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i m lindsey reiser. y i m kendis gibson. we have our correspondents standing by with all the stories we re covering. we begin with the murder trial of derek chauvin with closing arguments set to begin tomorrow. this comes on theeg heels of growing protests over other police-involved incidents. nbc sci megan fitzgerald has mo on this. good morning. good morning.d hundreds of people gathering outside the brooklyn center police department last night in what wasst the seventh day of f protests. it was mainly peaceful. people gathering, chanting, wanting , peace, wanting justic. but it was different from what went saw friday night when near 100 people were taken into to custody. we also heard last night from maxine waters of california who addressed the crowd. take a listen to what her message was. this is a very difficult time in the v history of this countr. despite the fact that we know that people of color are having have been killed too often, bunarmed young me ....
center for strategic and international studies. we really appreciate everyone coming out on this gorgeous thursday before labor day. i think this is a really important topic and really important report that we are putting out right now. i appreciate all of you taking the time out to do this. before i give a brief summary of the report, which i hope all or most of you were able to get, it will be posted online by the way right after this event. i wanted to say a couple of thank you s. first is to the ford foundation that we are just completing our second year of funding with the ford foundation. they have been a great partner with us. thank you to the ford foundation for believing in us, slightly nontraditional partner for them on this. i want to thank my co-author, carmen garcia gallego who is currently in laos, working for unicef. if you are watching online, hello, carmen. and then i want to thank our panelists, who i will introduce in a minute. this is an issue that h ....
also coming up this hour, a measure of justice for ahmaud arbery. the three georgia men convicted of his murder sentenced to life behind bars. i want to get to white house correspondent januarohn harwood stevens, the senior advisor to the lincoln project. good evening to both overyou. john harwood, we thought we might get a ruling tonight but expected to come very soon. the supreme court appears poised to block president biep den s vaccine and testing rules to large businesses. how big of a role would this play in the attempt to stop covid? it would certainly be a blow. i don t know how big of a blow. there are many difficulties in front of the biden administration as they try to get the country vaccinated and the biggest one is hard vaccine resistance from a few tens of millions of americans, you know, just about 30% of the country of adults in the country who are simply not willing to get vaccin vaccinated. the mandate helps to force some people do it but that s r ....
good wednesday morning and the breaking news we are following this morning, a significant storm, now a category 4 storm, hurricane idalia now in the extremely dangerous category, that category 4 storm designation is intensified over the hours from a category 3 now to a category 4, it is expected to make landfall onto florida s gulf coast in just hours. forecasters are calling the storm dangerous, life threatening, a once in a lifetime storm that could bring catastrophic storm surge of up to 16 feet in florida s big bend region. at 6:30, just about a half hour from now, florida governor ron desantis will be giving an update from tallahassee. we will bring you that live. desantis says if you wanted to see a press can he not. analog for a storm hitting this place at this scale, go back more than a century. sarah sanders has been there live, part of team coverage, bill weir, in florida, derek van dam in tampa. and brian todd. and we ll be speaking with local officials and t ....
[cheers and applause] greg: that s all me! that s my fault. my fault. all right, all right, all right. happy wednesday, everybody. tomorrow, both president joe biden and former president donald trump head to the texas border to duke it out on america s current migrant crisis. the sad part is only one of them will know where he is. [laughter] the other will think he s on a beach in delaware during cinco de mayo. for biden s part, this is only the second time he s been to the border during his presidency. the other time it was to pick up a package for hunter marked baby powder. [laughter] of course trump has been to the border numerous times, and it s obvious why he s been talking about it for years. it just took forever for everyone else to catch up. the truth is that trump, that terrible knuckle-dragging vulgarian who they love to hate, shows he knows the pulse of america better than his opponent, who may not have a pulse himself. i know. too far or not far ....