following the headlines. natasha, first to you. this is a change from the white house. the white house is pushing back very hard on what it says is inf en inflammatory behavior by china. they said please don t up the ante here. now they re making public the fact that they have in fact summoned the chinese ambassador to the u.s. to the white house to essentially give him a dressing down about china s provocations against taiwan in recent days. they had said numerous times that they expected that china would have some kind of reaction to this visit by pelosi, which was extremely offensive to the chinese. but the white house has been, you know, kind of willing to respond in a meaningful way now to the chinese activities that we have seen around taiwan, which are really escalatory and are the most that we have seen in decades. so what the white house is saying now is that they re reiterating to the chinese that this is unacceptable, that the u.s. position on taiwan has not chan
secretary general used a rarely invoked article of the un charity, article 99, to bring to the attention the security counsel, threats to international peace and security, and he urged the consulate to call for a cease fire because he said there was a risk of the total collapse of the humanitarian system. that he anticipated a complete breakdown of public order. he laid out in stark terms the desperate situation in gaza. that there was no protection of civilians there, that they were running out of food, risk and starvation, the health system was collapsing, most of the population were displaced, and more than 17,000 palestinians have been killed. so, here we saw the majority of the council supporting that call by the secretary general, but despite that the united states again cutting an extremely noni figure in the consulate, raised its hand to block the draught resolution to veto it. and the united states said they did not support a cease fire because they thought this reso
mentioned in the indictment, cnn did reach out to their attorneys, two of them have been previously fired. the city of louisville announced they have started the termination process for the remaining two. back to you. polo sandoval, thank you for covering. another story update on this morning, a lightning strike right across the street from the white house now claimed the lives of two people visiting from wisconsin. d.c. police confirm james mueller and donna mueller both in their mid-70s have now died from injuries they sustained in lafayette park. that s across the street from the white house. two other people were injured, and hospitalized. there is some of the lightning last night. officials say the four were riding out the storm under a tree when the lightning hit. members of the secret service and park police immediately jumped in to help the victims before paramedics were able to get there. it is just alarming news to see there. also this morning, for an area already washe
this is for those of you that drive the average price in thanks giving up 13%. anyway, 37% jump from ticket prices for airline tickets, american and jetblue said employ vaccination deadlines the day before thanksgiving. really good timing. united by the way mandate august 6th looking to fire employees who refuse. out of 67,000 us employees, 232 are going through the termination process. jillian: reporter: texas judge granted a restraining order against united stopping it from putting 2000 folks on unpaid leave for failing to get their shot. they are still employed but the 200 plus are losing their jobs. talking about gas prices, fuel
a different approach to vaccinate their work force. they have 90% of delta employees now vaccinated. that s without a mandate from the company. we haven t done it with a mandate. we ve done it working collaboratively with our people, trusting our people to make the right decisions for themselves, respecting their decisions. but at the same time, avoiding the divisiveness of what the mandate is posing to society. he says he expects delta s vaccination rate to rise to 95% by early november. united airlines took a different approach. you need the vaccine to keep your job at united. i wish we had gotten to 100%. out of our 67,000 u.s. employees, there are 232 who haven t been vaccinated and they are going through the termination process now. earlier this week a federal judge in texas temporarily put united s vaccine mandate on hold for employees seeking medical or religious exemptions. roughly 2,000 of united s employees requested an exemption.