Because President Biden met with his national Security Team today. They discussed the Security Situation there and counterterrorism operations. Pennsylvania Congresswoman Susan wild will join us to consider what happens now. Plus, covid remains a critical situation in alabama. And also, in florida. Today, that state passed 3 Million confirmed cases. Floridas governor is giving some School Districts 48 hours to drop their Mask Mandates or face losing some funding. And Donald Trump is holding a rally in Northern Alabama where a Covidemergency Declaration is in effect. From nbc News World Headquarters in New York, im joshua johnson. Welcome to the week. We begin with the rapidly shifting situation in afghanistan. Two Defense Officials tell Nbc News that the u. S. Is tracking specific threats from isis. The Threats Target americans and others who are trying to reach the kabul airport. That is forcing the military to work on alternate ways into the airport. One aspect of this threat comes f
Luther king, jr. , iii and why they are holding their nationwide event next weekend can change the course of Voting Suppression across the country. Thousands of under a Storm Tonight as henri barrels up the coast, expected to make landfall in a matter of hours. We are keeping a close eye on its path. This is American Voices. We begin this hour with breaking news, florida hits a major milestone in its uphill battle against covid. New Cdc Data shows the state just passed 3 Million cases of coronavirus. You would think news like this would give the States Governor a reason to rethink his pandemic strategy. No the states republicancontrolled Board Of Education is backing governor Ron Desantis Push to punish schools with Mask Mandates. The state promises to withhold salaries of School Board members in Gainesville And Broward county if they dont reverse their Mask Mandates by The End of the weekend. Its not just democratic strongholds that define the governor. Last night, Sar Ro so that desc
Weekend. But its not just democratic strongholds defying the governor. Last Night Sarasota County approved its own Mask Mandate in schools. Its the first Florida County that Donald Trump won in 2020 to require masks in the classroom. The chair of the School Board says it is the right thing to do. I have a responsibility to provide for the Health And Safety of our children. And i also have to provide education for them. We cant educate the kids when they are home because theyre quarantined because some parent doesnt want to get a vaccine, some parent doesnt want to put a mask on their child. It is not just the war on Mask Mandates. Some republican leaders are searching for scapegoats to explain their botched pandemic response. Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan patrick has growing backlash after He Unblamed Unvaccinated Black People for the States Hike in hospitalizations and deaths. But as the Associated Press reports, statistics from the Department Of Health do not back his claim. Black te
toss-up race in the rematch for governor is leaning red. john: congenial affair, don t you think? can the the democrats send senator warnock back to washington, we ll find out. and a george-based political reporter is on the ground tracking the mood in the closing hours. sandra: america reports rolls into a second hour here on a friday afternoon. i m sandra smith in new york. john: good to be with you another 60 minutes. counting down to election day, one last weekend to campaign and get out the vote. sandra: democrats in new hampshire trying to hold on to a seat they cannot afford to lose there. john: hassan bringing in back-up, as her republican challenger don bolduc picks up steam, and one person absent from the granite state, president biden. sandra: ari fleischer standing by, and daron shaw. john: hillary vaughn is in durham, new hampshire. who is on the guest list? elizabeth warren was just here at the university of new hampshire rallying college stude
captions by vitac www.vitac.com that s it for us. let s hand it over to laura coates and cnn tonight. laura? anderson, thank you so much. i m laura coates and this is cnn tonight. look, i ve got to get right to it. i know we re supposed to think about politics and other notions today. but i ve got to tell you about alex jones because i ve been thinking about it all day since i heard and watched that testimony. alex jones spent so many years trying to get people to believe in his conspiracy theories, to pretend that sandy hook, the tragedy never even happened, that the precious lives that were lost, they somehow never even existed. he even said at one point that the parents were actors. obviously that s not only cruel, it s absurd because it did happen. and they obviously existed. well, you know, there might have been a kind of poetic justice that occurred today because something else he claimed never existed, text messages and communications about sandy hook. well