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comments pointed at florida governor ron desantis? it s way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that s watching one florida man battle another. i m jonathan lemire on this thursday, january 13th. let s start with the news. president biden is keeping the pressure on senate democrats to pass voting rights or change the filibuster. today the president will attend a closed door democratic caucus lunch at the u.s. capitol to push senators into backing the two bills, but despite his vocal support, the president still has an uphill battle to get senators manchin and sinema on board. every democratic senator would need to vote in favor of a change for the filibuster. this comes just one day after majority leader chuck schumer outlined his plan to make sure republicans can t stop him from bringing up voting rights. schumer wrote a memo to colleagues detailing a workaround to get the senate bills to floor for debate even if a final v ....
but there is some good news breaking word on a new drug. today the fda gave emergency authorization to the first antiviral pill to treat coronavirus. we re going to hear from the cdc director and dr. anthony fauci on that and more at any minute. joining me now is monica alba at the white house, nbc steve paterson in los angeles, nbc courtney kube at the pentagon and also with us nbc senior medical correspondent dr. john torres. a lot of good news in terms of this pill. i m sure we ll hear about that at the covid briefing and concerns about us who cannot get vaccinated and by us i mean kids under 5 and also those immuno compromised. what are we expecting from the briefing on those two groups? exactly, katy. i think you ll hear at the top about the encouraging news that the covid team is going to highlight and at the same time they re going to remind everybody that the reason it s so important to get vaccinated and to get boosted is not to protect yourself. it s really, ....
confirmation from the kentucky governor confirming it was a deadly night of destruction active and deadly tornados. i fear there are more than 50 dead in kentucky. confirmation still coming in. we re going to lose over 50 people, probably closer to somewhere between 70 and 100. it s devastating. this shows you what we believe will be the longest tornado touchdown in terms of distance in our history. you all the way down to the bottom of the screen, and that s where it first touched down, and then it stayed on the ground, that entire line, causing significant devastation. this is incredibly rare to see, and it is one of the reasons that this was so devastating here in kentucky. so we just heard from the kentucky governor, they fear there could be as many as 70 to 100 dead from the night of tornados. we know there are about four tornadoes total, the one the governor just talked about, a 227-mile tornado touchdown. it stayed down. we know one of the areas hardest hit i ....
good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that is happy to report it s friday. friday, december 10th. i m jonathan lemire. let s start with the news. a federal appeals court has unanimously denied former president donald trump s request to block the release of documents by the national archives to the january 6th select committee. the ruling upheld a lower court s opinion which said in an executive privilege dispute between a current and past president, the sitting president must prevail. the court gave the former president 14 days to file an appeal with the supreme court, during which the injunction to halt the transfer of documents will remain in place. in a 68-page opinion, the panel concluded that, quote, former president trump has provided no basis for this court to override president biden s judgment and the agreement and accommodations worked out between the political branches over these documents. it goes on to say both branches agree there s a uni ....
lockdowns around the world. the problem and the confusion came from the fact that there is no omicron in mozambique, not a single case of it in the country. possibly one of the equity hires in the white house confused mozambique with botswana where the other day two people might have died of omicron.iq they don t share a border so people were highly confused and probably a little hurt. today, tny fauci asked to sign off on the travel ban was asked about this by an african reporter. you know, fauci replied, that s a good question, an important question. then he didn t even hint at an answer. right now, we don t know why there s a travel ban mozambique. assuming it s because it s from africa and that s where this happened a few days ago when the head of the sub africa association said she had seen patients of the new variant with corona virus. within hours, politicians in the united states and many other countries began planning elaborate and highly punitive new measures ....