what authorities just revealed. the record heat wave in the northeast. the heat index, the feel-like reading topping 100 degrees in new york city, philadelphia to washington. and in boston tonight, the sixth day of record temperatures above 95 degrees. at this hour, the threat of storms and flooding. ginger zee tracking it all. president biden and the major bipartisan victory tonight. signing the $280 billion bill increasing microchip production here in the u.s. chips used in cars, cell phones, computers. and we hear from an american manufacturer ready to go. mary bruce at the white house. the major headline on monkeypox. the outbreak here in the u.s. the government now planning to turn one vaccine shot into five shots, able to reach more people. steve osunsami at the cdc. the war in ukraine, and tonight, the explosion rocking a russian air base in crimea. were the ukrainians behind it? here in the u.s., the case making national headlines tonight. the alarming image
northeast. the heat index, the feel-like reading topping 100 degrees in new york city, philadelphia to washington. and in boston tonight, the sixth day of record temperatures above 95 degrees. at this hour, the threat of storms and flooding. ginger zee tracking it all. president biden and the major bipartisan victory tonight. signing the $280 billion bill increasing the manufacture of chips here in the u.s. we hear fromnmerican manufacturer ready to go. the major headline on monkeypox. the government planning to turn one vaccine shot into five shots, able to reach more people. steve osunsami at the cdc. the war in ukraine, and tonight, the explosion rocking a russian air base in crimea. were the ukrainians behind it? the alarming images captured by a hudz who believed his wife, a dermatologist, was poisoning him. what authorities are now saying. the company. gas prices falling. and economists now say online prices are falling, too. the first decline in more than two
recommend the pfizer or moderna covid-19 vaccines for kids between 6 months and 5 years old. a decision expected in just about an hour. if approved, the white house says vaccinations could begin for young children as early as next week. and many states are already preordering doses. cnn miguel marquez is following the developments so miguel, what is happening right now? well, they are meeting. they re about half way through today s presentation. they ve been going through trying to figure out and discussing how this would actually happen, what providers would be putting these shots into arms, how they deal with the ten-dose vile and how they ll actually roll out these vaccinations also going through all the data with the two vaccines in question here. this is a population of about 20 million americans, the youngest most vulnerable americans, the latest and biggest last traunch o trunch of americans to be eligible. two vaccines looking at moderna and pfizer, slightly diffe
jacob soberoff, and garrett we will start with you. we have a surge in migrant children. there is a scarcity of shelter beds. what will fema s assistance mean for the situation now at the border? well, fema is the federal government s emergency logistics experts. that s why they show up after hurricanes and natural disasters. their goal is to try to alleviate the overcrowding situation. the border patrol stations here and at hhs shelters that are limited in how much they can take. so they re hoping to expeditiously move the minors. while that s going on you talk about the political battle here. they re trying to lay all of this at the feet of the biden administration, and they give important context that i got from veronica escobar last night, look at what she told me. part of why ibristle at the terms that there is a crisis at the border is because they want to ignore what is causing it. the real crisis is what is happening in the northern triangle. and what happens to t
border. a crisis at the border starting to take shape. a surge of migrants crossing. fema stepping in to help with the more than 3,200 migrant children being housed in customs and border facilities as of last week. that figure is a new record. republicans are seizing on it. in a matter of hours, kevin mckathy and other congressional republicans will be at the border in texas. they are calling it a crisis. democrats are calling it a challenge that they inherited from the previous administration. that s where we start. garrett haake in el paso, texas, where a group of house republicans, including minority leader mccarthy, making the border visit. i want to bring in the former white house deputy chief of staff for operations under president obama. jacob is with us in california. we know that part of fema s role we don t have jacob yet. garrett is in el paso. congressional republicans making a visit to the border in a matter of hours. this visit coming as congress preparing to