Your life. Tonight is about celebrating our enduring bond as friends. Good to see you, too, girl. Where are you going . Carnival . Something is bothering you. I have never been happier. Having a Safe Harbor where everybody knows your name. I am out. What . I am out of the contest. Ugly naked guy is having Thanksgiving Dinner with ugly naked gal. Friends or seinfield . Seinfield will win. I love seinfield. Seinfield. You come to expect their ridiculously. Seinfield. Seinfield is my favorite all time show. You want to play rough . I love freiends. One of my favorite shows of all times. So watchable. Friends. Friends. I really appreciated friends. One of the top all time sitcoms. Seinfield. Are we finished . Done. At the core of every sitcom, you have a family whether it is a Blood Family or in the case of friends or seinfield. We seem to be going downhill. Did you compare everybody to your exwife . Sure, i do. Can two divorced men share an apartment without driving Each Other crazy . The
Find out from sara nelson, president of the Flight Attendant Sea w. And, can friendship be the solution to repairing our politics . David french, Senior Editor for the dispatch says he thinks so. We will let him explain ahead. From nbc News World Headquarters in new york, im joshua johnston. Welcome to the week. If that sounds familiar, its because were in a very similar situation as we are in last night. Its almost like good morning. Up to see the groundhog . Yeah. Think it will be an early spring . Didnt we do this yesterday . I dont know what you mean. Dont mess with me, pork chop. One days this . It is february 2nd. Groundhog day. Yeah. Thats right. I thought it was yesterday. [laughs] oh, [laughs]. Take a breather bill murray. Good news is. Time unlike his collector in the movie Groundhog Day, this time we have a pretty good idea of what is going on and how it will and. Senators just voted minutes ago to swap out a shell bill, with the actual text of the bipartisan bill. That vote
Have the capacity in this country, not just the state, to solve this. Meantime the Delta Variant tearing across the country as hospitals swell with unvaccinated patients. It is really an outbreak among the unvaccinated. And Education Secretary Miguel Core Dona calling out republican governors for resisting Mask Mandates in schools. Dont be the reason schools are disrupted. Im that a La Brown in washington. You are live in the newsroom this sunday. Covid19 vaccines are a cheap code for the immune system. Half of americans are still playing this game the hard way. We have seen a slight uptick many new doses administered over the past Week But Vaccine Enthusiasm Isnt spreading as quickly as the virus itself. The Delta Variant has driven new covid cases and now hospitalizations to the highest levels since february. Dr. Anthony Fauci Today coming out in strong support of mandates once it earns full approval from the fda. Meanwhile, masks are back at the center of a tugofwar. Governor hutchs
Election Lice Whachlt did they learn . The chairman of the committee Dick Durbin, joins me next. Plus millions of americans in danger of losing their homes can now breathe a sigh of relief because one democratic member of congress drove the most powerful person in washington to take action ill speak to the leader of the protest, congresswoman Cori Bush, ahead. Hello. Im Dana Bash in washington where the state of our union is in rewind. For the first time since february, the u. S. Is averaging more than 100,000 new covid cases per day. Hospitalizations and deaths are also once again on the rise. Almost exclusively among the unvaccinated. President biden this Week Flash Nud levels of frustration, rebuking republican governors for standing in the way of Vaccine And Mask requirements. Some governors arent willing to do the right thing to beat this pandemic and should allow businesses and universities who want to do the right thing to be able to do it. I say to these governors, please help.
And right now, it shows no signs of slowing down. To really get a sense of how bad it is, all you have to do is look at the numbers. The average number of daily cases has increased nine fold since july. The deadly Delta Variant fuelling the rapid rise in those cases and overwhelming hospitals in many states. Hospitalizations are currently the highest weve seen since february. Even more troubling, just how this new variant is affecting children. Child and Teen Covid cases have jumped 84 in just the last week. Now despite those numbers, only half of the country is fully vaccinated. Some Health Officials say it may soon be time to mandate vaccinations for Healthcare Workers. Its inexplicable to me. Youre a healthcare worker. Your profession. The thing youve devoted your life to is to protect people. To make them well. To protect them from disease. Im very much in favor of mandating, if you want to see patients and you want to participate in healthcare, you need to get vaccinated. Period.