massachusetts. reporter: and, yasmin, certainly a lot of concerns and questions, and they are part of a larger investigation at this point. right now it is still unclear what their intentions were. yasmin. ben, so break this down for us. identified what they re calling themselves, the moorish americans or the rise of the moors, going by two separate names there. the southern poverty law center has been tracking this group for quite sometime. what do we know about these guys? yes, the moorish sovereign citizens are an offshoot of sovereign citizen ideology. it states that the united states has been a corporation and they ve been in their eyes unlawfully extracting taxes from citizens throughout the united states. the united states is no longer a country and that, you know, people are allowed to, like, basically move throughout the country as they will without paying taxes or without paying for services, things like that. this is one of the several
welcome back, everybody. we are following breaking news. president, of course, making his visit on the america s back together tour in travers city, michigan. he is visiting a local store in that area celebrating the country s progress since he has taken office, especially with covid-19 and the pandemic. we are having some technical issues, of course, in covering the president, but we will be following his tour throughout the day and checking back in with our own mike memoli who will be joining us at the top of the 4:00 p.m. hour to bring us an update on the president s visit throughout the day. so with this americans are also expected to travel in record numbers this holiday weekend. air travel alone has already exceeded pre-pandemic levels for the first time as july 4th approaches, but all of that driving and flying is coming with new concerns, of course, over the delta variant and its spread. nbc s scott cohn is in san jose, california, covering the story for us. thanks for joinin
made to getting back to pre-pandemic life is so important and that s what the president is touting today. what the president is doing is calling attention to the fact that the white house is still trying to encourage americans who haven t been vaccinated to do so. i want to swing around and show you part of what we are seeing here at the festival today is a vaccine tent. now, travers county where we are here in michigan is close to the national average in terms of 66% of adults here have been vaccinated. the numbers are far lower in the counties that surround here, the more rural and more republican-leaning we should note, counties. part of the hope is that as a big event like this draws people from all over from surrounding counties, that this is an opportunity for them to just to have the ease of access to get the vaccination. i did ask some of the folks working the tent how much business they re doing here. they had just three vaccines distributed an hour ago. it is up to seven no
temperatures, the season in which the south is dealing with. you have another doctor from the south from the state of alabama telling nbc news essentially when we see lower vaccine uptake in places that roll back restrictions and variants like delta spreading, that is exactly what we infectious disease doctors worry about. yeah, that s right, yasmin. i ll actually kind of double down and add a fourth factor. that s return to school. about a quarter of new cases are in children who are unvaccinated. they can be 18 or younger. we know we can get a vaccine for 12 to 18, but we ve talked about about how that is not a very popular option for many children. so there are children driving these cases. they re mild cases. they re not ending up in the hospital, but we have to watch that very closely. so i would say it is all three things, low vaccine rate, a more infectious variant and then kind of the seasonality, but also kind of what we are doing as americans. we are talking about record tr
i think her i think the pressure to be perfect for someone like her is intense. gwen berry was telling me for the op-ed, if you are not perfect and you are someone who might already be vulnerable, that everything is taken from you. i think that s so sad. it is. lindsey crouse, thanks for joining us. appreciate it. coming up, everybody, the delta variant and vaccines with rising cases of this highly infectious strain of covid concerns, the country could be facing yet another outbreak. what you need to know as americans celebrate the first 4th of july out of lockdown. plus, an unbelievable scene in japan as a wall of water and mud decimates a town. we ll be right back. when you have nausea, heartburn, ingestion, upset stomach. diarrheaaaa. pepto bismol coats your stomach