President Biden tours Hurricane damage in Louisiana; Source: WH may have to scale back ambitious booster plan; Job growth slows as delta variant surges;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 3 September 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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800K+ homes, businesses still without power in Louisiana; Louisiana grappling with power outages, fuel shortages; 2/3 of gas stations in New Orleans & Baton Rouge out of fuel; Heat index tops 100° in Louisiana as 800K+ are without power; Four nursing home patients die after being evacuated; LA gov pledges investigation into nursing home residents deaths; At least 50 killed in the northeast due to flooding, tornadoes; Sources: booster rollout on Sept 20 may be for just Pfizer vaccine recipients, Moderna recipients would have to wait; Moderna: booster data submission to FDA completed; Biden’s leadership tested this week: COVID, Afghanistan, deadly storms; U.S. adds 235,000 jobs in August, far fewer than expected; Manchin calls for “pause” on democrats $3.4T reconciliation bill; Evolution of Wisconsin’s GOP senator into a conspiracy promoter; GOP Wisconsin senator losing support amid his conspiracies & lies; GOP Wisconsin senator hasn’t said if he’ll run for re-election in 2022; Potential 2022 challengers take aim at WI GOP senator’s rhetoric; Biden speaks after touring Hurricane IDA damage in Louisiana; To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Out of a political storm and into a real one, the lead starts right now.
0:08.7	President Biden is touring the Louisiana coast right now and is expected to speak any minute
0:13.4	after Hurricane Ida leveled parts of the state and left a million people in the dark and
0:18.6	the death toll continues to rise a thousand miles away.
0:23.1	Breaking today, news scene and reporting on the battle over booster shots.
0:27.4	Dr. Fauci says they'll get you fully covered, but the FDA is now saying pump the brakes.
0:34.5	Plus bigoted statements and bogging down the process.
0:37.7	What once senior Trump advisor said about Afghan refugees that stunned the entire room.
0:48.5	Welcome to the lead.
0:49.5	I'm Caitlin Collins in for Jake Tapper and we begin this hour in Louisiana where President
0:54.1	Biden is expected to speak any moment after touring communities ravaged by Hurricane
0:58.9	Ida and meeting with state and local leaders.
1:02.0	Those hardest hit towns including Laplace where many neighborhoods are still swamped with
1:06.4	water.
1:07.4	More than 800,000 homes and businesses across the state still have no power five days
1:12.9	after the storm.
1:14.3	As victims deal with their destroyed homes, temperatures continue to swelter.
1:19.0	Right now in Baton Rouge, for example, the heat index is 105 degrees.
1:24.3	We're covering the aftermath of Ida all over the country, Miguel Marquez and Pasey, New
1:28.9	Jersey, Ed Lebendera and Laplace, Louisiana, and Arlette signs is live at the White House.
1:34.6	Arlette, I want to start with you.
1:36.5	What has been President Biden's message while he's been on the ground today for several
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