data that the odds of getting or giving the virus to others is very, very low if you are, both, fully vaccinated and out in the open air. the cdc also will clarify which outdoor activities are safer or less safer, depending on whether you have been vaccinated. the bottom line is clear. if you are vaccinated you can do more things more safely both outdoors as well as indoors. so for those who have not gotten their vaccination yet, especially if you are younger, or think you don't need it, this is another great reason to go get vaccinated now, now. yes, the vaccines are about saving your life, but also the lives of the people around you. but they are also about helping

us to get back to closer in our living, more normal living, getting together with friends, going to the park for a picnic without needing to mask up. we're back to that place now as long as you get vaccinated. so go get the shot. it's never been easier. once you are fully vaccinated you can go without a mask when you are outside and away from big crowds. i want to thank the team at the cdc for everything they are doing to help us lead with science and bring our communities out of the crisis safely and responsibly. i also want to thank everybody who has gotten the vaccine, for doing your patriotic duty and helping us to get on the path of independence day, which i will be discussing more in detail next week. in the meantime i urge all

americans, don't let up now, keep following the guidance and go get your vaccination now. it's free and it's convenient. 90% of the american people live within five miles of a site where you can get a vaccination. thank you all very, very much. >> if the risk is so low outdoors, why isn't it available to everybody? >> do you have any plans to meet with putin? >> one at a time. >> the science indicates the most certain way to make sure it doesn't spread is if both people have -- >> sir, you chose to wear a mask

as you walked out here. what message were you sending wearing a mask while alone? >> and watching me leave it off until i get back inside. >> do you have plans to meet with putin? >> i will answer that at another time. >> india, they are suffering -- >> what do you say to the folks -- >> this is the last question i will take, and then i am really going to be in trouble. with regard to india, i spoke at length with the prime minister, and we're sending immediately a whole series of help that he needs, including providing for those, remdesivir and other drugs that are able to deal with this and prevent in some cases, but help recovery.

secondly, we are sending the actual mechanical parts that are needed for the machinery they have to build a vaccine. that's being done as well. we're also discussing -- i have discussed with him when we will be able to send actual vaccines to india, which will be my intention to do. the problem is right now we have to make sure we have other vaccines like novavax and others coming on, probably, and i think we will be in a position to be able to share -- to share vaccines as well as know-how with other countries who are in real need. that's the hope and expectation. i might add, when we were in a bind in the very beginning, india helps us. thank you. >> what did you ask -- >> how do you convince those still hesitant? >> thanks, mr. president. >> build their own vaccines. there's a crisis in india right now, and we'll bring you a

report from there in just a moment, but let's focus on what the news is for the united states today as the president just was talking about this new cdc guidelines for vaccinated people and masking when they are outdoors. joining me now is nbc news correspondent, tom costello, and emily who is outside the white house, and the founder and ceo of advancing health equity, an msnbc medical contributor, and i want to start with you. i want to show you what the new guidance looks like that that, and this is for vaccinated people, what they can do safely. well, we will get it up in a second. it's what they can do safely with a mask and what they can do safely without a mask. versus on the left side, this is part of it, what they can't do safely with a mask and what they can't do safely without a mask. there are people out there

saying, listen, a lot of this is common sense and the cdc is not going far enough. where do you stand? >> well, you know, i do agree with them. i think the cdc has been going very cautiously, and a lot of it has to do with how the previous administration really undermined their work, and so i think these guidelines probably should have been issued even before the most resent guidelines updating what vaccinated people can do indoors, but here we are and they are sensible guidelines and they are a path forward to resuming things we really enjoy doing in life, and even describing the chart, it's a little confusing and so i am concerned the public may be clear what they cannot and can do. vaccinated people can do just about everything except for being in crowded outdoor spaces, and for those not vaccinated it's less clear. the public messaging needs to be

as clear and concise as possible. >> here's the graphic again. it is -- it's much larger than this, the one the cdc originally handed out, and what it shows. i'm sorry i was misdescribing it, and the original graphic is the green on the right and the red on the left for vaccinated versus unvaccinated people. it's much larger. tom costello, in your course of reporting on the guidance, what is your sense of how people are understanding it? >> the cdc has been very cautious over the last few months, and when you talk to insiders, they say the cdc is trying to reclaim or regain their credibility following the previous four years when many felt that credibility was undermined. the cdc is sticking to the science now, and wanted to be really basing the decisions on the science. but you are right, i think a lot

of people will say they're a little late to the party here at least on the guidance. but nonetheless, the data is compelling. fewer than 10% of cases of transmission have occurred outside according to multiple studies, and meanwhile the risks indoors if you are not vaccinated is 18 times higher than if you are outdoors. so when you are outdoors and you have the breeze or a significant distance between you and others, if you are not vaccinated your risk is dramatically lower, and if you are vaccinated it's virtually nil, and that's the bottom line, virtually no risk if you are outside, and you don't want to get into a big crowded space like a rock concert, for example, or some big swarm of people, just trying to maintain good common sense. the bottom line, this is a disease is that spread in

aerosol form, and it doesn't spread that well outside, it doesn't transmit that far. if you can keep a good distance and you are not vaccinated, you should be in good shape. as the data continues to unfold, and as more and more people are vaccinated and more people have herd immunity, i think you will see us returning to what resembles a sense of normalcy, certainly by july fourth, but katy, i am talking about folks that say we made it close to normal or a feeling of normal by memorial day, assuming you can vaccinate at the current pace, and the total number of vaccinations are impressive. 95 people have had at least one shot -- sorry, i got that reversed. 95 million people have had both shots, and 140 million have had at least one shot. >> doctor, let's talk about that. where do we need to be in order

to achieve herd immunity? right now there's a concern to get a vaccine. can we reach herd immunity without the people who refuse and by convincing at least some of the people who are hesitant? >> right, so herd immunity is an estimate between 70 and 80% is what the modeling is show, and this is the concern over the portion of the population that still has vaccine hesitancy, and the key is understanding that people are hesitant about the vaccine for a variety of reasons, and it could be religious reasons, and so i think that the hard work of the administration right now is that they really should not have a one size fits all approach to addressing vaccine hesitancy, and they need to make sure, one, vaccines are accessible to every community and make sure the

messaging is out there to specific groups and population to get that information out there about the vaccine, to answer questions and to make sure we are countering any misinformation out there in order to increase as much vaccine out take as possible. >> so mike, the white house is obviously being premeditated and planned out for how they are going about trying to communicate with the public and what benchmarks their meetings with vaccinations and what you can and can't do, and much safer than the last administration, and a lot more caution being paid, and there's a new poll about how folks feel about going outside with the mask despite the new guidance and it's 60% of americans including half of all independence that say we should continue masking outside while the virus spreads. how does that sort of mentality -- how does that factor into how the white house is playing this?

>> it was so interesting, katy, to hear the cdc director layout earlier today at a granular level what was behind the recommendations, and one of the things she said is why they are coming at the time they are is because they want to encourage more americans to get vaccinated, and we have moved beyond where the supply was the challenge for this white house to where demand is the challenge, and they want to make it clear by releasing the guidelines, and it moves somewhat about messaging here, the criticism here was so much of the messaging has been lecturing and requirements and mandates, and now it's about here's what is available to you if you get the vaccine. of course, there's the politics involved here, and i was struck as we heard from the president and saw the president, some of the optics there, and i have been covering the white house on and off for 12 years now, and i have never seen a president speak in a setting where he was, which was not the rose garden,

and it looked like anybody's backyard, and the message from the white house is this is about getting back into your backyards with friends and neighbors and getting back to normal, and as we are in the 100th day week, ahead of his important speech tomorrow, this was hard to look any other way but like something like a victory lap. president biden was prepared to inherit this challenge, and he talked about the task of vaccinating all americans, and the goals, 100 million to 200 million vaccinations in his first 100 days, and they deserve credit for getting to this point, especially the challenge they inherited from the trump administration where the vaccine administration plan was not where it needed to be.

they took on a big challenge and accomplished it and there's more to come. >> the cdc will even revisit being at outdoor crowded events if enough people get vaccinated. what is your expectation for what a baseball game might look like later this summer? >> well, you know, i think what we will see is definitely increased capacity at baseball events, and we'll probably see increasing capacity over the course of the summer. again, i think these updated guidelines are a great step to our return towards normalcy. i think as you saw in that conference that president biden came out with his mask on, and i think some of us will have to really get used to a different kind of lifestyle, but that's returning back to normal and that's a good thing. >> we are getting closer. thank you three very much. while the u.s. may be

turning a corner in the fight of the virus, cases in india are surging to the highest levels seen anywhere since the beginning of the pandemic. hospitals are overrun and there's a lack of oxygen as people die in the streets while waiting for a bed or chance at treatment. one note of caution to our viewers, you might find some of these images hard to look at. >> reporter: while the pandemic is slowly receding finally in the united states and here in the uk, where things are opening up by the day, and even mainland europe is finally getting its vaccine rollout on track, that is not the case in india. it's setting new records for the fifth consecutive day, it's recording the highest number of new covid cases anywhere in the world since the pandemic began. at a hospital in new delhi, it's

about oxygen. >> i get 50 calls a day, somebody asking for beds, cylinders or drugs. we don't have anything. nothing is available and people are dying. >> patients line the halls, twice as many as before and these are just the ones that manage to get in. >> the situation is critical right now. this pandemic is the worst we have ever seen, and these two weeks are going to be hell for us. >> reporter: hospitals are so full and lack so many basic supplies, people are turning whenever they can. this temple has a few oxygen tanks. people come from miles for just a few breaths. this man has been turned away by hospitals. >> no more beds. >> his brother tries to keep him

alive and conscious. he's not a medic, but he won't give up. others die while they wait for care that never comes. the government is surging testing so these are now in short supply, too. in kolkata, every second person is testing positive. help is coming to new delhi, a train dubbed the oxygen express arrived traveling 700 miles to bring 70 tons of supplies. president biden has ordered vaccine raw materials and medical supplies to be immediately deployed, and he also intends to make up to 60 million doses of the astrazeneca vaccine not approved in the u.s. available to other countries. the hope, some will go to india where they are so desperately needed. india is a cautionary tale of what could happen if a country

takes its eye off the ball, and it's been very slow to roll out the vaccines, and it's paying a price. there's also knock-off affects, and americans take generic brand drugs, and many of them, 1 in 3 pills are made in india, so there's a danger if india descends further into chaos, and the supply of generic drugs to the united states could be impacted. >> richard, thank you so much. still ahead, the pressure mounts on the police cam footage of the death of andrew brown jr. >> law enforcement intentionally edited the video to 20 seconds and intentionally blurred out -- >> and guns -- >> and guns and showed us what

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we're following breaking news in north carolina. this as lawyers for brown's family said an independent autopsy commissioned by the family shows he was shot five times by deputies. >> we now know, because we have not been able to get any official documentation concerning this shooting, that this, in fact, was a fatal wound to the back of mr. brown's head

as he was leaving the site trying to evade being shot at. >> he left, he tried to save his life, and they continued to shoot and put a bullet in the back of his head, in the back of his head, a black man unarmed -- >> the 42-year-old father of seven was killed last week as deputies in elizabeth city were executing warrants for his arrest on drug charges. the full body camera footage has yet to be released. according to brown's family the body camera video they were shown yesterday had been redacted to just 20 seconds from one camera, despite having been several deputies on scene and multiple body cams. the body described what they saw was an execution with brown's hands on the steering wheel as deputies fired. the full video can only be released with a judge's order.

a hearing is scheduled for tomorrow. in the meantime elizabeth city remains under a state of emergency. joining me now is nbc news correspondent, katie beck, and new york law school professor and retired nypd detective. what is it like out there now as people wait for the body cam video and all they have is the family's description of what it sounds like is 20 harrowing seconds? >> reporter: yeah, the tension here really growing and a lot of people calling for transparency, and knowing the body cam footage is being released, and there was outrage at today's press conference. a lot more outrage from people in the crowd responding to, of course, the results from the autopsy report, and hearing about the last minutes of brown's life and the fatal

gunshot wound to the back of his head. we know it's north carolina state law that this footage cannot be released without a judge's order, but the family says seeing that 20 seconds of video really did not provide any window of transparency to what took place on that day. they say they need the full context of what happened and that footage should be released. a judge tomorrow morning will have that case in his hands, and he will hear a petition from the media and sheriff's department to release that video and we will see from there what the level of transparency is. in this particular case now, the fbi being involved and the department of justice, certainly raising the stakes and raising, as i said, the pressure. you can feel it mounting here in the community, and people are losing their patients right now because there's a huge void of information being provided from authorities. >> so kirk, the fbi opened a civil rights investigation into this shooting. from your unique perspective as a former nypd detective and a

law school professor, what do you make of this case so far? >> well, first of all the fbi's involvement is very important. certainly there has been a question for sometime what is the biden administration and federal government going to do and i guess we are starting to see that answer with regards to minnesota, louisville and now north carolina, we have the fbi getting involved in the investigations. as for the shooting, while there's a law in north carolina prohibiting the release of the footage, there's no law from prohibiting police officials from talking to the public and talking to the family and providing more answers. what we are left with is just speculation, and the family had to go out and get an independent autopsy report and so forth, and what we see, all the indicators are that this man was shot from behind, the fatal blow being to the back of his head. so this is a -- there's no other

way to say it, it's a poor showing from the police department here and they are bringing it on themselves by not providing the public with information. police departments across the country have a public trust issue and this type of activity does not go far to reinstill the public trust. they can do a lot better by providing information in this case with these particular facts. >> well, to that point, the information that we have gotten from the police, here's the county sheriff posting a pretty short statement about the shooting, a vague and short statement about the shooting on facebook. let's listen. >> this tragic incident was quick and over in less than 30 seconds and body cameras are shaky and sometimes hard to decipher. they only tell part of the story. >> so he's saying they only tell part of the story. there are more body cams though

that would tell more of the story. there are witnesses who have told part of the story to us, and there's the family telling us what they saw. seems like there's a lot of information, kirk, that the police have that they are just not relaying to the point you made a moment ago. >> it would certainly seem that way. body cam footage was never intended to tell the entire story. as you mention, you assess that information with eyewitness testimony, and testimony from the police officers involved, and let's not forget, there were over seven police officers involved in this shooting. some either retired or resigned. as you mentioned, witnesses, other types of physical evidence, the 911 calls and so forth. i just don't understand the need to -- for secrecy. quite often in the past we heard that releasing this information in some way, shape or form will impede the investigation, and while that is possible we are in different times and the police exists to serve the public, and

it doesn't seem that the public is being served too well here, so well with this holding back of critical information. it doesn't mean they have to show their entire hand, but certainly get in front of the camera and talk to the public and explain what happened and explain how the warrant was being executed and so forth. >> well, it's a marked departure from what we have seen in the past few weeks from ohio and minnesota after two shootings with officers involved there. thank you both so much for joining us. still ahead, there will be a recall in california. the last time it happened, arnold schwarzenegger outed governor davis. first, on the eve of president biden's first speech to congress, voters tell us how they think he's doing. >> there are some good things and bad things, as with any president. >> i definitely think my life has improved with the first 100 days.

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tomorrow night in primetime president biden will address a joint session of congress and address the nation pushing his promises kept in his first 100 days in office. and also laying out his priorities for the next 100 days and beyond. it's not called the state of the union in the first year in office, but as we said yesterday, it's essentially what it is. we know it will be an address for the covid age both in content and composition of the audience that will be there in person. it will not look like this, and more on that in a moment.

the pressure is coming right, left, and front and center. democrats want him to include an extension of child tax credits, setting down a early political marker as congress gets to work on an overhaul of the country's safety net programs. joining me now is ellison barber, who is in miami, and anna palmer. i want to pick up that pressure from the left and talk about one of the proposals that they are trying to put on the table about extending paid family leave, and it's something i often talked about on the show and it's something on my mind once again as i am two weeks out from my due date. what is he proposing and how is the administration handling it? >> yes, this is one of the proposals that democrats want

joe biden to include in the overall infrastructure package that is much broader than just infrastructure, so building an economy for families, and he's the chairman of a very powerful committee. his word will have a lot of sway. the question is will joe biden in this speech do what neal wants, and it's that he wants to have 12 weeks for paid family leave, and there's a huge movement in terms of the grassroots and third parties also behind this as well. we don't have a clear signal yet whether or not joe biden will mention it yet, but it's a pressure point area where you can see him getting a big cheer from the liberals in the crowd if he decides to go there. >> it's not just the liberals, though. in my course of reporting this, a lot of republicans, i mean, throughout the country a vast majority of americans support it, and republicans in congress support it as well, and there

are a number of others including marco rubio, and is this an area where there could be bipartisanship? >> yeah, you know there are certainly republicans who have been vocal on this, and i think the question is going to be this is one small piece of a very, very large bill and so far the vast majority of republicans have been opposed to biden's plan calling it too expensive, so it could be interesting to see, do they try and peel off some of the more popular programs and do a bipartisan smaller bill, or do democrats go it alone? and they want to do something larger, and because this is a larger package i don't think it would get republican votes. >> interesting. anna, you have been talking to folks in miami, and it was interesting the way it swung

towards donald trump, about how they see president biden? what are you hearing? >> reporter: everybody we have spoken to that we talked to previously, and we spoke to people leading up to the election, and that's who he wanted to come back and talk to to see what they think of things right now, and for these things the voters, most of them feel things are moving in the right direction and they feel hopeful though there's disagreement of who should get credit for things are right now as it relates to covid-19 and vaccines and the vaccine rollout. nobody we spoke to said they feel like the first 100 days of the administration have been perfect, but almost everybody we talked to said they feel like life is better today than it was 150 or 200 days ago, and they all say they are looking ahead and paying attention to what the

president has to say in his speech tomorrow and what he does in the next 100 days. listen. >> looking ahead, what are top priority issues for you you want to see him focus on? >> i feel after the george floyd verdict, there's going to be a shift and i am excited to see how the biden administration helps with that shift. >> i would like him to address housing and student loans, and those are issues young people are dealing with today. >> this sounds so corny, and i want him to be genuine and restore trust in government. specifically i would like to hear him talk about gun control and i think most young people would. >> we heard a lot about systemic racism and police brutality and people wanting to see how this administration addresses it moving forward in words as well as action. a lot of people interested, you heard it mentioned there, in what happens with the george floyd policing and justice act.

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correspondent, alley fattaly. a lot of who ends up going to congress is going to come down to redistricting, to gerrymandering. how much of that will affect what we see in congress and how exactly is that going to work given the new census? >> well, katy, these numbers in the case of winning and losing seats in congress, you are seeing on the map 13 states are impacted by these shifting seven seats, but really even the 37 seats that are not impacted here will have to be redrawing their maps to accommodate whatever the census data is as we get more of it. basically, what happens next we have to wait until later in the summer to release the data that states are going to use when they start redrawing the maps. the way i am thinking about it now, mid august we are going to get the raw data. think about that as the cupcake

batter before you put it in the pan. a few weeks later you will get the data at the end of september, fully baked, cupcakes out of the oven, and the states will use that data to start redrawing their maps. numbers don't have a party affiliation, and certainly in the states the people in charge of the redistricting and remapping are political, texas, florida, and texas got a big boost of two seats. republicans are in charge of drawing those maps. look at montana and colorado. some states have independent commissions. in oregon, a little interesting case here because democrats kind of seated some control to republicans and republicans can veto those maps, and it's one of those things where we have to start watching, and there are a lot of groups that will keep a close eye on the process to make sure the lines are drawn fairly

and to accommodate all demographics and parts of the country. >> fair is in the eye of the beholder, and even all the way up to the supreme court it's hard to keep an eye and control over the politicalization -- can't say that word, the politics involved in redrawing the maps and redistricting. thank you so much. the effort to recall governor gavin newsom is official. they have collected the vote to hold the vote in the fall, and former olympian and transgender activist is among the growing candidates. steve, i remember the last recall election in california, and i voted in the last recall election in california, and back then there was a lot of

frustration about gray davis and governor arnold schwarzenegger -- or who became governor, arnold schwarzenegger was on the ballot and he had a ton of name recognition and it led to gray davis falling. is governor gavin newsom inasmuch of a politically tenuous territory as gray davis was? >> if you are like me, there are numbers crunched and they will tell you how many more registered democrats there are in this state since that last recall in 2003, and they may conclude that it's highly unlikely. what i will say is that it's still early and there's a number of x factors and there is california politics and anything can happen.

focusing on the x factors, though, the first thing is the partisan divide and i think it's under reported in the state and you look at the latest polling and you see the registered voters there, and 79% of republicans for recalling, and 79% of democrats against it. those are big, bold, strong numbers. it comes into more stark relief when you look at the all the registered warnings, and 56% against and 40% for, and that ignores a number of x factors, namely newsom himself who is holding on to more than a 50% popularity rating in the state and has had missteps with covid, and we remember that french laundry party. the drought crisis, we could see water shut offs. the wildfire crisis, where we could see power shut offs, and if he slips on any of those that

will make it more interesting. this is a wide open race, and anybody like schwarzenegger can come through and have a strong campaign and that person could be a democrat that sees this as an opportunity or feels like they have to be a buffer candidate against a tide of republican candidates that could divide the base and make things much more interesting. again, it's california and anything can happen. it's up to the interpretation of the voters from here forward. >> california is an interesting place. steve, i can't tell if you are wearing khakis, but you got all the information down in a way i think even the other steve, steve kornacki would be proud of. >> high praise. >> steve, thank you so much. appreciate it. it may sound like the next movie, but it's real, inside italy's major crackdown on a powerful mafia clan.

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senior international correspondent keir simmons has this story from london. >> reporter: katie, they're not well known and their name is not easy to pronounce. but just last week, the italian police swooped on another 53 alleged members of this ruthless mafia clan. italian police arresting a mafia boss this video broadcast this morning the first time shows 100 raids against alleged members of a clandestine collaborative. nbc news was given exclusive access to italian police and prosecutors. the captain from an elite anti-mafia force says they found weapons hidden in homes. >> the weapons were hidden

inside the wall. these were used to commit homicide. >> reporter: another arrest came last month, tattoos gave him away in a youtube cooking video. he was extradited from dominican republic to italy. his name means man of honor. in reality, they are an army of around 6,000 from 150 families, accused of murder, extortion, and drug trafficking. hundreds of millions of dollars in assets seized. boats, cars, buses, even an entire seaside resort. >> an entire operation was run from here. >> yes. >> reporter: around 350 alleged members and associates are on trial in a specially built covid compliant courtroom. 58 informers will testify like

in "good fellas". >> see him in the courtroom today? >> yes. >> please point him out to the members of the jury. >> reporter: this is the prosecutor who dedicated his life to bringing them to justice. he has lived under 24 hour police protection for more than 30 years. outside his office, memorial to two previous prosecutors killed by the mafia. >> they tried to kill your wife, then your girlfriend, they would love to kill you. why do you keep going? >> translator: you can't live in fear, he tells me. this extraordinary video shows the prosecutor meeting an arrested mafia boss at the airport. they act like old friends. >> smiling. known as the pablo escobar of italy. >> translator: i have known him a long time, he says. now he's determined to bring an end to the reign of italy's most

powerful mafia clan. katie, they have many connections to the u.s. over there. you remember in the 1970s, the kidnapping of john paul getty iii, grandson of the oil tie con, demand of 17 million in ransom. more recently in 2014, new york prosecutors charged seven people and accused them of connections to them, and the prosecutor you met in my piece, he grew up with them. he went to school with many of them. he says those local connections are helping him catch them. katie? >> incredible. keir simmons. thank you very much. that's going to do it for me today. if you're going out and not vaccinated, wear a mask. if staying in, ayman mohyeldin picks up coverage next. ldin cks up coverage next we welcome change? we can make emergency medicine possible at 40,000 feet. instead of burning our past for power, we can harness the energy of the tiny electron.

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