misinformation is going to kill people, not a joke. not a joke. it is like telling your kid i tell you what, when you see a red light, cross the street. i mean, come on. so what we re trying to do is use every avenue we can, public, private, government, nongovernment to try to get facts out. and right now in the nation s capitol, steve scalise, elise ste panic are joinings a new push to encourage people to get vaccinated. today s event is after months and months of republicans promoting vaccine hesitancy or ignoring those who did. in a new report it reveals part of the tragic toll the pandemic inflicted. more than 1.5 million kids around the world have lost a primary or second degree caregiver due to covid-19. think about that. all who call this a hoax. here to make sense of all this, sasha burns in north carolina where new cases are surging. ben collins following the latest on the battle of misinformation, and dr. peter hotez with the vaccine for development. cases aren
found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha la la la la sha la la la la la sha la la la la sha la la la la la la anthony: do you smell that? motorbike exhaust, fish sauce, incense, the far-away smell of something? is that pork grilling over charcoal? vietnam. it could be no place else. [ bicycle bell dings ] [ horn honks ] anthony: listen to me. listen to me. there is no other way to see this city, hanoi, than from a motorbike or a scooter. to do otherwise would be to miss it all. [ horns honking ] anthony: it is one of the great pleasures of my life to join the river of people rushing through the streets. [ horns honking ] anthony: vietnam. it grabs you and doesn t let you go. once you love it, you love it forever. i ve been coming here since 2000, the first time i d been in this part of the world, and it s held a special place in my heart and my imagination since. i keep coming back, i have to. [ bells ding
coronavirus as the cdc warns of a possible fourth wave. you know, it s interesting, mika, he had to say in there that it s not political. it s not political. it s not political. it s science. here we are with over half a million people dead and you know, we heard from dr. birx this weekend, talking about how after the first 100,000, if they had done a better job, if donald trump had not been so resistant, they would have been able to save so many lives. and here we are, willie, i m now i m now hearing lunatics and i ll call them lunatics yeah. that are now of course still pushing back on the masks. but now we re saying if we somehow identifies as having a vaccine, like it s part of satan or the mark of the devil or nazi germany. the idicy is just beyond us. they re acting recklessly and irresponsibly. they re being stupid and falling conspiracy theories. they re falling a failed game show host and or reality tv show host and they don t understand, i guess,
shear horror. day five of misery for millions. as brian williams put it, an act of god followed by an abject failure by men. dozens have died temperature a family died from carbon monoxide poisoning as their car idled in their garage while trying to keep warm. an 11-year-old boy found dead by his mother under a pile of blankets in their mobile home. authorities are reportedly investigating whether he died of hypothermia. millions in texas are under boil water alerts meaning no water to drink. others have no water at all meaning none to bill, none to bathe in, none to flush the t toilets with. and that also includes some hospitals. listen to this woman who is worried about her husband on dialysis. i know it is freezing, but somebody is responsible for this, you know? somebody is responsible for this. somebody needs to pay for it. you got people dying out here, you go hypothermia. i m scared for my husband. i really am. lord knows i m scared for him because he is really conge
have made it clear they want kids back to school. but how to do that is much less clear. especially when it comes to teachers and vaccines. we re talk to the former head of the cdc about what students and teachers need to be safe. welcome to thursday, it is meet the press daily, i m chuck todd, the crisis in texas is deepening and it s not just a power grid disaster, the outages being described as the largest forced blackout in american history are also contributing to a weather crisis, a flood crisis and of course all of it is a major leadership crisis for elected leaders in the state of texas. millions of texans are under boil-water advisories, hard to do when you don t have reliable power to generate the heat needed to boil said water. hundreds of thousands of texans are living in areas where water systems are totally nonoperational. you can t boil water that doesn t come out of the tap either. the state s food supply infrastructure is failing in many places as well