new york governor andrew cuomo. and a growing number of democrats are calling for him to resign. the question is, could we see him step down? it s way too early for this. good morning! and welcome to way too early, the show that always knew truckers were essential workers, and it is even more true today as they deliver all of those vaccines. love it. i am kasie hunt on this tuesday, march 2nd. we ll start with the news. with new coronavirus variants on the rise, the director of the centers for disease control and prevention is warning that now is not the time to loosen covid restrictions. health officials have voiced concern that after seeing a dramatic drop in cases over the previous six weeks, the united states reported a much smaller decline in new cases last week, signaling a possible plateau. here s what the cdc director said yesterday. i remain deeply concerned about the potential shift in the trajectory of the pandemic. the latest cdc data continue to suggest tha
welcome back, everybody. i m yasmin vossoughian. putting covid relief on the fast track with 23 days until benefits run out. the president s $1.9 trillion plan has strong support as republicans struggle to upend that momentum. i m going to ask congressman dan kildee whether that hefty price tag, including more checks and a minimum wage hike, is actually going to survive. also, major disaster, the president making that declaration official for texas a short time ago after this week s freeze. for residents, that help cannot come soon enough. we ve been hunting. we ve gone different places looking for it and can t find it. it s pretty tough to find bottled water. we are having to boil, you know, to wash dishes or do anything. i m trying so hard not to cry because we have to pay to be able to survive. pay light, pay rent, pay the car. i m very stressed too with everything going on. it s hard. but i m trying. it s hard, but i m trying. the absurdity, though, in all of th
spreader events and hot spots for college students. we re covering it all, and also, my special report this hour, thousands of immigrants still waiting to be reunited with families even after donald trump s muslim immigration ban has, in fact, been lifted. i m going to take a deeper look at that later on this hour. but we first want to start in atlanta where a rally organized by stop aapi hate is in full swing. marchers, they re calling for an end to anti-asian-american violence in the wake of this week s shooting. deepa is in atlanta for us with all this. good to see you this afternoon. thanks for joining us on this. talk us through what you re seeing on the ground here and what you re hearing from folks, what changes, what real changes do they want to see? reporter: yasmin, that s right. it s been an emotional week in atlanta in the area and today as well, about a thousand rally goers here gathering at the steps of the capitol, now marching towards further into downtown
dr. lipi roy is here to answer more of your covid questions. and it s a side of the syrian civil war you may not know about, an all female militia fighting for their rights among the first to ever beat isis on the battlefield. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnson, welcome to the week. president biden s covid package is one big step closer to becoming law, but what s after that? how will democrats govern from here with republican support uncertain at best? it could depend on this senator, democrat joe manchin of west virginia. the stimulus package has smaller unemployment benefits than designed as a condition of winning his support. now it won t add another $400 per person but 300, but even with his support, there s still the problem of getting over a republican filibuster in the future. that would take every democratic senator and ten republicans voting to stop it, and that has a number of democrats calling for an end to the filibuster. the more
but meanwhile, here on earth today, same day, same country, we still have not figured out how to keep lights on. hundreds of thousands of people still in the dark tonight in the great state of texas suffering what has been a days long, slow-rolling disaster caused by a big and very cold winter storm that still pounded most of the country, and it is bad in a bunch of places and a bunch of states. but the situation in texas is just a catastrophe, not only because of the weather, but because of the mix of the weather and texas inability to prepare for it and inability to handle it. against the cold temperatures, demand for electricity is way up so people can heat their homes, but the energy supply in texas is simultaneously also way down with texas s nonwinterized, noninsulated, very fragile energy infrastructure, proving itself once again to be incapable of operating in the cold, incapable of generating anywhere near enough power to light up the state when demand is high. tha