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if you take climate change into consideration, that s the kind of money we need. we ve already made a significant compromise. we ll also get a look inside at where things stand with wisconsin democratic congressman mark pocan who met with the president yesterday. also the fda could finally authorize a booster shot for those under 65. but we don t know yet. there s a special u.s. envoy for haiti who has resigned over sending haitians back to their homeland, and we ll talk with dateline s keith morrison about what the intense interest of gabby petito s disappearance tells us about america s obsession with crime. let s start this hour with the fight against the pandemic. right now it s up to a cdc panel to decide who falls with the risk category to be eligible for a booster shot. that decision could come as early as today. jeff last night the fda authorized the booster shot of pfizer s covid shot to those 65 and older and those other adults with compromised immun ....
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 ....
release, gwynn said biden views the a, the on the capitol as a dark stain on our country s history and is deeply committed to ensuring something like that can never happen again. and he supports a thorough investigation. the legal showdown set to ensue between the expresident and president joe biden s white house, if if it proceeds in complying with the committee s document request comes as nbc news is learning that the select committee has just received documents from all seven government agencies from which they have requested information. that s according to a committee aide. the documents requested include a fast s.w.a.t. of records pertaining to the previous administration s plans to discredit the 2020 election result and dismiss the count on january 6th. all this as the committee prepares to dump subpoenas to many people in a matter of days. it could even ensnare republican members of congress believed to have knowledge of donald trump s actions and donald trump s ....
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 ....