running out of beds, and some emergency services are stretched far too thin. today for 26 minutes we had not one ems unit available in the entire city. and breaking for fred. the tropical system barreling toward florida at this hour with the potential to unleash a nasty spell of rain and wind starting today. the latest on the storm s track. good saturday morning, everybody. i m lindsey reiser live at msnbc headquarters in new york. we re following fast-moving developments in afghanistan. the u.s. military is frantically rushing to evacuate the u.s. embassy in kabul. an advanced team of marines already on the ground arriving overnight, some 3,000 american forces arriving by tomorrow. it s a dangerous mission, ferrying american civilians and american allies to the airport, trying to get them out of the country. the military says if the u.s. comes under attack, they ll respond with force. the taliban has quickly retaken control of nearly every major city with the capital n
covid-19. look at map on your screen. that s every area you see in orange and in red. the cdc is requested to recommend that students and teachers wear mask in schools k through 12 schools raegardless f vaccination status. let s bring in dr. sanjay gupta and white house correspondent kaitlan collins. is it your understanding that this is not universal masking. you have to know what the transmission rate is in your own community and this is for indoor mask wearing? that s the understanding that i have is we re talk about indoor masking for vaccinated people. that s the big change. unvaccinated people, the recommendation was they wear masks indoors. this would be for vaccinated people. in areas where there s high or substantial viral transmission. i think you put up the map, we can show it again. it s about two third offense the country that sort of fall into this higher substantial spraead sort of area here. we know there was some pressure on this administration to make
20-year career. well, cdc advisers are meeting right now to determine if a booster shot might be needed for some immuno compromised people who received the j & j vaccine. they re also discussing one very rare side effect from the shot. let s turn to cnn s chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins. we are seeing more places reinstate restrictions even for the doubly vaccinated, so what is the white house saying and considering doing? reporter: well, they re not saying much publicly except pointing to the fact that they have not changed guidance yet on whether or not vaccinated people should be wearing a mask. it is still that fully vaccinated people don t need to wear a mask indoors. of course, that is what it was when they changed it several months ago. it still remains there now, but cnn has reported others, including the washington post as well, that there are discussions happening with top white house officials, top federal health officials about potentiallies
jim jordan. both ardent trump loyalists who voted to overturn the results of the 2020 election. as pelosi explained, the unprecedented nature of january 6th demands this unprecedented decision. but she also said she had raised up her objections with mccarthy, asking him to recommend two other members in their place. instead mccarthy threw a tantrum and pulled all of his proposed appointees, including the three that pelosi had already approved. as he made clear in a hastily arranged press conference, republicans are literally taking their ball an going home. it s an egregious abuse of power. pelosi has broken this institution. pelosi has created a sham process. unless speaker pelosi reverses course and seats all five republicans, we will not participate. mccarthy claims pelosi is somehow abusing her power, but her authority was literally spelled out in the resolution the house passed to create the select committee. in fact, it was the exact same language that republicans u
pandemic is having on america. the considdc is reporting that expectancy in the u.s. fell by a year and a half in 2020, the largest decline since world war ii. the decrease is much worse for black and hispanic americans. the cdc says the big drop is due mainly to the coronavirus and there are more signs that things are heading in the wrong direction. new cases are surging due to the delta variant now averaging around 35,000 new infections reported each day. ha is more than triple the case count that we were seeing around fourth of july. hospitalizations rising significantly again, up more than 50% in the past two weeks. let s begin with cnn s elizabeth cohen for perspective on this dramatic drop in life expectancy that s being reported. elizabeth, what more did the cdc find? kate, you really don t think of just one disease, one outbreak as affecting life expectancy. that s exactly what happened with covid. let s take a look at the numbers from the cdc. what the numbers show