Dealing with two major unfolding crisis. Any moment now pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby will hold his second briefing of the day on the situation in afghanistan. Well bring that you to live when it begins. This comes as the pace of evacuations picks up. The pentagon saying at least 16,000 people were taken out during a 24hour period. But, there are new concerns about security outside the Kabul Airport after the german military said one afghan soldier was killed and three others were wounded in a Gun Fight that did involve u. S. Troops. The president did get some good news on the coronavirus pandemic today. The Food And Drug administration gave Fool Approval to pfizers vaccine. Now he hopes this will change the minds of people who have been hesitant to get the shots until full approval. The moment youve been waiting for is here. Its time for you to go get your vaccination. Get it today. Vaccination is free. Its easy. Its safe. And its effective. On capitol hill, the house is taking
We ask who that is. The white house also said today the president will head to philadelphia on tuesday to deliver major speech on his administration s actions to protect the right to vote in this country. This as texas lawmakers push for voting restrictions during a special session of the legislator. Over on capitol hill, we re learning more about the time line for action on the bipartisan infrastructure plan. They re about to come down. Also crews found another 14 bodies in the rubble of a collapsed condo complex near miami with the death toll now rising to 78 and more than 60 people still unaccounted for. The we re on the ground talking with the survivor who is suing the condo association. And the cdc saying students who are fully vaccinated do not need to wear masks when they return to the classroom later this fall. We ll take a closer look at with the former white house senior adviser for the covid19 response. But we start off eugene daniels with the political white house roert as
Outbreaks. And in the nation s capitol, officials confirm that both a white house staffer and senior communications aide to speaker pelosi have also tested positive despite being fully vaccinated. Pelosi s aide was diagnosed after coming in contact with members of the texas legislature last week. Six of those members now with positive tests. Later this hour, we ll talk to a member of that texas delegation about how the virus is impacting their stay in d. C. And we ll ask about the meeting with white house democratic meeting whip jim clyburn. And what now? after kevin mccarthy announces his picks for the january 6th committee, we ll talk to democratic senator alex poe dea about that and where the infrastructure talks stand. And the blue origin crew completing a historic space launch with aviation legend wally funk becoming the oldest person ever to travel to space. We had a great time. It was wonderful. I want to go again fast. So a lot to get to. We ll begin with that breaking news out
Republicans to get a deal on infrastructure. Let s go through what we just got. Our chief business correspondent christine romans is here. So it s not as good as what economists expected. It s not as bad as april. Where does this put us? it s a solid month, really, poppy. And economists really got it wrong last month. So there s no blueprint for this. So i m not going to put so much credence in the fact that it missed wall street or economists expectations and just focus on the trend. 559,000 jobs added back. Double the pace from april. You want to see this kind of pace continue. That s enough to lower the jobless rate to 5. 8%. So the trend there again on the jobless rate especially incredibly important here. It shows the hiring is coming back. The layoffs have slowed dramatically. And vaccinations and reopenings are allowing this economy and job market to try to move ahead here. Where we saw those jobs go back, leisure and hospitality. A decline in construction, but manufacturing add
Interview that ray gaufve to th wall street journal. He is feeling this for a long time. That this is a plague is a word they often use or an epidemic of ransomware attacks we see growing by the day. It is an extremely luke tough practice that cyber criminals around the world have undertaken. And it s extremely disrupt you have. Particularly when it hits critical infrastructure like we ve seen in the past few weeks. Would the russian ransomware attacks against the colonial pipeline and jbs foods and he thinks that americans are understanding now how deep will you important this is. And how serious this is. That when they go to the gas station, they mute be impacted there. When they try to get a hamburger, they may be impacted there. So what ray is saying as with after 9/11 when the country was very much on the lookout for terrorist groups around the world, potential attacks here in the country, that the country now needs to deal with that threat in a same aimilar way. We saw a memo tha