guarding our spaces and keeping the pandemic going. on the right, the freak out is already in full effect. we told you last night about texas governor, you have to be joking pledge to protect texans right to choose. really across the board the reaction has ranged from absurd to hysterical to frightening. mr. punch the pores told the working people of ohio only mass civil disobedience will save us. you going to leave that mr. investment banker. former ohio treasurer josh mandel expanded on those thoughts in a corn field. do not c comply with the tyranny. the president is calling for requirement to get tested once a week or get vavaccinated. they are telling them to resist, which is i guess quitting your job which the opposite of the other demand that you get a job. this gustapo that s coming if your freedom, that is you. you re the one that has to decide whether you want to do what it takes to protect yourself and the rest of us or whether you would rather stay home and do
shots, that is the focus right now. the white house chief of staff says at this point he doesn t know when americans will get covid-19 booster shots despite an initial announcement last month that a third dose would be available to everyone on september 20th. that would be just two weeks from today. now that is not clear at all. this after top health officials warned that more time is needed to review all of the data. dr. fauci says he s confident that pfizer is still on track for a september 20th booster rollout, but the moderna s may be delayed beyond that. grim picture in the united states as children are returning to the classroom, the cdc says that childrens hospitals across the country are filling with covid cases. community transmission is dangerously high and another troubling development, the seven-day average of new cases of covid per 100,000 people is 300% higher than it was on labor day of last year. we have a lot to get to on this. we ll get there in a moment.
hello, everyone. i m alisyn camerota. welcome on this holiday. america s doctors and nurses are short staffed, working overtime and begging for help. about 80% of icu beds across the country are full right now, a third of them with covid patients. it s gotten so bad in kentucky, the governor is sending in the national guard. our situation is dire. we are setting case records. we have a record number of kentuckians in the hospital, in the icu battling for their lives. we have a record number of families praying for their loved ones on a ventilator, needing that assistance to breathe. new cases are spiking. the seven-day average is 300% higher than it was last labor day. this as the white house planned to roll out booster shots that maybe by changing. let s bring in elizabeth cohen. so, elizabeth, what is the update on boosters? this roll outmay start on september 20th, for many americans, but not necessarily for everyone. before i go into details, i want to give the
it is good to see you. thank you for being with us. i m geoff bennett for another hour of msnbc reports. how a texas restrictive abortion law is driving patients to neighboring states and how residents are stepping up to protest the law. and now, how the death toll of hurricane ida is continuing to climb. up to 70 in multiple states. the president is going to new jersey to tour the devastation after he visited louisiana where hundreds of thousands are without power after a week after the storm. also, this hour, the latest on the covid pandemic, and the u.s. is hitting 40 million cases over the weekend, and the number of people dying daily is rising amid another surge from this holiday weekend. but we start with the staggering damage and devastation from ida. joining us now from louisiana is nbc s vaughan hillyard in lafayette, and we have john in st. jhn parish and anne is our msnbc correspondent reporting on the devastation. so, we go to you, vaughan, what have you seen?
the us embassy in afghanistan, is advising americans not to travel to kabul airport, unless they ve been instructed to do so, because of potential security threats at the gates. thousands of people are still massed outside the perimeter, desperate to board flights out of the country. it comes as the taliban s co founder and head of its political wing, mullah abdul ghani baradar, arrived in kabul, for talks on forming a new afghan government. here s frankie mccamley. chaos consuming crowds near kabul airport. at the front, reports bodies are carried away from the crush, with others fighting for their lives. clear signs tension is mounting. this man threatening people with a whip. the us is now advising its citizens not to travel to the airport unless specifically told to, but even those can t get through. translation: we have got a legal |visa, many people who are coming | here don t have the right documents, but we have got the visa and they won t let us through. this morning