throughout the next two hours, you don t want to miss it. we begin with a stark contrast how president biden and president trump are marking 9/11. not long from now biden is scheduled to make highways to the pentagon after visiting both ground zero and shanksville, pennsylvania, to honor the lives lost that harrowing day. meanwhile, former president trump who is set to offer commentary at a boxing match this evening used the majority of his address marking the anniversary to bash biden over his withdrawal from afghanistan. this is the 20th year of this war and should have been a year of victory and honor and strength. instead, joe biden and his inept administration surrendered in defeat. the former president did make a trip to the nypd s 17th precinct hours ago to honor the sacrifice made by the city s first responders but took time to criticize the president once again over the withdrawal. i want to bring in nbc s mike memoli who has been with us all day and is at the
i mean, that s never going to be normal. it shouldn t be normal. but to be able to, you know, to be on that plane, land it, get passengers off, put passengers on and take off, a thought for all of those pilots and copilots and flight attendants and everybody on those planes who are helping people get to freedom tonight. so thank you for telling us about that. exactly. and you have to believe that this has got to be volunteers. you couldn t put somebody in this circumstance, and tell them it s part of their job. these are people that must have volunteered for this, despite those dangers in this absolutely unprecedented and intense situation there. the fact that this may happen on a daily basis going forward makes it more remarkable. i m glad you pointed that out. we ll see you on friday, being friday eve tonight. thanks rachel. president biden striking back at republicans, calling out their efforts for all intents and purposes to extend the coronavirus, which we re going
covid cases and hospitalizations are at levels we have not seen since early february. before the majority of the country even had access to the vaccine. they ve also leveled out and are basically flat in the last two weeks. deaths, however, jumped more than 30%. nearly all of them among the unvaccinated. going to say it one more time. nearly all the deaths recorded are unvaccinated americans. let s break it down, bring in mike memoli at the white house. cal perry, eugene daniels, and dr. paul offett. he is on the fda vaccine advisory committee. he knows what he is talking about. mr. memoli. let s be honest, the six points, all of us would say sure, let s do that. how is it going to happen? reporter: that s right, steph. we re going to get more specifics through the day. this is clearly a major moment for the white house after a period of months they moved from july 4th celebration of independence from the virus to seeing just in the past week in fact one of the highest dail
significant. and this call for schools to implement regular testing. talk us through what you re hearing from sources. reporter: hallie, obviously, this is shaping up to be a pretty significant speech from the president after a summer in which he had hoped we would be looking at the downslope of the covid-19 pandemic and focus on other issues, but instead the delta variant changed those plans. white house officials are casting this speech as sort of everything they ve been trying to do, but bigger and bolder. one of those specifically already has to do with something the president himself did a couple of months ago. we talked about in july when the president ordered federal agencies to require a vaccine requirement on their staff or give them an option short of a vaccine of doing regular attestation of their negative status from covid-19. what the president is expected to do today sign an executive order, directing those federal agencies to give up that second option. yo
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 least