earlier today israeli police fired rubber bullets and stun grenades at the compound, in jerusalem, and police say they were responding to a riot at this holy site, let s go to the ground, cnn s hadas gold is in jerusalem. is this cease-fire expected to hold, out doesn t seem like the underlying issues that led to this outbreak of violence have been resolved. that s a great point, ana, so far since that cease-fire came into effect, 2:00 a.m. local time, overnight, it has held in the sense that there haven t been rockets fired into gaza. and air strikes into gaza. people coming out and assessing the damage, people in israel starting to feel as though they can go about their lives at the fear of rockets being launched. but that doesn t niecely mean that things are completely calm. earlier in jerusalem, and at the compound, known as the noble sanctuary, it s a place very holy to both muslims and jews. there were thousands of palestinians there, protesting, chanting, waving both
and house speaker, sitting behind the president. a lot has happened in 100 days. mapping out a plan to overcome covid, from creating a vaccination plan from scratch to convincing congress to spend more federal funding to those struggling most, and now it s on to infrastructure, which could be a good thing given new polling i mentioned shows nearly 6 in 10 americans think biden s infrastructure plan is a good idea. our new polling shows nearly 70% of the country approves of how he s handled the pandemic. not the same story on other issues. when it comes to immigration and guns, 1 in 3 americans approve of biden s handling so far. will polling change how biden governs? here s vice president kamala harris earlier today. he is someone who i have seen over and over again make decisions based on what he truly believes, based on his years of doing this work and studying these issues, what he truly believes is the right thing to do. joining me now, nbc political correspondent ali
so the first thing, jim, is that this is just stellar news for all of us. as parents, as society, we know we need to vaccinate kids in order to stop transmission, even though kids don t get super sick, having them vaccinated will be so helpful for us getting this virus under control. that said, a couple of caveats. there were only a few cases of covid-19, even in the placebo group. so the numbers are really small. of course, this is just a press release. we saw what happened with the astrazeneca press release. i m holding my bottles of champagne until i see the actual data. but, no, i have not seen a vaccine that is truly 100% effective. one more thing is that they not only looked at cases. they also looked at antibody response. and because we know kids are less likely to get symptomatic. that strong antibody response is just as exciting as the prevention of the cases. the kids are developing that immune response to protect themselves. great, okay. and to your point, righ
its eastern plank in the event of further russian aggression against ukraine. all of these things, to make clear to russia, the costs and consequences of its potential actions. we think that s the best and most effect yive way to convinc russia not to engage in further aggression against ukraine. ukraine is a very valued partner of the united states and other countries in europe as well, but our article v commitment extends to nato allies, something that we are deeply committed to. ukraine is not a member of nato. it s not covered by the article v commitment, but a determination to do everything we can to defend it and to prevent or to deter aggression directed toward it. and as i said, we will continue all of those efforts in the coming days and coming weeks, even as we test whether the path to a diplomatic resolution is possible. and i m sorry, the first part of the question? reporter: the dialogue between the presidents oh j, yes, thank you. what we ve agreed today i
top diplomat for the united states as the tensions between russia and ukraine intensify. and legal pile-on from the capitol to georgia to the white house residence, more trouble for donald trump. thanks for being here, everyone. we ll start with breaking news. a trio of new reports just out from the cdc offering the very first look at how covid vaccines hold up against the omicron variant. and the data paints a pretty clear picture of how crucial boosters are, protecting people far better against this particular variant than just the two-dose regimen. the report showing those with booster shots offer a better chance for staying out of the hospital if they become infected. the studies also come at what could be another critical turning point in the pandemic. almost half of the country now reporting declining cases with some more glimmers of hope that the surge has passed in the northeast, but still hospitalizations are on the rise across much of the country. and there s also