little capacity to mitigate risk. covid-19 in short is a men as in work settings. the proof is all around us. since the disease s on set most american americans have seen workplaces transformed. so the administrative agency charged with ensuring health and safety in work places did what congress commanded it to do. it took action to address covid s continuing threat in those spaces. observera, the occupational safety and health excuse me the occupational safety and health administration issued an emergency temporary standard requiring either vaccination or masking and testing to protect american workers. the standard falls within the core of the agency s mission, to protect employees from grave danger that comes from new hazards or exposure to harmful agents. osha estimates and there is no ground for disputing that the standard they proposed would save more than 6500 lives and prevent over a quarter million hospitalizations just in six months time. yet today the kwort issu
justices elena kagan, sonia sotomayor, and stephen breyer, which did block the osha safety rule for employers requiring workers to be vaccinated or get regularly tested. r now in a separate ruling today, the court did leave in place thp vaccine requirement for people working in a health care setting. but if you don t work in a diin health care setting, if you re stacking i shelves or on the factory floor working in a big open-plan cubicle and your workplace doesn t want to protect you from a covid-rich environment, well, the supreme court just blocked the biden administration from helping you. the supreme court just blocked n the biden administration from being allowed to require that your workplace be made more safe. it s not necessarily an unexpected ruling given how right wing the supreme court is right now and how weird and scientifically uninformed the conservative justices questions were during the oral arguments, but now it is done. we will have more on that ahead toni
we have breaking news this hour. we re going to show you some live pictures in tel aviv. one of the two dueling rallies in israel of a prime minister netanyahu s judicial overhaul. a final vote in parliament is just hours away. this massive rally is happening as netanyahu recovers from overnight surgery to receive a pacemaker. joining me now is nbc s raf sanchez in jerusalem, where thousands are marching on the parliament, angry over the changes. raf, what are you seen? well, lindsey, we are seeing a very large, very determined crowd here in jerusalem. just to give you a sense of geography, there s tens of thousands of people have gathered in israeli supreme court. this is the institution that they have vowed to protect from netanyahu s demands. netanyahu s plans would weaken the. court this would curb the power of activists, judges. these protesters say that seriously damaging israeli democracy. lindsey, what you are seeing behind me as a last ditch effort. as you said, is
summary judgment of a massive ought yen of viewers, a past logical fear of a ratings defeat and witches ease brew against in a network s own working journalists and fact checkers. we should tell you at any moment we re expecting breaking news in the form of fresh filens from dominion and fox, to lay out any arguments in the case. while we wait, for years we have turned to phrases lie inside the bubble and the echo chamber to describe that relationship between fox news and its viewers. never before has it been so plain to see from the outside. the discovery filings show that fox hosts were telling their viewers what they knew they wanted to here even when the very same fox news host communicated the truth to one another in private, which was different from what they were broadcasting. dominion s case may very well wrest on their ability to get a jury to understand that distinction. today, though, the story goes even further in the form of something rare. a highly visible i
really happy to have you here. we are less than 30 days out now from the elections. we are going to be joined in just a moment by the man who was in charge of the democratic party s efforts to hold the united states senate. and that is quite a job this year. the polling averages right now show that the prospects for both parties in the senate are equal as of today. literally, if the polling says today ends up matching the vote on election day, it will be 50/50 in the senate. so in terms of control of the senate, control of the direction of the country, every race really matters. every seat really matters. every candidate really matters. it is just on a knife s edge. and i mean, just on a personal level, if you didn t know whether you would volunteer for a candidate yet this year. if you would volunteer to door knock or do some get out the vote work. if you haven t committed to voting for sure yourself this year, this year your vote will really matter. this is not one to skip