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america to the rescue there in texas? reporter: you know what they say, money talks. that type of action can have a big difference in legislation. now, this issue is somewhat controversial, somewhat emotional, and companies seem a little more hesitant to talk about this than, say, black lives matter even, or voting rights. but we have heard some companies speak out, yelp, for instance, match and bumble, those dating companies. both texas-based and women led. they have spoken out against this. uber and lyft, those ride sharing apps, american airlines, silicon laboratories, we re hearing a lot from celebrities as far as social sway. pink, reese witherspoon, cindy lopper even. hollywood isn t going to have the same impact in georgia when disney and netflix threatened to pull out. the tv industry puts millions of dollars in that economy. not so in texas. companies we haven t heard from, biggest employers, at&t, oracle, dell has a big presence here. those companies were qu ....
choices, nor have you ever been pregnant, but for a woman out there facing those charges, this is an incredibly difficult thing. president biden visiting the site of hurricane ida. some are urging more action on climate challenge. a man and his dog narrowly survived after a massive tornado tore through his house. and new fallout after republican minority leader kevin mccarthy warned technology firms against cooperating with the january 6th investigation. democrats and ethics experts now accuse him of violating rules and tampering with the investigation. we ll have the latest from capitol hill. good morning, everybody. it s saturday, september 4th. i m lindsey reiser. and i m kendis gibson. we re live from msnbc headquarters in new york laboring on this labor day weekend. you did that on the front end. i did it completely backward. the timing of the last two weeks there was a lot. yeah. quite an eventful two weeks. right now we have a team joining us fr ....
abortion rights supporters in texas days after that restrictive ban went into effect. we ll speak to the president of planned parenthood about their restraining order against an aggressive anti-abortion group. the president weighing in on the unusual way the ban will be enforced. the most pernicious thing about the texas law is sort of creates a vigilante system. plus desperate pleas for help from pediatricians, children s hospitals across the country facing an unprecedented strain as the delta variant targets the unvaccinated. and sounding the alarm, democrats in california urge residents to take the recall election there seriously. as a conservative talk show host with a controversial past dominates the republican field to potentially replace governor gavin newsom. we say good morning, everybody, it is saturday, september 4th, i m kendis gibson. i m lindsey we re beginning in texas, a victory, though a small one right now, for planned parenthood this morni ....
probe of the september 11th attacks. in an executive order the president demands the justice department publicly release those documents over the next six months, and some set to come out as early as next week as the aforementioned 20th anniversary of the attacks. meantime, the white house plan for covid booster shots is facing a minor setback. officials say they don t expect to meet the september 20th deadline to make booster shots available for those who received the moderna vaccine. officials, do, however, believe reg rarities are on track to make a decision for pfizer s vaccine. republican lawmakers are threatening legal action against 13 telecommunications and social media companies if they comply with a request from the january 6th select committee to preserve their phone records. we re going to have a lot more on that coming up. we re going to go beyond the headlines to nbc s liz mclaughlin and heidi at the white house. we re going first to texas, and as we m ....
grossman has been following ida s path and sam brock is in louisiana preparing for the storm surge. how are things looking where you are and how are people preparing? lindsey good morning, joe good morning. it s calm, there s a slight breeze. we re expecting rain to fall here early this afternoon and the winds to pick up as well. lindsey, to your point about rapid intensification, that means 35 miles per hour or more increase in wind speeds over the course of 24 hours. 80 miles per hour to 145 miles per hour now is a 65 mile per hour increase over the time span which is roughly double the threshold for rapid intensification. the question right now, is ida going to run out of real estate before it actually reaches landfall or will we see another increase in wind speeds because at the moment 150 miles per hour is the record for the state of louisiana with hurricane laura, and as you mentioned back in the mid 1880s that is the historical precedent we re up against right ....