that is what prompted the sudden reversal from the cdc about the masks, and the agency is now considering requiring vaccines for doctors and other health workers since a startling number of them refuse to still get the shot. and there is an unsettling question as all of this comes to light. why did we first learn about it from the once secret document and not from the health officials themselves? however, and this cannot be said enough, the vaccines are still working. 97, 98, 99, and in some places 100% of covid patients being hospitalized or who are dying are the unvaccinated. look at the covid hot spots closely correlating with the places that have the lowest vaccination rates. it is not complicated, if you are unvaccinated, your danger is much greater. and top health officials are warning that if we don t crush this now, and get as many people vaccinated as we can right now, we could be several mutations away from total disaster. a virus strain so powerful that it is too s
here s the question. will w with will weisselberg make a deal to help himself or his kids? take any political idea out of it. prosecutors only trade up. so, what will it mean? it is certainly a break in the da m, a former president of the united states needs to seriously consider what is next. his company was justin indicted. let s bring in former federal prosecutor elliott williams and former long-time trump organization executive, barbara rez, the author of the book tower of lies. barbara, the suggestion that i made about allen weisselberg. you know him, barbara, what is the chance that maybe not for him, but for his kids he would be willing to talk about things that prosecutors would be interested in? i know allen he is and he is a regular person. he was when i knew him. i know money and power corrupts. i cannot imagine him jeopardizing his children for any reason. he would not do it. i cannot see him going to jail to be honest with you. and you think any loyalty t
really just want to see our mom again. it is heartbreaking. it is agonizing. we are live on the ground there. we re also live with the other big headline today, in a few hours the sentencing of derek chauvin for the murder of vladimir putin. george floyd. what we know about the judge, where he might land and what one viewer is telling nbc news with the attorney for the floyd family live on the show in a couple of minutes. good morning, i m hallie jackson in washington on this busy friday, along with our nbc news team in surfside, florida. kerry, we heard from officials not too long ago this morning and i was struck by the notes of optimism they were hitting, that they still have hope even with some of these frankly pretty grim numbers that we re getting, a jump in the number of people unaccounted for, up to 159. it is a get punch. reporter: it is a gut punch. the confirmation of four people who died inside the rubble and the rescue teams on this have been working round th
no word how many could be trapped and what caused the collapse. here is what the mayor said a short time ago. they were doing roof work on the building at the time. certainly that doesn t seem like it would be the issue that would have caused it. some of the residents at the community center have complained to me the new building that went up to the south used to shake the building when they were putting the pilings in. we need to look hard at what happened there and find out because buildings just don t fall down like this. we had the dogs out there probably a few hours ago over the collapsed area and we re just not getting any hits which is really heartbreaking. bill: it s a sound bite that captures the moment for what we re trying to understand really beneath the rubble. dana: one thing we do know the building was going under a renovation of some sorts. that might have perhaps contributed to this terrible situation. bill: the authorities have been we see the sire