walensky continues to push for the unvaccinated to get their first shots. she also said today she s not surprised that so many people are hold out because of how misinformation has actually crept in. i do think if we had community health workers in so many communities that have been vaccine hesitant now, that have been checking diabetes and checking blood pressure control and doing all of those things when it came time to vaccinate, it would have been a no-brainer, they would have easily been able to convince their communities to get vaccinated. they have been trusted health providers. so the u.s. is finally seeing a drop this cases, about 10% nationwide. that s the good news. but not in many lower vaccinated places like nebraska who are rationing care. in tennessee, officials have given one of the most effective covid treatments only to unvaccinated patients and those who are immunocompromised. we re talking about monoclonal antibodies. they ve chosen to give it to only
didn t say that s making headlines. also learned there could be another delay in a vote on both the spending bill and the bipartisan infrastructure bill. the house speaker not committing to the previous deadline set for monday. saying she s confident both bills will get passed. and in a new sign, things are getting real. the white house telling federal agencies to prepare for a government shutdown. we re also watching for developments from the cdc which could announce at any moment who will be qualified to get a booster shot of pfizer s covid-19 vaccine. let s go ahead and bring in our nbc news team, ali vitali on capitol hill. mike memoli at the white house and joins by jake sherman punchbowl news founder and msnbc political contributor. ali, start with you. a big day of developments and speaker pelosi making news late this morning? reporter: a busy day and frank lif busy week. right to frame it as news for what was said and not said. in terms what we actually heard fr
time. despite this miss, unemployment fell to 4.2%. president biden set to speak about all of this in about an hour from now. it begs the question where are we on the covid economic recovery? i ll ask marty walsh later this hour. do not forget we are still dealing with supply chain issues. even though they re improving and americans right now are paying up, a lot of them say big time, with nearly half of u.s. households saying the higher prices are causing serious hardship at home. the new omicron covid variant could throw a curveball at us with five states reporting casing and that number is certain to go up. we ll add that. the perfect team to break it down starting with mike memoli at the white house. steve liesman. karen kimbrough is the linked in chief economy. and douglas holtz akin. dr. liesman i have to go to you first. september jobs report was 194,000 huge miss and then it was revised to 379,000 almost double that number. do you think that s what could be happenin
Starting december 6th all international travelers will be required to test negative within a day of their departure to the united states. the president stressing no new lockdowns or shutdowns at the current time. joining us to discuss this new information that you need to know, alisyn barber in illinois, lindsey risener, and dr. celine gounder. doctor, is this the covid that gives you the sniffles or sends you to the hospital? we don t have the answer to that. i think people are hopeful, based on a handful of cases most of them in young healthy people with mild symptoms they are extrapolaing that omicron may not be so serious, so virulent but we don t know we need more data to assess whether or not that is the case. lindsey, five cases have been
Is sharing an update how many are still camped around that bridge in del rio and how many people have been removed. what are you learning? lindsey, last check fewer than 5,000 mostly haitian men, women and children are beneath that bridge which is about a quarter mile from where i m standing. this is where pretty much everyone all 15,000, that peak over the weekend came across here. the rio grande crossing. you can see that dam allowing a shallow enough crossing for pretty much about five days of unchecked crossings before that massive arrival of state and federal agencies on saturday evening, sunday morning. as far as how operations are going here, it s been 24/7 operation since really about sunday-monday in earnest with those relocation buses and/or flights in some cases taking them to other processing centers all along the u.s.-mexico border. not necessarily here in texas. we did speak to one haitian couple the other day.