world leaders and voters across this country are watching very closely. and the unexpected moment on that stage, you ll hear what the president said. the storms on the move tonight. heavy rain and winds sweeping across the midwest into the northeast. and the video just in of a tornado on the ground. the heat alerts from washington, d.c. to philadelphia, new york city to boston, as millions tonight in the south are without power after the hurricane amid life-threatening heat. ginger with the latest forecast. that air scare. the very close call over the syracuse airport. a delta flight and an american airlines regional flight. authorities say at one point, the pilots were so close they could not see the other plane. also, news tonight, a suspect was shot during an attempted carjacking right near the home of supreme court justice sonia sotomayor. the college death under investigation tonight. the hazing investigation following the death of a missing student at dartmouth.
classrooms, many parents are worried that their children, who are too young to be vaccinated, will contract the virus. so in georgia, that fear has become a reality, just two days after starting their school year, more than 100 students at one school in atlanta are now in quarantine after nine students and five staffers tested positive. so cnn s natasha chen is following that story for us. natasha, you have some breaking news about what that school is now discussing. what have you learned? reporter: yeah, alisyn, just within the past hour, we got the update with the number of cases, as of this afternoon. as you mentioned, 14 total cases, more than a hundred students in quarantine. and now, the drew charter school behind us is discussing possibly having mandatory vaccination for staff. the head of school, peter mcknight, told me that about three quarters of the staff were are already vaccinated, but now there s discussion about whether to make that mandatory for all employ
right now. so well that prices are booming. is that because all of this spending is now soaring and out of control? welcome. i m neil cavuto, this is your world. so glad to have you with us. man, i m old enough to remember when any one of these packages would be the entire budget of the united states. do not ask me how old i am. i m telling you, i m old enough to remember when any one of these plans would be the entire budget of the united states. this is very clear that democrats are taking advantage of their thin majorities and hoping in this $3.5 trillion measure to get a lot of folks on board with it before mid-term elections. let s get the read from jacqui heinrich following the numbers. hey, i would say there s a number of lawmakers here that have as long a memory as you do when it comes to the budget. president biden is trying to keep hills democratic caucus told and pull these two plans over the finish line. getting the progressive to support a smaller reconciliat
but there was i lot of surprise about why fiez ser going to be doing that. why are they applying for this authorization, why is it necessary? they talked about waning immunity but there aren t studies that show waning immunity and pfizer didn t offer up any evidence of waning immunity. and this is a pharmaceutical company. they re supposed to specialize in data. the only data they pointed to is this israeli data. so take a look. we discussed this when it came out this week. so israeli data presented with very little back-up or science behind it that the shot is 64% effective at preventing infection and this is still with the delta variant being prodominant and 93% effective at preventing severe disease and hospitalization. that second number is the more important. 93% effect as preventing hospitalization. that is an excellent vaccine. few vaccines are that effective. why is pfizer all of a sudden basically saying almost like it s own product isn t working as well as they woul
it is friday in the public reckoning. it may be losses in the long term. plus new cdc mask guidance for kids in school as pfizer pushes for a vaccine booster shot. the cdc and the fda saying not so fast. we ll talk to a governor struggling to get his own state vaccinated. fbi officials are going to help with the investigation into the assassination of haiti s president. welcome to friday. it is meet the press daily. i m chuck todd here in washington. a fence surrounding the capitol put up because of pro-trump extremists. the dismandling of the fence is the most symbolic change since the insurrection six months ago. more substantive in the last six months since the deadly attack, the republican party got more radical and more committed to trumpism, not less. on january 6th, richard burr said in a statement that the president bears responsibility for today s events. he would go on to convict him in the impeachment trial. lindsey graham said that night count me out, enough