headquarters in new york city. it is tuesday, september 14th. this morning, we are following several major stories. overnight, two of the fda top vaccine experts arguing against the need for booster shots now, despite a push from the white house to roll them out in the next few months. this as we get shocking new infection numbers among children. in our nation's capital, tony blinken back in the hot seat. the secretary of state set to testify before the senate in the next hour after a day of grilling from house members over the chaotic exit from afghanistan. the congressman who led that hearing will be here soon. and moments ago, we got the latest report on inflation, the rise in prices may be starting to cool down. hallelujah, praise the lord. we have to start in the state of california where today is election day. 40 million people are waking up to a rare recall and they have until 8:00 p.m. local time to

cast ballots, deciding whether their democratic governor gavin newsom should stay or go. if he is voted out, there's a chance a republican could take over. last night, newsom called him the biggest political gun he could, president biden, to make sure he doesn't lose his seat. watch this. >> i'm not sure you know it, but if you didn't know it, you should. the eyes of the nation, this is not hyperbole, the eyes of the nation are on california. the decision you're going to make doesn't just have huge impact on california, it will reverberate around the nation and quite frankly, not a joke, around the world. >> nbc's jacob soboroff from california. tell us where things stand.

>> reporter: steph, stakes couldn't be higher. the president of the united states was on long beach. i was there with him and governor newsom as they made the case not only for vaccine mandates, mask mandates that have been pretty popular here in california but also talking about different crises that face california, whether wildfires, covid, economic inequality. the president's message is governor newsom is leading the way and leading the way to a better future in california as opposed to larry elder, republican candidate who they're painting as a donald trump 2.0, or further to the right of donald trump according to newsom. people have been voting here quite some time. today is the deadline not just for mail-in ballots but at official drop boxes. we have been here since "today" show 4:00 local time. at least three people in the middle of the night. there's a lot of enthusiasm. the point is larry elder, front

running candidate, raised questions about integrity of the election and voting this way, despite that there's no claim, no legitimate claim of voter fraud in any way, shape or form. i pressed him on that yesterday. this is what he had to say. >> whether or not you win or lose, will you accept results of the election tomorrow? >> i think we all ought to be looking at election integrity, whether a democrat, independent, or republican. let's all make sure the election is a fair election. let's work together no matter what the results are to make sure results are valid, legitimate, and everybody that voted should have voted. let's do that together. >> is that a commitment to accept the election? >> let's all do that together, work together both sides of the aisle to make sure the election is a fair election. >> reporter: the idea there would be any incongruity if that's the right word in the election if the election didn't have the integrity larry elder was alleging or suggesting is completely baseless. i went inside the largest vote

by mail process in california last week. in fact, los angeles is the largest election jurisdiction in the nation. there's no indication they're worried at all about integrity of the election. they match each and every signature automatically. and if there's any question manually. 6 or 700 workers in a facility in l.a. elections officials have great faith in integrity of the vote. now it is up to californians to show up today at polling places to decide. >> he used the word incongruity. i am not making you spell it. >> is it a real word? i don't know. >> when do we get results. there has been early voting, they're using drop boxes. i think back to pennsylvania and what got everybody worked up over voter fraud is they conveniently forgot that you aren't allowed to start counting those absentee ballots until that night and that led to so much confusion. >> reporter: i am glad you asked. what happened in los angeles

county, every day ballots are picked up, they go to the processing center. tonight, when polls close, they'll be tabulated immediately. you'll get a huge tranche of information from secretary of state and also election officials county by county in california. you'll have the initial batch of vote by mail, drop box ballots, they come at the time the polls close. then you have the in person votes. if it is close, it could take awhile to count ballots in california. they don't have to be certified 30 days. the expectation is, this is what the newsom campaign said last night, what the polls indicate, he has a big enough lead they don't think it will be a long, drawn out election. wasn't the case two, three, four weeks ago. they're feeling confident in a result that will come tonight ideally if it is up to them. >> incongruity, the state of being in congress ruous.

why is this happening. 18 months ago, prepandemic, polls showed the governor, this governor, with popularity rating pushing 70%. is this all about covid response? >> yeah. it is a great deal due to covid. the governor won by a land side in 2018. 2019 he was wildly popular. 2020, covid hits. california is one of the first states to go into lockdown. immediately, people get frustrated with this governor. already there were a number of recall efforts launched at him from the beginning of his governorship. once covid hit, recall effort took off. in november, a judge gave the recall proponents four extra months to collect signatures because of the pandemic. it was causing delays. with the four extra months, they were able to get 1.7 million signatures they needed to get it on the ballot and that's why we're here today. >> scott, i have two questions.

a, it is whether to recall newsom and if so, who to replace him with. this is the big one. there are 46 names on the list. democrats didn't push any candidates on the list. they're telling supporters leave it blank. is that not a risky strategy? >> there is definitely a risk there. there has been some criticism is that discouraging folks from fully exercising their voting rights to mark down response for both those questions but the bigger risk is if democrats don't mark down a candidate, a choice for the second question, that hands a lot more voting power to folks further on the right. if you don't have democrats voting for a more moderate republican or one of the democrats that are on, who are among 46 candidates, it is a greater likelihood that you're seeing someone further to the right like larry elder that

could lead that pack on the second question. >> larry elder told jacob there, we all saw the video, well, we want this to be a fair and free election, we want to work together, but his campaign is already pushing a website claiming they detected voter fraud in the election results. that's not even possible. the election hasn't happened yet. why should we believe this, yeah, we're doing this together, it will be fair. baloney. >> that's the kind of mantra he is pushing. it was day ahead of the election when jacob spoke to him, and already last weekend had a section on his website called stop fraud, people could report irregularities in the voting process. as you said, the election hasn't closed yet, certainly not counted. elections officials have great faith in the system and haven't had any issues with it in the last election. we saw yesterday former president trump weighing in with

his own statement saying something, paraphrasing, about don't you believe the california election is rigged, this is all part of the election scam. already there are people sewing distrust in the system. there's no reason to distrust it. >> scott, here's what i am dying to know. how do californians feel of the cost of all this, hugely expensive. quarter of a billion with a b dollars, that's what the recall is going to cost in a state with huge expensive problems, covid, wildfires, think what the schools are facing, and you're spending a quarter billion on this. how do people of california feel about it? >> depends which side of the aisle you're on. you ask a democrat, they'll say we would love that money to house the homeless, to address any number of our other problems that we have in the state, it is a big state with a lot of big problems. if you ask someone on the right or more moderate, they would say this is part of our constitution, part of what our state allows us to do as voters,

to recall a governor and we're exercising that right. and the cost of it, whatever it may be, so be it. so again, it depends who you ask, which side of the aisle. it certainly is a tremendous amount of money though. >> thank you all. and today's vocabulary winner, jacob soboroff. tropical storm nicholas made landfall on the texas coast as a category one hurricane after it strengthened overnight, threatening millions with torrential rain and flash flooding. the storm spawning warnings from texas to louisiana which is still suffering the aftermath of hurricane ida. at this hour, more than 400,000 are without power. straight to vaughn hillyard in houston. what's the scene like there? >> reporter: let's start in houston. what this storm, tropical storm that hit the houston area is

not, harvey. back in 2017, 50 inches of rain flooded highways and homes, flooded neighborhoods in houston. we in houston received just about six inches of rain to this point. only another inch or two are expected throughout the afternoon. wind gusts up to 60 miles per hour. at 1:00 a.m. it did turn into a category one hurricane when it made landfall south of here in texas. now the big question, what impact does it have moving east here. in greater houston, 450,000 have lost power. it is just a couple of months ago when the winter storm took out powers of homes of millions. 450,000 here in houston alone without power. the concern is when you look at beaumont, about 80 miles from here. they're still expecting four to five inches of rain. go another 60 miles, 150 miles from here. lake charles, louisiana, is under severe flood watch

warning. they could hit another 12 inches of rainfall in the next 24 hours. again, when you look at the map, it is louisiana that's now over the next 24 hours, stephanie, that is expected to be severely hit with severe flood warnings in position. this storm was sent all the way to new orleans. that's hitting those very communities. so many team members were standing here in the last two weeks because there are thousands without power, still thousands of people without roofs. this is a situation in which this tropical storm heads back into louisiana is of serious concern the next 24 hours. >> storm after storm. we keep going back to the same regions. a reminder building better, smarter, stronger infrastructure really matters. vaughn, stay safe where you are. coming up, two top fda scientists say hold your horses when it comes to the vaccine booster shots. and we're going live to

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now to the latest on the coronavirus pandemic and new confusion over booster shots. a new report says covid boosters are not needed, at least not now for the general public. that's according to a group of leading u.s. and international scientists, including two departing fda scientists. the report comes a week before the biden administration says it plans to begin offering boosters. at the same time, covid cases in children is skyrocketing. children accounted for nearly a third of all coronavirus cases last week. that's more than 243,000 new cases, but just 2% of those led to hospitalization. joining us to discuss, shaquille

brewster, live in hard hit idaho. molly hunter in paris. dr. william shack ner, a cdc adviser. what do you make of the report boosters aren't needed now. i can tell you, i'm confused. >> well, there is a little bit of confusion because the discussion is ongoing. you have good, solid science. everybody agrees on that. then you have people who are debating the public policy issues. i actually anticipate that the food and drug administration will approve the vaccines for use as a booster. they have enough safety and effectiveness data. then the baton is passed to the cdc's advisory committee on immunization practices who will provide recommendations as to who ought to get the boosters and when. it is a two stage process. we'll let it all play out. we can all watch the discussions in real time. >> you advise the cdc.

what do you say? i talk to people that live in other states, yeah, i have gotten my third. i'm like say what? >> well, i think actually the advisory committee on immunization practices is moving toward evacuating those high risk people that got the vaccine first, nursing home residents, health care providers, older persons. they, yes, likely, the discussion is ongoing, stephanie, but i think they likely will be targeted for getting the booster. >> shaq, as long as we talk confusion, we have to go to your state. in idaho schools are having no social distancing and no masks while at the same time, the hospitals in idaho have no beds left because of covid patients. can you explain this rationale? >> reporter: yes, stephanie. there's real resistance to masking and requiring of masks in schools. that was a parent as recently as

last night at a board meeting, you heard emotional testimony and comments from parents on both sides of debate. the board voted to strongly recommend masks but explicitly did not require them in school facilities like the one behind me. that's reflective of what you're seeing throughout the state where masks are not required, but there are exceptions to this. there's one charter school, a smaller district where the principal made the decision to require masks. even for him, it wasn't an easy decision. listen to what he told me. >> there's an explosion of cases in the area. the public health officials told us we should be masked. public employee, makes sense we would follow that recommendation. >> it was that simple, followed the recommendation of health officials? >> i don't know if it was simple. the decision was, i held off on it as long as i could, recommended it to the board about the week before school started and they supported it for the same reasons i

recommended it. >> reporter: one point he made is that masks help students stay inside the classroom longer. there are two cases in three weeks, this is the third week now, that they've been having school. only those two students had to quarantine. compare that to what the public school district is going through, they're in the second week of schooling, and 188 are quarantined now or tested positive, and they're not doing contact tracing. the point he is saying is masks make sure if you get a positive test, only those students are going and doing the quarantine. despite that, there's real resistance to masking, despite what you're seeing in the community with explosion in cases in the adult population, stephanie. >> doctor, the big question parents are having, if their kids get sick, how sick will they get? we know the number of cases is skyrocketing among children. only less than 2% are being hospitalized.

how does that compare to amount of kids that go to the hospital in the height of flu season? >> well, flu season has a surge of children going to the hospital, and depending on severity of flu season, anywhere from 50 to over 100 children die each year in the united states due to influenza. we can't directly compare two viruses, but every child that goes to school in the united states this fall, it may not be an easy decision but it is straightforward should be wearing a mask. >> and doctor, we know there are all kinds of absolutely crazy lies and conspiracy theories spread online about the vaccine but now some of the lies are actually being repeated at news conferences by government officials. i want you to listen to what this city employee in florida said yesterday. >> the vaccine changing your rna, so for me, that's a

problem. >> and for me, that's a big fat lie. republican governor ron desantis was standing next to him and said nothing. so can you please debunk this for us? >> it is debunked. the gentleman is misinformed. the rna comes in and it is a messenger, it is messenger rna, tells our cells what to do to make this vaccine and then disintegrates. it does not change genetic material in any way. these are very safe vaccines, stephanie. >> he is misinformed or choosing to spread a lie. molly, take us to paris. you've got to show health passes, like vaccine passports, to get into bars, restaurants, museums. has that helped increase vaccinations and in turn decrease the spread? >> in short, the answer to both questions is yes. as far as uptake when the french

president made the announcement back in july, 2 million people signed up in the first 24 hours. it lit a fire under this country's vaccination efforts. the other thing he did, he made it mandate for all health care providers to get at least one dose by september 15th. that's tomorrow. or you lose your job essentially. you get suspended without pay. as far as the country, it is a small country, 80% over the age of 12 have been fully vaccinated. since june, the vaccination rates are steadily climbing, since mid august, the cases have been steadily falling. not everyone is happy. there have been protests the last eight or nine weeks, a lot of staunch anti-vaccination, but not that popular. according to a recent poll, only 30% of the public supports those. the big question is are those that are on the fence, hesitant, don't believe, will these privileges be enough to get them

to get vaccinated. we spoke with two touch tourists earlier that say they know people that are anti-vax. they don't believe they have the privilege to go into a favorite restaurant or cafe or get on a flight is enough to convince some of the people. >> then they don't have to go to that great restaurant or get on a plane, they can stay home. the fringe can continue to be the fringe. we'll say it one more time. they put this mandate in place, vaccinations went up, and spread went down. that's a win. thank you all so much. coming up in the next hour, secretary of state blinken back in the hot seat after getting grilled by the house foreign affairs committee yesterday. the lawmaker that led that hearing is here next. and we have more breaking news. new inflation report is out signaling the rise in prices may be cooling down. that's welcome news. with shortages on everything from paper to batteries, seems like anything you want now. is the trend going to continue? e

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right now, we are watching capitol hill. the secretary of state tony blinken will testify about afghanistan again in just over 30 minutes. today, speaking to the senate after he testified before the house and defended president biden's withdrawal. >> upon taking office, president biden immediately faced the choice between ending the war or escalating. >> let's go straight to garrett haake on capitol hill for more.

garrett, yesterday's hearing was basically a food fight. republicans screaming at secretary blinken and democrats frankly blathering on. any chance this thing will go more smoothly today? >> reporter: it may. the senate foreign relations committee is a smaller committee, the format is a little different. blinken will be in person and there are fewer flamethrowers on the right-hand side of the aisle participating in the hearing. you will see potentially sharp questioning from the likes of ted cruz, bill haggerty, but you're right. yesterday's hearing generated far more heat when it comes to the afghanistan policy and pullout. what you largely heard from blinken was defending the decision to pull out, less so how it was actually accomplished. even democrats in the hearing yesterday said they viewed what happened yesterday as the start of a conversation and they're going to be watching closely how

the pull out is over and resettlement of the immigrants and special immigrant visa holders and the like. i think it will certainly be a shorter hearing expected today. this will be start of an oversight process that could continue to be uncomfortable for the biden administration, even with democrats running the show, steph. >> i want to dig in deeper, bring in gregory meeks, chair of the house foreign affairs committee. congressman, i know you agree this is a hugely important hearing. you are in charge of it and it was a mess. i know you tried to keep it under control, republicans predictably attacking secretary blinken. but democrats as well not attacking him but no one was asking short, concise questions with follow-ups. do you really think yesterday made the american people better and smarter on such an important topic? >> yeah, i think if you listen

to answers secretary blinken gave, it was laying foundation of what the realities were on the ground and why certain decisions were made when they were made or were not made in a given time. unfortunately on the republican side it was more of just the yelling and screaming, trying to get a sound bite for television as opposed to dealing with facts and circumstances of what led up to where we are today. you cannot make an analysis of where we are today without looking at the entire 20 years. so on our committee we are going to do complete oversight. that was just the first hearing that we had, but we're going to be calling in individuals from the bush administration, from the obama administration, and

the trump and additional folks from biden administration, so we can really let the american people know what took place step by step from the beginning to the exit. >> that's major. you want to hear from officials from every administration since the war started. who are you calling next and do you think they're going to show up? >> yeah. we are working on it now. not going to reveal who witnesses are. but we are going to be reaching out to various individuals who played major roles in those decisions for each administration and thus far seems as though people want to be cooperative because they want to make sure the truth gets out so that it benefits the american people. >> how does relitigating history help us get better and smarter, help people get out of afghanistan safely, help keep america safe. >> we've got two jobs. number one, if you talk about

getting people out of afghanistan now, and we have more work to do, some of that is continuing. as the secretary agreed yesterday, we'll have some classified sessions with him. we'll have more sessions with him where we'll get more detailed information as to what we're doing, what the administration is doing and how they're doing it and what plans they have to get the rest of the 100 or so americans that want to leave that are still on the ground as well as sivs and other afghans who we have a commitment to. so that is continuing. but we also realize our military is not going to go into places and occupy and think we can change it. i think that's a lesson we may have learned also. >> as relates to the current holdup getting afghan refugees out, secretary blinken pointed the finger at congress for creating a complicated special immigrant visa process.

what's your thought on that? >> i think we need to relook at it again. many of the sivs have been trying to fill out the applications and it is taking two, three, four years, long before the biden administration came into power. so we will have to look at that as congress. we have certain responsibility falls on congress as well as the executive branch. so it may well be that we have to look at it, see what caused some of the delays, see if we can shorten that at the same time keeping our country safe making sure the appropriate investigations are being done in regards to people that want to come into the united states so we aren't making mistakes there. we may have to relook at it, see what we can do on the congressional side. >> we appreciate all the work you are doing. it is serious business, congressman. thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you for having me,

stephanie. let's turn to breaking news about something we're all talking about at our kitchen tables, prices and inflation. the newest numbers are in. they show the consumer price index was up 0.3% last month. 5.3% in the last year. but that's not as bad as people were expecting and that's giving a boost to the stock market this morning after opening just a few minutes ago. the dow is up just about 80 points. at the same time, there is still a big problem, people aren't thinking about the stock market, they think about what they need to buy. shortages are all over from toilet paper to toys. prices aren't up as much as some feared, they're still up. certainly not going down in a big way, not yet. bring in my friend, cnbc economics reporter steve liesman. what should we take from the numbers? they were softer than people expected but i don't know anybody out there buying a car or going to the grocery store saying prices are getting

better. >> yeah. it suggests there's some topping off, maybe the inflation rate peaked, but prices are high. you point out 5.3% on the headline, 4% on the core, these are high numbers historically. this is an economy basically been through disinflation or deflation most of the past several years, now with the reopening of the economy and several areas experiencing shortages you spoke of that these are high prices for consumers to be bearing and they're not at the moment going the other way in terms of providing relief for price increases we have seen in the past. >> we're not seeing evidence of any of the shortages getting cleared up, are you? >> a little bit. a little bit. you did have decline in used car prices, one area of decline. that was rising double digits. imagine used cars go up 10%, one

month went up 30%. it fell 1.5%. maybe a little help there, and also airline fares down 0.1%. why would that happen? that might have been an effect of delta variant. you know that people were not traveling, all of a sudden everybody wanted to travel when things looked like they were getting better in june and july. what happened, they wanted to travel, planes weren't in service. airline fares went up and surged. they came off just a bit. you're right, supply shortages are a problem for the economy, but perhaps a sense it hasn't widened in one sense and some easing in other places. >> you don't think that will change as far as used cars go when you factor in impact of hurricane ida? tens of thousands of cars were destroyed. people need to replace them, i am guessing with used cars. >> i think that's right, stephanie, but look, my overall view on this stuff is that we know how to produce a lot of cars in this country and around

the world. we're going to get back there. it may not be next month or two or three months, but over a four, five, six month period, what has to happen, you have to get production levels back and then you have to get inventory levels back. it is interesting now, we have much less inventory on the lot. when you go to talk to the dealer where you are already disadvantaged, i don't know about you, stephanie, i am terrible at negotiating, but you already have a disadvantage with the dealer. now he has a bigger advantage, he doesn't have inventory on the lot that he wants to move that used to be a place to get a little bargain. >> for those out there thinking about all of these shortages, lots of businesses are saying they're probably going to be raising prices in the new year because they're facing shortages. when do you see this correct itself, production go up, inventory go up, what's the timeline, i know you don't have a crystal ball but you're smarter on this than we are. >> well, thanks. i think it is six month to one year process. you have to get chip shortages

out, get people back in place to places they were before. you have tremendous ability, a good thing for a lot of people, of employees to negotiate for higher wages. those higher wages get passed into higher prices. it is a bit like a game of musical chairs. you don't know where everybody is and what's going on until the music stops and everybody sits down. it is an ongoing process of readjusting to opening of the pandemic and then, by the way, brief closing happening recently, and then reopening again. it will take time for all pieces to be in place until inflation numbers come down. i believe six months to a year will get the rate down, and maybe some decline in prices to get back to more normal levels as the economy and supply chain problems ease off. >> great reminder from steve. yes, good to see wages go up, if prices go up faster, wage increases are worth nothing.

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back now to capitol hill. congress is working on two major bills. a group of senate democrats unveiled their new voting rights bill after months of negotiations. that includes senator joe manchin who has been a key vote needed to move this ball forward. this is after democrats unveiled a plan to pay for president biden's infrastructure package. i want to go to sahil kapur, and john bresnahan. democrats want to tax corporations and the rich. this gets you to 2 trillion. where do you get the other trillion and a half? >> they're going to have to find more money to pull that off, stephanie. right now, here's what house democrats have. a trillion in new revenues from

high income taxes, about a trillion in new revenues from additional corporate taxes. changed tax code to a progressive system. beyond that, they're estimating as much as $700 million from changes in prescription drug policy. that policy is not ready, that was not able to be scored. they expect to raise money through additional irs enforcement, extra bang for the buck, hire more agents and go after tax evaders. it is important to know congress doesn't have to pay for this. if members agree to put money on the credit card, they can do it. budget resolution says they can spend up to 3.5 trillion. one of the things they're eyeing is additional revenues, savings down the road from magical asterisk of dynamic scoring, count money that comes in as a result of economic growth of your policy, something republicans used in the past for tax cuts, something democrats are using now. when it comes down to it, all that matters is 50 democratic

senators and all but three house democrats agree this is sufficiently paid for. that is in the mind of the beholder. >> important point on the pay fors. the infrastructure plan looking to make long term investments in a way the economy will grow on its own and eventually pay for itself. in terms of taxing the rich, this is a core focus for the democratic party, and yes, you're seeing increases for taxing corporations, but you don't have the wealth tax in there. "new york times" puts it, it leaves the rich basically unscathed, why is that? >> they couldn't get democratic moderates to agree to it. that was the problem. you mentioned, we only have three vote margin in the house, it is a 50/50 senate, every vote is critical. they just couldn't get democratic moderates to go along with the plan from more progressive base and from the president to do this. so this was their problem.

couldn't get unanimity, can't count on republican support, they have to pass on democratic votes and moderates aren't going along with it. >> turning to voting rights, joe manchin signing on, how big a deal is that? >> reporter: this time they have a major voting rights bill that has a path to getting all 50 on board. it is just the working group that includes joe manchin now, but the other 49 are likely to come on board at the end of this. what convinced joe manchin at the end of the day is a series of changes made from the previous version, s1. this is more focused bill on voting. the previous one was a grab bag of policies that has campaign finance and ethics. one thing they did to get joe manchin on board, remove ban on voter id in s1. he is a supporter of voter id. this bill doesn't require it, but allows states pursuing it to continue to do voter id with

federal standards. another thing the bill does is give flexibility to certain jurisdictions on issues like 15 days early voting which is in the previous bill. they don't have to abide by the same hours, they've gotten feedback, manchin and other democrats that some provisions would be difficult to implement. they changed it, gave states flexibility, joe manchin is on board. it also goes after sham audits like what's happening in arizona and clamps down on states like georgia attempting to enact state takeovers of local jurisdictions, all these in the wake of the 2020 election, all fueled by president trump's conspiracy theories analyze about the 2020 election result. >> manchin support is huge, but even with it, you've still got to get ten republicans or get rid of the filibuster here. >> neither of those is going to happen. hate to be the skunk at the

garden party, not going to happen. not going to be ten republicans voting for this, they're not getting rid of the filibuster. manchin doesn't want to get rid of filibuster, sinema and others, they're going to keep

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