Hello im Brianna Keilar alongside John Berman. Good morning to viewers here in the United States and Around The World. Its wednesday, july 7th. Happening now, Tropical Storm Lerks Sa bearing down on the Gulf Coast of florida, expected to make landfall here in the next few hours. The storm is weakening slightly, but its still capable of causing a lot of destruction. Elsa is packaging damaging winds and life threatening rain. Residents urged to stay indoors and off streets until the threat passes. This morning, the Coast Guard is searching for nine people missing off the coast of key west. 15 others were rescued. Right to Randi Kaye with a sense of how things are going this morning in clear water beach. Windy. Reporter certainly. Good morning to both of you. Its been windy and rainy throughout the night. Were at the edge of clear water harbor. Last night before we went to sleep, there were a couple boats still anchored out there. Well see what daylight brings. But the worst of it came th
This Afternoon President biden will get a briefing from his covid advisers before delivering remarks on the White House on the next steps to get more shots in arms across the country. Lets start with the two big stories that we are covering in florida with nbcs Sam Brock in Elsas Path down in Key West. Nbc Meteorologist Bill karins tracking the Storm And Vaughn hilliard with the latest on the Search And Rescue in surfside. Sam, well start with you. Weve been following your reporting through the morning and we can see that things have gotten pretty dramatic there. So, please, if you need to run in order to Stay Safe yourself please do, but whats the latest down there in Key West . Kasey, good afternoon. Ive got to tell you, the wind is really coming powerfully although its stopping for a second. Right now, i was nearly knocked over about three minutes ago. This has been going in Key West all night and into the early morning hours. Wind speeds, sustained speeds, kasie were somewhere in t
End critical Race Theory. Theyre buffaloing teachers by frying to stop us from teaching accurate history. We must unite. They expect Aaron Rogers to win the match. There it is. That a way partner. Win capital ones the match. Brian we can stop hugging And getting serious now. Tropical Storm Elsa barreling towards floridas northern Gulf Coast. Ainsley that storm is bringing a lot of wind And Heavy Rain. Expected to make lAndfall this morning into early afternoon. Pete Steve Harrigan is live in clearwater beach, florida. Steve, how are the conditions this morning . Pete, its breezy here. And the rain is steady. Thats the real danger from this storm is going to be the rain all along floridas West Coast. Some areas have gotten Up To 9 inches of rain from this storm. And elsa has weakened. It was twice a category 1 hurricane. Now its a Tropical Storm with gusts of over 65 miles per hour. Pretty much sustained winds above 60. 33 counties in florida are in a State Of Emergency. And theres a da
Peter parisi is a Professor Emeritus of economics at the university of maryland. Also a columnist here to join us to talk about the economic efforts of the biden administration. Good morning to you sir. Good morning nice to bewr with you again. Tsubaki rotate recent peace at look at this idea for infrastructure. This is a case where it could get bipartisan support precould you make that case to her audience . This lot of good and decent things in that infrastructure program. There is a lot of stuff thatog are good but have nothing to do with infrastructure. And the difference is a problem getting bipartisan support. Let me lurch due to 22 major elements. Theres about 600 billion thats advertised straight infrastructure. Some say theres fluff in their sums people say not. Pics et cetera billion per theres another at least at least 5 billion in their vote would call in distro policy. Things american do not like to talk about using that word. It means things like providing the Semiconduct
Host he wrote a recent piece taking a look at this idea of infrastructure and saying this could be a case for bipartisan support. Could you make the case . Guest i think there is a lot of good and decent things in the infrastructure program. There are a lot of things that are good and decent and have nothing to do with infrastructure. The difference is the problem of getting bipartisan support. Let me alert you to two major elements. There is about 600 billion advertised as straightforward infrastructure. There is at least another 500 billion in their of what we would call industrial policy. Something americans dont like to talk about, but it means things like promoting the semiconductor industry. Increasing support for r d. I think those things have really strong bipartisan support. Some on the basis of increasing the gas tax. It is way out of date and probably, we should do it. There is a lot of other stuff in there that can be accurately characterized as show safety net, social prog