With infections still climbing across the United States, coronavirus becomes America's deadliest pandemic.

This, as the Biden administration, plans to relax travel restrictions for international visitors.

The question is, how will it impact the number of cases?

Plus, President Biden is in New York this morning for the United Nations General Assembly.

He will address world leaders in just a few hours. The question is, will he be able to reassure

foreign allies of America's leadership on the global stage? And Democrats up the ante in the

fight over the debt ceiling. Party leaders are planning to force Republicans to vote on a short-term

government funding measure that includes legislation to raise the nation's debt ceiling.

The question is, will this move help avoid a shutdown?

It's way too early for this.

Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that got stuck in UN gridlock traffic on the way in.

I'm Jonathan Amir on this Tuesday, September 21st. We'll start with the news.

According to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, COVID has now killed more Americans than the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.

CDC estimates show the 1918 flu killed about 675,000 Americans, while nearly 680,000 have died from coronavirus.

So far, more than 32,000 deaths have been recorded this month, compared with about 28,000 in August.

Right now, the United States is averaging about 2,000 deaths per day.

On Monday, Florida reported more than 1,000 coronavirus deaths to the CDC.

The Miami Herald reports, about 91% occurred over the past 28 days, and about half of those people died in the last two weeks.

Just in the last week, the Herald calculates that the state has added an average of 376 deaths each day, the highest ever reported.

Florida has recorded nearly 52,000 total deaths from the virus.

But while deaths might be increasing, cases are dropping.

In that same time span, the state added more than 8,800 cases to its daily total, the lowest

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