it comes at a critical moment where covid cases among the youngest and most vulnerable are soaring nationwide. doctors treating kids sick with covid reflecting on this point in the pandemic. it s scary. it s sad. and it s exhausting. it s sad that some in society have not prioritized children. i thought that was a place where we could all come together. we start with this huge news from pfizer. what it could mean in the fight against the pandemic. gabe gutierrez has been following the pfizer announcement for us. he s outside a hospital in spokane washington where hospitals are turning away patients from neighboring idaho. and cases continue to rise among children. and i also want to bring in dr. derek cast. he s an emergency medical physician. doctor, always good to have you. gabe, let s start with you. pfizer says the data shows the vaccine is safe and effective for children between 5 and 11. what more have we learned? hey there, craig. yes, as you said, this is potent
fence around the capitol. those concerns come as we get a look at brand-new fbi video of the person they think planted pipe bombs the day before the insurrection. we re also following breaking news in afghanistan. 200 more evacuees taking off from kabul today, ending an impasse with the taliban. among them, more americans. this is the brand-new video of that flight. we re live from the city where that plane is expected to land. but we begin with breaking news. a new phase in the pandemic fight. in just a matter of hours, president biden is set to lay out his next big push to stop the spread of covid and to boost vaccinations. one part of the six-point plan is coming into much sharper focus in just the last 90 minutes. we have now learned that president biden will sign an executive order requiring all federal workers and contractors to be vaccinated. plus, there s some new guidance for schools as pediatric cases rise. nbc s mike memoli is at the white house for us. nbc s cal p
waiting to pick up other americans and at-risk afghans who are still on the ground in afghanistan because of a continued dispute with the taliban over passenger i.d.s. here in washington police are bracing for the justice for j6 rally, that s what they re calling it on september 18th for the insurrectionists on the january 6th riot. among the precautionary measures re-installing the fencing around the capitol. it isn t up yet, but that s what it s going to look like. the fbi is releasing new video of the suspect who planted live pipe bombs outside both the rnc and dnc headquarters the night before the insurrection in the hopes that someone would have seen him, but let s begin with the president s big speech this afternoon on the coronavirus and nbc white house correspondent kelly o donnell, nbc s kerry sanders in florida. dr. ashish jha and robert gibbs. we know a lot as your team has been reporting with your speech and what the president hopes to accomplish. andrea, this
across the entire country. the u.s. is averaging over 109,000 new covid cases a day. but we start with that new jobs report. josh letterman is at the white house. i also want to bring in stephanie ruhle, and jim mecina. thank you all for being with me. by the way he was also serving as president obama s campaign manager. let me start with you. we heard that the president will be speaking any moment now about this block buster jobs report. what will we hear? the white house is certainly breathing a sigh of relief today after fearing this report could have been worse than it was. i think you will hear two mayor themes from the president. the argument that his build back better approach is working. they have succeeded and now is the time to keep the foot on the gas when it comes to the bipartisan infrastructure bill, when it comes to the democrats 3.5 trillion spending bill, and other measures to try to make sure the economy is able to overcome some obstacles. the other key th
senate asking for world solidarity on cuba and the release of political prisoners. plus right now the number of coronavirus cases is up in all 50 states and that puts new attention on a question that a lot of people are asking. will people need to prove their vaccinated to go to work? or to go out to eat? we re getting early answers this morning. they are now requiring vaccinations. today president biden is expected to announce a requirement for federal workers. we start with the latest on this pandemic and the major vaccine announcement. monica is at the white house for us. josh is talking to washington dc workers affected by this, and i want to bring in a doctor who is a senior scholar at john hop kins. in just a few hours they announce a federal vaccine requirement. what more do we know about this? they are laying out essentially a choice for more than two million federal workers. they will have to prove they are fully vaccinated to go to work or submit to what the whi