and nicole. well, sports teams unite america. twenty years after 9/11, the patriotic messages from the field to the racetrack. but first, california s recall election is less than 48 hours away. voters will then decide if governor gavin newsom will be forced to give up his job. the leading republican candidate is radio host larry elder. weed asked people in we asked people in los angeles what they think about the race to the recall. watch. he was dishonest to people. politicians should be honest and should be should act what he says. if he doesn t believe in something, he shouldn t do it himself. no, absolutely not. no. i think that he was elected to a term, and we shouldn t recall him just because we disagree with the policy issues. now, a recent poll shows dwindling support for newsom s recall with roughly 60% of registered california voters planning to vote against it and about 38% planning to vote for it, is that s way down from july when 47% said they w
order that ll require federal contractors to do the same. the department of labor is developing an emergency rule to require all employers with 100 or more employees that together employers over 80 million workers to ensure their work forces are fully vaccinated. this is a huge change. this will impact many americans if the rules go through. here is what you need to know. one, the u.s. government is using their regulatory powers to require companies to carry out its mandates. 100 people must require those workers get vaccinated. this rules required an alternative to people who do not get vaccinated then they must submit weekly testing. the rule uses corporate power as the pressure here. it does not go as far as making it illegal. the rule comes as the latest data that the vaccines are working, they are crushing the variant and delta variant. people who are vaccinated now have a one and one thousand chance of getting covid. and five, this is as sweeping policy through the un
comes as new unemployment claims fell to pandemic era lows for the second week in a row. republicans on capitol hill are continuing to fight the president s spending plans and each other, deciding whether liz cheney remain in leadership while standing up to former president donald trump s daily false claims about the election. we ll have more on that in a moment. starting us off this hour, monica alba in new orleans, the next up on the president s louisiana trip, as i just mentioned. also with us ali vitaly live on capitol hill. monica, the president hoping for a bipartisan agreement on infrastructure. realistically how can the white house itten to negotiate with republicans when it seems republicans are opposed to almost everything he is doing. reporter: that s literally what nat minority leader mitch mcconnell stated. he said he s going to work essentially full time to try to oppose whatever the administration is doing. that s not really congruent with some of the repub
brian nobles with the latest from capitol hill. reporter: it took in to the early morning hours of saturday, but democrats have finally passed that $1.9 trillion covid relief package. a key priority for president biden in the early days of his administration. this is just the first step in the legislative process, it still needs to be passed by the senate. they will likely change the bill before it goes back to the house for final passage. this version of the bill that was passed on saturday, does include that increase to $15 an hour of the federal minimum wage, when it makes its way back to the senate that will likely be ruled out because of a ruling by the senate parliamentarian, that it cannot be passed with aside from the minimum wage, there s a lot of other important things that biden and democrats on capitol hill are really wanting to be a part of the package. that includes an extension of unemployment benefits. which are scheduled to sunset in the middle of march.
the fda is on the verge of authorizing a third covid shot for emergency use. that means we get to use it now. now, you know the talk about the johnson & johnson one. it s a single dose vaccine, okay? so j&j got the advisory panel s approval tonight. so it could be going in arms as soon as next week. the other plus of this is, so it s one shot, doesn t need to be stored as cold as other things, right, so you can keep it a little bit more easily, you waste less of it, it s good. and it has held up well on most present variants. look, you have to be careful about these things. they know it s safe but they don t know everything. from the president we heard both optimism and caution about the road ahead. the third vaccine will make even more rapid progress in getting shots in arms. cases and hospitalizations could go back up as new variants emerge. and it s not the time to relax. we have to keep washing our hands, staying socially distanced, and for god s sake, wear your mask.