next week. relief is right around the corner. help is on theun way. senate republicans are slamming the bill as too costly. senator lindsey graham promising to delay this vote. vote-a-rama is upon us. stay hydrated. we ll have lots of amendments today. plus the cdc delaying guidelines for d vaccinated americans as the u.s. hits 29 million cases. experts warn we could see another spike in the coming weeks. that plateau is about 60,000 to 70,000 cases a day. when you have that much of viral activity in a plateau it almost invariably means that you are at risk for another spike. good saturday early morning, march 6th. thank you forma being with us. we ve been monitoring what s happening in the senate cha all night for you so you don t have to. that s why we re on at 5:00 a.m. eastern time, 2:00 a.m. out west for this special edition of msnbc live. our team of correspondents and analysts are following the latest developments for you now. amanda golden is following t
taylor greene says she s been freed to push the republican party farther right after being stripped of her committee assignments. so, now i have a lot of free time on my hands, which means i can talk to a whole lot more people all over this country, and i can talk to more people and make connections and build a huge amount of support that i ve already got started. and it has been one month since the capitol insurrection. the new york times releasing a breakdown of who has been brought to justice so far, including at least 22 current or former members of the military. and covid hospitalizations dropping, but fear increasing as health officials warn, the super bowl parties could end up being superspreader events. as we do say good morning, everybody. it is saturday, february 6th. i m kendis gibson. and i m lindsey reiser. it s good to know that at least we have something normal, the great unifier. super bowl? yes, sports. it s hard to believe it s been only a mo
what do you make of democrat s decision to move forward with this vote, move forward with this plan, even though as christine pointed out it s dead on arrival by all accounts? well, good morning, laura. i think that s right. look, they re going through with these votes now in part because they made this commitment to civil rights leaders. it was central to biden s promise of governance. quo, and republican led states to restrict voting, make it harder to vote than it was in 2020. but in part, this is because they need to fulfill a promise, and it s not going to get any easier, in part this is because they want to be able to campaign on this issue and say they ve done everything they can, and in part it s because they have to exhaust all of these big picture eff efforts at reform before they can try to remove any smaller attempts at if i cans where they potentially might have a better chance. it seems like part of this is an exercise in trying, in showing people that you t
measures. they wanted to go online. but now with no remote learning, hundreds of thousands of children are caught in the middle just hours after president biden said this. we provided the states with 130 billion, with a billion, billion dollars to specifically keep our students safe and schools open. funding for ventilation, ventilation systems in the schools, social distancing in classrooms, even larger classrooms, on buses. everything from bus drivers to buses. so i encourage the states and cool districts to use the funding, but you still have to protect your children and keep the schools open. chicago had actually resumed in-person classes on monday, but school officials insist it is safe for in-person learning in class. the standoff could last foreweeks. cnn s omar jimenez starts us off in chicago. reporter: this vote from the chicago teachers union triggers a cancellation of class, which is what the school district warned would happen if this vote went through. in
alaska airlines canceled some flights as well. there s been disagreement in the industry on how to handle this new pandemic surge as air travel rebounds to pre-pandemic levels. cnn s pete muntean has the latest from regan national airport. reporter: christine, paula, things are getting busier by the moment here at regan national airport. some of the numbers we have seen are already higher than where they were back in 2019 before the pandemic. the tsa screened 2.08 million people at airports across the country on wednesday. that number actually higher than the same day back in 2019, 1.84 screened back then two years ago. just a bit of context here, though. that same wednesday two years ago, that was christmas day itself when passenger loads are low, but even still we have seen numbers at or near 2 luis palomino per d 2 million per day. there are long lines to get tested for coronavirus. this one at b.w.i. thurgood marshall airport, there was a line for testing either earth b