booster shots for adults. we were hoping that we would get both the candidates, both products, moderna and pfizer, rolled out by the week of the 20th. it is could nnceivable that we only have one of them out but the other will soon follow there after. i m ammara walker. you re in the cnn newsroom. it has been a week since hurricane ida charged ashore in louisiana and it is still claiming victims. more than 600,000 homes and businesses are still without power. and the merciless heat proved fatal for an elderly man in new orleans. it could take several more weeks to restore power to everyone in the state. in new york, heroism and heart break from ida s deadly visit there. this is a new york police officer wading into chest deep waters wednesday to investigate reports of people in a flooded basement. with stuffed animals and toys bobbing in the filthy, murky water, the officers were blockade by locked doors and live electricity. firefighters brought in specialized equipment
the only problem last week was not a phone call to an afghan government that was melting away and had almost, or didn t have any leverage. the number one challenge at the end of last week was whether the airport would continue to fly, allow planes to fly out, and those people we were getting out, would they be allowed to get out? the largest survey of covid infection in the uk has found that both the pfizer and astrazeneca vaccines are still offering good protection against the delta variant. and coming up this hour, new research shows the bosses of britain s biggest companies earned 86 times the average full time wage last year. hello and welcome to bbc news. the uk is to deploy another company of soldiers to afghanistan to try to deal with the situation at kabul airport, where people are desperately trying to flee the country. twelve people have been killed around the airport since sunday. the taliban are urging people without the legal right to travel to go home. defence s
facebook will keep former president trump off the site, at least for some time to come, after their oversight board today revealed that they agree with the move after the former president s false claims on the 2020 election. also tonight, the war growing within the republican party. the move now to push congresswoman liz cheney out of her post for speaking out about election lies. and tonight, her new message just in. our reporting on the disturbing rise in attacks on asian-americans. tonight, two new cases just days apart in san francisco. two women stabbed in broad daylight. a young father beaten while his son was in a stroller, rolling away. tonight, the emotional reunions. the first migrant families separated under the trump administration s zero tolerance policy to be reunited. the mother from honduras d t seen them in three years. another mother back with her son after being pulled apart at the border. and what happens now after the reunions? tonight, news in the
blowback from vice president harris interviews pushing urgent action on economic relief with west virginia news media, a move seen as pressure on west virginia senator joe manchin, who was put off by the move, which seemed rather ham handed. the white house said this afternoon president biden is not worried about going too big with the bill. he is worried about going too small. you can t find bipartisanship on covid-19, i don t know where you can find it. reporter: one hour from now, ten republican senators will put joe biden s call for bipartisanship to the test. biden granting a meeting on the group s covid relief proposal, $618 billion plan to provide $160 billion through vaccine distribution and testing, $300 for expanded unemployment insurance and 20 billion for k through 12 schools. we saw this as a good faith proposal they put forward. what this meeting is not is a forum for the president to make or accept an offer. reporter: the plan comes in less than one-th
with the federal data showing that only about half of the vaccine supply that have been distributed has been administered. and a member of the covid response team acknowledged yesterday that it will be months until every american who wants a vaccine can get one. as for president biden today, he s rolling out executive orders following through with a campaign promise to help shore up the affordable care act. we ll have much more on that in a moment. bup i want to start with the new threats to congress. as the department ofless is issuing a new warning about the danger coming from domestic extremists. jessica schneider is joining me. so a lot of new developments here. first there was just an arrest near the capitol. what are you hearing about this? reporter: so we re hearing this is a man who was first seen parked in the middle of an intersection near the capitol and then police approached him, approached the vehicle and inside of the vehicle they found a 9 millimeter handgun