this morning the white house is figuring out its next move after a key component of its national strategy to fight the coronavirus was shot down by the supreme court. the court ruling against the administration s vaccine or test requirement for private businesses but upheld the mandate for health care workers that interact with medicare and medicaid patients. it s not just here in the u.s. the debate raging in australia. tennis star is facing deportation after his visa was claimed for a second time. the founding director of the national center for disaster preparedness and an msnbc public health analyst. good friday morning to all of you. what are the conversations going on at the white house about where the federal response goes from here? the white house was hardened the supreme court let stand the mandate for health care facilities that are taking medicare and medicaid funding. they are pointing to the fact that over the last year or so the aministration has been able to
that party is heading. and, of course, we re following new concerning developments with this pandemic. we ve already blown past last winter s hospitalization peak. the federal government is deploying military personnel to help strained hospitals. how much worse can it get? we ll break it down. i ll ask one michigan s doctor whose hospital is getting help from the military why he says right now is the worst point in the pandemic he has seen. we re going to start this morning there. antonia hilton and gabe gutierrez and jake ward and dr. ungerlighter. an internal medicine physician in california pacific medical center. doctor, we ll come to you in a moment. antonia, let me start with you. you re at a coney island hospital in brooklyn. it s a hospital getting help from the military. we re talking doctors, nurses, more. how are they going to use those things to help the patients? well, craig, they are all part of a surge team from the military. and like you said they are essent
just about half an hour from now, president biden is scheduled to speak about his administration s next steps in the fight against the pandemic, including sending central medical teams to hospitals in six states where hospitals have been overwhelmed. as covid runs rampant through schools and child hospitalizations rise, we look at what can be done to keep kids safe and in the classroom. we re also watching the u.s. supreme court, could be a big day, justices might release more rulings any moment now, among those we could see, the biden vaccination rule for businesses. we re also keeping an eye on capitol hill, where later today, president biden will appeal to senate democrats to change the rules to pass voting rights legislation, which now is looking challenged, to say the least. meantime, american and russian diplomats are wrapping up several days of talks aimed at easing tensions between russia and ukraine, but has anything changed? and the biden administration says it
tests. that s on top of the first 500 million his administration is going to be sending out. here s how he closed out his comments. we haven t gotten if you haven t gotten vaccinated, do it. personal choice impacts us all. our hospitals, our countries. the pandemic was the major focus of my exclusive conversation with vice president kamala harris, like the president just a few moments ago, the vice president acknowledging that she understands americans are frustrated. in a few moments, her message to millions of americans who have been jumping through hoops just to get a covid test. what she thinks about democrat s chances about passing voting rights legislation. the price jumps we re seeing at the grocery store, and whether we will, in fact, see the same biden/harris ticket in 2024. that s a lot on my given day, but that s not all. as you see right now, house speaker nancy pelosi getting ready to hold that weekly briefing and the elephant in the room on the hill, the f
healthy at school. as israel begins giving people in certain groups a fourth vaccine dose, as the nation prepares the mark one year since the deadly insurrection at the u.s. capitol. the house committee investigating the attacks revealing more about what it has learned so far. in colorado, the search continues for two people still missing after a powerful, fast-moving wildfire destroyed nearly a thousand homes. and any minute now, president biden will be returning to the white house after his holiday break. with one of his top priorities being trying to stop russia from invading ukraine once again. and we begin with our top story this morning. the pandemic causing travel nightmares and confusion for millions of students, returning to school today. already, at least 1,900 flights have been canceled in the u.s. hundreds of schools are going remote for at least the first week, following the holiday break. but others like new york, which is the nation s largest school distr