francis collins is an subject to many foia requests and some of not been responded to. will they ever be? we will keep you up to date. gutfeld is next. >> to protect me and millions like me. >> tuesday october 5th. activists deploy more aggressive tactics against moderate democrats standing in the way of president biden's spending plan but the commander-in-chief says this is part of being a politician. >> at the same time president biden

francis collins, director of the national institutes of health.ing back on the show. >> i'm glad to be with you. a lot to talk about. >> you stole the words right out of my mouth. start with your reaction to the fda advisory panel recommendation on the j&j 3w5069 booster shot. how significance is this? >> both yesterday and today these are pretty significant moments figuring out about boosters going beyond pfizer, they decided about two, three weeks ago. yesterday was really clear-cut. if you had moderna, they clearly are in favor of you getting a moderna booster, over 5, a medical condition, exposesed to high risks like being a health care provider. today was let's say a little more complicated because the j&j data was mostly about people who got a second dose just two months after their initial one, and it was very sketchy data about what happens if you wait longer. like six months which is what the other boosters have been. they still liked what they saw about the two month and so voted in favor. what's going on right now, the meeting is still

francis collins, not retiring, just leaving nih. dr. ime on this friday. and thank you for your service to your country, as well, sir. thank you very much. >> thanks, craig. >>> just a few minutes from now, folks, we are going to hear from president biden. he'll be talking about that september jobs report, so we have all eyes trained on the white house. >>> first, though, another major challenge for this administration. the border. thousands of migrants in makeshift camps waiting to get into america and they're not just dealing with cartels. there is, of course, covid, too. >> ambulances have been called multiple times to this plaza because people can't breathe. use (vo) i am living with cll and i am living longer. thanks to imbruvica. imbruvica is a prescription medicine for adults with cll or chronic lymphocytic leukemia. it will not work for everyone. imbruvica is the #1 prescribed oral therapy for cll, and it's proven to help people live longer. imbruvica is not chemotherapy. imbruvica can cause serious side effects, which may lead t

francis collins is an subject to many foia requests and some of not been responded to. will they ever be? we will keep you up to date. gutfeld is next. >> to protect me and millions like me. >> tuesday october 5th. activists deploy more aggressive tactics against moderate democrats standing in the way of president biden's spending plan but the commander-in-chief says this is part of being a politician. >> at the same time president biden justice department launching an effort to combat threats against school officials and teachers. some are calling it an attempt to bully concerned parents into silence. hunter biden's business back in the headlines. the latest question the white house is declining to answer. you are watching "fox and friends first" on tuesday morning. todd: the bill back better agenda hanging by a thread it is blaming fellow democrats and mitch mcconnell for that. >> jenkins in dc as the president gears up to take his pitch directly to the american people. >> the president taking bill back better on the road with the sales pitch directly to the american

francis collins.s of health and for the better part of a dozen years under three different presidents, he's been serving just at. he said you know what the? i'm done now. caught the world off guard. he kicked off the notion of stepping down. the timing surprised people. dr. collins kind enough to join us. why now? >> well, neil, you know, you don't want to go out when everybody says oh, my god, thank got the guy is finally leaving. a better idea to to out when people say why now, it's too soon? there's a better reason. 12 years is a long time. no other nih director has stayed even close to that. it's time for new leadership, new vision. institutions need that especially scientific institutions. nih is in a good place. of the 27 institutes that have leaders, i recruited 27 of them so they're good. covid-19 is a huge challenge and we would lose momentum if i stepped away by the end of the year. we're okay. we're doing what we need to. so seems like it's time for me to step atway, get back into my resear

francis collins, the director of the national institutes of health. dr. alk about what has been making some headlines in the last few days, and in what appears to be a major shift, the nhs found out about virus funding in wuhan and they just found out later this year. they said it was a limited experiment and that the mice infected with the modified bat virus became sicker. in may, this is what dr. anthony fauci declared. >> the nih has not ever or does not now fund gain of function research in the wuhan institute. >> dr. collins, how can he say that when you're just now finding out u.s. tax dollars was being used to pay for this risky research in that wuhan lab two years ago? if you didn't know what was going on, what else do you not know about? >> i'm glad you're asking because this really needs to be clarified. part of the confusion here, pam, is this term "gain of function." in common scientific parlance, gain of function involves all kinds of experiments where you're trying to understand the function of a particular biological cell. for instance, canc

francis collins, director at the national institutes of health. being here with us, dr. collins. i want to start today with this topic because you say you're an evangelical christian yourself. you're also a scientist who believes in getting vaccinated. what do you make of people using religion as a reason not to get the shot as just heard there in that clip? >> well, i am a person of faith, and i'm sympathetic with people's reliance on their faith and on prayer. but i think somehow this has gotten twisted around in a way that doesn't make as much sense perhaps as people are making it sound to. if you've prayed to god to give you protection against covid-19 and along come these vaccines created by science, which god has given us the ability to do and they're incredibly safe and effective, maybe that was the answer to prayer. i do have a little trouble understanding why that doesn't make sense to some people. you know, there's an old story about the guy who his house was caught in a flood and he had to go up to the second floor because the water was

tell me if you've heard this one before, anthony padgett and francis collins lied about their efforts-function research at that wuhan lab. the congressman who forced the nih to fess up is here and has breaking news, in moments. ♪ ♪ >> you gave them money and you said don't do gain-of-function research. >> correct. >> and they said, we won't. >> correct. >> dr. fauci, do you still support a finding of the nih funding of the lab in wuhan? >> senator paul, with all due respect, you are entirely and completely incorrect that the nih has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the wuhan institute. >> laura: now we know that was likely alive. for more on the breaking developments we go to matt finn in our west coast newsroom. >> the national institute of health now admits that u.s. tax dollars were used to fund a limited experiment at the wuhan lab to test its spike proteins from coronavirus is in china were capable of binding to humans. director from the nih states that lab mice that were infected with a modified bad virus became sicker than mice that were given an unmo

francis collins has been subject to many requests some of those have not been responded to.ey ever be? we will keep you up-to-date tomorrow. "gutfeld!" is next. ♪ ♪ [applause] ♪ ♪ >> greg: that is a crowd! happy monday, everyone. we are back in new york city, just returned from an amazing week in nashville. that's in tennessee, cat. it was fantastic, but you know, it's like when you go to the beach and you return and there is sand everywhere and it's kind of like that with nashville except it's grits.

francis collins has been subject to many requests some of those have not been responded to. will they ever be? we will keep you up-to-date tomorrow. "gutfeld!" is next. ♪ ♪ [applause] ♪ ♪ >> greg: that is a crowd! happy monday, everyone. we are back in new york city, just returned from an amazing week in nashville. that's in tennessee, cat. it was fantastic, but you know, it's like when you go to the beach and you return and there is sand everywhere and it's kind of like that with nashville except it's grits. tough to get them out of those hard-to-reach places, but that's what the hamsters are for. [scattered laughter] but do we have some great times. here's tape of our last night out. ♪ ♪ >> greg: the only way out of a john rich bar is through the window. so what did we miss while we were gone? well, several of noxious left-wing activists, kyrsten sinema, from a classroom at arizona state, to the restroom and harassed her outside install. i'll admit i've done this myself while drunk, but it had nothing to do with politics. and everything to do with a missing bag of weed tha

francis collins, the long time head of the institute of health is stepping down. dr. collins is dr.e 71-year-old said after 12 years serving under three presidents it's time for new leadership in nih. in an interview with "the washington post" he acknowledged the polarization and politicization of science. dr. collins is a born-again christian and when he was named to lead in 2009, some questioned whether a man of such deep faith should lead government science. let's bring in elizabeth cohen. this is big news. a., a giant job, b., leaving in still the middle of a chronic pandemic. >> that's right, john, these will be very big shoes to fill at a very difficult time. i was just speaking with dr. anthony fauci about dr. collins. the two men are very close, they've known each other for about 30 years. and dr. fauci talked about his incredible input. the research he's done on cystic fibrosis. on genetics. it's hard to measure the scientific contributions that dr. collins has made over the years. in addition, as director, he's been really devoted to bringing in minorities. to bringing in

francis collins say now is not the time to let our guard down. llins even telling anti-vaxxers these vaccines may be god's way of sending help. but still, the unvaccinated push back at a time when other nations have reached much higher vaccination rates than the u.s. how concerned are you that the u.s. is going to be left behind here? >> well, i'm always concerned that we become a little bit too complacent. and -- and we think that because things are better, that means that things are completely gone and they're not. we're still at a much higher baseline than we were a year ago when we had that winter surge. so i -- i don't want to pooh-pooh the fact that the surge is starting to minimize. but let's learn from what happened just even a few months ago when in june, we thought, hey, everything is fine. let's take off our masks and what happened? we had another huge surge. we had a variant that came around. so, the key word is cautious optimism. where we have to come outside. it's still drizzling. but we can't really just take off our and just go run

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francis collins announced today he's departing the role after serving 12 years under three differentost important scientists of our time. dr. collins is joining us right now. dr. collins, thank you so much for joining us. thanks for all your service over these years. tell us how you reached what you described as a very difficult decision to step down and why now? >> it was a difficult decision, wolf, but scientific organizations like nih need new vision, new leadership on a regular basis. having served more than 12 years outstrips by a substantial margin, the usual shelf life of an nih director, and i think it is time to have someone else come to this with a new perspective, and even though you might say the timing is not great for covid because we're still very much in the throws of that, nih is in a very stable, solid position as far as what we are doing with vaccines and therapeutics and diagnostics and i have a fantastic team of people that i've recruited and i think we will be able to continue that momentum, and i'm not quite gone yet. i am staying on until somewhat un unspecifi

francis collins, a self-described evangelical christian, believes in vaccines. >>> coming up, a democratic candidate feeling the pressure, tries to backtrack on his remarks that president biden is unpopular, and is dragging him down in a closely watched race. >>> and she was the people's princess, but who was the woman behind the crown? here's a preview of the new cnn original series "diana." ♪ >> i was always different. >> she was going to marry her dashing prince like all the stories she'd read. >> she was iconic, she was box office. >> are you going to dance with the princess tonight? >> she'd like me to. >> i don't think anybody has grown up in public like diana has. diana provided a very public model for defiance and truthfulness. isn't it normal to feel angry and want to change the situation? ♪ >> i was ablto recognize an inner determination to survive. >> the new cnn original series "diana," premieres tonight at 9:00 on cnn. ♪ we'd be closer to the twins. change in plans. at fidelity, a change in plans is always part of the plan. what happens when we welc

world doctor francis collins the director of the national institutes of health more than a decade, heins me now. doctor, there's been a really interesting debate about the booster. and i was sort of thankful doctors without borders put the statement out today because it seemed's name the subtext of that debate. it seems the data shows there is some effect for folks particularly those at high, risk for a, boosters not an enormous but a real effect. the argument against it seems to, be entirely about this equity question. how do you think about this? >> well i'm glad were talking about it chris. i'm somebody who's dedicated a lot of my efforts, and research to the global problems, not just the domestic ones. so i carolina about this to. i think this is turning out to be a false dichotomy, where we don't have to say one or the, other we can do both and. we at the united states level have already donated over 1 million doses of vaccines to the rest of the, world more than the rest of the world combined, we are the largest donor by far, and the boosters were talking about, might be 10% of

francis collins will be retiring as the director of national constitutes of health. dr.serving nih director, having served three presidents over the course of 12 years. i was saddened by this news. dr. collins has always graciously agreed to come on this show to keep you at home informed, and dr. collins joins me now. dr. collins, thank you for everything you have done for this nation and the time you've taken to explain it all to us. and i know that you are a presidential appointee, and you can't comment on all the things i just said, but i do want to ask you, now that we're on the other side -- or at least it feels like we're getting to the other side of this before i discuss vaccines with you, what do you think about how we got through this, and what would you have done differently knowing what you know today? >> well, ali, thanks. it's nice to go back with you on your show. you always do such a good job getting the facts out there for people. looking back, i think we underestimated the vaccine hesitancy issue. we were so totally devoted to try to get the best science

francis collins. thank you for being with us. as the u.s.iving booster shots and millions more americans, at less than 5% of africans are vaccinated. does that seem right to you? >> this is troubling and certainly your report from south sudan puts a personal image on whats happening right now, but i think it is probably not correct to set these 2 against each oer as either-or. we should be doing both-and. the united states is still the country with the highest number of deaths, including today were something like one out of 4 deaths in the whole world happened in the u.s. we are in the midst of a terrible covid-19 search fueled by this delta variant and and we cannot step away from those responsibilities, and boosters clearly on the way in which the most vulnerable people can be protted as the effects of the vaccine start to wane. having said that, of course, the rest of the world is desperate for vaccine access area we in the u.s. are trying to do that too. the president as made commitments to over one billion doses, more than all of the re

francis collins, the director of the national institutes of health, said he's stepping down at the end of the year. president biden called collins one of the most important scientists of our time. and there's big news tonight about a new covid booster shot. here's cbs' meg oliver. >> reporter: johnson & johnson is the latest company to ask the f.d.a. for emergency use authorization for their covid-19 booster shot for adults 18 and over. dr. eric topol: >> the johnson & johnson is now in 15 million americans. they got the one shot and done, but they weren't really done, because the efficacy isn't as high as the other vaccines. >> reporter: the johnson & johnson single-dose vaccine was only 71% effective against hospitalization from covid, but recent data found a j&j booster shot given 56 days after the primary dose provided 94% protection against illness and 100% protection against severe disease. >> this second shot, whether it's a johnson & johnson, or a moderna, pfizer, is really important because we want to get that efficacy up high. >> reporter: a new study shows that vaccinations

doctor fauci, doctor wilensky and doctor francis collins, no one has come to the table and told the american people and prosecute this case as to why our children must be vaccinated. these vaccines provide no opportunity for benefit, only opportunity for harm to children. >> at the same time therapeutics that have actually proven in actual use to be effective for preventing serious illness, intubation and death is you demonstrated with hydroxychloroquine, that was just dismissed pretty much out of hand. why was that done? >> i have no idea. there was a movement where some of the therapies being used with success were jumped on very quickly and aggressively in a negative way and i can't explain it. we have a new therapeutic from merck that is promising and no one is making that political yet. i can't understand why some of the older retooled medications that showed in the lab in controlled studies showed very powerful efficacy, that they - >> they make no money off of hydroxychloroquine. all right. all right. i will say it if you don't have to. i mentioned earlier one of colorado's largest he

seems like it's been an opaque process but it's been used to cover their findings people like francis collins scientists have a legitimate disagreement about the gain of function research but at this time, we need people blood and treasure was spent on the pandemic to be allowed in the room and have their own voice and whether it worthwhile. i have seen no benefit from gain of function research in respect to stopping the pandemic, none of the prior research was useful in stopping this. kennedy: you think anthony fauci is culpable and do you think he knows more than he's letting off? how is he still in charge if so? >> i'm a scientist so i will stick with the facts. he's been a strong component of gain of function research for over a decade. that's his scientific opinion, i disagree strongly with that but i think a lot of the things you've seen come out of the nih fall from that fundamental feeling or understanding he has of the benefit that i disagree with. kennedy: do you think equal health alliance is culpable in the transmission of the virus? >> they are a nonprofit organization collaborat

the director of the national institutes of health francis collins denied the covid origins controversy hand in his resignation. >> i want to assure you and anyone else listening it has nothing to do with my decision. how did this virus get started in china, that our funding of that research in the wuhan institute of virology was 1 million miles away to draw that connection is absolutely not supportable by the data. >> he says it is time for a new vision. idaho governor visiting the border, his lieutenant governor issues an executive order banning vaccine mandates. dennis been required covid testing, would rescind any executive orders while he is away saying in part, duly elected governor of idaho. to act on my behalf. he issued several executive orders when governor little was out of state. >> the largest private healthcare provider touting his 100% vaccination rate but the hospital system hit the mark after firing 1400 and vaccinated workers. joining me now 3 of those, john matlin, abigail gray and karen gross, thanks to the 3 of you for being here, sorry it is under the circumstances

. >> francis collins is the outgoing nih director who has been there for many years. he's on his way out the door. pointing to something, very remote possibility on the origin of the original virus, watch. >> most likely this was natural origin starting in bats, maybe traveling to an intermediate host. i can't rule out the possibility that secretly the wuhan institute got the virus and were studying it. i have no evidence to support that. laura: no evidence, there is certainly circumstantial evidence, the chances of this not being a lab leak are infinitesimal at this point. according to the wall street journal piece that came out today. >> it would have been april of last year on sunday's show, pretty likely this is what took place. we knew less than we know today, we know more than the likelihood this came from a lab is increasingly clear. the chance that this was a couple penguins seems very remote. a bunch of folks who were around this who covered this up and knew the work that had been done in the wuhan institute of virology, european scientists as well, this lab

. >> top scientists including doctor fauci and francis collins say they cannot rule out the.s the result of a laboratory accident without more cooperation from the chinese government. laura: thank you for joining me now is the congressman who forced the nih to facet. ranking member of the house it was a committee james comeare. i'm not shocked because i knew this all along because smart people knew what was going on in that wuhan lab but how is this not the biggest story, one of the top 3 stories at least in america tonight? >> it should be. this proves all along this virus was started in wuhan lab in this proves all along that american tax dollars were used to fund gain of function research in the wuhan lab, the nih new this all along, doctor fauci misled the committee at best and lied to the committee at worst by saying tax dollars were never used for gain of function research. they are trying to change the definition of gain of functions research but in layman's terms they were taking this virus and making it worse, genetically modifying it, taking the deadly virus and mak

rishaad: we have one headline coming through from the national institutes of health, director francis collins has neared his retirement announcement. learning to step down, according to "politico." this, of course, in the states. david, you had a question. david: my question was, part of the narrative was because everyone knows there is a shortage. everyone was scrambling for supplies. the price move up, i imagine, was so violent. my question is, at what point does everyone then get your supply? does that give us a preview of how quickly prices can come down once we get over whatever hump is ahead of us? richard: the oil market still has some buffer. for that market, i think the supply-demand balance is not so off. for gas markets, it is very difficult to say. it probably will not be possible for the markets to actually balance this year, other than seeing demand in certain sectors. for example, the industrial sector that may use gas is going to find it very challenging, and you will probably see some elements of that demand being destroyed. the heating demand will have to be met, because tha

. >> laura: and yet francis collins is the outgoing director. and now people think it's a very remote possibility that could explain the origin of the original virus. watch. >> most likely this was a natural origin starting in a bad and may be traveling through the intermediate host. i can't rule out the possibility that secretly the houlihan institute got that virus and was studying it and had a lab accident and it got loose but i have no evidence at all to support that. >> laura: is no evidence at all, there's certainly circumstantial evidence. it's like the chances of this not being a lab league are infinitesimal at this point, according to the big "wall street journal" piece that came out today. >> it would have been april of last year when i went on sunday show and said it's pretty likely that this is what took place. we know a great deal more and the likelihood that this came from the lab is increasingly clear. the chance that this was a couple -- there are a bunch of folks, not only peter you mentioned but all the folks who covered this u

francis collins, no one has yet come to the table and told the american people and prosecuted this case as to why our children must be vaccinated. these vaccines provide no opportunity for benefit, only opportunity for harm to children. >> laura: and dr. smith, at the same time, therapeutics that have actually proven and actual use to be effective from preventing serious illness, integration, and death, as you demonstrated with your patient base and hydroxyl clerk when, as, azithromycin, that was just dismissed pretty much out of hand. very briefly, dr. smith. why? why was that done? >> i have no idea, laura, i really don't. there was a movement where some of the therapies that were being used with success were jumped on very quickly and very aggressively in a negative way, and i can't explain it. we do have a new therapeutic that is promising, and no one at least that i know of -- you understand why some of the older retooled medications that showed efficacy in vitro, meaning in the lab, and also in vivo, in a controlled study, show very powerful efficacy. >> laura: they make no money

francis collins, the nih, the director.ve you. >> glad to be back with you, neil. >> neil: let's take about the need for kids to get vaccinated. how you feel about that? >> well, kids don't get the same level of risk of severe disease as adults, but they're not free of it. sadly more than 7,000 -- i'm sorry. 700 children have died of covid-19 since this pandemic began. even the kids who don't get as sick as that can get other complications like something called misc., which can be pretty serious. so we shouldn't ignore the fact that kids are also at risk, especially with this delta variant that is so contagious. so if you can avoid having your kid get sick, you'd lake to do that. of course, this is also a way to reduce transmissions in classrooms. we know now they they are. parents are smart about, this okay. they ask what are the risks and that's what the fda panel debated and concluded 17-0 with one abstention that this should be offered to children 5-11 and the benefits are greater than the risks. >> neil: a lot of paren

francis collins lied or misled about what we've done.k about gain of function, they make that implication which is unconscionable to do to save may be that led to sars-cov-2 you can ask any person of good faith was a virologist and they will tell you absolutely clearly that would be molecularly impossible. in >> greg: molecularly impossible. >> jesse: that was my nickname growing up. >> greg: if you call for dr. fauci to be fired, it's less likely to happen and you saw that with the wall and remain in mexico. he's just going to say no he's not. >> jesse: you might not be above fired, but he might retire because of the dog thing so emma comes into breakfast and says did you see dr. fauci kill dogs and i had to look around and yes, he gave them to do these deadly experiments on dogs. it would rip their vocal cords out so you couldn't hear them screaming as they were infected with insects and then killed them. a lot of people say gain of function, but it's the dogs the americans will be most upset about and that might push fauci overboard.

francis collins has been the director for 12 years.ent obama to lead the agency. he told the washington post the nih will benefit from new leadership. collins has been an advocate for covid vaccines and mask wearing. reggie: one south bay district is scrambling to put teachers in front of students because of a substitution shortage. we have the classroom crunch going on. amy: another side effect of covid. they have lost about half of their substitute teachers. they can usually rely on having 200 college day. now, they are down to 100. with fewer people willing to, to the classroom, the school district is having to turn to other personnel. counselors say this means they are giving kids in need less attention. administrator say this isn't ideal. they need everyone's help in this situation. >> now, i am an 80% counselor, 20% on-call substitute teacher. >> we really do need to support each other to make this happen. amy: post-covid, they are dealing with issues like kids who have suicidal thoughts and safety concerns. they believe it hurts

the last time i was on here with you, i said that nih director francis collins needs to go.ounced his resignation. now the rest of the nih director's need to go too. >> tucker: that is exactly right. my sense from reading a lot about this is many of these torture sessions, they are not even experiments, they are torturing animals who can't help themselves, this is driven by funding. there is money available to the experiment takes place but it doesn't necessarily help science or any people, it's just, they need to spend the money. >> that is what they know and they spent $19 billion every year on animal experiments even though we know these experiments are not going to find cures and treatments for human beings. if you look at the other laboratories, right inside nih's laboratory in maryland, elizabeth murray as we exposed last year, brain damage as monkeys and then tries to frighten them in tiny cages with plastic snakes and spiders. this kind of experimentation goes on all the time. if you look at the primate center at the university of washington, they are full body irrad

francis collins, thank you. thank you for your service.ce on america and its health policy. u.s. surgeon general vivek murthy joins the conversation. and as we go to break, willie, what do you have on "today"? >> this weekend on nbc sunday today, my guest is machine gun kelley. tattooed from head to toe. borrowed my peach jump suit for the interview. a truly fascinating guy. truly complicated guy. he has the number one album, ticket to my down fall. it was a -- you probably had some of these. confrontational, sometimes strange, but one of the enlightening interviews. we'll be right back here on "morning joe." "morning joe." this flag isn't backwards it's facing this way because it's moving forward just like the men and women who wear it on their uniforms and the country it represents. they're all only meant to move one direction which is why we fly it this way on the flanks of the all-new grand wagoneer. moving boldly and unstoppably forward. vo: taking on climate change. on the flanks of the all-new grand wagoneer. this is our moment to g

francis collins led the agency under three consecutive presidents and will leave the post as of longest-servingr. vaccine mandates kk and, thousand white americans are being dismissed from their jobs. dr. anthony fauci tries to walk back the morning about christmas that did not go over well with many americans. senior correspondent or angle taking a look. good evening. >> hi, shannon. as we sneeze into the fall, there are still a lot of uneasy americans when it comes to getting the covid vaccine. from health care workers to educators, mende deadlines are here with many refusing to get the shot. hundreds of new york city school teachers protested in brooklyn monday fighting the state's requirement that just about everybody who works with the city's public school system have at least one dose of the covid 19 vaccine or risk being barred from entering schools and placed on unpaid leave. >> i don't want the vaccine. i've medical reasons not to. i have natural antibodies. and everyone should have the right. >> saw an estimated 50,000 steppers are refusing to vaccine. new york city mayor bill de blas

national institute of health announced one of their most recognizable leader against covid-19, francis collins the year. all of this while covid cases are falling. you want to know what's up? the rising number of violence against hospital staff across the country. nbc's cal perry is at the hospital in northeast georgia where incidents of a verbal and physical assault tripled this year compares to two years ago. what in the world is happening to staff on the ground to people who are saving lives. >> reporter: our healthcare workers had a five times chance of being injured on the job than any other job functioning in the country. it's alarming and getting worse. as you said the hospital behind me is seeing a break out in these assaults and sometimes physical and verbal. it's having an effect on the staff as you can imagine. take a look at dr. davies, what he told me yesterday, he works in the emergency room here. >> they are exhausted. there are fewer people feel they can bare the risk to come to work. the risk of being exposed to covid and verbal physical and sexually assaultassaults. it's a re

francis collins. great to have you back. thanks for doing this. big topic just came out yesterday. know, they first rolled out its vaccine. the whole point was that it was a one and done type of vaccine. seems like that is certainly not the case anymore. in retrospect was that a mistake were johnson & johnson to bill itself a one-shot vaccine? >> well, you know if the mrna vaccines from pfizer and moderna had not been so utterly effective, then johnson & johnson would look like a hero with their one dose. their standards are being set awfully high here by the other vaccines and certainly the data discussed yesterday by fda's advisory committee says you get that second dose two months or more after the first one and you get a big boost in the antibody di levels and presumably, also a boost in your protection against severe disease. so i understand why they made the recommendation they did. >> and why is the johnson & johnson booster recommended for everyone as long as two months have passed, but the pfizer and moderna are still limited to certain americans? you have to be above the

francis collins said he is going to leave the nih at the end of the year.e dropping as more americans get vaccinated and get the booster shots. but nearly 70 million people remain unvaccinated in this country, and millions of americans are still unable to easily get rapid covid tests. jone joining us now is megan fitzgerald and dr. david. megan, you're at a school district where they're doing everything they can to keep covid cases down among students and staff. give us a sense of what they're doing there. >> yes, jeff, that is absolutely right. there is an all out effort to stop the spread of the virus and keep kids in school. school districts are taking matters into their hands. des moines public schools putting in place two drive through testing sites at two schools. sioux city is following suit in coming days here and their prioritizing testing for students and staff. they're also opening this up to the public as well. as you mention there'd is some frustrations here in iowa saying they're not able to find the testing locations efficiently and they wait

francis collins says authorization should be a huge relief for all of us. >> we can create a situationof these kids are not getting infected. we should be able to drive this pandemic down, which is what we really hope to do, even as we face cold weather and concerns about another surge. we don't want that. julian: moderna says it's pediatric shot is highly effective in children with only mild symptoms, but they are still several weeks away from authorization. kumasi: it is a crucial day for the future of the a's and oakland. alameda county are expected to vote. supervisors will decide on a nonbinding resolution that could one day see the county contribute tax revenue to help the a's. the money would be used for parks, infrastructure, and affordable housing. leadership and the league say if howard terminal does not get built, the a's will explore moving and the county needs the city involved to make it financially possible. we will drip -- hear from them later. julian: the federal government says bart's billing theling thee cost a draw dropping $9 as the federal transit six mile extensi

francis collins is stepping down.ing to "washington post" and politico, collins plans to announce his resignation today and will leave by the end of the year. he has led the top government research agency under the last three presidents. the report says no decision has been made on an interim director. >>> florida is leaving more than $2 billion in money on the table. the department of education wants to know why. it is the only state, the only state in the country that has not applied for a third round of covid-19 relief for its schools. they are calling out governor ron desantis for not pr prioritizing students. >> it is extremely reckless. when you come up with a deadline for hundreds of thousands of students across the state of florida that are in public schools that need to have, you know, lots of resources and actual physical bodies in the schools to take care of our students, it says a lot. it's just wrong. >> governor desantis responding to a request for a spending plan with a statement saying, at this time, n

francis collins, his message to parents weighing whether to vaccinate their kids. listen. >> come on, parents. look at the data, figure out what's best for your kid, and then try to make a decision based on that evidence, not something that somebody told you based on some crazy rumor. there's too many of those. >> what would you say to a parent that might be hesitant to get their kid vaccinated? >> well, i would point out what i think the parent probably likely knows already, they have a partner in this, their partner is their pediatrician, they can go to their pediatrician, someone they've been working with for months and years with their child's health and they can ask her, what do you recommend and what the pediatrician is going to say is, if the vaccine is authorized for 5 through 11 years old, she's going to say get your child vaccinated. it's not all on every parents's individual shoulders figure out exactly what all the data show. i mean that's why they can rely on someone who has been to medical school and been in practice for many years. they can go to the

francis collins stepping down off 12 years in the role as nih director. let's get cnn analyst dr.opinion. where is the head of the nih? >> this administration apparently was very interested in having janet wilcock, who is the current acting commissioner to be the permanent commission ers commissioner of the fda but current senators are blocking her. i think it's key that position be filled, and i think it's key that the nih position be filled expeditiously. who would have thought a year ago that something as apolitical as the director of the national institutes of health, really the preeminent research organization in the world, would be so politicized and so subject to, you know, the craziness in the united states senate, but here we are. and i think anything is possible. >> yeah. to the vaccines now. johnson & johnson asking the fda to authorize a booster shot for their covid vaccine, but the company is leaving it up to the fda and the cdc to decide who should get them and when. who do you think should get that shot? >> i you know, it's unclear. there are sort of two sets of dat

fauci and his boss, nih director francis collins, say they cannot rule out the theory of the pandemic was the result of a laboratory accident without more cooperation from the chinese government. back in the u.s., florida governor ron desantis announce he will convene a special session of the republican-controlled legislature in november to fight vaccine mandates posed by businesses. >> your rights to earn a living should not be contingent on covid shots. >> the governor supporters cheer the fact that the cases in florida are declining despite the state's opposition to mask and vaccine mandates. >> lord is worth today's of the pandemic may be behind it but politifact points out that it's infection rates are still higher than most states. >> bret: jonathan serrie in atlanta. the pentagon's hypersonic weapons programs suffered a setback after a booster rocket failed to lift off, that's according to reuters. the test was intended to validate aspects of one of the hypersonic vehicles in development. senior pentagon officials say a separate series of tests wednesday was successful on navy

francis collins has been leading the agency for 12 years.n has pulled its guidance for holiday gatherings. the agency says it will update the recommendations soon. and all defense department civilians will be required to take the covid vaccination by late next month that order covers 700,000 employees. the deadline is november 22nd. the pentagon had previously ordered 1.3 million active duty service members to be vaccinated it says more than 93% have received at least one dose. ♪ >> shannon: breaking tonight, a marine lieutenant colonel who was thrown in the brig after criticizing u.s. military withdrawal from afghanistan is free tonight. national security correspondent jennifer griffin has the story from the pentagon. >> lieutenant colonel stuart scheller the marine placed in a military bringing last week brig before pre-trial court-martial hearing has been released from cell at camp la jean, north carolina. but still faces a gag order after criticizing his chain of command for the chaotic afghanistan withdrawal. scheller was removed as inf

francis collins stepping down as director of the national institutes of health after 12 years of servicewe could be headed for a leadership void in our health institutions given there's still no permanent fda commissioner. so let's get cnn medical analyst dr. jonathan reiner's take on this massive departure. good evening to you, doctor. so dr. collins told wolf earlier tonight that he's sure nih is going to be fine when he leaves, but where's the permanent head of the fda? it's been nine months. >> being blocked by various senators. this administration apparently was very interested in having janet wilcock, who's the current acting commissioner to be the permanent commissioner of the fda, but various senators are blocking her. i think it's key that position be filled and i think it's key that the nih position be filled expeditiously. who would have thought, you know, a year ago that something as apolitical as the director of the national institutes of health, really the preeminent research organization in the world, would be so politicized and so subject to, you know, the craziness in th

francis collins said he's no big fan of mandates, but near doing the trick.s going up and cases going down. the doctor weighing in after this. i'm searching for info on options trading, and look, it feels like i'm just wasting time. that's why td ameritrade designed a first-of-its-kind, personalized education center. oh. their award-winning content is tailored to fit your investing goals and interests. and it learns with you, so as you become smarter, so do its recommendations. so it's like my streaming service. well except now you're binge learning. see how you can become a smarter investor with a personalized education from td ameritrade. visit tdameritrade.com/learn ♪ you have the best pizza in town and the worst wait times. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. indeed instant match instantly delivers quality candidates matching your job description. visit indeed.com/hire >> neil: do you think this is going to far, the mandate issue or are you okay with it if it leads to fewer cases? >> i'm okay with it if it's going to save lives. we lost 700,00

francis collins at 6:00 p.m. eastern on cnn. >>> your next hour of "cnn newsroom" starts now. >>> an assistant director yelled cold gun as he gave a prop firearm to alec baldwin according to an affidavit. >> usually you would try and avoid using a real gun. >> investigators are now combing through the evidence from the movie set including alec baldwin's bloodstained clothes. >>> next in the gabby petito case investigators turn to brian laundrie's parents. >> part of that investigation will be to discern and determine what if anything the family members know. >>> powerful pacific storms set to bring heavy rain, flash flooding and strong damaging winds to the northwest and california starting tonight. >> i travel light so if they evacuate i'll just get the hell out of dodge. >>> president obama on the stump in virginia slams republicans. >> why is it republicans don't want you to vote? what is it that they're so afraid of? >>> i'm pamela brown in washington. you are in the "cnn newsroom" on this saturday. and new i

francis collins, the director of the national institutes of health, about parents who are holding outccinated. and here's what he said. >> come on, parents, look at the data, figure out what's best for your kid, and then try to make a decision based on that evidence, not something that somebody told you based on some crazy rumor. there's too many of those. this is the thing that really bugs me and worries me, jim, about our country. we have two epidemics going on. one is covid-19, the other is an epidemic of dangerous disinformation that is causing reasonable people who care about themselves and their families to make bad decisions. this is heartbreaking. it never should've come to this. >> and here with me now is dr. jonathan reiner, professor of medicine and surgery at george washington university. dr. reiner, what did you think of what dr. collins had to say? he makes a lot of sense. >> he really does. there's so much misinformation in this country, and people have been making their decisions not based on facts but based on deliberate, calculated misinformation being targeted at th

francis collins at 6:00 p.m.d gun as he gave a prop firearm to alec baldwin according to an affidavit. >> usually you would try and avoid using a real gun. >> investigators are now combing through the evidence from the movie set including alec baldwin's bloodstained clothes. >>> next in the gabby petito case investigators turn to brian laundrie's parents. >> part of that investigation will be to discern and determine what if anything the famil

francis collins will announce he is leaving the job later today he has been at the forefront of the u.spandemic response. while his resignation comes as the u.s. is facing a new battle against covid-19, that is preventing a holiday surge. new cases in hospital admissions are declining. they say that could reverse if americans get too complacent. the death toll should be a sobering reminder of just how much there is to lose. on average, more than 1800 americans died from covid every day last week. and experts say the majority of those deaths could have been prevented with vaccination. dr. anthony fauci says the vaccines also the best way to ensure happy and safe holiday season. he clarified some of his comments about the holidays to cnn. take a listen. >> the best way to assure that we'll be in good shape as we get into the winter would be to get more and more people vaccinated. that was misinterpreted as my saying we can't spend christmas with our families, which was absolutely not the case. i will be spending christmas with my family. i encourage people, particularly the vaccinated peo