brett favre. >>> and a historic expansion at united airlines. >> liv >>> live from cnbc, the facts, the truth, the news with shepard smith. >>> and good evening it's a busy news night, and we'll get to the breaking news from boeing in just minutes as our reporters are still combing through this quite extraordinary indictment >>> first tonight, we have big vaccine news today a million more americans are now one step closer to getting a covid booster shot an fda advisory panel voted unanimously to recommend an extra dose, a half dose, actually, for certain people who got moderna's vaccine. that includes americans 65 and older and adults at high risk because of either their medical conditions or their jobs these are the same groups that are eligible right now for a pfizer booster the panel's recommendation comes as the delta variant is still posing issues in some regions but overall, new data shows this pandemic may be starting to retreat. johns hopkins reports we're now averaging about 89,000 new ca

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brett favre isn't charged with any crime or any wrongdoing. ck within 30 days now, he could face a civil lawsuit. we reached out to favre's agent for a response and haven't heard back, but i do want to turn to ashton pitman now, senior reporter for the mississippi free press ashton, thanks this, the largest embezzlement scheme in state history. how did this slip by the state in the first place >> right so the federal funds, those are given to states in block grants. states have discretion over how they spend it. so the head of the mississippi department of human services at the time, don davis, he actually authorized millions to be transferred to these nonprofits, and he's since been indicted for this but the money he authorized, be transferred to the nonprofits, the woman who was the director of the nonprofits, the founder, she used those millions for a lot of different purposes, and one of those was to pay celebrities for speaking engagements that they actually never showed up to one of those celebrities was brett favre. >> now, this goes bac

. >>> brett favre has been ordered to pay his home state of mississippi nearly $830,000. he got the money from nonprofit groups for speaking engagements he never attended. the organization's owner is charged with embezzlement. favre says he didn't know the money was illegal. officials called it illegally spent welfare funds. >>> now to william shatner getting emotional after flight to space giving us new up sight into what it's like to see the earth from above. >> like a beat and a beat and suddenly through the blue and into black. >> reporter: this morning, william shatner in awe describing his historic mission to space traveling 2,200 miles per hour in a rocket. >> my stomach went up. this is so weird, but not as weird as the covering of blue. this is what i never expected. there's this soft blue. look at the beauty of that color, and it's so thin, and you're through it in an instant. >> reporter: shatner blasting off with jeff bezos' blue origin company. he and the other passengers experiencing zero gravity for three minutes 66 miles above earth. at first the former "s

the fourth quarterback in nfl history with victories against all 32 teams he joins drew brees, brett favreording to initial data from neil son it was the second most watched sunday night football game ever. more than 27 million viewers on tv. >>> facebook is back online after a six hour out table the company's executives have yet to explain how or why it happened a whistle-blower set to testify before the senate. frances haugen was behind a major league of internal company documents. facebook knowingly prioritized profit over good. >>> a major environmental disaster crews scrambling to contain a massive oil spill. >>> now you know the news of this monday, october 4th, 2021 i'm shepard smith. follow us on instagram and twitter @thenewsoncnbc and listen to the news on podcast, apple, spotify 90 seconds away from "shark tank." [sfx: radio being tuned] welcome to allstate. ♪ [band plays] ♪ a place where everyone lives life well-protected. ♪♪ and even when things go a bit wrong, we've got your back. here, things work the way 90 seconds away from "shark click or call for a lower auto rate today.

the fourth quarterback in nfl history with victories against all 32 teams he joins drew brees, brett favrelast -- nbc billed last night's game as the return. it appears the hype was real according to initial data from neilson. it was the second most watched sunday night football game ever. more than 27 million viewers on tv. >>> facebook is back online after a six hour outage. the company's executives have yet to explain how or why it happened tomorrow a facebook whistle-blower is set to testify before the senate. former employee frances haugen was behind the major leak of internal company documents she said tha facebook knowingly prioritized profit over good. >>> an environmental disaster off the coast of southern california crews scrambling to contain a massive oil spill. while dive teams try to find where it's coming from >>> now you know the news of this monday, october 4th, 2021 i'm shepard smith. follow us on instagram and twitter @thenewsoncnbc and listen to the news on podcast, on apple, spotify or your favorite podcast platform. ♪ ♪ train your mind. ♪ ♪ train your game. because yo

great time got to catch a pass from brett favre.i did a couple of times. felt good about that. will: super bowl in tampa at that time we worked for different networks. you worked here and i worked at espn, we got together and had a few conversations walking over catching a press from brett favre might have been notice it did not show. i will give you this credit while you lose a few competitions from fox square your athletics seem pretty clear. you reached up and snagged that ball from brett favre. pete: appreciate that. will: he launched it. pete: no that was on the set with bill hemmer. will: one he launched over a set. pete: i don't want to get into it but in the middle of a live shot. i had a football and i turned around unprompted and whipped it to kilmeade which was about a good 25 yards and elevated and it was a rocket. straight to kilmeade. he got up on the couch and he nabbed it. didn't get it on tape. system how live television. 9,000 cameras there. ted you were on camera. you missed it. yeah, did you miss it. carley: he n

the largest kate of embezzlement in mississippi and the state auditor is pointing the finger at brett favreim kramder 7:00 eastern cnbc. we watch you so you watch us that's how it works. right? >> absolutely. thank you. we look forward to it this evening. 7:00 p.m. eastern time right after jim cramer thank you. >> see you. >>> closing the gap in the vc world. it's targeting a key group of women as investors and founders. details are ahead. plus too woke. that's what former treasury secretary summer said about the fed and other central bankers. details later on "closing bell." age before beauty? why not both? visibly diminish wrinkled skin in... crepe corrector lotion... only from gold bond. ♪ >>> one new $10 million venture capital fund is making a push to court south asian women as investors and founders jon fortt joins us now with the story. jon? >> this is an outgrowth of an existing professional network which has more than 1,800 members. the mission goes beyond the fund and was oversubscribed at 10 million. the more than 200 limited partners are professionals 90% from south asian women