Finale of melrose play. Title undetermined, by the way. Chairman of the board. Do something with that, you freak. I bet the board is spelled bored. It took me about 15 minutes to recover from that. Of course former Saturday Night live Star Norm Mac donald who tragedy passed away after a long battle with cancer. Well have more about his legacy coming up. Norm macdonald was one of the funniest guys out there. He just held a special place in so many of his fans hearts. Such sad news. Truly, i mean, i gasped when i saw this yesterday. I guess he had been sick with cancer for almost a decade, and hadnt told anybody, kept it private or had told very few people anyway. Nobody makes me laugh harder. I know thats for sure, and you could see it on conans face as the clips were going on. These are the funniest people In America, conan, letterman, john stewart, and nobody did the Slow Burn joke on a Talk Show, better than Norm Macdonald, he would wind it up for two or three minutes, you didnt know
No, not yet. Why dont we just start from the beginning. Im going to shut the door And when youre ready, you push go. Okay. Um, yeah, this is difficult. Hello. My name is Michael Mcmullen And i was speaking to you on January 17th inside of a Plywood Box here to relate my recollections of 9 11. I mean, obviously its very unresolved for me. I could see the damage being done to people, but they couldnt tell their own story in their own words. It was just plain, plane, plane, plane, plane, building down, building down. There was absolutely no space for more complicated stories about what people actually felt. So this is an go check to see. I just clicked it. Go check to see if it went up. So we wanted to bust open space for that. You can see were in once people went inside the booths, they controlled the recording. They controlled their own story. [ clicking sounds ] pain. It became absolutely clear thAt This really was a very shattered experience with a lot of Feeling And Emotion behind it
Connection beginning with the gop s nonstop attacks on our democracy. Unlike when we watched the nation of a mob of trump supporters attempt to overturn a democratic election on january 6th, don t be fooled. Today those efforts continue to thwart democracy. They re still happening but they re unfolding in slow motion. This time not only through violence but through policy as well. Now across 14 states republicans have enacted 22 new laws this year that restrict access to the ballot. That s according to the brennan center for justice. It s not just bills. Gop lawmakers from pennsylvania are calling for an audit of the state s 2020 ballots and this is inspired by the ongoing audit happening in arizona. And in texas republicans nearly passed senate bill 7 on sunday which gives judges the ability to cancel any election result based on nothing but hearsay from partisan pole watchers. It does other awful things too. Democrats were able to temporarily block the passage of this bill by literal
this morning new york city mayor bill de blasio announced on nbc the city is implementing a sweeping set of vaccine mandates for all private sector employers as health officials try to limit the spread of the omicron variant. today marks the official start of sweeping new testing requirements for travelers. all air travelers are required to show proof of a negative test taken no more than one day before their flight. meanwhile, the spread of covid domestically is-esque mating. the 7-day average of daily new cases in the u.s. has jumped above 120,000. with more than 1300 deaths on average every single day. those numbers are a sober reminder that so much more work needs to be done to combat the current spread of delta. even as officials work to combat the future spread of omicron. and there are some potential signs of hopeful news on the omicron front with dr. fauci saying yesterday that there has been, quote, encouraging preliminary evidence that omicron infections aren t as s