A very good day to all of you from Msnbc World headquarters here in New York. Welcome, everyone, to Alex Witt reports. Heres whats happening. More than 12 Million americans are bracing to lose their Unemployment Benefits or see their weekly payments plummet as three federal Pandemic Aid programs are set to expire in just hours. It comes on the heels of a disappointing jobs report. But the White House maintains its message of recovery. The recovery is happening. We added more jobs in the first seven months than any other administration in history. The average of jobs is at 832,000 jobs we have been able to add. What this shows is its going to be a steady road to recovery. This is not going to be an overnight Recovery Process. You see the economy moving ahead. Also hearing new reaction to the harsh new Abortion Law in texas. The white House Chief of staff saying the administration is prepared to protect womens rights. We have the best lawyers at the Justice Department looking for legal r
Normal. It was not welcomed and it was certainly not consensual. In washington, the senate is back in session right now. Finally only hours away from a final vote on the bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, after time ran out on a Fourday Holdup from a single republican senator from tennessee, objecting that it isnt entirely paid for. It still faces an uncertain future in a deeply divided democratic house. Also this hour, well have a live report from Kelly Cobiella In Kabul as the taliban advance on the capital and ill be joined my former Defense Secretary Leon panetta. Nbcs Morgan Chesky in texas and Vaughn Hillyard in florida. Morgan, lets talk to you first. The good news about canada reopening its border to fully vaccinated americans coming, as hospitals are bombarded with patients and that massive Biker Rally in sturgis, south dakota, could make things a whole lot worse. Reporter yeah, andrea, youre absolutely right. We know more than a half A Million people expected to descend into stu
Married celebrating her oneyear anniversary, and now to see her gone, you know it was avoidable. This is the real part of the story. These are real people and the people who knew them as we have seen in some of the stories we have done for you are sometimes their Family Members speaking out, and here we have a pastor speaking out and the reality is about Human Lives and not socalled politics. Theres a growing backlash to people playing politics, and its republican governors and others who have stuck by policies proven to fail and now is costing lives. In u. S. We are at February Levels before the vaccine was available to every one and everywhere. The Delta Variant is seemingly everywhere. Republican leaders are now under fire often by their own constituents including independents and republicans for banning Safety Precautions that work, indeed that work in other places, because they are the places that try them. Florida break its own record in covid infections, and a federal judge bloc
hello to you. i am ben thompson. welcome to the programme. even by the standards of american school shootings, it was grim 19 students and two teachers killed by a gunman. but what was also shocking about events at the robb elementary school in uvalde, texas, was the police s failure to take prompt action. in the last couple of hours, we have had the department ofjustice report into that failure. it says officers failed to accurately assess the situation. they say it took more than an hour to confront and kill the gunman despite the presence of dozens of law enforcement officials. the us attorney general merrick garland has been in uvalde, where he saw some of the murals that have been created in memory of those who died. he also met survivors and some of the families of those who lost their lives. afterwards, at a news conference, he had this message for the entire country. the law enforcement response at robb elementary school on may 2a, 2022, and in the hours and days af
you watching here in the united states, canada, and all around the world. i m kim brunhuber. this is cnn newsroom. and we begin in uvalde, texas. the mass shooting in an elementary school there was an unthinkable tragedy. 19 young students and two teachers gunned down. and we re now hearing more chilling details about police failures on that terrible day, details on 911 calls made from inside the classroom while the attack was under way. and cnn is speaking with the attorney for a teacher s aide from robb elementary, and she is sharing her side of the store after police falsely blamed her for leaving the door propped open. reporter: it was supposed to be an end of the year class party before it became a nightmare. she saw everything from the time he recwrecked to the time was taken out of there. reporter: she was meet agco worker with food for the party when she saw a car crash. so she propped the door open, went back inside to get her phone and called 911 to report t