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Authorization for Emergency Use. That means options when it comes to vaccinations. Thats good. At the same time, republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene is holding her own News Conference one day after she was kicked off her Committee Assignments for supporting over years violent rhetoric, dangerous disinformation. We begin with the economic news. Christine romans, 49,000 or so new jobs. Yesterday we had nearly 800,000 new unemployment claims. Do the math for us there. Where does it stand in terms of all these lost jobs . Theres no historical precedent for this. You had 14. 8 Million People who told the government this month that they didnt have a job to go back to. The business they worked for ....
Underway. President biden sitting down with House Democratic leaders, this is as Congress Pushes forward with his 1. 9 Trillion CovidRelief Package. Republicans so far have pushed back on the size and scope. They proposed less than a third of that value. But democrats do have the votes to pass their own bill. Putting the president s call for bipartisanship and unity to the test. We are also watching less than an hour from now, the white house covid19 team holds a Press Conference as we get new warnings on Coronavirus Variants rapidly spreading across the country. Lets begin with manu raju on the hill. John harwood joins us from the white house. ....
Now theres just got to be a will to seek those out. True on school funding, true on state and local aid. Everyones getting tied around in knots what the number is. Get the policy right and whatever that number produces, thats where we should land. Look, i mean, christine, certainly there could be an incorporation of republican ideas, and there are a lot of people arguing for that. But what is unclear, if the votes, if the republican vote it might actually be more than unclear if the republican votes would actually follow those compromises . Also, theres even moderate democrats who might be concerned about sliding in a 15 hour minimum wage and you saw maneuvering last night suggesting they could put the 15 minimum an hour wage to the side not address it now. Could be confrontational. Could be a place of bipartisan agreement right now during the middle of the crisis. Even though progressives, of course, want a 15 minimum wage. Might see small maneuvering starting to satisfy people and mo ....
Administered this week outnumbers new cases of covid 101. But thats not to say that serious struggles do not remain. Getting schools reopened remains a significant logistical and political challenge. Vaccinations still need to ramp up. The spread is not yet under control, and more as cnns lucy kavanaugh reports. Reporter the fight against covid19 progressing on three fronts today, more shots, more sites and more vaccines heading towards approval. New yorks mega Vaccination Site opening up at Yankee Stadium this morning. I was in and out, two seconds. In maryland, the Back Parking Lot at six flags now a mass vaccination center. The idea eventually is to build an infrastructure that can handle millions of vaccines. Reporter and in northern california, oaklands coliseum and levi stadium now vaccination hubs. American tr ....