Plus, never forget on the 20th anniversary of 9/11, a reflection on the lessons learned. Is the u. S. Safer now? the national security adviser on 9/11 is ahead 6. Hello, i am dana bash in washington where the state of your union is remembering our america s heroics. Yesterday america marked 20 years since the 9/11 attacks. We put a spotlight on how much things have changed. President biden spent the day honoring those killed on 9/11 with trips to the pentagon, sh shanksville and ground zero. Many americans growing numb of the thousands dying, literally preventable deaths from covid19. President biden s most aggressive push to get the pandemic under control. Vowing to fight a new mandate covering as many as 100 million americans, one model used boo i the cdc projects, almost 100,000 more could die by december. Joining me now, dr. Murthy, thank you so much for joining me. I want our viewer to listen to what presidentelect joe biden said this december and what jen psaki said just this jul
Normal. It was not welcomed and it was certainly not consensual. In washington, the senate is back in session right now. Finally only hours away from a final vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill, after time ran out on a fourday holdup from a single republican senator from tennessee, objecting that it isn t entirely paid for. It still faces an uncertain future in a deeply divided democratic house. Also this hour, we ll have a live report from kelly cobiella in kabul as the taliban advance on the capital and i ll be joined my former defense secretary leon panetta. Nbc s morgan chesky in texas and vaughn hillyard in florida. Morgan, let s talk to you first. The good news about canada reopening its border to fully vaccinated americans coming, as hospitals are bombarded with patients and that massive biker rally in sturgis, south dakota, could make things a whole lot worse. Reporter: yeah, andrea, you re absolutely right. We know more than a half a million people expected to descend i
Now. And day four of that annual motorcycle rally is under way. There is roughly 700,000 people, and wes want to bring in dr. Natalie azar. Good to have you. Morgan, let me start with you in texas. At last check a few hours ago you mentioned that just half a dozen icu beds were left in austin. What are officials there saying about how dire things have gotten in austin texas and beyond? they re saying things are reaching a crisis level. We have seen hospitals revert back to staffing levels, to operation modes, when texas was seening a real summer surge. Social media, phone calls, any way they can to say please stay indoors, don t so go to mask gatherings, and please mask up. For another big part of the surge is the fact they are unable to issue a mask mandate. It has been prohibited with an executive order. Six icu beds in the greater austin area. We have about eight million people there. At last check they re about 75 icu beds available there. So no matter where you look you re running
And right now those protests in cuba are expanding. U. S. Officials are warning cubans not to try to make that treacherous journey to the united states. We re going talk to the mayor where they have taken to the streets in sol darety. Nbc garrett haake is at his host on the hill. Garrett, i will start with you. Spending and infrastructure negotiations seem to really splinter off. We re hearing about so many different plans. Make it plain for us. What plan is this and what is in it? there is two bills. The bipartisan one. Roads, bridges, set that aside now. What we re talking about now is a bill that costs $3. 5 trillion that includes all of these other priorities. This new reconciliation bill that is not a bill yet, just a top line number, will include numbers for early childhood education. It will address climate change, it will expand medicare benefits, and it is a huge investment all of these other priorities that democrats ran on and they will need to do it with only democratic vot
Governor ringing the alarm on these conditions. And all eyes on the white house today where gun violence will be the focus of a big meeting there. What we know at this hour about president biden s plan to address this growing crisis. First, we re witnessing a symbolic ending to two decades of u. S. Operations in afghanistan. We will begin with the latest developments. Courtney kube is there and mike memoli at the white house. General scott miller who has been in charge since 2018. How significant is this transfer of authority? so it is significant for several reasons. Number one as you mentioned general scott miller, he was the longer serving u. S. Commander in this post. He was here for nearly three years. Today he transferred his authorities here to the commander of u. S. Central command. Two things are symbolic. The reality is that he already had these authorities. He is the commanding general of this entire region. He was not on the ground like general miller. The second big part t