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from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnson. welcome one last time to the week. let s begin with a bit of optimism among democrats in their push for voting rights legislation. senate democrats are close to an agreement for a new version of the for the people act. one that all 50 democrats would support. that s according to three democratic aides familiar with the negotiations. west virginia democratic senator joe manchin has been part of the negotiations. he made the rounds on the sunday shows today. lisa murkowski has been working with me. we have been talking to quite a few different republicans who are interested in doing something that makes sense. remember, the democrats would need the support of ten republicans to override a possible filibuster. if republicans do block the bill, it s unclear whether senator manchin would change his opposition to filibuster reform. meanwhile, the democrats $3.5 trillion infrastructure plan remains stuck ....
concentrate, we cannot hallow this ground, the brave men and women living and dead who struggled here have concentrated it far above our power to add or detract. and so it is today, because at the pentagon, and willie is at ground zero. a location every bit as sacred to americans as gettysburg or the edmund pettis bridge or the waters surrounding the u.s.s. arizona and, of course, the patch of land in shanksville, pennsylvania where the heroes inspire us still. let s go to willie. joe, good morning. on this september 10th, you think about this day 20 years ago and as you put it well, this is the last day before everything changed, september 10, 2001. we know at 8:46 when the first plane hit the north tower behind me, our world changed, america changed, but the globe changed as well. we re now at the end of a 20 year war that was launched because of the attacks at that day. here, at the pentagon where mika is and shanksville, pennsylvania. i have to say coming here i ....
and then today on cnn, the white house chief of staff tried to clarify. did he get ahead of the science by setting the specific date for boosters before the data was? . i think what we said was we would be ready as of the 20th. that was the projection from the senior science team as to when the fda would clear the boosters. i want to be clear. no one is going to get boosters until the fda says they re approved until the cdc advisory committee makes a recommendation. all this as the virus spreads rapidly. virtually all americans live in areas with high levels of community transmission. florida is seeing its deadliest days of this pandemic. the average number of daily deaths reported in florida has broken records for three straight weeks in a row. across the country hospitalizations nearly tripled in july. then doubled in august. and now concerns are growing about the new, new coronavirus variant beginning to circulate. let s begin with that confusion over the boos ....
the president s national security advisor, jake sullivan. but first for our ongoing coverage we are joined by helene cooper, pentagon correspondent for the new york times, an msnbc contributor, former top state department official rick stengel, now also an msnbc political analyst and paul rieckhoff is here, founder of veterans of america and host of the podcast independent americans. helene, i start with you. if there s any question as to whether or not this president and this white house cease the criticism of this decision, i think it was answered by the president going right at this very sort of specific line of attack that you hear frankly from the right and the left. he talked about this, quote, we shoulda, coulda maintained a small force and not taken on any casualties. they felt it was important to knock that down. what did you make of the specifics that he had and the attempt to knock back the critics? hi, nicolle, thanks for having me. it was a clear effort ....
strength in the hours ahead. the potentially catastrophic hurricane forecast to slam into the louisiana coast on sunday. possibly, as a category 4 storm. hitting the state on exactly the same date as hurricane katrina, 16 years ago. now, the national weather service in new orleans says storm surge and high winds could leave some locations uninhabitable for weeks or even months. now, both mandatory and voluntary evacuations have been ordered for several louisiana parishes as the national hurricane center warns of life-threatening situations. officials say if residents are to leave, do it now. now, nearly all of the floodgates in louisiana s hurricane and storm damage risk reduction system have been closed down ahead of the storm. those still open will fema says it is moving supply trucks and generators into louisiana ahead of ida s landfall. there are 10,000 linemen in the state, already. another 20,000, on standby. and making matters worse, many hospitals in the area ....