% more. >> reporter: this taco brand location operates in a renovated shipping container. the supplies that he needs sit out at sea, in the same metal bins, a cruel irony, after barely keeping his restaurant open through the pandemic. >> we worry, as far as -- because you don't know what's going to happen, right? you don't know what's next. >> reporter: how long will these ships be floating out here. >> i really can't say how long they're going to be like this. i think we're all going to wait and see how long this shakes out. >> professor chris tang is the senior leader of global and faculty at ucla energy center for global management. he joins me from los angeles. thank you so much for being here. you know, shortages of lumber, computer chips, paper, higher prices on everything from cars to gas which is at a seven-year high now, it's really creating a nightmare for consumers right now. many of whom still haven't recovered economically from the pandemic. so, all of these shortages and price increases, why are we experiencing all of this right now? >> well, thank you for having me. i think this is the first time we really experienced a perfect storm. that's formed by four different demands. there's a demand surge. there's a supply in capability shortages and there is there's transportation problems and also labor shortages. >> yeah -- >> for the demands, actually, you can see, because of covid, we actually published this. and now actually, the supply was not able to catch up. >> yeah. you know, the way this is being framed right now. you know, you look on local news. it's buy your christmas presents now because there's shortages and so on. you talk about this perfect storm. you add back to school, halloween, year end holiday buying. all of this stuff, it's really creating problems for people, you know, not just buying presents and stuff. but essentials. in the uk, we saw 1 in 6 adults haven't been able to buy essential food items in the last two weeks. i don't want to create a run on toilet paper here. but is that the type of thing we're going to go through again? how bad is this going to get before it gets better? >> well, i think a lot of people are getting a little panicky. but this is a short-term problem, because of the holiday seasons and a lot of retailers last year, during covid because they have just in time inventory. then they realized they don't have enough. they learned from experience, now, they tried to plan according to just in case. so they are also stocking up. consumers stocking up. so there are there was a demand surge but after the holiday season, the demand will go back to normal. we cannot continue to stock up our toilet payment forever, right? i think we just need to hang in there. i think after the haul day season, things will go back to normal. >> but there seems to be this discrepancy. because overall, the u.s. economy is recovering from covid faster than many people imagine. i believe the total size of the u.s. economy is slightly bigger than before covid. but the u.s. job numbers this week were weak. the take-home pay is lower than it was in december 2019. is that why we don't feel as if things are booming right now? >> well, the things that have happened, i think besides the covid really affecting all of us and we're still not quite comfortable to travel. and also, we're also not so sure about this future, would there be another way of pandemic coming, will there be another variant coming. so, we're still not sure about the future therefore, we don't feel secure right now. i think we just have to learn to cover this. >> you mentioned travel, certainly travel, hospitality, those are sectors that still really haven't bounced back. so, here in the u.s., you know, inflation is at the highest it's been in decades. the white house is defending its action on this issue. this is the press secretary yesterday. let's listen to this. >> one of the biggest issues in the global supply chain is also covid and the fact that covid continues to be a threat to supply changes that are happening globally. so we've also worked to be by far and away the largest providers of vaccines, know how, manufacturing capacity to the world. so, we've not only been talk about this since january, we've been working to put in place a range of steps to help address the challenges in the supply cha chain. >> so what can they do? have they been doing enough here? >> well, i think since biden came into the administration he's trying to make changes. so there is a review about the supply chain, but these things take time. after we have gimp up the manufacturing sector for the last 30 years, it's time for us to rethink about the supply explain. to what extent the united states needs to manufacture certain types of products. and other products can be imported. so, i think that they're still going through the process. but getting back the manufacturing sectors, it will take years. >> all right. well, hopefully things will improve, at least for consumers. you say the message is hang on, things will eventually get better. thank you so much for being with us, professor chris tang, really appreciate it. >> thank you. u.s. president joe biden is cancelling more trump era contracts to build a wall on the border with mexico. the latest cancellations cover about 44 miles in laredo, texas, b trump has been chipping away at it. and president biden has signed document to raise the u.s. refugee cap. 125,000 refugees will be allowed in the u.s. in fiscal year 2022 which began at the start of the month. and that doubles the previous cap. police in florida are still empty-handed almost four weeks into the search for brian laundrie. why didn't investigators question him, even though they kept an eye on him, before his disappearance? 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