large cranes moving very heavy debris. that s a challenge they are attempting to work around right now. the focus very much remains on search and rescue. they are not calling it a recovery mission just yet. i asked how much closer are we today to finding out the cause of the collapse than we were 13 days ago when it took place. they say they have been tagging individual pieces of the debris in hopes of learning more about the collapse, but it s going to take months if not longer before the true cause of champlain towers south is found out, craig? hard to believe it has been 13 days, too. morgan chesky for us in surfside. a big thanks to all of you. we expect president biden to talk in just a few hours.
point. if it s not deemed critical infrastructure does it rise to the level the president feels he needs to use military cyber offensive action or some other steps. those are questions remaining unanswered, and questions we need to put to the president today, and he will speak later today on covid and other issues but not on this issue. what we have seen thus far, when they have been addressing some of these things, part of the biden administration s view is it can be effective working behind the public stage trying to resolve some of this, so there may be actions and decisions happening they have not disclosed yet publicly. that s part of what they will have to watch for as this develops further, craig. thank you. these devices, toughly 1 million
nbc senior white house reporter, shannon, joining us now. it sounds like it boils down to getting even more vaccines into communities that need it most. in addition to touting the goal of trying to get 70% of the population vaccinated, and the white house feels like they are weeks away from getting that, and the big issue is getting the vaccine to the unvaccinated pockets of the country, so these states where you have just about one-third of people who are fully vaccinated in place like alabama and mississippi, and they are already foreseeing the consequences of that with the surge in cases because of the delta variant. we expect to hear the president with renewed urgency, and they
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