the country we are seeing the impact of workplace vaccine mandates, states including rhode island and new york set vaccine mandates for health care workers that take effect this week. new york s governor says the state has not seen major staffing shortages following the health care worker vaccine mandate. she says more than 90% got the shot. you will see that number go higher quickly. because what we re finiding is s more people are furloughed or espned the number is going up. reporter: the governor is working to expand the mandate to include health care workers not regulated by the department of health like some prison employees. what could encourage more work place vaccine mandates? a rule from osha or the occupational safety and health administration for businesses with more than 100 employees. president biden announced it was coming weeks ago but so far it is not out. obviously it takes some time and we want to make sure they
health plans, not so much. that is until catholic leaders and some commentators began sounding off. catholics and christians all across america are fired up over president obama s approval of new regulations that require insurance plans of religious organizations to provide contraseptive coverage. why did it take news outlets a couple of weeks to catch up with the catholic protests? a former white house intern for president kennedy says she was his mistress 50 years ago. did he realize that you were a virgin? i think he did because he kept asking me if i was all right and i was all right. but she confirmed the affair nine years ago. was her book really worth an nbc primetime interview? plus are we ll look at the coverage of the sad and unexpected death of whitney houston. i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. we re going to begin with the tragic death at the age of 48 of singer whitney houston, and joining us on the line from los angeles is cnn s larry
mavericks lose. aren t they poll when your team wins? i m not trying to control what they say. it s more a matter of defining credibility and understand what the best moves are for the mavericks. you know, we re in a transitioning media environment. just over the past three years with the explosion of facebook, the increase in use of twitter, other realtime media opportunities, there are so many things that are changing, i d be stupid not to continually survey and evaluate what s best for my business in terms of dealing with the online culture and consumers of media online. on the flip side, if you look at what has happened with the sports media as they cover sports teams, they ve changed as well. you know, the goal is no longer journalism. they ve had to spned to all these elements, twitter and facebook and deal with the business impacts on their in their world. so they have to respond far more quickly, they do it with fewer