Ground. The biden administration scored a victory when a judge denied a motion by a group of Lapped Landlords to block the cdcs he vision moratorium. A Advisory Panel advised that people with weakened immune Systems Ab loud to get a third Vaccine Dose hours after the fda amended the Emergency Use authorizations for the Pfizer And Moderna vaccines to allow that. Democrats are putting more pressure on nancy on House Speaker Nancy pelosi to call a vote on the bipartisan Infrastructure Bill instead of waiting to vote on the 3. 5 trillion Reconciliation Bill is ready. Well talk about it with judy gomez. And census data shows that america is becoming more diverse and less white. Well take a closer look at what that means for the country and for our politics. But we start this hour in afghanistan. A full Taliban Takeover now seems almost inevitable. Two major capitals have fallen to kandahar. You can see the taliban is circling in on kabul, the capital from all sides. This as the. Uk, u. S. A
In mississippi. The hospitals are full from memphis to gulf port, natchez to meridian. Everything is full. Everything is full. The i. C. U. Crisis is getting more critical by the hour. Some states are at or they are near capacity. Only a few hundred beds are left in some of the largest states in the south, or in the case of mississippi you see there on your screen zero. Mississippi is now requesting help from the federal government as they are dealing with this crush of coronavirus patients. And a critical staffing shortage. Theres a Field Hospital thats now being set up in a Parking Lot that could be used to take Care Of older teenagers with coronavirus. Some schools in mississippi, Indiana And Georgia have already gone back to virtual learning because of growing case numbers. Many are now rethinking mask policies. West Virginia Republican Governor jim justice warns that if cases continue to climb, as they clearly are, masks may be required in schools there. More children are now hosp
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Replace him . Its way too early for this. Good Morning And Welcome to way too early. The show that gives us answers in the form of a question. Im Jonathan Lemire on this thursday, august 12th. Well start with the news. Today the fda is expected to approve Covid19 Booster shots for people with weakened immune systems. It comes as Covid Cases surge across the country, including a growing number of pediatric patients. Morgan chesky has the latest. Reporter as Covid Cases surge yet again the fda looks to speed up the Time Line for booster shots. Theyll look at a shot for Pfizer And Moderna boosters. Unvaccinated patients filling up hospitals as schools face push back over mask mandates. Im not willing to play Russian Roulette with Someones Life like that. Reporter the delta driven surge, in pennsylvania up 120 , in tennessee 40 . One in four new cases are kids under 17. Now were seeing more kids who are symptomatic and more kids being hospitalized due to the delta variant. Reporter cities
Expected to green light a third dose for immunocompromised americans. That means millions of people are potentially eligible. The question, will everyone else need one, too . Vaccine, at least not within this category, is going to have an indefinite amount of protection. Inevitably, there will be a time when well have to give boosts. More on that in a second. A first on Nbc News, new incoming governor of New York exclusively with Nbc News on the Today Show. What Kathy Hochul says about andrew cuomo, running for governor in her own right next Year And Masking in schools. Growing concern inside the pentagon, u. S. Officials watching Al Qaeda trying to come back with a vengeance as the taliban keeps picking up territory. Security concerns both inside and outside afghanistan. Weve got a lot to get to. A lot of Nbc News reporting this morning. Im Hallie Jackson with you on assignment this week. Back home in washington, Monica Alba at the White House. John torres is joining us, along with fo