cases skyrocket, and students, the majority of whom are not yet eligible to be vaccinated head back to class. welcome to mtp daily. a couple of big victories for republicans in texas with national implications. the biden administration and democrats in congress are looking on after a summer of broken quorums and bolt from the statehouse, the controversial voting bill got greg abbott s signature in the last hour. the final version bans drive through and 24 hour voting, establishes new id requirements for mail-in balloting. criminal penalties for voting law violations and empowers partisan poll watchers. the supreme court let texas near total abortion stay on the books for now, effectively bans abortions after six weeks, before many know they re pregnant. no exception for rape or incest and gives $10,000 to anyone that sues someone that helps give an abortion. they have public opinion on their side. here s what they don t have. options, or not many of them. speaker nancy p
have a christmas tree in their home around christmas time. that is the same that have received a covid-19 vaccine, at least one dose so far, and it is more my twitter avatar is my childhood dog. look at this, about 61% of american adults have at least some type of pet in their house. this is more than that. just to be clear about this, covid shots, depending on how you look at it, more popular than pets? people like their covid shots more than dogs or cats? certainly some dogs or cats. i agree with you 100% on that. and if you re as popular as christmas you re popular, you re doing very well. santa is a very popular guy. if you re as popular as christmas, you re doing very well. we ve seen an increase in vaccinations in some of the states where there was hesitancy. that s exactly right. take a look. states where new vaccinations have climbed by at least five points last month, and one of the things that s so key, look at this, we know that the red states hav
recent polls show now is at the lowest of his presidency, in the mid 40s. biden is set to visit new jersey and queens, new york after the holiday on tuesday to survey the recent deadly storm damage from hurricane ida. at least 65 people died across eight states mainly in the northeast from the storm. with the worsening climate crisis we need to expect and plan for similar situations in the future. in fact, a new analysis from the washington post tallies at least 388 deaths in the united states from hurricanes, floods, heat waves, and fires, wildfires, since june. the analysis also shows that nearly 1 in 3 americans live in a county hit by a weather disaster this summer. also affecting president biden s approval ratings afghanistan, though despite the criticism and true to his promise the united states is out of afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of the september 11th attacks which started. next saturday on that anniversary biden is scheduled to visit the sites of the three
bill. good evening, joshua. we are getting in the new 8:00 p.m. advisory from the national hurricane center. we are also now for the first seem seeing the center of the storm on radar. that s the green you see here beginning to show up. that is about 275, 285 miles from new orleans at the current time. so the white is the clouds. the green is the rain bands. and those will be moving on shore as we go throughout the overnight hours. this is the satellite imagery and we color it to kind of see the brighter reds. kind of lets meteorologists know where the stronger portions of storm are. this is the new advisory. 105 miles per hour so the winds did not increase. that s great. we want to keep this as weak as possible. we don t think it is going to get weaker before a landfall but we do expect it to get stronger. hurricane center still thinks it could become a category 3 hurricane overnight. it may be right before landfall, possibly getting up to a category 4. so we should expect
good evening, joshua, we re getting the 8:00 p.m. advisory from the national hurricane center that we re seeing the center of the storm on radar. that s the green you see here beginning to show up. that s about 275, 280 miles from new orleans at the current time. so the white is the clouds, the green is the rain bands and those will be moving on shore as we go throughout the morning hours. this is the satellite imagery, and we color it to see the brighter reds or top of the thunderstorms, lets meteorologists know where the stronger portions of the storm are. the winds did not increase. that s great. we re 18 hours or so from landfall, we want to keep this as weak as possible. we don t think it s going to get weak before a landfall, we think it s going to become stronger, category 3 overnight, and right before landfall possibly getting up to a category 4. we should expect a major hurricane landfall in southeastern louisiana tomorrow afternoon, direct impacts, grand isle, hom