hot on friday. sandra: good morning. dropping stuff off the desk left and right. it is friday indeed. good to see you as well. sandra smith, america s newsroom. by the way, surveying the damage outside of the new york area here the city got hard hit but all this is days after it rolled through louisiana in the southeast parts of that state and the president will be there later today. bill: we were on the air yesterday and the scope of this was coming in focus for a lot of people. now we re a day and a half removed from it and see what it is left. sandra: rivers are still rising in some areas as crews look for people who may still be trapped in some of their homes or even cars. bill: the rain overwhelmed drainage systems. roads out of commission. the bronx river parkway in new york. sandra: one of the most deadly aspects of this storm has been the tornadoes. officials confirming that the storm spawned at least 10 tornadoes. all-out assault catching people completel
former president donald trump weighing in on immigration and announcing a visit to the southern border. and the situation you see right there, several states grappling with this as some 25 million people, americans under threat of severe weather today as much of the south is still digging out from deadly tornadoes and live threatening flash floods. in nashville right now multiple cars and roads submerged after heavy rain. across the country, a record-breaking stride. about 1/3 of u.s. adults have gotten at least one dose of a vaccine. the new pace the u.s. is setting that s offering hope. good morning, everybody. it is sunday, march 28th. so happy to be with you. i m lindsey reiser. i m kendis gibson. which dose did you get? i went with good old moderna. i didn t know until i got there. yeah. so, you know, like they say you can t just pick and choose. no, absolutely. it s all good that we re getting them. let s take a look at our team of correspondents. they
killing george floyd. chauvin is charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter after that video surfaced that sparked a social justice movement of him pipping floyd to the ground with his knee for more than nine minutes. the jury is 15 people selected, 14 will hear the case in the courtroom. what do we know about them? nine are women, the others are men. eight of the 14 to hear the case are white, four are black and two others identify self-identify as mixed race. that s a jury that experts here in minneapolis say is a little bit more diverse than you would normally see. this is a county that is about 74% white. now that the jury has been seated, we move on to those opening statements. i m told that these statements are essentially a road map for the jury. it will lay out what we will see in the case. i spoke to a defense attorney here in the county who is not connected to this case at all. listen to what he said about what we can exp
as the president said just last week, chris, it s been abused. he s not eager to move with destroying the filibuster. he s eager to get things done for the american people. but he s also not going to stand by and prevent forward-moving progress from happening. in just a few minutes hear the exchange as a congresswoman takes on the head of facebook about the head of vaccine misinformation. she was targeted by anti-vaxxers. new controversy regarding the colorado shooting after what congresswoman lauren boebert said about guns and hammers. and why a trump donor holdover is still in charge of the u.s. postal service. but now let s check in with nbc s monica alba at the white house and amanda golden on capitol hill. ladies, good day to you both. the president is expected to unveil his infrastructure plan. where does that fall on the priority list now that there are calls for gun control laws and election reform? the white house has made clear they re going forward with
day parade which one activist is calling a day of shame. a human rights group in myanmar says more than 300 democracy protesters have been killed since the march last month. here they are with candles before sunrise. on saturday they re facing down a specific threat on state tv, that anyone who marches in dissent risks being shot in the head or back. i want to go straight to ivan watson. he s monitoring the events from myanmar. he s in hong kong. hi, ivan. once again the situation is escalating in myanmar. yeah. it s been another day of violence and one that a lot of people an it is paid where the military throwing a party for itself commemorating the foundation of the military even as it holds the daughter of the founder of the myanmar military, aung sun tzu chi, who was the leader of the elected government in detention, incommunicado in february after the first coup. the dictator made comments online that were televised at the parade vowed there would be another round of