be doing to keep residents safe? democratic gubernatorial candidate nikki fried here to discuss it. also, a string of unruly airline passengers is sparking a new warning from the faa. understandable with behavior like that. so what s it like being a flight attendant these days? we ll find out from sara nelson, president of the association of flight attendants cwa. and can friendship be the solution to repairing our politics? david french, senior editor for the dispatch says he thinks so. we ll let him explain, ahead. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnson. welcome to the week. you re looking live at the senate floor where we are monitoring developments on capitol hill. they re calling the roll right now, holding key procedural votes on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. now, if that sounds familiar it s because we re in a very similar situation as we were in last night. it s almost like morning! off to see the groundhog? yeah. thin
find out from sara nelson, president of the flight attendant sea w.. and, can friendship be the solution to repairing our politics? david french, senior editor for the dispatch says he thinks so. we will let him explain ahead. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnston. welcome to the week. . if that sounds familiar, it s because we re in a very similar situation as we are in last night. it s almost like good morning. up to see the groundhog? yeah. think it will be an early spring? didn t we do this yesterday? i don t know what you mean. don t mess with me, pork chop. one days this? it is february 2nd. groundhog day. yeah. that s right. i thought it was yesterday. [laughs] oh, [laughs] . take a breather bill murray. good news is. time unlike his collector in the movie groundhog day, this time we have a pretty good idea of what is going on and how it will and. senators just voted minutes ago to swap out a shell bill, with the actual
i m kim brunhuber. this is cnn newsroom. the final competitions of the 2020 summer olympics are wrapping up with the united states winning the most gold medals and the most medals overall. only a few hours remain before the closing ceremony brings the games to an end. the u.s. has clinched the win in the gold medal count and overall medal counts. let s get the latest on all this with andy scholes of cnn sports. the u.s. was behind the gold medals for almost the whole games here. how did they pull out the win in the snend. it was a complete team effort. track and field grabbed seven golds. on sunday, u.s. women s basketball captured their seventh straight gold medal. and then the u.s. women s volleyball team making some history, winning their first-ever gold medal. and there were tons of tears on the court after they scored that final point to beat brazil in straight sets. women s olympic volleyball, it started back in 1964. the u.s. had medaled five times before making
in the yunited states, canada, and around the world. this is cnn newsroom. all throughout the pandemic we reported on a number of sad and troubling milestones. today we have more. here in the u.s. the del tra variant is driving coronavirus case numbers to their highest numbers since february. according to johns hopkins university the u.s. seven-day average is more than 100,000 new cases per day as over 50% of the u.s. population is fully vaccinated and florida seems to be getting the worst of it. sunshine state is reporting its highest number of weekly cases since before the pandemic began and the highst number of ca capita capitalizations. governor desantis is rejecting mask mandates in schools. i have young kids. my wife and i are not going to do the mask with the kids. i want to see my kids smiling. i want them having fun. the surge in the delta variant couldn t have come at a worst time since children across the u.s. are returning to class. i spoke with alison me
joe biden, as usual, the president is malfunctioning in public, check this out. president biden: i left the list for the second one down there, okay. hold on. thank you. thank you. okay, now, speaker pelosi, maxie waller, and garcia. [laughs] m how are you, man? senator, i hope. i m kidding, i m not. now, an equal opportunity commission related to eternal per procedures. bobby scott, speaker pelosi, and excuse me, suzanne bonamici. i m so used to knowing things. he s getting worried. dan: given by didn t struggles, who s in charge of the white house? is it ron klain, the chief of staff? w is it susan rice? probably not kamala harris her at her as vp has been a debacle, a disaster, according to a new political report, 22 staffers are no speaking out about the dysfunction inside the vice president s office. it s only been six months, six months, that s it.or you re already complaining. a backstabbing, disorganization, toxic behavior, one staffer called it a abusive enviro