their loved ones. right now we re just we re really concerned about how fast the temperature is really dropping inside. it s, you know, either you stay in your house and, you know, you are cold and you freeze to death and you have no food. i don t know how many gas stations we went to. five maybe. at least. at least. and we haven t been able to find fuel. we only have like two cases of water left, so we re trying to divide it between two families. there are still folks in danger. there are still people without power. and there are a lot of people who simply can t afford to go into the stores, so we re trying to do mass distribution sites. but things are real tenuous for a lot of people in the city. our friends at the texas tribune report things could have been worse if such a thing is possible. officials say the state was, quote, seconds and minutes away from a power grid failure that could have caused a months long blackout. this week s weather has been d
humanitarian crisis he s created. well, look, in hindsight, if i had understood how it would be perceived, the reaction people have, obviously i wouldn t have done it. it was a mistake. . right. okay. good morning and welcome to morning joe . it is friday, february 19th. with us, host of msnbc s politics nation and president of the national action network reverend al sharpton. vanderbilt university historian jon meacham. he unofficially occasionally advises joe biden. and msnbc political contributor rick tyler, who has had the pleasure of working in the past as a communications director for senator ted cruz. good to have you all on board. so, rick, why don t we start with you, since you ve had experience with senator cruz. there s so many things that are wrong with what happened over the past couple of days. i just go back to my time in congress. and i know he s had a couple trump-type people trying to defend him saying there s nothing a senator can do. i remember when
pugs. president biden just moments ago wrapping up remarks made at pfizer vaccine manufacturing site in michigan thoughting his administration s progress on the vaccine effort, re-upping his promise of having enough vaccine for the entire population by july, and making clear that the former guy that the country s pandemic response in shambles. america had no real plan to vaccinate most of the country. my predecessor, as my mother would say, god love him, failed to order enough vaccines, failed to mobilize the effort to administer the shots, failed to set up vaccine centers. that changed the moment we took office. i direct herped my covid-19 response coordinator to lead my administration s work with the vaccine manufacturers to buy more vaccines and to speed up delivery. albert referenced it earlier. and i want to thank him for making it happen. because we work together. we are now on track to have enough vaccine supply for all americans by the end of july h that doesn t mean
stop well wishers around the world sent messages of support to sir captain tom moore who remains in hospital with coronavirus and pneumonia. hospital with coronavirus and pneumonia- hospital with coronavirus and pneumonia. hospital with coronavirus and neumonia. ., , ., , pneumonia. over the last ten months ou have pneumonia. over the last ten months you have been pneumonia. over the last ten months you have been our pneumonia. over the last ten months you have been our inspiration, - pneumonia. over the last ten months you have been our inspiration, the . you have been our inspiration, the nation s heartbeat. we all thinking of you. tens of thousands of people in parts of england are to be urgently tested, after more cases of the highly transmissible south african variant of coronavirus were discovered. two cases were found in surrey, and testing kits will be delivered there this afternoon. testing will also take place in london, kent, hertfordshire and walsall. previous
million people have received their firstjabs in the uk. and well wishers around the world send messages of support to captain sir tom moore, who remains in hospital with covid 19 and pneumonia. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. urgent testing is underway in parts of england after the south african strain of coronavirus was detected in 11 people not thought to have travelled from the country. there are fears this variant is now being transmitted within the community, with the possibility of further new cases. health officials are aiming to test some 80,000 people in eight affected areas including those who live in the w7, n17 and cr4 postcodes in london, ws2 in walsall, me15 in maidstone in kent, pr9 in southport, en10 in broxbourne, hertfordshire, and gu21 in woking. there s no evidence the south african variant causes more severe disease but it may be more transmissible. meanwhile, data to be published later this afternoon is expected to show that the government has re