right now, secretary of state anthony blinken is traveling to brussels for nato meetings where the tensions are expected to be addressed. i will bring in the secretary of labor under president obama. he was only the second asian-american in history to become deputy secretary of a cabinet position. thank you very much, chris, for coming n. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> can you explain the tension between the public tension that we saw play out in alaska between blinken and his counterparts last week and the clear tension between the administration and china right now and your fear for what may be to come in terms of vitriol and hatred against asian-americans in this country? >> for as long as asian-americans have been in this country, we have been treated as outsiders, as people who can't be trusted. you can go all the way back to the 1,800s, with chinese railroad workers in world war ii and the rise if trade tensions with japan in the 1980s so there is this consistency that when there are tensions with an asian country, people asian american are often scapegoated. and to be clear, look

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. >> reporter: tomorrow president biden heads to brussels where he will attend a nato summit and recommit to the common defense. a welcome show of support for an alliance that former president trump openly disdained. jeff? >> okay. thank you. >>> while the president deals with foreign affairs at the g7 summit, the push for his domestic agenda continus at home including a search for a compromise infrastructure noon can get through -- plan that can get through congress. our political reporter, caitlin huey-burns, joins us for more from the washington bureau. so good to see you this saturday morning. in is not the first time -- this is not the first time that joe biden has met many of these world leaders but the first time he's meeting them as president biden. what are you hearing from your sources on how that dynamic is playing out? >> reporter: good morning. the first time that they're meeting face to face. no more zoom interactions, a welcome development for president biden who likes this one-on-one engagement. what's really interesting here is that foreign policy has largely been on the

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late today in brussels, biden told reporters that during discussions with allies, he laid out what he intends to tell putin. >> we will respond if russia continues its harmful activities. we will not fail to defend the trans-atlantic alliance or stand up for democratic values. it's in our mutual interests and the interests of the world to cooperate and see if we can do that. and the areas where we don't agree, make it clear where the red lines are. i have met with him. he's bright, he's tough, and i found that he is, as they say, when i used to play ball, a worthy adversary. every world leader here as a member of nato that spoke today, and most of them mentioned it, thanked me for meeting with putin now. >> one issue the white house says definitely will be on the table at their summit, the reason ransomware attacks in the u.s. which authorities say originated from russian hacking groups, biden said the u.s. will respond in kind if russia refuses to cooperate on the cybersecurity front. in his exclusive interview, nbc news foreign correspondent keir simmons put this question directly t

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you look at what's happening in brussels. you look at what's happening all over the world. take a look at nice. take a look at paris. we've allowed thousands and thousands of people into our country and there was no way to vet those people. steve: and so the next day then donald trump sent this out because people in sweden going no attack here. and he tweeted this. ainsley: my statement as to what was happening in sweden was in reference to a story that was broadcast on fox news concerning immigrants in sweden. brian: you know, i found a quote too. the prime minister said sweden has been naÏve and it's hard to accept that in our open society, cent sized from killers from the islamic state. so they've said in the past they have a history, and they steamrolled the fact that nice, germany, and brussels are beyond the approach. and they say where's the proof? steve: well, i tell you what. tucker carlson is host of the show that apparently the president of the united states was watching. tucker, when you heard donald trump on saturday night and then you saw the media reaction w

the european union has voted in brussels. that's important. the more thing is why the president came into the briefing room today, which is that the parliament has voted to aadvance their referendum and to break away from ukraine and join the federation. that's what the president and his advisors are all very concerned about. that per precipitation actions by the military that has been very restrained until now and it would seriously escalate this crisis. >> some say the other greatest threat would be any kind of partitioning after the battle days of the cold war. what i keep referring to as cold war muscle memory. we remember it's easier to remember east versus west. >> and i was just talking to our ambassador. this would be one event that could really precipitate a milita military crisis. russia is part of all of the agreements, and the ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons in the' 90s in exchange for guarantee of their borders. if russia tries to take it back, it would be considered a vote in the referendum by the people, that could precipi

being governed by brussels they want to bring power back to italy and i think this is potentially very problematic as the third largest economy in europe becomes more national and less european. >> what would you be telling people as we head into this weekend, to beware >> well, i've told them they don't want to own the banks in the way they've behaved. i certainly wouldn't want to own european equities, italian equities especially going into what could be a difficult result for the european union i'm saying be very cautious. >> how do you feel about u.s. equities >> u.s. equities are in a corrective phase i like what i said to you before, becky, cash bonds, closed end funds yielding over 10%. i'm happy to get the money every month and that way you can adjust to whatever the market's doing. i think if you're doing nothing but, you know, long tech stocks, as an example, you're having some difficulties right now because we are going through a correction >> when we're going through a correction, we're about 650 points away at least on the dow from being back in correction territory. you t

and forth from the labor ministers and the central bankers and the differences in opinions between brussels and berlin and london here, that this is a doomed marriage in many sorts, but i think the idea of letting this family fall apart or maybe going after the assets and trying to divey up the estate is far more difficult than the prospect of a reconciliation but you have germany, which is really worried about its banks on the hook for exposure to greece or portugal, if they are in effect allowed to secede and default on their debt, you have the french saying let's try to do. this let's try another round of bringing in the ecb in an austerity package but does any responsible government want to put that on its taxpayers? >> joining us from bloomberg business week. thank you so much. >> my pleasure. have a good weekend. >> you're watching bbc world news america. still to come on tonight's program, 4,000 miles from england, the union jack slides proudly on one north carolina island, a constant reminder of the british sailors who died there. in spain today, the country's crown prince fill leap

finance ministers from the eurozone met in brussels today to hash out how they will strengthen a bailout fund for 17 member countries. they have agreed greece will get its next batch of bailout loans, likely in the first part of november. more meetings are set for this weekend, and then a second summit is scheduled for next wednesday, when the bulk of decisions are expected. on wall street today, anticipation of the eurozone meetings pushed stocks higher. the dow jones industrial average gained 267 points to close above 11,808. the nasdaq rose nearly 39 points to close at 2,637. for the week, the dow gained more than 1%; the nasdaq fell 1%. rupert murdoch's media empire has agreed to pay over $3 million to the family of a murdered british schoolgirl. milly dowler disappeared in 2002 and was later fund murdered. reporters from murdoch's now- defunct "news of the world" tabloid had hacked into her voice mails, giving the family hope she was still alive. another million and a half dollars will go to charities chosen by the dowler family. the governor of ohio, john kasich, announced plans fo

later on, he appears in brussels without his tan jacket and his sleeves rolled up. >>> and in syria, state tv reporting the kidnapping of 300 workers from a cement factory just 30 miles from the government headquarters in damascus. in the meantime, the battle rages in the northern part of the war torn country with opposition fighters advancing on isis strongholds ahead of a new round of peace talks set for next week in geneva. >> and here at home, police in washington state say one of two dangerous patient who's escaped from a psychiatric hospital is now back in custody. 59-year-old mark adams was apprehended about 30 miles from the hospital after being spotted on a public bus. but 28-year-old anthony garver remains at large arrested for first degree murder two years ago but found not competent to stand trial. police believe garver took a bus to spoke cane. >> turning now to a deadly danger in millions of automobiles. a teenager from texas killed by flying shrapnel from an exploding takata air bag, the tenth death in the u.s. from the japanese brand. abc's adrian bankert has the late

in brussels, both ends are being urged to find out what caused the outbreak. >> need to take all efforts and to rapidly identify the source of contamination. the initial suspicion of the german authorities that cucumbers from spain was the cause has not been confirmed. in the meantime, the public should keep calm and keep applying basic hygiene rules when preparing food. >> and nobody knows the source and consumers are shying away from cucumbers and tomatoes, wherever they come from. bbc news, berlin. >> tackling drug abuse. it is the skirts of countries around the world, and now brazil is trying fight a drug known as oxy. >> on dart street corners -- dark street corners, a deadly a popular drug has become more popular than crack cocaine. it is. oxy -- it is called oxy. those who use it know that while the cost is low, the price is high. >> i am homeless, and this is not an easy life. and i have defined money for drugs every day. if i do not have them, i cannot sleep. >> oxy is not a new drug. it has been around in the brazilian amazon for least two decades. the police and find much more

when in brussels. ainsley: i asked your dad would peter bring you something back from brussels maybe chocolate or a waffle what did brian say? he said sprouts. steve: brussel sprouts. pete. peter: i don't know how bad those travel feel bad for whoever is sitting next to me on a flight. peter, thank you. brian: we do have a response. china has warned -- that was between you and i. i did not think you were going to say that. ainsley: pretty funny. brian: somebody else i used to host with china g-7 leaders the days when a small group of countries decide the fate of the world are long gone. they also got very upset. china's embassy in london responded to a joint statement by saying we urge the united states and other members of the g-7 to respect the facts, understand the situation, stop slandering china. stop interfering in china's internal affairs. when they did meet with cline, they told every g-7 member to leave their phones outside. they shut the door that's how serious it is i wish germany, italy and

there you sit in brussels. of course, you're no longer the president of the commission, but you still watch events very, very closely. how disappointed are you by the eu's failure to deliver a speedy vaccination roll—out? i have to say, i'm disappointed by the performance of the european union. that's not the fault of the commission, but also of the member states. and i would like... i would like the member states and the commission to speed up the efforts to provide vaccines for each and every one in the european union. i'm told via press by the president of the commission, my successor, mrs von der leyen, that from now to... ..autumn, maybe summertime, 70% of europeans, we would have had the chance to be vaccinated. i hope that this forecast is the right one. right. but hope may not be enough, because they've been saying that, that they'll get to 70% vaccination by the end of the summer, for some time. but the figures do not look good. we're looking at 12% at best of europe's citizens, adult citizens so far

. >> bill: benjamin hall life in brussels to begin our reporting today. >> good afternoon from brussels. the big aft vent is just one die way. president biden is en route to geneva. finish that you summit earlier today. he's been asked about the prudent meeting a lot since the start of the strip and this is what he said yesterday. >> i'm going to make clear to president putin that there are areas we can cooperate. if you choose not to cooperate in acts in the way that he has in the past relative to cybersecurity and other activities, then we will respond. >> he then finished with a stinging attack on the republican party and the status of politics at home. people wondering if this was the time and the place to do so. >> i think it is appropriate to say that the republican party is vastly diminished in numbers. the leadership of the republican party is fractured. the trump wing of the party is the bulk of the party. >> president putin, meanwhile, has been brushing off all of the accusations of hack income the buildup of troops along the ukrainian border, simply laughing at them and seein

you look at what is happening in brussels. you look at what is happening all over the world. take a look at nice, at paris. we've allowed thousands and thousands of people into our country, and there is no way to get those people -- no way to vet those people. there was no documentation, no nothing. we are going to keep our country safe. [applause] and we all have heart. what i want to do is build safe placesn syria and other so they can stay there and live safely until their cities and country, that mess that was left by obama and everybody else. we were left a message you wouldn't believe. we are going to build safe zones. we are going to have those safe zones. we are going towe were left a mu wouldn't believe. have the gulf states pay for those safe zones, they have nothing but money. we would do it that way instead of taking massive numbers, tens of thousands of people into our country, and we don't know anything about those people. we want people to come into our country, but we want people that love us. we want people that can cherish us and the traditions of our countr

david frost was giving his first major speech in brussels this evening, laying out the uk government's position as they negotiate a future relationship with european union. a downing street adviser, who's been widely criticised for his comments on issues including race and women in sport, has resigned tonight. andrew sabisky had only been in post for a short time. labour had called for mr sabisky to be sacked for suggesting in the past that black people had lower average intelligence than white people. 0ur political correspondent alex forsyth is in westminster. what is going on in the background? just a brief background on the appointment, andrew sabisky was hired as an advisor, a contractor in number ten and that was quickly condemned when comments made in his name appeared. among other things he said, compulsory contraception could be used to stop a permanent underclass and women's sport is more comparable to the paralympics than to men's. after growing criticism tonight he said he had quit the downing street role taking to twitter to say the media hysteria about his past online comm

from brussels to d.c., he had another three-hour layover. then on to dallas. >> levs not symptomatic on those flights, so not contagious according to cdc and health officials. >> le arrived september 20th and was in the hospital september 28th. his nephew accused texas presbyterian hospital in dallas of not taking the ebola threat seriously. >> he is doing all right. she a fighter. he is still fighting it. he wasn't getting appropriate care and i was fear, i feared that other people might you know also get infected if he wasn't taken care of. >> remember duncan was sent home. the nephew called the cdc and said you got to do something. >> they turned him away. >> they told they could neither confirm or deny and 80 people came into contact with duncan, not all had close physical contact. they also don't foe the time frame. >> and this is significantly from the dozen to 18, officially the cdc dr. tom frieden say yesterday so it's significant. they are gathering information. >> and the numbers of people that come in contact with children. notice

3rd i sent secretary pompeo an email to express my appreciation for joining a series of meetings in brussels. i think was really important and the chemistry seems promising. really appreciate it. pompeo replied, all good, you're doing great work. keep banging away. state department leadership expressed total support for our efforts to engage a new ukrainian administration which, of course, he now says included with his quid pro quo. arms for political dirt. >> and back up to page 16, nonetheless before the september 1st warsaw meeting, the ukrainians had become aware that the security funds had note yet to be dispersed in the absence of any credible explanation for the hold i came to the conclusion that the aid, like the white house visit, was jeopardized. in preparation for the meeting, i asked secretary pompeo whether face-to-face conversations between trump with zelensky would help break the logjam. specifically on thursday, august 22nd, i emailed him directly and i wrote, should we block time in warsaw for a short pull aside for potus to meet zelenskiny would ask zelensky to look him in

officials detained six others for questioning over a plot to stage new attacks in brussels during the holidays. new year's celebrations are the last things on the minds of many people in the midwest today. they are dealing with historic deadly flooding. we got this video this morning of a flooded airport in alton, illinois. meanwhile, the missouri merrimack river crested at a record level closing a major highway south of st. louis. forecasters say the water levels will gradually fall over the next several days. >>> good morning. temperatures today will stay above average once again in the low 50s but heading into tomorrow our temperatures will drop closer to average and stay that way be into the beginning of next week. i'm tracking a cold new year's eve night. winter is coming. it will finally feel like winter and we will stay dry. we have a dry pattern setting up for us. for philadelphia, 49. a mix of sun and clouds. look at our win speeds picking up out of the northwest sustained at 10 miles per hour. our wind speeds will be sustained for 10 to 20 mile per hour. across the region, 4

believe we should have left presence there and blinken called up the president after meeting with nato in brussels, meeting with nato ministers in march and says listen, our allies are getting a little upset. they are worried if we pull out there is going to be a problem. and he finished up with an explicative saying that the general strong armed president barack obama so he wouldn't buy time. our allies did weigh in. they were all concerned. the secretary of state tried to convince joe biden he was too bullheaded and thick-sculd the secretary of defense said that so even joe biden's own team tried to tell him what a disaster was about to happen and he ignored all of them. it. ainsley: blinken goes on to say the president and blinken, they were proponents of pulling out of afghanistan. blinken's concern was we are doing this too quickly. the recommendation was to extend the mission with u.s. troops for a while, to see if it could yield a political statement and buy time for negotiations and then he goes on to say that biden was un -- he was undeterred. he explained in colorful language that he fel

the decision about vaccine programs taken in our own country by people directly elected by us, and brussels a woman from cyprus with a degree in psychology who had not been elected was the person to organize the vaccine rollout and it is a disaster. i'll just say one thing obviously this is sad for the people of europe because it means thousands, tens of thousands more people will die then should've died. but politically it justifies brags it in the most astonishing way. there is no going back in the uk where brexiteers, and validates it, justifies it in a most astonishing way. stuart: we should video a couple of minutes ago of the people rushing into the pubs last night as restrictions were removed. one thing i noticed in the pub all the youngsters were still wearing the big heavy jackets, it took me back to the days when i lived there because the pubs were always cold there's no such thing as central heating, looks like it's still the same. >> the pubs are open but we cannot drink inside pubs we can only drink outside pubs and across much of the uk it's been a very cold day. so it's a par

. >> both sides of the broccoli the brussels and the cauliflower. >> there are plates over here, help yourself. >> few want to get started on those 3,000 camry, you might as well get started now. >> thank you for spending thanksgiving with us, trouble shooting as always. >> always fun. >> >>> you're watching today in the bay. >> good morning to you and happy thanksgiving. i'm kris sanchez. happening right now, even before the turkey hits the table, shoppers are standing in line at stores all around the bay area. in some cases, stores have already been open for about two hours, as black friday shopping starts a day early. k-mart opened its doors at 6:00 this morning and will stay open for 42 hours straight. employees tell us they are under orders to work the holiday or risk losing their jobs. some stores, though, resisting the urge to open, saying employees deserve to spend the day with families. >>> in just a few minutes, glide memorial church will start serving thanksgiving dinner and we hope you have a great thanksgiving, as well. - ( helicopter whirring ) - ( roars ) ( siren wails

. >> and authorities have identified a american couple who are confirmed dead in the brussels attack. >>> at the hillsboro county jail in tampa, florida, sentenced inmates work in a variety of capacities throughout the facility. there's a waiting list for the much coveted jobs and those lucky enough to hold them receive one day off their sentence for every six days worked. javier perez's job in the laundry facility has made the two months he has been here go by a little easier. >> it's something to do. if they made me feed pigs, i would have done that. >> when his morning shift is over, perez heads back to the dorms. >> 29, perez. >> once he's back at his bed, he often turns to a new time filler, poetry. >> my life comes and goes, where life can change no one knows, how in life is love many need a hug, where they need it is from heaven up above. >> it's something for me just to escape for a little while, you know? >> just two days after his arrest, perez's first child, a son, was born. >> i haven't even got a chance to hold him or meet him or anything. just be able to touch him for hi

is brussels a safe haven for terrorists? >> brussels is worse safe haven than other places. regrettably, much of europe is. it's wonderful for the free movement of people, goods, commerce, but it's terrible from a security perspective. so the borderless society has very much bored derd intelligence officials. >> you know, it's interesting. i want to play a quick clip of your interview with john kerry, secretary of state. you pressed him on this. it was an amazing non-answer from him. i want to play it. >> do you think europe has a handle on the level of the isis infiltration or isis problem here? >> europe's done a lot and particularly the government of belgium has done a lot. before this event took place they had already had our foreign fighter surge team here a month ago. they are the ones that apprehended saleh abdeslam. that may or may not have initiated this attack. >> he tried everything he could do to praise and yet behind the scenes you can't find an american analyst that says this was on belgium. >> i speak to people who said they were pulling their hair out. he's c

airways flight 751 left brussels this morning but was forced to land in england because of a sick accident. th the plane eventually left for philadelphia. >>> first morning of fall got off to a chilly start. this is a live look at flags flapping in the wind there above center city. things are warming up. meteorologist bill henley is here with the forecast. >> the clouds are moving above building level. at the surface, the wind is lighter than yesterday. that's allowing for a quicker warm-up after a chilly start this morning. skies are clear over the city. what a beautiful view. 62 in philadelphia. look at the happened, 48%. seven degrees cooler than yesterday. in the pocono mountains, barely a cloud in the sky. blue school. it was in t it was in the 30s this morning. much less wind than yesterday. we saw gusts beyond 20 miles an hour. at one point yesterday, winds were gusting more than 30 miles an hour in lancaster. nine mile an hour breeze in philadelphia. calm in the pocono mountains and not at l for atlantic city. 60 in trenton. 63 in wilmington. northeast philly is up to 63. it will c

have the roasted brussel sprouts. >> right. >> can we add bacon back into the brussel sprouts or you don't have to and have six servings and that is the equivalent of the creamed spinach. >> next corn bread. >> a big favorite. >> this sticks together thanks to all the fat and then there's more fat on top of it so it's like a cake of fat. >> nobody puts that much butter on a piece of cornbread. it is the equivalent to two dozen nilla watchers. >> i've eaten that many nilla wafors. >> don't have something sweeter, assaultier, fattier. >> you know what's a better replacement than that? >> all right. we're going rogue. we're going rogue. >> pecan pie, just about the worst. it's 770 calories, 44 grams of fat. >> really. >> it's a big goopy dilemma. the nuts make it news. it's a healthy nut, but there are too many of them, equivalent of 50 gingerbread men cookies. have the pumpkin pie, loaded with vitamins and fiber. >> did you say something? >> see you in a month and you can ruin christmas for everyone, dave. >> thanks very much, good to have you here. coming up next from clint eastwood's

people, in britain. when i said in brussels last week | brussels last week l was proud to be brussels last week l was proud to be foreign secretary in be foreign secretary in gordon brown‘s government, i brown‘s government, i meant. it when brown‘s government, i meant. it when i said i brown‘s government, i meant. it when i said i was not the when i said i was not the candidate for when i said i was not the candidate for the post of high representative for the post of high representative i meant. it i meant. it i'm committed to britain. i meant. it i'm committed to britain. i'm committed to the britain. i'm committed to the labour government. you labour government. you know that there will labour government. you know that there will be a labour government. you know that there will be a election labour government. you know that there will be a election in there will be a election in this country within a matter there will be a election in this country within a matter of months. country within a matter of months. it's a country within a matter of months. it's a a massive choice

by and large they weren't as bad as in paris or brussels. if there is a major attack, she knows that the mood here in germany could swing very, very badly, especially in light of the fact this country took in 1.1 million refugees in 2015. a lot of germans very concerned. and that certainly is something that's weighing on the german chancellor as well. >> indeed. and a lot of nervousness right across europe there. fred pleitgen reporting from cologne, germany. many thanks to all three of you. >>> the olympic countdown clock is at four days right now. but the excitement is being undercut by problems and concerns that remain. we'll take a look at whether rio is actually even ready. >> a lot to look at there. >>> plus, donald trump's latest war of words isn't directed at his political rivals but at the parents of a fallen soldier. how other republican leaders are responding to the bitter feud still ahead. whoo! oh, don't worry it. they can't hear me. i'm just in your head. (announcer vo) no matter how you use your data verizon's got your back. i

and they're telling brussels and london about their privacy issues. >> let's bring in rand paul of kentucky. thanks for joining us. where does facebook stand from your perspective? have they come forward enough to folks in washington like you in terms of what they plan to do to rectify the problem and what exactly has gone wrong? >> you know, i think there are two different questions we can look at. one is a legal question when you signed your agreement, your conditions to use facebook, did you agree to all of this and that's a real legal question. i think there is legal exposure for them in determining whether or not you've agreed to things they're doing with your data. the second thing is do you want to participate with a group that does share your data. people have to decide are they okay with it or not. i separate the private world of facebook though from the government in a big way because facebook's obviously not going to put you in jail and can't hold you in legal jeopardy so i've been more concerned with government snooping and loss of private government entities than i have to face

dte to ea wih ukraieve a russiat today with american and allied officials at nato headquarters in brussels. after four hours of talks, chief u.s. negotiator wendy sherman said russian military movements make it all the harder to defuse the crisis. >> is this about invasion? is this about intimidatio? this about trying to be subversive? i don't know. but it is not conducive to getting to diplomatic solutions. >> reporter: russia's putin is trying to roll back the nato alliance, which has expanded dramatically in the last two decades. he is demanding ukraine never be allowed to join and that military deployments be halted just last month, american. f-15s were operating out of one airfield in romania, while u.s. helicopters flew into another. ded nce putin annexed country may. >> it all started with what putin did in 2014. >> reporter: formernateo ambassador douglas lute says the deployments are strictly for defense. there are currently 1,000 u.s. military personnel in romania. >> you would need 10, 20, 50 times the numbers of troops that nato has positioned now to pose any sort of serious of

secretary blinken is meeting in brussels this week with our nato allies, particularly those who have forces there. general austin just met and i am waiting for the briefing on that. he is the leader of afghanistan and kabul. there is a u.n. lead process that is beginning shortly on how to mechanically and this work. it's not my intention to stay there. the question is how and under what circumstances do we meet that agreement that was made by president trump to leave under a deal that looks like it's not being able to be worked out to begin with. how is that done. but we are not staying long time. >> do you think it's possible >> the question is when we leave. >> do you think it's possible we could have troops there next year? >> i can't picture that being the case. >> ok. kristin. >> thank you very much, mr. president. given the conditions that were just laid out at the migrant facilities at the u.s. border, will you commit to allowing journalists have access to the facilities that are overcrowded moving forward? >> i will commit when my plan very shortly is underway to let you have

from there, he will go to brussels to meet with leaders of the european union and nato. and on wall street today, stocks made up some lost ground. the dow jones industrial average gained 227 points to close at 34,043. the nasdaq rose 198 points. the s&p 500 added 45. still to come on the newshour: dr. anthony fauci discusses the latest on the vaccination effort. the biden administration's push toward electric vehicles. a major federal investment in tribal lands hopes to counteract long-standing inequities. soccer fans took down plans for a super secret new league. plus much more. >> woodruff: the johnson & johnson covid vaccine appears to be on the verge of being given out once again. that is after a c.d.c. advisory panel recommended to do so, and provide a warning. before the panel's recommendation, i spoke today with dr. anthony fauci, the director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. he is so the chief medical adviser to president biden. and we should note for the record that johnson & johnson is a funder of the newshour. dr. fauci, thank you

steve: they are going to brussels all sorts of places but what's interesting as he's taking off kamala harris is coming back and as she looks back at her trip down to guatemala and to mexico, and survey how she did, she's got to feel bad, because she had confusing messages. keep in mind, she was named the border czar, it sounded like but then they had to clarify no she's only in charge of root causes of immigration. brian: she clarified i don't think joe biden ever walked that back. steve: the white house, i'm talking about the white house so yesterday there she is doing a press conference because they had to do a clean-up on aisle 5 because earlier in the day she was asked by nbc whether or not she had ever, you know, when's she going to go to the border and she said she had already been, and then she flip flopped later in the day. here is some of it, watch. >> do you have any plans to visit the border? >> at some point, you know, we are going to the border. we've been to the border, so this whole thing about the border, we've been to the border. we've been to the border. >> you haven

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and the most hard core can be found 50 miles east of brussels in the town of hasselt. it houses 470 men and, in a separate unit, 30 women. >> this is unique. the other prisons in this country, they are old prisons. they are more than 100 years, 150 years old and have a culture. bad or good culture but they always have a culture. we started from zero. >> as the nation's newest high security prison, hasselt employs a wide array of technology to manage inmates. but many of the prison policies are nothing at all like we've ever seen in the u.s. from 9:00 at night until 6:30 in the morning, correctional officers are not allowed to go inside cells without special permission from the director. >> at 9:00 they are locked in the cells. they collect the keys and can you not go in the cells. >> why? >> that's the rules here. >> what do you think goes on behind these doors? >> i don't know and i don't want to know. but when you go out, make your checks, you can sometimes smell the weed. the only thing can you do is the day after get a complete checkup of the cell. but most of the

again, the official line from brussels is no renegotiation. on top of that, some conservative mps are threatening to do anything to block a no—deal brexit, even if that means bringing down a tory prime minister. both candidates are hoping that a fresh face in downing street will prompt some goodwill from the eu. it is not impossible, but huge political uncertainty lies ahead. vicki young reporting, there. two of england's key players may not be able to play in tomorrow's women's world cup quarterfinal against norway. captain steph houghton was injured during england's victory over cameroon on sunday, while fellow centre—back millie bright has picked up a virus. but manager phil neville says he's confident that his back—up players are ready to step up to the challenge if his first choices are ruled out of the game. the dalai lama says president trump lacks moral principle. in a rare interview, he also shared some controversial views on women. the buddhist spiritual leader fled to india from tibet in 1959 after china sent in thousands of t

secretary kerry in rome arriving in brussels today for emergency talks ahead of a meeting tomorrow of all eu leaders. >> i'm absolutely convinced, president obama is absolutely convinced, that we will be able to work through this in a sensible, thoughtful way that takes the best strengths of the eu, the best strengths of the marketplace, the best interest of our national security. >> reporter: the man in charge of the britain's financing addressing the crisis in an early morning news conference attempting to calm european markets. >> it will not be plain sailing in the days ahead. let me be clear you should not underestimate our resolve. we were prepared for the unexpected and we are equipped for whatever happens. >> reporter: britain will take its time before leaving the european union, he said, but the united kingdom is deeply divided this morning. both main political parties heading for leadership elections and an online petition calling for a revote on the referendum and facebook reports of racist threats on europeans across the u.k. the pope yesterday urging unity and understandi

around the united states and around the world, from sydney's iconic harbor to terrace guard paris and brussels. celebrations in the windy city buffered by concrete barriers. here in new york revelers will be confined to pens, stretching 17 blocks from times square, sharing the moment with 3,000 of their closest friends in each pen. multiple bag checks are to be expected. no umbrellas, weapon, backpacks or large bags will be allowed. partiers here will be coated with one ton of confetti at midnight as they work to make sure this is known for a fabulous celebration and nothing else. >> happy new year to you. thank you. >> look at national headlines. tens of thousands in new england are waking up in the dark and the cold this new year's eve. digging out from the most powerful nor easter in two years. the power and speed of the falling snow surprised forecasters. maine, hardest hit with two feet of snow in some places. nearly 100,000 people were without power at the height of the storm there and it could be days before electricity is restored. >>> a dramatic rescue overnight at an amuse m park. 21

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the instability is all down still to the future of europe which could be charted in brussels on friday. before that, though, the ecb seems set to lower interest rated for the second time in two months as it tries to kick start the region's economy. but with the ratings agency standard & poors put the not just euro zone governments but the whole eu as a whole on credit downgrade watch, recovery still seems like a distant dream. i wonder with this latest credit watch, nina, does it make a difference to people's opinions what happens as far as credit ratings go in europe? >> people have been saying that for a long time, steven. given the kind of risks of a recession in this region and the risks to the single currency, people have been saying for a long time, perhaps aa is the new aaa for this particular region. tonight's europe's leaders will have plenty to chew on as they sit down for a dinner ahead of friday's crucial conference. after a 20-month struggle to save the euro, the big question is could this prove to be the last supper for some of these leaders? jim bolden joins us live on t

. >>> secretary of state hillary clinton is in brussels this morning briefing nato on the new u.s. war strategy in afghanistan. today, nato said that at least 2 they will send an additional 10,000 troops next year as the u.s. gears up to send 30,000 new troops. meantime, a new marine offensive is set up to cut off supply lines in taliban strongholds. >>> today president obama goes to pennsylvania to talk about jobs and the economy. at a job summit on thursday, he urged more than 100 ceos and small business leaders to consider new ways to get companies hiring again. cnbc's trish regan is at the new york stock exchange. and trish, jobs are also the focus there. >> oh, they sure are, ann. good morning. jobs very much in focus. the unemployment rate is what everyone is going to be focusing on today. the reality is that we have seen some signs of an economic recovery, but at the end of the day, everything comes down to employment. if people do not have jobs, they will not spend. 70% of this economy is based on the consumer. so, this jobs report is very critical. the market's watching it

it doesn't matter if you are looking for suicide bombers entering airport check-in halls at brussels or suicidal pilots as with germanwings or as we see today, an individual that is prepared to hijack an aircraft. the best security technique that we can deploy at airports worldwide and on airlines worldwide is behavioral analysis. this incident really sort of takes me back ten years. it seems to be remarkably similar to a turkish airline hijacker when an individual hijacked from albania to istanbul. >> philip, we have to leave it there. we will get back to you in a moment, we hope. we are looking at pictures here of what's happening on the tarmac. you see the map of the diverse. passengers held on the hijacked plane. "new day" picking up the story right after this break. why do so many businesses rely on the us postal service? because when they ship with us, their business becomes our business. that's why we make more e-commerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country. here, there, everywhere. united states postal service priority:you and to connect us with thes twonderme

. >>> now, leaders of the european union are meeting in brussels at this hour and two disputes with poland are expected top the agenda. they say the treaty blocks the very foundation and poland's treatment of refugees also isn't letting them in. and some accuse border guards really of pushing them back into belarus. cnn's fred pleitgen has been following this and joins me on set. there is so much we can get into. let's start first on where europe stands with this working situation at the border. we have heard from your reporting throughout the week that the eu believes lukashenko is orchestrating this. from that side, what can the eu do leer? >> that's really the big question. it's one of the things when you hear about the criticism that many have of poland, the eu always couches that and says, look, we believe lukashenko is very much at fault in all of this because he's the one, they say, who is manufacturing all this. he's the one who is essentially telling people to come there and then pushing, literally pushing them across the border. we've talked to refugees who said they were driven

yesterday, in brussels, we saw the european union security chiefs get together, they're working on a plan that's a mix of things. first, they would black list countries, not just yemen and somalia but terror-based and getting full access to terror bases so they can pluck anything from anyone from anywhere that looks fishy, also, more sharing of information, more tightening of security. yes, this will cost money. and the german interior minister yesterday, martha, summed it completely, he said if this is going to be more expensive, then it will be more expensive, no security is for free. back to you. martha: got to do what you got to do. thank you very much, greg palkot from london. bill: we're going to bring in mike baker in 30 minutes, he has stunning things to say about how this pro-- process has worked or not worked going back to 9/11. stay tuned for that. it's something you need to hear about. >> in the meantime they are paying the price for allegations of voter fraud, a former member of acorn cut ago deal and you would not believe the allegation from 2008 that is now sending her

not happy at all with the outcome of these week long negotiations that have taken place in geneva, in brussels and vienna over the course of the last seven days. lavrov saying he wants to see a written response from the united states and from nato about what works, what doesn't work in terms of their core demands. remember, those demands are pretty far reaching and been cast out as unacceptable by the united states. namely that nato should not expand any further eastwards and countries already accepted into nato after the fall of the soviet union should have forces inside them withdrawn. the russians have said that there are other compromises that have been put out there, but they're not interested in taking a compromise on that issue. they say they're serious about those demands being met, and they're not, in the words of sergei lavrov, playing a game. >> matthew, thank you. >>> meanwhile, in ukraine, the message from kiev is clear. europe must not turn a blind eye to what's happening. >> if europe wants to sleep well and to feel that their democracy is safe, they should invest in ukraine's d