this storm heading straight for rhode island, parts of the eyewall already on shore and we re seeing the storm move to shore as we speak. more than 1500 people under tropical weather alerts right now concerned about storm surge in the harbors and the bays of rhode island, new york and massachusetts. concerns about flooding in the coming hours and widespread power outages because we re talking about a part of the united states not used to seeing tropical weather barrelling into shore. storm surge as well. we re going live in a moment to derek van dam who is in newport, rhode island who can give us a sense of what s happening on the coast. but first let s go to allison chinchar for the latest on the track. allison, any updates from the national hurricane center? we ve got several, in fact. we re learning it is moving very, very close to shore. landfall is expected imminently here. what we re also seeing is that little bit of downpush in wind. the winds are at 60 miles an hour
Weekend. But it s not just democratic strongholds defying the governor. Last night sarasota county approved its own mask mandate in schools. It s the first florida county that donald trump won in 2020 to require masks in the classroom. The chair of the school board says it is the right thing to do. I have a responsibility to provide for the health and safety of our children. And i also have to provide education for them. We can t educate the kids when they are home because they re quarantined because some parent doesn t want to get a vaccine, some parent doesn t want to put a mask on their child. It is not just the war on mask mandates. Some republican leaders are searching for scapegoats to explain their botched pandemic response. Texas lieutenant governor dan patrick has growing backlash after he unblamed unvaccinated black people for the state s hike in hospitalizations and deaths. But as the associated press reports, statistics from the department of health do not back his claim. B
History. I am bill hemmer. How are you doing? dana: on grade. I am dana perino. This is america s newsroom. A growing number of states move to band critical race theory. They say they union is prepared to take the fight all the way to the courts. Are union will defend any number to get in trouble for we have a legal defense fund ready to go. Good morning. He got pretty fire yesterday. She says her union is adding millions of dollars to an already existing legal defense fund specifically to defend teachers who might get disciplined over what they are teaching. Not speaking to teachers yesterday, she also said critical race theory was something only taught in college and law school and that it wasn t being taught. In school classes even though the it is all very confusing, but let s listen here to randy. Cultural warriors are labeling any discussion of race, racism, or discrimination as crt to try to make it toxic. They are building in teachers trying to stop us from teaching students ac
U. S. Forces are out of the picture. Thanks for joining us. Well, the threat of the delta covid variant looms large across the united states, especially in states where vaccination rates remain low. But now there s concern the variant could even impact the effectiveness of vaccines. The israeli government says preliminary data shows the pfizer vaccine is less effective than before in preventing covid19 infections mainly due to the spread of that delta variant. Though the vaccine is still strong in preventing severe illness. More than 157 million americans are now fully vaccinated. That s almost half of the u. S. Population. Now health officials are pushing to get even more shots in arms as they battle vaccine hesitancy. Cnn s phil mattingly reports from the white house. Reporter: president biden may have fallen short of his goal of having 70% of american adults with at least one dose of the covid19 vaccination by july 4th. It didn t mean he was going to stop the celebration, stop an ac
Connection to what is happening largely to black and brown bodies, to lowincome bodies, to folks who are living in the south and the midwest, like to be able to tell the story of what the impact will be over this next year in particular, i think is really important for us to draw the connection. We want britney to be able to decide her future, and we also want every other person who is worried about whether or not they can make the fundamental decisions about how to control their own bodies is also respected. And how we do that is to make sure that we are educating everyone and making sure they understand what s at stake when these state legislators are making those decisions for them instead of themselves. Alexis, joyce, as always, thank you both so much. As we begin a new hour, deal or no deal? it appears the president has gotten a also ahead, new battle lines. The doj s new pushback against new election laws that not only make it harder to vote, but allow lawmakers to overturn the w