are saving lives at a critical time. they are needed more than ever. just look at the numbers now for this labor day versus last year. you re looking at a 300% increase in the 7-day average of new cases. meantime several icus near or at full capacity. the u.s. is now reporting an average of 1500 covid deaths a day. nearly all of those patients and deaths were unvaccinated. let s begin with our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. bottom line here the data, the science, the boosters, science will dictate the date for the rollout. what is the data showing? erica, a lot of this data is coming out of israel. israel is essentially a pfizer-only country. pfizer applied and will be heard first to see if they can do a booster rollout and pfizer will be relying on the israelis for the data that they have. let s take a look at what the israelis have found about the effectiveness of a booster, of a third shot. so this the israelis sort of spotted the problem. they found thi
what s coming down and gerri willis on what is going up at the stores but first, go to jackie on jobs. this has been the moment everyone is waiting for, the time when the economic recovery is on track post-pandemic where pandemic unemployment benefits end. today, seven and a half million workers who have received boosted unemployment checks will be cut off according to the century foundation. a group of people have already lost their benefits, 9.4 million people as of mid-july. these were people who were not traditionally eligible for aid like freelancers who got it because of the crisis. the department of labor said that more than 72% of americans got one form of assistance or another. recall that in march of this year, the american rescue plan extended benefits through labor day and democrats insisted more aid was necessary at that time all republicans questioned why reopening wasn t enough to end benefits and here we are now, many businesses struggling to hire workers as
one of two republicans on the select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection slamming his fellow house gop members for threatening tech companies to not comply with the request for their records. right now all we ve said is we want these records preserved. there s a number of people, and then we ll decide what we need to see and what s in the american people s interest. i think to turn around and make ominous talk to these telecom companies that when we take over it s going to be different or we ll have payback, that s not, frankly, the republican party i remember and the republican party i ever joined. and new polling today from the washington post and abc news shows president biden s rating has dropped in the wake of the delta variant, down about 10 points since june. cedric richmond reacting to the numbers this morning. we re not worried about poll numbers. we re worried about the 1.2 million people in louisiana who didn t have electricity, the peopl
g7 summit is underway. a short time ago, president biden holding a bilateral meeting with french president macron, part of his first foreign trip as president, with one clear message america is back. the european union is incredibly strong and vibrant entity in a has a lot to do with the ability of europe to not only handle its economic issues, but provide the backbone and the support for nato, and so i we are very supportive, very supportive. well, today s focus is on global infrastructure, combatting china s growing influence and pandemic recovery and prevention. it comes as the president is set to have his first sit-down with russian leader vladimir putin on wednesday. yore overnight, a preview into what the highly anticipated meeting may look like. nbc s keir simmons exclusively sat done with putin and asked him directly whether he can work with biden. translator: it is my great move, but there will not be any impulse movements. first, back in washington, ne
today despite all of this, the outcome of the vote really is not in question. republicans are certain to block it. despite the fact that the justice department has arrested and charged at least 450 people in connection to the riot and five people died as a result. still, there are not ten republicans who want to choose truth over politics and donald trump. jessica dean is live in capitol hill. she is joining us now. jessica, what s the latest you re hearing there? well, right now, kate, we re just waiting to see how long this process is going to play out. we still have absolutely no indication when that procedural vote on the january 6th commission would happen. and the reason is a totally separate bill, a bipartisan bill that they thought was all worked out that is all aimed at making america more competitive with china is now all gummed up in the process. because senator ron johnson and a few other senators have decided to kind of drag this out. what we re now waiting to