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we also talk with a scientific adviser to puerto rico s governor about how the u.s. island territory is dealing with the flood of new infections. also, on this, as a combination of covid and winter weather, it makes for another terrible travel day in the air. and on the ground, as well. on capitol hill, senate democrats are making voting rights their first big priority for the new year. and out west, a one-time silicon valley star now faces jail time after she was convicted of defrauding investors. and new instability in haiti, as the prime minister was forced to flee an independence day event after a deadly shooting at his office. his office says that it was an assassination attempt. and we begin this hour with our top story, evolving coronavirus pandemic. just in the last hour, the head of the cdc, dr. rochelle walensky, approved a third dose of the covid-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11 with compromised immune systems. she also approved a smaller window between ....
property, no doubt. what else are they doing? how nervous are californians about this, guam? alex, today is the day to prepare for people here in southern california. , so you have a mix of people who are concerned, and others that aren t really preparing, because they say they live in an area that doesn t flood. others don t really know what to do. so, possible flooding. california is an area that has a lot of hills of not. and so, people who live in low areas understands what can happen when they get a lot of rain. but people that i ve spoken to tell me they have no idea what a tropical storm means in terms of that rain. some of received say they might gets about a year s worth of rain in just a few hours. so, they just know it might be an overwhelming amount of water. you see some of the people who are collecting sandbags. there s locations like this set up all over san diego county for people in those low areas who, months ago, experienced a lot of rain in califor ....
a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m jose diaz-balart. time is of the essence for the frantic mission to find the titan submersible that has been missing since sunday with officials fearing oxygen may have run out. we re going to break down what is next for the search, which continues. in texas, four people are dead after a tornado ripped through a small town. part of a brutal string of summer storms pummeling the state as residents grapple with scorching temperatures. india s prime minister modi in the white house for his official state president with president biden. we ll talk about it with national security council coordinator john kirby. we begin this morning with a desperate race to locate that missing submersible with heightened sense of dread looming over the search because the coast guard projected that the five-person crew would have run out of oxygen about four hours ago. earlier rear admiral john mauger told nbc news the coast guard will continue to search ....
noon pacific, good to be with you. i m jose diaz-balart in for katy tur. today, the department of justice released a long awaited report on the police response to the mass shooting at robb elementary in uvalde, texas. it was almost two years ago in may of 2022 when a mass murderer took the lives of 19 children and two teachers, and despite officers arriving on the scene just three minutes after the shooter gained entry to the school, it took 77 minutes for law enforcement to confront the lone gunman. the report is scathing. calling the response to the shooting a failure. noting that despite evidence that wounded children were in the classroom, the officers did not engage with the shooter. they didn t treat the perpetrator as an active threat, and those decisions among others may have cost lives. families were briefed before the report was made public. i spoke to kimberly whose daughter lexi died that day and asked her what she wants to see come from this report. accou ....
said for the year. absolutely, and a lot of the story since the market opened this morning, the dow jones currently down 800 points, about 2.7%. if it stays at that level, through the market close, in about an hour, that would be the lowest level that we ve seen the dow in 2022, and what has already been a brutal year for markets. and the big reason for all of this, have to rewind back to wednesday when the federal reserve, the nation s economic steward raised interest rates for the fifth consecutive time this year. that s to try to raise borrowing costs, to take some steam out of an overheating u.s. economy and which has led to the high inflation that we ve seen. the concern though, that the federal reserve is going to have to slow the economy too much, to get ahead of that high inflation. the fed chair jay powell saying earlier this week he s not sure if this process leads to a recession. that s why you have some on wall street calling for and projecting an increase ....