hello, and welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper on this monday. and we begin this hour with our health lead. cdc data now shows more than 99.99% of fully vaccinated people have avoided a severe breakthrough case of covid. but nearly a third of those eligible still haven t gotten the shot. testing lines stretch for hours in orlando. dr. anthony fauci warning the unvaccinated are seeing a smoldering level of infection. one miami doctor says, quote, our children s hospitals are completely overwhelmed. vaccination rates are increasing, we should note, but not fast enough to slow the spread of the delta variant. one virologist in texas telling the washington post, it s like jurassic park, the moment you realize the dinosaurs have all got loose again. and, yet, lies and misinformation are also running wild. a handful of republican governors fighting against public health measures, and some extremist lawmakers still spreading dangerous conspiracy theories abo
realities facing those who speak out. this morning, hospitals across the country are filling up with covid patients, as the omicron variant continues to spread virtually unchecked. in los angeles county, the amount of people hospitalized is up 200% in the last two weeks. in texas, hospital workers describe feeling defeated, as hospital beds fill up yet again. one nurse telling the texas tribune, quote, i work 60 hours a week and i don t see my child, i don t see my husband, so that i can come and care for you while you yell at me because you re upset that you have a disease that i told you how to prevent in the first place. joining me now is nbc news correspondent, gabe gutierrez in new york. nbc news correspondent ellison barber in houston. and dr. uche blackstock, the founder and ceo of advancing health equity and an msnbc medical contributor. gabe, let me start with you. so many cases of covid right now. what are officials saying about whether we re moving out of this
and a winter storm sweeps across america, derek van dam tells us how bad it will be. and here s the thing, how best you can prepare. so serbian tennis star novak djokovic is fighting to stay in australia at this open to compete at the australian open, failure to get vaccinated against covid-19 contributed to the pat of his visa. he s back in detention a day after being able to practice on the courts. and an appeal hearing will be the player s last chance to avoid deportation. paula hancocks joins me live. as you were saying, djokovic will have to wait to sunday morning melbourne time plead his case. why don t you brings up to date on what to expect and how this will unfold. reporter: at this point, novak djokovic is back in detention, he s back in the park hotel, where he was a week ago, certainly not where he wants to be two days before a grand slam event but his lawyers, immigration lawyers, will be extremely busy at the moment. they have two more hours to file admissio
senate tradition. more on this on america reports. sandra: to another alert, increasing covid cases, lack of testing and the highest inflation in four decades is sending president biden s poll numbers into a tailspin. hello, welcome, everyone. sandra smith. thursday. john: we like to call it friday eve around here, i m john roberts in washington. sandra, good to be with you again. a brand-new poll showing only 33% of americans approve of the job that biden is doing, and a whopping 53% disapprove of the president s performance so far. sandra: all of this as the poll tracking website, 538.com, shows joe biden underwater on covid the first time since he was elected president. trying to get a handle on the testing debacle, as americans wait on the 500 million free a the home tests. administration promised would go out. now biden says even more tests are on the way. today i m directing my team to procure additional 500 million more tests to distribute for free. that make
i got the month of may oh, i get the show ran eight years which he s the host of america s funniest videos, saget s stand up was much raunchier than his image of squeaky clean dad. he joined us back in 2014. i was lucky to get full house and i play a character that hug people and work hard against sweater. he was a good man. my parents lost four children, i was the only surviving kids. two of them were younger than me and two older sisters passed away and my dad lost three of his brothers. every year there is a picture of me being nine in the back of the book. after that it was how are we dealing with death. my dad had a great sense of humor and we would say inappropriate things just to get us outside of the moment. saget s colleagues and stars spoke about the great comedian with glowing memory last night on twitter and instagram and all over social media. everybody just very shocked and very, very sadden by the loss of bob saget at the age of 65. with us,