washington and albany. the allegations, denials and calls for his resignation continue. welcome to monday. it s meet the press daily. i m kasie hunt in for chuck the biden administration is facing an urgent crisis. due to a surge in migrant crossings and in unaccompanied mine grant children, the white house is trying to surge resources to the southern border. federal facilities are being overwhelmed. they are deploying fema and building temporary shelters. they are housing migrant children for longer than the law allows. they are facing difficult questions about how much their border and immigration policies might be contributing to the problem. last week the white house coordinator for the border said it might by a response of the softening of the hard line and in some cases inhumane immigration policies. she and other officials have emphasized, the border is not open. as the new york times notes, migrants hopes have been drummed up by human smugglers who promise t
you re going to be so strong and healthy when it s it s your turn just take it don t be too late, baby don t hesitate all right. . that s fantastic. . the great carol king with her own vaccine song inspired, she says, by dolly parton. tomorrow, we of course are going to be doing our own, willie and i are. go ahead, put up the tweet. that you could put up the tweet that would be great. thank you, dolly parton, for you for inspiring me to inspire me to record my own vaccination song. covid vaccine. vaccines save lives. a duwop version of the happiest girl in the whole usa. we change the words around a little bit. we think we could get 50 million new vaccines by tomorrow evening just on the strength of our song. speaking of big numbers, willie, it looks like oprah s interview with whoa! . meghan and henry what s his name? come on! harry. sorry. looks like they outrated your interview with oprah from the spring of 04. back in the morning joe
red being cancellations, yellow delayed. it just doesn t look that bad right now. we go to flight aware.com and the misery map. the number of domestic flights canceled is down to 716 from 1200 yesterday when bad weather and the spike in coronavirus cases caused all of those cancellations. also looking at the map the red are the delays or cancellations on that graphic. you can see that coronavirus doesn t really know any geographic boundaries. the bigger the cities, the more delay, the more cancellation. this particular round of trouble started christmas eve when the spike in coronavirus cases among airline employees mirrored that of people in the nation. they started calling in sick and airlines didn t have enough people to operate all the flights. bad weather yesterday. sky west and alaska got hit hard. for the industry this is a trouble spot. a bump in the road.
they say there have been days over the weekend where there are drive-by shootings in downtown chicago. when i grew up here the violence was on the south side. it expanded. it doesn t matter what color you are. bullets don t care about race. the mayor decides she wants to fore a mandate on police officers who would be supporting the safety of the city which needs it the most. we need officers, not less. she is playing god. the situation has terrible effects. with my family i am very concerned we will see more bloodshed than ever in this city. harris: and your thoughts? i think the coronavirus doesn t discriminate against people regardless of race or income. people with pre-existing are at the highest risks. this is about saving lives. in 2020, 66% of all law enforcement deaths were from
delta variant for children? yeah, i think really concerning, actually. and i think we re hearing you ve heard the reports that is a more contagious variant. it is making people sicker and most of the severe infections are in invaccinated children and adults and that does include children. i think we re so grateful that coronavirus doesn t seem to have the severe infectious impacts in the same way that it does in adults. but it does still make children very sick and we have still seen children get quite ill both in the immediate phase, in the hospital, and in the long-term. so it is just so important for all of us to be coming together to do all of the things that we can to protect everyone in our community and especially right now those children under 12 who don t have access to this safe and effective vaccine. and when there is an fda approved covid vaccine for children, should it be required