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vaccine shots in the first 100 days, being met today. the biden foreign policy challenge on front and center, after a testy day one of first biden talks with china. the american chinese trading insults, the same day a sneering back and forth from the russian president to team biden. this morning the president stressing what you might call a wait and see approach to both of these global challenges. >> whats your reaction to china last night? >> very proud of the secretary of state. >> a...

sign it tomorrow after he was going to speak in prime time. this makes more sense on the timeline, getting to talk about already having signed it for his speech tonight. this is a singular achievement for his first 100 days in the agenda. as we keep talking about, a year ago today, a freight train was essentially about to hit this country. >> we are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity, and by the alarming levels of inaction. we have therefore met the ass...

the president will visit a small local business thats benefited from the paycheck protection program loans as millions of americans eagerly await another round of direct payments to ease the financial burden of a year battling covid. joining me now to kick things off, my fellow chief white house correspondent and weekend today co-host, peter alexander, whos live at the white house. associated press white house reporter, jonathan la mir, and erin haynes, editor at large at the 91. peter...

Rooms, so theyre going to have to adapt our guidance for the safety of their congregant settings. bret: right. but sticking them in a room for 10 days, doesnt that sound extreme to you? >> that is what our guidance was before. if a student -- and our updated guidance actually says you can leave isolation after of 5 days if you can wear your mask all the time including being able to eat meals alone so that you are not infecting others while you eat. that may need to be whats hang in these congreg...

Rooms, so theyre going to have to adapt our guidance for the safety of their congregant settings. bret: right. but sticking them in a room for 10 days, doesnt that sound extreme to you? >> that is what our guidance was before. if a student -- and our updated guidance actually says you can leave isolation after of 5 days if you can wear your mask all the time including being able to eat meals alone so that you are not infecting others while you eat. that may need to be whats hang in these congreg...

In different schools, in terms of resources, that are available, and i think one area that we need to focus on in schools is clean air. so schools are, by nature, congregant settings, and we do not have federal guidance regarding air filtration and ventilation in schools and so i think before we can talk about pulling back mask mandates in schools, we need to make sure that what is the guidance so air in schools can masks can come off and there are low cost ways such as the air filters that scho...

>> the emergence of the delta variant led to acceleration of transmission, this moratorium is the right thing to do. out of congregant settings for covid 19 spread. the cdc should have considered? >> the big one is we are worried about congregating, get down from your ivory tower and talk about people congregating at the border, we sticker head in the sand. at the end of the day we have to pay these bills and if we cant pay the bills how will we pay the bills in 3 months.

I think it is being accepted in some circles. we actually have pretty high vaccination rate in the city. but there is definitely pushback and, you know, as an epidemiologist who has watched this pandemic from the beginning, i am has watched this pandemic from the beginning, iam happy has watched this pandemic from the beginning, i am happy to see vaccine mandates for people in congregant settings does make restaurants and gatherings— because im really worried about the pandemic continuing. wor...

The measure, which is the first in the us, applies to about 184,000 businesses. -- 140,000. public sector employers already have to be inoculated but the citys mayor earlier this month extended the mandate to include all private sector employees. children aged 5—11 are also required to show proof of vaccination to access certain places. dr danielle ompad is the associate professor of epidemiology at the new york universitys school of global public health. she says its a necessary step. thats d...

The measure, which is the first in the us, applies to about 184,000 businesses. public sector employers already have to be inoculated but the citys mayor earlier this month extended the mandate to include all private sector employees. children aged 5 to 11 are also required to show proof of vaccination to access certain places. dr danielle ompad is the associate professor of epidemiology at the new york universitys school of global public health. she says its a necessary step despite some pushba...