hello, again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. right now, desperation setting in as cities from the gulf coast to the northeast deal with the aftermath of hurricane ida. at least 50 people are dead across the northeast and many are facing flood warnings again today. and we re just learning president biden will visit new jersey and new york tuesday to survey the damage. the death toll in louisiana and mississippi stands at 13. many hard-hit communities there are running short on food, fuel, and other supplies. in louisiana, the desperation is turning deadly. a man was killed after reportedly cutting in line at a gas station. fuel supplies are growing more scarce by the day. police say the shooting proves how desperate people are. it s unbelievable that people can t act like adults in this situation. ladies and gentlemen, the services are here. we don t have enough gas. we don t have enough gas being delivered to stations. we don t have eno
probe of the september 11th attacks. in an executive order the president demands the justice department publicly release those documents over the next six months, and some set to come out as early as next week as the aforementioned 20th anniversary of the attacks. meantime, the white house plan for covid booster shots is facing a minor setback. officials say they don t expect to meet the september 20th deadline to make booster shots available for those who received the moderna vaccine. officials, do, however, believe reg rarities are on track to make a decision for pfizer s vaccine. republican lawmakers are threatening legal action against 13 telecommunications and social media companies if they comply with a request from the january 6th select committee to preserve their phone records. we re going to have a lot more on that coming up. we re going to go beyond the headlines to nbc s liz mclaughlin and heidi at the white house. we re going first to texas, and as we mention
governor, you are letting us down. aiming for gold. a a year-long delay the tokyo olympics are officially underway. another 17 athletes testing positive. pick beings are slim. the demands for supplies are up and the number of available products will be down. their advice is to plan now if you don t want to be stuck picking through unwanted leftovers before your child starts school. searing heat waves and how it s impacting infrastructure. a warning from mother nature. good morning. thank you for your new day. boris, good morning to you. kaitlan, thank you for joining us. our first time anchoring together. hopefully it will be fun? it will be. yeah, we begin this morning with more evidence that the united states is in the middle of a dangerous summer surge of covid-19 fueled by the spread of the delta variant. case rates are climbing while the number of people getting fully vaccinated is dwindling. the number is four times high j higher only 250,000 people are bein
dr. marc siegel is standing by live to discuss what we know tonight. plus, dr. anthony fauci after defending covid testing for all travelers entering the u.s. sidestepping a question from our own peter doocy about illegal immigrants being at our southern border. in the future of abortion rights in america now in the hands of the u.s. supreme court. so what are we to make of the oral arguments in the case today russian mark will break it down with senator who will discuss live one of the justices most important cases and they could speed we begin with the official arrival of omicron in the u.s. as expected. triggering a new round of covid crackdowns by the biden administration. white house correspondent kevin corke is tracking the latest for us tonight. good evening. a new day, new variants, and we are told a brand-new approach by the white house to try to combat this latest covid threat. but the new planet seems has a glaring oversight. on a day that s how the country s f
contacts have been contacted and all close contacts thus far have tested negative. that revelation coming ahead of president biden announcing his enhanced winter strategy to fight covid-19. in just a few hours from now, the president will outline those measures specifically. they re expected to include stricter testing for passengers arriing to the u.s. from overseas. and extending federal mask mandates. we have mike memoli, antonio hilton, jacob ward and dr. ashish jha. and ashley parker joins us. mr. memoli, what are we going to hear from the president? reporter: steph, obviously the emergence of the omicron variant has raised the sort of covid spechter higher on the agd but the plans the president is set to lay out today has been in the works for weeks. so what is the plan? it starts with more stringent testing on international travelers. you have to have a test within 24 hours of your departure for the u.s. in order to be admitted. there was some discussion of some te