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a year ago this week? new insight this hour into what the january 6th committee is learning. and looks and sounds like a page from the old testament. we re going to find out why fish were literally falling from the s sky. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start in the health lead. major new announcements from the food and drug administration today about pfizer s covid vaccine. the fda today recommending the pfizer booster for teens ages 12 to 15. shortening, for everyone, the recommended time between your second pfizer shot and the booster and okaying a third dose for some immunocompromised children between 5 and 11. more than 115 million americans have been fully vaccinated with the pfizer vaccine and now the cdc is going to meet this week to decide whether to sign off on the fda recommendations as parents are stressing about sending their kids back to school given the recent spike in pediatric hospitalizations due to covid. though we should note almost al ....
and the effort to overturn the 2020 election, several key figures of the capitol riot have already been convicted and are now being sentenced. a judge today sentenced one of them to 17 years in jail for seditious conspiracy. that is a long time behind bars. but it s actually a much lighter punishment than what the department of justice was hoping for. in most of these january 6th cases, government prosecutors are throwing the proverbial book at defendants. correspondent david spunt is at the justice department tonight with details on the sentencing of the former leader of the proud boys group. good evening, david. hi, bret. good evening to you. this sentencing comes more than two and a half years after the attack on the u.s. capitol in just hours ago joseph biggs learned his fate as you said 17 years behind bars but not nearly the amount of time that the department of justice prosecutors wanted. they want him behind bars for 33 years, almost double. ultimately the jud ....
reporter: a major point of this trip was to resume face-to-face meetings and to establish military to military channels and secretary antony blinken said that something chinese leadership has not agreed to but speaking to reporters secretary antony blinken said meeting has helped with a moment of instability in relations. they wrapped up with that meeting. something that was not confirmed until 45 minutes before it started lasted half an hour and followed many hours of discussions with the chinese counterparts this comes after weeks of rising tensions last month in a chinese fighter jet came close to a spy plane and a us destroyer was cut off. and in taiwan it was among the broad range of issues that secretary antony blinken raised. listen. we do not support taiwan and dependence and are opposed to any unilateral changes.we continue to expect a peaceful resolution of differences. we are committed to meeting our responsibilities under the taiwan relations act. includ ....
hello again, thanks for being with us. it s 11:00 a.m. eastern, i m ana cabrera reporting from new york with this special second hour on this federal holiday, and we are following breaking news this morning. america s secretary of state holding a high pressure meeting with china s president xi. did that one-on-one do anything to settle the simmering tensions between our two countries. extreme weather, millions remain under threat, even as communities reel from the aftermath of devastating tornados also ahead, a terrifying close call at one of the busiest airports in the country, a passenger capturing the video of this plane s wing almost hitting another plane on the runway. and later, celebrating juneteenth, we ll take you to galveston, texas, known as the birthplace of this federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery here in america. but first the breaking news out of china where u.s. secretary of state antony blinken met just a couple of hours ago wit ....
a result of people that had political bias. you tube under fire after removing an interview with r.f.k. jr. claiming it violates their vaccine information policy. if we were editing this, joe biden videos would be taken down because he said vaccinated people couldn t get covid. will: fox news alert. clock is ticking to rescue five people aboard a submersible like this one that went missing during a dive to view the titanic wreckage site. brian: officials say the vessel has less than 70 hours before it runs out of air. ainsley: submarine can leave from a port. submersible cannot. that s why it s called a sub but not a submarine. todd joins us now with more. hey, todd. massive search and rescue operation under way right now for that submersible missing in the north atlantic. it was transporting a crew of five people some 12,000 feet underwater to tour the famous shipwreck. costs passengers about $250,000 per person. now, the crew launched around 4:00 a.m. on s ....