certainty about when the deliveries will arrive. these two steps are going to help increase our prospects of hitting or exceeding, god willing, the ambitious goal of 100 million shots in 100 days. the president is also ordering 200 million doses with the goal of vaccinating the entire population by the summer. but people don t believe that. you know why? right now there s way too much demand and just not enough supply. americans having trouble with the basics like just trying to get an appointment online or anyone to answer the phone. more answers could be coming later this morning when dr. anthony fauci and biden s covid team will brief the public for the first time since biden took office. but right now we are dealing with a split-screen reality all over the country. for example, we ve got the cdc saying it is safe to open schools, but only if gyms, bars and indoor dining are all shut down. and while the focus for so many americans is on getting the vaccine, 3,000 peopl
from new mexico to wisconsin, tornadoes, howling winds, you can hear it. even wildfires. folks, it s mid december. the central u.s. experienced the highest number of reports of hurricane-force wind in a single day ever. 55 reports across nine states. yeah, there were more than 350 reports of severe weather from the central plains to the upper midwest. 20 tornadoes were reported, including the first december twister on record minnesota. winds toppled tractor-trailers, ripped the roofs off homes. more than 450,000 customers and climbing this morning remain in the dark. across eight states, including iowa where wind gusts topped 70 miles per hour at the des moines airport. we were in the basement. my mom was heating up some left over ravioli when it happened. the power went out, so we had to run downstairs. it was really it was really fast. i was on my front porch and cleaning up some water that was coming in. and i looked across the street and there was a big glowing or
the president is in the first kind of planning session with a bunch of other countries right now. we did see the family photo that was taken a little bit before our 6:00 a.m. hour. all the world leaders gathered next to one another, posing for the cameras and we have a team of reporters and analysts breaking everything down for us from capitol hill. to rome. let s go ahead and start in rome, president biden sitting down with the other most powerful leaders in the world. a lot of big items on his agenda. right now they re all meeting, as i mentioned, the next event is after that, it s a discussion about women-owned businesses. that will be taking place around 9:00 a.m. eastern time. so the president s agenda includes two of the biggest issues for americans here at home. the shipping supply crisis as well as high energy prices. now part of a big trip for the administration including the g20 summit this weekend in rome and the climate summit that is starting tomorrow in scotla
immigration reform funding. that is all transformation al. especially when it comes to the funds for clean energy and climate investment. this will be the largest clean energy investment in u.s. history. with billions going to tax credits and resilient investment and incentives for businesses to consume fewer fossil fuels. the $400 billion for child care. that would come out to $24,000 for the 1.6 million preschool age kids in america. democrats actually imagine to get the bill passed and that can put us on par with other countries. let s give you a comparison with how much other countries spend. norway at the top with $30,000 per child. iceland, finland, denmark. $20,000 per child. then the united states. which, until now, spends $500 per child before the new bill. there are, however, a lot of important and popular programs that didn t make it in. they include increase in paid family leave. free community college. expanded medicare for dental and vision and prescription drug
good criticism helps us get better. my view is what we are seeing is a coordinated effort to selectively used leaked documents to paint a false picture of our company. the reality is that we have an open culture where we encourage discussion and research about our work so we can make progress on many complex issues that are not specific to just us. in reality, the facebook papers show researchers found the company essentially created a frankenstein, a monster, pushing falsehoods in the darkest corners in ways that won t easily be undone. cnn s donie o sullivan starts us off this morning. reporter: we need to steel ourselves from more bad headlines in the coming days, facebook wrote in an internal memo to colleagues over the weekend. we didn t invent hate, but you think it s making hate worse? unquestionably it s making hate worse. reporter: whistleblower frances haugen appeared before the parliament and cnn and other news agencies began producing thousands of page