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it always happens the same way. the bluster and who s there and there? at the end of the day we will be unified for the american people. in just a few moments i ll get reaction to the speaker s comments from the leader of the large progressive caucus. she met with the president on wednesday. meanwhile the fda green lighted a pfizer booster for tens of millions of americans over 65 or with high risk health issues or younger pfizer recipients with moderna or johnson & johnson wait for word on when to get their boosters. joining me now is leeann caldwell and peter alexander. first what were the big takeaways from the big conference last hour? reporter: there were a couple. some confusing and more clear. she remains confident that she s going to pull everything together, that the party in the end is going to remain united on not only this bipartisan traditional infrastructure bill, but this partisan human infrastructure bill that is far from complete. she also says that ....
walensky continues to push for the unvaccinated to get their first shots. she also said today she s not surprised that so many people are hold out because of how misinformation has actually crept in. i do think if we had community health workers in so many communities that have been vaccine hesitant now, that have been checking diabetes and checking blood pressure control and doing all of those things when it came time to vaccinate, it would have been a no-brainer, they would have easily been able to convince their communities to get vaccinated. they have been trusted health providers. so the u.s. is finally seeing a drop this cases, about 10% nationwide. that s the good news. but not in many lower vaccinated places like nebraska who are rationing care. in tennessee, officials have given one of the most effective covid treatments only to unvaccinated patients and those who are immunocompromised. we re talking about monoclonal antibodies. they ve chosen to give it to ....
didn t say that s making headlines. also learned there could be another delay in a vote on both the spending bill and the bipartisan infrastructure bill. the house speaker not committing to the previous deadline set for monday. saying she s confident both bills will get passed. and in a new sign, things are getting real. the white house telling federal agencies to prepare for a government shutdown. we re also watching for developments from the cdc which could announce at any moment who will be qualified to get a booster shot of pfizer s covid-19 vaccine. let s go ahead and bring in our nbc news team, ali vitali on capitol hill. mike memoli at the white house and joins by jake sherman punchbowl news founder and msnbc political contributor. ali, start with you. a big day of developments and speaker pelosi making news late this morning? reporter: a busy day and frank lif busy week. right to frame it as news for what was said and not said. in terms what we actually he ....
colleagues like to see a change in the irish courts, having a closed border again. pakistan s prime minister, imran khan, has been speaking to the bbc about afghanistan, laying out what the taliban need to do before he ll recognise their government. and in the canary islands, another village on la palma is evacuated as the volcano destroys a new area. there is ash falling on my clothes, i can taste it in the air, and the rumble of the volcano in the background. first, let s bring you some breaking news. in the last half an hour or so, the australian state of victoria has been struck by a magnitude 6 earthquake. the epicentre was in the regional town of mansfield, north east of melbourne, with geoscience australia measuring the depth at 10 kilometres. just to give you some context, this is quite rare in australia according to authorities there, australia roughly sees only about 100 earthquakes a year above magnitude 3 neighbouring indonesia for instance sees more tha ....
there is ash falling on my clothes, i can take did in the air, and the whole time there is the thunderous rumble of the volcano in the background. and is climate change accelerateing the loss of biodiversity worldwide? we have a special report as part of the bbc s climate critical investigation. the australian state of victoria has been struck by a magnitude 5.8 earthquake. the epicentre was in the regional town of mansfield, about 180 kilometres north east of melbourne. there are reports emerging of significant damage in some parts of the state. you can see on the map just where mansfield lies it s a small town of a few thousand people. but this quake was felt across the state of victoria as well as in canberra and as far as sydney in new south wales. the government agency geoscience australia measured its depth at 10 kilometres. earthquakes of this magnitude are pretty unusual in australia according to the authorities there are around 100 a year which go above mag ....