that does it for me. thanks for watching. i ll see you back here next weekend at 5:00 p.m. eastern. my colleague, alicia menendez, picks up our news coverage now. thank you so much. hello, everyone. i m alicia menendez. we begin this sunday with the future of the president s build back better agenda. because this week, expect movement in the senate. committees expected to wrap the final drafts of a budget reconciliation package that would expand medicare, kield care, and paid leave among other democratic priorities. the washington post frames the stakes, writing, quote, strategists in both parties believe democrats are likely to lose the house and possibly the senate next year. so this could be the party s only chance in years to enact an expansive domestic agenda. the finished product will become the clearest picture of what today s democrats stand for. supplanting the countless speeches, platforms, and ten-point plans they delivered when out of power. but the legislatio
hit 40 million covid cases but it s not just new infections. we ve got covid deaths up in 48 states, nearly every state in the country. since the pandemic started, more than 651,000 deaths are being blamed on covid-19, all of it as millions of americans might be finishing up labor day travel heading home today. there s also new concern this morning with covid hospitalization rates in kids and teens, rising five-fold, given this delta variant. i want to go live to guadvillegas. if you look at the numbers over a thousand schools have been forced to close because of the spread of the virus and the number is expected to increase as more kids become infected. this morning, as americans look ahead to the fall, questions about when many adults can take a covid booster shot, while children under 12 facing a new school year are still unable to be vaccinated at all, as the covid case count continues to rise. a staggering 40 million infections in the u.s. and with covid deaths rising
seen before in the region. record-breaking, major expressways completely flooded in new york city. passenger rail service shut down across the northeast. torrential rain flooded people out of their homes. there is only sadness and it is just overwhelming. so where we are is that we have to start from scratch as we are mourning. we have to see how we can move on. the nypd says more than 800 passengers were rescued. look at that, from the new york city subway system. the department says that it made hundreds of other rescues including a livery driver on a flooded road in central park. officers also say a disabled man trapped inside his home when he asked about his dog, police went back and rescued the dog as well. one of the most extraordinary images this minor league stadium turned in to a lake this boundbrook new jersey. polo sandoval is actually caught in floodwaters on the way there and he will join us soon. fema has approved a temporary housing program for victims of h
they can sue for as much as $10,000. you can sue the lyft driver that takes a woman to get a procedure. which, of course, makes it much harder to challenge in court which is by design. this is all happening because the u.s. supreme court failed to rule on an emergency request to block the law before it actually went into effect last night at midnight. the justices could still put this law on hold, but for right now as of 8:00 a.m. this morning they have not. and if your doctor finds a fetal heartbeat, you cannot get an abortion in texas right now. in this law there is no exception for rape or insist. only medical emergencies. cnn supreme court reporter aryan deveaux joins us know. can you tell us whether or not the supreme court is going to weigh in and why have they not weighed in on the emergency request to block this? reporter: it s interesting shall. as you said, roe v. wade is in jeopardy with this new conservative court. i want to say what the supreme court did or d
rising costs. it s a bump in the road that affects families. can democrats get a win on their social safety bill? i ll speak to amy klobuchar ahead. hello i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is holding out hope for the missing. emergency crews in the midwest are continuing the desperate search and rescue effort through tons of wreckage, flattened homes and factories and cars that were simply tossed around after at least 30 tornadoes touchdown down across six states this weekend, kentucky, arkansas, missouri, mississippi, illinois and tennessee. dozens are feared dead and officials warn the number will almost certainly rise as rescuers continue to sift through the devastation. joining me now from the commonwealth hardest hit, kentucky governor andy beshear. governor, thanks for joining us. how many confirmed deaths do you have in kentucky? how many of your citizens are still unaccounted for? well, the confirmation process is slow. i can tell you