the white house is making one final push to get the covid relief bill through the senate, over the objection of republicans. all i m trying to do is make this a more deliberate process. more states rolling back covid-19 safety measures. i will not keep the mask order in effect. evidence supports the use in preventing disease and death. on average, more than 2 million doses going into american arms every day. if we continue to vaccinate more and more and more, we ll get rid of the masks. but i don t know really what the big rush is. announcer: this is new day with alisyn camerota and john berman. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is new day. it s friday, march 5th. 6:00 here in new york and storytime is over in the u.s. senate. senator ron johnson of wisconsin, who has proven that his tastes normally run towards make-believe and fantasy overnight demanded a foray into non-fiction. as americans wait for passage of a $
he s a well known jihadist who was released from prison after the downfall of former president hosni mubarak s regime.diotti i york. what do we know about the arrest of the aleng ledged terrorist suspect? he was picked up a couple weeks ago in ejimegyegypt. joous authorities suspect he may have been involved in the consulate attack in benghazi on september 11th that killed chris stephens and three other americans with direct knowledge of the investigation. the u.s. source tells me the fbi which is conducting the investigation, has not had access to him yet. the source says following the attack, ahmed very quickly popped up on their radar, so they have been looking at him for some time. the official would not comment on what led them to him. joe. so what do we know about this guy? he s a radical, certainly, and he s been on the radar, but what more do we know about him? we know he s 45 years old, masters degree in sharia law. he s also believed to be the driving force be
day. they were hunkered down and watching at least one tornado rip up trees, whip around power lines and just in this one spot from east texas to the gulf coast of alabama you have weather officials counting 28 tornadoes that hit ground on christmas day. now, in southern alabama right now more than 200,000 homes are without power. we are live from mobile in just a minute with the full picture of the damage there. all right. you are watching this is an enormous funnel cloud. it formed and touched down near interstate 165 in mobile. david and whitney sarasino were driving to see their family for christmas and realized they were headed right into the tornado. well, the first thing was i had asked my wife it to pick up the camera and start getting some footage of it, because i know that the local news stations and everything were want wanting to see what was going on. at that point we just kind of drove as fast as we possibly could get out of the way. i know we were actually
thanks for watching. i m christine romans following fiscal cliff all day and night. ashleigh banfield returning tomorrow. newsroom with suzanne malveaux starts right now. welcome back to cnn newsroom. here s what s going on right now. 2013 hitting right now in bangkok, thailand. we re looking at live pictures there as the celebrations and the fireworks exploding there. lots of picture-taking and a lot of excitement there. right now pope benedict holding a new year s eve mass at st. peter s basilica. they will celebrate the new year in six hours. a couple of hours ago folks toasted 2013 in new zealand. check it out. pretty cool. party started with fireworks with the auckland sky it tower. organizers were worried bad weather would be a problem, but everything turned out just fine. congratulations. the second major city to ring in the new year, sydney, australia. check it out. wow, that is over city harbor bridge. the show is huge. we are talking about seven tons o
has more than $50 billion, they have to put pennies on hundred dollars for a fund to insure the banks so when you go down and say i never missed a payment, let me refinance, they ll say okay. they re against this. we will get that done. folks, look. this is all about expanding the middle class. it s about giving people a way. so many hard working folks trying to climb into the middle class and so many hard working folks have been banged out of the middle class. as my dad used to say, it s a lot more. it s a lot more. when my dad had to leave scranton for a year to go to wilmington to get set up, get a new job to bring the family down and things would be okay, i will never forget what my siblings, it rings in our ears. from that point on, my dad used to say every time a job would come up, honey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. it s about your dignity. it s about your sense of self-worth. it s about respect. it s mainly if you re a parent about being able to turn and