throughout the next two hours, you don t want to miss it. we begin with a stark contrast how president biden and president trump are marking 9/11. not long from now biden is scheduled to make highways to the pentagon after visiting both ground zero and shanksville, pennsylvania, to honor the lives lost that harrowing day. meanwhile, former president trump who is set to offer commentary at a boxing match this evening used the majority of his address marking the anniversary to bash biden over his withdrawal from afghanistan. this is the 20th year of this war and should have been a year of victory and honor and strength. instead, joe biden and his inept administration surrendered in defeat. the former president did make a trip to the nypd s 17th precinct hours ago to honor the sacrifice made by the city s first responders but took time to criticize the president once again over the withdrawal. i want to bring in nbc s mike memoli who has been with us all day and is at the
in need and distress and back up to try to push major agenda setting items, specifically an infrastructure bill and a separate bill loaded with democratic priorities collectively worth trillions of dollars. one of those priorities pushed climate change which the president spoke of. and so, folks, we ve got to listen to the scientists and the economists and the national security experts. they all tell us this is code red. the nation and the world are in peril. we ll talk to new york congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez about that. kaitlyn collins traveled with president biden. what did the president see? what was accomplished? reporter: anderson, it was the damage up close. keep in mind, this is his second trip to somewhere that was hit by ida in a week. last week it was louisiana. today he traveled seven or eight states up to the north and to the right to see new york and new jersey. it was devastating, anderson. it s really hard to overstate the level of damage that
good evening. two major events we are following at this moment both involving president biden and both ll pivotal moments that may influence american livelihoods and prosperity. one later this week involves an address to the nation about the administration s fight against the coronavirus. we ll have more on that. we ll start with the other major event, president biden s tour this afternoon of the storm-damaged northeast. stops in new york and new jersey where most of the at least 52 people who died from the remnants of hurricane ida. there was a chance to meet those in need and distress and back up to try to push major agenda setting items specifically an infrastructure bill with nominal republican support and a separate bill loaded with democratic priorities collectively worth trillions of dollars. one of those priorities a push to battle climate change, which the president today spoke of in stark terms. and so, folks, we ve got to listen to the scientists and the economis
are saving lives at a critical time. they are needed more than ever. just look at the numbers now for this labor day versus last year. you re looking at a 300% increase in the 7-day average of new cases. meantime several icus near or at full capacity. the u.s. is now reporting an average of 1500 covid deaths a day. nearly all of those patients and deaths were unvaccinated. let s begin with our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. bottom line here the data, the science, the boosters, science will dictate the date for the rollout. what is the data showing? erica, a lot of this data is coming out of israel. israel is essentially a pfizer-only country. pfizer applied and will be heard first to see if they can do a booster rollout and pfizer will be relying on the israelis for the data that they have. let s take a look at what the israelis have found about the effectiveness of a booster, of a third shot. so this the israelis sort of spotted the problem. they found thi
effective than plus at reducing flights that s above the gum line for a cleaner, healthier mouth this three, feel the world. i m katie bo lillis in washington, and this is cnn moments go at&t said that massive outage for cellular customers today was linked to an error that occurred while trying to expand its network. they also said it was not the result of a cyber attack. federal agencies are also investigating after tens of thousands, potentially more one able to place calls or to text. take a look at this map, the outage was massive according to the website downdetector. these were the major cities reporting outages, service wasn t fully restored until a little after 3pm today, some 11 hours after the first reports began, the news continues right here on cnn welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper breaking this hour significant new action in the investigation into the massacre at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas? who is being ordered to appear before a grand jury. wel