which is coming up next. have a great one. good morning. breaking overnight, shutdown good morning. breaking overnight, shutdown showdown, the nation one step closer to a government stoppage as senate republicans block a bill aimed at keeping it open. both parties blaming each other with friday's deadline fast approaching. >> our country is staring down the barrel of two totally republican-manufactured disasters. >> the democrats have steered our country straight into a storm of serious crises. >> just ahead, the standoff that some fear could trigger a new economic crisis. taking a shot, president

biden rolls up his sleeve for the covid booster while stressing the need for the still unvaccinated to get their first. >> the most important thing we need to do is get more people vaccinated. and overnight in new york, the key ruling on mandating vaccines that will impact thousands of teachers in the nation's largest school system. we'll have the very latest. stunning fall, r&b star r. kelly found guilty on all counts in a sex trafficking trial. >> to the victims in this case, your voices were heard and justice was finally served. >> how prosecutors say the singer used his fame to control and manipulate his victims. and the decades behind bars he's now facing. hunt for clues, ntsb investigators now searching through the debris of that deadly train derailment in montana. this morning, why they are focussing on the tracks in the mysterious crash as we learn more about the three victims.

those stories, plus outraged. overnight reaction from ronald reagan's daughter after the justice department agrees to the unconditional release of john hinckley, the man who tried to assassinate her father. why she is slamming the decision. and riding high, the dallas cowboys crush the philadelphia eagles on monday night football. >> prescott, wants a tight end. schultz, touchdown, dallas. >> as america's team makes a big statement against its rival. "today," tuesday, september 28th, 2021. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with savannah guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and welcome to "today" on this tuesday morning. so happy you're starting your day with us. you're okay after the game? >> what? what game?

i have no idea. go eagles. we have a lot to get to this morning, including inspiration from hayley arceneaux will be here with her mom, live since returning from space. cannot wait to hear more about that amazing journey. plus simone biles is sharing more about her decision to withdraw from some events in the tokyo olympics. we'll till what she is saying now and we have an exclusive look at some of the video diary she shot during that time. and later, we sit down with country star alan jackson and he talks about his health. but we want to begin with president biden under pressure seen yesterday getting his booster shot in an effort to get others to do the same. it comes as he was dealt a blow overnight from republicans in congress regarding that looming government shutdown. we have two reports for you this morning. we're going to start at the white house with nbc's peter alexander. peter, good morning. >> reporter: hey, hoda, good

morning to you. to be very clear, this is a self-inflicted crisis created by congress with potentially costly consequences to the country. the government shuts down at midnight this thursday, less than 72 hours from now unless democrats carve out their own path forward with republicans quickly escalating the standoff. overnight, a showdown in washington moving the country closer to economic crisis as president biden aims to sell the measures that will define his presidency. now the most serious challenge, senate republicans blocking a bill needed to fund the government ahead of a possible shutdown friday that could affect everything from social security to air travel, and leave hundreds of thousands of furloughed workers. the vote triggering an even more serious ticking clock, democrats scrambling to avoid the country defaulting on its debt next month. if the u.s. did default for the

first time in history, economists have warned the results could be catastrophic. republicans are trying to vote alone for spending both parties approved. >> they control the house, the senate and the presidency. they can do this easily on their own. >> democrats are furious. >> it's one of the most reckless, one of the most irresponsible votes i have seen taken place in the senate. >> reporter: but the president's biggest challenge may be his own party. with democrats sharply divided over his signature priorities, including a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill. and what for now is a $3.5 trillion plan to strengthen climate programs and to reshape the social safety net from health care to education. the consequences if those bills don't pass, it could cost democrats control of congress in next year's midterm. >> victory is what is at stake. >> this is president biden's signature agenda on the line. how do democrats plan to get out of this stalemate? >> reporter: it's a good question. there was a closed-door meeting late monday, nancy pelosi saying they are going to focus on

passing that bipartisan infrastructure bill this week, that's the $1.2 trillion bill, that they will keep working on the bigger, multi-trillion dollar bill, acknowledging there is more to do on that and acknowledging the price tag needs to come down. to get everything passed because progressives among democrats have said that they want it all done at once. hoda? >> peter alexander for us at the white house, thanks. another major focus of the president this week, clearing up the confusion that surrounds vaccine booster shots while encouraging the unvaccinated to get that first shot. gabe gutierrez joinsfrs om west virginia, which has the highest hospitalization rate in the country. good morning. >> reporter: hoda, good morning. this hospital just started to offer booster shots to those 65

while the county health department, not far from here, is now offering it to 18 and older. it's one example of a patchwork of rules across the country to get that third shot. despite a rocky rollout at vaccine clinics and pharmacies nationwide, the president rolling up his sleeve for his pfizer booster shot. >> this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. that's why i'm moving forward with vaccination requirements wherever i can. >> reporter: in the nation's largest school system, new york city, teachers and staff now have until friday to get vaccinated after a federal appeals court green lighted a mandate. >> i think they should get vaccinated. our kids are in there, and they have to be held accountable. >> reporter: a second vaccine mandate launching some protests from those in fear of losing their jobs. >> i can almost go to tears right now. i have bill toes pay like everybody else. >> i went to work fighting, like a soldier, like a veteran in a war. and today we're considered zero. >> reporter: with more schools back in session over the past two weeks, children made up more than 26% of all new covid cases, an 8% jump from two weeks before.

across much of the country, new covid cases are down, but in places with low vaccination rates, like kentucky, hospitalizations are still high. how busy are you now compared to a few months ago? >> we have about 50% more patients and 50% more icu-type patients than we had before. >> reporter: st. claire regional medical center has set up this tent for monoclonal antibody treatments in its parking lot. >> i think for our community it has made a difference in keeping people out of acute care setting. >> reporter: still, the clinic is offering boosters and here in west virginia the governor is urging everyone 18 and older to get them. >> they're dancing around it with some gobbledy gook language but they're opening the flood gates wholeheartedly to say go get the booster shot. >> reporter: here in charleston, west virginia, this hospital system right now has more than 100 covid patients. the hope is that as new covid cases drop across the country,

hospitalizations and deaths will follow suit in the coming days. meanwhile, the governor of west virginia says more than 12,000 covid boosters shots have been administered in the past few days. >> gabe gutierrez, thank you very much. now to a verdict that's been in the headlines for years. after a six-week trial and less than two days of deliberations, a jury found r. kelly guilty on all counts of sex trafficking and racketeering facing the singer. now he could potentially spend the rest of his life in jail. nbc's stephanie gosk joins us now from the courthouse in new york. stephanie, good morning. >> reporter: hoda, good morning. r. kelly has been under arrest and still in jail where he's been since his arrest in 2019 and where he is likely to stay for a long time to come. prosecutors say this guilty verdict was 30 years in the making. after years of alleged abuse, r. kelly is facing decades behind

bars. the singer, found guilty on nine federal counts of racketeering and sex trafficking. >> today's guilty verdict forever brands r. kelly as a predator. >> reporter: overnight, some of his accusers speaking out. jaronda pace, who was just 16 years old, when she was abuse bid the pop star, writing on instagram, today my voice was heard. adding, for years, i was trolled for speaking out. today, i made history. the trial often featured graphic testimony, victims and witnesses described how kelly used his fame to entrap fans, hold them at times against their will and abuse them emotionally, physically and sexually. ♪ i believe i can fly ♪ prosecutors argued that the r&b singer famous for hits like "i believe i can fly ♪ often used his entourage to recruit and groom victims for sex. kelly pleaded not guilty and did not take the stand in his own defense. his attorney argued the accusers were opportunistic, wanted fame

and money themselves and lied in their testimony. >> they totally ignored the inconsistencies that all of these witnesses gave in their debriefing. i'm sure, i'm sure we'll be appealing. >> reporter: at the center of the case, the late pop star, aaliyah, who died in a plane crash in 2001. one witness said she walked in on kelly and the then 13 or 14-year-old aaliyah engaged in a sex act. r. kelly married aaliyan when she was just 15, using a fake i.d., because r. kelly thought aaliyah was pregnant. even though some incidents took place decades ago, the racketeering charge allowed the government to introduce sexual abuse allegations outside the statute of limitations. >> to the victims in this case, your voices were heard and justice was finally served. >> stephanie, this whole thing comes as kelly is still facing additional charges from other

trials. will that affect his sentencing? >> reporter: it certainly will, hoda. it's a laundry list of charges. you have 13 counts, federal counts of child pornography in chicago, an additional four state counts of aggravated sexual assault in chicago. and then in minnesota, two counts related to prostitution with a minor. if he's convicted on all of those, or even just some of them, he may never be released from prison. hoda? >> stephanie gosk for us there, thank you. the fbi reports that murders rose by nearly 30% last year. it's the largest single increase since the fbi began collecting the data six decades ago. there were more than 21,500 murders in 2020, according to the annual uniform crime report released just yesterday. experts say it's difficult to pinpoint the cause of the spike. reports of violent climbs such as rape and aggravated assault

were also up last year. one bright spot, robberies, burglaries and property crimes have all continued to fall in recent years. >> okay. it is 7:12. lot to get to. craig joins the table. we have new details this morning in the ongoing search for answers in that mysterious and deadly train track derailment in montana. investigators are searching for a cause. this morning, we're learning more about the three passengers who died. nbc national correspondent miguel almaguer joins us once again from the scene in joplin, montana. good morning. >> reporter: craig, good morning. the rail line here has just reopened, but the ntsb remain owes scene pouring off the wreckage which has been moved off the tracks. we know they have some new clues, the black box as well as front mounted cameras on the train, which could be big news and critical evidence. >> 911.

what is your emergency? >> hi. i'm on an amtrak train in montana that just crashed. >> reporter: working to piece together this chaotic scene in rural montana. the ntsb now says multiple mounted cameras captured the moments before and after the deadly accident. >> we have experts that are studying the camera footage frame by frame to make sure that we see exactly what the engineer saw or maybe didn't see. >> reporter: with the cause still unknown, investigators say the amtrak passenger train was traveling just under the 79-mile-per-hour speed limit along a gradual curve. while weather was likely not a factor, the condition of the tracks, which are inspected twice a week by bnsf, may be a critical component. how important are the rail conditions in the investigation? >> i think the rail conditions are obviously important in any train accident. and so it's one of those things that we will be looking at. >> oh, my god.

it's on its side. >> reporter: with nearly 160 people aboard, the train was traveling west with two locomotives and ten cars. five suddenly derailed. three plowing off the tracks entirely. trevor fosson was driving to a wedding and was the first person on scene. >> i do remember seeing people coming out of the top of the train. i just ran up and started helping them help people out of the train. >> reporter: the three passengers killed have now been identified. 28-year-old zach snyder was with his wife who remarkably survived. don and margie varnadoe were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary with a cross-country trip. >> they were two people of faith, so they're still together. >> reporter: the devastating wreck rattling the quiet town of joplin, as investigators work to make sense of the mangled metal.

investigators are looking at two cameras, the first 80 seconds before the derailment. the second piece of video is from the actual derailment. investigators are going frame by frame to pick out critical evidence. craig? >> so sad. miguel in joplin. thank you. let's get our first check of the weather. al is here good morning >> we have rough weather coming into the northeast showers now through western pennsylvania, 11 million people at risk. wind gusts of over 60 miles per hour tornado threat low, but damaging hail is a possibility from atlantic city down to charlottesville. this system will be pushing to the east this front drops down to the south. low pressure develops along it a few strong storms stretching from virginia up to new york today. then for tomorrow, that system moves off pretty quickly so some severe storms today in the northeast. heavy rain in the gulf record highs which we'll take a look at coming up in the next half hour, and some mountain snows back into the northern rockies. we're going to get to your local

forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds we will be warming up going towards the end of the week. more sunshine and highs in the mid-90s for the weekend. for san francisco, a nice start to our morning. high 60s today. expect more sun and temperatures reaching into the low 70s for saturday and sunday.

weather. guys coming up, heated reaction from ronald reagan's daughter on news that her father's attempted assassin will be granted unconditional release. her message to john hinckley, just ahead and she made history in more ways than one in that all-civilian space crew. this morning, the very inspiring eryley arceneaux and h

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information about 8:00, and students told to do not come out on campus until you get the all-clear. and then covid vaccine one step closer to being approved for children between the ages of 5 and 11. pfizer just submitted a trial of 2,000 children to the fda, and the fda will take several weeks to analyze the data, and in the coming weeks it expect to request emergency use authorization. let's get a look at the forecast with meteorologist, kari hall. >> we're starting out with a few clouds but it will be clearing out today. our temperatures staying comfortable reaching into the upper 60s and low 70s for the inner bay, and upper 70s for the inner east bay. as we go through the forecast, we are looking at highs in the low to mid-90s for the weekend and san francisco will reach in the mid-60s today. it's going to be sunny and 70

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it comes as north korean leaders urge the u.s. to give up what they call, quote, hostile policy toward pyongyang the north says no one can deny the right to self-defens and would like to test rockets the fbi takes over the search for brian laundrie. in the meantime, the manhunt for him in a 25,000 acre florida nature preserve will be scaled back this week the fbi says the search will be based on intelligence. to the nfl now, monday night had a good old-fashioned blowout. >> picked off. it's trayvon diggs down the side nobody is going to catch him line house call

>> diggs with a 59-yar interception return for the touchdown. that put the cowboys up by 20 early in the second half the eagles would never -- effectively, they were never really in this game. >> you don't have to be so harsh. >> now you're ad-libbing >> as john stated, it was pointed out to me first thing this morning, it's a rebuilding season for the eagles. >> you know what we have a lot of eagles fans in this studio, some on camera. you may not be in focus on your next shot after that one >> sorry, john now to a story getting a lot of attention a major development for a man who tried to assas sitting u.s. president. >> john hinckley jr. fired that shot that stunned the world in 1981, wounding then president reagan and wounding others outside of a washington, d.c., hotel. now he's months away from being

released without conditions. >> this morning, the reagan family is reacting to that news. andrea mitchell joins us with more andrea, good morning >> reporter: good morning to all of you for the first time in four decade webs the justice department has now agreed that john hinckley, who tried to assassinate then president ronald reagan can be a free man next year after he completes a nine-month observation period. today, the justice department is no longer opposing the unconditional release of john hinckley, who tried to assassinate ronald reagan 40 years ago. at the time, the white house kept secret that the president nearly died. the bullet barely missing his heart. a jury ruled hinckley, then 25, not guilty by reason of insanity, but ordered him confined to a mental hospital for life hinckley wounded two officers and paralyzed former white house press secretary jim brady, who died in 2014 a medical examiner ruled brady's death a homicide a d.c. judge ruling that

hinkley, now 66, has displayed no signs of mental illness after spending years in psychiatric confinement and finally living under court supervision with his parents in williamsburg, virginia his surviving parent, his mother, died back in july. >> why do you want me to go back to my parents? they hate me >> hinckley confessed to shooting reagan to impress actress jodie foster who he had been obsessed with since seeing her in "taxi driver. his lawyer calling the decision a win for mental health care >> people who are -- by mental disease, with proper support, get treatment, can achieve mental stability and rejoin society. >> reporter: the news of hinckley's freedom comes on the heels of a pending decision on parole for sirhan sirhan both cases dividing their families president reagan's son, michael,

reacting to the decision tweeting fyi, my father forgave hinckley and would approve, therefore, so do i but his daughter, patti davis, writing in "the washington post" i will always picture hinckley's cold eyes and telling cnn -- >> when somebody tries t assassinate a president or a public figure or a presidential candidate, they affect the entire country >> so, andrea, we just heard from michael and patti davis there. what's been the reaction by hi foundation to this news? >> reporter: the foundation issued a statement, saying they believe hinckley is, quote, still a threat to others and if you take a shot at the president of the united states, you should not see the outside of prison walls, period. strong reaction there. >> yes washington correspondent andrea mitchell, thank you. coming up next, a "today" exclusive. and how about it what comes next when you're just 29 years old and you've survived cancer and a trip to space cancer and a trip to space >> we are going to talk about

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we're we're back, 7:39 our new series, the space race a remarkable woman who continues to find new ways to inspire everybody. >> we are speaking about hayley arceneaux, she was the youngest member selected for the inspiration 4, the world's first all-civilian mission to space. we carefully followed her journey every step of the way, and we are so honored to have her here in studio 1a along with

her mom, colleen we're going to speak to them in a moment but first, the latest chapters in her incredible story. an emotional homecoming parade . >> young cancer for hayley arceneaux >> thank you all so much >> celebrating her successful and inspiring mission to space >> i can't wait to go back >> young cancer patients cheering their hero's return the 29-year-old and her crewmates recently touching down on earth following the first all-civilian mission into orbit aboard spacex's inspiration 4. at just 10 years old, hayley with an diagnose d with bone canner, becoming a patient at st. jude children's research hospital >> what are your dreams? what do you dream about? >> i want to be a nurse at st. jude's >> 19 years later, hayley was hired at st. jude hospital as a physician assistant. following a trip to nasa as a young girl, hayley held on to another dream traveling to space. that came true when she was selected as one of four crew members on the inspiration 4

team >> she's a survivor of childhood cancer >> she was revealed as one of the astronauts exclusively on "today." hayley telling us it was her mother, colleen, who gave her strength for the mission >> she's so proud. she's my biggest supporter and my biggest cheerleader, and we're getting to go through this together >> having seen her daughter already fight bone cancer and survive, colleen was super nervous about hayley going to space, but wanted to give her daughter every chance to live out her dreams their close relationship highlighted in a new netflix documentary. >> if i let my mom anxiety influence her life, she wouldn't do nearly the things she's doing. >> the space mission raising more than $225 million for st. jude >> i had my hair all big and crazy, and i took a picture of me holding a bald photo from

when i was in treatment. it felt very indicative of this almost 20-year journey, full circle i feel so fortunate to be able to represent all the kids with cancer >> hayley, hoping it will inspire others, especially young cancer survivors, to dream big we are so happy to have hayley back with us along with her beautiful mom, colleen hayley, this is the first time we got to sit with you since you were up in space >> yes. >> you did that splash landing we all watched, biting our nails. what was the most memorable part of your adventure for you? >> the most memorable part was when we called the st. jude patients it's what i was looking forward to the most. i have to say that was one of my life highlights. some of the kids on that call, this live call were my own patients that i've gotten to know really well so they had the sweetest questions about what it's like to be in space hearing their voices, it made it all worth it all this hard work

it was just very full circle. >> everyone says, hayley, when you see -- you're one of the rare people who have done it when you see earth from space, it changes you did you feel like that >> yes so whenever we got to put our head in this cupola, which was brand new. our mission flew the biggest window that's ever been flown in space. and we got to get in it and all we saw was the entire circle of the earth and space around it, and seeing the clouds move and it was life changing i was filled with so much gratitude that i was able to see that and experience that and felt like we need to take good care of our planet >> colleen, i was feeling you. when she took off, every mother was feeling you. >> yes. >> how nervous were you, to let your little girl go up into space? you wouldn't even do an interview until it was over. >> yes. >> we wanted to talk to you many times. >> we were like, let's talk to mom. she was like, not until she gets

back on the ground >> i really thought that morning of launch that i would be in pieces, and i wasn't it was incredible. because i think spacex had prepared us so well and we did dress rehearsals, and then we had a big crowd of a lot of family and friends and i was with all the other crew families. and we had just so much support and prayers, and they just kept us all focused on just how exciting everything was. and i couldn't let her see that i was going to be, you know, falling apart. she needed to have as much strength as possible to do what she needed to do >> but now you can tell her, did you hold your breath for the entire three days? >> well, they kept us very busy during that time we actually got to do a little flight, zero g flight and experience what that was like. they tried to keep us very busy. and every day, they gave us a briefing and we got to see them

in the capsule and what they happen they were doing, and that helped a lot >> one of the most poignant images was of you holding a picture of young you when you were bald, and you were there with your glorious hair flying around and that's the picture you posted for daughter's day on facebook you win, you win what did that image mean for you in that moment >> it's hard to describe part of me wishes i could go back and show my 10-year-old self that picture and say everything is going to be okay but now i can share that picture with my own patients and show them that it gets better hold on to hope because it gets better >> before we let you go, an amazing welcome back at st. jude for you. this was a surprise, right >> it was. >> did you know you were going to have a big, old parade? >> i did not, no and the patients had made signs. they had art it was so special. i will remember that forever

and this one little girl had a sign that said i want to be an astronaut and i said you can do anything you want to do. so it was special to share that with them. >> you're amazing, hayley. and, colleen, you did so good with this little girl of yours >> thank you >> and they're going to be back in our third hour. we should mention the countdown documentary is now streaming on netflix, the finale, including exclusive access to the crew's mission in orbit that premiers thursday >> that was cool let's go over to al and get a check of the weather >> hey, guys we're talking some real heat in the midsection of the country, stretching from the gulf all the way up into canada the surge of heat from this high pressure pumping up this air temperatures 10 to 30 degrees above average as you make your way into the dakotas, minnesota, down into oklahoma, we're talking really warm temperatures 14 degrees above average in duluth oklahoma city, 91 degrees. 81 in denver milwaukee, three degrees above average, but still pretty nice as we move into tomorrow, chicago you'll be way above average at 82 degrees, st. louis almost 90. nashville, 86 degrees. that's eight degrees above

average. but as we make our way towards the end of the week, buffalo 32 degrees 62 degrees by thursday, 64 in boston on saturday low 70s in philadelphia. nice and delightful, fall-like temperatures from green bay, we got a taste of fall just for today and then we are going back to summer, going towards the end of the week and for the weekend our inland areas will reach in the low to mid-90s. still going to be warm for the start of next week. for san francisco, beautiful sunshine today and highs in the mid to upper 60s. we will see a warmer weekend headed our way with low 70s. overall, we're expecting improved air quality as well as more sunshine across the bay area. >> and that's your latest weather. >> thank you, al >> mr. roker, thank you, thank you. coming up, an nbc news exclusive from tom costello on what ford is calling its new model t moment

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very good morning to you. it's now 7:56. i am laura garcia. here's a look at what is happening now. >> i am scott mcgrew. new this morning, treasury secretary janet yellen warned the government will run out of available credit and have to shutdown and possibly have to default on its debt as early as october 15th. she sent a letter to the capitol where senators are fighting over whether or not to raise the debt limit. government shutdowns are rare but survivable, and america has never defaulted on its debt. you will have to show your proof of vaccine if you want to

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it's 8:00 on "today." coming coming up, under pressure. a potential government shutdown now just days away after senate republicans block a key bill so will congress be able to pass a new budget >> they do control the house they do control the senate and they control the presidency. they can do this easily on their own. >> we're live with the very latest alan jackson exclusive the country music superstar shares his private health battle with jenna

>> how does it feel to say this out loud >> in is in some ways, it's a relieve. >> and what he's saying about potentially going back on tour plus, sharing her story. a new look at simone biles behind the scenes in tokyo >> i just feel like mentally i'm struggling >> as she gives new insight into her decision to step away during the olympics our exclusive look, just ahead and tough call ♪ hello from the other side ♪ the new nfl promo teasing tom brady's big return to new england. how the matchup is already going viral. "today," tuesday, september 28th, 2021 >> just married. >> and we're celebrating on the

"today" show >> here with my mom from we're from michigan and we're celebrating our daughter alyssa's 14th birthday >> sending love to our family. >> in tennessee. >> my first time in new york from grand rapids, michigan. for mom's 70th birthday. >> how do i get that shirt >> we all want that shirt. >> give it up there. welcome back, you guys thanks for joining us. it is a tuesday morning, so happy that you're here with us >> good morning, everybody. >> let us get started. let's get right to your news at 8:00 republicans are now forcin democrats to go it alone to raise the nation's borrowing limit and prevent a government shutdown this week nbc's chief white house correspondent and weekend today coanchor peter alexander joins us now with the latest hey, peter, good morning >> reporter: hey, hoda, good morning. the clock is ticking a move that could leave hundreds

of thousands of federal workers without a paycheck forcing this issue, senate republicans late monday blocking a bill that would have temporarily funded the government and would have extended the nation's ability to borrow, avoiding a catastrophic default on the nation's debt democrats may have to vote alone to make sure this doesn't happen at the same time, president biden's economic agenda faces a high-stakes week here. house speaker nancy pelosi last night telling divided members of her party that she plans to hold trillion dollar bipartisan infrastructure bill, the one that would help build roads, bridges and railways but to hold off on voting on a larger $3.5 trillion plan that would essentially reshape the way we take care of young people and the elderly and combat climate. pelosi acknowledging the price tag needs to come down it could alienate progressives who don't want their priorities to get shut out. it's a big week here in washington, hoda back to you.

>> peter, it ford is making big news this certainly is thank you. morning. the company announcing it is dramatically ramping up its commitment to electric vehicles, or evs nbc's tom costello broke that story. tom, this is a big deal. >> reporter: it's a big deal by the way, listen, every automaker is spending money on and increasing their battery-powered car fleet. but ford is spending billions of dollars, building three new plants and hiring thousands of workers in two states affected by the shrinking coal industry they're coming up fast 2021 is shaping up to be the year of big auto ev announcements. this morning, the chairman of ford, bill ford, great grandson of founder henry ford, tells nbc news in a rare, exclusive interview the revolution is here and now, ford's model t moment

for the 21st century >> we're putting our money on it we're putting shovels in the ground and we're creating the biggest site ever. importantly, we're also creating a carbon neutral site. >> reporter: the automaker placing a very big bet, investing $11 billion to build three factories here in tennessee and in kentucky. both states struggling to recover from the collapsing coal industry ford will hire 11,000 workers to build electric vehicles and the batteries that power them. while tesla leads the battery revolution, nearly every major automaker is making big promises to go green. this summer, gm promised to end gasoline gasoline-powered engines by 2035. >> unwaving commitment to move evs as quickly as possible. >> reporter: president biden highlighting the cash back consumers get for buying electric >> especially us reach the goal of half the new cars sold in america will be electric by 2030, saving billions of gallons in gasoline. >> reporter: this is a car revolution that we're witnessing

right now. it may seem slow and it may seem like it will take some time before we see ohm vehicle vehicles on the road but make no mistake, the entire auto industry is going electric. >> reporter: for bill ford, whose other great grandfather was harvey firestone, the green revolution also brings a new challenge. people buy the f150 truck because they want power, they want muscle. >> yeah. >> reporter: can this give them the muscle >> instant torque, instant power. >> reporter: it takes off? >> it takes off. >> reporter: consumers are skeptical that they need to go electric >> i don't think it will be that hard once they see what these vehicles can do. >> reporter: ford that's 150,000 preorders for the electric f150. the michigan state police just road tested and approved the electric mustang for police use. interest what would your great-grandfather say today about your new model t for the 21st century

>> i think he would say what took you so long >> reporter: i love that, because henry ford worked for thomas edison back in the late 19th century, and edison electric and the very first ford cars started out as electric or battery-powered model. so this is kind of coming full circle so be clear, every automaker is going big on going green, on new battery powered cars the question is how soon will they become every third or fourth car out on the road behind me? guys, back to you. >> the demand is there tom, thank you very much great story. appreciate it. it has been two months now since olympic great simone biles stunned the world by pulling out of the gymnastics team final in tokyo. now in a candid interview with new york magazine, biles is opening up about her decision. kristen dahlgren has more on that plus a video that was recorded while in tokyo >> we are just being told by the officials that simone biles is out of the competition tonight >> reporter: for weeks, simone biles has been replaying that moment, telling "new york"

magazine of her sudden decision to withdraw from competition. it's like i jumped out of a moving train but looking back, simone says, she should have stopped competing long before that morning in tokyo if you looked at everything i've gone through for the past 20 years, i should have never made another olympic team i should have quit way before tokyo when larry nassar was in the media for two years. it was too much. nassar is the former team doctor sentenced to life in prison after being accused of sexually abusing hundreds of young gymnasts, including biles. this month, she gave searing testimony before the u.s. senate >> i blame larry nassar and i also blame an entire system that enabled and perpetrated his abuse. >> reporter: but ahead of tokyo, like she had done time and time again, simone pushed through, telling hoda before the games, she felt she needed to be there to speak out for survivors >> i just feel like everything

that happened had to come back to the sport to be a voice, to have change happen because i feel like if there weren't a remaining survivor in the sport, they would have just brushed it to the side. but since i'm still here and i have quite a social media presence and platform, they have to do something. >> reporter: simmen's struggle in tokyo evident in video diaries she recorded inside her hotel room >> i just feel like mentally i'm struggling >> reporter: now part of the facebook watch docu series, simone versus herself. the gymnastics visibly frustrated, practicing skills on her bed. simone says she's now back in therapy, trying to heal from this turbulent period of her life, call it a work in progress >> kristen dahlgren reporting there. >> it's tough to see simone going through such raw emotions like that, but it feels like she's found her voice once again and now she knows.

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private for the past ten years we sat down for a candid and revealing conversation his first ever interview about his hereditary health condition. ♪ i'm chasing that neon rainbow living that honky to think dream ♪ >> for three decades, alan jackson has been living his honky to think dream, his warm soothing song and prolific song writing has transformed him from a mail room worker from georgia into a bona fide country music superstar. since 1990, he sold nearly 60 million albums worldwide, building his career with number one hit -- ♪ i went down yonder ♪ >> -- after hit. ♪ remember when ♪ >> life always brings something around that i want to write about that makes sense

>> reporter: alan jackson was inducted into the hall ed country music hall of fame in 2016 >> i don't think any of them had any idea i was going to sell 60 million albums >> reporter: what is it like to be here on this stage? >> for a country singer and songwriter, it's top of the mountain that's what it is. it's hard to believe that i'm part of this >> even with all his success, he's as humble as they come. >> is it true that you still get nervous when you get up on stage to perform >> i still -- more self conscious, i guess, than nervous. i never really wanted to be in the spotlight as a performer >> but being on stage now looks a little different from the 62-year-old. ten years ago, he was diagnosed with a degenerative nerve condition, affecting his ability to walk. >> i've been reluctant to talk about this publicly and to my fans i have this neuropathy and neurological disease that's genetic that i inherited from my daddy. it's called cmt ironically enough because cmt is a big part

of my career compromising balance and movement. >> there's no cure for it. but it's been affecting me for years and it's more and more obvious. i know i'm stumbling around on stage and now i'm having trouble balancing in front of the microphone. i feel very uncomfortable. it's >> cmt, also known going to kil. it's not comfortable. >> how does it feel to say this out loud? >> in some >> how does it feel to say this out loud >> in some ways, it's a relief because i was starting to get so self-conscious up there, you know, about stumbling around so i think it will be good for me now to get it out in the open and so if anybody is curious why i don't walk right, that's why >> but the show will go on the country legend plans to keep on playing >> i never wanted to do the big retirement tour like people do and take a year off and come back i think that's kind of cheesy. i'm not saying i won't be able to tour. i'll try to do as much as i can.

so if i'm coming to your town -- >> we'll come. ♪ we lay rubber on the georgia asphalt ♪ ♪ we got a little crazy, but we never got caught ♪ >> for jackson, country music is in his soul, recently saying, quote, country music is gone and it's not coming back, suggesting nashville's pop influence to change country music forever >> i think real country music is really not part of mainstream country music anymore. and i don't want to sound like an old, bitter country singer. but, you know, it's a different generation i just hate to see the real stuff disappear completely because i think it's a great part of american history i mean, even though the instruments are going away, you know, the steel, the fiddle, and i wrote a song about that on this album ♪ sweet country music where have you gone ♪ >> in his new album, "where have you gone," the title track pre preserves the sound of country

music's past >> i feel a little more freedom now because i'm not trying to worry about getting on radio and fitting into their limitations >> jackson's song writing is deeply personal. his music, a love letter to his wife and three daughters alan has been married to his high school sweetheart, denise, for 41 years how are y'all doing it together? >> when i'm down, he lifts me up when he's down, i try to lift him up >> i know you probably don't like the word legacy, i can tell, but what do you hope your legacy is? >> i've always believed the music is the most important thing, the songs and that's what i'd like to -- i guess if i had a legacy. >> i mean, look at this little jimmy dickens, dolly parton. and as we walked through the hall of fame's rotunda, it was clear, the sound track of alan jackson's life will forever be cemented in country music

history. >> i'm between george jones and hank williams. couldn't be in a better spot than that. >> a good place to lie >> seeing their faces connecte to some of the songs, that's what it's all about right there, the music. >> and alan told me his grandmother, his father and his sister all had cmt, have known about it for ten years but he isn't a public guy. he's very humble and private and he was hoping not to talk about it, but now it's hard to get up there without stumbling he said he always thought he would be like will nelorso loretta and perform until the end. he still hopes so. >> does he need assistance when he walks now >> no. he doesn't need it now his wife helped him. but he will. >> for a lot of people who have gone to his concerts and wondered, now they know. >> yeah. >> he actually chose you to tell that important piece of information to. >> do you know henry hager took

me to an alan jackson concer for a third date to an alan jackson concert in washington, d.c. >> i hope you told him that. >> i told him. we went and saw him, too, and he goes, yeah, yeah, i remember that he's a lovely, wonderful guy >> we're going to have more of your conversation with alan jackson on the fourth hour we look forward to that. thank you, jbh let's turn to al we'll get a check of the weather. >> we'll see some severe storms moving into the northeast. those will move through quickly. heavy rain down through the gulf record highs in the plai good morning, i'm meteorologist kari hall. our temperatures today in san francisco headed toward the mid 60s. nice to see all of the sunshine and that will continue along with better air quality. and in hayward expect a high of 71 there and upper 70s over toward concord and in morgan hill we will reach up to about 75 degrees. so our warmest temperatures inland in the upper 70s, we will head toward the low 80s tomorrow and then 90s for the weekend as

we go back to summer this weekend. weather. time for the best part of the day popstart >> fla >> appreciate the hype patriotsn i need it. tampa bay bucs are set to take on the new england patriots in foxborough it will mark tom brady's first time back on his former team's home field and a funny new promo for the game sees tom brady saying hello to former coach bill belichick ♪ hello it's me ♪ ♪ i was wondering if after all these years you'd like to meet ♪ ♪ so hello from the other side ♪ ♪ at least i can say that i've tried ♪

>> somebody at nbc deserves a raise for drawing that correlation to the lyrics of that song with that team >> great promo >> amazing >> hello from the other side >> great music video >> who do you have your money on >> you do not bet against tom brady. i've learned >> tom brady >> the patriots had a great game last week. >> you can watch the big return to gillette stadium. the bucs and pats, that' going to happen here on nbc, coverage begins at 7:00 p.m. eastern. >> love when you talk football next up, david letterman crashed the brooklyn nets media day with some hard-hitting questions. letterman trying his hand at sports journalism with nba superstar kevin durant watch this >> they're looking at working a contractual deal that will allow you, when you're not playing for the nets, days off, you'll be able to play for the knicks. comments >> all right, dave, that is the last one >> i'm sorry was that a comment >> that was it >> how about you, do you have a

comment? >> wrap it up. okay i'm being told my time is done have a great year. >> they'll let anybody in here >> i think one of the questions he asked was why do they call you kd >> and that's apparently when durant cracked up. >> i don't know what that is for. >> for fun >> we'll find out. >> finally, jeff daniels part of this year's atlantic festival, harry smith sat down with the actor and executive producer dan futterman to talk about their new show "american rust" on showtime. daniels plays a small town pennsylvania police chief faced with carrying out his job while trying to remain loyal to his community. daniels spoke to harry about how he identified with that character. we have an exclusive clip of that conversation. >> there is an authenticity to this that is undeniable if you are like me, from the rust belt.

did you see that, too, jeff? >> i did i certainly -- i still live in michigan i'm around these people. i am -- i've kind of come to the conclusion that i am one of these people, that i grew up working class, i worked at my dad's lumber company i was level, eye to eye with these guys driving truck, making deliveries and their rules, and their loves and their hates, and likes and dislikes and i think that had i not -- if the acting thing hadn't worked out and i didn't meet my wife of 42 years, dell harris would have -- there are elements of dell harris that would have been, yeah, cabin in the woods with a dog yeah >> i think i still aspire to that >> got to get jeff damages one of those clip on lights for zoom calls. for christmas. remind me. i'll send him one.

watch the whole thing at 2:00 p.m. eastern as well as on our streaming platform "today all day. the media partner of the atlantic festival. that is your popstart today, ladies and gentlemen >> how about that? perfect. >> very night. very nice. >> it lived up to the hype >> oh, no, you're not done you've got another half hour >> we still have stuff to do. >> come back. >> sorry >> there's no living with him now. >> so happy i got to be here for this >> exactly exactly. you saw the magic in person. marcus washington. coming up, we're going to talk about cooking, music and more with country star, cookbook author tricia yearwood and she's going to share the secret ingredients in her brownies >> oh, i had those in the 70s. >> al. good one >> don't listen, trisha. >> but first, a check of your local news and weather

a very good morning to you, it is 8:26. i'm laura garcia. bringing you breaking news this morning, san francisco state university remains on lockdown and now the campus will be closed all day long. this is due to what campus police are calling an anonymous nonspecific threat. students and staff are being warned to stay away interest campus or if students live on campus they're being told to stay indoors. within the last few minutes the school updated its alert, first posted overnight, originally it was believed in-person activities would resume this morning, but, again, that is now all changed with everyone asked to do remote learning for the

day to stay away from campus and an increased police presence is there. now i want to switch gears, get a look at our forecast with meteorologist kari hall. >> we are going to keep our nice comfortable temperatures across the bay area today with some 60s heading over toward oakland and some low 70s, upper 70s for livermore as well as antioch and concord and mid 70s for much of the north bay. also for the south bay. so as we go through the week things are heating up. we will see temperatures in the low to mid 90s. >> warming up again. thanks so much. thank you for joining us as well. we will be back with another local news update in half an hour. hope to see you then.

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we are days away from the premier of "the many saints of newark." >> we have the man in the didn out to make tony a bad guy as we studio his character didn't always set out to make tony a bad guy as we see in a clip with a very young tony sopranos. >> it's not just the gambling. it's everything, the cherry bombs, letting the air out of russo's tires. you want to be on the high school football team and you're smoking already? whoa, you need to have a better attitude with your father gone, your mother has a lot on her plate. you have to be good. i don't want to go through this again. >> i try to be good. >> i don't think so. try harder >> good morning. role of a lifetime well, i actually think we have a family tree for people who aren't up on their soprano-ology of where like, how dickie fits

into this whole thing. >> there you go. >> yeah, we've got it all laid out. >> so in the original sopranos, you heard about dickie, but you never got to meet him. >> yeah. he was a legendary figure who loomed over the series because he was the father of christopher moltisanti, played by michael imperoli, the great actor. tony talked about him all the time because he was the kind of guy who stepped in as a surrogate father figure when his dad was in prison and his mom was nuts and, you know, unfortunately for tony, this might not have been the ideal role model >> no pressure to play this role this is a real big deal. so i would imagine that you were a student of the "sopranos." you watched every single episode while it was out there >> when the "sopranos" started, i was like a young, out-of-work

actor, living here in new york in a studio apartment, and i couldn't afford cable. i didn't have hbo. so i hadn't watched the show until i was asked to audition for it by david. and then in the two weeks that i had to prepare, like, every scene in the movie, i watched the whole first season and then when i was offered the job, i watched the rest of it pretty quick. >> oh, man >> i guess it's like going to boot camp. "sopranos" boot camp you know, when you first walked in, i felt i recognized your chin >> it's striking >> it's because it's huge in times square let's look at your big moment. >> yeah, as big moments go, i like to think of it as close, but no cigar i mean, i'm a shoo-in for batman >> could you not have used the >> you know what's funny to play someone, to play this role, i feel like you had to be authentic about it did you actually sit down and meet with real authentic mobsters yeah i mean, obviously, the cosa nostra isn't what it was

but, you know, i met a guy, who knew a guy, who knew a guy before i knew it, i was -- you know, i was meeting -- i remember i went to a birthday party where everybody was talking about -- they were doing imitations of judges they had all been in front of there is still, you know, some kind of like organized crime in the italian-american community it's more like boiler rooms, people defrauding old ladies with the wall street schemes and stuff like that. but, you know, the big thing was i didn't want to let on that i was working on this movie because nowadays, it's sort of hard to tell who is imitating whom the movies mirroring the real people or the real people, the movies because those characters have gotten so cliche now, because that was the challenge >> and how about doing the accent where it's real, but not over the top i could listen to it all day

>> yeah, because everybody has their -- and i didn't want -- you know, i didn't want to seem like i was doing an snl parody of a mob guy so i spent a lot of time on that >> what was it like working with james gandolfini's son we had a chance to interview him last week, and we fell in love >> on the one hand, he's a totally humble and open hearted guy. and on the other hand, he was a real pro i mean, he kept sort of telling me he was looking to me for advice, which seemed like a pretty bad idea. not unlike the relationship between our two characters but he -- no, he went about it like he was able to separate himself from the emotion of playing his dad's role and we bonded over the fact that for both of us, it was a lot of pressure and for him, he was taking on the first big role of his career and for me, i waited 25 years of a film career to have a role

like this. and so that kind of, you know, made us pretty tight >> we have seen you in many films over the years this is your big leading man breakout role. and i heard you got an incredible text message from ray liota, who also is in the movie. >> well, oh, yeah, there he is no, so listen, ray was a huge hero of mine and i had -- i watched "good fellas" a whole lot before we started this movie. and i saw sort of parallels between his character, henry hill, and mine in the movie and they're both baffled by their own violence and not sure how to understand it and they can't control it so when i first was going to do scenes with him, i was very, very nervous and full of excitement and two weeks in, i got a text from him saying, hey, you know, you remind me a little of myself as henry hill. and i was just like oh, my god

like i'm -- you know, i'm made this is it >> laminate it >> i'm good, i'm doing the right thing. and then i read an interview with him a couple of days ago, and they asked him about that and he's like, well, that's not exactly how i meant it >> no, joe, forget it, forget you ever saw that. >> but he's a hero of mine i've been so lucky to work with him. he's been a big support for me and it meant a lot >> congratulations "the many saints of newark hits theaters and hbo max on friday coming up next, a little bit salty, a little bit sweet. tris yearwood is whipping haup so, the last two years that i've had my dexcom have been the most adventurous years of my life.

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we're back it is 8:44 on this tuesday morning. this morning, we are joined by country music star and best-selling cookbook author there she is trisha yearwood.

there she is >> easy to cook and crowd pleasing, she is out with a new cookbook called trisha's kitchen. >> she also released a deluxe version of her every girl album. tricia has not been busy at all. >> i'm good. good morning how are you guys >> good morning. we're excited about your brownies is that the kind of stuff we're going to see in your cookbook, "trisha's kitchen" >> yeah. there's a little bit of everything it's everything from breakfast to dessert and everything in between. and this particular recipe is one of those things where go to bed at night and go, what if i put, like, potato chips and bacon in brownies, how would that be? some of my craziest ideas come when i'm going to bed at night >> and this is one of those cookbooks that you actually wrote with your sister so you guys have a lot to draw from, right?

>> yeah. she moved to town this year, and she and i haven't lived in the same town since when we were in high school. so i love having my person as my neighbor she's helped me on all the books and it's just great. we have these shared family memories and then we have some new things that we do. so it was really a god send to be able to work on this and focus on this during this pandemic >> i'm sorry i can't stop thinking about this brownie for a second trisha, when you're up late at night, where -- is there a line in the proverbial brownie sand, is it stop at potato chips or bacon? it could be kitchen sink brownie. where do you draw the line >> you don't draw the line that's the beauty of food. it's like if you can dream it, you can do it. you can do it. there's a double stuffed brownie in this book that i also dreamed up of figuring out the inside of the oreo and putting it in a brownie. >> trisha, walk us through it. let's start with bacon. >> yes, it starts with bacon and i've already done some of the work so i cook the bacon and the

secret ingredient that i heard you talking about earlier, it's not anything from the '70s it is the bacon dripping so in the pot, i almost have your basic brownie recipe. so i've got butter and i've got sugar and i've got eggs and cocoa and flour, but bacon drippings go in. so it gives it just a little bit more flavor. i know it's crazy >> but it doesn't get too greasy or whatever, doesn't mess up your batter? >> it doesn't because you're putting butter in the batter anyway so you're allowing for extra fat to go in there with the bacon. so if you don't want to use the bacon drippings, add extra butter i'm going to turn the mix er on. it's going to be a little loud for a second, because i'm going to finish mixing in the flour. and this is just -- like i said, this is your standard brownie recipe this is before it gets crazy except for the bacon drippings and then once you've got all the flour in, you're going to add in some chocolate chips and you're going to add some potato chips into the batter >> so those chocolate chips aren't melted? you're doing chunky chocolate chips in there >> yes, exactly. they'll melt a little bit when

they cook. >> do you make extra to save, to put on the topping or do you put it all in at once? >> yes you put half of it in now and you'll put some on the top, too. >> i want it right now >> i don't know how much time you guys have so we don't have to do all this now i'll be doing it while we're talking. chocolate chips go in, half of the potato chips go in, about a cup. >> are those regular chips or are those the chips with the ridges >> ruffle? >> these are the ridges just because they kind of catch everything really, really well and then about half this bacon >> look at it. >> if you use the lays, it would slide off. you have to have some ridge idity. >> you're mixing it all in before the bake. >> and this will go into the pan and bake and then we'll add some on the top before that goes in the oven >> you could add a shot of rum to this. >> while you're cooking it >> i don't know. >> or just drink the rum >> there is hard cider soup over here

this is where the alcohol comes in all this goes into the pan and i've lined this with parchment and sprayed it so it's easy to get out of the pan later. >> look at that. >> yum. >> geez. >> i don't even know that i would bake that. i would just eat it out of the bowl >> just a spoon is fine. >> and the chips don't get soggy, huh they keep their crunchiness? >> they keep crunchy and then we're going to put some on top when you bite into the brownie, you're going to taste the crunch >> sweet and salt. >> a lot of contrast >> trish, could you take a shortcut, use like a box brownie mix and just doctor it up with your stuff >> of course you can make it work for you >> you have to save some of the toppings for the top >> can you see it after you bake it what does it look like i want to see it >> this is the final product

let me get rid of this here is the final. here is the beauty >> oh, mama. >> oh, my word >> can you please take one bite? take one bite. >> just for us >> i haven't even had breakfast yet. >> i want to be trisha yearwood right now. >> we all want to be trisha yearwood >> congrats on the album, the new season of the show, the cookbook my goodness, you need some sleep. >> thank you >> check that cookbook out, "tr "trisha''s kitchen." it is your fourth and it is fantastic and for all these recipes go to today.com/food >> i'm going to make that. i like to make brownies and i think i can do that, trisha. i'm going to do it >> mini m&ms >> that sounds good. >> stick around because trisha is back on the fourth hour gets this, she's making banana split nachos. >> boom! >> what? >> but first, this is "today" on nbc. >> she's like the frankenstein of dessert

sfwhoo we are back. just enough time, mr. we are back. just enough time, mr. roker, to spin some jars >> always time to spin the smucker's jars and meet some very nice folks. let's spin them. first off, happy 100 birthday to menashe hirshfeld. and it's a bonus jar because he and his wife just celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary. jack rubenstein, st. louis park, minnesota, 100 years old happy 103rd birthday to elsie o'more a chocolate lover from richmond, virginia she still climbs up and down 17 steps every day. sherwood deforest, love that name, from tallahassee, florida. 100 years old. served in world war ii as a flight engineer. we salute you for your service

mildred crouere, 100 years old, married to the love of her life for 71 years last but not least, happy 101st birthday to mr. thomas moore of washington, d.c. he would have loved this trish yearwood segment because he loves baking treats for all the ladies in his assisted living facility. >> why are you saying it like that >> just because there's a little snow on the roof doesn't mean there isn't a fire in the furnace. >> oh, god >> how much time is left >> not enough. >> even when there's no time left -- >> sometimes they took the roof off. >> not a fire. the roof, the roof, the roof is on fire. >> put it out. >> on the third hour, ashanti is live to tell us about her fun new movie. >> and then on the fourth however, we've got leah remeny, plus a lot more of jenna's conversation >> wait until you see her halloween costume. >> check out making space with

hoda kotb or scan that qr code. >> call the fire department. >> sherwood deforest. >> don't go away

a very good tuesday morning to you, it is 8:56, i'm laura garcia. breaking news we're following for you this morning, san francisco state university still on lockdown and now the campus will stay closed all day. this is due to what campus police are calling an anonymous

nonspecific threat. students and staff are being warned to stay away from campus. in the last hour the school updated its alert first posted over sniet when it was first thought in-person activities may resume this morning but that has changed. everyone is being asked to do remote learning for the day and campus has a higher police presence. happening now sierra johnson is in san francisco following these latest developments, she will join us with a live report at midday. we are also posting updates to our twitter feed for you. pfizer has submitted the tat to expand its covid vaccine to children ages 5 to 11. the fda will now review it. pfizer expects to apply for fda emergency use authorization over the next few weeks. this is going on at the same time pfizer starts to roll out its covid booster shots only for people at greater risk over age 65 being advised to get one. on our homepage there's more.

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