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dana: violence in the middle east escalating as israel trades rockets with palestinians. and iran backed hamas. bill: the crisis at the border no sign of letting up as migrants stream into the u.s. cdc under fire from numerous fronts over these conflicting and confusing guidance measures we ve heard by the day. dana: in a moment a live report from the white house and senator mike lee will join us to react. let s begin with the gas shortage in the southeast where the cyberattack led to panic at the pump. jonathan serrie live from atlanta. what does it look like this morning? good morning. right now we re at a qt station in atlanta and there is a steady clientele moving in and out of the pumps here. this station still has diesel and regular. we were at a different qt yesterday and when we arrived they were out of premium and mid grade. after an our of our arrival they ran out of gas all together. i checked back this morning and they were still out. this particular ....
doing here. that s work that is going to be necessary to rebuild our infrastructure which is also one of the biggest opportunities we have for job growth moving forward. what you may hear from some corners of criticism is why are we doing this now when we re already in an economic crisis. you look at new mexico where one state is funded by oil and gas. why not let the country get back on its feet before we do this? the issue in new mexico is that somebody reported a bit incorrectly or maybe not as precisely enough that this wasn t about impacting existing permits and fracking. this was about new leases on federal lands. it s an opportunity in the revuf that program to look at the royalty issues, look at the job growth opportunities. look at a variety of things to make sure that public lands are being properly managed. in terms of job issue, we re doing this because our economy is right now stagnant. we have millions of people out of work, out of jobs. millions of pe ....
that, says he plans to listen to the evidence in former president trump s impeachment trial. one day after voting to question its constitutionality with 45 other gop senators. that vote has democratic senator tim kaine warning that the trial could slow down important measures like president biden s economic rescue plan. kaine is now suggesting that a bipartisan censure of the former president could happen. to do a trial knowing you ll get 55 votes at the max seems to me to be not the right prioritization of our time right now. speak with democratic senator tammy baldwin about those comments and more in just a minute. and one hour ago president biden signed executive orders to make climate change a national security priority. suspending new leases for oil and gas development on federal lands. and holding a climate summit on earth day this year. it s about coming to the moment to deal with this maximum threat. in my view we ve already waited too long to deal with ....
we all want to go back to school. we also want to go back to school safely and make sure in addition to getting high up on the priority list of being vaccinated we want to make sure there is robust testing. when i was home a few weeks ago with family members in the school system they had to insure they got their test. proper protocols. the biden administration says they re following the signs. we ve known since last summers that schools are not a place of spread for covid-19. the school systems got 65 billion last year from congress in covid relief to put in safety precautions to allow teachers to get back to school. the bottom line at this point is that good teachers who want to go back to school are being held hostage by these teachers unions and they re now extorting the american taxpayer for more money claiming they don t have enough money to go back to school when they ve been funded and we have the science again with the cdc report this week showing that t ....
let s get down to business. a deal that doesn t go far enough that s the conclusion from some business leaders, who side with climate activists following the cop26 climate summit in glasgow. the watered down agreement to phase down the use of coal is seen as a landmark moment, though national governments were not moving aggressively enough. the head of the international chamber of commerce and the cbi both spoke to the financial times and said pressure needs to remain on global leaders to keep the 1.5 degrees celsius target in sight. a large number business leaders attended the glasgow summit. helen mountford is vice president of climate and economics at world resources institute. she was also there. helen, good to have you on the programme. since the deal emerged late saturday, there has been so much analysis. we have heard a lot about various people s disappointment. your reaction to the deal? to the deal? the deal is what it is, it is to the deal? the deal is wh ....