and that s an amazing achievement for any local business. particularly to hit that achievement in what s been a tremendously difficult year for restaurants and bars everywhere. but to celebrate their 50th anniversary they had to get creative about how to celebrate. they apparently put together an lp of vinyl records, we local bands. all recording songs from the year that it was founded. all recording fat songs from 1970. one that s pretty cool. they also did a whole bunch of new merge, you can buy a onesie for your baby. you can buy a celebratory jar of their famous hell opinions. you can buy a collapsible grand isle s dan doggy bowl, for your dog. very handy. comes with a little carrier there. for $4 you can also buy the commemorative shot glass which says take the shot. it promotes covid vaccination. but this, year for their 50th year in business, they may also have a president for the whole country, a present for the constitution if you will.
that is all in for this tuesday evening, the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening rachel. good evening chris, thank you my friend. much appreciated. happy to join you this hour. president biden was in new york and of hurricane ida hitting just those two states. that extreme flash flooding that tore through the most populated part of the country last wednesday night, president biden today meeting with local officials and local residents about the ongoing cleanup efforts there. president biden was in louisiana on friday where 400,000 americans are now in their second week without power amid extreme heat in louisiana and extremely challenging conditions, conditions that get more and more challenging with each day passing with the power still not returned. reviewing the damage today, president biden said, quote, the evidence is clear. climb change poses an existential threat to our lives,
happen. and, of course, it s happening at the same time that a lot of other things are on the boil. on covid, the administration is making some new moves as well. the president today directing that $600 payments should be made to individual farmworkers and people who work in meat packing plants to compensate them for the extraordinary risk and thank them for the extraordinary service they provided the country during the covid pandemic. earlier agricultural aid and food supply chain aid had basically gone to the owners of those businesses, not to the low-level workers. biden had said 600 there are checks should go to low-level workers in those fields. as of this week we re back up to a steady stream of more than 1500 deaths every day from covid, which is impossible to swallow. and some states, states with lower vaccination rates, are having it even harder than others, harder than the rest of the country. in the great state of idaho today, state officials announced a decision they made q
and all the rest of it to. despite how popular it is. even among his own voters. . it s worth keeping that in mind over the course of these next few days. we shall see. i think by the end of this week we should know a lot more as of course it s happening at the same time that a lot of other things around the boil. covid, the administration is making some new moves as well the president today directing that 600 dollar payments should be made to individual farm workers and people who work in meatpacking plants. to compensate them for the extraordinary risk, and to thank them for the extraordinary service they provided the country during the covid pandemic. earlier agricultural aid and food supply chain aid and basically gone to the owner of this businesses. not to the low level workers president biden is now saying a 600 dollar checks to go out to low level workers in those fields. as of this week we are back up to a steady stream of more than
to our economy. the threat is here. it s not going to get any better. the storms are going to get worse and worse and worse. we have to listen to the scientists and the national security experts. they all tell us this is code red. the nation and the world are in peril. that is not hyperbole, that is a fact. president biden speaking today, again, on this trip to new york and new jersey. what, of course, he s proposing to do on climate is what s in his build back better plan, the big infrastructure bill that democrats are trying to pass. one thing to sort of have in mind over the next few days is that by the end of this week, we may not know definitively, but we should have a pretty good idea by the end of this week as to whether or not they ll be able to pass this infrastructure bill, as to whether or not president biden is going to be able to effectuate most of his policy agenda for his first term in office. it s an important horizon, i think, to set this week in particular. in politic