And unemployment benefits have run out for millions the questionof is will it hurt help the economy? it s way too early for this. Y good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that wouldn t wear white after or even before labor day. I m jonathan lemire on this tuesday, september 7thon. We ll start with the 7 news. The united states has hit another grim new milestone in the coronavirus pandemic. The case counts across the country now tops 40 million as the delta variant causes infections to casurge. New cases have climbed steadily in weeks and the country is averaging more than 1,500 death as day for the first time since march. When it comes to vaccinations, about 270 million people have received their first dose. More than 175 million have been fullymi vaccinated, which is abt 53% of the total population. Millions of americans are returning home afterer travelin over the labor day weekend and health experts fear a covid19 surge could already be brewing after several days of pot
that is the idea of unity. if you could talk a bit about what you see as unity being. there are some people defining it as being bipartisan. others are what some people define by some poll might believe, or perhaps it s 50 plus one, or 50 plus two, or 75%. given it s such a key part of your message and your promise, can you talk more about what is unity as you define it? i think it makes up several of the points you made. one can unity requires you to eliminate the vitriol, make anything that you disagree about the other person s personality or lack of integrity, or they re not decent legislators and the like. we have to get rid of that. i think that s already beginning to change, but god knows where things go. number one. unity is also trying to reflect what the majority of the american people, democrat, republican, independent, think is within the fulcrum of what needs to be done to make their lives and the lives of americans better. for example, if you look at the data
president trump in georgia tonight. what he asked the governor to do to overturn the election results. new holiday shopping warning the cities saying avoid in-store shopping the blowup over masks. i disagree. you re wearing you re required to wear a mask. it s science and now this americans are predicted to ship hundreds of millions more packages this month than carriers can deliver. and the grinch who failed to steal christmas. how this attempt to take trees turned into the holiday gift that keeps giving and giving. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz-balart. good evening. we ve been running out of ways to say grim new milestone, talking about covid. it s now so far beyond that this week it surpassed heart disease as our country s top killer today more drastic measures to try to slow the spread. southern california is now set to go into full lockdown, issuing a stay-at-home order to begin tomorrow at midnight and more states and regions may n
you put them down. next poem. when lockdown ends the australian state russia is invincible. in 10 days time. of new south wales prepares to reopen its border with victoria after covid we will defend russia cases there fall to zero. from any aggressor. the japanese have fought wars against us, so have the greeks, the khazars, the turks, the swedes, the lithuanians, the germans. we sent them all packing. the head of the us covid 19 vaccine programme says the first americans to receive 0ur enemies will never beat us, the vaccine could get it they never could and never as soon as december 11th will. you get the general idea. less than three weeks from now. i think games like this reflect the growing emphasis the authorities here dr moncef slaoui says he hopes are placing on patriotic education in russia. to be able to ship vaccines 0k, time for one more card. to immunisation sites, within 2a hours of regulatory russian sport. our top athletes defend approval. the country s
in the past hour, three hong kong activists have gone into court for the start of their trial relating to the siege of the territory s police headquarters last year. joshua wong, ivan lam and agnes chow face charges of unlawful assembly mr wong has said he intends to plead guilty. the charges relate to protests in june 2019 against a controversial extradition bill, when thousands of demonstrators surrounded the hong kong police building. the bill, which would have allowed for criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland china, was formally scrapped four months later. the three now face charges which carry a maximum prison sentence of five years. joshua wong had this to say before he went into court. this before he went into court. case will draw the world attention this case will draw the world s attention to the arbitrary power of the criminaljustice system which is manipulative by beijing and the system in greater detail. whatever happened today, i faced greater detail.