stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. >> thanks for watching. >>> hi, there, i'm stephanie ruhle, live at msnbc headquarters here in new york city. it's monday, may 3rd, let's get smarter w his first 100 days behind him, president biden kicking off a make-or-break month for his sweeping economic plans trying to give negotiations with republicans some time to work but making it very clear, those talks will no go on forever. as we speak, president biden leaving the white house, headed to virginia to pitch his agenda again, his third stop in the last five days. meanwhile in d.c., there's appears to be some actual progress towards bipartisanship. the white house has been in regular contact with republicans and democrats. 415 phone calls to date along with two dozen senate and house level briefings. so far cabinet members personally lobbied more than 60 members of congress. key republicans, including shelley moore capito, have been invited to the white house, possibly coming there in days. and a meeting with leaders from both parties is set for wednesday. >> look, the president

stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. >>> hi, there, i'm stephanie ruhle. it is friday, may 28th, memorial day weekend is upon us. and here's what's happening now. as we come on the air, the senate is back in session, soon set to take up the january 6th commission vote. as gaveling out just a few hours ago in the middle of the night, republicans still seem set on blocking it, despite pleas from officer brian sicknick's family to back it. >>> and breaking news overnight about those russian hackers behind that massive solar winds hack. guess what? they're still at it and targeting 150 u.s. government agencies. >>> and the rails, beaches and skies will be packed this weekend. the first holiday weekend with half of americans vaccinated. we're covering all of that with our reporters coast to coast. >>> but i want to start in washington, d.c., sahil kippur on capitol hill, yamiche alcindor, white house correspondent for "pbs newshour" and "washington week." and carol leon ig, her new book just came out, "the rise and fall of the secret service." let's start with

stephanie? let's turn to the fight against coronavirus, and big steps forward as we try to put this pandemic behind us. on yesterday the average number of new cases dropped to their lowest levels since september. there were no covid deaths reported in the state of iowa, just two in arizona and just one right here in my home state of new jersey. the positive trends are leading states to rethink mask mandates. ohio's governor said he will drop the mandate june 2. california's governor suggested he will loosen mask rules starting on june 15th. and finally, it is official, on wednesday, the cdc formally endorsed the pfizer for kids between the ages 12 and 15. those kids can start getting vaccinated today. nbc's sam brock is following that part of the story from miami. sam, the vaccine is ready. does that mean kids and parents are ready to take it? i can promise you, there's two in my house who are. >> right, so you fall on one side of it, stephanie. i can tell you, that's a great question. there are

in a word or sentence if possible, starting with stephanie. what is the word or subject that investigators asked most about? >> follow the money. if you follow the money, you will get your answers. people need to start following the money. >> jennifer? jennifer? >> taxes. tax fraud. tax evasion. what was compensated, what was gifted? what are their actual real estate? >> taxes. >> over the park, taxes. >> allen weisselberg. >> which is an interesting answer, not a complete surprise, but each of you identifying different areas of intrigue. the second question is related, do you have a sense in your own view of who may have the most criminal exposure here? would it be the people involved in signing checks like staff? would it be potentially former president trump himself? who has the most exposure in a word or sentence, stephanie? >> word or sentence, this is a very insular group. i think if one goes, they all go. >> jennifer? >> so the trifecta for me that i know is allen, donald and barry weitzeil. >> michael? >> all of them. each and every on

>> good morning, stephanie. back in january the trump state department on its way out the door put out a fact sheet where they said the u.s. had determined several researchers at this wuhan institute of virology became sick with covid-like symptoms. but that was dismissed at the time because it was the trump administration but it was, in fact, u.s. intelligence. and this intelligence report specifically identified three researchers who sought treatment in the hospital in november 2019 before the pandemic exploded in wuhan. we don't believe the u.s. knows if they were sick with covid, and we may never know. what this does do, stephanie, is contradicts the scientists running that lab who said flatly none of her workers got sick. and it's part of a pattern of what u.s. officials say is obfuscation and looking at another part of this picture, that it could be an accidental release from a lab. after years of searching, they have not found a animal-to-human vector, a natural occurrence of this virus going from animal

stephanie: i love that.at intrigued the films director, minna dufton, and in the interest of research, she learned it to serve small waves. minna: a lot of the film is about big feelings -- stephanie: is that what you are going for with the title? minna: joana is tiny and the wave is rather huge and i've always been drawn to opposites. i found it so interesting how to figure out what is big and what is small in us humans. stephanie: the story is as much about surfing as it is about the mental strength and mindset it takes to conquer these waves, particularly when you have a profound fear of drowning as joana does. joana: of course i am afraid to drown, but i keep going there because i want to know why i am so afraid to drown. stephanie: you are trying to explore your fear through surfing. joana: yeah, yeah. minna: i was lucky enough to know just the woman that could help joana facer fear of drowning. >> oh my gosh, this is going to be our swimming pool today. stephanie: johanna nordblad is one of the world's

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>> stephanie, good morning.tom pointed out, these have been generally speaking mild cases when they happened, less than 20. and stephanie, tens of millions of children have gotten at least one dose. we have to keep in mind mied owe card itis happens, 10 to 15 cases for every 100,000 individuals. this is invoktive of the johnson & johnson blood clotting issue. yes, there might be a rare side effect but it's occurring less than the background rate, the rare this event occurs anyway by chance in the population. we have to keep an eye out but overall not concerned. great to see the reporting for adverse events is working. >> let's talk about vaccine numbers. we know this. president biden wants 70% of u.s. adults to get at least one shot by the fourth of july. here's the thing, nine states are already there. we love that news. but almost all of them are in the northeast. what's going on with the rest of the country, specifically the southeast? >> stephanie, this is something to be mindful of come the fall/winter. not

stephanie link, i come to you first.that steve weiss gushes about so much, he just loves the job brian moynihan is doing almost as much as the job brian cornell, pete says, has done at target what do i do though now for real, all jokes aside? the stock is up a lot, all right. has it run its course? >> well, i mean all of the banks have risen quite a bit, right? i mean i own not only this one, but wells fargo, which is up 49% on the year and prughdential whc has lagged only 29% of the year. those three i like a lot i still own morgan stanley as well they've done a great job bank of america of still up, he is buying back a ton of stock. it basically yields about 1.8% it is going up over time i just like the diversification. they reported a very good quarter underneath the surface securities rose 25% year over year investment banking rose 62% year over year and up 20% sequentially trading was very strong and credit cards did very well so, yeah, obviously there's pricing at a lot of good news up here, but, again, 1.4 times b

stephanie: i'm stephanie sy newshour west. return to judy woodruff and the full show after the latest headlines. president biden ordered u.s. intelligence agencies to redouble efforts aimed at pinpointing the origins of covid-19. he asked for findings in 90 days, and pressed china to cooperate, amid fresh reports that the virus might have escaped from a chinese lab. at a white house briefing, spokeswoman karine jean-pierre said it's vital to get answers. >> we need to get to the bottom of this. as we all know, we've lost almost 600,000 americans to covid-19 and we have to get a better sense of the origin of covid-19 and also how do we prevent the next pandemic. stephanie: jean-pierre also made a bit of history at that session. she is the first openly gay woman, and the first black person in 30 years, to deliver the daily white house briefing. a court in the netherlands has issued a landmark climate ruling. it ordered the oil and gas company royal dutch shell to cut carbon emiions by a net 45% by 2030. the court found shell's c

stephanie? >> doctor, let's talk about that, those kids, half the size of adults, it's not a concern it's too much on their bodies? especially that second vaccine, it can knock you out. >> it is a very strong vaccine but in general the vaccine has been shown to be very, very safe for all age groups that has been trialed at this point. i don't think we have a huge concern it's really going to be harmful at all but certainly people should be ready for their children to potentially be feeling the side effects of it, meaning some minor, almost flu-like side effects for a day after each of the doses. >> you know, we often hear oh, kids don't get really sick but that's not the case. explain why such -- why this is such a big deal, because a lot of the new cases out there right now are young children. >> yes, so children can still spread this virus. for the good of the entire community, meaning all age classes, it's very important for us to continue working to get as many people across the country vacc

>> stephanie doing to go first? with adrienne i had the advantage of a little bit of biographical information paired her daughter had written a biography of her and she had written a little bit of biographical information about herself while trying to document her mother's life. the fact that adrienne wrote her mother's biography with a toothpick and ink while she herself was in prison i think indicated an incredible level of guilt for what had happened during the french revolution. and so you read a little bit between the lines and what someone either sang it when they say it. with adrienne i still think she is kind of perfect. she is far more forgiving woman than i could be. she is infinitely creative just. this is a woman who really was the damsel in distress saving her nights. she saved lafayette life she risked her own life again, and again, and again. but all of her described her as being without jealousy and of this sort of perfect saintly temperament. you see a little bit of less than saintly temperament pea

stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. >>> hi, there, i'm stephanie ruhle live at msnbc headquarters here in new york city. it is friday, may 7th and we start with breaking news on the economic front. the april jobs number is in. 266,000 jobs added last month, a hugely disappointing number. we've been expecting a million or more. the unemployment rate actually ticked up slightly to 6.1%. i've got to go straight to the white house and bring peter alexander in, along with the chairman of the council of economic advisers under president obama and douglas hopes eakin, he was chief economist of economic advisers under president george w. bush. peter, i have to turn to you first, how is the white house spinning this? >> we will be hearing from president biden at 11:30 today. so you will get the first formal reaction when he speaks then. but based on my conversations there, i think it's likely the president will use this as a window to try to reinforce the argument he feels the american jobs plan needs to be passed going forward, insisting neareds needs to be done. officials insist that all

so can, hi, ken. >> hello. >> and hi, stephanie.se of you who don't know, kim todd book, sensational the hidden history of america's start reporters was released yesterday, happy publishing day. it highlights female undercover journalists who discovered the raw of the early age. her books include sparrow, maria marion and the secrets of metaphor surfaces tinkering with even. stephanie is the author of a book called it is in reporters, she's written for numerous online publications including new yorker.com, smithsonian.com, paris review dailyhe and los angeles review of books. she currently lives in providence and i will be linking her book as well for those of you interested. kim and stephanie are going tos speak about 20 to 30 minutes and we open up to audience questions submitted through the q&a button son going to go ahead and turn it over to the. >> thank you, stephanie. thank you to the bookstore, it is such a pleasure to do this. i welcome the chance to travel back in time of the gilded age and celebrate the publication of thi

stephany's a bonafide adrenaline junkie. 'd even song well i don't choose these spots they choose me i'd say. i pick spots spontaneously when i passed them. so well. and i can't even stroll through a city without glancing up thinking about what acrobatics i could perform here or there. today will be performing a number of further codifying acrobatics on this bridge. but 1st she's got to get our committed eyes to quite literally. it's cold and windy appear so she needs to warm up 1st. thing cold is the biggest challenge when i'm cold everything gets so much harder. but we'll see. check out the situation. but i could hang from underneath the bridge. it's a 200 meter drop. be careful cleese. stephanie's boyfriend who documented her during stunts finds it hard to watch. people know that he's got the skill. but when you see everything sway it does make you feel uneasy. it's a bit easier for me to watch on my camera screen. that makes it seem most real. let me but i'm happier when it's over. that stephanie completes the shoot with

stephanie is a bona fide adrenaline junkie. 'd even saw this but i don't choose the spots they choose me i'd say. i pick spots spontaneously when i passed them. on economy and i can't even stroll through a city without glancing up thinking about what acrobatics i could perform here or there. today should be performing a number of virgo defying acrobatics on this bridge. but 1st she's got to get i'm going to tie his to quite literally. it's cold and windy appear so she needs to warm up 1st. thing called is the biggest challenge when i'm cold everything gets so much harder. but we'll see. check out the situation. like i'm from underneath the bridge. it's a $200.00 metre drop. but be careful please see. stephanie's boyfriend who documents her during stunts finds it hard to watch. the whole movie she's got the skill. but when you see everything sway it does make you feel uneasy. it's a bit easier for me to watch her on my camera screen. although that makes it seem less real world. let me but i'm happier when it's over. that stephan

stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. >>> hi, there, i'm stephanie ruhle. it is thursday, may 27th. and there's a lot going on this hour. we are keeping an eye on capitol hill, where any minute now republicans unveil their infrastructure, counterproposal, expected to have a price tag of $1 trillion over the course of eight years. democratic senator elizabeth warren will be here in a few minutes to react to that proposal and talk about where lawmakers can go from here. >>> also this hour the mother and girlfriend of officer brian sicknick, who died one day after he confronted rioters during the capitol insurrection january 6th are meeting with republican senators, urging them to back the january 6th commission. they just met with senator romney, who has said he would back the plan. >>> but we have to start with breaking news out of the state of california. ninth person has now died of their injuries as we learn new details about the investigation into why a gunman opened fire at a light rail yard in san jose, with victims ranging from 29 to 63. the gunman, w

stephany's a bonafide adrenaline junkie. 'd even saw well i don't choose these spots they choose me i'd say. i pick spots spontaneously when i passed them. so well. and i can't even stroll through a city without glancing up thinking about what acrobatics i could perform here or there. today should be performing a number of further codifying acrobatics on this bridge. but 1st she's got to get our committee quite literally. it's called in when the appear so she needs to warm up 1st. head cold is the biggest challenge when i'm cold everything gets so much harder. but we'll see. check out the situation. black could hang from underneath the bridge. it's a 200 meter drop. but be careful please. stephanie's boyfriend who documents her during stunts finds it hard to watch. the whole movie she's got the skill. but when you see everything sway it does make you feel uneasy. it's a bit easier for me to watch on my camera screen. that makes it seem less real. well let me but i'm happier when it's over. that stephanie completes the shoot

stephanie do and to ask about one, think it's from maya? >> yes maya said the coffee is so sensational excited to read it. can you talk a bit about the relationship between girl reporters with a friends, rivals? at the hangout together? >> that is a great question. as i already mentioned, tori had been hugely supportive of frost. in her life. i would say of all the people i looked at into building a community of women. she organized for wells she organized these young women who were moving north from the south. >> so there is a number of women were there at the same time. he prospectively get on them is through the eyes of elizabeth jordan who was a reported there and then went on to become an editor and then eventually it harbors book. her book was interesting she was a one that a lot of reporting. but at the height of the plays i was 1986 she was at the hiring step reporters and really framing what that page is going to look like. and she talks about sort of coming in all excited, in 1890 when she started there and looking at the legends

stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. ♪♪ >>> hi, there, i'm stephanie ruhle.s monday, may 10th and we have a ton to get to, starting with breaking news this morning. nbc news has learned that a russian criminal organization may be behind a massive cyberattack, crippling a 5,500 mile gas pipeline, knocking it off since friday. in washington, republicans are taking another step towards sealing liz cheney's fate after kevin mccarthy formally endorses elise stefanik to replace her in the leadership position of the party. >>> and now with a third of adults fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, there's more and more talk indoor mask mandates can be on their way out. >>> first, we've got to start with the breaking news i mentioned on top, a russian criminal group now suspected in that colonial pipeline cyberattack. congress secretary geno romanedio said that congress is helping to restart that 5,500 mile pipeline network that runs, get this, all the way from texas to new jersey and trans ports 45% of east coast fuel supply. abc reports the pipeline remained mostl

stephanie can be refreshingly direct.etes from playing on women's school sports teams, can you name one example of a transgender child trying to gain an unfair competitive advantage at a school there in west virginia? >> well, stephanie, i don't have that experience exactly to myself right now, but i will -- >> not yourself, yo you are state. sir, can you give me one example of a transgender child trying to get an unfair advantage, just one in your state? you signed a bill about it. >> no, i can't really tell you one, but i can tell you this, steve stephanie. i'm with a coach and i coach a girl's basketball team and i can tell you that there -- you know, we all know, we all know what an absolute advantage boys would have playing against girls. >> but sir, you have no examples of this happening. why would you take your time to do this? let's talk about other things that i can give you examples of in your state. according to u.s. news and world report, west virginia ranks 45th in education. 47th in health care. 48th on the

and high, stephanie.or those of you who don't know, kim todd spoke "sensational: the hidden history of america's 'girl stunt reporters'" was released yesterday so happyme publishing day. it highlights the mill undercover journalist who expose the heart of the gilded age. early books include chrysalis, maria, mary and the secrets of metamorphosis, and tinkering with eden. stephanie gorton is the author of a book called citizen reporters. is written for online publications including new yorker.com, the paris review daily and the los angeles review of books.ks she currently lives in providence and i will also be linking her book as well for those of you are interested. kim and staff equity speak for about 20-30 minutes and then we'll opened up to the audience questions that have been submitted to the q&a button. i will go u head and turned over to them. >> thank you, stephanie. and thank you to the bookstore. this is such a pleasure to do this. i welcome the chance travel back in time to the gilded age and c

stephanie sy has the latest.phanie: judy, this case has been playing out before a federal judge in texas. closing arguments finished yesterday as part of an unusual bankruptcy trial. the nra filed for bankruptcy in january as part of a move to reincorporate and relocate from new york to texas. that was after new york state attorney general letitia james sued the nra and sought to dissolve the non-profit organization. she alleged that top executives, including longtime leader wayne lapierre, illegally misused tens of millions of dollars on things like designer suits and lavish personal trips. the nra says the lawsuit is political. stephen church has been covering the trial for bloomberg and joins me now. thank you for coming on the newshour. i know you are a bankruptcy specialist but i want to backtrack a little bit because wayne la pierre actually testified during this trial. what came out about how he managed the nra and used his position? stephen: it was clear he had control over most everything that happened a

stephanie, we are definitely in a state of flux. but in a good way. numbers in the united states in every single state, as you were pointing out, are going down. and i think with the situation with the yankees will lead us to do is question when we should be doing just routine testing of people who are fully vaccinated. the reason the cdc was able to change their mass guidance last week is because of increasing information that people who are fully vaccinated are highly unlikely to spread the virus to other people. and given that, it raises the question, well then why should we do testing of people who are fully vaccinated? that is a period in which it was still very much up in the air, the role asymptomatically people vaccinated could play in retransmission. >> i know you work on the opening commission. governor murphy is one of the few governors keeping a mask mandate in place. he said, if it saves even one more life, it's worth it. if that's the logic we're working with, shouldn't we say the whole state shouldn't get in a car, no cars mean no car a

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stephanie?oining us now, founder of "new york times" and squawk with box on cnbc, bill and melinda gates, they give away $5 billion a year. does the divorce change that? >> it may not change that. look, this is a sad thing for a family no matter how much money you have. so let's start there because it's an earthquake in the world of philanthropy because it raises questions about what happens next. the foundation has said quite clearly they anticipate and expect to be able to do the work they've always been doing, but i think there's a couple of questions to be asked, one is warren buffett has pledged to give his entire fortune to the bill and melinda gates foundation. does that change under these new circumstances? bill gates is one of his best friends, but he also loved melinda. i think there's questions about the future of the gates' fortune, much of the fortune, in fact, the majority of the fortune is not part of the foundation yet. it was always anticipated it would ultimately be donated to

>> stephanie ramos leading us off tonight. stephanie, thank you. and with new york lifting mask requirements wednesday, more and more states following that new cdc guidance -- if you're vaccinated, no masks indoors or outdoors with few exceptions. but there are so many questions that remain. so, let's bring in dr. ashish jha, dean of the brown university of public health. dr. jha, always great to have you. first, we heard those new yorkers there in stephanie's piece, learning the news today. they want to take their masks off, but many are still a little nervous about this, asking this very common question that many have had and here it is. if you're vaccinated, ho do you know if the person next to you at the store or elsewhere, if they've been vaccinated? and if they haven't had the vaccination, does that pose any risk to you? >> yeah, so, david, thanks for having me on. if the person next to you is not vaccinated, they really don't pose much of a threat. these vaccines are extraordinary and they will protect you, even if you're spending time with

i'm sure stephanie would agree look at what is working right now. i'm looking right now at financials the xlf has spent the last few weeks hanging near highs stopped making forward progress, but gave absolutely nothing back no sellers, especially in the big ones like jpmorgan, which, full disclosure, i am long and have been long for a while that's a super bullish set up for next week. you can't say it isn't and when financials are doing well, historically stock markets do well, especially when they're at record highs. you look at reeds about to make another all-time high. unbelievable the last one i want to throw out which we don't talk about that much on the air, and i understand why, but the all country world index, xus let's pull this etf up it is acwx this is the entire global stock market with no u.s. stocks in it, right. not only are we approaching an all-time high right now, but actually over the last 12 months this index has outperformed the s&p 500, which i don't think a lot of people are even aware of. but go down the list and look at thes

>> absolutely, stephanie.vernment needs to keep pumping is vaccines into people's arms. that is the most important thing for the economy. what the government did helped. $2.8 trillion this year, that's working its way through our economy. that money is still getting out there. people need to feel safe about using that money. they're increasingly feeling safe, which is great news. the most important aspect of the cdc announcement and, yes, it was bumpy, it's going to be confusing. maybe could have been handled better. but most important is it's going to help vaccinations. it's going to make it clear all of the wonderful things you can do if you're vaccinated. i agree with andrew, i would love it if this puts pressure on more businesses to require vaccination for their employees. we've required it for our students at harvard. i hope we require it for our -- my fellow employees at harvard. and lots and lots of other institutions doing the same around the country is how we can get our economy back, get our lives b

stephanie, a video one for you let's watch. >> hi, this is charles in spain.older of apple. should i sell it should i hold it it's been in the doldrums for a while now. i've got quite a lot of my portfolio wrapped up in it any advice you can give me would be gratefully received thank you. >> all right steph, this is the question to the person who has trimmed apple before take that with grain of salt, charles. >> i'm still market weight the name it's 6% of my weighting in the s&p 500. it's a big number. i would just hold it it's not expensive at 25 times, not for the growth you're getting. great products, great services the apps are slowing hold it. stay patient and be a long term investor >> okay. thank you for that josh brown, a video question for you. >> hi, josh. this is bryian in seattle. they have high p/e and are high growth stocks. they represent 5%, 3%, 4% and 4% of my portfolio. how would you play it over the next two months? thanks >> all right what's the advice? >> i mean, i was taking this very seriously until the last sentence over the next two mo

>> well, i just finished stephanie's book.right up until this morning. >> thank you. >> it's wonderful. can't stress that enough how much i enjoyed learning about tarbell and her journey which was again like -- not exactly the same as these women but to dramatically different. >> i keep wishing this is how happened but i wish i'd been able to read your while i was researching my book. that would have been huge and so fun, and i have been on a fiction reading streak so i'm just finishing a november called the glass hotel. >> that's been a popular one, excellent. >>> this has been really fun. i'm looking forward to finishing the book myself and i have a few people i'm friends with thatter in journalism and reporting world i plan on gifting this book to. just did pop links to both sensational and citizen reporters in the chat for anyone interested in purchasing them, and thank you both so much. this has been a great event. >> thank you. >> you're welcome, thank you for having me. >> of course, thanks, everybody and have a great n

stephanie murphy. what was your first personal view about how those percent of meetings were handled. murphy: i used to teach college and before i can be congress. [inaudible]. so i'm with sen. dan sullivan on the incomplete as far as addressing how they did. i think that the biden administration is understating the policies towards china in which they should view and it's also going to be important on how they respond and going to be informed by public opinion as well as congress. we are not without agency in a situation. have enough that the anti- china, my hope is that we keep it on anti- - and how the people and how they deal with it issues. when i see from that the administration today on trade, it was like more of the same. about the administration has prior to. they said they were going to focus on this and i would argue that are trading relationships are key part to our domestic and economic recovery. and recently, confirmed that they have said that on the tariff issues, don't give up leverage

stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. >>> hi, there, i'm stephanie ruhle. it's monday, may 31, memorial day. a day to honor americans who sacrifice their lives in defense of our country. more than 14,000 of them buried at arlington, where president biden will be just an hour from now. but today we want to make sure we recognize all of the veterans who have given their lives as well as their families and loved ones. today also marks the unofficial mark of summer. masked mandates are going away and country is opening up. but we still only have half of all americans fully vaccinated. so the big question this morning, how safe is it? >>> and breaking news out of the state of texas, where overnight democrats walked off the floor of the house in a dramatic last-ditch effort to kill a controversial new voting bill. now the governor is stepping in. lots to get to this morning, but i want to start with the news out of texas. nbc's ali vitali has been following all of the twists and turns from d.c. ali i. what is going on? >> steph, they killed the bill but only for

here's stephanie gosk with what families need to know >> reporter: footloose and mask-free for kids this summer? not exactly, says the cdc. today releasing revised guidance for masking at camp. the agency had said unvaccinated campers should wear masks inside and outside now slightly revising that to "in general, people do not need to wear masks when outdoors, whether they are vaccinated or not. unless they are in crowded outdoor settings or during activities that involve sustained close contact. with most campers under the age of 12 and not eligible for the vaccine yet, camps are left to decide for themselves what activities are safe, and the guidance is vague. >> one size does not fit all for each of these camps. they're going to have to take into account the rates of vaccination among their staff and among their older campers. >> reporter: in new york there was a mask requirement for summer camps until this week. now masks are just encouraged at crestwood country day camp on long island parents and staff are relieved >> there is an awful lot of pent-up desire to have children get back

stephanie you'll picks up the coverage right now. ♪♪ ♪♪ >>> hi there. i'm stephanie ruhle.ednesday, may 12th and we are following several breaking stories in the nation's capitol right now. first, house republicans are meeting behind closed doors at this very moment. they will vote soon on whether to oust congresswoman liz cheney from gop leadership, and this just in, growing fears over inflation. with the consumer-price index, cpi rising 4.2% in april from a year ago. that is more than expected and the fastest pace in more than 12 years. that number could make things much more difficult for president biden as he gets ready to hold a high-stakes meeting with congressional leaders at the white house this morning on his infrastructure plan. >> and in just two hours a cdc panel could give the official green light for kids ages 12 to 15 to get the pfizer vaccine, but some states, they are not even waiting. i have the best group of people here this morning to help us break this down. darren hake, and my old and dear friend matthew dowd, founder of country over party. garrett, i'

because we feel comfortable how it is. >> reporter: for now she says they will keep running stephanie gosk, nbc news, new york >>> there is breaking news out of italy this evening. two american tourists found guilt qi of murder for stabbing a police officer in 2019. both sentenced to life in prison. the two who were 18 and 19 at the time say they were acting in self-defense mistaking the plainclothes officer for a drug dealer after an apparent deal gone wrong. >>> now to an nbc news exclusive. new insights into rudy giuliani's attempts to pressure ukraine to dig up dirt on joe biden when he was trying to win the democratic nomination. andrea mitchell is in ukraine for us tonight with more. >> reporter: tonight a first person account of how rudy giuliani was trying to damage joe biden's campaign from a man who listened in as giuliani pressed for ukraine's president to investigate biden. so what did you hear rudy giuliani saying to president zelensky's top adviser? >> basically, it was all about a smear campaign on then not even a candidate biden, joe biden and he was especially interes

stephanie gosk has more from her family >> reporter: it's been nearly ten days since anyone has seen 19-year-old college student saniyya dennis, a sophomore at suny buffalo in new york state >> we are treating this investigation as critically important and as if it was a member of our family or my daughter who was missing. >> reporter: police released this photo of the computer engineering major leaving her dorm at 11:00 p.m. on april 24th they also say there is video of her at a bus station later that night, possibly on her way to goat island in niagara falls state park, the last place her cell phone was detected roughly 20 miles from the school late last week the family voiced frustration with the pace of the investigation. >> there's a lot that we are dissatisfied with behind these cameras. >> my family is very distraught everybody's emotions are out of whack we only know that we want our sister -- my sister back. >> reporter: over the weekend police searched niagara falls park with dogs and a helicopter the family is offering a $10,000 reward >> all of this is just really bafflin

we're live in san jose, stephanie sierra, abc 7 news. >> all right stephanie thank you. >>> also importanto know for our viewers a secondary family assistance center has been set up at the red cross blood donation site it's on the corner of north 1st and west plumeria drive. trained staff are able to help in the grieving process. offer details on victim compensation and other information. it's open to everyone at 7:00. 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. tomorrow. >>> i know it's hard the to think about anything else on a day like this. but ama we want to turn our attention for attention to our weather forecast for a few minutes. >> we want to turn it over to sandhya patel. >> let's get to the forecast fog is rolling in over san francisco. a look at the forecast morning fog and spotty drizzle. we're looking at cooler, cloudier and windier for saturday. and then the temperaturewill soar other the holiday weekend. you will notice 46 miles per hour winds at sfo. it was a warmer day away from the coastline. that fog will push away from the bay. tomorrow morning we'll be waking up to spotty drizzle. tomorr

vaccinating them, experts say, is also about community safety lester. >> stephanie gosk in new york, thanks you can make a plan for when and where to get vaccinated visit planyourvaccine.com for more >>> we want to turn now to that train disaster in mexico city where the search for survivors is on. at least 24 people were killed, as many as 60 injured when an overpass collapsed and the train plunged to the ground our morgan chesky is there tonight. >> reporter: tonight, heartbreak in mexico city at the scene of last night's deadly train collapse families desperately searching for loved ones as the death toll reaches 24 people. video captured the terrifying moment late last night when two train cars packed with passengers plunged off the tracks, crashing to the ground in a cloud of dust and debris emergency crews frantically combing through the wreckage, using cranes and ladders to reach those trapped inside, including multiple children, some busting out windows to escape. crews rushed more than 70 people to nearby hospitals. one woman onboard describing the moment the train went down

stephanie ruhle tonight on why and what this might mean for you as you hit the road >> reporter: greg and sally buttinger owns camp hillcroft and says kids can't wait to come back camp is booked for the summer but sally worries she won't have enough staff, especially foreign students who need j-1 visas to be camp counselors they have only one confirmed and are waiting on 23 more >> us not bring our international staff over is something that keeps us awake at night. >> reporter: because of covid the u.s. has a ban on travel from 33 countries, many of them where these workers come from. there's also a backlog to process j-1 visas without all the counselors from overseas activities like swim lessons and gymnastics could look different this year. with current staff doing double duty. but lack of visas for international workers is causing problems for all sorts of businesses across the country. employers rely on j-1 foreign workers during peak tourist season. >> they work typically in places where there are labor shortages and as a result they actually help keep americans employed in those

low how she's director of the european academy for female leadership stephanie are we finally seeing some sort of change. well yes we actually do i mean germany has been so conservative for a long time and i do believe that in the past 10 years things have changed it has been a generational change but also or like a lot of activists and we had this huge debates about and he made leadership lack a female role models in power positions and i do believe that this is time to change and one of the arguments here was a lack of female candidates is there any truth to that i mean in the u.s. we see all of these female tech entrepreneurs in fantastic positions but not here in germany. well it depends on how you view it i would say 1st of all it is an excuse i mean if you look at the number for example of women studying computer science the numbers in the u.s. are not high and then in germany at all but i think what you can say is that there has that women have not been promoted in after the past and have not been given sufficient opportunities to develop into sepsis management positions and s

stephanie link, i want to go to you, you heard about it. the fed every day, there is no inflation and if there is it won't last is inflationary fear at all a part of what we are seeing in the stock market or is it just something simply the bond market and nothing else >> no, i think inflation is definitely on top of mine. i have five questions from our advisers just today on it, right. so people are starting to think about it and they're seeing it and they're experiencing it firsthand. their customers are doing the same i have talked to a dozen companies, brian, everybody is seeing commodity kocost inflatin everybody. some companies will be able to price for it, that's good, that's fine, some are not. you have some winners and some losers i think about every consumer staple company last week said they will be raising prices so it will be something to watch for the consumer if demand tails off. there's so much liquidity in the system, right, so in my opinion, not just media west, but around the world $100 trillion of stimulus in the system,

stephanie with think -- stephanie wissink of jefferi es nailed it.have any idea, any new information on where the retail juggernaut will be passed august, past october? stephanie: it's a great question. i think we are seeing evidence that the consumer is interested in re-engaging with retail. walmart, home depot, macy's, lowe's all beat handily, all signaling that momentum has persisted in q2. looking at the back half, we are looking at a few key indicators. the first is back-to-school. that will be the next single confidence that we are back into a cycle of normalcy. we didn't really have a back-to-school season last year, with a very unusual back-to-school period, so we are looking for signs that not only the youth are returning to the malls and apparel retail, but really going through the motions of the back-to-school purchasing cycle. we are also keeping an eye on what has been happening in fashion. we have been living in leggings and fitness apparel, and we are now seeing indications that we are exploring fashion again, that we might see in the

so, hello, facebook friends. >> stephanie, stephanie is on top of it. >> especially kudos to stephanie. more learning will play take place right now. i want to ask about herd immunity, when a large enough portion of the population becomes immune it makes it hard for the disease to find people to spread to. is that an all or nothing proposition? or can we have degrees of herd immunity? >> i'm so glad, kristen, you worded it that way. it is not all or nothing. when it comes to the effects of herd immunity. as several experts on abc news come around the country have reported, there will be at some point and inflection point. we will get a certain amount of immunity, community immunity if you will, by vaccine or natural cases and you will start to see a really big dip in transmission of the virus. we saw this happen and widely reported on in israel. only 60% of the population was vaccinated. we are starting to see effects of that right now in california. you look at san francisco, about a little bit more than 70% of people above the age of 16 are vaccinated in la county. it's a little bit

stephanie, it's also the unofficial start of summer. there's new guidance out today about kids and summer camps? >> reporter: there is, whit. cdc updated guidance today. children and teens at camps no longer need to wear a mask or social distance, as long as everyone is fully vaccinated. for those kids who are not vaccinated or are too young to be eligible, they still need to wear a mask at camp. the cdc still recommends everyone wear a mask in a crowded social setting and that kids stay in the same group for the season and mix with other groups as little as possible. >> a lot of parents were waiting for that new guidance, stephanie, thank you. >>> now to the holiday forecast. storms striking along we come on the air, just as travelers are heading out. unseasonably chilly and wet in the east. let's get to abc's senior meteorologist rob marciano. what can we expect in the coming days? >> let's try to spin what's happening on this holiday weekend positively. the northeast does need the rain, here it is, here comes more, unfortunately. sev

stephanie: it is always tricky with this stuff.ou can't disentangle the fact that there's been a perception that nicola sturgeon didn't handle the crisis very well, the coronavirus crisis. she's had a boost in terms of support for e.u. membership. you can't say that it is a perfect proxy for there being a majority. if you look at the polls, it is pretty much 50-50 on support for or against independence. i think that is probably a fair indication of where things are at. in a world where you did start to move towards a referendum, if they render random -- if a referendum was called and allowed, that is when polls would start to move because that is when people would have to think about this issue. right now, people are thinking coronavirus crisis, thinking short-term how do we get out into the world. alix: any walk me through logistically how this works now? if they want to second referendum, how does that work within the u.k. government? stephanie: this is a little bit complicated, but essentially the scottish government would have