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
Tape, of course, everybody remembers the early years of Morning Joe when you and Mika At Times had to Duct Tape me to the chair. We did. On an occasion or two, everything worked out okay. It didnt interrupt you. While we were doing it, you were still going. Kept talking. We have the white House Reporter for the Associated Press, Jonathan Lemire and we have Catty Kay. Something happened last night, like a haleys comet. The Red Sox won a game last night. I saw it. When Tampa Bay spotted us 19 runs going into the ninth inning it was hard not to blow it but we gave it the 617 chance. Didnt we . Blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while joe and we were able to get the win. We needed all 20 wins in the ninth we gave up more and more and more. We needed 20, they scored 7 or 8, i guess we missed the extra point. Lets be clear here, joe. These are dark times for the Boston Red sox. This is bad. The surging new York Yankees today playing in iowa, the field of Dreams Field where they will und
Infrastructure bill in the house and keeping all democrats, from moderates to liberals, in line for that multitrillion dollar reconciliation bill. thank you for getting up way too early. morning joe starts now. american and delta airlines will not require employees to be vaccinated. a twist, frontier is now the classy airline. didn t see that one coming. i prefer the 3m duct tape, please. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it s thursday, august 12th. you got duct taped to your seat that one time they ran out of mr. pibb. i did. no mr. pibb, no rc cola, i was like what am i doing here? you know, you talk about duct