almaguire. some people are calling it a perfect storm just as more children go back to school. across the country the delta variant continues to do serious damage. more than 100,000 rarnts say they running low on icu beds. this comes as the new variant, officials are just trying to determine how dang trous is. they labelled it a variant of interest. meantime later on today, they outlined a new protect people from the delta variant. right no 177 million americans are fully vaccinated.
entirely. let s go straight to nbc s julia bagg. julia, you may have heard me talking with the mayor of the monroe county area there. it was mayor george nugent. i spoke to him. he is down in marathon in complete darkness. i told him about you when we last spoke. you were seeing power outages that had just happened. the transformers blowing. it looks even darker where you are now. indeed, alex. we, in fact, tried to move up a little bit to be able to show you a little more. where an area was lit just as you were speaking, not 60 seconds ago, the lights went out here again in this parking lot. it just makes things so dang trous be out on the roads. the good news is most people are not out here. we are being very careful. we actually sought shelter under an overhang. you re looking at u.s. 1. alex, you mentioned it, hundreds
well, you know, it s troubling and dang trous have a justice department to one that protect civil rights and one that cuts voting rits. we look to the justice department as an ally and now it would be an adversary. what we see in this trumpian move is this constant playing of racial politics. started with birtherism. talked about banning muslims and voter fraud and coded language. where the voting fraud is. this is a dangerous time. added to that, all of the attacks on voting rights which is why our people are marching this coming saturday in raleigh for the march of resistance in raleigh challenging all of these things together. gerrymanderi gerrymandering, muslim ban, the building of the walls. we have to be vigilant. this is a dangerous time for voting rights, civil rights.
respond as demonstrated by benghazi these are inducements for terrorists. make no mistake our nation is thrill threatened by terrorists we have been tragically reminded of that truth but we have to recognize the threat as shifted from the one that came to our shores on september 11th. is it dang trous down play the threat outside of the u.s.? there is nudging in the speech that suggest that had we re down playing anything. pj crowley served under president obama. we have to figure out in dealing with this challenge we ll confront this in the context of war. reporter: the problem, as bolden seize it is that way america dealt with terrorism before september 11th is what brought us september 11th. he said it brought us ben gaz yes as well. i m afraid that what would have to happen to get them to
it s lack of willingness to respond as demonstrated by benghazi these are inducements for terrorists. make no mistake our nation is thrill threatened by terrorists we have been tragically reminded of that truth but we have to recognize the threat as shifted from the one that came to our shores on september 11th. is it dang trous down play the threat outside of the u.s.? there is nudging in the speech that suggest that had we re down playing anything. pj crowley served under president obama. we have to figure out in dealing with this challenge we ll confront this in the context of war. reporter: the problem, as bolden seize it is that way america dealt with terrorism before september 11th is what brought us september 11th. he said it brought us ben gaz yes as well. i m afraid that what would have to happen to get them to