Good evening from washington, d. C. I am zerlina maxwell, in for chris hayes. We are seeing a backlash around the country to red states bans on mask mandates, especially in schools. And texas, a school district is defying greg abbott s ban by adding face coverings to their dress codes. They are just one of the many districts taking on the governor. In south carolina, seven districts, including charleston county, are requiring masks despite a state ban. And in miamidade, the school board voted to approve a mask mandate in defiance of an executive order from the republican governor, ron desantis. I let you a county, it s also enforcing masking. I will speak to the superintendent of that district, later in the. Show it s the same story over, and over, and. Over republican governments put these nonsensical regulations into place, in spite of warnings from public health officials and experts. And they know that regulations are nonsense and will be challenged, they are doing it for political
It s great to have you along with us. As the delta variant prompts concerns of a coronavirus resurgence, drugmaker pfizer will brief u. S. Government officials tomorrow evening on covid19 vaccine boosters. Last week pfizer, biontech have seen waning immunity among people who got the vaccine and would seek emergency use authorization for a booster from the fda in august. The fda and cdc said there s no evidence boosters are needed yet, but a short time ago, israel announced it s immediately going to allow third doses of the pfizer vaccine for people with compromised immune systems. Joining me now with more is dr. Megan rainy, emergency physician at brown university and cofounder of get us ppe. Dr. Rani, great to see you. So what we re really talking about here is people who were vaccinated a while ago where there may be some declining efficacy, where they may have some underlying health problems. Do you think a booster shot would be necessary right now? so let s be clear that for all fo
see exactly where it is and we re seeing i have not seen yet. let me pan over here. you re looking at what is some upwards of 40 or 50, all females, many of them clearly must be unaccompanied minors because they re by themselves although just looking from a distance and we don t want to look too closely or show any of these faces for their privacy, you re seeing maybe some women that could be in their 20 s as well. now, this is the location where dhs secretary mayorkas came and visited with portman, peter, capito, from the family unit, a mother and her children, these migrants were flown over from the rgv sector, because this is the el paso sector. the el paso secretary is at its capacity and house minority leader kevin mccarthy, when he visited said, and the u.s. chief said the esent surge of awn accompanied are reaching capacity. i mentioned the rgv. if you go there, they re at capacity more than 600% holding some 5200 individuals. if you look at the last 24 hours, in the a
we ll discuss that at length as far as what this means for the investigation into those alleged hush money payment, but, first, let s start at the white house with my colleague there phil mattingly, and, phil, just speaking of this awful, awful number here. i know that president biden, vice president harris will be making a point to honor those half million lives lost this evening. what are you hearing? yeah, look, it s a somber moment at the white house and a somber moment for the entire country, a staggering number that i don t think most people can get their heads around and that s a driving force for why president biden and vice president harris will do. they will have a candle-lighting ceremony and thereby a moment of silence and the president will give remarks and he s ordered flags to be taken down to half staff for the next five days in federal buildings and a remembrance of sorts. think back one month ago the day before president biden s inauguration standing in fr
what happens when the package moves to the other side of the capital? well, there are a lot of questions over whether moderate democrats like kirsten and joe manchin will vote for this bill. a lot of people including moderate republicans have said this bill is too big. they haven t been pushing it too hafrld let s be honest. this is a very popular bill. 60% of the american public likes the bill. that means republicans like the bill. now, democrats in the meantime before it is even being presented, they re fighting over minimum wage hike and whether that will be put in the bill. tomorrow they will decide if they can pass it with reconciliation. so you re not hearing too. from republicans. they re kind of sitting back and letting democrats fight over the minimum wage package that would be a part of bill because they know that would be unpopular with joe manchin and those who have a lot of power. so yeah. everyone is really looking sorry. go ahead. we thought we lost but g