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. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: it is all but certain that there will be no government shutdown tonight: a bill extending funding for two months is headed to president biden, after clearing congress this afternoon. still, for the white house and congressional democrats, the pressure isn't over. for much of today, it wasn't certain whether the u.s. house would vote on a $1 trillion infrastructure bill tonight as on a $1 trillion infrastructure bill, tonight, as speaker nancy pelosi had promised. our own lisa desjardins and yamiche alcindor have been following all the twists and turns in this story today, and they join me now. first of all, lisa, you're wearing an eye patch. you hurt your eye. are you all right. >> desjardins: you noticed, of course. yes, i'm fine. no one in congress is responsible for this. it was my own fault. i was rushing. i was thinking about something intensely, and actually pulled a car door into my face. bu

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. ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions toation from viewers like you. thank you. judy: today brought a moment to take stock of two decades in afghanistan. president biden address to the nation to mark the end of america's longest war. he again forcefully defended the decision to withdraw, claimed a messy exit was inevitable, and praised of the sacrifice of service members and their families. yamiche alcindor begins our coverage. yamiche: at the white house, president biden marked bringing america's longest war to an end. >> the w in afghanistan is now over. i am the fourth presidentho has faced at the issue of whether and when to end this war. when i was running for president, i made a commitment to the american people that i would end this war. today, i've honor that commitment. yamiche: after facing fierce criticism, the president defendedis decision to withdraw u.s. troops from afghanistan after 20 years of fighting. >> there is no evacuation from the end of a war that you can run without the kinds of complexities, challen

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this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to yourbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> i'm vanessa ruiz in for stephanie sy, we'll return to the full program after the latest headlines. the nation's largest public school district has opened for in-person classes. about one million students in new york city returned to school today. there's no option for remote learning, and nearly all staff must be vaccinated or tested weekly. mayor bill de blasio greeted students and parents in the bronx this morning, and he insisted ty'll be safe. >> kids coming to school today all across this city are going to experience a gold standard of health and safety measures, and as everyone knows, the coming days, every single adult in our schools is going to be vaccinated. >> meanwhile, florida governor ron desantis threatened to fine local governments that force employees to get vaccinated. plus, a federal judge in iowa blocked a state law that bars schools from mandating masks for students and staff. and, in washington, hospital officials say

. ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions tos station from viewers like you. thank you. judy: president biden today deliver his first speech to the united nations as part of the annual general assembly. most world leaders are back -- last year'largely virtual event. mr. biden touted diplomacy and the endurance of democracy as he faces tensions with old allies and global challenges like covid and climate change. nick: in the largest international summit in two yea rs, president biden said he was launching a new era of american diplomacy. >> i stand here for the first time in 20 years with united states not at war. as we look ahead, the challenges of our time from covid to climate and human dignity and human rights but we will not go alone. nick: the president tried to reassure that american democracy was reliable. pres. biden: may seek to proclaim the end of the age of democracy but they are wrong. the truth is the democratic world is everywhere. democracy is the best to we have to unleash our full human potential. nick: but toda

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. ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and contributions to yourtion from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ judy: -- stephanie: we return to the full show after the latest lead lines. the daily covid-19 death toll has reached roughly 2600 americans for two days in a row, the most since early march. idaho today imposed health care rationing statewide. it has one of the nation's lowest vaccination rates. two dozen republican attorneys general warned they will sue to block president biden's vaccination mandates. new jobless claims rose last week in a sign that layoffs are tracking with spreading covid infections, claims for benefits were up 20,000 to 322,000. the four-week average of new claims fell for the fifth week in a row. the french government expressed anger today over a new u.s. defense pact with australia and the united kingdom. australia will scrap a $40 billion contract for conventionally powered submarines from france in favor of nuclear powered subs from the u.s.. paris called it a stab in the back. secretary of state antony blinken responde

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to yourtation from viewers like you. thank you. judy: no electricity, no water, no air conditioning, and a shortage of gasoline. that is what hundreds of thousands of residents of southeast louisiana are still racing tonight, three days after hurricane ida leveled much of the area. and what president biden will see for himself when he visits on friday. more than a million are without power, and there are at least seven storm-related deaths across three states. our "newshour" communities reporter, who is based in new orleans, begins our coverage. >> i have never seen this place like this. never. >> here lies the twisted pilot debris, the neighborhood he has lived on for 35 years is in shambles. >> i grew up through hurricane andrew is a little boy, and this right here was just, like, wow. >> he had planned on hunkering down in his trailer when hurricane ida made landfall sunday, but he had to take cover before his home collapsed around him. his town in lafourche parish taking a direct hit from

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting.y contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: president biden today delivered his first speech to the united nations as part of its annual general assembly. most world leaders are back in person this year, after last year's largely virtual event. mr. biden touted diplomacy and the endurance of democracy, as he faces tensions with old allies, and global challenges like covid and climate change. nick schifrin is in new york tonight. >> schifrin: in the largest international summit in two years, president biden said he was launching a new era of american diplomacy. >> i stand here for the first time in 20 years, the united states not at war. as we look ahead, we will lead, on all the greatest challenges of our time: from covid to climate, peace and security, human dignity and human rights. but we will not go it alone. >> schifrin: and the president tried to reassure a skeptical world that american democracy was reliable. >> the authoritarians of the wo

this program possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs stationewers like you. thank you. judy: the death toll from ida grew today and first responders in some places went door to door to draw up lists of the missing. at least 49 people were killed in five states in the northeast, including at least 25 in the state of new jersey. president biden traveled to louisiana today to see the devastation from ida, which first hit the gulf coast as a hurricane nearly a week ago. about 816,000 people in the region without power and many without water. but hopes grew for resring some of that next week. roby chavez, our communities correspondent in new orleans, begins with this report. roby: tens of thousands of people across the northeast are without power as many start to recover from the path of death and destruction left behind from hurricane ida. the death toll was the highest in new jersey, where most drowned after being trapped in their cars. before andfter satellite images from across the state show how catastrophic the flooding is. the focus now, reco

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting.y contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> yang: president biden is firing back at republican critics of covid vaccine mandates for most american workers. some g.o.p. governors are threatening to file lawsuits over the issue. this morning, while visiting a school in washington, the president told his opponents to "have at it." >> i am so disappointed that particularly some republican governors have been so cavalier about the health of these kids, so cavalier with the health of their communities. this is-- we're playing for real here. this isn't a game. >> yang: florida governor ron desantis is one of the republicans opposing the president's policy. he attacked it today, in ponte vedra beach. >> when you have a president like biden issuing unconstitutional edicts against the american people, we have a responsibility to stand up for the constitution and to fight back. and we are doing that in the state of florida. >> yang: desantis won a round today in a rel

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to yourbs station from viewers like you. thank you. judy: the crisis on the u.s. southern border deepens tonight. thousands of haitian migrants who descended on the town of del rio, texas are now being deported. thousands remain encamped under a bridge in dire conditions. and most of those sent home return to a chaotic haiti, reeling from one disaster after another. there are also major developments in congress, touching on the fate of u.s. immigration policy more broadly. yamiche alcindor begins with the situation in del rio. yamiche: today, homeland security secretary saw firsthand the tense situation. he pledged to continue immigration enforcement while dealing with the migrant's humanitarian needs. >> it is extradinarily challenging. it is very heartbreaking. we are surging resources not only to ensure the security of this area and the community, but also the well-being of the migrants themselves. yamiche: in recent days a crowd of migrants swelled to more than 14,000. they sheltered unde

. ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions tor pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. judy: democrats in the u.s. house of representatives are huddling tonight behind closed doors as their caucus remains divided over how to advance two major pieces of president biden's agenda. house speaker nancy pelosi promised a vote later this week on an infrastructure bill. but some members of her party are holding out, seeking more progress on a separate, larger bill that focuses on child care, health care, housing, climate, and more. lisa desjardins and yamiche alcindor have been covering this story from both ends of pennsylvania avenue and they join me now. lisa to you first, right now, where does everything stand with these two major pieces of legislation? sa: right now, the house speaker is meeting with her democrats. i passed several of them going to the meeting. this is a critical meeting teeing up the rest of the week. let me remind people of the to do list. the very tricky to do list. the first thing they have to do, probably

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to yourtation from viewers like you. thank you. judy: the biden administration today announced a new step to try to ease the massive global inequity around access to life-saving covid vaccines. the president announced that the u.s. would purchase an additional 500 million doses from pfizer, and donate it to other nations. >> it brings our total commitment of donated vaccines to over 1.1 billion vaccines to be donated. put another way, for every one shot we've administered to date in america, we've now committed to do three shots to the rest of the world. as we do so, we should unite around the world on a few principles -- that we commit to donating, not selling, donating, not selling, doses to low and lower income countries. and that those donations come with no political strings attached. judy: now we turn to william brangham who has more on this, and on several other pandemic developments. william: that's right. there is so much going on with the pandemic, including their i say some actual

ongoing support of these institutions: >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcastingby contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: this evening at the white house, president biden, joined by the prime ministers of the united kingdom and australia, announced a new partnership in the indo-pacific region. chief among the announcements: an effort to build nuclear-powered submarines for australia. the one issue not mentioned by the three leaders, but clearly driving this move: a rising china. our foreign affairs correspondent nick schifrin is here with me now. and, nick, tell us what it was that the president and the two prime ministers announced. >> reporter: this is what they called a landmark defense and security partnership known as aukus, australia, u.k., u.s. this is about sharing technology, sharing defense industries and cooperating militarily. they talked about defending shared interests but as you just said, they didn't mention china. but this is about defending shared interests against a rising china. take a listen to preside

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting.y contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: major pieces of president biden's ambitious domestic agenda are at risk tonight amid infighting among members of his own democratic party. hanging in the balance: the bipartisan infrastructure bill, and his $3.5 trillion spending package to address health care, child care, the environment, and more. the president spoke about the status of negotiations earlier today. >> we're at this stalemate at the moment. and we're going to have to get these two pieces of legislation passed. both need to be passed >> woodruff: and amna nawaz joins me now. so, amna, tell us more about the stalemate the president is referring to. >> reporter: it's a big acknowledge buhe's been building his language towards this and it's indicative of where they are now. talking about two major bills central to the president's economic agenda, the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill, they are

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> nawaz: "strategic failure." that is the assessment of the chairman of the joint chiefs, general mark milley, on the end of america's 20-year war in afghanistan. but he recommended that the president keep troops in afghanistan, and the president rejected that. milley, secretary of defense lloyd austin, and general frank mckenzie, who runs u.s. central command, all appeared before the senate armed services committee today. nick schifrin has e story. >> schifrin: in the senate committee responsible for military oversight, the military's leaders today said that earlier this year, after 20 years of war in afghanistan, they advised it was not time to withdraw. central command chief general frank mckenzie: >> 2,500 was an appropriate number to remain, and if we went below that number, we would probably witness the collapse of the afghan government, and the afghan military. >> schifrin: that refutes president biden'

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the covid crisis is casting new shadows tonight. the virus has killed roughly 2,600 americans for two days running, the most since early march. meanwhile, idaho today imposed health care rationing statewide. it has one of the nation's lowest vaccination rates. and, two dozen republican atorneys general warned they will sue to block president biden's vaccination mandates. new jobless claims rose last week, in a sign that lay-offs increased as covid infections kept spreading. claims for benefits were up 20,000, to 322,000. still, the four-week average of new claims fell for the fifth week in a row. france was furious today over a new defense pact with australia and the united kingdom. it's because australia will scrap a $40 billion contract for conventional submarines from france, in favor of nuclear subs from the u.s.. paris called it a "stab in the back." in washington, secretary of state blinken r

th program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to youron from viewers like you. thank you. amna: a key advisory committee of the food and drug administration overwhelmingly rejected vaccine boosters for the general u.s. population for now. but it voted unanimously in favor of giving boosters to those 65 and older -- and high risk individuals. the recommendations mark a pivotal moment in the debate around boosters. president biden and other federal health officials had originally said they believed boosters would be available to the general public later this month. while today's vote is not binding for the fda or the cdc, it is a big blow to the president's original plans. william brangham has been monitoring the committee's deliberations and joins me now. it's good to see you. >> hi. >> of the panel weighs a bunch of evidence, they decide know for general boosters for everyone. older americans,igh-risk individuals, yes for now. what was the evidence they looked at? >> the evidence they heard was mixed. again, as you mentioned of the begin

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the effort to vaccinate millions of americans against covid-19 is moving toward a new phase tonight. an advisory panel for the centers for disease control and prevention today recommended booster shots of the pfizer vaccine for people 65 and older, nursing home residents, and those between 50 and 64 years old with underlying health issues. amna nawaz has more. >>az: judy, the c.d.c. panel also said boosters can be recommending a third shot for those considered high risk because of occupational setting. this all comes after the f.d.a. last night granted emergency use of pfizer boosters for vulnerable populations. for perspective on all this, i'm joined by kirsten bibbins- domingo. she is a physician, epidemiologist and professor at the university of california, san francisco. dr. bibbins-domingo, welcome back to the newshour. thanks for making the time. so the c.d.c. panel recommends this pfizer boo

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: cities on the east coast are grappling with the devastating impact of ida tonight. the storm system inundated communities with historic flooding, tornadoes and shut down transportation. at least 40 more deaths have been linked to the storm system since it struck with new fury yesterday, a dozen of those in new york city. in louisiana, state officials say there were four more deaths of nursing home residents who were evacuated before hurricane ida first hit. state officials were turned away from inspecting the facility where they were evacuated to more than 800,000 remain without power four days after ida first landed as a hurricane. roby chavez, the newshour's communities correspondent in new orleans, has our report. >> oh my god, this is terrib. >> reporter: remnants from hurricane “ida” brought historic and catastrophic flooding across the northeast. the tional weather service office in new york

ongoing support of these institutions: >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcastingby contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the world health organization demanded today that rich nations hold off giving covid-19 booster shots until next year at the earliest. the agency's head had already called for a moratorium through this month. today, he said that appeal has been ignored, despite severe vaccine shortages in poor countries. >> we have been calling for vaccine equity from the beginning, not after the richest countries have been taken care of. i will not stay silent when the companies and countries that control the global supply of vaccines think the worlds poor should be satisfied with leftovers. >> woodruff: also today, the global vaccine alliance covax lowered its target for shipping doses to needy nations, for the second time. the new goal is 1.4 billion doses this year. it started at two billion. the city of new orleans has lifted the overnight curfew imposed after hurricane "ida" struck, 10 days ago. today's announceme

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. anby contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> yang: new jersey, new york and other northeastern states are still cleaning up from the aftermath of the ida storm system. at least 50 deaths from virginia to massachusetts have been linked with the storm. in louisiana, at least 13 deaths are blamed on ida. power has been restored to 70 percent of the greater new orleans area. but hundreds of thousands are still without, especially along the coast which took a direct hit. and the threat of more flooding from new rain and thunderstorms in the region are complicating efforts. our report from roby chavez, the newshour's communities correspondt in new orleans. >> reporter: in lambertville, new jersey, bulldozers cleaned up once-in-a-lifetime damage wrought by hurricane “ida”. >> this is a big deal for the city of lambertville. we've never experienced a natural disaster like this before. >> reporter: for governor phil murphy, the next storm was already front of min

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: stunning new revelations tonight about how concerned the nation's top military officer was by former president donald trump's behaviors and actions around last year's election, and the january insurrection. they come from a yet-to-be- released book by bob woodward and robert costa of the "washington post." and they raise serious questions about the end of the trump administration; the perception of the former president's fitness for the job; and civil- military relations. here to explore all of this are white house correspondent yamiche alcindor and foreign affairs and defense correspondent nick schifrin. so, nick, to you first, what steps have you learned that the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, jr. mark milley, took around the time of the election? >> in january, chairman chief of staff called his counterpath, chung, a picture of thein beijing years before. what i'm about to report is from