we need for students and schools, the executive order prevents local officials from imposing mask mandates on students. he says parents should make that decision, not school districts. john roberts in washington, welcome to another edition of america reports . i am in today for sandra smith. the white house says that orders goes against proper public health guidance, and now president biden as checking to see if he s got the power to intervene in the seven states that have banned mask mandates. dr. nicole saphier as standing by with her opinion on all of this. hi, jackie. hey, john. after florida governor threaten to withhold the salaries of school board members and administrators who don t comply with his order banning mask mandates, the white house says it s looking into its options with respect to covid relief money that was distributed to the states, distributed to florida. there checking to see if they can use some of that money potentially to cover the salaries
eligible americans have had at least one dose. we have new insight today on when younger kids could be able to get one. elizabeth cohen kicks us off. eager parents of kids 12 and under want to know when are the shots ready. yes. it hasn t been approved for them yet. so the pharmaceutical companies are doing clinical trials with children for various doses to make sure that it is safe and effective for them. let s take a look at what we re hearing from pfizer. they seem to be first out of the gate in this area. pfizer is telling us that for children ages 5 to 11, that pfizer might be asking the fda for emergency use authorization for children in this group in september. usually just based on history. it then takes several weeks for the fda to process the application. i can t imagine even if they apply september 1st, i can t imagine it would happen in october or november. as for younger children, pfizer says they could have data later in the fall, maybe as late as november for
guidance for the vaccinated. potentially very big news. also president biden making a case for his economic and legislative agendas. in a bipartisan investigation of the january 6th insurrection but his primary focus was fighting the resurgence of coronavirus. it s real simple. we have a pandemic for those who haven t gotten a vaccination. it s that basic. it s that simple. if you re vaccinated, you re not going to be hospitalized. you re not going to be in an icu unit, and you re not going to die. there s legitimate questions people can ask they worry about getting vaccinated. when will children under 12 be able to get vaccinated. soon, i believe. they are doing the examinations now, the testing now and making the decision now. the cdc is going to say that what we should do is everyone over the age of under the age of 12 should probably be wearing a mask in school. that s probably what s going to happen. i don t care if you think i m satan reincarnated. the fact is
the rain, one of the bests counting on a big fourth of july weekend.bests counting on a big fourth of july weekend. so why are there still so many open jobs? we ll dig into the economic picture, what it means for you, and getting answers from the experts including labor secretary marty walsh. but i want to start with an a all-star panel to help us break this down. doug holtz eakin is president of the miles an hour action form and former economic adviser to john mccain. and jason furman, council of economic advisers during the obama administration, john hope bryant, founder of a nonprofit focused on financial literacy. and also an economics professor at northeastern university. jason, take a look at this jobs number. what are your thoughts of where we are in the recovery? this was a good month for jobs. it exceeded expectations. if we can keep jobs at this pace and think that we can for a number of months, we ll be well on our way to repairing things. there are some mixed si
yeah. am i going to be in the same block out of this or can i take a break? okay. oh! oh, my god! blp. a cicada. what the hell? do i have more on me? i don t see any more. [ bleep ]. are they in my hair? no, not in your hair. [ bleep ]. yes, that s right. where are the cicadas coming from. how do they get there into the where were you, in the russell rotunda, right? what was going how do they even get in there, and gross, right? yeah, look. in the context here, it s important. you know, a couple minutes before that happened, there was actually another cicada that allegedly fell out of my pocket. and that happened as i was waiting to go on. our producer morgan said a cicada just fell out of your pocket. and i saw it on the ground and i was a bit stunned. and i was indoors. we had just come from outside about 30 minutes before interviewing senator john thune, and perhaps the cicada, one of those buggers jumped on me as i was running back into the