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resilience in those towers that get blown over, the wires snap. we have so much we can do with this legislation now. last week we rolled out a historic investment in our nation s bridges. like the one i visited in new hampshire. where restrictions could force school buses and fire trucks to go ten miles out of the way just to get across the small river. or the i-10 bridge i visited in louisiana. it was 20 years past the planned life. it doesn t have modern safety features. and it was last inspected, the bridge is deemed to be in poor condition and now it has two lanes on the bridge, okay. that four lane interstate feeds into. creating and causing major back-ups. we re going to upgrade thousands of bridges, creating good-paying jobs, cutting commute times and ensuring that as we build back, no community gets left behind. folks, that mayor s view of the problem solving is exactly what we brought to the american rescue plan. it is designed so that you would be able to have ....
filibuster loving manchin and sinema. theyed a adjourned this morning and won t be back until january 3rd. it s beginning to look like nothing will be passed by christmas. joining me is member of the house judiciary committee, of course, washington congress woman camilla jayapal. a lot of people are disappointed build back better won t pass. it s great to see them shifting to voting rights, however, there is a hump to getting over voting rights. their actions to get it passed. one is adopting a one-time chain, senator kaine to install a talking filibuster and force the gop to stand on the floor and maintain 41 votes to black legislation. what can you tell the american people this morning about vetting voting rights passed? good morning, tiffany. it s always great to be with you. look, this is the single-most important thing we have to do. the congressional black caucus prioritized this for the entire year. we ve prioritized eliminating the filibuster. we would sell it ....
contempt. congress grilling the head of instagram, after internal documents show the social media platform can harm the mental health of young women, especially teenage girls. and testimony as a manslaughter trial begins in minnesota for a former police officer who shot and killed dahntay wright during a traffic spot, claiming she accidently mistook her gun for her taser. i want to bring in now former gop congressman charlie dent and cnn s senior analyst good evening to both of you. elly, now mark meadows is sooning the committee. is he afraid of trump or is this a stalling tactic? it s a distraction tactic, this lawsuit has next to no chance of succeeding. he s just taking a firecracker, lighting it, tossing it into the january 6 room and saying deal with this. his executive privilege claim has so many problems. we re talking about executive privilege invoked by a former president, something that mark meadows has been talking about in his book, a topic that he s al ....
president biden today marking a january 4th deadline for workers to be vaccinated, for larger companies in america. part of the way the mandate has worked coming from the feds. it is basically if you work somewhere with over 100 employees. there s push back to go after mandates before we get to the federal one, and we reported how they withstood challenges so far and threats of violence by anti-vaxxers. it will effect 84 million workers. a partial mandate that means effectively it is trying to get everyone to be vaccinated to make things safer, but also has a huge exception. it doesn t actually compel anyone to only vaccinate, there s a testing exception, they re not asked to vaccinate. it is a partial mandate. other states are restricted. there s signs and data, each of these mandates work to increase the number of people vaccinated. here s dr. fauci and the cdc director walensky, talking about the issues at a hearing today on the hill. we know that mandates work. if ....
california s coast threatening local wildlife. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us. well, top-health experts are warning americans not to let their guard down when it comes to covid. it comes as new cases and hospitalizations are on the decline nationwide. but experts say that trend might not last if americans get too complacent. already, the toll the virus has taken on the u.s. is staggering. on friday, the country topped 700,000 covid deaths, and dr. anthony fauci tells cnn many of those could have been prevented. many of those deaths were unavoidable. but many, many are avoidable, were avoidable, and will, in the future, be avoidable. the the number, itself, is is staggering. you re absolutely correct. but hopefully, that will then spur us to realize that we do have interventions in the form of a vaccine to prevent infection, to prevent severe disease, to prevent death. new york city seems to be heed ....