At xfinitymobile. Com mysavings or visit an Xfinity Store to learn how our Switch Squad makes it easy to switch and save hundreds. A very good day to all of you from Msnbc World headquarters in new york. Welcome to Alex Witt reports as we give you a Look at what We Saw transpire in the desert of new Mexico Today and frankly 50 miles above us here on earth we have seen billionaire Richard Branson launch his unity 2 spacecraft. He got suborbital flight. There you see the Eve Mother Ship as it came in for a Landing Half an hour or 40 minutes ago. Were awaiting a Press Conference that Richard Branson and those three astronauts with him all employees of Virgin Galactic and the two pilots. Well have a Press Conference with them. Tom costello is making his way to that Press Conference and well take a listen to some of the details of what transpired in suborbital flight. A first, extraordinary accomplishment on this July Sunday here. We have other developing stories to get to at this hour. We
Our Rescue Teams are nonstop doing all we can, searching every area, every bit of hope to see if we can find a live victim. This has become an international Rescue Effort. Teams from Israel And Mexico arriving to assist. And those teams are working around the clock. Crews digging a massive trench to aid in the search, and there are growing questions about why this building suddenly collapsed. The governor saying debris is being moved into a warehouse for forensic analysis. And this as we learn that the Building Condominium Association was warned in 2018 that repairs on the bidding could cost over 9 million. Some Roofing Repairs had already just begun recently. We have Team Coverage on the ground in surfside tracking all the latest developments. Wolf . Thanks very much, fred. This is a really, really depressing situation thats unfolding right now. The numbers keep rising as far as the Death Toll as you just reported is concerned. And the families are clearly distraught as this Search An
break this holiday weekend omicron variant spreading across the country and the surge expected to get worse before it gets better and remembering giant of the small screen and tributes pouring in, we will look back at life. live team coverage this hour. laura ingle on betty white but first rich edison live in wilmington, delaware where the president is spending the holiday weekend. rich. rich: good afternoon, william, the president faces a host of challenges as he s getting into his second year in office. his administration is trying to make testing a priority though he s caught plenty of criticism for not moving on that sooner to try to beat the holiday season and now this omicron surge to close out 2021 plenty of americans stood in line trying to get their covid test, looking at empty shelves trying to get test. the administration working on buying 500 million at-home kits, even the president admits he wishes he had moved on that a couple of months ago. the administration a
spreading and getting at an unprecedented rate. and cornell university is going virtual after reportinger inly 1,000 new cases on campus. the message remains clear. if you are fully vaccinated get your booster shot. and democrats chris mat deadline to pass their sweeping spending panel is better, but president biden does not sound on mystic today. it s going to be close. while build back better is in legislative limbo is causing action on voting reform instead. they are future fighters, and we have to pass the john louis voting rights act. joning me now is kristin welker, co-host of weekend today and garrett haake. we have more reporting on what we expect senator shooum tore do. yeah, bottom line here is that there is a new concern about it coming down to two fairly simple problems. they don t have a finished bill yet. the paid leave portion, the tax reduction portion, they don t have a finished bill or the votes, joeman manchin continues, and there is just not
and those with whom you serve rest in peace and rise in glory. in the meantime, you re in our prayers. may god bless you and may god protect all those who serve us in uniform. thank you. [ applause ] there are few who can argue that this is among the things that president joseph r. biden does very, very well. he is at his best when he s speaking with the kind of compassion and passion and empathy for those 491 fallen members of law enforcement over the last two years and their families who have gathered to honor them at this annual event. he did so saying that he is going to support legislation to keep guns out of the hands of abusers and those who would do harm to officers. he also called for flags above federal buildings across this country to be flown at half-staff in honor of those 491 as the president and the first lady there place that wreath and some momentos there within. again, joseph biden doing something that he does best, he knows well the heartache of loss of f