in the coming weeks, you can actually find a little availability for shows that were really in demand for the pandemic. that is not super common, but over all, the broadway league says the ticket sales are strong. lindsay and candace? all right, joe fire. thanks, make sure to tune, he has a whole special on the return of broadway tomorrow, streaming at nbc news. we forget how impactful broadway is. the vast majority of tourists come to new york, you thinking they come to rockefeller center, but they come for broadway. broadway employs about 100,000 people. so it has been a rough 18 months. all of those restaurants? it is an entire economy, fueled by this industry. we have our tickets. yes, we do. all right, it is a new hour, right here at msnbc, starting right now. right now. first up on msnbc, fake tips, boycotts, the focus on
that s all for this edition of dateline. i m natalie morales. thank you for watching. first up on msnbc, nearly 12 million americans are set to lose at least some of federal unemployment benefits tomorrow. in what is being called, the biggest benefits cliff in u.s. history, comes hiring slow dramatically last month, and covid cases surge. now, president biden is being urged to take action without congress. plus my state has honestly lost their minds. it is time to start to pass policies that will respect each
16-year-old devon as you can see is on crutches. she s an avid volleyball player, take a look at her here, this is before the collapse. she says the rehabilitation she s going through is being energized by her desire to get back out there on the court with her teammates. the gonzales family lost every tangible thing they own in this collapse but remarkably their pet cat binks survived and has since been reunited with the family, offering some small measure of comfort. kendis, lindsey. our thanks to kerry sanders there, some remarkable reporting, and just remarkable survival story for those folks. you were saying i can t believe it s been 70 days, you know. hasn t been that long at all. right. well, we are beginning a new hour right here on msnbc, right now. first up on msnbc, a win for
the president and ceo alexis mcgill johnson joins us live this morning. ms. johnson thank you so much for being here. really appreciate it. let s start with that court decision we learned about overnight. a win, is it, for your organization? tell us how you came about with this strategy of this temporary restraining order and how it felt to have a judge side with the organization, at least at this point. well, look, i mean, it s clear, sb-8 was designed not only to deny texans the right to a abortion that they ve been guaranteed for the last almost 50 years, but it also cruelly empowered this vigilante bounty hunter strategy and really was incentivizing, has been incentivizing people to surveil and harass people in our clinics and so we ve seen, you know, people staking out health centers, increased surveillance, suspicious calls, threatening our patients and so this is a win for protecting our patients, nurses, clinic staff, and ensuring, you know, that, you know, people have the
that s all for this edition of dateline. i m natalie morales. thank you for watching. first up on msnbc, new developments in the texas abortion fight. a district judge siding with planned parenthood, temporarily blocking an anti-abortion group from suing them under the state s strict new law that bans abortions after six weeks, the white house now vowing to fight back as a press secretary s exchange with a male reporter goes viral. he believes that it s up to a woman to make those decisions and up to a woman to make those decisions with her doctor. i know you ve never faced those