and a cnn exclusive investigation ucncovers evidenc of genocide ini tigray. the white house s latest move to halt an alarming spread of covid-19 is provoking and angry backlash among republicans, they are furious that many large companies could soon face hefty fines. the administration s tough new measures directly impact more than 20 million people whose jobs are tied to the u.s. government. an executive order now requires all federal workers and contractors to get their shots soon or they could be fired. kaitlan collins reports that is only the start. reporter: president biden unveiled new measures to try to encourage tens of millions to get vaccinated saying he believes those 80 million americans who still have not done so have, quote, failed to get the vaccine. making an appeal to those talking about safety and efficacy of these vaccines and also areas where they may not have a choice. one of those is a new vaccine mandates for all federal wo workers. previously they co
assessment. the u.s. military does not have sufficient forces to rescue americans who cannot get to the kabul airport evacuation point. we don t have the capability to go collect large numbers of people. reporter: the u.s. is relying on the taliban to let americans and afghan allies pass through checkpoints to reach the airport. a risky journey. in an interview with abc news, president biden said he knew chaos was inevitable. we ll go back in hindsight and look but the idea somehow there was a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing i don t know how that happens. reporter: the pentagon says the pace of evacuations is improving but not adequate. pressed about stranded americas the president said if necessary troops would remain beyond the august 31st, withdrawal deadline. if there are american citizens left we ll stay until we get them all out. reporter: they say u.s. intelligence said there was a prediction of a rapid collapse. but general milley saying that
young to be vaccinated masking is the most effective strategy for preventing transmission in schools. their data shows, quote, more than 7,000 children and adults acquired the coronavirus attended school while infectious because of close contact with those cases more than 40,000 people required quarantine through contact tracing and testing, however, we found only 363 additional children and adults acquired the coronavirus. we believe this low rate of transmission occurred because of the mask-on mask school environment, both the infected person and close contact wore masks. in other words, there s a less than 1% chance of passing covid on to a peer or adult in school if universal masking is in place. this is sound research from reputable health experts but then again so is this. on the same day, another article was published prominently on the home page of the wall street journal with this headline, the case against masks against children, it s abusive to force kids who str
structure bill for a month now after they reached an agreement on what they called the basic framework of that legislation. one month ago, in a meeting with president biden at the white house. there they are after that meeting up there in the white house driveway and now it s not unusual at all for it to take at least a month or more to figure out the details of such legislation after you ve established a general shape of it and then get all of that into precise legislative language. and after a weekend of work, it seems like today it might actually be the day that the bipartisan group could bring their bill to the senate floor through majority leader chuck schumer and begin debate. here is what the lead republican negotiator rob portman said yesterday. we re about 90% of the way there, with a legislative language and staff and i feel good about getting that on this week. we have one issue outstanding and we re not getting much response from the democrats and it s about mas
on it. congressman adam schiff the head of house intel joins us live. in the covid crisis today, to mandate or not no mandate. in the last couple of minutes, new york city is about to announce vaccines will be mandatory for all city employees, including teacher, police officers, firefighters, all of it as millions of health care workers are out this morning, calling for vaccinations to be required in their field while another big city reimposes a mask mandate. will the federal government do the same? i m hallie jackson. we start in washington with leigh ann caldwell on capitol hill. leigh ann, brand new reporting on who is giving opening statements tomorrow and who else speaker pelosi is considering adding to the committee. reporter: good morning, hallie. representative benny thompson, the top democrat on the committee is giving an opening statement tomorrow and so is representative liz cheney, a republican who is on this committee, of course, she s his pick by speaker pe