committee. trump is urging his former aides to defy the subpoenas. we have marshall cohen with the latest. what do we know with the scavino subpoena? >> good morning, fredricka. a source familiar with the matter says that scavino got the subpoena. it was served to him via a process server down in florida. sent to mar-a-lago. the former president's compound and golf club. scavino got the subpoena. of th the last of the first batch to be sefrved. the question is how will he respond respond. the issue is the response from the other trump inner circle members. steve bannon and mark immemeado and kash patel. they got their subpoenas and told the committee different answers. steve bannon said he will fight it out. that might end up going to court. kash patel and mark meadows are engaging with lawmakers and trying to find a way forward. scavino, as i said, will have to go through the process right now with his attorney. the lawmakers want tons of documents about what happened around jacnuary 6th and the efforts to subvert the election. this could go to court. that is where things stand for now. >> marshall, what is the goal? what documents is the select committee looking for? >> they want a lot. they have cast a very, very wide net. they reached out to these officials, former officials. they asked the fbi and doj and homeland security and secret service for all kinds of documents about the preparation apreparations and security and posture about that day. they consenasked for president s white house records. the most sensitive information or details of the trump whereabouts and movements on january 6th leading up to january 6th and that unprecedented effort to undo the 2020 election. they asked the national archives for trump's white house documents. that decision is not up to trump. he is not president. it is up to the biden white house. i want to read a statement from the counsel explaining why they will go ahead and hand over the documents. the constitutional protections of executive privilege should not be used to shield from congress or the public information that reflects a clear and apparent effort to subvert the constitution itself. what does that mean? trump is trying to use executive privilege to argue these documents should stay secret. the biden white house said if you are trying to subvert the constitution and undo an election, you don't get to use the constitutional protections to shield the documents. you can't have it both ways. >> thank you, marshall cohen. i appreciate it. the u.s. surgeon general says he feels cautiously optimistic about the state of the pandemic. the nation is now averaging fewer than 100,000 daily new infections for the first time in more than two months. the number of people hospitalized with covid has dropped significantly and deaths are beginning to decline as well. joining me now to discuss is dr. craig spencer at columbia university medical center. good to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> do you share that optimism? do you feel we are turning a corner? >> i think anyone looking at the numbers you presented would realize we are collectively turning a corner. as i warned at the beginning of the pandemic in march and april of 2020, we will have this virus roll around the country and cause, you know, different mini pandemics in many places. right now, if the national numbers are looking better than a few weeks ago, we are still seeing that places those disproportionately unvaccinated are seeing a lot of cases and hospitalizations and a lot of death. there is still a lot of virus circulating in the country making it dangerous for anyone unvaccinated. if the metrics are improving, 1,800 deaths a day is sad because every single death is preve preventible. >> despite the positive signs, some experts say we are living in two americas as things improve in vaccinated parts the country, they are bleak in places where are hesitant to get the shots. listen to this doctor. >> it troubled me because i worked a couple shifts where six or seven people were waiting for beds at other hospitals that did not exist or ambulances that were six or seven hours away from bringing them to those places. >> dr. davidson is a familiar voice to the program. how do you square the positive trends versus the real reality on the ground with people who are reluctant? >> i think this is something that i've seen recently in new york where i've taken care of patients with covid. most of whom unvaccinated. it is still a big attempt and push to try to convince people to get vaccinated and continue to take this seriously. that is harder with the numbers going down and people starting to feel more safe as if there is less virus circulating. we know this virus can and likely will return. the question is it is a question of scale and who it impacts and how bad it will be this fall and winter. >> let's look at it globally. russia reported that it has its highest number of deaths in a single day since the start of the pandemic. vaccines are not widely available in a lot of poor countries. what's your prognosis of how globally things could move in the right direction? >> this is the one thing i've been worried about since the vaccines were really first announced. i was concerned we were going to treat this as a u.s. pandemic. a blue state and red state pandemic and democrat and a republican pandemic. this is a pandemic in which we play a small role. it is rate 76% of the population received at least one dose in the u.s. 2.5% of people in low income countries have had access to the similar dose. israel already planning on rolling up the fourth booster dose campaign and health care workers taking care of covid patients today who still have not had access to a single dose of vaccine. to highlight the egregious inequity of the vaccine availability. doses made in africa were being sent back to europe to fulfill contract obligations. we need to do more, especially on behalf of the u.s., to share the technology to make sure the vaccines can get produced in places where they are needed to donate excess doses and stop hoarding doses and transfer this knowledge to prepare for this pandemic and for the next one. >> the inequity has been acknowledged globally. everyone knows this. richer nations can afford to do more compared to nations lacking resources. everyone acknowledges it. what's the problem? why isn't there movement in a more significant manner? >> because promises are easier than action. we in the u.s. have donated or at least said we will pledge to donate over 1 billion doses. a small fraction of that is actually left the u.s. and gone to other places and gone into arms around the world. we have said we will give billions of dollars to the fight, but the billions were used to buy doses that won't be delivered until a year from now. you know a lot of people will still die of covid between now and then. in the meantime, the u.s. is signa sitting on hundreds of millios of doses to get the most vulnerable vaccinate anned. covax has come up short. doesn't have enough doses to meet the target to get the people around the world vac nalt o vaccinated. there is a shortage of doses in places that just don't have them or access to them. we in the u.s. and not just the u.s., but other nations that bought the doses initially and need to do more to get them out. we vn we haven't been doing it. >> we will see how trends are impacted when and if vaccinations are made available to children in the country between the ages of 5 and 12. thank you, dr. expspencer. i appreciate it. still ahead, the u.s. senate avoided economic disaster, but temporarily. i and tensions remain with the flood of challenges on capitol hill. and where is brian laundrie? 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>> again, you are being an activist. i am not anti-vax. i am not anti-testing of covid. we know a lot of people suffering from this right now. i am very much against having it be a mandate in our state. that's what this is all about. people should not be forced to decide -- >> he never mandated anything. >> interview's over. >> reporter: for his part, governor little has been quiet on the matter with an aide saying he is trying to rise above the political noise. >> the reaction to the actions by your lieutenant governor? >> we have to go. i'm sorry. we're taking care of it. >> do you think it's political? >> it could be political. >> we had republican governors and democrat lieutenant governors. they work it out. >> reporter: jim jones is the former chief justice of the idaho supreme court. >> this is the only lieutenant governor that i can recall that has acted like an idiot. >> reporter: governor little made the argument it is a mischaracterization of the constitution that anytime he leaves the state, that the lieutenant governor takes over. he got supporting opinion from the attorney general's office. it was a close legal call that needs to be resolved in the courts. dan simon, cnn, idaho. now to the gabby petito case. we are live in florida with latest next. the quick programming note. tomorrow night on the new season of this is life with leisa ling. catch the season premiere of this is life with lisa ling tomorrow night on cnn at 10:00.. 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>> we saw revisions to the previous two months. we added on from the higher level. that's the good news. the headlines overstated the weakness. we saw a big miss in public education which we were worried about because the seasonal adjustment where we hired over 1 million workers in the month of september. many workers where school districts were having trouble finding the staff to staff schools, but the janitorial staff and cleaning staff and people to drive buses. much like restaurants, many of the school districts were having problems with people coming back. we had schools reopen and go back into quarantine which wreaked havoc on a lot of staff. some people were not working the week of the survey week because of the delta variant, but you also had this additional issue of more people actually reported they were sick and unable to work for the last three months and it continued to increase during the week in september. >> you talk about the schools in the shortages of workers. you are talking about janitorial and school bus drivers. that is in-person work. as long as you have the pandemic, there's a correlation there between the jobvi vi availability and people grabbing the jobs and concern about coast covid. the unemployment is down now to 4 4.8%. is that a good indication of where this country is going? >> there's no one indicator. the humility of the pandemic and going through the looking glass and see the reverse. the same time millions of workers are out of work. that means you have to be wh holistic in looking at the economy. some people left the labor force. participation ticked down among women who are waiting for access to child care and more consistent schedules for children in school to get back to work. so, we really have to look at the whole host of factors to understand what's going on. the biggest drop in the unemployment rate was the black worker unemployment rate with the biggest drop in partic participation. >> the correlation of public health and jobs. when you talk about the disparity and how the pandemic and the economy has hit women worse than men. women lost 26,000 jobs last month. men gained jobs. so, give us more detail about why that is? obviously when you talk about kids not being able to do in-person learning and many women have chosen not to go back to work out of the household and lost a lot of jobs. there is that correlation. what are some other details? >> it is really important as we know the number one reason that women, particularly women of color, it hit single mothers more. i wish it was evenly split with child care between men and women. it is not. they are shouldering the burden. if you are a single mother, it is tough. my heart goes out to anyone juggling the online schooling. we have seen child care and mobility and upscaling. women pay more money to try to get a better job and get more education. the problem is we lost so many to dropouts in grade schools and colleges that it is further constraini constraining. accreditation and timing. those women trying to upgrade skills are not available to work at the same pace they could. >> right. let me ask you about the continued disagreements, shall we say, on capitol hill? what happens if democrats don't reach a deal on infrastructure and the spending package and, perhaps, we have an even more contentious debt standoff come december? >> you know, this is -- i think we had enough drama from washington. congress dysfunction is adding to uncertainty. it is frustrating as an economy. we self inflict armageddon. stop this as a political oppina. i don't understand why congress could inflict so much pain on economy purposely for a political gain. i don't understand that at all. the drama needs to stop. that is -- these games are adding uncertainty as we are trying to come out of the pan dim demic. why take this off the table? 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spokesman for green peace brazil tells us 60 hectares of the amazon have gone up in flames in four days and the blame falls squarely on the president. >> reporter: cnn the flew over some of this year's hardest hit areas to subsidy the devastation for ourselves. from above our cameras captured the damage of increasing fires. the demarcated lines a sign. there has been nearly 13,000 fires in the same area. roughly a 50% increase from 2020 to 2021. now compare these images with these over a five year period. >> reporter: further south in the same state, a information cattle rancher is fighting protect what's left of the rain forest. this month he begins the task of helping to restore and reforest 2600 hectares of land that have been burned and used for cattle production. >> reporter: he's made it his mission to reforest the burned land but in doing so he's face ing attacks on his life. recounting vividly when he was ambushed in early september. >> reporter: with a fight for land and 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