in florida, rufus rochelle says he also remains hopeful. >> i'm not bitter.are so many rufus rochelles incarcerated that deserve their freedom. and they truly deserve a second chance. >> yang: a second chance that has come about from an otherwise devastating pandemic. for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang in micanopy, florida. >> woodruff: climate change experts in sicily are warning that rising sea waters are threating some of the island's most crucial heavy industrial plants. they also predict food shortage as crops wilt in withering heat. the island has endured record temperatures this summer. from sicily, special correspondent malcolm brabant reports. >> reporter: it's been a long hot sweltering day in sicily, and there's plenty of heat left in the sun as dusk approaches. this is avocado plantation in the foothills of etna, sicily's active volcano. avocados have been grown here for decades. one of the attractions for farmers like andrea passanis is that it is a tropical fruit, and should be able to withstand high temperatures. but this summer's extreme heat

rochelle walensky and we'll talking how the c.d.c. has the guidance and dr. waugh -- walensky, thank you for being here today. >> i'm happy to be here. >> let's dive in of you've inherited a difficult job at a difficult point in our history. tell us what the toughest parts of the job has been so far and what has surprised you the most? >> you know, i once had a wise mentor, who said if you're not afraid of your next job. perhaps the job isn't big enough. and when i came here, i was afraid of the job and it's been a daunting task in the middle of a pandemic. it's been hard, i inherited an agency that's full of people who have been working tirelessly for the last 18 months to protect public health. that is all doing much of their work remotely and getting to know the people who are doing that work has been hard. diving right in and recognizing so much of the future of the public and public health rising in the hands of this agency. and you know, i have taken on the task with work in hand with incredible people day and night, literally, to make sure the public i

rochelle walensky, mr. defazio: am i recognized? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. defazio: ok. thank you. i yield myself five minutes. americans are tired of potholes damaging their cars, failing bridges, trails that derail, water mains that explode, sewer systems that back up into their basements and pollute our rivers. more than 70% of americans strongly support a

rochelle walensky, we really appreciate you being here with us today. dr. walensky: thanks so much for having me. >> the house is in recess until 6:30 eastern. when they come back, we expect debate on the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that the senate passed last month with bipartisan support. house speaker nancy pelosi says the house will vote on that bill thursday when democrats also hope to have the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill ready to be considered on the floor. here on c-span, we'll take you to the house when they come back into session at 6:30 p.m. eastern. >> download c-span's new mobile app and stay up to date with lividio coverage of the day's biggest political events from live stream of the house and senate floor and key congressional hearings to white house events and supreme court oral arguments. even our live interactive morning program, "washington journal," where we hear your voices every day. c-span now has you covered. download the app for free today. >> you can be part of the national consideration by being part of student

director rochelle walensky for the right outcome.his is a reference to her decision to include frontline workers with a high risk of exposure among those who are now eligible to receive pfizer booster shots. along with adults with underlying conditions and those who are 65 and over. we go now to the c.d.c. director, dr. rochelle walensky. she is in newton, massachusetts. good morning to you. >> good morning, margaret. thanks for having me. >> brennan: so can you explain what made you side with the f.d.a. in saying people at high risk of exposure should be eligible to get this third dose when you're own advisory committee did not come to that consensus? and exactly who is high risk? >> great. so, first let me start by saying we still have 70 million americans who are unvaccinated in this country. and these are people who are 10 times the risk of being hospitalized, and 11 times more likely to die. so we have hard work in making sure we get those people vaccinated. but i'm here to talk about boosters, let's get to protecting people to

that could include rochelle. he is set to be released next july.s hfeels very much like a prisoner. >> yes, it's rufus rochelle. we're getting ready to go to the church center. >> he wears a monitor and must check in daily with his case manager and whenever he leaves his sister's house where he lives. >> being on home confinement onto the cares act is a sense of freedom. but i am not free. i cannot just go out there and say i am going to walk or drive to the store. >> he needs advanced permission to do that. or to go to volunteer at his church's food band -- food pantry. or to visit family, including his daughter antoinette who was born after he was incarcerated. >> i never spent one day with her outside of prison. not one single day. >> his sister gets emotional at the thought of him going back to prison. >> he did all his time. every night he wondered whether he would have to get up in the morning or go back up. it is just wearing down on all of us. >> he, on the other hand, is philosophical. what do you think that there is a possibility you may

rochelle walensky, and we will be talking about how the c.d.c. makes covid guidance. dr. walensky, thank you so much for being here. dr. walensky: thank you for having me, i am delighted to be here. katherine: you've clearly inherited an incredibly difficult job challenging place in history. tell me about the toughest part of the job and what has surprised you the most next. dr. walensky: i once had a mentor who said to me if you're not a little bit afraid if your next job perhaps the job isn't big enough so i took it out when i was here, i was a little afraid of the strap has been a daunting task in the middle of a pandemic. it's been hard, i inherited an agency both people's working tirelessly for the last 18 months to protect public health. it's all during their work remotely so getting to know the people doing that work has been hard diving in and recognizing so much of the public and public health and they hands of these -- this agency. i've taken on the task with that work in hand and a feeling of great gift of inheriting incredible people working every day and nigh

patel: round one, a, as -- as defined by cdc director rochelle walensky, some at risk roots -- groups should get a booster. others may get a booster. getting tricky with the wording there. b, underlying conditions for the booster consideration includes asthma, obesity, and being a former smoker. or is it c, the j&j vaccine vace booster increases after two months rather than longer. it should say increases the amount of antibodies. the j&j vaccine booster increases antibodies after two months or so then after longer, say six months. which one is not true? kristen: first avoca, my eyes -- first of all, my eyes are too old to read this at all. sorry, folks the fund is different today. -- sorry, folks. the font is different. dr. patel: you've got the viewers. it's all good. kristen: can i get confirmation from our director and producer that our facebook live feed is up? because i'm not seeing it. so obviously this may mean our viewers are not seeing it and cannot help me. that is one of my concerns. also i wanted to see because i was sending people there to ask questions for you. ok. so i

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rochelle walensky and dr.r. walensky, kids under 12, when is that vaccine coming? >> thank you so much so glad to be here with all of you. we're waiting for the companies to submit the data to the fda. we're anticipating that will happen in the fall we we will look at that data from the fda, from the cdc, with the urgency we all feel for by getting our kids vaccinated and we're hoping by the end of the year >> what is the hold up, though here we fast tracked a vaccine in nine months, which is incredible for the rest of us, but it seems to be taking longer for kids the kids are vulnerable. now we have the delta variant. are you frustrated by that is there any way to kind of push this along >> so we want to move quickly. we anticipate moving quickly but we also want to have the efficacy data and the safety data that fda will require so that we know as soon as it is available that it will be -- the science, the safety and efficacy to make sure it is the right thing for kids >> i know a lot of parents wonder, what

rochelle walensky overruling parts of an advisory panel's decision regarding booster shots paving the way for tens of millions of more americans to get inoculated. dr. walensky releasing a statement this morning, i believe we can best serve the nation's public health needs by providing booster doses for the elderly, those in long-term care facilities, people with underlying medical conditions and for adults at high risk of disease from occupational and institutional exposures to covid-19. >> this was the right move by cdc director walensky to look at the scenario and say, those people exposed to covid-19 on a daily basis such as those working in er deserve to have the eligibility to get boosters alongside a 20-year-old who may have asthma or be a smoker and work at home and never see covid-19. so, yes, it's a rare move but it was a necessary one. >> yes, this motion passed. >> reporter: thursday the panel voting to a third pfizer shot six months later to people 65 and over and those at high risk. a decision dr. walensky agrees with but the group originally voted against providing boos

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rochelle walensky now saying frontline workers, doctors, nurses, teachers are in fact eligible too. and tonight the question here -- what if you got the moderna shot or the johnson & johnson shot? can you get the pfizer booster? can you mix? what the fda is now saying about that. >>> and that moment on live tv today on "the view" just before vice president kamala harris was to join the table, two hosts learning their rapid tests before the show came back positive. both fully vaccinated, they left the studio and vice president harris staying in a separate room. and what the vice president said once she was on the show. >>> also this friday night, new reporting after the deadly supermarket shooting. they have now identified the gunman and his connection to that kroger store. and the harrowing stories of survival tonight. >>> the massive california wildfire exploding in size late today, and authorities arresting a woman, accusing her of starting the fire, threatening more than 9,000 structures, homes and businesses, using loudspeakers now to get families out. >>> on the texas border to

rochelle walensky. dr. walensky, thanks for being here.ott gottlieb talking about about the cdc and some of the shortcomings. i just want to, before we talk about everything else, get you to address that head on, about the fact that the cdc hasn't had in critics' minds its open data and statistics. have you been relying on israel and other places on big policy decisions that affect everybody. >> yeah, good evening, bret. it's great to be here. i, at this point in time reiterate the cdc is a very different place than it was four years ago. i do want to acknowledge though that dr. gottlieb is right in an important area and that is the cdc has not been resourced in order to accommodate a response of this magnitude and i say that with a decade, this past decade where we have had infectious threats like h1n1, ebola, zika and now covid-19 and during that last decade we have lost over 60,000 jobs. we have had data infrastructure that has not been interoperable among states and we have had weak lab capacity. what i really think is a key message fr

rochelle walensky.'ll join us live in just a few minutes to discuss all the questions regarding the pandemic, kids, and boosters and mandates. >>>e do have to begin with that deadly amtrak derailment in montana killing three and injuring 50 people. >> investigators have been dispatched and we're hearing new details this morning from witnesses. matt gutman is there on the scene in joplin, montana, with the very latest. good morning, matt. >> reporter: good morning, robin. what you're seeing behind me is basically a crime scene, the train itself has been left almost exactly as it was at the moment of the crash and that's because the ntsb needs to move quickly to preserve what it calls the perishable evidence, things like recorders and rail evidence to try to understand exactly what happened here. this morning, officials from the ntsb beginning to investigate what caused this train to derail, split apart, kill three people and injure over 50. that amtrak passenger train traveling from chicago to seattle, d

rochelle walensky added people whose jobs put them at high risk. you heard the president talk about it. teachers, health care staff, grocery store workers, adding them to the list of those recommended to get a third shot, along with folks over 65, many people with underlying conditions. we've got a lot to talk about. so let me bring in nbc news white house correspondent, monica alba, also with us, nbc news correspondent, heidi przybyla, and andy slavitt, former white house senior adviser for the nation's covid response. great to have all of you here. monica, these last 26, 27 minutes, showing just how much the president has on his plate right now, of major consequence in the middle of this ongoing pandemic. what's your takeaway? >> exactly, chris. and how much the president views these issues as intertwined. i thought most notably, as well, he did commit to getting his own booster shot. he said he doesn't know exactly what day he's going to be getting that, but he is far more than six months past his second dose. he and the first lady, actually, go

rochelle walensky about many of these questions.was part of a special forum hosted by research america, a biomedical advocacy group. >> desjardins: one of the items that is a major discussion for scientists and for you right now is the idea of booster shots. the biden administration is planning to roll out a major booster effort within just days. i wonder if you can tell us exactly who you think should be getting those booster shots, what the plan is right now. what does the data support here? how do you see this? >> we know that among the things that we need to do as we're planning a lot for booster shots is to really focus as well on the unvaccinated. so i really do want to highlight that while we are focusing on booster shots, we cannot take our eye off of making sure that people who are not yet vaccinated get vaccinated. so let's say that, but also turn to the importance of the data that we are going to need to collect to understand who and when booster shot should be given. we have we at c.d.c., i'm really pleased and proud to

rochelle walensky. great to have you.f people have a lot of questions, so if you'll bear with me, i would like to just walk through all of this because i follow this for a living and i feel a little confused. so first, i just want to talk about the process we saw play out, because i think that's part of the confusion. there's an advisory panel called akip, and they issue recommendations and then you can take them or leave them, i guess. what is the normal way of the process and why are these two steps? >> thank you, chris. so actually, we can back up a little bit more and say there's an advisory panel to the fda. that voted for the booster shot. there's the regulatory authorization they did on wednesday and the advisory committee on immunization the liberties and advises me who they believe the booster should be recommended for. that was the panel that met on wednesday and thursday. they're about four votes, and some of them were unanimous, and the one that i believe you're referring to was a split vote. >> okay. i don't

rochelle walensky first cnbc's valley castro outside a hospital in new york city what are you hearingm health care workers there >> reporter: many are on board, but some are still refusing. we're in front of bellevue hospital, one of the oldest hospitals in new york city more than 90% of doctors and nurses have at least one dose and are in compliance with the mandate that went into effect today. october 7th is the next big deadline that's when others should receive at least that first dose the department of labor says any workers who are terminated for refusing to get vaccinated are not eligible for unemployment insurance unless they have a medical exemption approved by a doctor the ceo of new york city health and hospitals, the largest health care system in the country say about 95% of nurses and about 98% of doctors are vaccinated as of today but about 5,000 employees out of a total of 43,000 are not vaccinated as of monday morning. >> even today, we are not putting people on leave. if people are not vaccinated, they're not going to get paid for today, but we're keeping lines of com

rochelle walensky says they will get to other vaccines soon.she had this message for those who got the j&j were moderna shots. >> we have not forgotten you. we will with similar urgency address boosters for those population as well as looking at the science and data for mix and matching. i want to reiterate this is a slow wave. there is no urgency for you to get your booster immediately. walk, don't run to your booster appointment and we will look at the data for moderna and j&j in short order. reggie: you can hear more you ca dr. wilensky on gma at 7:00 after abc7. jobina: a strong earthquake has hit degrees's fourth-largest city. the 6.0 earthquake struck the island of crete, killing one person and leaving severre youee a storefront in this video shaking. more than a dozen aftershocks reported, leaving homes and buildings damaged. developing news out of montana. authorities are trying to figure out what caused an amtrak train to go off the tracks, killing three people. it was on its way from chicago to seattle saturday when eight of the 10 ca

rochelle walensky says the focus is still on vaccinating the unvaccinated. more than 70 million americans have not received a first shot of the vaccine. >> i want to be clear, we will not boost our way out of this pandemic. infections among the unvaccinated continue to fuel this pandemic. >> reporter: walensky says the boosters offer added protection for breakthrough cases. abc's daytime talk show "the view" interrupting its broadcast. >> i need the two of you to step off for a second. >> okay. >> ana and sunny have to leave. >> and we're going to bring you back later. >> yes. >> reporter: pulling two hosts from the show after learning they tested positive for covid-19. >> they probably have a breakthrough case and they'll be okay, i'm sure, because they're both vaccinated. >> reporter: just moments before vice president kamala harris was to appear on the show for an in-person interview, taking extra precautions, that interview was then conducted with harris in another room inside the studio. navarro telling cnn she's since tested negative twice. >> both hav

you mentioned the cdc rochelle walensky voted on it. >> i would have voted yes.cision to allow the booster dose for those 18 and older at high risk of covid exposure and transmission because of occupational and institutional exposure. >> reporter: so with the pfizer booster shots being rolled out, you might be wondering what about moderna and j&j, what if i got one of those vaccines. the short answer is you have to wait a little longer. moderna has filed application for emergency use. we're still waiting for the ball to get rolling with j&j. health officials say the good news is both of those vaccines if you received them are still effective at this point. back to you. >> and, you know, kathy, there are strict mandates go into place starting monday. how are hospitals prepared with staffing shortages? >> reporter: yeah. so it's hospitals as well as schools, you know. they have this deadline coming up on monday to receive at least one dose of the vaccine. these are health care worker. a lot of hospitals have contingency plans in place. for example, they're holding

but yet, there was a joint statement made earlier in august from the cdc director, rochelle walensky,ting fda commissioner janet woodcock suggesting that come september 20th we would see boosters for the entire country. the problem is the authorities in the fda, the office for vaccine research and review, had not done their research and review of this issue. and this is what prompted the two officials, the director and the deputy director of that office to resign, and now this chaos. it's really unwelcome at this time. >> so is this a case of politics getting ahead of the science? because when rochelle walensky was named by this administration as being the next administrator of or director of cdc, that was supposed to be a mark of we're not going to do that where the white house dictates what the science will be, and now we have this. am i overstating that, or is that what happened here? >> i have enormous respect for dr. walensky. she has a very difficult job because there is a relentless political pressure to put this pandemic down, not just for politics, for all of the real persona

rochelle walensky will qualify up to 60 million americans for booster. adding front line workers, teachers, health care workers, for example. groups left out in a more narrow recommendation by a cdc advisory committee. that committee focussed instead on americans 65 and up and younger people at high risk from covid. it is a rare display of daylight between a cdc boss and an advisory panel that brings covid policy closer to president biden's aim of booster shots for all. miguel almaguer with what it means for you. >> reporter: as booster shots rolled out today, long lines in cities like san antonio. >> it was well worth it. >> i feel like i'm well protected. >> reporter: the pool of americans eligible suddenly expanded overnight in a rare, unexpected move, the cdc director breaking with guidance from the agency's own safety committee in addition to those 65 and up in long-term care facilities and with certain medical conditions, the cdc director deciding health care workers and others at high risk of catching will be eligible for a third dose of pfizer's

the cdc panel did not actually endorse that last category of frontline workers, but cdc director rochelle ahead and ignored that recommendation and expanded policy to include frontline workers. she said she was bringing cdc policy in line with an fda decision earlier this week that granted authorization, emergency authorization for all three categories. the problem here is that biden announced the plan for booster shots for everyone last month before federal regulators met to discuss the need for booster shots, you know, which, of course, turned out to be premature because only pfizer got the federal authorization, and the administration has faced some criticism here for getting ahead of the regulation process, especially as biden has vowed to follow the science in his pandemic response. and now there is some concern that this mixed messaging and this back and forth sort of undercuts some of that clarity that the american public is looking for on who gets a booster shot and who doesn't. >> yeah. everyone's got to get on the same page, that's for sure, to avoid the confusion. let me move o

. >> reporter: rochelle walensky says booster shots will help, but the main focus is the 70 million americans still unvaccinated. >> these are people ten times risk of being hospitalized and 11 times more likely to die. we have hard work in making sure we get those people vaccinated. >> reporter: michigan doctor matthew trunski, making a passionate plea on facebook. saying many deny having the virus until the very end. >> that's what i think the medical profession finds truly mind-boggling. people on their deathbed still holding out that we're wrong, that the vaccine doesn't work. that drugs that are not approved are the cure-all. and it's just not the science. it's just not the truth. >> reporter: governor hochul says she's prepared to declare a state of emergency and bring licensed medical care workers in from out of state and even deploy medically-trained national guard members to where they might be needed. it is important to point out that the overwhelming number of health care workers and teachers are vaccinated. phil lipoff, abc news, new york. >> phil, thank you. >>> with halloween ar

here's what cdc director rochelle walensky said a short time ago. >> we're evaluating this science inwe're meeting, you know, every several weeks now to evaluate the science. the science may very well show that the rest of the population needs to be boosted, and we will provide those guidances as soon as we have the science to inform them. >> let's bring in dr. scott gottlieb, former fda commissioner, cnbc contributor, and author of the powerful new book "uncontrolled spread, why covid-19 crushed us and how we can defeat the next pandemic." dr. gottlieb, thank you for joining me, sir. i want to get to your response to the cdc director rochelle walensky, given the evidence you have seen, is a booster shot absolutely necessary at this point? what do you make of the eligibility pool that's been widened for the third dose? >> i also sit on the board of pfizer, as you know. i think the evidence is clear for older individuals there's a decline in vaccine efficacy over time, particularly for people who are vaccinated a long interval again. the advisory came that people over the age of 65 sho

and the cdc director rochelle walensky is also my guest. talking about her decision to leaving the set today pause of positive covid tests. >>> plus, the manhunt for brian laundrie. what does his family know? and are they sharing it all with police? let's go outfront. good evening. i'm erin burnett. out front, tonight, biden still won the 2020 election. maricopa county in arizona, which was run entirely by trump allies has come to the same conclusion every other review has that joe biden won and donald trump did not. in fact, this review which started five months ago and cost $6 $6.1 million, including half a million dollars in tax payer money, found that biden won by an even larger margin than previously thought. so you would think this would be the end of these trump-backed sham audits, right? this would be -- let's just move on here. sort of, you know, pretend this didn't all happen but it's not. moments after a draft of that report came out today, trump issued a statement saying, quote, the audit has uncovered significant and undeniable

kristen: do you think there is a chance cdc director rochelle walensky will allow boosters as a matter of course in people in high-risk workplaces, even though today the cdc committee did not decide on that? can they deviate from that course? dr. gandi: she can't. it is extremely rare. i don't remember a case when they haven't listened to their committee. i think that would be the same with the cdc advisory committee. i very much doubt that she will, actually. but if you are a high risk but have a medical condition, you can go right back to the former for terry for 18-49 and get it. kristen: brandi wants to know, if you got johnson & johnson, can i get a pfizer booster? dr. gandi: this committee did not weigh in on that. there were supposed to be a meeting to weigh in on that, but i would say a lot of johnson & johnson people are going to get a pfizer jab. and i think that is great. the johnson & johnson data in the cdc article showed a 71% protection against johnson & johnson from hospitalization, that is the lowest. so everyone is looking at johnson & johnson data. johnson & johnson

rochelle walensky signed off on recommendations made by a panel of advisers. it offers a new round of protection against a virus that's killed more than 684,000 americans. here's who is eligible for a third dose -- people over the age of 65, nursing home residents, and people ages 18 to 64 with underlying medical conditions. walensky added a recommendation saying people over 18 who have a job where they might be exposed, for example health care workers, can get a booster, as well. you have to wait six months from your last pfizer dose. health officials are still working on booster data for moderna and johnson & johnson vaccines. >>> now to a mass shooting at a tennessee grocery store where a gunman killed one person and wounded at least a dozen others. it happened at a kroger store just outside the memphis yesterday afternoon. police say the shooter took his own life. law enforcement sources tell cbs news he may have been a disgruntled employee. bradley blackburn has the latest on the investigation. good morning. >> reporter: diane, good morning. this story's

rochelle walensky says she understands the anxiety as the mom of a 12th grader. >> my kid is going back, and i think his school is going to be safe i really do. >> reporter: a lot of parents of younger kids under 12 who can't get the vaccine are exceptionally concerned. should they be >> i think the best thing we can do to protect our younger children is to get vaccinated ourselves then in the school environment to ensure universal masking, ventilation, cohorting, screening strategies. >> reporter: crystal reed is active with her school's pta, hopeful this school year will be better than the last. kate snow, nbc news. >> we thank kate for that >>> when we come back, inspiring america. she lost nearly everything, but not the will to win. one paralympian's incredible journey to gold >>> inspiring america tonight, the comeback story you haven't heard. u.s. swimmer morgan stickney pulling off a stunning win at the paralympics, overcoming one challenge after another on her way to tokyo. >> she's inching up there. >> reporter: one lap to go in the 400 meter freestyle, morgan stickney trailing

director rochelle walensky said people who didn't get a shot should avoid traveling.fully vaccinated and wear masks can celebrate. she recommended spending time outdoors with other vaccinated family members and encouraged everyone to mask up when indoors. her remarks come as covid cases spike due to the highly contagious delta variant. >>> walgreens employees are set to get more green. the drug store chain announced its new starting pay for all hourly employees will be $15 an hour. walgreens is making the move to recognize the critical role team members play in serving customers, patients, and communities. the company will begin phasing in the new hourly wage next month. the policy is expected to roll out across the country by next november. >>> and cheese lovers, get excited. kraft is bringing back its mac and cheese ice cream which debuted earlier this summer. it was a big seller with 6,000 pints selling out on line within an hour. kraft is teaming up with van leeuwen ice cream again to bring you more of the cheesy, creamy goodness while supplies last. anne-marie? >

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rochelle walensky now saying frontline workers, doctors, nurses, teachers are in fact eligible too.moderna shot or the johnson & johnson shot? can you get the pfizer booster? can you mix? what the fda is now saying about that. >>> and that moment on live tv today on "the view" just before vice president kamala harris was

rochelle walensky saying a vaccine for kids under 12 could come by the end of the year. >> it requires important long-term safety data to make sure we're giving the right vaccine to the right kids. >> reporter: and with all eyes on possible vaccine boosters, officials have said older americans and healthcare workers could be first in line if they are approved, michael. >> and, stephanie, there's been some disagreement among experts on whether booster shots should be authorized, so what's the latest on that? >> reporter: so, the fda says that even though two of their top vaccine regulators have argued that widespread boosters are premature, the fda says that is not their position. they say they are pointing to evidence that shows that the vaccine is still highly effective against severe illness, michael. >> all right, stephanie, thank you, as always. george. >>> we're going to go to california now and today's recall election for governor gavin newsom. president biden closed out the campaign for newsom last night as newsom fights to keep his job, keep democrats in control of america's la

rochelle walensky, and we will be talking about how the c.d.c. makes covid guidance. dr. walensky, thank you so much for being here.

rochelle walensky, you know her as the director of the centers for disease control, the c.d.c. and also the mother of three sons including a high school senior right now. and miguel cardona the secretary of education and also a father of two teenagers. they're both with me now. welcome, thank you, guys. >> i should say thank you, director. >> nice to be with you. glad to be with you. >> we just heard parents are worried. vaccinated parents are consistently more worried than unvaccinated parents according to the data that you collected. but the key thing that i pulled away was that -- and we said this only 26%, about a quarter of parents feel comfortable sending their kids for in-person learning and the rest prefer a hybrid or a virtual situation. dr. walensky the c.d.c. has said kids should be back in school in person. do you know something that all those parents don't know or what's the rationale? >> you know, kate, first of all, thanks for having me. i can appreciate the anxiety. it has been a long year and a half. and we have a lot of cases and a lot of community transmissio

rochelle walensky said that as soon as the cdc panel decides how that roll out should go, she will be ready to make sure the shots are available as early as the end of the week. >> we remain committed to continuing our robust efforts to vaccinate as many people as possible here in america and around the world. and to continue to support and disseminate the public health interventions we know best. >> even before the cdc meeting got under way the governor's office said california is ready. the state plan is to enable a booster eligibility tool through my turn.ca.gov so people can see if they fit the criteria. we did this when we first started becoming eligible for the vaccine. that is also where people can make appointments. the state will also send text alerts to people as they become eligible so they know and the state is allowing providers to order extra doses of the pfizer vaccine so they can be ready to administer the boosters along with continuing to vaccinate all other eligible populations. bear in mind this booster talk only relates to the pfizer vaccine. neither of moderna nor

rochelle walensky is expected to lay out the full guidelines by the end of the week. >> ike ejiochi in washington, thank you. >>> and covid isn't the only concern as we head into the winter season. the former head of the fda is warning the flu season could be a, quote, whopper. he says because we didn't see a flu season last year, our immunity is low, and he says when the flu does return, it will come back aggressively. >>> president biden's approval rating has hit a new low as he faces a series of growing challenges. a new gallup poll shows 53% of americans now disapprove of the job that he's doing. those sinking numbers come as the president scrambles to unite democrats engaged in party in-fighting that could derail his agenda. he spent most of wednesday on the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill and $3.5 trillion spending package aimed at improving social programs. meanwhile, a government shutdown is looming with funding set to run out one week from today unless a deal can be reached. >>> now to the crisis on the southern border. the biden administration responding overnight

the cdc director dr rochelle walensky agreed with most of the panel's recommendations, but she took a very rare step and disregarded the advisory panel's vote on that one key group, she said front line workers such as health care providers. should be allowed to get booster shots and in a statement tonight, she explained, quote as cdc director. it is my job to recognize where our actions can have the greatest impact. we must take actions that we anticipate will do the greatest good. the city six advisory panel said data showing waning protection among older adults prompted their decision on thursday, the panel said the fighter booster should be made available for people 65 older people in nursing homes and those 18 to 64 with health problems that put them at high risk for covid-19. in california about 6.5 million people are 65 or older, and the state's health secretary says they're prepared to start boosters once the cdc guidelines come out for the 18 to 64 high risk group. we could see roughly 170 anywhere up to 250,000 californians in these. different categories coming forward to get

we want to have a very good domestic economy so bush knew that, so he sided with in that instance rochelle and cheney wanted a war at best. they wanted a cold war. they wanted to open relations with taiwan in a significant way and tried to do so. so you got a good point later on though powell has lost some of his ability to influence the president. not only because it's not china issue, it's something else, but also because rove and cheney were working on the all along sir repetitious. li, as well as alone in the office to ensure that he really power was potentially the most powerful candidate in 2004 and contest his 2nd term. and this was not something the president forgot. study this with every president since war war 2. and it is stunning to my students when they find out how domestic politics and particularly the president's desire to be successful. influences faithful decision making, where boys and girls die in conflict overseas l. b, j is decision, and $65.00 to go the rope. the road in vietnam and go 250-0000 troops. is a good cation point. a lot of people don't believe domestic po

cdc director doctor rochelle walensky encourage those who are pregnant to talk with their health care providers. >> about the protective benefits of the vaccine to keep their babies and themselves safe in san jose. rob fladeboe kron 4 news. in san mateo county, a car involved in a fatal crash 2 weeks ago has been removed from a beach near pacifica. >> police say san francisco resident 73 year-old anthony colonnese ii junior for unknown reasons drove his vehicle off a cliff. he died in that accident as cars remain on the beach. cent cent. this afternoon. a 2 man team repel down the cliff and then attached a tow truck cable to the vehicle. it was and slowly pulled up the cliff to the roadway work, took several hours to complete. they estimate that the car was at least 250 yards below highway one. the chp says removing the vehicles important for a couple of reasons. first, they didn't want to leave it down there permanently for environmental reasons. and secondly, the highway patrol is still investigating. why colin is see drove off the roadway. >> well, let's check on our 4 zone forecas

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