Across louisiana. And that number grows by the minute. Here s president biden a short time ago at fema headquarters. This is going to be a devastating, devastating hurricane. A lifethreatening storm. So please, all you folks in mississippi and louisiana, mississippi and god knows, maybe even further east, take precautions. Listen. Take it seriously. While new orleans dodged a direct hit, the big easy is not out of the woods. Right now, fears of storm surge, especially in communities where residents did not have a chance to get out. Now hunkered down, waiting this storm out. As officials keep an eye on the new levee system, reenforced after katrina, which as of this moment, are holding. We have a team of correspondents stationed across the storm zone. Let s start with our own sam brock before us in baton rouge. Sam, what are you seeing there? reporter: so here s what s interesting now. As you were referring to a second ago, the fact that you would expect at this point the storm is over
And defenders resigning and fort first time, we re hearing from the other staffer, the former staffer who filed a criminal complaint. I know the truth. He knows the truth. What he did to me was a crime. Plus the senates s infrastructure bill passing a crucial vote, setting it up for final passage within days. In just hours, details on the next step for that larger $3. 5 trillion bill, what the new key details mean for that time line ahead. Good morning, i m lindsay reiser in for hallie jackson. Vaughn little yard and dr. Tom frieden, vaughn, we ll start with you in florida, that state is breaking all kinds of the wrong kinds of records with hospitalizations topping alltime pandemic records for seven straight days. What s the situation like on the ground today? reporter: the latest posting out of florida, hospitalizations down to 14,000 floridians in florida hospitals with covid. This is a situation where records are being broken on a daily basis now consistently. Just this weekend, mor
Being held without spectators for one change and also covid 19 cases are going out for spectators and athletes. On thursday, tokyo reported close to 2000 new coronavirus cases, up by more than 600 compared with the same day last week. This chart shows the seven day average of daily covid cases in the capital. So far this month, a total of 91 cases directly linked to the olympics have been recorded. 0rganisers say these are isolated. They re keen to disassociate the games from any connection with cases in the wider population. Sebastian coe is a double olympic champion and president of world athletics. He spoke earlier to the bbc s garry richardson. I do know that the protocols that were put in place the tracking, the tracing, the isolating, which is working and is testament to the amount of work that has already gone into this i believe will be enough to maintain a safe and secure games. And the rising numbers we re talking about, nobody is entirely sure, garry, whether these are n
the vice precedent missing on the southern border. dana: president biden asked harris to take the lead on immigration in march. she went to guatemala in june. according to the country s president it has been radio silence ever since. peter doocy asked jen psaki about it yesterday. is vice president harris still in charge of addressing the root causes of migration from el salvador, honduras and guatemala? she is. she is announcing a commitment this afternoon. why hasn t she spoken to the president of guatemala since june, six months? i did see this strange report from the president of guatemala saying that he has had no contact with the white house, which is inaccurate. he said vice president harris he has not spoken to her. if sthe is in charge, why is that? we have had a range of conversations, peter, as reflected in our read-out we put out last week. bill: that was yesterday. last week the new poll from abc news showing that nearly 2/3 of americans disappr
democratic leadership. can moderates trust her? this hour i ll ask congresswoman clarke that very question. meantime you got fears of an ecological disaster off the coast in california as an oil spill continues to grow. we are on the ground with the very latest from there. plus covid aiming the wrath on rural america. what is behind that frightening statistic? can it be reversed? also the return. it s one of the most anticipated matchups in nfl history. quarterback tom brady going up against bill belichick. after winning six super bowls together. we are live at gillette stadium for that. but first political wrangling amongst democrats on capitol hill this weekend as progressives and moderates but heads over the bipartisan and infrastructure bills. progressives say they re open to lowering the $3.5 trillion price tag but are not giving specifics. what we have said from the beginning is it is never about the price tag but what we want to deliver. i don t feel the need to give