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anniversary of 9/11 attacks. politically and many ways culturally at least for a time united most of our country. our government leaders used or in some cases took advantage of that unity. that s another story. and certainly up for plenty of debate. still, we were a united states amid the depths of that crisis and right now we re anything but united when it comes to the current crisis of covid-19. as death toll far surpasses anything we saw on 9/11. 660,000 americans. in fact, according to our numbers today in first read of deaths just in the last report in the last 24 hours, this is not part of the seven-day average, but we had 3,200 over the last 24 hours. you know any time you see a 3 on a daily death toll in the thousands you think of 9/11, as well. put things in perspective. we re now seeing a 9/11 size death toll basically at least every two days and it s actually more than that now. and the conservative blowblack to president biden s sweeping new covid mandates t ....
americans he says are not vaccinated to get the shot. the president says he is frustrated with those people. wearing thin that day are hurting the nation overall. he says the issue is not about freedom or personal choice. increase testing and wearing of masks. country in a tough stretch and it could last a while. the administration has withdrawn president biden s nomination of gun control advocate david chipman to head the bureau of alcohol tobacco firearms and explosives. chipman had faced strong republican opposition in the senate. and the justice department is suing texas over its new law banning most abortions. the filing states that the law was passed in open defiance of the constitution. the obvious and expressly acknowledge the intention of this statutory scheme is to prevent women from exercising their constitutional rights. the department of justice does not file lawsuits based on pressure. we carefully evaluated the law and the facts. and this complaint ex ....
more than 1500 on average die every day. more than 100,000 hospitalized. pediatric hospitalizations have risen more than 40% in the last month. around 150,000 new infections are being reported daily. while the president s mission to make the vaccine available has been a success, his mission to get enough americans to get the vaccine has not. a source familiar with the white house plans today tells nbc news president biden is expected to announce a new, more stringent vaccine requirement for federal workers that won t have a testing carbon. it is expected to come in the form of an executive order, and will apply to contractors. a contractor can be somebody that works overseas or somebody that helps empty the trash at a government building. the definition of contractor varies widely in our government. in other words, it appears to be the administration s way to say if you don t get vaccinated, you won t do business with us, no exceptions. biden is expected to push the pri ....
at the white house and on capitol hill, folks are trying to navigate crises all of them coming to head in the next few days and weeks. there s covid, where president biden is planning to lay out a new plan tomorrow to get through the delta variant. there s afghanistan, where the secretary of state is preparing for a grilling on capitol hill in multiple hearings. there s the threat of a government shutdown at month s end unless congress acts and the potential for a debt default just a few weeks after that. all as democrats continue to spar over the size, scope, timing and political strategy surrounding the president s overall agenda and what s referred to as that massive reconciliation package which has been tied to biden trillion dollar bipartisan infrastructure bill. the latest drama comes after joe manchin reiterated he will not support a $3.5 trillion deal. nowhere close to it. he s reportedly signaling he might only back a bill that s less than half that size or hal ....
and a blue plaque is installed at the london home of muppets creatorjim henson. we ll hear from his very first character, rowlf the dog. hello, welcome to the programme. joe biden is visiting new york and newjersey today to see for himself the flood damage caused by hurricane ida. 52 people died in the northeast last week in some extraordinary flash flooding. in hillsborough township, his first call in newjersey, where a tornado had ripped through a 13 mile stretch, the president said every part of his country is now being hit by extreme weather events. either we act now, he said, or we re going to be in real, real trouble. the president has promised emergency relief to those areas affected. we are due to hear what else he proposes later in the hour, so let s cross to new york and speak to our correspondent neda tawfik. good to see you. give us a sense then now the waters have receded whatjoe biden is going to be seeing in queens and what they need. christian, president b ....