nasty flood before everyone even gets their power back from the previous storm. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with our health lead. an alarming new coronavirus trends especially among children. new data from the american academy of pediatrics show infections are up 240% since july. to put that into context, more than 240,000 kids in the u.s. tested positive for coronavirus just last week. now, it is important, as always, to note that kids remain far less likely than adults to get seriously sick or to die from coronavirus. but that does not mean that some don t get seriously ill or worse. and either way, kids can still carry and spread the virus. with hospitalizations and deaths on the rise again among adults and with a quarter of the country refusing to get vaccinated, health experts say, once again, communities need to focus on slowing the spread. in just a few moments i m goin to speak with dr. anthony fauci and whether booster shots will be re
as the biden administration finally releases vaccine guidelines for private companies. and as the world meets on climate in scotland, how a major solution may exist in a metal box in iceland. all in starts right now. good evening, from new york i m chris hayes. on the night of the virginia gubernatorial election votes are coming in. the failed former president of the united states released a statement, he is not allowed to tweet any more. quote all eyes on fire fairfax. why the clay trump was talking about fairfax county, the most populace in the state of virginia. we know what he was doing there. he spent five years driving conspiracy theories about voter fraud. and there have been very real world consequences playing out day by day from the sham audit in virginia earizona. hilariously found joe biden won more votes than initially believed to the current republican school scheme in pen ten to collect ever voter in the state personal information to somehow prove non-existe
with lawrence o donnell. good evening. you mentioned the history that terry mcauliffe was up against in virginia of the challenge of previously serving governor getting elected again, which of course just about never happens. the one time it happened, the guy switched parties from democrat to republican in order to win a second time. the history in new jersey is similar in a way in terms of what i mean, not since 1977 has a democrat been reelected as governor. i did not know that until today. i just wasn t thinking about it, because we weren t thinking about new jersey very much because it wasn t really supposed to be close, and, you know me with homework, rachel, i m only going to do it if i really really have to, and so, you know. that s why, if there s anything if there ought to be a media led freak out about these results to the extent that the media is self-serving in the things that we cover and we make a big deal out of, which i think we are just as much as any
find distance. and in new jersey, phil murphy is trying to be the first re-elected democrat in the garden state in four decades and he is facing the republican governor candidate jack se ciattarelli. and there are other mayor races including in new york with curtis siwa and in boston and in ohio, there could be a change of the balance of power in the house of representatives and also looking for a special primary in south florida. our correspondents are at key locations as we are awaiting the results oa bellwether election, and starting with the governor s race. jeff zeleny is at the head quart quarters of terry mcauliffe. it is a tight race, and what are they feeling down, there and what are the campaign aides saying about the turnouts in the all-important northern virginia? jake, it sais an absolutely tight race, and mcauliffe is using the final hours to text voters and door knocks to some 60,000 voters today. and one thing, they are looking at those who supported joe bid
it s way too early for this. i m jonathan lemire on this tuesday, september 28th weechlt start with the news. house speaker nancy pelosi has changed course, telling democrats they will vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill before reconciliation is done. in a democratic caucus meeting last night, pelosi announced the change in plans. she originally announced she would link two bills together, refusing to vote on the senate-passed infrastructure bill until the other bill was ready as well. according to an aide, speaker pelosi blamed it on the senate. she said, quote, i told all of you we wouldn t go on to the bipartisan infrastructure we had the reconciliation bill passed by the senate. we were right on schedule to do all of that until ten days ago, a week ago, when i heard the news that this number had to come down. they re reportedly hoping the president will publicly pressure members of congress to vote for the infrastructure bill. speaker pelosi is acknowledging she