we ll dig in to where the race stands and talk to dnc chair jaime harrison about why the effects of this race will reach far beyond the state. nancy pelosi and her fellow democrats are meeting behind closed doors right now as democrats once again have put themselves in a tight spot when it comes to the president s agenda. speaker pelosi said she wanted a deal on human infrastructure and a vote on hard infrastructure by tomorrow. she s been telling us a vote was imminent for more than a month. we ll see what happens. recently she s been saying democrats are almost there. it is 90% done. just a few more things to work out. even some of her own colleagues in the house are now saying i ll believe it when i see it. let s bring in our guests. at this point, how much of what happens next is up to speaker pelosi? right now it feels like joe manchin is calling the shots. that s how it s long felt, steph. technically speaker pelosi is the one calling the shots here on the house sid
arms a day. this is the nationwide average but there are exceptions, of course. you can see in five states case rates are climbing by at least 10%. more that you from cnn s paulo sandoval. reporter: christine, laura, good morning to you. big picture, covid rates are on the decline across most of the country. 45 states according to johns hopkins university which tracks these numbers saw cases decline or remain relatively steady over the weekend. nationally the u.s. seeing 95,000 new cases throughout the day. it s more than 2 months since it s dipped below that number. that number of infections is still too high and the number of vaccinated americans is still not high enough. he s warning against declaring a premature victory. take a listen. we still have around 68 million people who are eligible to be vaccinated that have not yet gotten vaccinated and even those who have been vaccinated, you want to look forward to holiday season, spending time with your family and doing t
look, it is essential we have to regain momentum we lost. my wife says all the time, professional she is, any country to outeducates us will outeducate us. work of our time prepare ourselves to be competitive to win in the 21st global economy. i propose two critical pieces of legislation being debated in washington now. one focus on investments we need to make fiscal infrastructure in america, roads, bridges, ports issue etcetera. second focus on investment in the american people to make us more competitive. i know this is my legislation, i feel strongly about it, but the people who have the most at stake are the american people. we need to stay focused on what the bills will mean to the people who are just looking for a little bit of breathing room, a fair chance to build a decent middle-class, to succeed and thrive instead of hanging on by their fingernails. need to keep an eye, an eye on what is fundamentals at stake for our country, ability to compete and win the race of
reporter: my frepgd the rain is starting to come down and light an picking up this afternoon. as we go into the afternoon i think we re going see that rain really pick up now the category hurricane center winds are at 80 american so it is just a category 1. once it drops below 73 then we re talking tropical storm. but it is about 285 meals south of san diego. now, the concern here is remember about when you re talking about hurricanes and tropical storms, hurricanes are given their category based on wind speed. so while the wind speeds may not be quite as strong here like we re used to maybe say the atlantic or gulf coast side the rain is a major concern. there you can see as it continues to barrel up to baja, mrks now we re seeing rain in san diego, los angeles, riverside county, inland empire, right through palm springs more rain than we get in one year in a matter of 24 hours so we re talking easily as you see the track up to the north rainfall totals one to three inches o
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