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JUDY WOODRUFF: In the day's 
other news: The short-term debt 
ceiling deal triggered a rally

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on Wall Street.

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The Dow Jones industrial 
average climbed 338 points to 
close at 34755. The Nasdaq rose

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152 points, and the S&P 500 added 36.

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Pfizer has officially asked the 
FDA to authorize its COVID-19 
vaccine for emergency use for

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children ages 5 to 11. That amounts 
to roughly 28 million American 
children. The FDA's advisers

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will meet to debate the evidence 
behind the request later this month.

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Meanwhile, President Biden traveled 
to a construction site outside 
Chicago today to tout the importance

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of vaccination requirements.

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JOE BIDEN, President of the 
United States: My message is: 
Require your employees to get

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vaccinated. With vaccinations, we're going 
to beat this pandemic finally.

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Without them, we face endless 
months of chaos in our hospitals, 
damage to our economy, and

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anxiety in our schools, and empty 
restaurants, and much less commerce.

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Also today, a new 
study published in the medical 
journal "Pediatrics" found

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that more than 120,000 American 
children have so far lost a 
primary caregiver during the

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pandemic. More than half of those children 
were either Black or Hispanic American.

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We will take a closer look at the COVID 
surge in Alaska later in the program.

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There were more signs today 
that the U.S. job market is 
improving, even as the pandemic

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lingers on. The U.S. Labor 
Department reported that the 
number of new jobless claims fell

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last week, for the first time 
in a month to 326,000. That's 
down 38,000 from the previous

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week, and the biggest drop in claims since 
late June.

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Flash flood warnings are in effect 
for much of the Southeastern 
U.S., after a slow-moving

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storm dumped as much as 13 inches of rain 
across Alabama. At least four people died

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when their vehicles were swept away. Roads 
near a grocery store in East Brewton were

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inundated with water. And 
overnight, in Hoover, rescue crews 
helped stranded drivers escape

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the floods.

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In Southern California, U.S. Coast 
Guard investigators boarded a 
massive German cargo ship today

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to determine whether its anchor 
may have ruptured an oil pipeline 
nearly a week ago. Officials

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are focusing on the ship's 
GPS tracking data prior to the 
spill off of Huntington Beach.

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They're looking into whether its 
anchor snagged and bent the pipeline.

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The governors of four Northeastern 
states agreed today to share 
data on firearms purchases

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in order to help curb gun crime. 
The Democratic governors from New 
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,

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and Connecticut said that the 
data will only be used by law 
enforcement. Current federal

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law prohibits the U.S. government 
from collecting gun sales 
records into a national registry.

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In Pakistan, a 5.9-magnitude 
earthquake killed at least 23 
people before dawn and injured

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200 more. It shook a remote 
district in the southwest 
province of Balochistan. As many

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as 100 mud homes in the mountainous region 
collapsed, leaving behind piles of rubble

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and burying residents in their sleep.

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GHULAM KHAN, Pakistan (through 
translator): Everyone, including 
women and children, were

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running here and there. We were 
scared and didn't know what 
to do. Later, the ambulances

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arrived and took the 
injured to the hospital.

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JUDY WOODRUFF: The area is 
also home to a number of coal 
mines, one of which collapsed

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during the quake, killing 
at least four miners.

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And this year's Nobel Prize for literature 
honored a Tanzanian novelist whose writing

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has explored the effects of 
colonialism. Abdulrazak Gurnah, who 
is based in the U.K., has penned

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10 novels. Most examined the 
plight of refugees. Gurnah is the 
first African to win this award

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in nearly two decades.

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Still to come on the "NewsHour": 
why Alaska's doctors are 
forced to ration care amid an

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overwhelming COVID surge; Haitian 
migrants face an uncertain 
future, as thousands more

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are expected to arrive at 
the U.S.-Mexico border; Lake 
Charles, Louisiana, emerges as

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a case study in the unequal effects 
of climate change; plus much more.