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the trouble is theirs is valued add a third of that and excluded the state and local aid that democrats find essential to responding to this. they are meeting this afternoon. we ll see where that goes. in the fight against the virus, better news this morning. forc for the first time in almost two months, fewer than 100,000 americans are hospitalized with covid-19. the direction of the graph there a hopeful sign. it is. the fight far from over. you could see the last month marked the deadliest of the pandemic in the u.s. more than 95,000 people in this country died from covid in that month alone. the key to ending the pandemic is vaccinated people. some states using big sites to get as many shot news arms as quickly as they can. we kick things off in washington on the fight for aid for stimulus. our lauren fox joins us on capitol hill. okay, so the republicans came out with a counter proposal and joe biden said come on over to the white house. but what he does with tha ....
their roles. the decision could change the direction of the party as we know it. let s begin with jessica dean who joins us on the hill with more on this power sharing agreement. reporter: the big thing here is democrats will now take control of the senate committees. when you re in control, you re setting the agenda. that means thing in joe biden s agenda that they wanted to get ahead, president biden s agenda they wanted to push ahead like merrick garland s nomination for attorney general can now move forward. you ll remember there has been a holdup on some of these nominees including merrick garland who is the nominee to be attorney general because republicans maintained control of these committees, because they had to operate off the last congress because they didn t have this agreement in place. now that democrats will take over these committees, that means democrats are going to have a much easier time getting things on the table. they re going to hold control. ....
that inflation was above 6%. for months the white house claimed inflation was transitory and would go away. republican senator ron johnson says democrats need to take responsibility now. this is a democrat s tax on the middle class. this is how they inflate their way through deficit spending. people need to understand that. this is very dangerous. i m concerned we re in an inflationary cycle. people s wages have gone up their wage gains are being wiped out by this inflation and this didn t just happen. this is caused by democrat policies. harris: so it s not just the prices, it is whether you can actually find what you need. look at the picture. seem familiar? #bare shelves biden trending on social media. as americans are fed up over the supply chain crisis that could get even worse thanks to a nationwide labor shortage. fox digital interviewing shoppers to find out what they think. what they are experiencing. no juices, no orange juice. it s like a soviet store ....
and today s judges put a hold on their own ruling to give his lawyers time to file an appeal. it comes as the select committee heard from four important witnesses today. that would be john eastman, author of the memo used to try and convince mike pence to toss out the election results. that would be former trump cyber security czar chris krebs, who publicly disputed the big lie, famously said at the time that our presidential election had been free and fair. former pentagon official, kash patel, also ali alexander who organized stop the steal rallies after the 2020 election. he happened to meet with the committee today for eight hours. it was really just important to me as a man of faith and a man of peace to have come here and say, stop the steal held 500 rallies in all 50 states in the union, and not one turned violent. alexander also denies his group had anything to do with the violence at the capitol. the committee vice chair, liz cheney, said today the committe ....
antonia, connecticut has had the highest number of covid cases in all 50 states in the last few weeks. how are the doctors and nurses holding up? chris, it has been really hard. you know connecticut has in many ways led the way in vaccinations. they were the first to reach herd immunity and now they re seeing a massive uptick in cases. statewide about 500,000 people. so they re really getting the message out there about the importance of vaccination about folk that s are vaccinated and that doesn t mean just hesitant adults, but those that need fist and second shots. and folk that s have waning immunities. many people got vaccinated months ago, right? now those folks have waning protection. they are trying to get the message out that booster shots will keep them protected. centers like this one, this is the kind of public vaccination site. if you call call pharmacies, they are waiting weeks and months for appointments, but parks like this one are hosting these events ....