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the financial capitol was hit hard, it has come storming back. a testament to capitalism and this country and our resolve. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto, this is your world. you know, 20 years ago today, it was a monday. that they, the last day of innocence some called it would no no way hint of the trauma and the nightmare that would come and change america forever. when it hit, it hit badly. for the financial community, hit badly as well. not only in terms of financial capitol but human capitol. hundreds died that day in the investment community. more than 650 individuals at one firm, cantor fitzgerald allots. there were many others. the death of firefighters and first responders that went into the hundreds and growing questions as to whether new york could or would come back. my next guest remembers it well. ted wiseberg joins us, seaport securities. he s been through many crises. where were you that day, ted? the day started out, the reverse of where i am ....
president biden: i am so disappointed, particularly with some of the republican governors, i have been so cavalier with the health of these. so cavalier with the health of the communities. this is, we are playing for real here. this isn t a game. jesse: republican sound like they are happy to oblige calling the mandates patently unusual. i don t believe that people should lose their jobs over this issue and we will fight that. we live in america and you would expect words like that from the president come it may be of communist china or north korea. this is not a power that s delegated to the federal government, it s unbelievable to me what he s doing. i knew he would wreck this country. jesse: and it looks like his vaccine mandates are just the beginning. the white house says buckle up because i could be more along the way. is he now considering mandating vaccinations to fly domestically? we are always look at more we can do to protect and save lives. o ....
anniversary of 9/11 attacks. politically and many ways culturally at least for a time united most of our country. our government leaders used or in some cases took advantage of that unity. that s another story. and certainly up for plenty of debate. still, we were a united states amid the depths of that crisis and right now we re anything but united when it comes to the current crisis of covid-19. as death toll far surpasses anything we saw on 9/11. 660,000 americans. in fact, according to our numbers today in first read of deaths just in the last report in the last 24 hours, this is not part of the seven-day average, but we had 3,200 over the last 24 hours. you know any time you see a 3 on a daily death toll in the thousands you think of 9/11, as well. put things in perspective. we re now seeing a 9/11 size death toll basically at least every two days and it s actually more than that now. and the conservative blowblack to president biden s sweeping new covid mandates t ....
answers. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone some of the fears and anxieties of returning to classroom learning coming back into sharp focus tonight as children make up a larger and growing share of new covid cases in this country. also this evening, a stunning number of covid deaths among unvaccinated school workers, including teachers in one florida school district, sending a chill of its own and a sharp warning. while serious cases among kids continue to be rare, it becomes a different story if it is your child. and in a moment, we ll hear from family who has been there left to feel hopeless, their child too young to be eligible for vaccinations and amid the worry of transfer to children, the debate over school mask mandates still drawing oxygen tonight. kerry sanders is in miami with late details. reporter: tonight the return to the classroom potentially dangerous, with a quarter of all new covid cases now children, an ....
extremists are choosing these maxalist fights to change the landscape in schools and social media and more. they are losing most of these fights. it s kind of counterintuitive when so many of us feel so freaked out and even frightened by what s happening in this country but in small but really important ways, the culture wars that were won by those who want a multi-racial pluralistic society in this country are holding. this morning, we witnessed the statue of robert e. lee being hoisted up from its pedestal and doner tone down from good if richmond, virginia. the former capital of the confederacy. where it had loomed as a physical testament to white power for more than 130 years. it was a defence of statues just like that one, that brought a hoard of torch-wielding white nationalists to charlottesville to defend those symbols of white supremacy four years ago. and to fight the violence these meted out. in the end they lost. the statue came down today. many of the leade ....