Replace him . Its way too early for this. Good Morning And Welcome to way too early. The show that gives us answers in the form of a question. Im Jonathan Lemire on this thursday, august 12th. Well start with the news. Today the fda is expected to approve Covid19 Booster shots for people with weakened immune systems. It comes as Covid Cases surge across the country, including a growing number of pediatric patients. Morgan chesky has the latest. Reporter as Covid Cases surge yet again the fda looks to speed up the Time Line for booster shots. Theyll look at a shot for Pfizer And Moderna boosters. Unvaccinated patients filling up hospitals as schools face push back over mask mandates. Im not willing to play Russian Roulette with Someones Life like that. Reporter the delta driven surge, in pennsylvania up 120 , in tennessee 40 . One in four new cases are kids under 17. Now were seeing more kids who are symptomatic and more kids being hospitalized due to the delta variant. Reporter cities
From could to should. And on schools, dr. Fauci speaking out against governors in states like florida and texas who have been blocking Mask Mandates. I can tell you that those of us in the public Health Sector are really very concerned when you have authorities at a higher level be that at the level of the state, a governor, what have you who tell local Health People that they cant do things that are obviously important for the safety of people. Ill be speaking with kentuckys democratic Governor Andy Basheer and well be bringing you President Biden and hes running 45 minutes late already. Lets start on the covid crisis. Morgan chesky in dallas. Theres still debate over masking in texas and no debate in hospitals and major cities are over capacity due to the variant. Tell us whats the latest. Reporter yeah, andrea, hospitals all across the state are facing a shortage in staff while having to try to deal with this surge in patients that in some cases is closing down, at least temporarily
Too early for us. And former aid to the george w. Bush White House, Elise Jordan and also Katty Kay on the way this morning. In the united States Covid cases are on the rise again driven up in increases in places with low Vaccination Rates. And now the former Surgeon General is suggesting the cdc should once again ask everyone to mask up indoors. Nbc News Correspondent Kathy Park explains. Reporter no signs of Covid Backing down. In Los Angeles County a 700 increase in positive cases in just the last month as masks go back on while indoors. I think better safe than sorry for sure. Reporter former Surgeon General on mask weighing, the premature guidance was wrong. The cdc should be advising to vax it and mask it. The current Surgeon General defended the Cdcs Decision on masks for the fully vaccinated. They gave communities and individuals a flexibility to make decisions about what to do with masks. Reporter across america, cases rising in all 50 states some hit harder than others. Healt
Thing. Jeff says get in here and you can wear sweatpants, too. I read it somewhere. Top of the hour, everyone, im alisyn camerota. Im victor blackwell. Any moment at the White House, the president will meet with West Virginia Republican leading negotiations on infrastructure. Interestingly, this is a Oneonone Meeting, and that really underscores just how crucial this conversation will be. There has been so much back and forth over the cost of President Bidens proposal, we may soon know whether they can actually get bipartisan support to get this thing passed or if the democrats will have to somehow go it alone. With us now, cnn senior white House Correspondent Phil mattingly. A Oneonone Meeting . Reporter i think your framing is good in that, yes, White House officials have made clear this is a Fish Or Cut Bait Decision by The End of this Week Or Start of next week in terms of what their pathway forward is. Thats why this conversation is so important. Not that the two the two negotiato
Seated a suspicion of government that is even more widespread today. Remember, a few years later kim Watergate A scandal that forced the president to resign and raised even more distrust in government. And now along with republican assault on Voting Rights were learning more about efforts to dig up dirt on congressional democrats and others at Donald Trumps Department Of Justice. The current chief Dojs Inspector General is now in the ordeal. But today this Breaking News in the New York Times revealing that in February 2018 trumps doj subpoenaed apple for information about an account that belong to former white House Counsel Don Mcgahn. According to two of the New York Times Sources Apple was barred from telling mcgahn about. It the doj declined to comment. The Senate Majority Leader wants answers. What has happened here are fingerprints of a dictatorship, not as democracy. No one likes the idea that if the president s mad, he can just go forth with setting personal phone that are on pe