Hello, everyone. Im alisyn camerota. Welcome on this holiday. Americas doctors and nurses are short staffed, working overtime and begging for help. About 80 of icu beds across the country are full right now, a third of them with covid patients. Its gotten so bad in kentucky, the governor is sending in the national guard. Our situation is dire. We are setting case records. We have a Record Number of kentuckians in the hospital, in the icu battling for their lives. We have a Record Number of families praying for their Loved Ones on a ventilator, needing that assistance to breathe. New cases are spiking. The sevenday average is 300 higher than it was last Labor Day. This as the White House planned to roll out Booster Shots that maybe by changing. Lets bring in elizabeth cohen. So, elizabeth, what is the update on boosters . This Roll Outmay Start on september 20th, for many americans, but not necessarily for everyone. Before i go into details, i want to give the bottom line, which is if y
Sequoias sustain climate change, drought, and wildfires . Welcome to a Special Edition of the lead. Im 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
Families sue florida to stop the governors mask mandate ban. Many classes there start tomorrow. The battle against californias biggest single wildfire ever. 30,000 people out of their homes. Our exclusive interview with the governor. Taliban forces take over multiple cities in afghanistan just weeks after most u. S. Troops left. The american embassy warning all citizens to get out now. Were on the ground. And a hero welcome. The epic homecoming as americas athletes return home. I just feel so honored and blessed to be able to represent this amazing country. The emotional reunions weeks in the making. Announcer this is Nbc Nightly News with Kate Snow. Good evening. Im Hallie Jackson in for kate. As we come on the air, the covid cries Sis Deepening in parts of america. Hospitals in some places overwhelmed again. We will get to all of it tonight, but we very least a reason to exhale with the olympics coming to a close today. Athletes from around the world pulling off what at times seemed
Of the Vaccination Fight in the current Covid Epicenter to a massive gathering of Hundreds Of Thousands of bikers in a highrisk area, were looking at how the nation is again fighting to balance the pandemic and the hope of returning to normal. Adrian broadis is at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota for us. A rally that last year led to a massive outbreak. But we begin with Natasha Chen in orlando. Natasha, are people there in florida taking the reality of this seriously with florida now the worst in the nation when it comes to this pandemic that just wont quit . Reporter well, jim, i think people are definitely sensing urgency here and thats because at the mobile Vaccination Clinic that we were at today at a Shopping Mall where there was a taxfree weekend for backtoschool, there were double and triple the numbers that Health Staff had seen compared to earlier this summer. More than 20 people here at the mexican consulate were vaccinated today. Over at the mobile unit, we talk
Left their jobs and families behind and fled to washington to keep a vote from going into law. Which means all eyes are on those State Representatives still camped out in washington. New york times reports, quote, abbotts announcement sent national Attention Swinging back to a hotel in downtown washington, where several dozen democrats from the Texas House of representatives are grappling with a familiar Question Stay or go back . But more progressive members are pushing to stay in washington and continue to call attention to Voting Rights, at least while congress is in session. I think there is a collective will of this caucus to do everything we can to continue to defeat repression of voting in texas. Thats what we did in may, we did that in july and we continue to do it going forward. Its not the federal legislation that texas democrats have been pressing for, but it might help. Merrick garland weighed back in on the Fight Today in a new oped of the Washington Post marking the 60th