Nasty flood before everyone even gets their power back from the previous storm. Welcome to the lead. I m jake tapper. We start today with our health lead. An alarming new coronavirus trends especially among children. New data from the american academy of pediatrics show infections are up 240% since july. To put that into context, more than 240,000 kids in the u. S. Tested positive for coronavirus just last week. Now, it is important, as always, to note that kids remain far less likely than adults to get seriously sick or to die from coronavirus. But that does not mean that some don t get seriously ill or worse. And either way, kids can still carry and spread the virus. With hospitalizations and deaths on the rise again among adults and with a quarter of the country refusing to get vaccinated, health experts say, once again, communities need to focus on slowing the spread. In just a few moments i m goin to speak with dr. Anthony fauci and whether booster shots will be ready by the orig
Probe of the september 11th attacks. In an executive order the president demands the justice department publicly release those documents over the next six months, and some set to come out as early as next week as the aforementioned 20th anniversary of the attacks. Meantime, the white house plan for covid booster shots is facing a minor setback. Officials say they don t expect to meet the september 20th deadline to make booster shots available for those who received the moderna vaccine. Officials, do, however, believe reg rarities are on track to make a decision for pfizer s vaccine. Republican lawmakers are threatening legal action against 13 telecommunications and social media companies if they comply with a request from the january 6th select committee to preserve their phone records. We re going to have a lot more on that coming up. We re going to go beyond the headlines to nbc s liz mclaughlin and heidi at the white house. We re going first to texas, and as we mentioned, some relie
Good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters in new york. Welcome to alex witt reports. Here is what is happening. New this hour, the death toll from hurricane ida is now at 65 with one additional death recorded in just the last few hours in louisiana. Most of those who lost their lives were in new jersey and new york when the remnants of that storm hit this week. New today, president biden announcing plans to survey damage in new york and new jersey on tuesday. The president traveled to louisiana yesterday and got a firsthand look at the areas that remain uninhabitable. He promised flood victims that no community will be left behind. Meanwhile, a new investigation has begun into the death of four nursing home patients. They were among 800 patients packed inside a warehouse, taken there before ida struck louisiana. Health officials say they have significant concerns about conditions at that facility. Covering the very latest on ida s aftermath, in new jersey, in new orleans and
trump. it was taken just moments after the attack on the u.s. capitol, and it underscores how some of the rioters were taking their queues directly from trump. we have to warn you that what you re about to watch contains profanity. how did you get out? out of what? the senate? yeah. just walked out with me. they just let you go? yeah. what s your message to everybody now? donald trump asked everybody to go home. he just said he just put out a tweet. it s a minute long. he asked everybody to go home. why do you think so? he won. how did he win? he won by sending a message to the senators and the congressmen. we won by sending a message to pence that if they don t do as their oath to do, if they don t uphold the constitution, then we will remove them from office one way or another. i m fine with being here. all i can say is we won the day. donald trump is still our president. i do have one more question. there s a lot of people who doubt you were abl
thank you for being here. at this hour, americans throughout the country are making their choice and making their voices heard at the ballot box. it is election day, and the steaks are very high. several races expected to carry national implications with them for both republicans and democrats ahead of next year s midterms. the most high-profile race is in virginia where democrat all points bulletin hopes to return to the governor s mansion for the first time for the first time since 2018. he s in a tight race with republican glen youngkin. the race has been dominated by cultural issues really, but also former president trump has loomed large over this race as well. we have all of the key races covered for you. let s begin with sunlen serfaty live at a polling place in virginia. what are you seeing and hearing? reporter: well, kate, voting is under way here in virginia and has been for hours now. we re here at an arlington, virginia, polling center. this is a suburb just