own just gone. heartbreaking stories from colorado, where wildfires reduced hundreds of homes to ashes in a matter of hours. and we begin right here in the united states, where the latest covid surge is shattering records. is u.s. is now averaging more than 394,000 new cases a day, the fifth day in a row a new high was set. now, most states, the ones you see there in dark red, have seen daily case counts rise by 50% or more in the last week. now, so far, thankfully, hospitalizations and deaths are lower than the peaks we saw in 2021, but unfortunately that doesn t mean the danger is over here. the cdc estimates more than 44,000 people could die from covid-19 in the next four weeks. meantime, millions of children are headed back to the classroom on monday. it comes as a record number of children are at this hour hospitalized with covid-19. and some school districts are announcing at least a partial transition to online learning. and that s the approach several school distr
what gop challenger nikki haley had to say about president biden s age. brittney griner speaking for the first time since her release from a russian prison as she rejoins her wnba team. shocking allegations in the government s case against the air national guardsman accused of leaking classified documents, as prosecutors prepare to tell the court that he could be a flight risk and a danger to the public if he gets out on bail. good day, everyone i m andrea mitchell in washington house speaker kevin mccarthy s ability to overcome political obstacles and keep his conference united squeaked by and passed a debt limit legislation with budget cuts on top. it s putting democrats on notice as well as increasing the pressure on mccarthy/biden debt ceiling negotiation talks. perhaps one step closer to reality. right now, this is the only place that has lifted the debt limit. democrats are putting the country in jeopardy. the president, by ignoring to even negotiate, the majori
He spent years in moscow, decades ago, during the cold war. is fluent in russian he is very close to putin and xi is that putting the finger on the scale with the possibility of talks is it a potential breakthrough down the road? is this someone that zelenskyy might feel he could negotiate with because he has access to putin? i think you have to explore every channel. it s important to have multiple channels in a conflict like this you never know where you might make traction. the reality is coming after xi s visit to moscow, which embraced vladimir putin on the anniversary of the war, the chinese peace plan that they put out, friendly to russia. the danger of these missions is it is part of a global propaganda push that putin might want look, we are open to peace, we are open to chinese mediated peace. the audience for that is really in the rest of the world, it s
Accessing. that s something they need to be focused on this individual clearly should not have had access to this kind of information one of the leaked documents, according to the washington post, reports that american spy services detected construction at a suspected chinese military facility in the united arab emirates, up witone of our alli, after the country announced it was halting the project. what s going on there? one of the themes that comes out is there s a building concern inside the u.s. intelligence community about which side the emirates are on in this larger conflict between the west and the world s democracies and the world s autocracies, particularly russia and china. we have seen previous reporting around overtures from the russians to cooperate with them in service of their aims now we see this concerning
Not in the west. it s in the global south the reality is, this could also be an effort by xi to support putin s propaganda to pivot to saying, i m ready for negotiations, i m ready for chinese-brokered negotiations which most definitely will not insist the russians leave occupied places. and placate europe when the chinese have offended europe by their ambassador in paris. ken, ben, thanks to both of you. back in the game nearly five months after getting out of a russian prison, brittney griner is getting ready for her return to the wnba she s been speaking out. her comment cs coming next. you are seeing that live right here on msnbc. ough may 3rd. get a free tech check and special offers. like a free 5g phone. get started today with verizon business. it s your business. it s your verizon.