significant. and this call for schools to implement regular testing. talk us through what you re 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 covid-19 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 they ve 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 covid-19. what the president is expected to do today sign an executive order, directing those federal agencies to give up that second option. yo
waiting to pick up other americans and at-risk afghans who are still on the ground in afghanistan because of a continued dispute with the taliban over passenger i.d.s. here in washington police are bracing for the justice for j6 rally, that s what they re calling it on september 18th for the insurrectionists on the january 6th riot. among the precautionary measures re-installing the fencing around the capitol. it isn t up yet, but that s what it s going to look like. the fbi is releasing new video of the suspect who planted live pipe bombs outside both the rnc and dnc headquarters the night before the insurrection in the hopes that someone would have seen him, but let s begin with the president s big speech this afternoon on the coronavirus and nbc white house correspondent kelly o donnell, nbc s kerry sanders in florida. dr. ashish jha and robert gibbs. we know a lot as your team has been reporting with your speech and what the president hopes to accomplish. andrea, this
with about 30 americans as well as other passengers became the first international flight to take off from kabul since the withdraw from afghanistan was completed ten days ago. now as the senate arms services committee says, it will hold a hearing on the withdraw process later this month featuring testimony from three of the nation s top military leaders. elsewhere on capitol hill, several house committees are putting together their portion of the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill focusing on other priorities, education, childcare and fighting climate change. we re going to talk about that process and what comes next later this hour with michigan democratic congressman dan kildee. we begin with that imminent announcement from the justice department regarding the texas abortion law. joining me now, nbc news correspondent julia anzly, also joining me is civil rights attorney. great to have both of you with us. julie, excuse me, let me begin with you. what more can you tell us a
bill hemmer, good morning. the hazardous bio lab operating with none of the legally-required safety controls filled with chemicals and medical waste and infectious pathogens including tuberculosis and hiv and mice carrying the covid-19 virus. that s a lot. we ll bring you up to date on what we think we know. good morning to you. this is all very disturbing. what we have is a lab run by a company tied to china no less storing infectious bacterial and viral agents including e-coli, tuberculosis and coronavirus conducting experiments on mice using those bacteria and viruses and now those who ran the operation are refusing to talk to the multiple federal and local agencies looking into what was going on here. as you take a live look at the warehouse. the lab was only discovered when an alert local inspector outside of fresno, california noticed a hose coming out of what was supposed to be a disuseed building. these pictures now show what investigators then found. potentially da
white house was willing and able to censor the truth on social media. republican presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy will join us in moments but first to ashley strohmier live in the new york city news room with the very latest on this. ashley, good evening. reporter: hi, trace. yeah, the biden white house has routinely denied involvement in suppressing negative information about covid-19 vaccines on social media. you might recall this exchange with our own peter doocy and then white house press secretary jen psaki during the summer of 2021. take a listen. is there any concern the things you re trying to block or taken down might some day turn out to be we don t take anything down. we don t block anything. facebook and any private sector company makes decisions about what information should be on their platform. reporter: but internal communication between top white house officials and facebook employees obtained by fox business appears to paint a vastly differen