reaction and the response. >> laura: chicago police union president john >> chicago police union president announcement earlier this week. then forced, city fax mandates would take nearly half of chicago officers off the streets this weekend. last night in our exclusive interview he challenged mayor lori lightfoot's chart that officers failing to comply. >> it is not a legal proper directive. it was unanimous across the board. called the line, don't bend. it is not john kentin some bizarre oh who wants this, they want something done on their behalf. >> this morning in a fit of rage mayor lori lightfoot made clear she's watching the show, filed a complaint against him writing as chicago's mayor, the rhetoric of conspiracy threatens the health and safety of residents and first responders, deliberately misled our police officers by lying about the requirements, policy, falsely claiming there will be no repercussions and refused to follow the city and the department court order. shortly after the injunction was announced she responded. we are already filing the silly motion. and and they've do

vaccine showdown: chicago's police union tells officers to defy the city's covid vaccine mandate, potentiallyg half the force off the street. bill clinton hospitalized: what we've learned about the 42nd president's condition as he recovers from an infection. under arrest: did a capitol police officer help one of the january 6 rioters destroy evidence? politician murdered: a member of britain's parliament is stabbed to death while meeting with constituents in church. why this is being treated as a possible act of terror. lebanon chaos-- how a massive explosion last year lead to deadly street battles now. what passes for relative calm. >> garrett: and still serving: steve hartman is on the road with a former top f.b.i. official who is driven in a new direction. >> this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting from the nation's capital. >> garrett: good evening to our viewers in the west. thank you for joining us. norah is on assignment. i'm major garrett. we begin tonight with important news on covid booster shots. an f.d.a. advisory panel today gave a thumbs up for the johnson

doing to me now is the chicago police union president, you said sending home those noncompliant officers could cut the city's police presence over the weekend in half. what does that mean in practice? >> it turns out the number was probably much higher than that. the city blinked this morning and change the policy a little bit. the citizens of chicago can rest easy, the police officers will report to work and won't be locked out, that's one good thing. all they did is kick the can down the road a little bit. >> laura: the message to the folks across the country who feel demoralized, they have no power, whatever concern they have it to have -- got covid before, what do you say to them given the fact that you at least did make some progress in this fight? >> our stance is unfortunate for two things. we are union, collective bargaining rights have to be maintained an audit which the city refused to do from the beginning, they were trying to push this policy through by a mandate and by a dictator. secondly, we have a profession that nobody wants to work in. it gave us a stronger position. yo

and chicago's police union chief warned to stop urging officers to defy the mandate there. as their clash with city officials moves to the courts. >>> former president bill clinton released today from a southern california hospital with hillary clinton on his arm, shaking hands with doctors and nurses and offering a thumbs-up, six days after first receiving treatment for a urologic infection that spread. what his doctors are saying tonight. how common is the condition? and what to look out for. >>> also developing tonight, an urgent manhunt under way in texas after a gunman ambushed three deputies, killing one and injuring two others as they worked extra security jobs at a houston nightclub. the three officers were reportedly close friends. the latest in the case tonight. >>> and the supply chain warnings, ahead of the holidays. the shipping backlogs that could last until next holiday season. and what it means for you and your pockets. >>> jury selection begins tomorrow in the murder trial of three white georgia men for the fatal shooting of ahmaud arbery. >>> lift-off. >>

the president of the chicago police union explicitly compared vaccine mandates to nazi death camps andsident, the one who said it was like nazi germany, was on fox news this morning pushing chicago police to reject the mandate. >> okay. so what are your police officers saying? how many of them are vaccinated or choosing not to? >> the numbers we have are probably around half are not. we had a meeting the other night and our lodge had never been more filled with members. they are literally engaged in this fight going forward. they were willing to go into a no pay status at midnight tonight and get sent home. >> so according to the police union only half of the city's police force is vaccinated, which is way behind the 63% of eligible people in illinois who are fully vaccinated. and again, they became eligible much faster than others. just a few hours ago a judge issued a temporary restraining order to stop the chicago police union president from making public statements encouraging officers not to share their vaccination status with the city. something to consider here. when you are a c

the interview with the chicago police union head happened last night. some cages in the windy city. moments we have mayor lightfoot's reaction and his response. stay there. >> laura: chicago police union president john catanzarro made a stunning announcement this week. if enforced, city-backed mandates would take half of chicago's officers off the streets this weekend. in our exclusive interview, he challenged mayor lightfoot's charge that officers failing to supply with insubordinate. >> because she says it doesn't make it so. it's not illegal, proper directive. we had a special meeting last night of membership. it was unanimous across the board, hold the line, don't bend. it's not john catanzarro pushing this. john catanzarro is the mouthpiece for the fop members that want something done on their behalf. >> laura: well, this morning in a fit of rage, all we can call it, mayor lightfoot made clear she was watching the show. she filed a plate against catanzarro and wrote as chicago's mayor i will not stand by while the rhetoric of conspiracy theorists th

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chicago police department and the mayor of chicago. this comes on the tail end of a week where we've been hearing from the head of the chicago police uniono police officers not to comply with the city's vaccine policy which, of course, is at the center of all of this. the vaccine policy is by october 15th, which was yesterday at this point, you have to disclose your vaccination status. and if you don't, you get placed on no pay status. basically unpaid leave. you have to be vaccinated. and if you're not, you choose to go into a twice weekly testing option. in the midst of all of this, there, of course, has been a lot of back and forth between the city and police union. the city miled legal paperwork, asking a judge to stop the head of the police union, from urging officers not to comply with this policy. well, they got their wish, as the judge issued late friday, a temporary restraining order saying that the police union cannot publicly urge officers not to comply. the union filed their own paperwork urging that the city, the mayor and the chicago police superintendent acted union art unilaterally and it went against policy. of course, t

correspondent matt finn has that story for us. >> just a short while ago tonight, the chicago police unionannounced that the city of chicago blinked in the final hours before the city's vaccine deadline, decided it will not be sending home without pay, police officers who choose not to submit their vaccine status by tonight's deadline. that union president said the officers will still face some type of punishment if they choose not to reveal their vaccine status to the city. chicago faced losing a considerable percentage of its police force beginning this weekend, the officers that would have been sent home without pay if they did not enter their vaccine status into the city's portal. chicago is requiring city employees by midnight tonight to enter into the city's portal whether they have been vaccinated. city employees who have not yet got the vaccine can opt for twice-weekly testing at their own time and expense until the final deadline to get the shot on december 31st. the chicago policing and president is still urging his members not to enter their info into the city's portal. >> it is

but americans i think are starting to wake up, the chicago police union head that i mentioned earlier is telling officers to resist the vaccination mandate and force the mayor to relent. pro sports players are refusing to denounce fellow players who choose not to get back. >> everyone has their own choice to do what they feel is right for themselves and their families. >> a few players are simply saying no. >> i didn't take the vaccine at this time, natural immunity is not being spoken about. >> what would you do? if you felt uncomfortable going into this season and you were promised you have exemptions or forced to get the vaccine. >> brave college students, even professors taking their fight over mandates to court. ultimately the supreme court will have to decide whether a century-old case about smallpox is controlling here. that precedent is easily distinguishable. cases are declining across america thank goodness, they plummeted 22% over the last two weeks and the cdc predicting that positive trend is going to continue. there is 0 reason for any business to have any covid mandates

vaccine mandate battle involving one of the country's largest police forces, the feud heating up between the mayor of chicago and the city's police unionere could be few officers left to patrol the streets. nbc's zachary keisch is in chicago with the latest. >> reporter: good morning to you as well. it's a contentious issue. the clock has literally run out in chicago. officers had until midnight to be in compliance. on the line, public safety as well as public health. the union says roughly half of their 12,000 members could be impacted. this morning a court battle and public dispute playing out in the windy city. chicago's police union dismissed the vaccine mandates. about half of chicago's force, the second largest in the country are impacted because they've opted not to get shots. >> what we've seen from the fraternal order of police in particular the leadership is a lot of misinformation, a lot of half truths and frankly flat-out lies in order to induce an insurrection. >> reporter: overnight a judge issued a temporary restraining order against the police union president, john catanzaro. the order stops him from making public state

chicago police union estimates as much as half the police force has not been vaccinated. eans thousands of offics and face being let go in cities like chicago with steep violent crime for the battle between chicago mayor lori lightfoot and thend police union president is rapidly intensifying. the short while ago a cook county judge issued a temporary restraining orderra against the police union president prohibiting him from publicly commenting anymore about the city's vaccine policies.. the mayor claims that officers who do not comply will not be sent home this weekend but chicago police worry if they do not submit their vaccine status at some point very soon they could be fired. over the past week i've talked to police sources hereer in los angeles,rc seattle, and chicago. one police officer said that he does not care who is vaccinated. he doesn't want to enter his personal health information into the city's portal. he's healthy, fit, had a personal health assessment, he simply does not want to get the vaccine. tucker? >> tucker: that's his right. matt finn, thanks so mu

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today, chicago city employees must report their vaccination status, but the new policy is put chicago's police union at odds with mayor lori lightfoot. up to half of the city's rank and file police officers could be placed on unpaid leave over the dispute. i don't know what would happen around here if we had half of the cops, not at work. it's a simple yes or no. yes you're vaccinated. no you're not vaccinated. as for booster shots, the cdc's says about nine million americans have received the extra dose in new york. geri willis fox news. new video shows the car wanted in connection with the road rage shooting death of a 15 year old girl. oakland police are hoping this video will ultimately lead to an arrest. crime reporter henry lee is joining us now live with the latest on this investigation, henry. alex the girl's uncle tells me the other driver have been engaging him for blocks, speeding up and slowing down before someone in the car opened fire, killing his niece. this is surveillance video showing what appears to be a silver honda accord that oakland police say is linked to the deadly shooting

chicago's police union pushing back, warning half of the force is prepared to stay home starting this weekend. mayor lori lightfoot. >> i expect the police officers to honor their oath and to follow directives. >> reporter: police departments across the country are tackling similar challenges from san diego to seattle. >> any loss of an officer would be detrimental to our city's current public crisis. >> reporter: massachusetts is facing its own hurdles with a looming sunday deadline for state workers. 1500 prison guards, roughly, haven't complied. governor baker said he would activate national guard personnel in anticipation of staffing shortages. yesterday the fda advisory panel also discussed whether it's okay to mix and match vaccines but didn't move forward with a vote. back here in new york city, more signs of progress. covid hospitalizations are down to the double digits compared to the thousands we saw at the height of the pandemic. kristen, hallie. >> kathy park, a lot of people feeling encouraged by that piece of good news. we want to bring in dr. paul offit a member of the

. >>> tonight a standoff in chicago between the mayor and the police union that could potentially lead fewer officers on the street. here's cnn's omar jimenez. >> our expectation is that people will comply. >> reporter: chicago mayor lori lightfoot is doubling down. >> it's pretty straightforward. are you vaccinated or not? if you are, you upload your information. if you're not, then you go to a separate page, and you indicate that and that you'll be taking the testing option. >> reporter: at the center of it all is the city's requirement to disclose vaccine status by friday. city employees, including police officers who don't comply, would be placed on unpaid leave. >> do not fill out the portal information. >> reporter: the president of the police union claimed this week, without corroboration, it could lead to a police force at 50% or less this weekend. now telling officers to refuse direct orders on the mandate from police leadership and even record it on body camera. >> the leadership is so ridiculously poor at the top of this department, who are not pushing back on this mayor say

the past -- he was elected president of the chicago police union. e the fact that to chicago police superintendents had independently tried to fire him, and that he is relieved his powers under investigation by the department. and if every of this year he was suspended again, without pay for a laundry list of things, like making obscene and inflammatory social media post, filing a false report, and been in support into supervisors. after the trump mob so storm the re-capitol, it was not the level of violence that we saw across many parts of the country during the black lives matter protests. >> i didn't see any lip literally throwing frozen bottles, bricks, or shooting fireworks of the police. they were simply trying to push past the police to get access to the building. >> now, that's not accurate as you can all see, he later apologized for that, and now john cat azar is facing off against chicago mayor morey lightfoot, against her requirement that all citizens get vaccinated or get twisted twice a week, until the end of the year when they will all

. >> harris: the president of the chicago's police union not holding back. rs in one of america's most violent cities to defy the mayor's covid vaccine mandate. it took effect at midnight. the city will put unvaccinated workers on unpaid leave if they don't agree to testing. the democrat mayor said no bend. >> he is threatenning litigation. bring it. we create safety for all employees and the safety. >> harris: does this raise the risk in a city that has seen the murder rate a 56% hike from 2019. across the border murders are going up and crime in general going up. the vaccine mandate could put policeman power if half. power panel now. your thoughts? >> well, i am in chicago. i got to tell you, it greatly disappoints that the mayor is playing god with the most vulnerable in chicago. i was with friends last night. they say there have been days over the weekend where there are drive-by shootings in downtown chicago. when i grew up here the violence was on the south side. it expanded. it doesn't matter what color you are. bullets don't care about race. the mayor

the chicago police union president sounding a alarm on the policy. >> safe to say the city of chicagove a police force at 50% or less for this weekend coming up. that is not because of the fop. it is 100% because of the mayor's unwillingness to budge from her hard line. >> anthony napolitano sent a letter to lightfoot opposing the mandate and joins us live. i will say i am assuming you did not hear anything back. can the city of chicago afford to not have as many officers on the street? will people be safe? >> we can't afford to go through another crisis like this. i was excited to be on your show, i thought it would be about crime but this would lead back to crime. you see a lot of officers who won't go through with this mandate. they want to celebrate their american freedoms and decide how to treat this virus which they take seriously and they want the opportunity to decide what goes in their body and not be forced to get this vaccination and it will have a huge effect. criminals know what is going on in the city. they watch the news, they see a lack of officers on the street. they

last year, may of 2020, he was elected president of the chicago police union, despite the fact that totigation by the department. and in february of this year, he was suspended again without pay for a laundry list of things like making obscene and inflammatory social media posts, filing a false report, and being insubordinate to supervisors. after the trump mob stormed the capitol and injured about 140 officers, he said it was, quote, not the level of violence we saw across many parts of the country this past summer during the black lives matter protests. >> i didn't see anybody literally throwing frozen bottles, bricks, or shooting fireworks at the police. they were simply trying to push past the police to get access to the building. >> now, that's not accurate, as you can all see. he later apologized for that. and now he's facing off against chicago mayor lori lightfoot over her requirement that all city employees either get vaccinated or test twice a week until the end of the year when they will all have to be vaccinated. in response he said, i'm quoting here, we're in america, godd

police union warns it cannot afford to lose not even one more officer. meanwhile another dangerous weekend in chicagocrat mayor lori lightfoot and police are clashing over their own covid vaccine requirements. garrett tenney is live in chicago with more. garrett, this is a place that sees dozens of shootings and killings across weekends. >> yeah, harris. the mayor says this vaccine mandate for city employees is about keeping people safe but that mandate could take as many as half of chicago's police officers off the streets. that is what chicago's police union is suggesting could happen if the city doesn't back down on requiring all city employees to either be vaccinated or undergo testing twice a week. the head of the union who is in a fierce stand-off with mayor lori lightfoot over the mandate has urged rank and file officers not to comply and to refuse to upload their vaccination status to the city's website. >> any sergeant, lieutenant, captain, or above who gives you an order to go in that portal is not valid. you are able to refuse that order. they cannot order you to violate your collective ba

. >> harris: that is chicago's police union boss going after lori lightfoot again for again slouching during the pandemic. this as the mayor has been engaged in a very public feud over the mayor's vaccine mandate for employees, including chicago's 12 member chicago police force. they will need that. have you seen the crime number? he estimates 3,000 police officers have not gotten a vaccine. and those officers are already getting unpaid leave. facing a possibility of being fired. despite chicago seeing a surge in gunfire. the mayor fired back with some of her most sedentary language yet. >> they are not authorized to strike. it is in a bargain group in a matter of state law. what we have seen from fraternal order of police union is this information, frankly, flat out lies in order to induce an insurrection. and we are not having it. >> harris: so she threw gasoline on the fire and the lightning round. let's make it quick. and memorable, lawrence. before i will just say this, if the mayor had the same energy towards the gun shots being in chicago currently probably one fired off right

chicago is the latest. what's your sense right now in the battle in the city? is this something that's usual, police unioney don't like, or something bigger. >> in chicago, it hits home. they put their lives on the line every day. the coronavirus right now is the leading cause of death among police officers. yet, they are the most resistant to getting vaccines. i think more broadly what the challenge is is that your vaccination status has become so much a part of your identity. politically, culturally and that's a hard thing to overcome. as jeff was mentioning, the vaccine mandates work. you have to wonder what things would look like had the biden administration implemented them from the beginning. >> that's a question a lot of us have had. you mention police officer deaths from covid since the start of the pandemic, it's rurufr roughly 475. one player in the nba, kyrie irving, has gotten a lot of attention. he decided he witness not play -- the nets decided he will not play. he addressed why. >> i don't believe that i'm retiring. don't believe i'm going to give up this game for a vaccine mandate. this is

here in new york, a judge has denied a request by new york's largest police union to block vaccine mandate for municipal workers. in chicago, police union filed a similar lawsuit tuesday against mayor lori lightfoot but jb pritzker, seeking to overturn vaccine mandates. in medical news, a cheap and widely prescribed anti-depressant pill known as fluvoxamine showed promise in blunting the effects of covid-19 in patients in brazil. a clinical trial showed that, when taken soon after infection, the drug cut the length of patients' hospital stays and reduced their risk of death. meanwhile, the pharmaceutical giant merck said wednesday it will share the formula for its covid-19 therapeutic drug molnupiravir with poor countries, allowing manufacturers to produce cheap, generic versions of the anti-viral pill. merck says the drug can cut the risk of hospitalization or death in half. the people's vaccine alliance applauded the move, tweeting -- "it's positive that unlike the grotesquely unequal distribution of covid-19 vaccines, poorest countries won't have to wait at the back of the queue for molnupiravir. but middle-income count

this standoff comes after all four chicago police officers who died in the line of duty in 2020 died because of covid. even the previous chicago police unionresident died of covid earlier this month. but shootings are up 11% compared to last year, and up almost 70 compared to the year before. leaving no room for a shortage of officers heading into the weekend when violence typically surges. in a letter to mayor lightfoot, two city aldermen are urging her to drop the mandate. we could lose officers if they get severely sick or die from covid-19, or we macon y confron further unraveling on our streets if officers decide not to work because of the mandate. for now we are asking you to reconsider. the mayor not backing down. >> but our goal is to create a safe workplace, and the best way that we can do that, the biggest tool that we have is by getting people fully vaccinated. >> reporter: omar jimenez, cnn, chicago. >> well, the u.s. will donate more than 17 million johnson & johnson covid-19 vaccines to the african union. u.s. president joe biden made the announcement when he met with the kenya, president of kenya on thursday. the johnson & j

throughout the standoff chicago police union president john katanzara has been the loudest anti-mandateve a police force at 50% or less for this weekend coming up. >> our membership spoke loudly, and i can tell you they are absolutely, even the ones that were vaccinated, against a mandated vaccination program. >> and in a new twist a cook county judge issued a temporary restraining order against catanzara banning him from publicly encouraging members to not comply with the mandate. joining us right now is political reporter with chicago's pbs station heather sharrone. what happens today. are officers going to show up to work and half their colleagues aren't going to be there? >> well the city is not going to start disciplining officers for not entering their vaccine information into the portal, at least until tuesday. that's what city attorney celia mezza told the judge yesterday before she stopped john catanzara, the president of the fop for making additional comments about the city's vaccine mandate. we won't know until tuesday how many officers, how many city employees across the cit

. >>> the chief of chicago's police union is calling for officers to defy the requirement to report vaccination officers refuse to comply, chicago will have a police force operating at 50% capacity or less by this weekend. officers who do not report their vaccine status tomorrow will be placed on unpaid leave in a city where deadly shootings tend to spike on weekends. several prominent labor unions have stood in the way of vaccine and mask requirements, which is just such a shame given the rates of deaths from covid for police officers. >> it's a real challenge for law enforcement. infections and disease and dying of this disease. >>> breaking moments ago, police have been in touch with the suspect in that murderous bow and arrow rampage in norway. we'll tell you why. i brought in ensure max protein, with thirty grams of protein. those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks! ( sighs wearily ) here, i'll take that! ( excited yell ) woo-hoo! ensure max protein. with thirty grams of protein, one-gram of sugar, and nutrients to support immune health! ( abbot sonic ) hello, for the last few

situation for police officers who can't just go on leave, because that would create an incredibly vulnerable situation for residents here in chicago, as crime is surging here. but the police uniont to work tomorrow if this mandate is enforced. and so just within the last couple of minutes we're hearing from the mayor of chicago, mayor lori lightfoot, who says at her direction, she's asked for city lawyers to file what's called a complaint for injunctive relief, so essentially trying to stop the police union and the president from encouraging officers to walk off the job. she says that the union president is being misleading to these officers, suggesting that there won't be any consequences for their actions, and also saying it's unlawful for officers to strike. this is a standoff that's happening right now and we are going to be following this very closely as we head into the weekend, steph. >> claudia, take us to italy. port workers in one of italy's largest shipping and transport hubs are blocking access to the port because they're protesting the vaccine mandates there. how big of an impact can this have? we know we are having all sorts of shipping problems here in the u.s. >

the president of chicago's police union is predicting we could go into the weekend with policing at half-staffal staff and that's because the mayor of chicago is requiring city employees to submit their covid vaccination status via an online medical portal. a number of police officers are refusing. trace, back to you. >> trace: thank you. let's bring in pete tele, former chicago gang member and drug dealer who is now a community activist and founder e nation resource center. pete, thank you for coming on. we appreciate it. i want to play some sound from the news conference. this is addressed to mayor lori lightfoot and i'll get your response. >> mayor lightfoot, we want you to put together a task force to catch the shooters that are shooting our babies. just like you caught the looters, you can catch the shooters. were asking that you put together a task force and put these kids on tv just like you did. we saw kids that did the looting downtown. we want shooters off the street. >> is there a sense from your perspective that the mayor, city leaders are not doing enough to address what's become

the head of chicago's police union predicts that close to a third of the department will not comply withbe vaccinated or undergo testing twice a week. if the city enforces the policy, it would take about 3,200 officers off of the street during the deadliest year the city has seen in a quarter century. >> if our officers hold the line, there's going to be a lot less officers on the street if they send them home with no pay. >> despite the threats, mayor lori lightfoot is not backing down on her mandate that she argues is about keeping people safe. >> first responders, police, fire, emt, they're in contact with residents every day. the residents have a right to expect that those officers are not going to get them sick. >> at this point, city leaders have not said what they're going to do if that many officers are off the streets as a result of this mandate. there's several lawsuits pending right now filed by the mayor's office as well as the union and a judge is expected to hear the arguments a week from today, neil. >> neil: thanks, garrett. ted williams on this, former d.c. homicide dete

chicago's police union urged officers to the plight the city mandate.port their vaccine status by friday or face unpaid leave. the supreme court heard arguments today on the fate of one of the two boston marathon bombers. he is fighting the statement -- reinstatement of a death sentence that was thrown out. the bombing killed three people and wounded more than 260. we will take a closer look later. hurricane pamela is moving and lynn tonight across northwestern mexico. it came ashore today on mexico's pacific coast. it left flooded streets and downed trees in its wake. forecasters say remnants of pamela will bring have a brain to parts of texas and oklahoma by thursday. a windblown wildfire in southern california has threatened more than 100 homes for a second date. it has come within a quarter-mile of the ranch once owned by president reagan. the fire in santa barbara county ignited monday and high winds spread it. by this afternoon, it had grown to more than 15,000 acres and was only 5% contained. the white house kicked off a global virtual summit tod

today there is going to be a hearing in a case filed by the chicago police union against the city over its vaccine mandate. >> what we've seen from the fraternal order of police, particularly leadership is a lot of misinformation, a lot of half truths and frankly flat-out lies in order to induce an insurrection. and we're not having that. and so we want to make it very, very clear that the law is on our side. we feel very confident about it. >> meantime, southwest airlines says it no longer plans to immediately put employees who request a vaccination exemption on unpaid leave. instead the airline said those applicants will continue to work with mask and distancing guidelines. >>> all right. cargo gridlock, ship congestion at a new high at the ports of long beach and los angeles on tuesday. 100 ships awaiting along the coast. the pron isn't just congestion at the ports. there just aren't enough truck drivers to get products to the stores. the industry is short a record 80,000 drivers. that's a 30% increase from before the pandemic. if you're looking for discounts to start your holiday s

. >> that is the chicago police union president.til yesterday to get a city-mandated covid shot or risk being placed on unpaid leave. >> joining us from chicago is wendy wilfork. both sides are accusing each other of the same thing, risking public safety over this mandate. >> that's right. good morning to you. this mandate for sure highlights the delicate balance for police officers when it comes to public safety, public health and personal freedoms. i've lived here in the chicagoland area for the last 11 years until recently. i can attest that there is not a weekend morning that goes by that there are not shootings and homicides in the headlines in the news here. this mandate also comes at a time when violent crime such as expressway shootings and carjackings are on the rise. many chicago residents were holding their breath as mayor lightfoot's deadline to report vaccination status passed. especially after union leaders as we just talked about threatened that nearly half of the police force would not be patrolling these streets thi

. >> the tone that emanates -- we just had the chicago police union comparing vaccine mandates to the nazis. there's just literally no one in public life -- maybe with the exception of donald trump -- across the ideological spectrum -- no one talks like that. >> yeah, yeah. >> you don't -- you don't -- like, you and i -- no one goes on air and says -- >> first class whore. >> -- that b-word has blood on her hands. it's another planet. >> it would be better if they were unions that represented people and got them raises. thanks, chris. >>> and thanks to you at home for joining us at this hour. rachel's off tonight. she will be back tomorrow. it's been a day of hour-by-hour dramatic developments in washington not just in the halls of congress, outside those halls out on the street. 9:30 this morning, washington, d.c., u.s. capitol police saw this, an illegally parked suv in front of the supreme court. a chevy tahoe sitting definitely where it was not allowed to be. as the capitol police investigated, they did a kind of a realtime they're tip of what was happening from their twitter acco

in chicago, the police union telling their officers not to share their vaccination status by today's deadline. >> i know the residents and businesses have expressed concerns. that the department will not be properly staffed. the chicago police department will be fully staffed and ready to protect the citizens of the city. >> reporter: mayor lori lightfoot standing firm on the city's mandate that will put city workers on no pay status if they fail to turn in proof of vaccination. and americans may be in for a potentially turbulent holiday travel season. the tsa now reporting that an alarming 40% of their workers remain unvaccinated with a deadline to get a shot looming just before thanksgiving. dan lieberman, abc news, new york. >> dan, thank you. >>> a new twist in the scandal surrounding offensive emails in the nfl. "the new york times" reports new messages reveal a cozy relationship between the league's top lawyer and a former team executive. "the times" reports nfl general counsel jeff pash and the former president of the washington football team traded jokes about the league's div

chicago police union and the mayor squaring offer and not backing down. >> we believe the fop leadershipwork stoppage, a strike. >> i will not totally be silenced. >> city workers including roughly 13,000 police officers had until friday to report their vaccine status orrisinging being put on unpaid leave. earlier this week, the president of the local fraternal order of police urged members to ignore the mandate and warned half the force may stay home this weekend. a cook county judge granted a temporary restraining order against the union president, prohibiting him from making public comments encouraging officers to defy the city's vaccine policy. on saturday, catanzara uploaded a clip to facebook titled "hold the line." >> to the great officers, detectives and everybody else that is literally bombarding me with information, thank you. hold the line. keep fighting. >> reporter: the fight over vaccine madates stretches from coast to coast at a time when crime is speaking in major cities. seattle police activated backup plans ahead of monday's deadline to show proof of vaccination. >> our

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pilots at southwest airlines, chicago police union, parents at school board meetings. americans are pushing back because they value freedom. when the attorney general of the united states sets up a snitch line for parents they'll stand up for the accelerated march to communism we see. america will fight the good fight and finish the course and keep the faith because americans value freedom. >> one of the tools in your arsenal of weapons, of course, is the patriot act that i just mentioned. not many current members of this committee were here when we passed the patriot act. but i was. and mr. chairman, you were, too. i remember clearly that we were both concerned about potential abuse of this new law enforcement tool. i can tell you, not in a million years did we dream that one day we would see the justice department treat american parents as domestic terrorists. >> you said a moment ago you couldn't imagine a parent being labeled a domestic terrorist but parents all over the country believe that's exactly what you labeled them by your memo indicating you were going to

meanwhile, the chicago police union is urging officers to defy a city mandate.have to report their vaccine status by friday, or face unpaid leave. the u.s. supreme cou heard arguments today on the fate of dzhokhar tsarnaev, one of the two boston marathon bombers. he is fighting re-instatement of a death sentence, wch a lower court threw out. the 2013 bombing killed three people and wounded more than 260. we'll take a closer look later in the program. hurricane pamela is moving inland tonight, across northwestern mexico. it came ashore today, north of mazatlan, on mexico's pacific coast. the storm left flooded streets and downed trees in its wake. forecasters say remnants of pamela will bring heavy rain to parts of texas and oklahoma by thursday. awind-blown wildfire in southern california has threatened more than 100 homes for a second day. one is near the nch once owned by psident reagan, and known as the "western white hous" the fire in santa barbara county ignited monday, and high winds quickly spread it. by this afternoon, it was only 5% contained. the white

chicago police officers walking off the job tonight. the officers, along with other public workers, must declare their covid vaccination status by midnight. megan, good morning. >> reporter: sheinelle, good morning. chicago's police uniont's a refusal that could put chicago at risk. >> and we're going to keep fighting this mandates and this dictatorship this morning, thousands of officers backed by the police union are refusing to comply, instead warning of a mass walkout by the nation's second largest police force >> i guarantees you at least half the department is staying home come saturday morning >> the police union chief placing the blame on mayor lori lightfoot. >> you are not vaccinated, you are playing with your life, the life of your family, the life of your colleagues and members of the public >> reporter: the department has not released information on how many of its 12,000 officers have been vaccinated. but for police, refusing to get the shot could create a major risk to public safety. murders in 2021 are up slightly over this time last year and are significantly higher than in 2019 on thursday, the city's police commissioner urged his officers to get vaccinated. the department pushing back on the idea of

cadillac lyriq. >>> just hours before a deadline to declare vaccination status, the chicago mayor and the city's police unionrying to quote induce an insurrection by telling officers to defy the mayor's order to disclose their vaccine status or go on unpaid leave. but chicago is not the only city grappling with the police force that doesn't want to get vaccinated. ryan young is outfront. >> this was horrible. this did not have to happen. >> reporter: michael was a beloved officer with the police force for 18 years. >> he was so strong. he was so healthy. >> reporter: his wife says she pleaded with him to get the vaccine, but he remained skeptical. >> i felt like mike -- um -- did not get vaccinated because he didn't have all the facts. there was a lot of information just kind of moving around. moving parts, you know? and um, when that happens, you can see rumors, mis -- miscommunication, information. sci science leaves -- leaves the picture. it just becomes chatter. it attacked his lungs. it made them look like baby swiss cheese. >> reporter: over a thousand mimes away in mississippi, jessica also lost her h

chicago's mayor battling the police union, with nearly half of chicago police not getting the shot, and the new data from the cdc about the unvaccinated and the delta surge. >>> hypersonic missile. new concerns over reports of china's secret missile test launch. >>> out of the shadows. my exclusive with the man behind the steele dossier. the former british spy breaking his silence in his first-ever television interview. how do you respond to critics who say you were doing foreign interference in an american political campaign? what he says about the 35 pages of raw intelligence, alleging a connection between trump associates and russia, and the existence of a salacious tape involving the former president. ♪ guess it's never really over ♪ >>> over the top october. the braves with another thrilling walkoff win. >> here comes the winning run. swanson scores! >> and how about them cowboys? dallas, and dak prescott, pulling out a win in overtime. ♪ we are champions ♪ >>> and the windy city wins. >> mission accomplished. the chicago sky are wnba champions. >> the soldout crowd hyped for the c

. >> reporter: in chicago, the police union, trying to block the vaccine mandate, as the union mourns the death of its former president to the virus. and overnight, nba star kyrie irving break his silence, after the nets benched them for refusing to get vaccinated. irving defending the decision. >> it's not about the money, baby. it's not always about the money, it's choosing best for you. you think i want to lose money? >> reporter: dan lieberman, new york. >>> the white house has rejected trump's claim of executive privilege. president biden has instructed the national archives within 30 days of notifying trump. and they have subpoenaed jeffrey clark. and jeffrey rosen testified before the committee yesterday. >>> a new york city police officer is under arrest, accused of shooting two women involved in a love triangle. one victim was killed. the officer was off-duty when she opened fire at the women, one of whom she was dating. police say the shooter stayed at the scene and confessed. >>> northwest of atlanta, a tour bus on fire. the driver was able to escape. the rest of the bus wa

requirements for staff and students and mandates leading to clashes between cities in their police unions in chicagoce union estimated last week that half of its officers were still unvaccinated the city now fighting it out in court as all city workers. including officers are required to report their vaccination status or face disciplinary action. this should have been very simple issue for us get vaccinated. let us know so that we can move. word, but instead, it's become a battle of wits the stakes high for all americans from law enforcement to health care workers like michel webb who's been treating covid patients, but was hesitant about getting the shot herself. she decided to get the vaccine after attending educational sessions without that education. i think i would have been really questioning myself that i make the right choice those mandates showdowns erupting as the cdc release data. showing that back in august the unvaccinated had an 11-fold higher risk of dying from covid during this surge of the delta variant, then those who got the shot and there will be a lot of logistics to work out.