this step, and corporate america also really stepping up here, ramping up its approach. google, facebook, netflix, lyft. so many others you see listed there among dozens of companies now requiring employees to get vaccinated. right now cases are surging among the unvaccinated, so that s the reason for this. the u.s. is averaging more than 63,000 cases per day. that s a 59% increase over last week s seven-day average. restrictions are being put back in place. masks are making a comeback. and yes, the unvaccinated are to blame. this morning the president again making that very clear. so let s begin with our chief business correspondent christine romans, because, romans, it is really the private sector in conjunction with now this federal requirement from biden that i think is really going to make or has the opportunity to make a world of difference here. you re seeing leadership from corporate america on this in a way we haven t yet. they ve been strongly encouraging vaccinat
big choice. a d.c. circuit court of appeals will hear out fremp s argument for asserting executive privilege on november 30th. overnight a three-judge panel, all appointed by democrats, sided with trump with the transfer of the white house documents to the january 6th committee on hold until then. the importance of those white house communications underlying further this morning by a new audiotape just released in which the former president appears to defend the insurrectionists even as they chanted hang mike pence on january 6th. please listen carefully. this is a conversation he had with abc news back in march. were you worried about him during that siege? were you worried about his safety? no, i thought he was well protected and i had heard he was in good shape. i had heard he was in very good shape. but but you heard those chants. that was terrible, you know, the he could have well, the people were very angry. they were saying hang mike pence. it s
jacksonville sheriff s office. they are about an hour late on that update. food read the latest information if we get it. but as of right now, what we do know is jacksonville fire and rescue confirm with fox news that four people are dead in a mass shooting event at that dollar general store in northwest jacksonville. a shooting that began about 1:1. the player d layer describing tt who is dead as a white male who barricaded himself inside that dollar general store. there was a massive police response including the swat team. the dollar general store is located less than a mile down the road from edward waters university private historically black christian university with about 2000 students per this is significant because jacksonville local news station, news for jx multiple sources say at 12:45 p.m. today a suspicious individual was seen behind the on-campus library putting on a ballistic vest a great security chase that individual tried to catch them for the suspect fled
top of the hour, this thursday, i m jim sciutto. i m erica hill, and any moment, officials in michigan are going to give an update of the investigation into the deadly mass shooting into michigan state university, and we will bring that to you when it happens, and share the disturbing details about the note that the gunman left inside of his backpack detailing other possible targets. at some point this morning, a georgia court is going to release special report of president trump s efforts to overturn the election. we will expect to learn more about that. and we will learn more about the mass shooting and one of several in the last few weeks. we will learn more adrian there in lansing, michigan, and what are we expecting to learn? it is expected to learn more at any moment, and now, i have learned from a university spokesperson dan olson, and he said that we will learn this morning the updates on the students who were physically injured. at last check we told you that t
redactions. president trump argues there shouldn t be any. judge reinhart rejected the doj s attempt to hide it from americans. the whole affidavit should be released. given the democrats penchant for using it to hide government corruption. that s the crux of the matter. they re demanding whether to know political buy as played a role in the buher eos decision making. we re interested in how that information was presented of the was it presented faithfully and truthfully given the past record of the f.b.i. and department of justice in trump investigations? mark meredith joins us from west palm beach, florida. good morning, park. good morning. the justice department says there is a lot of information about why federal agents came to mar-a-lago last week that they don t want to release at this point. a judge yesterday said in the interest of transparency there is also the information the public needs to know and likely we ll see some information in that criminal affida