approval within weeks. meantime pandemic fatigue led to some extraordinary scenes in miami beach over the weekend where tourists and spring breakers blew off any semblance of precautions, passing the streets with no mask and no social distancing. the city had to call in s.w.a.t. teams and ultimately put a curfew in place to the middle of next month. we ll get more on that from mayor dan gelber when he joins us later this hour. frustration with covid is also hitting a boiling point overseas where we saw protests and clashes with police in countries like germany and the uk, with covid surges triggered new lockdowns. in this country, cases aren t going up but they aren t going down either. officials are now seeing the next few months as a race between new cases and new vaccines averaging nearly 2.5 million a day. we ve got a lot to get to but i want to start with nbc s kerry sanders in miami beach and maura barrett in michigan, where the new case rate has nearly doubled in t
sect defended the administration s policies. the border is closed. we are expelling families. we are expelling single adults and we ve made a decision that we will not expel young, vulnerable children. but the message that the border is closed is not slowing the rate of new arrivals. a temporary overflow facility for up to 2,000 children is now being set up in west texas to handle what the administration acknowledges is the largest surge in 20 years. president biden says he plans to visit the border, quote, at some point as reporters questioned him about the white house response. i know what s going on in those facilities. what more can be done, sir? a lot more. we are in the process of doing it now. republicans are seizing on the issue to hammer the president for reversing the trump policies, and now even some democrats are criticizing the conditions of the holding facilities for the migrant children. texas democratic congressman henry cuellar provided these phot
welcome to monday. i m kasie hunt in for chuck todd. the emergency situation at the border is escalating. so is the biden administration effort to address it. president biden has told reporters he intends to make a trip to the border at some point soon. hhs is standing up additional facilities to address the surge. securing hotel rooms to houz house some families. some border acts in the rio grande valley have been authorized to release migrants without court dates. the press hasn t been given access to see the conditions inside the facilities. today, a texas congressman released five pictures he says were taken in a facility. according to his aide, each of the eight pods in the facility has a 260 person capacity. as of sunday, one pod held more than 400 unaccompanied male minors. most of the obscuring of the faces that you can see existed on the photos that nbc news received. officials at dhs did not immediately comment. a dhs official didn t dispute their authenticity. the
6th. plus, yet another blow to the biden administration, the supreme court blocking a nationwide vaccine and testing mandate for large businesses. but the vaccine mandate for certain healthcare workers will take effect. also this morning, breaking news we re following this hour, tennis star novak djokovic has his visa revoked and faces deportation once again over his covid-19 vaccination status. this just days before the start of the australian open. so could a last minute appeal put him back into the tournament? here now from australia, cnn s paula hancocks, as well as cnn tennis contributor rym abalil. he had an skexemption from the tennis federation and they re revoking his visa for the second time. what is the rational they gave? reporter: well, jim, and bianna, what we heard from the immigration minister alex hall, he didn t give too many details but he said he was revoke the visa on health and good order grounds and it was in the public interest to do so. now, w
particular industry. and they won t back down. a top u.s. diplomat warns the drum beat of war is sounding loud from russia. what will vladimir putin do next? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper starting with the politics lead. for the first time in the january 6th investigation, the u.s. justice department is using the rare charge of seditious conspiracy related to the insurrection at the capitol. prosecutors indicted 11 defendants on this charge including the leader of the oathkeepers, the violence prone far right extremist group. prosecutors say that the defendants opposed by force the execution of the laws governing the transfer of presidential power. video from january 6th shows a group in oathkeepers insignia, many wearing helmets, moving in a single file tactical formation through the crowd. and according to the indictment the defendants conspired beginning in november, 2020. they recruited members and affiliates, organized training and paramilitary combat tactics.