class, 35 kids in a class, and not enough teachers to support them. we also do not have enough mental health professionals to support our kids in our schools or in our communities and that s something that also needs to ramp up tremendously. you wrote a letter to house speaker nancy pelosi and senate majority leader chuck schumer asking for additional funding for the health and well-being of children during the pandemic. is this the area that you re talking about, you re looking for more funding for like mental health, obviously tests having test kits available. there aren t enough for everyone who wants them and needs them right now. is this part of what your letter is trying to promote, funding for those things? absolutely. this country had a mental health crisis prior to the pandemic and it s only gotten worse since. we see an increase in suicide ideation, we see an increase in self-harm, we see an increase in emergency room visits and an increase in violence in our
the civil war and more people double the amount of people killed here during world war ii. so the build back better, the country that we are trying to get back to and redesign, has to look completely different. we need new learning spaces, we need more schools, more teachers, more mental health supports. we need mutual aid networks of education in our communities, through our community centers, mutual aid networks of mental health as well. so, yes, we need to we re in the process and we need to begin the process of rebuilding our country and that s why passing the build back better act is also so important, because there are resources there to deal with the issue of violence reduction, climate, housing and mental health, all are critical toward us building back the way we need to build back stronger. all right. congressman jamal bowman, thanks so much for being with us again. appreciate it. thank you. all right. coming up, a former senate
neuriva. think bigger. soon former senate majority leader harry reid will be remembered today by those who loved him and knew him best. president joe biden, first lady jill biden and former president barack obama are just a few of the prominent politicians who will be in nevada to pay their respects to the late democratic leader. cnn s jeff zeleny is joining us right now from las vegas. jeff, what are we expecting from today s memorial service? reporter: good morning, fredricka. there will be just a string of dignitaries, as you said,
president biden, former president barack obama, vice president kamala harris and so many more. speaker nancy pelosi, senate majority leader chuck schumer, on and on, here in las vegas to celebrate the life and legacy of harry reid who pass aid way nearly two weeks ago at the age of 82. the legacy and life will be celebrated here at the smith performing arts center in downtown las vegas. a city that really transformed throughout the lifetime of harry reid. of course, his hard scrabble upbringing from search light, nevada, you know, really taking him to the highest ranks of power in the u.s. nate will also be celebrated here today, but really everything that he did and accomplished throughout his three decades and after leaving office is so palpable. when we were flying into what is now the harry reid international airport, was renamed just last month before he passed away, certainly one of the many things named in his honor, but it is no coincidence that barack obama, he will be here, i
what operational steps should the capitol police and other law enforcement have taken to prevent the violent terrorist attack from successfully breaching the capitol? that was a comment in a senate committee in june. senator cruz s spokesman told me that the premise of my story is false. he said of course senator cruz has in the past called people terrorists after they have assaulted cops, but, come on, as you have heard here senator cruz was using the phrase terrorist attack far more broadly than just for police assaults. that was his go-to term for the capitol riot in general. right. still confusing why would he feel like he needs to retract that? daniel dale, thanks so much. thank you. all right. hello again, everyone, thank you for joining me, i m fredricka whitfield. we start with the u.s. scrambling to keep up with a surge in covid hospitalizations. the number of patients across the country quickly rising in the last few weeks, nearly the