democratic president s agenda. the $1.5 billion hard infrastructure bill and the $3.5 trillion human infrastructure bill. all of a sudden, the tables get turned on us and we are now finding that people are saying, oh, no, just pass the infrastructure bill and you know what, we ll get to childcare later, we ll get to paid leave later. over half our caucus has said they will not just vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. we have to vote on the reconciliation bill first. so that debate is the starting point for president biden s series of white house meetings this afternoon, all with high stakes for this administration because, as nbc s first read asks today, can biden afford to see the infrastructure bill go down to defeat? we have a team of reporters covering the developments from the white house to capitol hill, they ll join us in a minute. first, we ll go to democratic congressman josh gottheimer of new jersey, cho care of the caucus of problem solvers and moderate
again, and all of this over covid-19 protocol discrepancies. a new hearing is now pending, but the australian open starts monday, and as of now djokovic is scheduled to play. cnn s paula hancocks is in melbourne where djokovic will soon be detained. scott mcclean is in djokovic s home country of serbia. there s been moralies in this story than tennis matches. why did djokovic s visa get revoked again, and walk us through what we expect to happen in the coming hours. reporter: well, aina, in about three hours time we re expecting novak djokovic to go to an undisclosed location and to be interviewed once again by immigration officials. we know at that point he ll also be detained. he will then be accompanied by two australian border force officials to go to his his lawyer s office. this is all what we have learned from the friday night emergency hearing, and then at about 10:15 a.m., so that s just about seven, eight hours away from now will be the initial hearing from the
the record setting pace of covid positive patients. we speak with one hospital leader who is getting help from military medical workers being dispatched by the white house. welcome to meet the press daily . i m chuck todd. we re awaiting remarks from the president. touting pieces of the bipartisan infrastructure bill that he signed into law 60 days ago while given an update on the how the billion is being put to use. these remarks will cap off a decidedly bad week for the administration. also bad time to have a bad week. his voting rights agenda appears to be on capitol hill after. the spite a presidential visit to the capitol and a meeting with sinema last night at the white house. the plan to hold the vote on the senate on the issue likely to fail anyway before monday s self-imposed mlk deadline has been delayed because of democratic a senator s positive test for covid. he says to isolate and democrats without a majority, they would meet on the senate floor in order to p
covid-19 cases rise across the country. on capitol hill, democrats suffer a major setback in efforts to urge social reform to their social spending bill. we ll look at what comes next. meanwhile, a former minnesota police officer who shot and killed a young black man during a traffic is to be is set to take the stand in her trial any minute now. this as the biden administration exits talks on potential compensation for migrant families separated by the trump administration. and we ll look at what is being done to help immigrant communities affected by last week s devastating tornadoes in kentucky. and there s some good news from haiti, where the remaining group of american and canadian missionaies abducted have been freed. they ll be home soon. and right now, the u.s. is facing an explosion of new covid cases. the average number of new daily cases has jumped to more than 120,000. that s 70% higher than in early november. in new york city, health officials say the percentage
war on terror to find a home for their memorial. plus: earth friendly, the brewery saving the planet one beer at a time. planet one and later: welcome aboard, we re going to be dealing some good feelings for the next 60 minutes. oliver: celebrating soul train. 50 years of pioneers and legends in black music and culture. this is the cbs weekend news from new york, with jericka duncan. oliver, jericka duncan is off. oliver: good evening, i m meg oliver, jericka duncan is off. tomorrow, the u.s. joins the european union imposing strict new travel restrictions in response to the new omicron variant. in addition to south africa, a host of other countries are included in the u.s. restrictions. affecting an estimated 122 scheduled flights between the u.s. and south africa in december. cbs debra patta leads off our coverage tonight from south africa. reporter: once again, a pandemic weary world has been plunged into uncertainty following the discovery of a ne