i ve been very clear. so anything that i can do is just be who i am. as younger children today are getting vaccinated across the country, cdc directors are at a senate hearing. the january 4th deadline today demand shots or testing. we had 745,000 deaths from this disease, and we re continuing to have about 75,000 cases every day. we know the most disruptive thing in a workforce is to have a covid outbreak and have the workers come down with infections, severe disease, and in some cases, death. and this hour, former vice president al gore from glasgow. let s go to kristin welker. garrett haake, jim macina, and former florida congressman and former republican david jolly. we re hearing some optimism on the house side, today on morning joe. they threw cold water on the priorities including the family leave putting it in this bill which nancy pelosi has not done. the strategy on the house side has changed now. for a long time there was an idea that making sure anything t
even his own party feels the weight. trying to backtrack on his remarks that president biden s unpopularity is dragging him down in a closely watched race. joe johns is in delaware with president biden is spending the weekend, and cnn s suzanne malveaux is following the facebook story. the social media giant does not seem to be cowering. here s what facebook s vice president said this morning on cnn. if you removed the algorithms, which i is think frances haugen s one of her central recommendations, the first thing that would happen is people would say more, not less hate speech, more, not less misinformation because these algorithms are designed precisely to work almost like giant spam filters to identify and deprecate bad content. suzanne, what are lawmakers saying about facebook today? reporter: well, pam, despite clegg s appearances on multiple shows defending facebook s practices, include the suggestion that facebook couldn t possibly know whether its algorithm t
final offer and he stuck to it. this comes after a weekend of developments including shareholders pressuring the board to take the deal. stockholders will receive $54.20 in cash for each share valuing the deal. the purchase price represents a 38% premium to twitter the day before musk disclosed his 9% stake. now elon s involvement boosted the price. musk announced his reasons for the purchase. he said now, while many are excited about his planned changes, it s his crusade for free speech that is driving this buy-out. he disapproves policies that the white house says doesn t go far enough. here s jen psaki moments ago. no matter who owns or runs twitter, the president has long been concerned about the power of large social media platforms, the power that they have over our every day lives. he s been a strong supporter of fundamental reforms to achieve that goal. one of the most prominent deactivated accounts is former president trump. he was confirmed moments ago that
for a missing texas national guard member at the southern border. officials recovering the body of 22-year-old bishop evans who went into the rio grande river on friday morning to try to save two illegal immigrants before disappearing under the water. john roberts in washington. good to be back with you again. sandra: great to have you back. this is america reports. two migrants who evans tried to help are believed to be drug smugglers. they are now in federal custody. it comes as illegal border crossings break records ahead of the biden administration plans to lift title 42. john: a group of house republican lawmakers at the border in southern texas urging the president not to move forward with that plan. and that is where we find bill, live in eagle pass, texas. bill, we combekt to hear from those republican lawmakers next hour. two minutes ago, greg abbott released a statement that state authorities have recovered the body of the missing national guard soldier. we