6th insurrection. We re live outside the perimeter this morning and we have some brandnew reporting that suggests the question may not be how many people show up but how few. Meanwhile, just across the mall, we re watching the white house closely on this thursday. President biden set to speak this afternoon and the topic will be leveling our economic playing field. Also ahead this morning, i ll have a very special conversation with acclaimed filmmaker ken burns. Ken has a brandnew documentary out. It s all about muhammad ali. We re going to talk about the legacy of the greatest and some new revelations about a man who really transcended his time and place in history. We ll have all of that coming up this hour. But we re going to start with the intensifying debate over the covid booster shots. Tomorrow, a group of fda advisers outside advisers will be meeting to talk about whether to recommend booster shots. And it comes as both pfizer and moderna release new findings. In support of boo
Time someone told me this package is dead, i would be a rich person. It was dead back in may. It was dea in june. It was dead in july again. All i ve heard is how it s dead and yet amazingly, it continues to advance. New polling from the washington post and abc news shows vaccine hesitancy has gone down in the wake of the delta surge with the percent of americans likely or less likely to get a covid shot now. Just about half of what it was in january. It also comes as president biden s approval rating has dropped. That s down about 10 points since june. Senior adviser to the president reacting this morning. We re not worried about poll number numbers. We re worried about the people in louisiana and new york and nj nmg. This has never been a president who worried about himself. He really worries about the country. Let s go to heidi at the white house for us. Heidi, welcome to you. Is the white house concerned that when extended unemployment benefits end, it will hurt the economy? report
Love a man may have for a girl. Steve bannon is laying the groundwork to help steal the next election. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. I m chris hayes. I saw a covid stat today that blew my mind. The vaccine as we know has been widely available for free to the public for about six months and right now as i speak to you current fatalities from covid in this country are running roughly double what they were a year ago. Before we had vaccines. It seems ununspeakable tragedy. It s maddening and confusing. I think it s worth taking a second to understand where we are in the battle against this virus right now. About 62% of those eligible are fully vaccinated in this country, which means we have a whole nation within a nation of unvaccinated folks, right. Tens of millions of people who aren t vaccinated, not to mention children. Unvaccinated folks are clustered in areas around each other because it s not evenly distributed throughout the population. Areas like gains coun
America s withdraw from afghanistan. We re waiting for a update from the secretary of defense. We also have new exclusive nbc reporting that another isis terror attack may have been forwards by the taliban one aide says it is absolutely instrumental in saving american lives. Let s get the latest on afghanistan. Courtney, let me start with you. A little less than two hours from now we dpopt here from the charge of defense. You have extraordinary exclusive reporting here on the extents that the taliban cooperated with u. S. Forces during the withdrawal? tell us more. The military was very open that they were cooperating with the taliban there. The u. S. Central command met in doha about two weeks ago, and they discussed the cooperation, how the u. S. Wanted to get americans out and the taliban gave them essentially a coordination on the ground. What we now now is the extent to which that was happening. The state department would reach out, tend a text mess an, and tell them to go to a fe
Will still likely be weeks before power is fully restored. And the white house announced a short time ago that president biden will visit louisiana on friday to tour the damage. And about 2,000 miles away in california, a desperate battle sunday way right now to try to save south lake tahoe as thousands of firefighters are struggling to deal with a series of wildfires burning across that state and the caldor fire s growth now heading to the nevada state line forcing people to flee the region just before the labor day weekend. We re going to begin this hour with the aftermath of hurricane ida. Joining us to start off our coverage nbc news correspondent sam brock in la place, louisiana, roughly 30 miles northwest of new orleans and nbc news correspondent shaquille brewster in the big s. Shaq, you re one of the places seeing long lines and lots of people waiting to get supplies they need just for basic survival. Tell us about the situation as you ve been observing it today. Reporter: yeah