can congress still act to help the people who need it? plus, balancing act as companies reopen their offices, some employers are finding it difficult to get workers back in. how vaccination status is becoming latest flashpoint in office politics. and gold medal man. american swimmer caeleb dressel wraps up yet another big win and will soon head home with five gold medals. more on the big day for team usa. your new day starts right now. good morning to you. thank you so much for keeping us company here this morning on this sunday, august 1st, boris. christi, autumn is on the horizon. it is unbelievable. i am looking at it. i am looking at it. i know. so listen, we want to begin with this new month and new numbers of covid cases that really we haven t seen in months. yeah, and it s this more contagious delta variant that is erasing some of the progress made earlier this year in the united states. the month of july ending with a daily rate of infections across th
president biden says more restrictions are not off the table. in all probability. had a good day yesterday, almost a million people got vaccinated. hospitalizations in the u.s. have skyrocketed in recent weeks as well. we re now at 40,000 per day. at this pace, the u.s. will reach record highs in about two months. paul vercammen is in a neighborhood near los angeles. california is one of 20 states that have vaccinated at least 50% of residents. how much is that helping? reporter: well, it is helping a lot, yet in a populous county like los angeles, we re seeing this absolutely dramatic jump in the number of hospitalizations, jessica. right now, we have more than a thousand people hospitalized in los angeles county. we also have 3,606 new cases. in this hospital, it is mid sized, they have 20 patients here for covid related reasons. i m bringing in the director of the icu, dr. tom yadigar. he has an amazing story about something that happened this morning. come in here,
rights in texas and the unbelievable moment that a republican lawmaker, and the author of one of those restrictive voting bills admits the big lie is just that. i know that we are testimonies, it was difficult getting election workers and poll watchers, but i don t know about that evidence of fraud, in this recent election. and, extremists at cpac, some of the same people being investigated for their role in the capitol hill riots, reportedly seen walking around the conservative conference where donald trump is speaking tonight. what that says about the current state of the republican party. good morning, everybody. it is sunday july 11th. i m lindsey reiser. and then candace. it s a big day at msnbc world headquarters in new york. of course, today is the day the space race is on. we have a day full of coverage, and within the last two minutes, our producers have all been like [noise] [laughs] , because there is big news dealing with it. yes, poor some extra coffee.
meteorologist bill karins to give us an update on elsa. if we have to cut off i ll spare you guys and go over to the press conference but talk us through, vaughn, any updates we know so far early this morning. reporter: good morning, yasmin, we re awaiting the press conference slated to start at any minute including mayor cava as very wait for updated numbers and how the search and rescue operation went overnight. the weather stopped the operation twice last night particularly because of lightning that was here just off of the surfside shore. you can also see in video from last night when the first outer banks of tropical storm elsa struck here in surfside, you saw high gusts of winds and downpour of rain. you can see those workers trying to work through it. we ve been told by the officials here that rain would not be a damper on this particular effort, but that if the winds were too exceed 30 miles per hour, they would have to stop their operation. again, we know that at l
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