intelligence service says there is a new and growing threat starting to emerge eamon javers is live at the white house with more. hi, eamon. >> reporter: hi, courtney, when intelligence experts look back on september 11th, they think of it as a failure most of all of imagination. collectively they simply couldn't imagine airplanes being used in suicide attacks and todaythey worry the same failure of imagination could be happening again. this time in cybersecurity i talked to retired admiral mike rogers this week he's the former head of the super secret national security agency and he told me why he's worried. >> it's fair to say the only limit broadly in cyber these days is the limits of the h imagination because there's almost no limit to what you can do >> and that's why in new york the nypd and others have established a new cyber command center to watch for new threats heading to new york. >> whether it's a highly sophisticated cyber actor in an organized terrorist group or a hostile foreign power that's an actual government, you're going to see the ability to attempt to get into cr

i'll ask my other guest, eamon javers, about ownership of evs i'm starting to think i should sell themarket is hot, dump it before the price of gasoline powered cars collapses, if cathyie was even close -- >> i bought a tesla on new year's eve >> solar powered panels on the roof, and then -- >> it's not as easy as that you can put solar panels on the roof, you can charge the car, you have to buy the battery pack that goes on the wall of your car. >> i have a nat gas generator. >> look at that big carbon footprint over there. >> the evs are almost there. i took a road trip to go down to the eastern share of maryland to go on a wedding of my cousin it was wonderful i had to think about the logistics, where do i stop how do i charge? how do i get home? >> what is more expensive? >> i think the tesla will be cheaper in the long run, especially if you're charging on the tesla super-charger network which is free right now. whether it stays free in the long run is a fascinating one, but for now i think electric will be cheaper and a lot less moving parts and no oil changes. >> i'm thinking a

eamon javers filled in for the news that starts right now. >> i'm in for shepard smith. death toll rising in the northeast. several people still missing and one river has yet to crest >> oh, my god. >> plus, new video emerges what it was like surviving the tornado. blame game >> here is what we did not know. literally shocking and unprecedented rainfall and none

less than treason and trump might still be looking for what milley called a reisch dog moment eamon javerser: that's right, shep. this book lays out an increasingly dire series of phone calls and meetings between leaders in washington and around the world as trump continued to spread lies and the country veered into violence on january 6th. one such call was between speaker of the house nancy pelosi and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff mark milley speaker pelosi would like to speak with you asap, topic secession, 25th amendment. what pelosi wanted, the authors report, was someone in the cabinet to take steps to push trump out of the office immediately. failing that she wanted assurance that the military would block an order from a, quote, unhinged donald trump to use nuclear weapons. he's crazy you know, he's crazy madam speaker, i agree with you on everything. he replied he assured her the military had procedures in place and assured her they would not do anything crazy. milley summoned the staff at the pentagon war room and told them he wanted to review procedures for nuclear wa

cnbc's eamon javers looked into that for us. this has become a giant open source investigation >> reporter: it really has, shep there are more than 140,000 people participating in a facebook group dedicated to the gabby petito story, and on reddit, well, more than 100,000 poem are following it over there. they are commenting on threads like this one. what still needs to be debunked or confirmed it says with posts about rumored boat drips petito's boyfriend took and the match the parking lot in the area where she disappeared they are not just commenting a lot of these people believe they are helping the investigation and are actively trying to solve the mystery of what happened to gabby law enforcement veterans say that outpouring of online citizen interest can be helpful, but it can also generate a tsunami of bad tips. >> some people are looking for that -- that moment of fame. other people are genuinely trying to help unfortunately, we can't determine which person is which when we get that lead. >> reporter: in some ways this i

everybod >>> a search for the missing as the number of people killed in the northeast climbs i'm eamon javers in for shepherd smith. this is the news on cnbc >> the death toll rising in the northeast. several people still missing one river has yet to crest. >> oh, my god. >>> plus, new video emerges. what it was like surviving the tornado. >>> blame game >> here's what we did not know a shocking and unprecedented rainfall, and no one expected it coming. >> government officials say the forecast was off but meteorologists striking back at that who is right what changes need to be made >>> a major roadblock for covid regulators regulators telling the white house scale back their plan. what that means for millions seeking a third shot >>> the taliban stronghold at risk of falling. the group now close to full control of afghanistan as their new leader prepares to take over >>> the president tours hard hit louisiana. >>> a paralympian stripped of gold for being three minutes late >>> and paramount feels the need not for speed but another "top gun" delay >> announcer: live from cnbc, the facts, the

. >>> a new report exposing a massive propaganda campaign on chinese social media eamon javers has details? >> carl a new report from a threat intelligence unit, cybersecurity company analyzing things going on, on the web. they say this existing chinese propaganda network people knew about over the past months expanded and multiplied to thousands of fake accounts on social media big one ins colluding youtube, facebook and twitter and globally seven different languages. on 30 different platforms. saying 40-plus websites and forums have featured postings from fake bots basically operated by the chinese government some of the bots now focusing on things trying to spark real-world row tests within the united states around themes on covid-19 they say they've seen these calls for real world pro test and seen photo shopped images and the like not necessarily successful but lines they're pushing on social media, including the false idea covid-19 originated in the united states, there were covid-19 cases aboard the "uss tennessee" somehow proving the supposed origin of covid-19 in the united states

cnbc's senior washington correspondent eamon javers on that eamon? >> yeah, shep. today was all about blame. republicans trying to place it squarely on president biden and democrats trying to spread it to former president trump caught in the middle were the defense secretary and the generals who did not want to be caught in the political finger pointing it led to some awkward moments between republicans and the officials who were testifying today. >> the blame for the disastrous withdrawal that everyone agrees was a disaster, who's to blame for that i'll let the silence speak for itself. >> in your best military judgment, did president biden's decisions cause this strategic failure? >> first of all, i'm not going to judge a president that's the job of the american people that's the job of congress >> now, the game plan for the democrats was to run the blame clock back farther in time to suggest that the person really responsible was president trump, who entered into an agreement with the taliban to withdraw u.s. forces. >> we know that the dye was cast with the doh

grave and growing threats of another isis terror attack cnbc's senior washington correspondent eamon javers on the top story tonight. eamon? >> an issue in a way i've never seen debated on capitol hill was the core principle of civilian control over the military. what they are debating today is who has the ultimate responsibility for military action that shapes the rise and fall of countries and even nuclear confrontation that could extinguish millions of lives general mark milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, was asked whether his handling of nuclear weapons procedures in the final days of the trump administration was appropriate. milley's critics say he stretched the bounds of civilian control of the military when he told generals to alert him if trump tried to launch nuclear weapons and in a conversation he had with speaker nancy pelosi about whether the president was mentally fit to authorize a nuclear strike >> i explained to her that the president is the sole nuclear launch authority and he doesn't launch them alone and that i am not qualified to determine the mental hea

eamon javers has a look at how the flaw was discovered and the controversial company behind it. >> tyler discovered and rolled out the patch for yesterday is called a zero day/zero lick hack. that means apple had almost no time to respond to it. the hackers can get into the iphone without clicking on one of those any it's a very dangerous -- the grew called the nso group has put out spyware that it's selling around the world to clients that can get into your iphone what do we know about the sno group is it it's an israeli software company that makes the so-called pegasus spyware software they say they only sell it to government, law enforcement agencies for fighting crime, but the group citizen lab says that nso group engages in despotism as a service they're selling it to dictatorial or despottic regimes using it against human rights advocating, journalists and the like, any dissident around the world. meanwhile, all of this has implications for apple i asked one expert, what can apple doing here he says they need to do a lot more. >> apple is essentially ignoring the facts their phones

threat that most of you have can't see at all, because it's designed that way -- cyberattacks eamon javershis threat has really evolved. >> reporter: absolutely. they saw suicide bombings and hijackings, but the failure of imagination is almost nobody in the west envisioned the two kinds of attacks combined into one horrific strike against the united states. it's that failure that sticks with former head of national security agency mike rogers. he worried, that the hacks in cybersecurity may not look like anything -- one possible, the attack on the one on colonial pipeline >> i've been waiting here for 45 minutes just to get gas. >> reporter: this time, not designed to win a random payment, but to cause death and destruction. >> we lost the ability to distribute 45% of the fuel in the most densely populated portion of our assassination, the east coast what if that had lasted longer than aweek what if that had been in the middle of the winter what if some of these events in isolation start to occur over time very sequenced. >> reporter: worse, he sees a future where enemies can use it to pi

let's get to eamon javers. >> clearly frustrated president biden there, melissa he's talking directly to the unvaccinated americans and he said look, we've been patient, but our patience is wearing thin this is a president who's now determined to use all the levers of federal power to push that number of unvaccinated americans way down he says that's what's allowing this delta variant to continue to spread, to continue to impact the economy and to threaten the idea of children being able to go back to school safely so to do that, as you say, he's going to roll out the department of labor that's a big piece of this they're going to do through osha here and force every company of over 100 employees to make sure their workforce is vaccinated or tested regularly that's an enormous number of people in this country it's going to affect a lot of businesses and you can expect that a lot of private sector muscle is going to be put behind that effort. the other big piece of that, melissa, is the idea that healthcare workers will be to be vaccinated that they're going to take medicare and medica

administration is set to roll out steps curbing the use of cryptocurrency and ransomware payments eamon javerse white house and the treasury department are declining to comment on the report from earlier today. what "the journal" is reporting here is the biden administration as early as next week is set to take an array of actions to crack down on cryptocurrency transactions involving ransomware and cyber attacks not clear what the array of actions will include, but part of this they say will be sanctions on some of the entities involved. what they would need to do in order to be effective, the journal reports, is to target crypto platforms that obscure transactions and digital wallets that receive ran some payments it's not clear what the full pan mri of options are but clearly the cryptocurrency transactions are a key part of the whole engine that runs this ransomware scam that we've seen over the past year or two so, the biden administration thinking here, according to "the wall street journal," is what you need to do is go after the money. if you can block those payments then maybe you can

eamon javers filled in for the news that starts right now. >> i'm in for shepard smith. this is the news on cnbc >> the death toll rising in the northeast. several people still missing and one river has yet to crest >> oh, my god. >> plus, new video emerges what it was like surviving the tornado. blame game >> here is what we did not know. literally shocking and unprecedented rainfall and no one projected that coming. >> government officials say the forecast was off but meteorologists striking back at that so who is right and what changes need to be made. a major road block for covid boosters regulators telling the white house to scale back their plan what that means for millions seeking a third shot >>> the final anti-taliban strong hold at risk of falling the group now close to pull control of afghanistan has their new leader prepares to take over >>> the president tours hard-hit louisiana. a paralympian strips of gold for being three minutes late and paramount feels the need, well not for speed but for another top gun delay. >> live from cnbc, the facts, the truth, th

>> coming up after "the news with shepard smith," with his the news with eamon javers just today. >>> have a great rest of the day, everybody "closing bell" starts right now. >> i get to tweet weekend before eamon this week. that's great news. welcome to "closing bell." i'm will friday frost, a huge jobs miss. the majors averageses mixed, with the nasdaq outprisming. >> the august payrolls report missing by nearly half a million. tech stocks are outperforming today, docusign and mondo db jumping on earnings. the financials, those are pulling back, now down 2.5% for the week capital one and american express. we have 59 minutes left to go in the session. then it's a three-day weekend. wilf. >>> coming up on the show today, the ceo of redfin joins us with new data plus brian deese on today's massive jobs miss and how the delta variant is weighing on the economic recovery. >>> but, first, let's focus in on the big stories mike santoli is tracking the action joining us to talk about it is annetta mar cowski, and mike set the stage for us this wrix it turned incredibly slow, still maintaini

this as crypto took a big tumble eamon javers is here with move it looked like that had something tos that coinbase experienced today. they said earlier they were having difficulty, about you about 1:40 p.m., they put on the this tweet, that all is well, at least as of then transactions are going through normally service issues have been resolved we have taken steps to keep our services up. thank you for your patience and understanding while we work to address this what happened there? here's the tweet in which they explain it publicly. not a whole lot of detail, but they say a sudden increase in network traffic led to a degradation. we've seen improvement with our app services however, transaction service are still degraded funds settlement will be delayed while we recover no word on when this all will be cleared up no further information for them. clearly they had a problem, they're well on their way to resolving it, though back over to you >> is there any way to talk about what tripped it. el salvador maybe bitcoin legal tender there, and that might have been part of it or is it s

eamon javers has that for us hi, eamon. >> hi, carl, nbc news has learned that president biden is goingning an executive order mandating vaccinations for all federal employees and for millions of contractors who work for the federal government the president had previously mandated this earlier in the summer, but there were some loopholes there for employees who did not get vaccinated to have a regular testing process that they would undergo. now this is going to be mandatory for all federal employees and for all those contractors, and you could think about all the different federal agencies that employ thousands and thousands of contractors this is a large group of people, not clear exactly what the unvaccinated rate is among federal workers, but this is biden's effort now to make a dent in the broader unvaccinated population inside the united states, and it comes at a time when he's really trying to get his arms around the delta variant and trying to move those numbers south and get the economy back on track again. watch for that executive order we don't have exact timing yet of when t

. >> we are getting some breaking news out of the fed, eamon javers has it.'m going to guess it involves somewhat ylan mui, i'm going to guess it involves some of the ethics rules behind holding what fed officials can have. >> the federal reserve is announcing that it is examining its ethics rules for financial holdings after two fed presidents came under fire for some of their financial transactions in a statement the central bank said that chairman jay powell has directed staff to take a fresh and comprehensive look at the rules to identify ways to tighten those standards and that it will make changes as appropriate to the fed's code of conduct. the fed also said the trust of the american people is essential for the federal reserve to effectively carry out our important mission. now, of course dallas fed president robert kaplan has faced intense blowback over millions of dollars of stock trades last year and boston fed president facing criticism from his state and several reits. both have pledged to divest those assets just today democratic senator elizabet