Of red state kentucky. Plus, the newly elevated fight over abortion. Texas enacts the most restrictive abortion law in the country, dismaying abortion rights advocates. As a matter of reality, roe v waid is a dead letter in texas today. And the supreme court lets the law stand for now. A child is a child. This person is a person. My guests this morning, former democratic senator claire mccaskill of missouri and former republican congresswoman barbara comstock of virginia. Also, long term power outages in louisiana. Record rainfall and flooding in the northeast. What hurricane ida tells us about the threat of climate change. Joining me for insight and analysis are yamiche al alcindor from the washington post columnist matt buy, betsy swan and brandon buck. Welcome to sunday. It s meet the press. From nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is meet the press with chuck todd. And a good sunday morning. The u. S. Enters this labor day weekend suffering
Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that makes waking up an olympic sport. I m alicia menendez on this monday, august 9th. The united states has hit a milestone in the surge of covid cases. More than 165 million americans are now fully vaccinated against the virus. That is half of the total u. S. Population. More than 193 million have received at least one dose. Vaccination rates are still low in several states across the south, but in arkansas, mississippi, louisiana, and alabama, cdc data shows that the sevenday average of first doses has doubled since the start of july. Florida has set a new daily record in terms of the covid virus. They had 23,900 cases on friday. 14,000 cases are in the hospital with 2,300 in icu units. Some florida schools are moving to remove require masks. According to a letter, the palm beach county superintendent writes i am requiring facial coverings inside schools and on buses for all students attending palm beach county districtoperated sch
Evening, peter. Peter: good evening, bret. The president just confirmed he is waiting right now to hear back from a 25 person white house covid19 advisory board about whether or not the guidance should be updated. Federal guidance should be updated to ask people to wear masks even if they are vaccinated. Going to be investigating every aspect of every change that could or might take place. Every time i hear that i m wondering when he is coming. [laughter] pete: the president hosted a large mostly maskless indoors report in the washington post that the biden administration may soon suggest masks for the vaccinated. The report on it was a little breathless. In philadelphia officials warn about the delta variant quote it means all of us going back to wearing masks in public. That s as vaccinated people develop mild symptoms despite what the president claimed. The various shots that people are getting now cover that. You are okay. You are not going to get covid if you have these vaccinatio
this comes hours after the house manager requested his testimony. jamie raskin, quote you have attempted to put critical facts at issue, notwithstanding the clear and overwhelming evidence of your constitutional offense. if you decline this invitation, we reserve any and all rights, including your refusal to testify has a strong adverse inference of action and inaction on january 6th. this comes as the clash between liars and those seeking to hold them accountable opens another phase. fox news, phelps specifically three anchors, have been slapped with another lawsuit. and in a matter of minutes, a debate is getting under way, to determine whether the gop has any appetite to separate itself from the conspiracy theorist in its ranks, or the other corner, whether it wants to descend into the darkest corners of american political life and forever stain the gop with qanon conspiracy theories. that s the choice. marjorie taylor greene has targeted harassment for young school shoo
of england and scotland. still a few showers to move away, then clearer skies, but more cloud coming in from the west, which will bring rain into western areas. by the end of the night, temperatures will have lifted across the eastern side of the uk. these are the temperatures by the end of the night. could be an early frost in eastern areas, especially around aberdeenshire. it looks a lot cloudier for tomorrow, light rain and drizzle moving eastwards across england and wales. most of the wet weather in the north west, where we have stronger winds, mainly northern and western parts of scotland. despite the cloud, temperatures higher than today for the eastern side of the uk, making 8 degrees. further west, double figures could make 13 in northern ireland. not a great deal of rain to come. those weather fronts moving down are weak, but they will linger and keep more cloud on tuesday in the far south. otherwise most places will see some sunshine. hello, this is bbc news with