Significant. And this call for schools to implement regular testing. Talk us through what youre hearing from sources. Reporter hallie, obviously, this is shaping up to be a pretty significant speech from the president after a summer in which he had hoped we would be looking at the downslope of the Covid19 Pandemic and focus on other issues, but instead the Delta Variant changed those plans. White house officials are casting this speech as sort of everything theyve been trying to do, but bigger and bolder. One of those specifically already has to do with something the president himself did a couple of months ago. We talked about in july when the president ordered federal agencies to require a Vaccine Requirement on their staff or give them an option short of a vaccine of doing regular attestation of their negative status from covid19. What the president is expected to do today sign an executive order, directing those federal agencies to give up that second option. You have to be vaccina
Fence around the capitol. Those concerns come as we get a look at Brandnew Fbi Video of the person they think planted Pipe Bombs the day before the insurrection. Were also following Breaking News in afghanistan. 200 more evacuees taking off from kabul today, ending an impasse with the taliban. Among them, more americans. This is the Brandnew Video of that flight. Were live from the city where that plane is expected to land. But we begin with Breaking News. A new phase in the pandemic fight. In just a matter of hours, President Biden is set to lay out his next Big Push to stop the spread of covid and to boost vaccinations. One part of the Sixpoint Plan is coming into much sharper focus in just the last 90 minutes. We have now learned that President Biden will sign an Executive Order requiring all federal workers and contractors to be vaccinated. Plus, theres some new guidance for schools as pediatric cases rise. Nbcs Mike Memoli is at the White House for us. Nbcs Cal Perry in lexington,
And advisory boards, you re not going to get anywhere. mark murray, thank you. and thanks to all of you for watching this very busy hour. tomorrow, i will not see you here. i will see you from the pentagon because we will be having special coverage to mark 20 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. 6:00 a.m. eastern. at 10:00, we will be across the river, across the potomac in northernverge verge from the pentagon. for now, we ll turn you over to chris jansing who picks up coverage now. good thursday morning. i m chris jansing in for craig melvin. this nob, we re tracking a number of fast moving stories with critical developments including increased security coming to capitol hill. congress and police now taking crucial steps ahead of a scheduled rally in support of people arresting during the january 6th insurrection. one of those steps, the return of that imposing seven-foot-tall