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equally blunt about the difficult road ahead. while america is in much better shape than it was seven months ago when i took office, i need to tell you a second fact. we re in a tough stretch, and it could last for a while. president biden laid out a six-point program to combat the virus, and we ll talk about them with chief medical officer dr. anthony fauci. authorize been cases and deaths higher than they were one year ago. first we want to lay out the basics of the administration s six-part plan. first new vaccination requirements. perhaps the headline here, employers with more than 100 workers be required to have mask mandates or weekly testing. although that testing comes with a requirement that the employer provide paid time off. failure to comply could mean fines. also a new mandate for federal workers and contractors. plus one for health care workers at facilities that take funding from medicare or medicaid. the white house is also calling on entertainment v ....
good evening. it is unusual and extraordinary to hear a president address the nation so obviously frustrated with millions of his own fellow americans but that was the tone president biden struck late this afternoon, as he announced a series of new steps to fight the coronavirus surge. frustration at republicans fighting mask mandates in schools. many of whom, have been defiant if their response to the new rules and guidance. but also, tens of millions of vaccine-eligible americans who remain unvaccinated. saying at one point, we have been patient but, quote, our patience is wearing thin. unsparing in who is to blame, equally blunt about the difficult road ahead. while america s much better shape than it was seven months ago when i took office, i need to tell you a second fact. we re in the tough stretch, and it could last for a while. president biden laid out a six-point program to combat the virus. and we ll talk about them with the president s chief-medical offic ....
health repercussions. right now we want to focus on what officials say will be one element of that plan which is safeguarding kids in schools. it comes as new data that the american academy of pediatrics says one in four cases is in a child. there s been a 250% increase in infections in children from five weeks ago. vaccines are unavailable for those under 12. one thing that unites a lot of people is that kids should be in school which leaves masks as one of the next best lines of protection. most notably in florida, mask mandates have become deeply polarizi polarizing. governor ron desantis ordered an option to opt out. we want to remind you of the vitriol these fights have caused. the doctors sitting up here sneering at us looking at us like we are scum bags, they need to go back to [ bleep ] medical school. right here. look, right here. as you can see, fists are now flying. bully him into wearing a mask? that s what we do. we love our state. well, i don t ....
is becoming a saga of mixed messaging. we don t have a role in preventing flights from taking off. a number of these planes, they may have a handful of american citizens, will be allowed plane with hundreds of people, we don t know who they are to land on the us military base? it is worth remembering the vast majority of americans were unfettered, 41 congressman raise flags about the rushed and incomplete vetting of evacuees, not only are many of them now in america but it is reported they have free reign at fort pickett, virginia. letting them leave, they can catch and uber and leave the base, they don t know exactly how many are even there s a they can t account for someone if they don t return. reporter: the past few are the taliban said they would allow 200 americans to leave from kabul. a week ago the senate gave the administrative time and deadlines, how many afghan allies were left in afghanistan. the deadline came and went on tuesday. jillian: hours fro ....
in need and distress and back up to try to push major agenda setting items, specifically an infrastructure bill and a separate bill loaded with democratic priorities collectively worth trillions of dollars. one of those priorities pushed climate change which the president spoke of. and so, folks, we ve got to listen to the scientists and the economists and the national security experts. they all tell us this is code red. the nation and the world are in peril. we ll talk to new york congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez about that. kaitlyn collins traveled with president biden. what did the president see? what was accomplished? reporter: anderson, it was the damage up close. keep in mind, this is his second trip to somewhere that was hit by ida in a week. last week it was louisiana. today he traveled seven or eight states up to the north and to the right to see new york and new jersey. it was devastating, anderson. it s really hard to overstate the level of damage ....