catastrophic weather events. hurricanes and tornados, flash flooding, wildfires, all of course made worse by climate change. the economic recovery was sluggish in august. with far fewer jobs created than expected. and don t forget, enhanced unemployment benefits coming to an end for many millions of needy americans. as the president s approval rating dips following the chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan. let s start our coverage with arlette saenz. this is a holiday rife with challenges for the white house. bring us up to speed on how the president plans to tackle all of these issues. reporter: well, boris, president biden will head back to the white house later this evening with that fresh set of challenges piling up on his plate. after that rocky august, the president saw his approval rating fall to its lower point of his presidency. and the white house is aware that there is very little room for error going forward. now on afghanistan, much of the focus right now is try
by every measure, coronavirus is going the wrong direction in america. the number of new daily cases is 30,000, triple the number we were seeing one month ago. this is more like april and june of 2020. cases are rising in all 50 states, up sharply in 32 states now and the unvaccinated are fuelling this resurgence, the surgeon general said 99.5% of coronavirus deaths in the united states right now are among the unvaccinated. 97% of covid hospitalizations in america are people who are unvaccinated. these numbers are driving a major sell-off on wall street at this moment. all three u.s. stock indices are down sharply on pandemic fears. and it is not just here, it is also overseas. a member of u.s. women s olympic gymnastics team has tested positive for covid in japan and she and another contact are now in isolation there. further driving fears of an outbreak in tokyo with the games and opening ceremonies just days away. we have it all covered for you and it is a lot today. let s
arrest. he says chauvin putting his knee on mr. floyd s neck was not an authorized use of force that he taught and that a neck restraint could render someone unconscious in less than ten seconds. the instructor did concede that officer chauvin s technique could have been part of some other police training, of course, as cnn s josh campbell reports. reporter: one by one veteran mess. minneapolis police department took the stand. thank you. each members of the department s training force. today s testimony added to the chorus of police department witnesses, including the chief who have said derek chauvin s use of a knee on george floyd s neck was not part of their training. who it be appropriate and within training to hold a subject in that prone restrained position with a knee on the neck and a knee on the back for an extended period of time after the subject had stopped offering any resistance? no, sir. or has lost their pulse? no, sir. if you don t have a pulse
wednesday. one thing i was struck by at the time and haven t had a chance to comment on until tonight s show is the fact that in that 90 minutes or so, they never discussed, never had a discussion of rape and incest. and that mississippi law makes no exceptions at all for pregnancies that are the result of rape and incest. we re going to correct that tonight. we have professor michelle goodwin joining us tonight. she wrote that extraordinary op-ed piece in the new york times about this very point in these abortion laws that are coming in now with no exceptions at all for rape and incest pregnancies. it is one of the most harrowing, harrowing elements of it, even of all of these politics, even in the abstract. but in the specific, in the personal specifics of it, it is inescapable and terrible. and justice barrett s scenario that she sketched out about, you know, there s not much difference between getting an abortion at some point in the pregnancy or just giving up
the times adds this, it s not yet clear whether omicron causes more disease than other version of the coronavirus. we have about 90,000 new cases a day here in the united states and right now 99.9% of them are still are the delta variant. it may be that omicron is ail to out compete delta. we have not seen any symptoms that are unique to omicron, symptoms that are presenting are similar symptoms we have seen with delta. the problem is according to the cdc director, covid cases are rising right along with hospitalizations, we ll talk to an er doctor who s witnessing this firsthand. there is also news tonight concerning the capitol riot investigating january 6th. a former trump justice official will not give deposition but will appear on the 16th. jeffery clark s postponement was due to medical. clark who the committee says trying to get the doj to act on trump s big lie and deny the biden presidency signalled he intended to plea the fifth. members voted to refer him of con