And the future of Travel President biden is pushing for 50 of new vehicles to be electric. How might that change the way that you think about cars . From nbc News World Headquarters in New York, im joshua johnson. Welcome to the week. Its been Infrastructure Week all year long, but after months of negotiations, this week could soon be coming to a close. Today, the senate voted 6727 to invoke cloture. Cloture blocks any further debate on the bipartisan Infrastructure Bill. 18 republicans joined democrats in voting to advance this bill. The exact timeline of when and how it gets wrapped up is still in the air. Now the clock is ticking on 30 hours of debate, over which amendments to include. Any amendments would require the support of all 100 senators before consideration. At the same time, theres also a Big Push to move forward on a faster path. If the senate can agree on amendments and on shortening that 30hour debate period, this process would speed up dramatically. Tennessee Republica
Electric. How might that change the way that you think about cars . From nbc News World Headquarters in New York, im joshua johnson. Welcome to the week. Its been Infrastructure Week all year long, but after months of negotiations, this week could soon be coming to a close. Today, the senate voted 6727 to invoke cloture. Cloture blocks any further debate on the bipartisan Infrastructure Bill. 18 republicans joined democrats in voting to advance this bill. The exact timeline of when and how it gets wrapped up is still in the air. Now the clock is ticking on 30 hours of debate, over which amendments to include. Any amendments would require the support of all 100 senators before consideration. At the same time, theres also a Big Push to move forward on a faster path. If the senate can agree on amendments and on shortening that 30hour debate period, this process would speed up dramatically. Tennessee Republican Senator Bill hargetty is blocking that path. Now, this week, the nonpartisan co
Freeze on evictions after the previous ban expired. And as kids get ready to return to the classroom, the fight playing out over Vaccine Mandates. Well ask the head of one of the nations largest Teachers Unions about it. Weve got to start with several breaking developments on the coronavirus pandemic, including a potential gamechanger to increase vaccinations. The New York times reporting the fda is accelerating its timetable to fully approve the Pfizer Vaccine by early next month. The fda responding, saying the application for full authorization is moving forward as rapidly as possible, but offered no comment on specific timing. Cases, of course, have increased sixfold nationwide over the last month, to an average of more than 85,000 a day. Levels not seen since midfebruary. And hospitalizations in the south continue to break pandemic records. At the same time, vaccine requirements are increasing. Thats good news. New York State becoming the first major u. S. City to require proof of
tested positive. plus, the first case of omicron reported in the united states. the question is what will president biden announce when he updates us on the fight against covid later today? and lockout. major league baseball shuts down for the first time in decades after owners and the players union failed to reach an agreement with four months left before the season. the question is opening day in jeopardy? it s way too early for this. good morning, kind of. welcome to way too early, the show that is going to be clear about this. games better not be lost. i m jonathan lemire on this thursday, december 2nd. we re going to start with the news. the inevitable has happened. the first case of the omicron variant of covid-19 has been dedeathed in california. the cdc announces the patient returned from south africa last week and developed symptoms a few days later. the person then tested positive for covid, and genome sequencing confirmed it was the omicron variant.
the wake of the the deadly shooting at a high school in suburban detroit. hello, there backup well to meet the press daily i m chuck todd. president biden just landed at the national institutes of health where he will deliver remarks scheduled for later this hour to formally roll what they say is updated planned to fight covid as health officials out of minnesota confirmed the second case of the omicron variant in the united states from an individual who had not travel overseas but anned a conference in new york city. surely after the announcement out of minnesota. kathy hochul delivered remarks, saying there are no confirmed cases yet detected in new york. but she does expect that to change. new york declared a state of emergency last week in anticipation of this variant. both confirmed cases, the one in california and the other in minnesota, had been breakthrough infections that officials say both experienced only mild symptoms. but these were vaccinated folks. all week t