Sequoias sustain climate change, drought, and wildfires? welcome to a special edition of the lead. I m erica hill in for jake tapper. We start today with our health lead. New concerns on this labor day that the long holiday weekend could worsen the coronavirus surge in the u. S. Despite travel warnings from the cdc, millions hit the roads, rails, and skies for a getaway. College football is back with tens of thousands of mostly maskless fans packed into stadiums and some of the last districts to return to school are back tomorrow for inperson learning, including many in the northeast. Top health officials worry this can put even more strain on hospitals which are already running out of icu beds in parts of the country. Reporter: summer is over. This week in the northeast, many schools start back, but ominous signs from the south. Kentucky schools opened already, and already one in five districts have closed at some point due to case counts, quarantines, or just lack of staff. We have a
Luis armstrong stadium. Look at yankee stadium taken by broadcaster michael k, the entire outfield under water. A number of funnel clouds and tornados were also reported across the northeast. Earlier in the day the storm swept through maryland and the washington d. C. Area. News correspondent tom costello has those pictures. Reporter: touching down in and around annapolis, maryland, tornados on the ground for many miles after spinning off from hurricane ida that slammed louisiana. Please make sure you re inside. Please make sure you re in the lowest level of your house. Reporter: in downtown annapolis, power lines and signs ripped down. Roofs torn off and trees uprooted. In frederick, maryland, flash flooding caught a bus driver off guard, 11 school kids rescued as the bus was submerged. Ida unleashing rain on the nation s capitol. A tornado watch well into the evening. Three inches of rain swamped the region, tearing down trees, flooding intersections and trapping drivers in their car
Been arrested. The men identified themselves as being part of a group known as the rise of the moors, which claims to be, quote, immune from state laws. They told police they were traveling from rhode island to maine for, quote, training, as they put it. With me to discuss is nbc s kathy park and ben collins. Welcome to both of you. Thank you for joining us on this. Kathy, i want to start with you on this one. Bring us up to date on what we know thus far as to what took place and their intentions. Reporter: hey there, yasmin. So i can tell you that the standoff is over. It actually wrapped up a couple of hours ago and it ended peacefully, but it all happened around 1:30 this morning. A state trooper came across two vehicles that were in the breakdown lane on interstate 95 in wakefield, massachusetts, and noticed there was a large group of men outside wearing, as you mentioned, military gear and they had lots of different firearms on them. They were asked to show ids and permits. They w
Survive, president biden issues a memorial day warning, his words, democracy itself is in peril. Listen here, one of former president trump s cronies gives a green light for a military coup. I want to know why what happened in myanmar can t happen here? no reason. It should happen, no reason, that s right. That was the former trump national security adviser michael flynn, a retired three star general offering words that border on sedition. General flynn now says he didn t mean it, or he sometimes says he didn t even say it. You just heard him right there, you heard him say, sure, to copying the myanmar model, basic claims of fraud followed by the military forcibly seizing power from the democratically elected government. And joining us from the new york times julie brittany shepherd of yahoo news and jackie kucinich. First day of three people at the table. Many people would roll their eyes and say, so what, that is why on memorial day president biden said this. Democracy itself is in p
Shortterm victory by temporarily stopping sb7, that s a voter restriction law, that its opponents call the worst of the worst. Now, texas governor greg abbott is threatening to stop their paychecks until the legislature passes the bill. Sb7 is among a spate of voting restrictions pushed by republicans across the country all driven by the myth that the 2020 election was somehow stolen from donald trump who, of course, lost by 7 million votes. President biden declaring that with these restrictions, democracy itself is in peril. Democracy itself is in peril. Here at home and around the world. What we do now, how we honor the memory of the fallen will determine whether or not democracy will long endure. Democracy thrives when the infrastructure of democracy is strong. When people have the right to vote, freely and fairly and conveniently. Senate republicans stand in the way of two federal voting bills. The bills would introduce national standards for voting access and would roll back discr