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sounding the alarm. so far at least ten countries have banned travel from south africa and surrounding nations. the w.h.o. announced it s holding an emergency meeting today on this new variant. earlier, dr. fauci said the u.s. is set to meet with south african scientists this morning to learn more about what this means. it all comes as here in the u.s. we re seeing another surge in new cases over this holiday weekend. at least 31 states are seeing a rise in new infections. in places like pennsylvania officials are seeing over 6,000 new cases a day. nbc is in montgomery county, pennsylvania, one of the highest daily covid case rates. and from rome, italy, one of the countries that just banned travel to south africa. gary, what s the latest going on there on the ground? reporter: hey there, jose. yeah, it s really a one-stop shop here. we ve got a vaccination center back here. we ve got a testing center right up here in montgomery county. real one-stop shop on this blac ....
congresswoman ocasio cortez. two republicans, liz cheney and adam king zinger are the only republicans on the january 6th select committee. the overwhelmingly vast majority of house republicans are set to choose the embrace the violent. i think the republican conference need to do something about him. the republican leader, mr. mcconnell, needs to do something about him. why is he silent? when the man is threatening tocal another to till another member this body? and threatening the president of the united states of america. i ask your listeners one question. if yours truly had put out something like that do you think for one moment that my democratic colleagues would not take action against me they would do it. and they should do it. here s what the republican leadership did instead. mccarthy took to the house floor and described the send sewer motion as an abuse of power. politico reports, the post was posted by gosar s staff, not by him and that he deleted it w ....
scientists say it s a crisis. a success is enough emission reductions to keep warming below 2 degrees. good evening. i m jessica dean in washington. pamela brown has the night off. a major test for democrats in the post trump era. terry mcauliffe and glenn youngkin are blitzing virginia. it could provide valuable insight about voter sentiment ahead of the midterm elections. the race right now is neck and neck even though joe biden won the commonwealth by 10 percent taj points a year ago but the approval rating is sliding. just 42% of americans are okay with the job performance. eva, let s start with you. right now this evening what is youngkin saying to win the last undecided votes? reporter: youngkin centered the parents matter message as a strategy. he is sort of speaking to parents who are frankly exhausted. many who have never felt so isolated from the schools, especially during this time of the pandemic. some voicing frustrations with mask mandates. others pa ....
that s a big advance in terms of our nation s approach to vaccination. the white house today also put out more guidance to the states about preparing, getting ready to start vaccinating kids ages 5 and up. right now as you know, the vaccines are only approved for kids age 12 and up. but the fda and the cdc processes to approve vaccines for younger kids, those processes are well under way. they will probably come to fruition within a few weeks. the white house is trying to get people ready to get states ready to hit the ground running on that as well. so eyes on that process. tonight we re also watching a whole bunch of different news breaking in the uncomfortable venn diagram over political life and going to prison. in the past five years two, count them, two sitting members of congress have been charged with federal criminal felony charges. congressman chris collins of new york, you see on your left and congressman duncan hunter of california, both of them federal crim ....
president biden today at the white house announcing a new deal brokered by the white house to get major american ports operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in we re having in different sectors of the economy. president biden talking about deals already brokered by the white house to get the ports going 24 hours a day. also, the fda is going to start a series of meetings tomorrow on important covid vaccine approval decisions both for kids under age 11 and for booster shots for adults. those are complex decisions involving multiple companies and multiple important demographics when it comes to our continuing epidemic in this country. also, the wrangling continuing among democrats in congress over the size and the content of president biden s budget bill, which they are going to pass just with democratic votes because republicans have said that they re going to sit that out and all vote no, no matter what is in the bill. so that renders them totally irrelevant to the ....