Being persecuted. He writes, quote, our hearts and minds are with the people being persecuted so unfairly related to the january 6th protest concerning the rigged presi presidential election. By the way, that protest he is talking about is not why people are being prosecuted. They are being prosecuted for breaking the law, taking part in an attack on the capitol. An attack in which more than 100 law enforcement officers were injured. Officer brian sicknick died the day after being attacked during the riot. Four officers died by suicide in the aftermath. One capitol police officer said he and fellow officers were punched, kicked, shoved, sprayed with chemical irritants and even blinded with eyedamaging lasers. For the record, currently, 608 defendants have been charged. 78, already, have pleaded guilty. Six defendants have been sentenced. Three of them to prison. So let s start with the congressional correspondent ryan nobles at the site of that fencing near the capitol. So in light of
It has been 12 hours since i had a reuters sure in louisiana, on the 16th anniversary of hurricane katrina. But even as it has been downgraded from a hurricane for two hurricane one, over those 12 hours ida is wreaking havoc, especially from the storm surge it s leaving in its wake. Authorities the last hour reported a levee failing about lafitte just south of new orleans and officials warn that more than 200 people are in intimate danger there and need to seek higher ground. One death has been confirmed elsewhere in the states, a 60yearold man was killed when his house was hit by a fallen tree near baton rouge. And the entire city of new orleans is in the dark tonight s, the power companies say it s catastrophic transmission damage. The number of people without power throughout louisiana, is now more than 1 million, and rising. And there are fears that some of those people could remain without power for weeks. One area of particular concern tonight is louis knit louisiana s hospitals,
Biden approved a major disaster declaration for louisiana. I became sure as a category four storm with maximum sustained, winds over 150 miles per hour. It has been weakening as it s moved inland, but slowly. And it is now to a category two. The national hurricane center says it is still bringing catastrophic storm surge, extreme winds and flash flooding, to southeastern louisiana. And that has brought scenes like this in the city of houma. The extraordinary power of those high, winds meanwhile, the entire city of new orleans is in the, dark without power tonight except for those with generators. The power companies is ida caused quote, catastrophic transmission damage. Across louisiana more than 930,000 people have lost power. We have also had our first confirmed death, caused by this hurricane. A 60yearold man was killed when a tree fell on his home, just south of baton rouge. Of course this catastrophic storms taking place during the pandemic, in a state that has one of the highest
Credited being directly deposited in america bank accounts of americans tomorrow. And big plans. We are getting this done. A whopping 3. 5 trillion dollar infrastructure deal. So this is, i would say the most consequential piece of legislation being proposed since the great depression. One of the architects of this deal, senator bernie sanders joins me live. All this now. Good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. If there s one thing we know about covid, a year and a half of covering it, a year and a half of living with it, is that cases are either going up or they re going down. They hardly ever stay the same. They don t plateau, unless you re in the country that suppressed the virus, and even then, it takes eternal vigilance. Now we had a window to try to do that, to drive cases absolutely into the ground, to achieve some kind of suppression through mass vaccination. The biden administration came into office aiming to do that starting in mid april, the country hit its peak affects
In june to nations struggling to get control of the virus around the world. Even with science that are closer to normal future is within our reach, there s a lot of confusion about the new and changing cdc guidelines on maskwearing and there is new pressure on the white house to weigh in here. Some of the nation s biggest retailers quickly changed their policies to follow the cdc and have made masks optional for fully vaccinated customers. District of columbia, new york state also relaxing mask requirements this week but california is going to keep its mandate for another month and in new jersey, it s still masks on while indoors. We are just not ready yet. We ve been clobbered not once, but twice and we ve lost over 26,000 people. We know the virus is more lethal indoors and you are asking somebody who is at the hardware store working there or in a retailer grocery store to make the judgment on whose vaccination who s not. We re not there yet, but close. And let s not forget this was