Im lindsey reiser. Y im kendis gibson. We have our correspondents standing by with all the stories were covering. We begin with the Murder Trial of Derek Chauvin with Closing Arguments set to begin tomorrow. This comes on theeg heels of growing protests over other policeinvolved incidents. Nbcsci Megan Fitzgerald has mo on this. Good morning. Good morning. D hundreds of People Gathering outside the Brooklyn Center Police department last night in what wasst the seventh day of f protests. It was mainly peaceful. People gathering, chanting, wanting , peace, wanting justic. But it was different from what went saw Friday Night when near 100 people were taken into to custody. We also heard last night from Maxine Waters of california who addressed the crowd. Take a listen to what her message was. This is a very difficult time in the V History of this countr. Despite the fact that we know that people of color are having have been killed too often, bunarmed young men in particular. Black men. I
the second thing that s important about the respiratory rate of 22 is when you have somebody that the primary problem in the body is airway narrowing, where you have somebody where there is that the airways are being compressed and there s narrowing in the neck and narrowing in the chest, the physiological response to airway narrowing is a normal respiratory rate and that is what we have. so it s the expectant respiratory rate you see that s normal is the expected physiological response. if somebody who has airway narrowing. so, doctor, you ve covered the mechanisms of how low oxygen occurs. as a commission, did you observe the results of low oxygen in the video showing the last minutes of george floyd s life? yes. what did you observe? i mean, in terms of what we are seeing is the changes in his facial appearance, this becomes crucially important. again, it s seeing the effects of the low oxygen. have you seen this effect in other patients as a clinician? yes,
year s eve celebrations. the annual times square celebration in new york city is for now a go. the fda has authorized two new at-home tests, but for now the demand for testing is drastically outpacing supply. many hospitals are maxed out with large portions of staff out sick themselves. states like georgia and ohio are the latest to activate the national guard for help. some experts say this is the new reality for the foreseeable future. everything we re going to do right now will be imperfect. just accept that right now. we don t know a lot of the things we wish we knew, but what we do know and is emerging is this country will be in the soup in the next few weeks. with so many cases in so many locations, we ll see critical infrastructure as well as health care challenged. one of those big challenges is a rise in pediatric cases. more than 300 children being admitted to the hospital nation wild for covid every day in the last two weeks, just 2% below the peak in september
next week and to freight rail, uncreasing that look, we have the bottlenecks across the country. we re doing so much with this legislation. it s going to make it easier for companies to get goods to market more quickly and reduce supply chains, bottlenecks and now and for decades to come. you know, according to an economist this will ease inflationary pressures, ease inflationary pressures by lowering costs for working families. it will create jobs replacing lead water pipes so every american, every child can drink clean water, improving their health. how long have we been talking about that? it s a gigantic issue. jobs making high-speed internet affordable and available everywhere in america. you ve heard me say this before and i apologize for repeating myself, but no parent should be sitting in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant so their child can do homework except to go off of what s going on with the internet connection from the fast food restaurant. this is goi