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become the first oral treatment for covid. cnn s nick watt has more. the first pill to treat covid-19 might be getting close. today it is makers merck and ridge buy bio therapeutics asked the fda for emergency use authorization. unlike the quack cures out there, this has science behind it. in trials, peer review had half of the risk of hospitalization and death in people already suffering symptoms. long-term, i think this is huge. reporter: and unlike monoclonal antibody treatment as begun iv infusion, these are easy to pop pills. so it makes it much more accessible and reliable and gives us hope. reporter: meantime, more than a thousand city workers in boston face unpaid leave tomorrow for failing to get vaccinated and showing the proof or taking tests as more vaccine mandate deadlines near, shots in arms did just tick up. plus a powerful voice is making a pitch to fellow evangelicals, a somewhat hesitant group. if you ve prad to god to give you protection ....
today we are celebrating the international day of the girl. promoting the empowerment of millions of girls including afghan girls who face an uncertain future under the taliban rule. this morning savannah guthrie spoke with nobel peace prize laureate malala yousufzai, an advocate for afghan girls as part of the today show s special coverage. there are a lot of young girls who look up to you. what s your message to girls who want to make a difference in their own communities? believe in yourself. believe in your voice. believe in the dedication and determination that you hold for the things that you believe in. but we begin today with the coronavirus. joining me now, nbc s kerry sanders in florida and dr. vin gupta, pulmonologist and affiliate assistant professor at the university of washington. welcome both. dr. gupta, first to you. i want to talk about what the former fda commissioner and current pfizer board member scott gottlieb had to say about the timing of ....
if we don t if any country out-educates us, they ll out-compete us. look what china is doing. look what the rest of the world is doing. they re investing. they re also investing in thing that relate to ability for people to go to work and stay at work. you have several million women who can t go back to work because they don t have any way to take care of their children. so to give a tax cut to a working mom to be able to afford day care, is that bad? is that a bad idea? i think it is a darn good idea. it ll get people back to work. there s a lot of things in the legislation i ll be talking about across the country that i think the american people overwhelmingly support. but the idea that, somehow, this is somebody else s legislation, this is what i wrote. sir, do you 22 $2 trillion reconciliation bill? would that be acceptable to you? again, as you know, it s not a smart thing to negotiate with yourself in public. we re in the process of talking to all the part ....
catastrophe. an ecological catastrophe while dead birds and fish float up. the senator mitch mcconnell is playing games with a loaded gun here. covid on the horizon. we re certainly turning the corner on this particular surge. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom on this sunday. it s great to have you along with us. we begin tonight with breaking news. they call it the pandora papers, and tonight the box is open. a huge trove of private financial documents revealing how the rich and powerful keep billions of dollars beyond the reach of taxes, creditors accoun accountability. approximately 1.59 million records were obtained from the con sorsortium of the investiga post and news worldwide. they are listed on forbes for billionaires and over 900 territories. quote, the papers allow for the most comprehensive accounting to date of a parallel financial universe whose corrosive effects can span generations, draining significant sums from ....
to the capitol. when he emerged after a meeting with house democrats, the message was take your time. i m telling you, we re going to get this done. it doesn t matter when. it doesn t matter whether it s in six minutes, six days, or six weeks. we re going to get it done. now, standing with the president as you saw there, house speaker pelosi, whose message all week was proitd pretty much the opposite. that turns out to be wishful thinking on her part. the bottom line remains the same. getting it done for democrats and the president means satisfying progressive lawmakers who successfully blocked a vote on the infrastructure bill without alienating two sen stribt senators, joe manchin and kyrsten sinema, who have been pushing against the kind of sweeping legislation that the progressives and the president want. the president today did not bridge that gap. at least publicly. the question now, will members of his party use the time he apparently bought for some bridge b ....