get every noon everybody i m yasmin vossoughian. president biden arriving at the white house moments ago he has a busy afternoon ahead of him a call with house speaker kevin mccarthy scheduled on the debt deal and briefing calls with house and senate democrats it is coming as congressman on both of the highway for that actual bill coming from that tentative agreement to raise the debt ceiling in avoided default. we did a conference call, our confidence was over 95%. we overwhelmingly clearly excited. did i get with what i want? no today get all of what they want? no. i am very pleased. we are at a good place. now comes the race against time for the president and house speaker mccarthy to sell it to enough for their party members to get it passed ahead of a june default. no two people have more on the line in all of this. president biden just returning to the white house. nbc news white house correspondent allie raffa is there for us. president biden stopped for a moment
appearance is scheduled for tuesday and his attorney says he plans to waive an extradition hearing. begin this hour new york city were police say three officers are in stable condition after a machete attack last night at a new year s eve security checkpoint near times square. alexis mcadams is live in new york city and has the details. hi molly, thankfully those three nypd officers are recovering. we are learning the details of the teenage suspect investigators tell me drove all the way hear from maine. police calling him a violent islamic extremist the fbi says they have been following closely for weeks. take a look here in your screen this is where it all unfolded. we all know there s some people i hear less site in new york city on new year s the three officers attacked in midtown manhattan during the celebrations as thousands were gathering, knight trolled trevor bickford pulled out this machete style knife and started swinging according to police. he struck two offi
in just two days, 118 congress will be sworn in with republicans in the majority in the house and kevin mccarthy is vowing to fight to become house speaker until the very end. but the question remains. could a group of heart rate lawmakers keep them from reaching the magical number of 219 votes. also one of the most controversial members of the new congress, new york republican george santos said take his seat lying about everything for his family history to his finances. we ll talk to another new yorker, democratic congressman richie torres, with reprising which insulation to make in a crime for candidates to lie. in the new year brings new concerns about a new variant. new covid variant. according to the cdc. it now presents over 40% new cases. well astronauts prior to what we should do to protect our family and ourselves. we bring with you begin with you with some for some breaking news out of new york city. where three police officers were injured in a machete attack
but he s not going to do the deal, not on this roll call. maybe not today. chris jansing, my colleague is going to take over this roll call. watch with steve kornacki. this has been an extraordinary day already. we have another flip here. we knew it was going to be historic. steve kornacki, what did we just seethe? i want to go back to steve. what are we looking at? mary miller from illinois, another one of the holdouts, she also flipping over and voting for mccarthy. that means there have been 13 folk who is have voted against mccarthy previously and now 7 of those 13 have flipped over. so he s actually of the votes cast by previous mccarthy opponents in this roll majority over. he s gotten more than half of them. 7 of the 13 have flipped over. paul gosar will vote at the end. he has seemed pretty dug in, but we ll see what happens there. the next name to come on the list is ralph norman. we re about 15 names away from him. very rapid fire after that. scott perry, chair
A surprisingly strong jobs report crushed economists expectations this morning. U. S. Companies on a hiring tear in september, creating 336,000 new jobs, nearly double what economists were expecting. President biden did hope to take some credit for it, talking up his bidenomics plan to help the economy. Listen to this. Mr. President , can you be specific about what you did to try to reappropriate those border funds, especially when democrats controlled both chambers . I was told that i had no choice. That, you know, Congress Passes legislation to build something, whether its an aircraft carrier, a wall or provide for a tax cut. I cant so thats not the right sound bite. Nevertheless, President Biden did try to take credit for the surprising jobs report. We have cnns matt egan to break it all down for us. Walk you throughs it. Where were the biggest job gains . Reporter boris, these were Blockbuster Numbers and the best part is virtually no one saw it coming, 336,000 jobs added, you know