members of the oath keepers have been indicted. we'll have more on that in just a moment. all this has president biden is marking one month and a day since taking office. back in the white house today, he took that trip to the michigan pfizer facility on friday opening to deliver a dose of confidence in the covid vaccine. the democrats unveiled the bill on friday including increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour. $1,400 direct checks, extending unemployment benefits as well as money for the strong -- for doing -- pardon me, for strong small businesses, certainly. but the big news today is all about covid. so we're going to be joined right now by a team of reporters who have some pretty urgent news on the numbers. we're trying to vaccinate america. we're going to new york city. officials say the city has fewer than 1,000 doses on hand after

bad weather delayed the shipments. look at the three of you out in the cold. first to you, cori coffin, in new york city. let's talk about the arrival, when these shipments are expected to get there. >> reporter: it was originally supposed to be as early as today, according to mayor bill de blasio's office. but, unfortunately, it's going to be tomorrow according to the department of health. we're here at one of the vaccination sites. you are seeing people who are getting their second dose. that is the big difference. as you mentioned, fewer than 1,000 doses left of shot one here in the state of new york city -- of new york, i should say. they shut those appointments down. but they have about 110,000 doses of shot two because they have to be given at a specific time. those doses have to be prioritized when we have a tightening of the supply like we do right now. earlier today, jen psaki did

give an update about the flow of all of the doses around the nation, 6 million in delay. listen to what she had to say. >> we knew -- we can't control mother nature, no one can. we can contingency plan. what our team has been preparing to do is engage with and work with the postal service, fedex and others to get the doses out to vaccination centers, to communities as quickly as they can handle them. of course, they need to be at a level of refrigeration. so we've been able to get about 2 million of those 6 million doses out. we expect to rapidly catch up this week, fill that backlog, make sure they're out to communities and also meet our deadlines and our timelines of the doses that are due to go out this upcoming week. >> reporter: all right. still about 4 million doses nationwide. here in the state of new york, governor cuomo said that they've received 40%. here in new york city, i was able to talk with some people

who were in line here, a mother and her son who were so thankful they were about to get dose 2, alex. but her daughter who is set to get dose 1, had to have her appointment pushed back by a week. she's part of 35,000 new york city residents who are seeing delays in getting their first shots. alex? >> wow. okay. let's hope they get them sooner rather than later. thank you so much for that. let's go to houston. this week it's going to ramp up its vaccination efforts after the historic winter storm. but some texans still don't have running water nor electricity and that's been a week since that went out. volunteers are handing out food and bottled water across the state. let's go to houston. they've got a lot on their hands there in houston, but they have to pick up the vaccinations. what's the plan to do that next week? >> reporter: this is going to be

a catch-up game now. 100,000 first doses and 300,000 second doses of the vaccine were delayed in making it here to texas because of this winter storm. here in houston, they're expected to restart their vaccination clinics in the early half of this coming week. but the truth is, when you talk to residents, the vaccine and pandemic are the last thing on their minds right now. people are talking about this water crisis. the water here is still not safe to drink. many apartment complexes -- many people living in certain apartment complexes here are having no water come through their pipes at all. yesterday, i went to one of the water distribution sites and i met folks there who were not only coming there to try to get their hands on bottled water, but were there because they had water damage in their homes, ceilings that were starting to cave in, bursting pipes. i want you to meet one of the residents i met there. she's a mother of a 2 month old newborn and a toddler who has

been managing through all of this. take a listen to this. >> the pipes busted in our apartment complex and we don't know when it's going to be fixed and we don't have any drinking water, any flushing water, washing water, any water. and i drove 40 minutes just to get here. i need the water pretty badly. it was scary. our apartment -- we lost power monday night. and i kind of woke up and everything was dark. and i thought, that's not normal. and it was supercold. and i literally touched my baby's face and he was freezing. >> reporter: residents have some good news coming their way right now, alex. the biden administration has implemented a major disaster declaration which means that for residents who have damages in their homes, they need assistance getting repairs done or need temporary housing because their living situations have begun untenable, they're

going to get that aid through the federal government right now. it's going to be a while before we have a full accounting of the impact of this storm, alex. >> i bet it is. it's not all returned yet to normal. thank you so much for that, antonia. let's go to the breaking news. this is stunning, everybody. it's on the united airlines flight that suffered mid-air engine failure. look at that. very scary scene for passengers on board the flight. can you imagine looking out the window and seeing your engine on fire. and for people on the ground, there was debris falling from the sky. well, today, the airline pilots association is commending that crew for safely landing in denver with no injuries on board and on the ground saying there's no substitute for experience adding the most important aircraft safety system is well trained, highly skilled, professional pilots at the controls on the flight deck.

let's go megan fitzgerald. i fly a lot. it is something i cannot even imagine the terror for passengers looking out the window and seeing that, let alone the pilots having to deal with that with no injuries when all was said and done. what's been the reaction there? >> reporter: absolutely, alex. it's unreal. given those images that we've been seeing and given the debris that fell down, the idea that nobody was injured is truly incredible and i can tell you a lot of people today breathing a sigh of relief for that reason. let's talk about these passengers, though, who actually witnessed firsthand that engine on fire. many of them say they started praying because they didn't think they were going to make it out alive. >> oh, my gosh! >> reporter: high above denver, it looked like the sky was falling. >> may day, may day, 328 heavy

may day. >> reporter: a terrifying sight for those in the plane and on the ground. >> heavy may day. aircraft just experienced engine failure. need to return immediately. >> reporter: with its right engine on fire, united flight 328 began dropping huge engine parts and debris in the denver suburb of broomfield. >> we saw stuff raining down from the sky. we took shelter. >> reporter: the plane's engine exploded, a rare failure sometimes caused by cracked blades. on the plane, a possible worst-case scenario. >> i flipped up the shade and saw the front of that engine missing or blown up. the flight attendant, and the look on her eyes when she saw that was something she hadn't seen before. >> reporter: on the ground, shock and awe. >> we looked up and there was a

ton of black stuff falling out of the sky. >> reporter: despite losing its huge engine, the boeing 777 was able to turn around and land safely. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: none of the 241 passengers and crew hurt. >> the amount of debris and how far it stretches, the dog park is right here, the turf field and we have had no reports of any injuries. >> reporter: investigators were out here last night picking up the debris, collecting it, including material that fell on the soccer field behind me. alex, get this, high school team was actively practicing at the time that debris fell. i could tell you that the investigation into how and why this happened is already under way. alex? >> wait, megan. you're telling me that kids -- high school kids were on the ground and debris was falling

out of the sky and nobody was injured? >> reporter: actively having soccer practice when it fell out of the sky. it's a miracle, truly. it's just incredible that we are able to report to you that no one was injured. incredible. >> do you have any sense of perhaps the largest piece? have you been able to see video? have you been able to see maybe -- put in perspective -- one of the largest pieces might have been? >> so there is a circular piece that is supposed to keep in place any engine failure -- >> that? >> reporter: it's supposed to keep that in place. that circular thing there was found on the front yard of someone not far away from where we are. >> we just saw that. that is remarkable. quite a story you're reporting for us today. thank you so much. appreciate it. one member of congress is connecting the dots that lead

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now to today's political headlines in washington. congress is set to bring president biden's covid relief bill to the house floor this week. will enough republicans be on board with the president's ambitious package, the $1.9 trillion question. this morning lawmakers remain torn on sticking points like raising the minimum wage and who will get the $1,400 stimulus checks. and neither democrats or republicans appear willing to budge. >> you don't have to be a good pollster from washington to ask the question, would you like the federal government to send you a $3,500 check? of course the answer is going to be yes. if you said, do you want us to borrow this money from your

children, i think their answer might be different. >> if republicans could give, you know, $2 trillion tax break to the wealthiest people and stop arctic drilling -- or continue drilling in the arctic, then i think that democrats can make sure that 30 million americans get a raise. >> and now today, two names are the latest target of the capitol insurrection probe, alex jones and roger stone. the justice department and the fbi are investigating whether those two right-wing figures played in role in the riots. it was first reported in the "washington post." congressman adam schiff is going to join me in just a moment. donald trump is scheduled to speak at the conservative political action conference in florida next week. and among the topics, his second impeachment trial, the future of the republican party and

president biden's new immigration proposal. mike pence reportedly turn down an invitation to speak there. let's go right to monica albia at the white house for us. as donald trump is getting ready to make a public appearance, what are we hearing from his republican allies today on the attack on the capitol? >> a week from today is when we expect those lengthy remarks from the former president. we're told he's going to be speaking to this topic, the future of the republican party as he says it and the conservative movement at large. i think something that encapsulated this fissure and divide currently with the gop is what congressman steve scalise had to answer for earlier today when pressed. it really shows you that just because he's still aligned with the former president, he's not able to even make a clear statement of fact about what we know was a free and fair

election last november. take a listen to this exchange. >> so you're saying he doesn't bear responsibility -- >> president trump has denounced what happened. >> donald trump did not denounce what happened on january 6th. clear this up for me, joe biden won the election. he's the legitimate president of the united states. the election was not stolen, correct? >> look, joe biden is the president. there were a few states that did not follow their state laws. that's really the dispute that you've seen continue on. >> reporter: so congressman scalise there is walking a fine line and not willing to admit again, that, of course, this was a free and fair election because she just met with donald trump down in mar-a-lago earlier this week. it's a pattern emerging of republicans gone down to south florida to meet with him to kiss the ring and get his blessing. they know he will wield some

influence on the future of the party. we know that from the former president himself who has said that he will campaign against people who spoke out against him and who he deems were not loyal to him. but on this question specifically of january 6th, alex, and the insurrection, someone who now also is going to be very much involved in prosecuting people who have been charged and arrested with what they did in terms of engaging in that deadly riot is merrick garland who is president biden's nominee to be the attorney general. his confirmation hearings start tomorrow and we got a preview of what he's going to be talking about in his opening remarks. he's saying that if confirmed, i will supervise the prosecution of white supremacists and others who stormed the capitol on january 6th in what he's calling a heinous attack and the most important thing there was the

peaceful transfer of power to a newly elected government. that's what will take place tomorrow. judge garland five years ago when he was nominated by then president obama to the supreme court, not got a confirmation hearing. he will tomorrow. it's a busy week on capitol hill. on tuesday and wednesday, you're going to be seeing hearings in the senate and in the house that relate specifically to the capitol attack. we're going to be getting more details on that. and then at the end of the week, the house does expect to hopefully, they say, pass president biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package so that then it can go to the senate, the major question then will be, whether all democrats supported as expected and if any republicans join making it a bipartisan effort. so far, it seems, democrats are going to have to go through it alone through the process in order to get this need and help to the american people, alex. >> great. thank you so much for all of that. joining me now is california

congressman adam schiff. i would love for you to react to what we just heard from steve scalise this morning, pausing to firm that joe biden is the duly elected president. i was watching the wheels turn in his mind to figure out how to very delicately tap dance how to answer that question. what did you see and hear there? >> exactly the same thing. and that is, this is the number two republican in the house and he has difficulty saying that joe biden was elected in a free and fair election because he doesn't want to antagonize donald trump and his base, notwithstanding the fact that donald trump incited a violent attack on your capitol. these republican leaders are still in his thrall.

steve scalise made the trip to mar-a-lago to kiss the ring. it's a terrible thing for the republican party, but it's also a tragedy for the country. we need two functional parties. right now we only have one functional party and a cult of personality around donald trump. >> let's get to new reporting that investigators are looking into whether trump allies roger stone and alex jones played a role in organizing the violence. let's take a listen to what your colleague stacey plaskett told nbc earlier. >> as for what this new report is showing with regard to roger stone and other allies of the president, i think it's solidifying that the president was in fact not only an instigator but a planner of the attack on january 6th. >> do you agree with that assessment? >> i do. and i think it's certainly appropriate to be looking at the

role that the president's close supporters and friends and confidants like roger stone, conspiracy theorists like alex jones and others played in inciting this. if you believe alex jones also financing the rally on january 6th. and, you know, the whole stop the steal campaign that persuaded millions around the country of this big lie being pushed out by the president, that the election had been rigged or that donald trump actually won in a landslide, these are two major proponents, advocates, architects of this big lie. and i think it's important to look into their role both in terms of just doing the postmortem and understanding how this violent attack came about and how people were radicalized. but also because the justice department has to prosecute hundreds of people that were involved in that violent attack and knowing what motivated them will be part of that case. >> do you have any hard intel yet or suspicion that

potentially roger stone spoke with the president when the president tweeted in december that this was going to be a wild day, when he was calling on his supporters to come to the capitol and the actual day itself? >> i don't. but if you look at the president's conduct in the last weeks and months leading up to the election and in the aftermath, as increasingly the more respectable to the -- any people around the president started leaving the administration, refusing to represent his views, he gravitated to more fringe characters like rudy giuliani. but it's also very likely he gravitated to longtime confidants like roger stone, someone who lied to congress to protect him in the russia investigation, was convicted, later pardoned by the president and others like alex jones who gave donald trump as a candidate, as a president, this huge platform to push out his

lies and conspiracy theories. so these are birds of a feather, all of these individuals, the president, jones, roger stone, they don't care what it does to the country, and so it makes sense to explore their roles fully, each of them. >> for weeks now, qanon has been telling its supporters that donald trump could be argumented on march 4th. it's laughable that we even have to mention this. is this mentality why the national guard is still on duty protecting the capitol, why there remains security fencing? >> i think it's part of the reason. i think that law enforcement will say that they don't have specific threats against the capitol and that may be true. but there are a lot of general threats circulating online. this is one of them that qanon has had to adapt because of their protections have all turned out not to be true.

not surprisingly. there wasn't this massive event that they thought where, you know, the military and others were going to come and put down the biden administration, and donald trump was going to continue on in power. each date that qanon predicts, that comes up and the events they predict don't come to pass, they have to continue to move the goalposts. so now the goalposts are moved to this march date and no one wants to be caught flat-footed again. yes, i think that the national guard, our other security agencies, department of homeland security, fbi, they're not taking any of this lightly, including these continuing conspiracy theorists circulating among qanon believers. >> well, i want to thank you for answering the question. i'm apologizing that we had to address something so absurd. let's move on to this, iran is announcing it's open to talks.

let's take a listen to what was said. >> one of our concerns right now is that iran is presently threatening to move even further out of compliance, to refuse to cooperate with the international atomic energy agency in the work its trying to do to ensure that nothing in iran's program is being used for weapons purposes. so i think the first order of business here would be for the iranians to take the decision to stop the process of moving further out of compliance and then i do believe that there is a diplomatic pathway to getting to an ultimate agreement. >> so if iran perceives a now more minimal presence in the white house, do you think iran becomes more compliant or more defiant? >> well, i think what we're seeing right now is iran trying to improve its negotiating position before it sits down at a table with europe or the united states to try to

negotiate a return to compliance with the agreement. so you see them threatening to turn off the video surveillance of the nuclear facilities. you see them increasing the degree of uranium to 20%. they know the biden administration is interested in trying to resume the agreement. they're trying to leverage it in every way they can. it does show you, alex, that the fallacy of the trump strategy which was to unilaterally renege on the agreement and then have really -- especially no backup plan under the expectation that, i don't know what, that by the united states leaving and reimposing some sanctions on iran, that iran was going to continue to comply, nonetheless, or even go beyond that. there was never a plan "b" after plan "a" failed in the trump

administration. so the biden administration, unfortunately, has inherited this mess. i think they are soundly trying to find a diplomatic solution because the military options are unthinkable and that puts us where we are. but i think iran right now is merely trying to increase their leverage prior to any discussion. >> in trying to decipher a bit of this mess, once the u.s. pulled out of the iran deal, many said iran would have license to restart its nuclear program without being held to any sort of an agreement. is there any evidence that iran is closer to a nuclear weapon today than it was four years ago? there always seems to be report that they are right there on the cusp of it. if they have not gotten a nuclear weapon in the last four years, why not? >> i don't think there's any question, then, they have -- they are now closer to a nuclear weapon potentially than at any point in the last four years because they resumed enrichment.

they put back online more higher-producing centrifuges. we have less scrutiny of their process than we did. there are still two timelines to the bomb. there's a timeline of enriching the material which has been shortened to a matter of a few months and then there's the timeline to develop the mechanism of the bomb. and we have less visibility on that second timeline. we have to do everything we can to train our intelligence resources on that problem set so we understand exactly where iran is. but there's no question that the trump administration decision to leave the deal has put us in a more dangerous position as essentially unshackled iran to go down the path towards a nuclear weapon and that makes us far more vulnerable. >> congressman adam schiff, my friend, always good to talk with you. thank you so much. what to make of donald trump's upcoming speech at cpac.

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after keeping a relatively low profile for the past month, donald trump is stepping back into the spotlight. the former president set to speak at cpac next week. joining me now, don calloway, susan del percio, republican strategist and msnbc political analyst and david jolly, former congressman from florida and an msnbc political contributor. hi, team. good to see you as always on a sunday. david, does it surprise you that after january 6th, cpac is welcoming trump with open arms? how do the cpac folks reconcile their stated values with the trump-inspired mob scene at the capitol? >> this is still donald trump's party, still donald trump's

movement. as we've discussed in the past, what the party is wrestling with is no longer around questions of ideology, but defense of democratic ideals or a willingness to kneecap american democracy. and that's where the heart of cpac is now. it's fully into trump's narrative. i expect what we will see next week will be unbelievable to many who saw the events of january 6th and frankly the greater injury of february 13th when donald trump was acquitted. i think what we will see at cpac is that the republican party, the conservative movement and trumpism as a movement has not missed a step since he left office. >> it hasn't missed a step, but there have been miss steps because of that, don. do democrats welcome this from an electoral perspective. at least in part, it cost the gop senate seats? >> i think we welcome it from an electoral perspective, but we

need to take our moment, celebrate, and get back to focusing on what we're supposed to be doing, which is being infrastructure to sustainable democratic victories, infrastructure building such as registering and retaining voters, talking to them in the off cycles and starting to tackle the voter suppression legislation that's happening all over the country. we want to open ballot box access. it's fun to watch republicans wrestle with their identity and we can revel in this moment. if we allow that to be the bulk of how we're spending our time and our mental capacity that will be a big mistake. this is our time to build and be prepared for a future. >> is this acceptance on the part of cpac or denial? people used american flags and trump flags to beat police and smash windows at the capitol. >> cpac wants to try to have a

successful event and that's why they're having the president. the president will turn out his loyalists and they will be there. it's also interesting that donald trump is speaking right after there's a straw poll every year for cpac for who will be the next president and i think he's using that as a way to kind of get out there and make his case. but let's not forget the president hasn't spoken to the crowds in quite some time. and that's probably because he has a lot of legal cases coming up in new york and other places. i wonder how scripted he will be no matter what. he will be there and the fans will love him. >> to your point, he's said he's concerned that he's going to spend the rest of his life dealing with lawsuits against him. let me ask you quickly, do you think the timing of this, after the straw poll, do you expect cpac will say, you've got our confidence, donald trump, we want you to run for president again? you're saying, that's going to happen? >> they're setting this up. there is a way of making this happen -- it's an event. it's a spectacle.

it's what donald trump wants -- that's why he's speaking there, so he can leave there saying, i was there. the people love me. they want me to run again. and he can keep fund-raising. as don likes to point out, i talk about how much donald trump likes to fund raise off of the big lie and he'll continue to do so. >> is there more about electoral politics and not actual conservative values? is this just a spectacle? is that what cpac has become? >> sure. cpac long ago became an organization much like the republican party that is figuring out what tools it can pull to regain power in washington, d.c., and the interesting thing you're seeing that among republican leaders as well, alex, you're seeing kevin mccarthy and steve scalise go to trump and kiss the ring. mitch mcconnell is treating trump like the old boyfriend or girlfriend. we're going to coexist but not work together. nikki haley has tried to push

trump out of the way but take the party with her and we saw what happened in the aftermath of that. that strategy doesn't work yet. so at cpac, you're going to see a group trying to regain the controls of power. >> you bring up nikki haley. democrats, when they see someone like nikki haley, criticizing donald trump's role in the insurrection, and a few days later requesting a meeting with him at mar-a-lago which is something he turned down. does this kind of canceling conservatives for donald trump only end up helping democrats? >> it is good for democrats. i've been involved in local and state politics for a long time and in the last ten years, we have seen particularly throughout the south in the trump movement as the tea party movement has come to fruition within the republican party, we've seen that whoever ends up being the republican nominee in the general election will have a good amount of crazy attached to them, and that's something that

democrats can run against. nikki haley has attached herself to that crazy by seeking a meeting at mar-a-lago. i see her -- i see democrats being able to characterize her as todd aiken and roy moore, but there's a good amount of crazy to mine from these candidates who are seeking the trump, and democrats are going to have to take advantage of that while building their own infrastructure. >> is nikki haley going to be in that straw poll? >> her name will probably come up and she'll get one vote, maybe. >> okay. david, the fact that she may be in that, she may get one vote, it's only 2021. does she have time to make up? >> it all depends on what donald trump does in 2024. if he wants to control the process, it's his to control. if not, nikki will be a

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breaking news in the coronavirus pandemic, the u.s. nearing half a million covid deaths. the official count at this moment, 499,879 victims, just

over 100 to go, and that may happen within the next couple of hours. today, president biden is out with a new op-ed on his plan to end the pandemic. among his topics, the white house saying that schools have the scientific guidance they need to reopen and stay open. but at a local level, some school districts are struggling to find the right balance. in virginia, schools are set to reopen in three weeks, leaving parents, teachers and students confused about whether or not it's safe. let's go to amanda golden outside of george washington middle school. she's joining me with more on this. the reaction from teachers and parents reopening schools. what's it been like? >> reporter: there's a diverse array of views from parents and teachers and school administrators around the suggested guidance from the cdc, but the reality of it is, it really comes down to the local school districts and the schools themselves to map out their own

reopening plans. the biggest theme i've heard is there's no one plan that will fit everyone. it's not a one size fits all solution. in spending time here in northern virginia, this is an area that in the public school districts, represent about 300,000 students. neighboring fairfax county opened a few weeks ago. i'm in alexandria and they're going to start reopening in a few weeks. they're going to have "k" through 5 students come in first. and then eventually continue to bring more and more for that hybrid model to have at least two days a week of school in person for students. nobody is being forced to do that. however, the governor here in virginia said he wanted all schools within the commonwealth open by at least mid-march in some capacity. i want you to take a listen to some of the conversations i had with both parents and superintendents of the public school districts here to get an array of what the different perspectives are showing. >> there's a lot of science and

data that we have now that shows transmission in schools does not mimic that of the community. and things of that nature. and the cdc guidance seemed to almost take us in a step backwards because i didn't use all of this new data that we have and apply it accordingly to the school setting. >> what people aren't realizing sometimes in regards to the -- the people who are a little impatient with all of this, is the simple fact that none of us have done this before. there's no playbook to say, this is how you get all students back into a school building during a global pandemic, after being closed for almost a year. >> reporter: alex, you can hear the tensions play out a bit. both the parents who say we should be doing this faster and the science is there and the superintendent saying they don't have a model to do this. they're building the plane while flying it, in a sense. keep in mind, the cdc guidance said there could be some in-person learning within red zone schools and right now, schools across the united states, about 76% of the united

nations is considered a red zone. that is down from about 91% last week, according to analysis. but that's coming as we know, a slight drop in covid cases, but that's over three-quarters of the country. for both parents and administrators and teachers themselves trying to navigate what is most comfortable, there's inherent risk in all of this. they're trying to figure out what works best within their own school districts. >> we'll see if the science and perspectives can get on the same page. thank you so much for that. while some schools are still working through their reopening plans, many teachers are already back in the classroom and one of those is my next guest. joining me now, jessica matthews, a teacher in flint, michigan. i'm glad to talk with you because i know you've been back in the classroom for about a month or so now, and i want to show our viewers before and after pictures of your classroom. the right one is pre-covid. the left now is what you returned to.

walk us through how this last month has been for you and how concerned you were before heading back. >> this month has been exhausting in many ways. it was quite a shock to come back in my classroom and to see so many things that were taken out. i had so many different ways for kids to be comfortable while learning that are not required with the cdc now. so going through that shock and then thinking of the different ways of navigating that space with the hybrid format that we have, knowing that my smallest class is 7 and my largest is 21, it's a nonstop feeling of anxiety and fear along with trying to find a way to teach my young learners. >> that is extraordinary that you're able to accomplish anything at all given those circumstances. tell me about the general feeling among your colleagues. what's the number one issue about being back in the

classroom? first of all, do you have enough resources to protect yourself and your students? >> we will be provided with some ppe to help us in this process. the number one concern that my co-workers and i and other teachers around the country i've talked to have is getting the vaccine to teachers to protect us during this time. a large number of people in my community and other friends of mine don't have both doses of the vaccine. so we're being asked to teach and reach all children and navigate a space that's very dangerous without having the protection for us to do our jobs. >> let me pick up on that, jessica. i understand you have gotten your first vaccine dose. can you confirm whether or not you've gotten your second? >> no, i get my second one on thursday. >> okay. i'm glad that's soon and coming up. would you have felt comfortable teaching if you hadn't gotten

the first dose? is the vaccine accessible for other teachers there in flint? >> i started the first couple days without my first round of the vaccine. i know there are a number of teachers in flint township where i am too that haven't even gotten the i should say educators because i need to include behavior specialists and counselors and different people who interact with people every day. there is this constant, like, mad conversations of back channels to get the vaccine because there's not enough of supply for the number of educators in our community. >> yeah, that's sobering right there. how about the students, jessica, how are they doing going from remote learning, now returning to the classroom, and do you have a sense of how the time learning virtually affected them? >> my students are doing the best they can. i think sometimes we forget the young people are also trying to navigate this pandemic, and it's a lot of change.

so to go from the spring where everything was literally hodgepodged together -- because this is a new way of learning for all of us -- and then this fall doing lessons at home and trying to adjust, and now coming back into the space, one of my students, he was wonderful. he says i know this is difficult for all of us, but i think we can do this. it's just having the patience to do it together and also giving an opportunity for everyone to talk about their different concerns in addressing those concerns of being in that environment. >> i love that positive can-do spirit. what are your biggest concerns going forward? what is it about the students? what do you worry about the most as you approach them in class? >> i worry about their mental health the most. i don't think that we are given enough services to help them through this process. i worry about the inequities that were out there before the pandemic hit our live. educators have been talking about these different inequities for years and people ignored them, and now that it's

face-to-face with us with trying to figure out how to get the learning to students, we need to do some major conversations all the different parties, about how we can make the necessary changes for education. some of my students coming back is better for them. for some of my students, they were thriving in the areas of working remotely. we can't leave any students out in this process, and what we keep doing is we keep talking and not listening to one another. we hear things to build an argument. we're not listening about how we can make education for everyone where every child is being reached. >> i so appreciate the way you're thinking. i have to say i'm the mom of two kids, grant it they're out of the school years, but i'm so grateful for the education corner stone that people like you provided for them. there is nothing more important, so jessica matthews, thank you, and keep on keeping on. >> thank you so much. closing the vaccination gap, how much the situation is really improving with the federal government now stepping in. teppn

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good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to weekends with alex witt. developing this hour the white house and capitol hill are shaping up for a critical week ahead. president biden's coronavirus relief bill is expected to get a vote on the floor by the end of the week. lawm