good one. that feels heavy. a little bit of a target. that s it for kpix ne captioning sponsored by cbs flz tonight the escape from mariupol after two month was sun light, the he would err elderly women, mothers and small children making the journey to safety. but what about those still trapped. civilians crawling through the rubble but constant shelling stopped the evacuation. the tears of joy for those ability to get out. plus what this village near the ukrainian capitol is doing to stop russians from advancing. they effectively saved their village and saved the capitol kyiv just further on in that direction. paths of destruction, look at this from the devastating ef-3 tornado. tonight the threat isn t over. we re tracking the severe weather. higher covid risk level,
and threatening to, quote, dish all the dirt on donald trump to get back at the ex president over his endorsement of the covid-19 vaccine. joining me now is juanita tolliver, msnbc analysts. and errin haines, an msnbc contributor. erin, right-wing editors heard the reporters but what about the impact that this entrenched anti vax minorities that are having all of us? including people of color. absolutely, jonathan, let me also just thank you. and also think britney for showing the human toll of misinformation. good on brittani for not giving up on her loved ones getting vaccinated. it is good to be with you again juanita tolliver at the end of 2021. weaponizing this pandemic is not a phenomenon that you make to the former president, and people like alex jones who are still committed to misinformation about covid-19 are not going to lead facts or
our first priority is tackling covid in the president is doing that. he s doing that with a plan that actually has free testing out there. we should ve had that in alaska ministration. boo finally f retesting. he has done that by mobilizing around pfizer s new pill. it can be a therapeutic for covid. i m hoping, within months, we can increase production on that. and second, people are still concerned about prices of inflation. the cost of gas is still high. the cost of groceries are still high. the president is taking a number of actions to help alleviate those costs, including investing in our infrastructure, in our supply chains as you alluded to we don t have the delays the christmas that we expected. that is in part because of this presidents policy. congressman connor, you mentioned earlier the need for build back better to get past. are you hopeful, that build back better act will pass the
impact on your family. what he is, thank you so much for having me on, jonathan. the virus has had a huge impact on my family. nearly 30 relatives are getting positive for covid. family members who passed away in mexico. and most recently losing my grandmother to covid. so it is definitely we very defining for these last two years. you also read about the efforts to get your family vaccinated. i worked hard to convince my family to get vaccinated and i was able to get at least ten of them the shot. but i couldn t convince everyone. brittani, what made it difficult to convince your family to get vaccinated? well i think that there was a lot of misinformation, disinformation. our family members who kind of rely on youtube take with their news from their. it was difficult to make their case for why they should get vaccinated. it was a lot of conversation even with my mother. she got a flu shot and got
it s what led me to drive to my cousins to say goodbye to my father who was on the ventilator. it s also with divided my family. this year, i thought hope had come in the form of the vaccine. but i had family members who did interested, others with excuses for why they didn t need it. well joining us now is we brittny mejia, reporter for the los angeles time. and we dr. lipi roy, internal medicine physician. brittani, let me start with you. and first we, congratulating you might sound weird. but congratulating you on a beautiful piece of writing. but also, my condolences to you and your family and for the pain that you shared with the readers. for many covid-19 is we would force them to stay home and wear a mask to keep others safe. the virus existing largely in the abstract. the virus has had a very real