toxic train disaster. all i know is our town needs help. how did a train derailment in ohio become america s latest political flash point? you were met with indifference and betrayal. the same people who want to play political games are the same people who sided with industry again and again and again. tim scott edges closer to a presidential bid. i see kids ought the abcs, not crt. will the message on race resonat with gop voters? march ri taylor greene has a radical plan to fix the union. dissolve. the last thing i want to see in america is a civil war but we have to do something about it. welcome to inside politic sunday. it s been 23 days since a train carrying hazardous materials went off the rails in ohio. 23 days of dread for the nearly 5,000 americans asking whether the air is safe to breathe and the water is safe to drink. like so much else in america, this environmental disaster quickly divided the country. former president trump led that charge
About in hurricanes. people look at the wind, the wind is dramatic, you can get a hurricane that can do damage, but a storm surges where they are saying if you are in a directly hit area could be not survivable in this case. a storm like nothing they have seen since the 1800s, with blocked roams, home destructions, massive power outages. so, how to storm surges work? think about that big swirling storm we talk about all the time. every place that it is contacting the water, it is pushing water in front of it. so, if you are out in deep water, out here it pushes the water in epic circular motion. well, so what? because it s deep enough and just keeps growing down into the water, it does not matter. but when it gets into a more shallow area it runs out of space, and the water that is being pushed on the parts going towards gland could go down anymore, and it starts going and word. and the result is, then you have this surge of water that starts pushing and. the longer and shallower the r
This moment for biden, just to take a step back, this month began with the state of the union address. those kind of almost viral moments of biden at the podium and now the imagery from ukraine biden in kyiv really stand out as a historic moment for him. timed for maximum symbolism. major moral impact appealing back home when we have a significant divide here, especially in the gop. what we have seen is support among democrats for the war is consistent and seen a steep dropoff among republicans that don t support this. this is a critical time when the ukrainians need maximum support why they are asking for the f-16s and the history is that with every major weapons
The first group of people to receive their shot that december were health care workers. at the time hospitals were overturn and more than 300,000 people had already died from the virus. covid cases and hospitalizations and deaths were just surging at that point. and then starting around in january, one month into the vaccination campaign, covid cases and hospitalizations began to plummet. that was followed by a decline in daily deaths. you can see a steep dropoff beginning at the end of january here. you know what was increasing at the time? daily vaccinations. shots in arms steadily rose through the winter and spring of 2021. and that s because the vaccines worked. and importantly, they worked as the scientists who developed them predicted, and as the government doctors and the public health officials who painstakingly vetted them also predicted when they voted over and over again, to approve them in the first place. over the course of 2021 and 2022, dozens of doctors who sit
Surge in cases. the cdc says it will not change the definition of what it means to be fully vaccinated. but the agency released new guidance today and now recommending that all people, all eligible people stay quote, up to date. staying up today with covid vaccine shots. back with us tonight is celine gounder, professor of menace and infectious diseases at the end why you school of medicine and bellevue hospital. she is part of a panel that advised the biden team. she hosts a weekly podcast on the impact of the coronavirus called epidemic. doctor gounder, it is good to see you again. i want to get your sense of this. because you and i have been talking throughout the entire pandemic about the pattern of it. when we saw omicron start in south africa we saw a steep ramp up and then we saw a steep dropoff. and we saw that elsewhere. americas bigger. the geography is larger. it is more complicated. how do you process where we are in this continued moment and how we should be responding?