Ok. Today, we have another great guest joining us in the briefing room. Secretary cardona. As a mother of two children myself, including one in elementary school, i know you have questions about School Reopening and covid. He is here to take a few questions. It is great to be with you. Thank you very much. Good afternoon, everyone. Across the country, there is an excitement for the first day of school. Those who have children, you know what im talking about. Theres a vibe going back to school. This year, no exception. We are committed to doing everything we can to ensure kids get back into the classroom safely. We know students are provided the best opportunity to learn and thrive when learning in person. In their classroom, with their peers, with their teachers. We made significant progress last spring, bringing students back in person. 90 of educators across the country are vaccinated. 180 million americans have been vaccinated, including millions of students. We provided 130 billion
Because there will be significant population movements, fights over land. Millions of people leaving places because theyre sinking below the sea in indonesia, because of the fights of Arable Land anymore. With the g7, we plan to launch an ambitious effort to support Resilience And Development Around The World by investing in high quality, high standard physical, digital and health infrastructures. We have to make sure that the new technologies and nornls of conduct are established including addressing the growing threat of ransomware attacks. Theyre governed by the democratic values, not by the autocrats who are letting it happen. These are all critical National Security Issues in 2021 and will be driving this agenda together with our g7 partners. In brussels ill make it clear to the united States Commitment to the Nato Alliance and article 5 is rock solid. Its a sacred obligation we have under article 5. The u. S. And the uk are both founding members of nato, the strongest Military An
and throwing a little excitement into the game. bonds are higher. that supports the bigger decline we had for the s&p 500 earlier. at this point again we are seeing for bonds, the decline in yields probably more outsized than the pullback we have for stocks. perhaps there is some volatility, but not today. one place there was movement was in prescription drug sales. amazon has decided they will come to that business. higher on then news they are opening an online pharmacy where they will sell drugs on a digital basis. discounts to prime members. on this you have the likes of sourcelgreens, amyris from anything involved in the drugstore supply chain down in a is way as the commerce giant getting into the business. this has been thought it would happen for a while, but now that it is here come easy the big selling pressure in the health care chains. amazon off the highs but in a ho-hum day is up .7%. david: thanks to abigail doolittle for that report on the markets. the ceos of
the polling also shows big erosions in president biden s approval within key parts of the democratic base. and a major nearly double digit enthusiasm gap between democrats and republicans about the midterm elections. democrats are looking for ways to jump start biden s stalled domestic agenda on capitol hill, and gin up some excitement around the midterms, like divvying up the build back better social spending bill into smaller arguably more passable pieces of legislation. i m confident we can get pieces, big chunks of the build back better law signed into law. and once again, joe manchin will be calling the shots, telling reporters on thursday that when it comes to negotiating build back better, the democrats will, quote, be starting from scratch. joining me now to help understand the road ahead for democrats, congressman james clyburn, house majority whip and chairman of the house select committee on the coronavirus crisis. whip clyburn, as always, thank you very much f
mark zuckerberg is blaming the torrent of bad press sparked from facebook s own internal documents on a, quote in his words, coordinated effort to paint a false picture of the company. so far shares in facebook have not taken a hit. and new revelations about what was happening on set in the hours before alec baldwin fatally shot a cinematographer. we are learning why live ammunition may ahave been in tht gun. those details to come. we begin this morning with cnn s senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen and the meeting that is happening right now on vaccines for children. so, elizabeth, walk us through the steps here. there is more than one presuming today that there is a recommendation for the shots to go forward. right. there are more than one step, that s because you two agencies, the fda and the cdc involved and then advisory panels to each of those. those are outside experts who have nothing to do with the agencies themselves, who give their impartial opinion.