Benefit in their state. Plus, after his visit to the storm zone and louisiana, president biden is now turning his attention to weather weary new jersey and new york where the cleanup is starting after record rainfall flooded out several communities. Look at the images. 51 people in the northeast were killed in all. In louisiana, you have hundreds of thousands of people that do not have power, who do not have water to drink, just a week after ida made landfall. It is not just me, it is all my neighbors. I love these people. These people are my family and they re all suffering. They re all suffering. I am hallie jackson with you this morning in washington along with our news team on this labor day monday. Emily is following unemployment developments. Shannon petty piece is at the white house, gabe gutierrez, and josh jefferson in louisiana. You have a lot of people waking up feeling anxious, nervous about losing unemployment benefits. Reporter: i heard time and time again from people tha
the biden administration really is that crazy. they really are firing thousands of nurses in the middle of a pandemic, firing thousands of cops in the middle of a crime wave. no, they are not kidding, even in the slightest when they tell you that is a genuine female four-star admiral standing right there. joe biden isn t giggling. he tells you it is a victory for women everywhere and he means it when he says it. he means all of these things, even though once he does not understand, which is most. as the guys who runs the babylon bee told us recently it is getting tough to run a parody site in this country, no matters almost impossible to be more ludicrous than reality already is. and yet. even by those impossibly high standards, we can confidently announce tonight that we have just read the single most deranged news story ever printed in this country. so no matter what happens going forward and god knows what that will be this story will live forever as the high watermark
in the coming hours. but many progressive democrats don t appear to be budging on their throat to vote down the legislation in hopes of influencing party infighting over the broader economic plan. it s not clear, at least not now, how all of this will play out. stand by. we do know congress is averting a crippling government shutdown just hours before the deadline. the house and senate passing a stopgap funding measure that president biden is expected to sign over at the white house very soon. we re covering this breaking story from both ends of pennsylvania avenue. kaitlan collins is standing by over at the white house. first let s go to our congressional correspondent, ryan nobles. ryan, the big question tonight, will there be a vote on infrastructure? reporter: well, they say there s going to be, wolf. but we re not exactly sure how they re going to pull it off. in fact just the last few minutes the house majority leader, steny hoyer, who controls the action on the house
tonight. no matter what you think about this outcome, the leak itself represents a shocking and unprecedented breach of the courts confidentiality. and it is key to the courts ability, on any issue, to engage and they in the give-and-take and all the decision-making that is required to reach these decisions based on legal principle. based on the constitution. not because of political pressure. that is what the legislature does, not the court. and those, especially the law clerks, they are afforded a tremendous privilege. think about that. to work at the court, to learn from the justices. but the invaluable deal that you strike when you accept that clerkship, which is the most coveted thing you could have as a young lawyer, is that you swear confidentiality regarding everything you see and everything you hear. and especially the internal deliberations of the court, especially that. it is not up to a law clerk to decide when the decision of the court will be announced. and it d
the officials in the coast town of half moon bay say seven people were injured and one killed. the suspected shooter, a 67-year-old man was arrested within hours, captured on this video surrendering to authorities. the mayor of the small town giving voice to the pain and shock folks are feeling there right now. i am in shock. it s horrible. how many people have to die? how many children have to be killed? how many children have to witness their parents being killed? hours later, police in oakland responded to a shooting that left one person dead and seven others injured. police describe it as a shooting between several people. meanwhile in southern california, the community of monterey park is still reeling from the saturday night shooting that left 11 people dead. this hero s struggle to disarm the gunman may have prevented more deaths. he spoke with lester holt about those harrowing moments. what did those eyes tell you? they told me he wanted to do harm, like he wa