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shots, that is the focus right now. the white house chief of staff says at this point he doesn t know when americans will get covid-19 booster shots despite an initial announcement last month that a third dose would be available to everyone on september 20th. that would be just two weeks from today. now that is not clear at all. this after top health officials warned that more time is needed to review all of the data. dr. fauci says he s confident that pfizer is still on track for a september 20th booster rollout, but the moderna s may be delayed beyond that. grim picture in the united states as children are returning to the classroom, the cdc says that childrens hospitals across the country are filling with covid cases. community transmission is dangerously high and another troubling development, the seven-day average of new cases of covid per 100,000 people is 300% higher than it was on labor day of last year. we have a lot to get to on this. we ll get there in a m ....
it is good to see you. thank you for being with us. i m geoff bennett for another hour of msnbc reports. how a texas restrictive abortion law is driving patients to neighboring states and how residents are stepping up to protest the law. and now, how the death toll of hurricane ida is continuing to climb. up to 70 in multiple states. the president is going to new jersey to tour the devastation after he visited louisiana where hundreds of thousands are without power after a week after the storm. also, this hour, the latest on the covid pandemic, and the u.s. is hitting 40 million cases over the weekend, and the number of people dying daily is rising amid another surge from this holiday weekend. but we start with the staggering damage and devastation from ida. joining us now from louisiana is nbc s vaughan hillyard in lafayette, and we have john in st. jhn parish and anne is our msnbc correspondent reporting on the devastation. so, we go to you, vaughan, what have you ....
south carolina attorney, alex murdoch, shot in the head while changing a tire by the side of the road. three months after his wife and son were shot and killed. police say alex murdoch is expected to survive but the attack is raising questions about the unsolved killings of his wife and son. we have fox team coverage. charles watson in atlanta on the south carolina murder mystery. brian llenas in new jersey on the recovery from ida s remnants. first, david spunt in wilmington, delaware following the president this weekend. david. reporter: hi, alicia, hi, griff. with what griff said, we had to listen to congressman mccall s statements a few times, i had to listen to it and make sure i understood exactly what he said. we are reaching out to the white house, also the national security council. we know congressman mccall specifically mentioned about an airport several hours north of kabul, that s where he alleges that americans are essentially being held on planes agains ....
destruction from the gulf coast to the northeast we have fox team coverage on both of the major stories beginning with david spunt he s live in wilmington, delaware and president biden is spending the holiday weekend. good evening texas republican congressman michael mccaul says he was briefed by intelligence sources that some americans are sitting on six airplanes at the airport 265 miles north of kabul. they re not clearing airplanes to depart they said at the airport for the last couple of days, these planes are not allowed to leave we know why the taliban want something in exchange. this is a satellite image from two days ago of the airports are we cannot say with certainty that these are the six planes that congressman mentioned to chris wallace but there are six airplanes in that photograph. afghan officials told the press that many afghans are board the plane, the use official told fox news work is being done to identify those on the planes to see who they ar ....
235,000 jobs added. what did you think of what the president what the president said and how he his take on it. because it sounded as if he was trying to give something of a pep talk. well he did. the first part of his remarks were a pep talk about progress that had been made since he took office. i was a little bit surprised. he did go on to say the disappointing report was an indication of the surge of the delta variant and the need to take stranger action against it. he did not do so today. and whether he does things liken hans vaccination mandates, perhaps on air travel or train travel, other things within the power of the president. the second thing he did was make a very hard pivot to his domestic agenda and just joe manchin yesterday spoke to him and other democrats through the pages of the wall street journal where he said let s take a pause on this $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill, said it might be inflationary and things of that nature. the president ....