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abortion showdown. the justice department sues texas over its strict new abortion law. why the attorney general says it s an open defiance of the constitution. 69/11 heroes. 9/11 heroes. the fighter pilots who were ready to pay the ultimate price to keep america safe. it was your call to ram the plane? we didn t have any other choice. o donnell: battle with breast cancer. senator amy klobuchar opens up about her diagnosis, and why the pandemic delayed detection. and, the children of 9/11. how the daughter of one victim is helping young people overcome their grief. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us. president biden is taking off the gloves to get more americans to roll up their sleeves. he s issuing an aggressive executive order mandating covid vaccines for millions of federal employees and contractors. and president biden is calli ....
abortion law in texas. how the biden administration says they are going to try to stop it, but do they have a case? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we begin in our health lead. in the next hour president biden will lay out his six-point plan to try to get the coronavirus pandemic under control. the this is nine weeks after biden declared independence from the virus. that was, of course, a premature declaration with deaths back up to roughly 1,500 a day in the united states and hospitalizations also rising and above 100,000. sources telling cnn that biden s plan will include an executive order requiring all federal workers to be vaccinated and the department of labor will require all private businesses with 100 or more employees to ensure all their workers are either vaccinated or tested for the virus at least once a week. the big question, of course, is how will the biden administration enforce this, and will these policies have any effect on the tens of million ....
the vast majority in louisiana, new york, and my home state of new jersey. over in connecticut, a funeral procession will get under way within this hour for a state trooper, sergeant brian mould, who died with his police cruiser was overwhelmed by floodwaters. hundreds of thousands of people are still without power. some might not get it back until the month of october. after touring the damage in both regions, president biden said the crisis demands an immediate response. climate change poses an existential threat to our lives, our economy. it s here and it s not going to get any better. this is code red. the nation and the world are in peril. that s not hyperbole. that is a fact. let s dig deeper into all of this and bring in allison barber and sam brock, in louisiana, and kathleen miller in cranford, new jersey. she is the mayor there. sam, let s start with you. the numbers i am reading are crazy. 300,000 plus people without power, 3,000 in shelters, 25,000 displ ....
new york and new jersey that federal help and tens of billions of help is on the way. welcome. i m neil cavuto. this is your world. what we re chronicaling here is a president saying that i m here and so is the federal government. he will be speaking shortly about the kind of aid he s talking about. let s get the read from alex hogan in manville, new jersey. alex? hi, neil. it s such a painful day for people in this community that are starting to pick up the pieces after losing everything that they own. as you mentioned, the president was here today in manville, new jersey. he met with state and local officials touring this area and needing many of these residents. he talked with people, stopping by to give them hugs and spoke with a woman and talked about what it was like for her when she came home. probably 2:30, 3:00, the houses on fire. thank god you didn t come back. yeah. we were not near the house. nobody was able to come back yet because the waters wer ....
one of two republicans on the select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection slamming his fellow house gop members for threatening tech companies to not comply with the request for their records. right now all we ve said is we want these records preserved. there s a number of people, and then we ll decide what we need to see and what s in the american people s interest. i think to turn around and make ominous talk to these telecom companies that when we take over it s going to be different or we ll have payback, that s not, frankly, the republican party i remember and the republican party i ever joined. and new polling today from the washington post and abc news shows president biden s rating has dropped in the wake of the delta variant, down about 10 points since june. cedric richmond reacting to the numbers this morning. we re not worried about poll numbers. we re worried about the 1.2 million people in louisiana who didn t have electricity, the ....