A window here to get more of this vaccinated. What you cant mandate, the biden administration is hoping it can achieve working through sports physicals, working with The American of pediatrics, as well as new Guide Ambassador to pediatricians and forms that they could use to deliver these physicals, about 60 to 70 of the nations kids do participate in team sports. They think that he a good way to reach them. Also working deploying pediatricians to attend those first backtoschool meetings to get all kids vaccinated. Im going to throw up a couple of maps to illustrate why we have the perfect conditions. All of these overlap with actual bans on mask mandates. States like arkansas, oklahoma, florida and that is why when the Education Secretary spoke with us exclusively, he sounded a note of urgency. Heres what he said. I would hate to see this year the same level of disruption in our classrooms because of decisions that adults made. Unfortunately as you know, it become politicized in some
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who tried to resuscitate floyd. what he said about the cause of death the state of emergency in florida the toxic reservoir in danger of failing and unleashing a 20-foot wall of water. hundreds of homes evacuated. the race against time. the new image. the knife used by the attacker at the capitol on friday. the search for his motive and the new plea from the police union. the soaring price for homes. what to do if you re in the market. and our new series the american worker. how the pandemic has reshaped our workplaces, especially for women. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening it is starting to look like 2019 again in a growing number of states that are rapidly shedding the restraints of the covid pandemic those states haven t beaten the coronavirus, but with more and more shots in arms there is a general sense that we re through the worst. at least that s one view the alternate view is that we re fooling ourselves as another wave
of transition, we need to make sure that nothing is lost in the handoff. we ve encountered roadblocks from the political leadership at the department of defense and the office of management and budget. right now we just aren t getting all the information that we need or the ongoing, outgoing from the outgoing administration in key national security areas. it s nothing short in my view of irresponsibility. trump s continuing refusal to acknowledge reality and do what every president has done before him and coordinate the transfer of power is just one of the many ways he s been acting as the chaos agent in chief. just yesterday trump finally backed down and signed the very same covid relief bill he threatened to veto for days. what looks like an attempt to save face, trump said in a statement he ll send a, quote, red line version of the bill back to congress, which is not a thing. and he also said that congress will, quote, focus strongly on his baseless voter fraud claims
and right this minute the nation remains under a singular terror warning from within our own borders because of what happened at the capitol. and yet some republicans are crying that it s merely prejudice from the biden administration. the implosion of the gop and we ll assess the damage tonight and meanwhile at the end of this first week joe biden continues to add to his mostly remedial slate of executive actions and what isn t aimed at undoing the damage of the last four years is focus squarely on containing the pandemic. and it s there that president biden s promise to the black community will be immediately tested as the challenges of a national vaccine rollout becomes more visible by the day. there s already some evidence black and brown communities may not be receiving the shots at the same rates as their white counterparts. and with 2020 election in the rear view, black voters are expecting to see their faith in democrats rewarded after making several historic possible