scheme. these things happen, at all levels of government. but, that wasn t what this was. this was something stranger. michigan township, part of a statewide investigation. sources tell news a, michigan state police raided irving township home, and berry county, this past friday. this, after someone was allegedly given improper access to voting machines. the investigation, starting here in roscommon county. michigan state police say, there, a third party, allegedly, was given unauthorized access to voter tabulation machines, and data drives. state police confirmed, the investigation has since spread to several other counties in the state, but would not, explicitly, confirm if irving township was on that list. they say this township in the hall, is part of the investigation. state police, rating the town hall, investigating whether someone was given unauthorized access to voting machines. the township supervisor, later confirming, a state police seized voting tabulator
so, my call to action today is simple. tear off a small piece from your commencement program, and write life is for service on it. yes, we gave you the pens to really do it. up and on that no, i wish you a good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with, us i will see you next week. thanks for staying up late doctor anthony fauci, joining us later on. we ll be asking, him how do we understand this rise in covid cases, across the country? how worried should we be that new funding, to fight covid, is still, bottled up in congress? let me start tonight with the story picked up last week in western michigan. sources tell the nbc affiliate at the town hall, more of the communities they covered, were like raided by law enforcement. if your reporter, and here the town hall is rated, your mind goes to corruption, graft, or some small town embezzlement scheme. these things happen, at all levels of government. but, that wasn t w
coronavirus, cases in the united states about the rise. this, week the delia cases are climbing a little more steeply, as our hospitalizations. which is a key metric to tell how well our health care system will keep us afloat as cases do rise. we re now averaging 20,000 covid hospitalizations a day. that s much lower than the peak that we had during the omicron spike lost winter. just about not just when we were last summer, as delta began to search. and sunday just to the hospital. covid else are still trending slightly downward at the moment, a bit of a relief as we mark a total of 1 million dead from covid this week in the united states. we ve done a lot to defying this virus, this is not spring of 2020. we ve got the tools we need to test, to treat, and to prevent the virus from overwhelming us. so this upward trend of cases and hospitalizations may not be all that alarming. at least not in the united states who are testing hadn t tapered off. or were social protections haven t dro
and sunday just to the hospital. covid else are still trending slightly downward at the moment, a bit of a relief as we mark a total of 1 million dead from covid this week in the united states. we ve done a lot to defying this virus, this is not spring of 2020. we ve got the tools we need to test, to treat, and to prevent the virus from overwhelming us. so this upward trend of cases and hospitalizations may not be all that alarming. at least not in the united states who are testing hadn t tapered off. or were social protections haven t dropped. or congress had actually pass the funding needed for more vaccines, treatments, contests. and where we weren t all expecting an even bigger covid wave in the fall. but unfortunately, we don t live in the united states, live in this one where the white house is recent multiple pleas for congress to please pass covid funding have gone unheeded.