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ten days. overall the national picture is bleak. the wall street journal reports that, quote, since the school year kicked off in late july, at least 1,000 schools across 31 states have closed because of covid-19. a data service is monitoring school closures at 1,200 districts nationwide, and that includes the 200 largest districts. altogether these headlines paint an uncertain future for america s students. the majority of whom are still not eligible to get vaccinated against a virus that shows few signs of slowing down. so the question now is, how much worse could the fourth wave get and will we look back on this moment and regret sending our kids back to school? nbc s we have a pediatrician and an msnbc public health analyst, and president of the american federation of teachers. what a great panel. thanks to all of you for being here. guad, according to the american association of pediatrics, one in five new coronavirus cases in the last week of august were in chil ....
exactly 16 years after hurricane katrina devastated new orleans. we ll get the latest forecast and talk to one of the heroes of katrina, retired lieutenant generous he will honore. 13 were killed by a suicide bomber, they come home with the president there to receive them. thousands took to the strd to demand federal action on voting rights. house majority whip james clyburn is here to explain the next steps. i m jonathan capehart. this is the sunday show. we begin this morning tracking hurricane ida with wind speeds now just a few miles per hour away from becoming a category 5 hurricane. the powerful storm is expected to slam into louisiana within the next few hours, possibly causing catastrophic damage on the 16th anniversary of katrina. with winds at 150 miles per hour, the governor of louisiana put the storm in context with this dire warning. we can sum it up by saying this will be one of the strongest hurricanes to hit anywhere in louisiana since at ....
vaccination goal but nearly a month late. 100 million americans are still unvaccinated and health officials are warning that the situation will get worse. we re looking not, i believe to lock down, but we re looking to some pain and suffering in the future because we re seeing the cases go up which is why we keep saying over and over again the solution to this is get vaccinated and this would not be happening. to fight the delta variant crisis some areas are taking steps backward reimplements mask mandates but not vaccine requirements. there is some companies like walmart and disney that announced requirements for many employees. for it s part the white house seems a bit unsure of what to do. they re trying to walk a balance beam between reassuring the vaccinated that they re safe, but sounding the alarm of everyone because breakthrough infections may be contributing to the dangerous serve of the unvaccinated. this is the moment to step aside from all of the infor ....
for his presidential campaign and the and augury shun they note instances of where they use that relationship with trump to advocate for the uk-y without disclosing it apparently, during the 2016 campaign barrack allegedly had language inserted into one of trump s speeches after request of a uae official. we will work with our gulf allies to develop a positive in energy relationship as part of our anti-terrorism strategy will work with them because we have to knock out terrorism. . the indictment notes that after the speech and emerati official email tom barrack saying that he mentioned the gulf allies which is great, adding congrats on the great job today everybody here are happy with the results. federal prosecutors say barracks effort continued after the inauguration as he pushed uae interest to the trump white house, he s also accused of giving the uae sensitive non public information and accused of meeting and assisting senior leaders from saudi arabia. and bec ....
some of the most violent rioters. they included those who directly attacked law enforcement. these new images are disturbing and leave no questions about what officer were facing that day. [ bleep ]. chill, bro. chill, [ bleep ]. this is our house. [ bleep ]. the justice department also released new footage from inside the capitol. the rioters can be seen trying to force their way into the senate chambers and taunting those officers who were trying to keep them out. more than 500 rioters have been arrested in connection with what was essentially a failed attempt to keep president biden from taking office. late today, the winner of november s election issued a statement. it read in part, quote, this was not dissent, this was disorder. it posed a crisis and a test of whether our democracy could survive. a sad reminder that there s nothing guaranteed about our democracy. this past weekend, the man who lost november s election continued to push the very lies that fuel ....