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want to know, when is it available for 5 to 11 years old. and the short answer is could be in about a month. and that is creating a split sort of reaction from parents. some of whom say, look, the time is now and others who say, it should be waiting. reporter: the long wait for a covid-19 vaccine for children is a step closer to reality. this after pfizer announced today it s vaccine is safe for five to 11-year-olds and shows a robust antibody response. i think this is exciting, as a pediatrician and parent of a 6-year-old, the only one not vaccinated, i think it is a huge difference in the fight against covid-19 and participants and teachers are waiting for them. reporter: they plan to get emergency thorgsz as soon as possible. as f all goes well for pfizer, it could be available for 5 to 11-year-olds by halloween. depends on how long it takes to review the application, a four week or a six week review, you could have a vaccine available to children as early ....
chile in 2015 with his life and two children. he says that someone assaulted him in haiti and someone shot at his aunt. reporter: two months ago, they started the trek to the united states. you say the route is open to enter in the united states. what does that mean? family, friends, he says? the border is open? reporter: his voice breaks as he talks about his family. why is it so painful? because you re suffering. he says food is hard to come by, and the weather is tough to bear. if you look closely you ll see that these are men, women, children. i see pregnant women, infants. reporter: border patrol s top cop announcing this weekend a surge of 600 agents, officers and other personnel. why del rio? why now? traditionally because of word of mouth. certainly what happened this time is that number doubled and tripled relatively quickly. reporter: and to expedite processing, removal flights to haiti have increased, said border patrol. and word about this ....
and we re following new twists in a woman s mysterious disappearance during a road trip. the fbi has been searching the family home of brian laundrie a day after the likely remains of his fiancee gabby petito were found. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with the breaking news on the ross of life from covid-19 that is both unfathomable and frankly unacceptable. the u.s. death toll from this pandemic just rose above 675,000. that s higher than the death toll from the 1918 flu pandemic more than 100 years ago. the youngest americans are increasingly at risk in this crisis here in the united states, and tonight they may be closer to being eligible for vaccinations. pfizer says its vaccine is safe and effective for children ages 5 to 11. in a smaller dose, a lower dose than adults get. let s discuss all of this and much more with dr. anthony fauci, the director of the nat ....
we ll have numbers and analysis. we begin with major immigration news. president biden is absorbing another major policy hit tonight with a ruling that democrats cannot include immigration reform, a path to citizenship and the massive tax and spend plan they call human infrastructure this as they desperately try to ease the mass of illegal immigrants many of them haitians along the southern border in one texas town. we have fox team coverage tonight aishah hasnie on capitol hill with all the goings on there bill melugin in del rio, texas again tonight. good evening, bill. we have redialed. bill: bret, good evening to you. texas governor greg abbott sent a letter to president biden asking him to declare a federal emergency here in texas over what s going on here in del rio. you can see over my shoulder there are still thousands of migrants living in this makeshift camp. the conditions are brutal. it s incredibly hot out here and this border crisis is only getting wor ....
to help estimate a number. many times throughout american history the question of how many jellybeans are in a jar has been a racist tool of oppression. in 1890 mississippi lawmakers gathered in jackson to find a way around the 15th amendment which gave african-americans the right to vote. the white judge who presided put the matter bluntly. we came here to exclude the negro. nothing short will answer. the mississippi lawmakers adopted two measures to make voting all but impossible for black people in mississippi. one was a poll tax. you had to bring the equivalent of $58 in today s money to vote. the other was a literacy test. registrars could ask arbitrary questions to decide if prospective voters were smart enough to vote. white people always seemed to get the simple questions. black voters, well, black voters were asked such things as how many bubbles are in a bar of soap? and they were also asked things like how many jellybeans are in this jar? these practices beca ....