jha standing by. how this would work. but we begin with president biden, a short time ago on capitol hill meeting with house democrats. moderates and progressives together behind closed doors. and we have just learned tonight the president appearing to float a compromise. his domestic agenda at stake. two key bills. the $1 trillion bill for roads, bridges, broadband and jobs. the larger one that would expand child care, health-care, and fight climate change. the price tag on that bill making news now. sources say presidents floated a new price tag, a range he hopes moderates and progressives will embrace. the question tonight -- will it work? and what the president said when asked, will both bills pass, and when? rachel scott leading us off from the hill again tonight. >> reporter: with his domestic agenda on the line, president biden today traveling to capitol hill to try and unite his own party. mr. president, any compromise? >> permission to come aboard. >> reporter: the president meeting with house democrats for just

jha helping us to break through it all once again tonight. always great to have you, doctor, see you soon. >>> we are also following a two dropping headline o movie shoot tonight. here's matt gutman developments. >> reporter: tonight, the deadly real life horror unfolding on the set of axico. >> we have a person who was shot accidentally. >> reporter: authorities confirming a prop gun discharged during the filming of a scene of the upcoming western movie "rust" starring alec baldwin. twd -year-old woman was images from the old church set blocked off. officials halting production of the film. the sheriff's department saying that this remains an active investigation. investigators ar at that movie set turned possible crime scene and police investigation will likely hinge on why and how that prop gun misfired in what appears to be a fatal accident. david? >> all right, matt gutman tonight. matt, thanks. >>> we continue with the news here and from capitol hill late today, the house voting to move forward, including nine republicans, voting to rec

jha is standing by to answer questions on that. but first, abc's kaylee hartung in l.a. >> reporter: tonight, the city of los angeles spaszi passing a sweeping new vaccine mandate. customers will now need to show proof of vaccination or a negative covid test not only at bars, clubs and big events but also at indoor restaurants, gyms, shopping malls, nail salons, movie theaters, and venues like the staples center starting november 4th. l.a. joining new york to become one of the strictest cities in the nation. hair stylist fred herdst knows heaye sters,ut sees the n r now the city of l.a. is saying you must require proof of vaccination. and you'll ask without hesitancy? >> yes i will. i've been hoping kind of for this to happen, because this needs to stop. this needs to stop. it's getting out of control. >> reporter: but for weeks, thousands of workers protesting vaccine mandates from employers have been willing to lose their jobs. and tonight, some americans could face even more dire consequences for not getting the shot. in colorad

jha is here in a moment, as well. but first tonight, the new details. that key fda advisory panel reviewing pfizer's data, which they say shows the vaccine is safe and 91% effective at preventing symptomatic infection in children. the experts today weighing the benefits against the risks. one fda official arguing children 5 to 11 are far from being spared the harm of covid. not just the primary similar m toms but possible long-haul symptoms, as well. as we all know, the fda usually follows quickly with an official authorization, then the cdc, which means shots could begin for the 28 million american children eligible by next week. abc's steve osunsami leading us off tonight from the cdc in atlanta. >> reporter: the vote this evening was nearly unanimous. with 17 yeses and one abstention, an fda advisory panel says that the benefits far outweigh any risk, and they're saying yes to the pfizer vaccine for children 5 to 11 years old. >> we don't want children to be dying in covid, even if it is far fewer children than adults, and we don't want them in the i

ashish jha, great to see you in person. come back often. >>> we continue with the news this wednesday night and the breaking headline from washington at this hour. democrats and republicans have reached a temporary deal now on the debt ceiling, preventing the u.s. economy from taking that major hit. at least for now. rachel scott on the hill tonight. >> reporter: tonight, senate republicans and democrats striking a temporary deal to prevent the american economy from going over a cliff. >> hopefully republicans will be more reasonable in the next couple months. >> reporter: the nation will default on its loans two weeks from today if congress fails to raise the debt ceiling. it's never happened before. and the potential consequences would be devastating. >> my republican friends need to stop playing russian roulette with the u.s. economy. >> reporter: earlier today, president biden, business laders and top officials sounding the alarm. >> we would likely experience a recession. millions of jobs would be lost. millions of sen

jha with us here again tonight. we thank you, as always. >>> we turn next tonight to the first nor'easter of the season. 40 million people on alert as we go into this evening hours, from north carolina all the way up to maine. and states of emergency already in new york and new jersey at this hour. the storm rapidly intensifying. a potential bomb cyclone with powerful winds. up to 75-mile-per-hour wind gusts just in the coming hours tonight. the storm developing rapidly today. flooding rains on the brooklyn-queens expressway here in new york. an ambulance making its way through the high water on staten island. high surf and pounding waves on the shore, this is clinton, connecticut, right here. and homes boarded up in scituate, massachusetts, tonight, they're bracing for hurricane-force wind gusts. let's get right to senior meteorologist rob marciano, not only tracking this, but also this new cross-country storm which will move into the east later in the week. hey, rob. >> reporter: hi, david. very active and after t

ashish jha standing by to answer your questions in a moment. we'll ask him about mixing and matching. but first, whit johnson here and what this key cdc panel just decided. >> reporter: tonight, those long awaited recommendations for moderna and johnson & johnson booster shots, along with guidance for americans considering mixing and matching boosters. >> vote number one passes with 15 yes, ses and 0 nos. >> reporter: a cdc panel voting unanimously to recommend that people who got moderna get a booster shot at least 6 months after vaccination. for people over 65 and any adult whose health or work puts them at higher risk. and for the 15 million johnson & johnson recipients, a second dose recommended at least two months after vaccination, for anyone over 18. the panel also allowing americans to have flexibility to choose a different vaccine brand for a booster. >> well, i think we've gotten more clarity because it's leveling the playing field across all three vaccines. now there's an openness to boosting no matter what vaccine you got, but there

jha, always great to have you here. you know, it seems this blueprint for the moderna boosters today recommended by this panel, very similar to what we saw with the pfizer boosters. 65 and older first, along with 18 and older if you have a health condition or a job that puts you at higher risk. one thing i thought was interesting, though, today, moderna's booster will be given as a half dose, 50 micrograms. that's compared to 100 micrograms in their first two shots. so, why a half shot when we were getting a full shot of pfizer for a booster? was moderna a more powerful shot to begin with? >> yeah, so, david, thank you for having me back. first of all, they absolutely follow the same blueprint, same groups of individuals, high risk people getting the booster. and the half dose is because, in fact, the original dose of moderna is more powerful than the original dose of pfizer, so the evidence says you really only need a half dose to get the benefits of the booster. >> what the data shows so far. i know they're going to t

jha, last question to you. we're seeing these panels and recommendations for boosters coming out, and we believe these approvals will continue to come. is it your sense that we will need boosters going forward, that we may all get a second or third booster now, but then, down the road, six month, a year, two years, that we might be doing this, reuing these over and over again? >> yeah, that is my sense. i think, given the contagiousness of delta and given that my sense is it's going to be the variant that's going to be with us for a while, we'll see periods of time where you have waiting immunity and people are going to need to get revaccinated or boosted up again. my best guest is it will probably be annual for a while the way we get flu shots, and that is something our system can handle. our system can handle that. but i think the idea this would be the last shot we ever get in our lives, probably not. we should be ready for the next few years, maybe an annual booster for this virus. >> reporter: all right, d

jha standing by to answer your questions. >>> also, the breaking news here in new york city late today in a case that made national headlines. the college student murdered in a city park, the violent attack on the stairs. tonight, the sentence for one of the teenagers who pleaded not guilty. 14 at the time of the attack. and the new and difficult images of tessa majors' final moments. her father leaving the courtroom, unable to watch. >>> tonight, thousands of american workers on strike. workers at john deere arguing if the company is making more, we deserve better pay. thousands striking at other companies, too, including kellogg. and now hollywood bracing for a potential walkout, too. >>> tonight, what's behind those empty shelves and driving prices up in this country. the supply chain grid lock on both coasts. and we ask, what's inside those containers still unopened? it's eye-opening. what this means in the weeks ahead and for christmas. >>> overseas tonight, the new developments after that deadly terror rampage in norway. the bow and arrow attack. several dead. and what we've now

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ashish jha. we've never actually met in person after all of these mo months -- nths of your being he. >> this is a big deal for us. it's great to see you. >> this is a big deal for us it's gre we had great happy news.u. we had great happy news. every time we have t every time we have this kind of a moment, we say to ourselves, ? is this finally the end? at this moment, do you think we're kind of on the tail end of this horrible virus? >> we have definitely turned a corner i think the worst is behind us we still have some rocky days ahead. we've got a winter to get through. we got the flu season. but i think the worst is behind us >> that's encouraging. >> it's really wonderful to hear you say that after all we've heard over the months. i had heard another expert talking about how the merck pill which is potentially going to be approved by the fda, and it's a therapy, combined with kids getting vaccinated, those two things that could be potentially weeks away might finally be the thing that breaks

ashish jha, dean of the brown university school of public health. dr. jha, thanks for joining us. now that kids 5 to 11 could start getting vaccinated as soon as next wednesday, a week from today, parents understandably still have a lot of questions. some parents are concerned about the size of pfizer's vaccine trial. there were 2,268 participants ages 5 to 11. is that enough data to demonstrate safety? >> good evening, wolf. thanks for having me here. that is very good amount of data but also we have to remember in a broader context. there have been 15 million kids ages 12 to 17 who have also gotten the vaccine. and while that's a slightly different group, their experience matters a lot as well. so we know a lot about these vaccines. they are the most tested and most carefully examined vaccines in the history of humanity. i think the 2,000 on the 5 to 11-year-olds really adds a lot to that and gives me confidence as a dad of a 9-year-old that these vaccines are quite safe and very effective. >> many adults experienced the mild side effects after vaccination, including fever, body

jha, thank you for joining us as always. you've been predicting that most americans will end up getting a booster shot. but by early next year. so could this mixing and matching of the vaccine speed up that timeline big time? >> good morning. thank you for having me back. yeah, first and foremost, i think people who are older, people who are chronically ill, they need a booster. and whether you got a moderna, pfizer, j&j, doesn't matter, you need a booster and you should get one. the mixing and matching thing says it doesn't matter which booster you get. if you have the moderna shot before, you can get another mod moderna, pfizer. it is fine. i do think this will speed this up. high risk people should be getting boosters now. i expect lower risk people to be getting a booster maybe later this year or early next year. >> the new york times reporting that an nih study presented last week to the fda's advisory panel suggested that johnson & johnson recipients might be the ones who benefit the most from the booster shot and mode

jha. he's the dean of the brown university school of public health. it's great to have you with us, dr. jha. first and foremost as also martha just alluded to, our condolences to the powell family. as we continue to think of them this morning, we know that colin powell was fully vaccinated, leading to some questions. what should people know, dr. jha? >> good morning. first of all, he really was a great american. i think all of us feel sad knowing his passing. what we know is these vaccines are working incredibly well, but they are not perfect. for people who are immunocompromised the way general powell was, they rely not just on the vaccine, which will not work as well for immunocompromised people, but they also count on the rest of us to keep infection rates low. unfortunately, we know that break through infections can happen, and for people who are vulnerable, it can be quite deadly. >> general powell was not the only breakthrough case. according to the cdc, of the more than 700,000 people who have died of covid, 7,000 of those deaths were breakthro

ashish jha, dean of the brown university school of public health. what's your take on the fda advisory committee decision on the johnson & johnson booster? >> thanks for having me back. i think it was clearly the right call. clearly wasn't a close call. 19-0. j&j is a very good vaccine. i also believe it's probably a two-shot vaccine. probably one is not enough. and everybody who has had one needs a second one two months after the first. they are going to get full protection if they do that. >> as you saw, a va study shows a shocking drop in vaccine effectiveness when they looked at veterans who had gotten the johnson & johnson vaccine in march. protection against infection was 88% for the j&j dose. by august it dropped to 3%. do we risk losing lives if the cdc doesn't approve this extra dose immediately? >> no doubt about it, cdc needs to move quickly. still have good protection against hospitalizations and deaths but not enough. so we do need to move quickly on that second shot. that drop is a combination of waning immunity and the delta variant g

ashish jha, the dean of the brown university school of public health. i want to get your opinion on what we heard from the cdc director dr. rochelle walensky earlier today. >> if you are eligible for a boost and you're pregnant, you should also get your boost during that period of time and i would say for nursing as well. >> would you also encourage pregnant women to get a booster? >> yeah, jaike. absolutely. pregnant women are at high risk of bad complications of covid. it's very dangerous in pregnancy. i agree with the cdc director. if you're pregnant and have been vaccinated, good time to get a boost if you're six months out from your second shot. >> pfizer has data showing its smaller dose vaccine, about one-third of the size of the vaccine, for kids is nearly 91% effective in preventing the kids from getting any sort of symptomatic covid infection. put that in perspective for us. how promising might this be for ending the pandemic? >> two things on this. first of all, it's phenomenal. a high level of efficacy. this is the kind of stuff we saw early

jha standing by to answer your questions. >>> also, the breaking news here in new york city late today in a case that made national headlines. the college student murdered in a city park, the violent attack on the stairs. tonight, the sentence for one of the teenagers who pleaded guilty. 14 at the time of the attack. and the new and difficult images of tessa majors' final moments. her father leaving t

ashish jha, good to see you. what do you think of these proposed changes in who should be taking an aspirin every day as a preventive measure? they're saying if you're over 60, if you've had a history of a stroke or heart attack take the aspirin but don't just take it preventively if you haven't. >> thanks for having me back. i think back to medical school when i first learned about prevention of heart attacks and strokes with aspirin. it became dogma but over the last 20 years the evidence has accumulated that for a lot of people the risks clearly outweigh the benefits. and so elizabeth's report really got it right. basically if you've had a heart attack or stroke, continue it. obviously, work with your doctor. if you have not, the evidence at this point for most people is that it's probably not worth it. the costs probably outweigh the benefits. consult with your doctor but don't just automatically start an aspirin. >> this recommendation for low-dose aspirin every day has been standard medical advice for years

jha here now. doc, same basic question to you. you hear all the time about the peoples trust or lack thereof in the doctors of fauci and the politicians who talk to them about vaccines. but people trust their own doctors and they trust their kids pediatricians. how important will those individual doctors, those local connections be in getting these new shots into the arms of the youngest potential patients here? >> yeah, i think it's going to be enormously important. i think what i say to folks is they should not listen to politicians. they should listen to their own pediatrician, and they should listen to our nation's pediatricians, the american academy of pediatrics which i think has been a fabulous leader in terms of the pandemic trying to protect kids. there's no question in my mind kids 5 to 11 should be getting vaccinated. i have a 9-year-old i don't know he's excited about getting a needle but he's excited about getting vaccinate. and he will. and the bottom line is people need to have that conversation with a pediatrician,

jha standing by to answer your questions. >>> also, the breaking news here in new york city late today in a case that made national headlines. the college student murdered in a city park, the violent attack on the stairs. tonight, the sentence for one of the teenagers who pleaded not guilty. 14 at the time of the attack. and the new and difficult images of tessa majors' final moments.

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ashish jha, dean of the brown university school of public health. dr. jha, thanks for joining us. let's talk about this fda meting on boosters, moderna and johnson & johnson. should we expect they'll be approved? >> yeah, good morning, george. thanks. i do. the data on johnson & johnson is overwhelmingly clear. little less clear on whether you need the moderna booster but i think overall it leans that way and i expect both of them to get authorized. >> what do you make of this idea of mixing of boosters? if you got the j&j first, you can get the moderna or pfizer booster? >> it makes a lot of sense. we have that new data out mentioned in the last report. i don't think it's a big deal if you got a moderna or pfizer to mix it. it's clearly safe and probably is not much more beneficial. where there appears benefit is adding a moderna or pfizer to a j&j vaccine. preliminary data, but there is some evidence tat may be better off. >> should make it easier to distribute, right? >> yeah, i mean, we've got right now plenty of all of these vaccines and so really at this point, any booster i

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ashish jha serves as dean as the brown university school of health. who should be getting the shot and when? >> good morning, thanks for having me here. yes, this is a very tiny portion of people who are very profoundly immunocompromised. the vaccine doesn't work super well for them and they may be people who need vaccines on an ongoing basis for a long period of time. again, obviously if you are on medicines that compromise your system, chemotherapy, cancer, talk to your doctor about it. this is a tiny group of americans. >> so is this the beginning of something that will eventually trickle down to everybody, are you saying this is the first kind of salvo in getting a fourth shot or more for everybody else? >> you know, the way i look at it is, i've probably gotten 20 flu shots in my life, i get one every year. could we imagine we get to a point a fourth or a fifth over the next several years, sure. this could be an annual booster for a while. i don't think people are going to need it every six months for a long period of time. all the evidence right

ashish jha on the "today" show and get your thoughts. take a look at this. >> in the next few weeks we'll hear the fda authorize johnson & johnson. i think they'll authorize moderna. >> for booster shots. >> booster shots, absolutely. kids will get authorized for vaccines. and then the pill. boy, we go into thanksgiving and the holidays with a whole new set of tools, it's really going to be helpful. that's what makes me optimistic that we'll have a better holiday season. >> do you share his optimism? do you think the worst is behind us? >> well, you know, i share his optimism in the sense that it is exciting that we'll have these new tools. and with each of these new interventions, we come one step closer to getting ourselves out of this epidemic. you know, i think the biggest problem is compliance and acceptance of these new technologies, and that's where we see this pretty high level of resistance, refusal, in regional areas of the country. so things are going to look very different in the northeast and the west coast than they will up

ashish jha. always great to have you with us. when i heard this that the white house was putting it out it signaled two things. they're starting a full court press ahead of that meeting for potential eua recommendation and the fact that they are driving home this point that they are targeting 25,000 doctor office community health centers. this is all about making parents more comfortable and putting it in a setting that they know. >> yeah, good morning. thank you for having me back. there are several things going on here. one is just the logistical stuff. these are different doses than the ones for adults. what we don't want to do, what happened with the trump administration is there was no plan for implementation. we don't want to do that. we want a plan ready for implem implementation, so the day after the cdc signs off on it, kids can start to get vaccinated. a lot of parents are extra careful about their children and want to turn to their trusted voices, pediatricians among them. the white house is working with pediatricians

jha of brown university document his own experience sitting beside an unvaccinated woman who did not keep her mask on during the flight. . 's conclusion -- the u.s. should require proof of vaccinations or a negative covid test to get on the plane. >> if they made it more acceptable for people to get the -- accessible to get the test, easier. where i'm from tomatoes hard to get the test. >> if they do it, it will be safer not just me, for everybody who flies. u.s. travel association says it is against a vaccine mandate for domestic air travel. it says the policy would have an unfair negative impact on families with young children who are not yet eligible for the vaccine. the airline lobbying group airlines for america says it also does not support a mandate. the group pointed to research showing that air travel with masks is safe. there's only one major airline left that is not requiring its employees to be vaccinated, to work and travel, delta airlines has no plans to mandate vaccines. a spokesperson says 84% of the company's staff is already vaccinated. delta employees are required

ashish jha, was on the "today" show where he addressed where he thinks we are in the pandemic. here's what he had to say. >> we have definitely turned a corner. i think the worst is behind us. we have lucky days ahead. i don't think we're out of this. a winter, flu season but i think the worst is behind us. >> i like that, jose. i would love to say for a couple of things. the reason i think he can say that with security is that we're seeing hospitalizations decline, usually the first sign that we're in kind of this phase where our surge is declining. if you're in alaska, idaho, some parts of our country, parts of the northeast this is exploding. keeping a close eye on michigan, an uptick in cases in parts of the state. the worst is behind us. i'm optimistic what is to come if we can continue to get people vaccinated. health care workers are breathing a sigh of relief but not everywhere in the country. >> also a major development in the efforts to fight another global health threat on wednesday, the world health organization recommend the first malaria vaccine should be given to

ashish jha from the brown university school of public health. thank you so much for joining us. as you know coronavirus cases and hospitalizations and deaths are all trending down a bit here in the united states. are we potentially turning a corner? >> yeah, thank you wolf for having me back. i think we are. i think we are. about three or four weeks ago we saw the surge of cases peak. especially in the south. they have come down substantially. we've seen a few states still increasing but mostly not at the levels that we saw and now deaths are turning down. exactly as we expect. i'm hoping this is the very worst behind us. obviously winter ahead, so we still have some bumps ahead. but i think the worst days of this pandemic should be behind us. >> these trends certainly are heading in the right direction now. but are you concerned that fall and winter potentially will bring new challenges and potentially new surges? >> i am. i am. look, the thing is that even though we are doing reasonably well on vaccines, we have to do much better because the delta variant is very good at findi

ashish jha told hoda and savannah he would like to see one. >> there's still a lot of unvaccinated people. i think if we want to get back to normal it's going to make a big difference. >> reporter: industry experts say travelers need to be flexible about their dates and destinations this year book rental cars now and be prepared for crowds. >> so besides being flexible, what are some other tips people should keep in mind while they're booking their holiday travel >> reporter: first of all, savannah, you want to check those refund policies on your hotels and your airfares you want to look for the customer-friendly ones and avoid nonrefundable tickets. also consider getting cancel my travel for any reason insurance. and then here's something that's really kind of counterintuitive. consider traveling internationally during thanksgiving week, because that's when those planes are much less crowded and fares could go down because the rest of us are all thinking about traveling domestically but of course you have to keep in mind the vaccination and covid restrictions when you travel abroad. >> i