January 6 rioters say they didn t get enough support. Good morning, everyone. Happy thursday. At a time of growing division and debate over masking and vaccinations in the united states, there is one thing that is certain. The delta variant is fueling a rapid surge in cases and it is really forcing officials to push mandates to protect americans. Now, in the coming hours, u. S. President biden is set to lay out the next steps in the fight against covid19. And that includes boosting vaccinations. A source says that he is expected to announce that all federal workers and contractors will be required to get a shot or submit to regular testing. The move comes as the president is urging all americans to get vaccinated. Take a listen. The pandemic that we have now is the pandemic of the unvaccinated. So please, please, please if you are not vaccinated, protect yourself and the children out there. The urge and pleas may be working. Cdc thinks that the daily pace of getting their first covid v
And our loudest voices of the week. Cubans standing up without fear to demand democracy. This is american voices. Hello, everyone, i m alicia menendez. We begin this hour with a growing challenge for president biden. Convincing vaccines skeptics to get the shot. New nbc reporting shows a glimmer of hope. Vaccine rates are starting to rise in states with the biggest increase of new infections. Biden addresses the politicization of the vaccines this week in virginia. Here s the point. All the covid19 deaths and hospitalizations are today among the unvaccinated people. I know this has gotten a bit politicized. I hope it s starting to change. It s not about red states or blue states or guys like that hollering. It s about life and it s about death. But the politics of covid are still at play as the pandemic, fueled by the delta variant, surges across the nation. It appears red states are paying the highest price. Thanks to vaccine disinformation spread among right wing politicians and medi
And his confidence throughout this process is one of the beacons that i kept my eye on because he is very realistic about what the possibilities are, he s not somebody who throws a lot throws around a lot of false optimism. So he was one of the keys for me and watching you get this far. It s not all the way there, but this vote is a huge hurdle for the bill to get over. I m looking for to your show tonight, lawrence have a good one. Thank you. While they say the senate will delivered a huge vote tonight and a huge win. Huge win for joe biden in the senate tonight. It was also a huge win for chuck schumer s legislative strategy in the senate of passing a bipartisan infrastructural bill followed by a larger democrats only bill. And at the very same time, this part was completely unnecessary, and he brought it on himself, but at the very same time, it was a humiliating and crushing defeat for donald trump. Any real movement on infrastructure legislation was going to, in effect, be a humil
A thin veil of clouds out there, but nothing that i think is going to stop everything. 71 degrees, this doesn t have to take off at a certain time. It s not trying to catch up with the space station, it s going to go up and come down. We could delay it if we have to. Haze, fog, smoke and sky in the northeast, heavy rainfall in the southeast, and still, that monsoonal moisture in the desert southwest. New day continues right now. That s where i do the robot. With that music, i m not going to do it. I ll spare you, welcome to our viewers in the united states, and around the world, it s tuesday, july 20th. And it s all systems go for jeff bezos as they prepare for their 11 minute journey to the edge of space and back. The new rocket was positioned on the launch pad overnight, and it s now two hours and counting until lift off from west texas. Bezos will be joined by his brother and 18yearold from the netherlands and 82yearold female aviation pioneer, wally funk from texas. His rocket will
Little after 11:00. The next of the infrastructure bill has not yet finished being written and that has to be done before they introduce it. It will be read and then you will have the traditional slew of amendments offered by senators of both sides. We are in for perhaps a lengthy saturday session. C. D. C. Director rochelle walensky walking back a mandate and indoor mask use. Welcome, i m alicia acuna. Griff: i m griff jenkins after the confusion over the biden administration. With the latest. The biden administration an urgently trying to get more americans to have a covid19 vaccine. Their questions how the government hopes to accomplish the goal. We have seen a number of companies mandate that their employees go ahead and get the vaccine and last night on special reports, the c. D. C. Director was asked whether something like this, if the government was going to follow their lead. I want to start there, the are you for mandating on a level? i think that the administration is looking