To vote, unsiege right now in many state legislatures nationwide. We have reporters out in the streets on this historic day. It is just one of the major stories we are following this hour. We are also tracking hurricane ida as it takes aim at louisiana, and we are keeping a close eye on afghanistan where the u. S. Launched a deadly response to the recent suicide bombings at the airport. More on all of that in just a moment. We begin this hour with breaking news and a sea of voting rights marches across the country under way right now. I m going to show you a live look at the crowds in washington, d. C. Right now tens of thousands of people flooding the streets in more than 40 cities, all to commemorate the 58th anniversary of the historic 1963 march on washington, to call on congress to pass federal legislation to protect voting access. Nbc s josh letterman among the rally crowd at d. C. s national mall. We can hear the speaker loud and clear behind you. Talk to me about the atmospher
At people who commute by train two or three days a week. New zealand weightlifter laurel hubbard is set to become the first transgender athlete to compete at the tokyo olympics. Wales will find out tonight who they re playing in the knockout stages of the euros after getting through the group. Senior health leaders say the government must start planning now for covid boosterjabs, due to be given in the autumn. They say the questions which need to be asked about the roll out include, will people get the same vaccine as the original one they got? how long does immunity from the original coronavirus jab last? and will children will be vaccinated? it comes as england s young adults continue to respond to the call to get a vaccine, with more than a million appointments made over the weekend. So far, nearly 60% of uk adults have had two jabs of the vaccine, meaning they are fully vaccinated. And more than four in five adults have had their first dose. Here s our health correspondent anna col
We begin with a second straight night of clashes between israeli police and plntd plnts as tensions boil over in jerusalem. The palestinian red crescent says nearly 100 palestinians were injured by stun grenades and rubber bullets fired by police on saturday. Police say they were trying to disperse crowds of people who were throwing stones and fireworks. Well, jerusalem has seen weeks of unrest over the possible eviction of palestinian families from their homes. I want to go straight now to jerusalem. Hadas gold joins me live. Ha hadas, hi. What s the situation right now? reporter: well, robyn, i m standing in frchbtont of damasc gate. This is one of the main entrances into jerusalem, the one most important for muslims as they enter the old city of jerusalem. This was the scene of some of those clashes we saw last night across several locations across east jerusalem including in sheikh jarra which is that neighborhood where you mentioned those palestinian families are facing possible e
Could land basically anywhere in the red zone, pictured here, it doesn t really narrow it down, it covers a lot of territory and potentially a lot of people. Oren liebermann is with me now. And oren, i suppose we re in that zoom as well. Tell us who is tracking this thing and it sounds like the pentagon is on top of this as well. Of course, u. S. Space command and the space force are very much tracking this and they have very much narrowed the window of when this might come down. The latest update which came out just a few moments ago is that it will reenter the atmosphere at 10:04 tonight, our time, eastern time, and give or take one hour on either side. Still a twohour window but that s a much tighter window than the nine or tenhour windows we saw earlier today. And even before that. At the speeds this is move, this piece of chinese space junk which weighs 22 ton, that twohour window is about one and a third orbits and we know where those orbits are so we have a much tighter idea of
facility, that you said is not overcrowded. it s more like an aspirational facility. there are a lot of classrooms, nurses, new clothing and the republicans are headed to a very different facility, one that has gotten a little bit of notoriety from leaked photographs coming out for its overcrowding. that is a customs and border protection facility. so two different groups, two different facilities. they might get a really different picture of how things are going and senator cruz is leading the 19 senators here. we expect them to get on the boat here. he was out next to the river overnight. he says this is far beyond humanitarian crisis. it s and national security crisis and it s time for the biden administration to put an end to it. and stop sanctioning the lawless chaos on our southern border. customs and border protection releasing some staggering numbers. more than 100,000 encounters along the southwest border in the month of february alone. triple the number of encou