hello and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. i'm isa soares in london. just ahead on cnn newsroom. >> this is not some left wish list. this is the president's agenda. >> i want it to pass. >> it is time for us to make a decision and do our job. >> time is running out on capitol hill as u.s. lawmakers face two key votes. to avert a government shutdown and a vote on biden's key economic bill. north korea's leader called peace efforts by u.s. a

deception. and after more than 13 years, britney spears is one step closer to being free of her conservatorship. ♪ hello, everyone. it is thursday, september 30th. in just a few hours' time, congress will tackle the first of four critical pieces of legislation worth trillions of dollars. and once again, it's coming down to the wire. house speaker nancy pelosi plans to call a vote today on a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package even though many progressive democrats are threatening to vote against it. the white house says the president is leaving it up to pelosi on how best to proceed. take a listen. >> president trusts the speaker and her assessment of what her caucus needs to win this vote. our objective here is winning

two votes, getting these two pieces of important legislation across the finish line because we know the impact they'll have on the american people. we know they'll lower costs for people. we know they will make a huge, be a huge down payment towards addressing our climate crisis. they'll lower taxes for 50 million americans. he wants it done. we trust speaker pelosi. we are working in lockstep and around the clock to get both of these pieces of legislation done. >> progressives are growing restless because it is installed by moderate democratic senators joe manchin and kirsten sinema. neither has been forthcoming about what they might agree to. >> senator, progressives feel you aren't dealing in good faith. they felt there was a deal made -- >> i never knew about that. never heard about it. >> you never -- you were never part of a deal to pull those together? >> two of them are going to be together? why do you think they worked so hard to separate them?

>> progressives are frustrated they don't know where you are. >> well, president biden has met repeatedly with manchin and sinema in recent days, but nothing concrete has been announced. some house democrats are beginning to lose their patience really with their senate colleagues. >> have kirsten sinema come to my district and meet with my folks in st. louis. come and talk to those people who are spending all of their money on their prescription medication that they need that's lifesaving, but also cannot afford their rent at the same time. have her come and talk to those who are sleeping in their cars. she has her own story that i feel like she's forgotten. >> our two senate democrats who have done a good job of articulating what they're again, have so far kept it a secret as to what they're for. >> if someone won't show you their cards, you don't know what you're doing, and that's the real problem. we need manchin-ema to do their jobs. >> literally one senator, kirsten sinema is holding up the

wheel of the did he hemocratic . the president says, tell us what you want. >> tensions of keeping the government running is a top priority in the u.s. senate. the possibility shutdown looming in less than 24 hours. senate majority leader chuck schumer says he has reached the a deal with the republicans in december. it is expected first thing. also looming in congress, the debt limit the government is allowed to borrow. unless the debt ceiling is raised in the next couple weeks there is a risk of the government defaulting on its bills and possibly triggering a financial meltdown. republicans in solid opposition, the path forward on that is extremely narrow. take a listen. >> the president's view and our view has been the debt ceiling has been raised 80 times, in a bipartisan fashion over the course of history. including three times during the prior administration, even right after the passing of $2 trillion

in tax cuts that were not paid for. so, in his view, this is something that has been done in a bipartisan manner. it should be something that is not political because everybody should believe that we need to protect the full faith and credit of the united states. and we're disappointed that that's not the view shared by republicans right now. >> democratic representative chair of the congressional caucus is pushing the legislative agenda to the forefront. she said there had been agreement months ago, in fact, to keep everything in a single bill. and then it fell apart. take a listen to this. >> we wanted one package because we didn't want roads and bridges to be pitted against child care or paid leave and climate change, right. but when we didn't get that, we said, okay, we'll make you a deal and we were very clear about this 3 1/2 months ago. we will vote for the bipartisan package if you make sure that you pass the reconciliation package first. that was the deal that 11

senators put out a statement and said was a deal. now, senator manchin appears to be saying that those senators were not telling the truth. i don't know what -- they put out a statement, so obviously there is something wrong. if we do have a vote, then we'll vote it down and we'll continue the negotiations so that we can actually deliver the entirety of the president's agenda. >> we'll keep on top of this story, of course. it is going to be a very busy day in washington. now, the u.s. defense secretary is shining more light on the collapse of the afghanistan government that caught so many off guard. they spoke to a u.s. house committee on wednesday where the joint chief chairman stated he knew up to six months ago the war was still -- cnn's alex marquart has all the details for you. >> reporter: a blunt assessment from the nation's top jen, opening the second day of congressional hearings on the end of the war in afghanistan. >> it was a tactical operation and logistical success of

evacuating 124,000 people. the war was a strategic failure. >> reporter: jengeneral mark miy making clear after donald trump lost the election he ordered an accelerated withdraw of u.s. troops before president joe biden took office. having already agreed with the taliban to fully withdraw. it was a decision milley said he was cut out of. >> that's why i went over to the white house with acting secretary miller and white house chief of staff kash patel to discuss that order. so i wasn't consulted on it. >> reporter: republican lawmakers went after the apparent contradiction between the jgeneral wanting 2,500 troos to stay and the president telling abc news he didn't get that advice. >> in january of this year, were you of the opinion in your professional military judgment we should have maintained 2,500 troops, u.s. troops? >> yeah, my assessment that i read in the opening statement remained consistent. >> did that professional military opinion change over the

course of the next few months? >> not until the president's decision and i rendered my opinions and it was a fulsom debate. >> reporter: milley was attacked for calls he made to his chinese counterpart in october and january. milley said intelligence said the chinese were worried about an american attack. so much it appeared in the presidents' daily brief and was shared with top national security officials. >> that was significant and there was a lot of it. it wasn't just a singular report. i'll be happy to share that with you and go over it line by line. >> reporter: according to the new book "peril" milley told the chinese the u.s. would not attack china. >> i said, help, but we're not going to attack you. trust me, we're not going to attack you. these are two great powers, and i am doing my best to transmit the president's intent. president trump's intent.

>> reporter: milley said he had no regrets about speaking with peril coauthor bob woodward insisting it is important to speak with the frpress. >> i have done my best to remain apolitical and keep the military out of politics. >> reporter: after repeated calls by the gop for him to resign. >> to question your understanding of our constitution, your loyalty to our constitution, your recognition and understanding of the civilian chain of command is despicable. >> reporter: general milley was asked when he knew the war was lost, he wouldn't use that word himself, but he said it was five or six years ago he knew there was no military solution, it was unwinnable and in his words stalemated. the answer he said was a negotiated settlement with the taliban. now, since the taliban signed the deal with the trump administration last year, milley said the taliban has stood by the condition not to attack u.s. troops, but haven't honored any

of the other conditions. alex marquart, cnn, washington. military officials from china and the u.s. held frank and in-depth discussions in annual talks between the two nations. the pentagon stresses it is part of the biden's efforts to maintain lines of communication with china and avoid competition between two nuclear powers. well, north korea's leader says he's willing to reopen communication lines with south korea. during his speech at the legislative assembly monday, kim jong-un condemned the military buildup with the united states. he slammed the quotas hostile policies of the u.s., claiming the biden administration's proposal of dialogue without precondition is nothing but, quote, a mere ill ustian. will ripley joins us from taipei. you and i were speaking throughout this week. we've seen north korea test three missiles this month alone. now we have kim jong-un dismissing the u.s. and the

biden administration. how do you interpret these developments? because we've seen a flurry in the last couple of weeks. >> reporter: feels like a bit of mixed messaging, doesn't it? on one hand tuesday you launch what you claim is a hypersonic missile which can be extraordinarily deadly and dangerous to south korea, japan, united states military assets in the region. if north korea's claims are true and there are still some dispute about how far along they have come developing this weapon. but then kim jong-un says let's open the communications that north korea pulled the plug on last year at the same time they blew up the inter-korean liaison office. what is south korea doing? they're scrambling to get the lines set up. welcoming the resumption of dialogue. now north korea is saying, okay, we'd like to talk to the south, but it needs to be based on mutual respect. yes, we insulted your president. yes, we called you all sorts of names and basically said you kowtow to the united states. but now we want to talk.

there is this repeated pattern we've seen over the years where north korea almost attempts to drive a bit of a wedge in between south korea and the united states, putting south korea in a tough position because they have a military alliance with the united states. they have to engage in joint military exercises with the united states. north korea gets furious when they have said exercises even though they're doing their own exercises in the north and they cut things off, contentions ratchet up and the north tests a new weapon. you see how it goes. they'll play nice with south korea, blast the united states, blast the biden administration which they say is unchanged from the trump years. they say it's more sly now. they say it's a trick the u.s. has made to offer for talks is simply an act of deception because they don't trust the u.s. they really don't trust the u.s. if you look at the diplomatic history over the years, frankly you can see why they don't really trust the united states given what happened with the iran deal and other agreements. of course, they walked into the hanoi summit thinking they were going to have a deal with their buddy, former u.s. president

donald trump. that fell apart and kim came home humiliated. you can understand the lack of trust that's there. there is clearly a big divide between the two. but by opening the door, isa, for dialogue with south korea, what the north is doing is eventually paving the way possibly for talks with the u.s.. and, by the way, i need to mention kim promoted his sister kim yo-jong to the state affairs commission. she is now without a doubt the second most powerful person in north korea. she is around 32 years old. one woman, very elite group of ten men. the top decision making body in north korea right there next to her brother as his closest confidant. >> loyalty and -- >> reporter: i got it all in there two minutes. >> fantastic, will. so good. the kind of story you read between the lines. will ripley for us in taipei. good to see you, will. now, britney spears is celebrating a huge win in the battle to regain control of her life. the fans cheered the los angeles

judge's decision to suspend jamie spears as the conservator of her estate. she is free from her father's oversight. the attorney said the decisions were celebrated. he underscored how long it took to get to this point. take a listen. >> it's a great day for britney spears, and it's a great day for justice. and there is definitely something to celebrate. but it's also a solemn day. britney spears has been faced with a decade-long nightmare orchestrated by her father and others. >> so, what does this mean for britney spears? the details for you from los angeles. >> reporter: a major legal victory for britney spears on wednesday with judge penny moving to suspend jamie spears as his role as conservator of

britney's $60 million estate. he served as his daughter's conservator since 2008, over a decade. jamie spears did not want this to happen. he wanted the conservatorship to be completely terminated. he filed a petition earlier this month saying so. britney spears's attorney saying in court he believes he filed that motion in an effort to not have to now hand over accounting and paperwork, and basically all of his checks and balances over the last 13 years which now he has to do so. but mathew rosengart spoke on britney's behalf saying although she's not here today, i am her voice calling jamie spears a cruel and toxic and abusive man, saying that britney should not have to wake up one more day with her father as conservator. the judge actually called this a toxic environment and has now appointed a certified public accountant by the name of john sable who is going to be temporarily stepping into this role, overseeing the estate. now, there is another court hearing scheduled for november 12 where judge brenda penny is expected to terminate this once and for all. but in the meantime, lots of twists and turns, but britney

took to instagram to say that she is on cloud nine with this news. cnn, los angeles. >> what jamie spears' attorney said everything jamie did with britney's interest in mind and he loves her very much. now, celebrities and those closest to britney are also reacting to the news. let me show you a couple. britney's fiancee took to instagram to thank her fans, saying her fan base is called an army for a reason. he said this. wonderful news, she can now breathe. britney, enjoy your life, she tweeted. cher said she talked and prayed about this for years. you can see that. now, the head of global safety for facebook will face some tough questions from senators about harm to children from social media. a u.s. senate committee is armed with confidential information from facebook whistleblower who said the company knows its product causes psychological issues for kids.

the whistleblower is scheduled to testify next week. we'll stay on top of that story for you. still to come on cnn newsroom, details are emerging about what gabby petito's fiancee did when he returned home from the trip without her. plus a sentencing for the murder case gets underway in less than an hour. we'll go live to london where the confessed killer will learn his fate. do stay right here with cnn.

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the story for you. >> reporter: as the search for brian laundrie intensifies, new details are surfacing, creating a better time line about how laundrie was spending his days after he returned home september 1st without his fiancee gabby petito. the laundrie's attorney tells cnn brian and his family went camping on september 6 to the 7th at the fort desoto campground 75 miles away from their home. he says they all left the campground together. today the sheriff's office says surveillance footage from devote owe park from when the laundrie family was camping has been given to the fbi, and that video is part of their active investigation. gabby's parents reported her missing september 11th, just days after brian and his parents returned from their camping trip. a neighbor of the laundrie's says she last saw brian at his home the weekend of september 10th. >> i saw him and the family in the neighborhood out in the front yard. >> reporter: how would you describe them? >> i thought it was just, again, a normal, they were going for a walk. so never thought anything about it. >> reporter: on september 17th, laundrie's parents reported him missing, telling police they last saw him three days earlier. the fbi executed a search

warrant at the laundrie home on september 20th, a day after authorities found petito's body at a campground in wyoming. finally, september 23rd, the fbi announced a federal arrest warrant for brian for using a debit card that wasn't his between the dates of august 30th and september 1st. this monday, the laundrie's attorney issued a statement saying chris and roberta laundrie do not know where brian is. they are concerned about brian and hope the fbi can locate him. >> the letters are gbz, gabz. >> reporter: the petito family and the attorney asking for brian to do the right thing. >> brian, we're asking you to turn yourself in to the fbi or nearest law enforcement agency. >> reporter: leyla santiago, north port, florida. the uk the final chapter of the murder will play out in the london courtroom when the sen

t -- sentencing hearing will continue that he kidnapped and raped her in march. it renewed a debate about violence against women. standing outside the courtroom in london joins me now. i was reading sarah's mum's emotional witness statement that she gave this morning. it was just so gut wrenching. give our viewers a sense of what we have heard so far about the length this police officer went to to trick sarah here. >> reporter: that's right, isa. sarah's mother gave that emotional statement yesterday in this courtroom behind me saying that she is still tormented by thoughts of what her daughter was forced to endure by formerly police officer wayne cousins. we were able to learn new details about sarah's last few moments from the prosecution yesterday. some of the more disturbing details was wayne cousins used his police authority to abduct,

rape and kill everard. we know cousins presented his police i.d. when he stopped her on the street as she was making her way home from her friend's house in west london. he then handcuffed her and potentially under the guise of enforcing coronavirus lockdown restrictions, arrested her, false arrest, that is, and kidnapped her. we also know some of the more harrowing details about her last moments. we were told previously that the postmortem had found sarah everard died of compression to the neck. we now know cousins used his police belt to strangle everard. it is really harrowing details revealed yesterday by the prosecution. today in the courtroom, cousins will appear for the final day of his sentencing hearing. he is expected to receive a life sentence, but we are aware the prosecution is seeking to remove the opportunity for parole owing to the severity of the crime he

committed. of course, for the family and for sarah everard's loved ones, indeed for many women across the country who are outraged by this act of violence, it still remains whether police, authorities and indeed the government are doing enough to prevent violence against women in the uk. isa? >> do stay on top of the story for us. great to see you. thank you. now, it is morning in the canary islands where lava is still flowing to the ocean from the volcano that's been erupting 11 straight days. lava is forming at the sea line. officials warn the chemical reaction when the lava hits the sea could cause toxic explosions. still the air is safe to breathe. a team of international volcano experts have descended on la palma as the volcano continues to erupt. another volcano is erupting over in hawaii spewing lava for the first time since may.

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the year. now, rain, warm temperatures in the tropical storm brewing, it's all in store for the u.s. this week. meteorologist pedram javaheri has the latest. pedram. >> good morning, isa. final day of september on us here and still feeling like summer across portions of the midwest here as warmth still in place, but along portions of the gulf coast we expect rounds of heavy rainfall. it has been a a soggy go the last couple days here. coastal louisiana points back to the west, into areas of texas, tremendous amounts of rainfall. 2 to 4 inches have already come down. we know it has been, of course, soggy for the tropical season there in recent months. but up towards the north, this is where temps are running about 5 to 10 degrees above average. indianapolis climbing up to 82 degrees. the lower 70s, what you would expect this time of year. chicago same story. lower 80s where the lower 70s where you expect to be until the last day of september. not too bad in portions of west virginia as well. 76 degrees. that warmth is expected to

migrate a little farther towards the east. as it does, our friends around the northeast in the month of october on a splendid note, an incredible trend of warmth here taking the temps up to 74. eventually 75 in new york city, even 76 come monday, but some thunderstorms possible early next week. you'll notice the weather as nice as it gets this time of year in the northeastern united states. how about what's happening across the atlantic? we have a newly formed tropical storm, that's victor to tell you about. general speaking beyond this, conditions are quiet. there is hurricane sam as a major hurricane has maintained its category force status. great news for much of the life cycle of the storm, look at the models, have general hinted of no impact to land. it looks like that will be the case as it my grates east of bermuda as a hurricane. victor is still on board. we're watch thing carefully. forecast models expect a similar track over open waters.

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welcome to "cnn newsroom." i'm isa sores. britney spears is free from her conservatorship. lawmakers prepare to vote on president biden's key economic bill. we'll have more on that story in 30 minutes or so on early start. now, the congressional committee investigating the january 6 insurrection at the u.s. capitol is broadening its inquiry. 11 more subpoenas were issued wednesday to organizers of stop the steal rallies and events leading up to the attack. the women for america first organization hosted the save america rally where then president donald trump told the crowd to march to the capitol. the committee is asking the 11 individuals to testify by depositions in early october or early november. now, the kind of danger the

rioters posed to senators in january. brian todd explains. >> oh, absolutely. >> reporter: u.s. capitol police chief tom manger in a new interview with the associated press says, quote, we have never had the level of threats against members of congress that we're seeing today. clearly we have a bigger job in terms of the protection aspect of our responsibilities. major predicted in the interview authorities could respond to some 9,000 threats to members of congress by the end of this year. he told wolf blitzer in august that the number could be even higher. >> we typically just a couple years ago had around 6 or 7,000. this year i think will be up close to 10,000 threats we're investigating. >> reporter: the reasons for the rise in threats are varied. domestic extremists have been bull buoyed by the attack on january 6. by false claims of fraud in the

2020 election. by former president donald trump's incendiary comments. >> we did win this election. >> reporter: those who harm members of congress has also changed. >> remember, your members s s ss are elected all the time. so they're always out on the campaign. they need to be known. they want to be known. people know who they are just by sight. they know where they live. >> reporter: democratic congresswoman norma torres found that out in a frightening way. this summer after she had a political dispute over twitter with the president of el salvador, she said she received multiple threats, then an anonymous video. a man's voice narrating it. >> he stated that he was following me and he panned out to a blue vehicle which i had -- i owned, a blue suv. and he said that he was following me and then panned down to his gun and said that he had something for me.

>> reporter: how frightened are you still about this? >> i sold my car. i just could not drive that car. >> reporter: republican congressman tom reed says someone left a dead rat and a brick on his doorstep along with a family member's name. the capitol police don't have the resources for every membmbm of cgreset their own security detail in their home districts. so it's up to many of them to protect themselves. after that video incident, congresswoman torres says gang members cased her home in california and once tried to bait her husband out onto the street. so she retrieved a gun from their home and scared them off. >> i went myself. i thought they were going to come in and hurt, you know, not just my husband, but myself. so i'm going to do whatever i need to do to protect myself and my family. >> reporter: congresswoman torres says after those incidents, capitol police did come to her home in california and guarded it for about a week. but she says they can't provide

constant security for her, and she doesn't want to hire her own security detail. and she says the threats have followed her to washington, so she recently moved out of her basement apartment here to a more secure building. brian todd, cnn, washington. well, the united states top military leaders were back in the hot seat on wednesday testifying before u.s. house committee about what went wrong really in afghanistan. the top jen says the 20-year war wasn't lost in the last 20 days or 20 months. many factors led to the country's collapse including the trump administration's deal with the taliban that set a date for the u.s. to fully withdraw. the u.s. defense secretary says that deal meant no more air-strikes against the taliban which allowed them to gain strength. take a listen. >> we caused them to release 5,000 prisoners, and those prisoners, many of those prisoners went back to fill the ranks of the taliban. so they got a lot stronger. they continued their attacks.

we got smaller. >> the jgenerals were questione about the deadly drone strike a month ago. it was meant to kill members of isis, but took out ten civilians instead, seven of them children. >> we knew the strike hit civilians within four or five hours after the strike occurred. u.s. central command released a press release saying that. we did not know, though, that the target of the strike was, in fact, an error -- a mistake until sometime later. took a few days to run that down. >> the story for us live from hong kong. anna, as we heard there, we are learning the u.s. knew within hours they had killed civilians. you have been speaking and been on the story for sometime now. speaking to the family who lost loved ones in that strike. have they received an apology or even a call from the united states? >> reporter: isa, it's quite stunning. the admissions that were made in

congress by those top u.s. defense officials, because we have to remember that for weeks after this drone strike that killed ten civilians, that the u.s. military was defending this strike. you know, we heard from the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff mark am iy, tmilley, it w righteous strike three days after that drone strike. it was fascinating to learn this time line that within hours they knew there were civilians. and within days they knew that they had made this terrible mistake. for the family who was the supposed isis facilitator carrying explosives in his car and posed an imminent threat to the u.s. forces that were in the final days of this evacuation, this mass evacuation at the airport, they are a broken people. ten members of their family were killed on the 29th of august,

isa. and not one person from the u.s. government has tried to contact them. that in itself is quite extraordinary. obviously we heard from general mackenzie, the both of central command on the 17th of september. he made that very public apology before the cameras, but nothing specific to the family. we are only speaking to them this morning, and still, still nothing. and it's not just zemari's family, isa. it's the country director of this ngo that zemari worked for whose home is being labeled an isis safe house. the military still maintains this. i have spoken to dr. walid who lived in the house. he's a pediatrician. he has three young daughters. this is a man who has contributed to his country. he has a u.s. green card and has had one since 2018. and yet still the u.s. military

say that is where they heard chatter regarding this imminent threat. let's listen to what dr. walid had to say. >> i'm really shocked. why? this house is labelled as a safe house for isis. it is absolutely untrue, but i do expect from the u.s. government to clear the name on my house. >> reporter: dr. walid obviously is feeling in danger now. he's been exposed as the country director for the u.s. ngo as well as falsely accused of being affiliated to isis. as for zemari's family, they are looking for compensation. they are looking for resettlement, isa. they want to move to the united states. they need a new life. they, too, are in danger considering this affiliation and exposure that they have been given. but they absolutely want justice, isa, for the ten family members who were killed a month ago. >> anna corinne for us.

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the uk should be more creative in what it does with its population of offenders helping unlock the labor market shortage that now stands at 1 million plus in this country. that includes, of course, about 100,000 truck drivers the country is missing. either way, though, there is a big supply in labor crunch. the government is coming under increasing pressure to address at fuel pumps like these, isa. petrol, fresh produce and natural gas, shortage of vital items are affecting day to day life in britain. >> this shouldn't be happening. >> we don't have enough skilled workers and that's going to be the problem. >> hindsight is 2020 so it's easy for me to say they should have, could have, would have. but we should do better. >> reporter: the pumps is down to panic buying. there is plenty of fuel. thanks to the pandemic and brexit, there is a lack of truck drivers making it very difficult

to get all sorts of goods to where they're needed most. >> i'm ready to forget it. >> reporter: authorities hope to ease pressure on strained supply chains by issuing thousands of temporary visas to people like him from bosnia. he's worked in the uk before and would gladly return. >> sounds tempting for me because especially now in crisis, in need of drivers. i know before, before the brexit, before the crisis, salaries were good. also in england, so, yes, it sounds okay for me. i would work there. >> reporter: but others like these drivers in slovenia weren't so keane. -- keen. [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: covid-19 disrupted the examination process for tens of thousands of potential heavy vehicle operators in the uk. now the government has decided

to try and ease the backlog by fast tracking the qualification process. here at this driving school on the outskirts of london, that means they're busier than they've ever been. he is a 29-year-old wanting to be a truck driver. why? >> just the opportunity of earning money is the main thing. it's very flexible within my family life. for an english person to be doing it, i think it's a big must and big need. i do try to tell people who i've grown up with do it. >> reporter: until joe and many others like him can get goods around the uk, customer patience is another thing that's in short supply. well, isa, the scene, too, at this west london fuel is calmer than the last five days that i've been reporting on this fuel crisis. but there is a sense that this is only a temporary measure that the government has managed to alleviate the situation. people are worried about future

shortages and later on in the year as we head towards the festive season with christmas presents to buy and food to put on the table. britons continue to be uneasy about the supply crunch. isa? >> thanks, nina dos santos. still to come, covid and pregnancy. there is a lot of misinformation around. the cdc wants to clear it all up. their new u.s. guidance when we come back. well, would ya look at that! it was an accident. i was— speaking of accidents, we accidentally left you off the insurance policy during enrollment, and you're not covered. not even a little bit? mm-mmm. no insurance. no. when employees can't enter and manage their own benefits enrollment information, it can be a real pain. not even— nope! with paycom, employees enter and manage their own hr data in a single, easy-to-use software. visit paycom.com and schedule a demo today.

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