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effective. all but one of the ten states in red there, with the lowest vaccination rates in the country have republican governors, mississippi and alabama are the only states that have yet to vaccinate 35% of the their populations and in those states cases and hospitalizations are soaring. that orange line is mississippi, alabama is the red line. and as we learned, where hospitalizations are high the sad reality is more deaths are expected to follow. let s begin this hour with elizabeth cohen. good morning. this latest spike has i number of republican leaders feeling the pressure and a number of them now speaking up very vocally about this, including alabama governor kay ivey, where the vaccination rate is the lowest in the country. what is she saying? this is apparently what it took for some republicans, not all, but for some republicans to say, look, guys, you need to get vaccinated. so let s take a listen to governor ivy. she speaks in very plain language. these ....
least 40 states in addition to washington, d.c., and puerto rico. president biden s chief medical adviser dr. anthony fauci saying earlier today now is the time to get boosted because without that additional shot, you likely won t have enough protection. in addition to the omicron variant, we know delta is still the dominant strain in this country, from what we know may also be more severe than omicron. it is filling up hospitals. the majority of those folks hospitalized for covid-19 unvaccinated. a reminder, it s the pandemic of the unvaccinated. the u.s. averaging right now nearly 1,300 covid-related deaths being reported each day. in new york city, you see lines like this around the block. this is for covid testing. those lines aren t just happening here in the city either. plenty of other places around the country, let s take you though to the streets of new york city. cnn s shimon prokupecz is outside one of those testing sites. i ve driven by lines like this for t ....
american and we ll celebrate in our own way over there. i give thanks to them on the other side of the atlantic on this day. thanksgiving is back but it will cost you. meals expected to be the most expensive on record and surging gas prices are hurting americans where it hurts. one of the busiest travel days of the year. all of this spelling major trouble for president biden. he is struggling to address american s concerns and the polls have responded accordingly. the president and his family are spending the holiday in nantucket and that s where we find jackie heinrich. good to see you both. the president s 45th year on nantucket. a tradition that politico reports he only broke for the pandemic and the death of his son, beau. it started when joe and jill first got together trying to find a way to avoid competing family holiday invitations as many people are familiar with. if you walk around the island and look at local newspapers a lot of stories about the bide ....
some optimism about this bill actually passing, and kevin mccarthy thought i ll show rachel maddow, i ll show her. i ll add a couple of hours to this process. what it is is that he knows that i got up extra early this morning to go fishing and so i m going to have a hard time staying up extra late to do coverage if it goes until like 4:00 in the morning. he s like i ll out last her, she didn t even catch anything. i know. he s actually running for speaker. he knows that if the republicans win back control of the house, he is not a shoe in for being speaker. and on the same day that mark meadows was quoted as saying, donald trump should be the next speaker of the house, there s kevin mccarthy out there tonight running for the job on the house floor. what did you think of meadows saying that? that was like an unprompted thing that he brought up. this was a crack pot idea that republicans had circulated months ago that had disappeared from the discourse, and then mea ....
kevin mccarthy thought, i ll show rachel maddow. i ll show her for being optimistic. i ll add a couple of alter hours to this. process what it is, is that he knows i got a picture early this morning to go fishing, so i m going to have a hard time staying up extra lead to do coverage if it goes to four in the morning. he s like, she didn t even catch everything. he is actually running for speaker. he knows that if the republicans win back the control of the house, he is not a shoe in for being speaker. and on the same day as mark meadows was quoted as saying, donald trump should be the next speaker of the house, there is kevin mccarthy, out there tonight, running for the job on the house floor. what did you think of meadows saying that? that was an unprompted thing that he brought up. that was a crack the idea that republicans are circulated months ago, that had disappeared from the discourse and then meadows brought it back today. and i tend to think that he is no ....