President biden is facing a critical moment in his agenda. Nearly half of the u. S. Population is fully vaccinated against covid19 but the pace of the vaccination is at the lowest point since january and the highly infectious Delta Variant is driving a new Covid Surge in all 50 states. Virtually all Covid Hospitalizations and deaths are now among the unvaccinated so tonight we are here in ohio taking questions from a live audience as the president works to keep the pandemic in check and his goal of an Infrastructure Deal on track. It is really a critical moment for his agenda. We will take questions from some who voted for the president and some who did not vote for president biden. The president and myself and everyone here in our audience, we are all fully vaccinated so without further adieu, everyone, lets welcome the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden. [ applause ] hi there, don. Good to see you. How have you been . Well. Very well. Its good to see you. Good to be back
Plus, explosive clouds and fire tornados. Climate change making Scifi Nonfiction as a historic wildfire impacts people from Coast To coast. Welcome to the lead. Im Pamela Brown in for Jake Tapper on this friday. And we start today with our health lead. The Alarm Bells are sounding, and the only way to turn them off is for more people to get vaccinated. It is as simple as that. The average of new daily coronavirus cases in the United States is up 65 just from this time last week. So, to put that into context, the surge were dealing with right now, which is driven by the unvaccinated is worse than the horrible Original Spike from last spring. But despite all of these warnings from top health officials, doctors, politicians, local leaders and basically everybody, the Daily Pace of vaccinations, it keeps falling as Cnns Athena jones reports. Reporter as the biggest public Health Crisis in a century tHreatens to get a lot worse, the warnings to the unvaccinated are getting stronger. In alab
mummies parade through the streets of cairo, making their way to their new home. coronavirus vaccinations in the u.s., reaching new heights. boosting hopes that an end to the pandemic could be within reach. the u.s., on saturday, reporting more than 4 million doses given. a new-daily record. that brings the seven-day vaccination average above the 3-million mark, for the first time, ever. more than 161-million doses have been administered, so far, in the u.s. but that progress does not mean the threat is over. several states are seeing some worrying numbers of new infections. michigan, among the worst. seeing its highest day of infections, in nearly-four months. and experts worry, that might be a sign of what is to come. top infectious-disease expert, dr. anthony fauci, spoke with cnn, earlier. he says, now isn t the time for people to let their guards down. what we re seeing, after that big peak that we had, around the christmas holidays and new year s. when it started to
we need to go big. and if we waste some money now, we waste some money. absolutely we have too many people hurting and the economy is going to sputter and we ve got to get ourselves out of this mess. and this is the way we need to go right now. let me tell you something, that man has a future in northwest florida politics. i like him. or west virginia. mika, that s interesting. that s from the republican governor of a state that donald trump got 69% in. jim justice, governor of west virginia, urging congress to go big on covid-19 relief. good morning. welcome to morning joe . it is tuesday, february 2nd. we have columnist and associate editor for the washington post , david ignatius. back with us, capitol hill correspondent and host of way too early , kasie hunt. and it seems more and more likely that democrats will push through the biden administration s nearly $2 trillion economic relief package with or without republicans. the president met with a group of senat
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