All the tourists have returned doing what they do walking slowly down the sidewalk right in front of you even though some of the seats are wet the subway is still packed and i know new york city s coming back good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, september 14th. And i think jimmy fallon has really captured new york city. Oh, yeah. No doubt, willie. So first of all, i like bill de blasio. Come on p. I love bill de blasio. Sorry. And the jets, the punch line is always, willie, and, of course, a line lifted there from marty scorsese. It s a great special on netflix. Pretend it s a city. Just walk around and pretend it s a city like people actually go to work here. Love that! it is. Listen, there is moisture on the seats in the subway. I can report. There s strange smells emanating from those platforms. It s really happening. It s really coming back. Late summer humidity brings up some of those scents and reminds you of the greatness of new york city. Can t wait. We re co
Evacuated so far and are there any left to go? that s the update we are waiting to hear any moment now. We did here from the pentagon this morning so far 4400 american passport numbers have been evacuated from afghanistan since this effort began about 10 days ago. The big question they did not answer and is going to be up to secretary blinken to answer is how many are left. That has been a really big focus of this, is making sure every single american gets out. President biden and his national security advisor had both voiced confidence that, yes, they do think they can get every american out by the 31st. We ll be waiting to see what those numbers look like. I anticipate it will be fairly small. One reason the who i saite hous declined to offer those numbers is they said it was so fluid, it was changing by the hour. We didn t get a number on evacuations until the pentagon confirmed yesterday. It s up to 4400 today. We ll wait to hear from secretary blinken. Thank you very much for that
Four hero police officers testifying for the first time about the horrors of january 6th, they told a select committee how they risked their lives to protect lawmakers inside the capitol, some that down played the insurrection and did not bother to watch the hearing. And cnn learning the biden administration will require vaccines or relate testing for all federal employees. It comes as the cdc says vaccinated or not, mask up again when indoors in high risk areas. I want to bring you now our senior legal analyst, and let s start with what happened on capitol hill today, laura, and i want earn to hear from officer harry dunn, he talks about a pro trump mob calling him the nword, watch this. ? one woman in a pink maga shirt yelled, you hear that guys? this voted for joe biden. Then the crowd, perhaps around 20 people joined in screaming boo [ expletive ] no one had called me a n while wearing the uniform of a capitol police officer. After, others shared their stories. One officer told me
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And thousands fleeing across the border in africa, seeking refuge from an erupting volcano. It is sunday, may 23rd, thank you so much for waking up with us. Christi, always great to see you. And you as well. Let s get into these conversations this morning. As u. S. Officials are pushing to get more people vaccinated, there s another state that s reached a critical milestone this morning. According to cdc data, rhode island is now the 8th state to have administered at least one vaccine dose to 70% of its adult population. This is a prime achievement as the country is really trying to reach herd immunity as you know. Yeah, the news comes amid an unprecedented surge of covid cases in southeast asia. India now surpassing 26 1/2 million cases, with more than 3,000 covid deaths a day for the past month. There is some good news, though, a new scientific report shows that two doses of either the oxford astrazeneca or the pfizer vaccines are quote highly effective against the new variant that w