That were seeing, the rate of the Testing Positives and the rate of hospitalizations based on what we are seeing, if we continue that trajectory within the next five to seven to ten days, i think were going to see failure of the Hospital System in mississippi. Hospitals are full from memphis to gulf port. Everything is full. Everything is full. That is just the reality now. And the virus is spreading at a terrifying rate. The state is requesting help from the federal government. A Field Hospital is now being set up in a Parking Lot that could be used to take care of older teenagers with coronavirus. And in texas, tents also going up outside of a Houston Hospital to handle an overflow of coronavirus patients. More children are hospitalized now in that state than ever before. Despite that, Governor Greg Abbott filed a Petition Yesterday to keep School Officials in dallas from protecting students by requiring masks. Now, some republican governors see things differently. In West Virginia,
Today. Also hearing from both leaders in separate Press Conferences, which is unusual. In about one hour. President Joe Biden will become the fifth u. S. President to sit down with russian president vladimir putin. The meeting in geneva this morning will be the highest Level Face to face talks between the two nations in three years. Along with joe, willie and me, we have washington anchor for the bbc, Katty Kay. Pulitzer prize winning columnist and nsnbc political analyst Eugene Washington and Associate Editor for the washington post, David Ignatius. And were all here. Loving it. This is fantastic. Its really, really good to have everybody in person and be able to connect. Here is how this morning is expected to play out. A lot is going to happen. The meeting will take place in a Lake Side Mansion in genevas largest park. President putin is expected to arrive first at 7 00 a. M. Eastern time. Well see if that happens. Followed by President Biden shortly thereafter. After being greeted
why does she have to step back? why is he keeping us out of the process? exactly. yeah, you give her one more time like you are going to do something. are you serious? no, you are not representing oh no, she s not under arrest, for what? for trying to see something that our governor is doing? our governor is signing a bill that affects all georgians. you are going to arrest about representative. why are you arresting her? that s what i am asking you. stop arresting her. cite the violation. what is she in violation of? site the code. cite the code. cite the code. why are you arresting her? under what? under what? ma am, let go. under what law are you arresting her? why are you arresting her? let her go. why are you arresting her? tell it now. why are you arresting her? let her go. cite it. give me a reason why you are arresting her. give me a reason why you are arresting her? let her go! why are you arresting her? she s an elected repr
at the top of the hour, i am don lemon, so glad you can join us because we have important things we can talk about right now. that s jim crow s 2.0. alive and well in 2021. georgia s governor is signing a bill that s nothingless than on the assault of the right to vote. a black woman is arrested for knocking on the door. why does she have to stand back? why is the governor trying to sign something in private? why does she have to step back? why is he keeping us out of the process? exactly. yeah, you give her one more time like you are going to do something. are you serious? no, you are not representing oh no, she s not under arrest, for what? for trying to see something that our governor is doing? our governor is signing a bill that affects all georgians. you are going to arrest an elected representative. why are you arresting her? that s what i am asking you. stop arresting her. cite the violation. what is she in violation of? cite the code. cite
wait is more than two hours. the problems with testing, particularly frustrating, of course, during this holiday week when a lot of people are trying to preserve the plans that they have. so the question now, what to do about those new year s eve parties. dr. fauci was asked and he said if you re talking about a larger party, 30, 40, 50 people and you don t know nch s vaccination status, he s saying that this is not the year to do that. alexandra field, thank you. let s bring in white house correspondent jeremy diamond who is traveling with president biden in rehoboth beach, delaware. president biden was asked about shortening the quarantine time for positive tests earlier today before we got this new guidance from the cdc. what did he have to say? that s right, jake. just hours before the cdc made this announcement, president biden was asked about this. he said that he would follow the advice of his medical experts when indeed they d recommend a change to that isolatio