ubrelvy. the anytime, anywhere migraine medicine. hey, there, i'm stephanie ruhle live at msnbc headquarters here in new york city. it's thursday, may 6th. let's get smarter this hour. a third of american adults are fully vaccinated, very, very good news. the cdc predicting covid deaths can drop below 100 a week. and the florida governor signing a new law minutesing that democrats say will suppress voting. a similar bill is now heading to texas. and president biden is pitching his economic plan in trump

country this morning. and congresswoman liz cheney quadrupling down with her fight with fellow republicans, slamming her colleagues for siding with trump instead of the truth. nbc's leigh ann caldwell is on capitol hill with us. get us up to speed. where are things with liz cheney this morning? >> steph, liz cheney is unlikely to held on to her seat as conference chair. she's lost a tremendous amount of support among her colleagues and lost confidence among republican leadership as well. liz cheney knows she's lost this battle. she's not trying to keep her seat at all. she's not calling her members. she's not whipping them or cajole them to vote for her when there's an expected vote as early as next week on her position. but she is determined to fight for the soul of the republican

party. she wrote in an opinion piece in "the washington post" a scathing statement saying the republicans have a choice to make. she wrote, "in part the republican party is at a turning point and republicans must decide whether they're going to choose truth and fidelity to the constitution while embracing or ignoring trump's statements might seem attractive to some and fund-raising or political purposes, that approach will do profound, long-term damage to our party and country. republicans need to stand for generally conservative principles and steer away from the anti-democratic trump cult personality." so liz cheney is extremely clear where she stands, even though she's likely to lose her leadership position. meanwhile there's an heir apparent in the wings, elise stefanik of new york, a once moderate republican from upstate new york, who has now fully embraced the former president

and has also been -- not willing to -- she backed the overturning of the pennsylvania election results on january 6th and it's a clear indication of where the reason party, at least in the house of representatives, is going, steph. >> in liz cheney's piece she said, the world is watching, our children our watching. the whole world saw the horrific videos of the january 6th insurrection that the trump party continues to lie about. the republicans keep saying this isn't about trump but working together as a teeth. but here's what i don't get. if this is about fighting for values, let's look at that. liz cheney has a significantly significant better when it comes to vote egg, lifetime score for conservative organizations, 78%, stefanik, 44%. heritage for america has cheney

82% and stefanik 56%. how can they say this is about policy? look at the voting record. >> and also did you support donald trump during his presidency, cheney has 99.2% supporting trump in office. stefanik is at 77.7%. the question isn't are you conservative enough, it's not even did you support donald trump enough while as we in office, this is about who will spread the big lie? and cheney has obviously made it very clear she won't and she's trying to push everyone else in her party to jump on board. she's clearly basically on our own in doing that, right? this is about her telling the truth, trump lying and republicans are still scared, scared of frankly pissing the former president off. she could have done like other members of the republican party. she clearly has ambitions that

pass her current ambition. but instead of taking her lead, they want her to stop talking and get quiet and be on board with this. the other issue is they haven't been talking about policy as a party. so they keep telling everyone, we don't want to talk about donald trump but everything is at the whim of this one man in that party at this point, the way he see things or the way he thinks he's going to see things. they're sometimes going to try to guesstimate how he will act and what they think and what they're going to say. for the last what has been four months of the biden presidency, there's been so much fodder really for republicans to attack if they can get a message about policy and have yet to do that, which means that the trumpism is still a huge part of the party, which it isn't about policy. it's about being the strong man, it's about overpowering people. that seems to continue in the republic. >> there's one, eugene, very powerful republican who is claiming he's not at all focused on trump or liz cheney.

he's only focused on policy and that policy is blocking joe biden. i want to share what mr. mcconnell had to say last night. >> are you going to do anything to help the confusion? are you concerned about the overall trend of the republican party of the election? >> 100% of my focus is on standing up to this administration. >> is mcconnell right? biden has a massive and ambitious and expensive agenda. is the 2022 election about whether or not that agenda worked for voters, not this republican infighting? it's hard to say, because at this point the republican party has only talked about, you know, they've been coined as the cultural wars, that's what

they've been actually focused on. the thing -- what just quickly on mitch mcconnell's point, his saying his number one goal is stopping this administration, this is also the one complaining that the president and joe biden's party has not been bipartisan enough. and this is republicans have already made their bet. it's not about policy. this is about "trans"issues and the election bet and pushing the big lie. in florida, desantis may be signing at this moment the election integrity law. that's what they're focused on, not what joe biden is doing, how he's operating. and something he, if donald

trump continues what we think he's going to do, go out and pick the most trumpian candidate, if those people lose in the swing state and republicans aren't able to take back the house, his currency is probably no longer viable in the republican party. it's not if he runs in 2024, it's about if his words that he says actually do and you have to worry about with the redistricting coming, republicans have a booked advantage for the midterms. so it's very likely they take back the house and this keeps going. >> and if liz cheney loses her leadership position, she doesn't lose her seat in the house. she's going back to work the next day and still telling the truth. we have to turn to the fight against the coronavirus, a fight we appear to be winning! you know how excited i am to say that, with 46 out of 50 states seeing new cases plateau or drop, the cdc is saying we can

be very close to putting this pandemic behind us. nbc's miguel almaguer has more. >> stephanie, about 149 million americans have at least one shot of the vaccine, but officials say that numbers need to climb, especially for those who are hesitant or reluctant. this morning signs of progress as the nation races to reopen amid a blitz to get more americans vaccinated. and now the promise our future can more closely resemble the pre-covid past. >> we are not out of the woods yet, but we could be very close. all of us are getting fully vaccinated and continuing our prevention efforts can help us turn the corner on the pandemic as early as july. >> reporter: top health officials say the country can achieve the president's goal, 77% of americans with at least one vaccination by july 4th. as the number of doses administered now dips to half what it was in april, reaching the reluctant requires more intent face-to-face efforts.

>> i think they got it better now. >> reporter: going into the communities, laundry stores, the community to make it more convenient. >> the greatest fear we find is the fear of the unknown. >> reporter: in kansas some businesses are offering incentives from wellness points to burger deals. >> i thought it was a great way to get people excited. >> in new york, the traditional sounds of summer are returning sooner than expected, with yankee stadium and mets citi field admitting larger crowds later this month. los angeles is also moving into the state's less restrictive tier. >> yes, i'm excited. i like to get back out and get into some places like this. i'm fully vaccinated so it's good. >> reporter: health experts now saying rather than a national level of herd immunity, the u.s.

may see some nations having higher levels of protection. in san francisco, where 70% received one vaccine dose, new cases are down to roughly 26 per day. a shot of hope for one city and a nation eager to move forward. officials say moderna is working on a booster shot, that would be a third dose, given about six to eight months after the second dose. they say it appeared to be incredibly effective against variants. stephanie, back to you. >> my gosh, for people who say don't listen to the scientists, if this doesn't prove science wins, i don't know what does. let's dig deeper with scott gottlieb, former commissioner and member of pfizer's board of directors. i'm amazed when i hear these numbers. the cdc, who is normally conservative, is now telling us deaths can drop below 100 a week by the end of the summer? >> look, i think the outlook is

good for the summer. we still have a lot of cases and may not get beyond 5,000 cases because we're doing a lot of test egg and may pick up a lot of asymptomatic. but more of the people who are very vulnerable to covid and other individuals are getting vaccinated and being protected through immunity. i think we will see the morbidity, mortality, death and disease drop sharply through the summer. >> do you think those who are a lot less vulnerable, ie kids, get the vaccine? you're a parent. do you think kids should be vaccinated? >> look, pfizer submitted an application requesting authorization for 12 to 15 and the public reporting is the fda is on a cusp of authorizing a vaccine down to 12. younger than 12 is going to take longer. we may have vaccines available 12 to 15 in a short period of time but kids under the age of 12, you have to reform late the vaccines into lower doses. those studies are under way, that development is likely to

come towards the end of the year, if it's going to be available this year at all. it may be a 2022 event. >> not when, would you? you have kids. the will you vaccine your kids? >> yes, i will. once they're eligible, once they reach the age of 12, i would vaccinate them. >> how confident are you we currently have the tools to keep covid variants from spreading again? >> well, look, it's a concern. so far the variants that we've seen, the vaccines do appear to be protective against the variants that surfaced to date. but some of the variants, the vaccines appear to be less effective. it does appear to be the case people previously infected may be vulnerable to reinfection or more vulnerable to reinfection. so far it doesn't look like the vaccines will be completely defeated by these variants. what you worry about are some of the mutations will combine in novel ways that create a strain that will pierce prior immunity and pierce the vaccine.

sometimes in virology if you have two different mutations, let's say the mutation in the south african variant, individually they may not defeat the vaccine but if you combine them together, sometimes once plus one doesn't equal two. sometimes you get a process like epee stasis. sometimes that's what you worry about, something novel. >> people took trillions of dollars from the u.s. government when they needed help and know the government is saying help us and asking people to take this vaccine and there are still a lot of people saying no, don't tell me what to do. if businesses, as they say they do, want to be safe and want to be leaders, should ebb they doing their part and help the government's mission, push everyone, maybe even require people to take the vaccine? >> i think there's a reluctance to mandate the vaccine. i think they're not going to step forward and do that, at least bigger businesses. 60% of businesses are

contemplating mandates but i think at the end of the day will hold often on doing that. what they will do is survey their employees and if they see a high uptick rate, they will hold back mandates. there's discomfort being told what to do by an employer. the exception will be consumer-facing businesses. you will see retail, restaurants, summer camps, they want to vaccinate. businesses who send workers into home will want to be able to say all of our employees are vaccinated. i think you will see smaller businesses who are customer folk used, consumer facing, they might put in place some mandates. >> could you see a scenario where covid vaccines are required for kids to go back to school? you know, you can't take your kid to kindergarten and public school unless they're fully vaccinated. could we see the covid vaccine being added to that requirement list? >> probably not this fall. i have talked to governors, both democrats and republicans, and they're reluctant to see state

mandates put in place requiring vaccination. of i doubt the cdc will make it a mandatory recommendation to return to school. you will see this play out on a local level. some local school boards, some districts, will mandate vaccinations but it will be a local fight across the country. i don't think you will see broad mandates from the governments or governors for that matter. >> thank you, scott gottlieb. coming up -- major movement on two voting bills in two key states, texas and florida. the governor of florida just signed a bill live on fox news and didn't let any other news organizations in. don't get lost in the irony. this is about access and we didn't have access. later, businesses cannot wait for a vaccinated summer but many are finding it hard to fill jobs. is it time to change our unemployment system, or is it time to start paying people a living wage? feet?

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we're following breaking news this morning. two states making major changes to voting access. first florida, where the governor there signed a controversial bill into voting law live on fox news just a few minutes ago, no other reports are let in the room. even though desantis said the whole thing is about democracy. and san francisco is taking up

protests soon at the capitol. we have to take a beat on this. the signing spectacle, about access and transparency, limiting both of them supposedly, and that's exactly what happened, you couldn't get in the room. >> i'm struck by how you characterized it for just that reason, stephanie. it's worth noting the architect of the voting restrictions package sb-90 never claimed there were actually examples of widespread fraud in florida. they wanted to shore up transparency and here we are, and no one with the exception of "fox & friends" is being allowed in to witness the bill's signing. we've been reaching out to desantis' office for days trying find out when and where this would be and there's no

response. and we were told on the media line, there's no information when it would happen, would there be media outlets there? and that's the backstory. let's talk about the mail-in ballots. there were restrictions when people could access the boxes and now there has to be physically somebody standing over the box when someone drops it off and if those conditions are not met, you could be looking at a civil penalty of $25,000. if someone wants to obtain a mail-in ballot, they have to show identification, which did not exist until 2021. there's a requirement third party groups who are registering to vote, if they don't hand all of those in can be charged $500 per registration if not handed in. that could create a chilling effect. in fact, there's already a court case in florida struck down with a very similar regulation of

$100 if these restations are not sent in. these are part and parcel of a bigger bill, stephanie. concerns are there are 4th and 14th amendment violations from a lawsuit filed in this case, that there are populations of people more impacted by this rule than others. and in the state of florida, it was so long republican staff were voting by mail and democrats in person. 2020 flipped that on its head for a number of reason. one, the pandemic and, two, president trump was trying to undermine the credibility of mail-in voting. here we are today and this bill is passed, creating a lot of controversy. >> and let's not forget how former president trump votes, mail-in ballots. what's going on in texas? >> stephanie, in a short while proceedingless get under way for house bill 6. when lawmakers walk into the

doors of the house floor, tleb greeted by demonstrators holding signs by those expressing opposition to the bill that they say make it harder for texans to vote. i had an opportunity to speak with some of the demonstrators. a number of advocacy groups here in texas put out an all call, they want this 2k3w58ry filled today with folks standing in opposition to that bill. i spoke with an organizer from texas rising about why today was so important to him. take a listen to what he said. >> there are many people who still don't trust the election system. this is not going to increase their trust in that system. i think with this bill in place, the provisions in it, we would be seeing a lot fewer people like me voting, showing up to the polls and being representative and having their voices heard. i think there's going to be an incredibly detrimental impact. >> stephanie, this is a republican-controlled lecture so the name of the game for democrats today i'm told will be amendment and debate. they're prepared to go into the wee hours of the morning with several dozen amendments to be

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developing this morning, the -- of labor says the weekly jobless claims totaled 498,000 last week. that's down 92,000 from the previous week, and that is the lowest since march of last year when the mandatory shutdowns of nonessential businesses were enforced, of course, to slow the coronavirus pandemic. these numbers also coming in as president biden heads to louisiana today to tout his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan as a key growth factor. but people employers are having trouble filling seasonal jobs now. atlantic city is getting ready for tourists. >> it's going to be a huge summer at the shore. >> reporter: only thin missing? workers. >> right now we would like to hire at least another dozen people. >> reporter: despite dozens much people out of work, 42% of business owners can't fill open

positions. >> the reason? frankly, there's a lot of stimulus money out there. >> reporter: without unemployment benefits, many without jobs are receiving $1,600 a week, $17 an hour, more than some jobs pay. and it's a problem from cape cod to california wine country. to compete, some businesses are offering signing bonuses to hire people for the summer. to hotels and casinos and small shops at the boardwalk. tourist towns rely on summer and less workers means less business. but for nearly 4 million out-of-work americans, it's fear of covid keeping them home. at a job fair in atlantic city, nine casinos came looking to fill 1,800 positions. it ended early. only 20 people showed up. do you have a backup plan? >> the backup plan is if managers have to clean room and serve guests, that's what we're doing. >> reporter: 9 golden nugget casino wants to hire 150 people. dealers, waiters, housekeepers.

could you afford to pay them more? >> we could, but as we pay them more, cost of goods goes up and customers are going to be paying more and it's difficult. >> reporter: a return to summer as we know it might just cause a little more. joining us now to discuss, jason fermin, the former chair of the white house council of economic advisers. jason, we are seeing clear evidence of the beginnings of a labor shortage right now. on one hand there's a very clear argument you want more employees, pay them more. and we're going to talk about that. but it's not just the lowest-wage jobs. employers can't fill lots of jobs. does the administration make a mistake with the american rescue plan? less than two months ago, $2 trillion offering the same level of support to the american people they offered a year ago when we needed a lot more support? >> well, stephanie, we are still 11 million jobs short of where we need to go. that's the really big question

in the economy right now. there's a lot of people -- things keeping people from jobs. fear of the virus, schools not open, day care. i do think the unemployment insurance benefits are one of those. i wished they were smaller. i wish they were on a down round. i certainly don't wish they could be continued at this level in september. >> do you worry spending $2 trillion less than two months ago -- and yes, there are still portions of our economy that are struggling and we needed it, but here we are, we're reopening, the cdc says by the end of summer, we may have less than 100 deaths a week. we're beating this thing. could spending $2 trillion two months ago end up costing us not getting much-needed infrastructure laws passed? >> i think that's the rearview mirror. i like to look forward. i think we should pass the infrastructure plan and families act plan. i think we can afford to do so.

they're spread out over time. but we're recovering a bit more quickly and put a little more money than we needed to into it but this should be a good year for the u.s. >> i want to go back to worker pay. for businesses that say they can't find employees and they can't afford to pay people more, if you can't afford to pay people a living wage, isn't there an argument to be made those businesses should go out of business? >> i don't think so. the worse thing is a business that pays somebody zero dollars. any business in the country is allowed to pay zero dollars and allowed to not hire people. if a business is offering job opportunities to workers, many of whom have, you know, lower levels of skill, no one else wants to employ them, i think that's a great thing and we want those businesses. >> just think about this, we decided that the federal government didn't want to raise the federal minimum wage, they made that decision. but at the same time when you

break apart the expanded unemployment that we're offering plus the stimulus, we're basically paying people above what that federal minimum wage would be. so i don't understand how you square the two? >> yes, look, i think this is a number that made sense in january or february at the peak of the pandemic. as the risk of working goes down, it would have been better for that unemployment insurance benefit to go down. i think it's having -- creating some issues right now but it should be gone in september. there's a ramp out of this and we have other problems too, like controlling the virus, childcare and schools. i think we should be thinking about all of them. >> or could it motivate the federal government to finally raise the federal minimum wage? >> i hope so. i think the minimum wage should go up. i think that's long overdue. and obviously, they need more than 50 votes to do it or they need to figure out a different way to do it. maybe they need to figure out a

compromise and raise it as high as they're able to get both parties to agree to but absolutely, stephanie, i think the minimum wage can and should go up. >> a federal judge just overturned the national eviction ban. let's make it clear, we do not want anyone thrown out of their apartments or homes. however, with all of the government support being provided and the jobs available, do we need an eviction ban right now? isn't it fair to expect people to pay their rent at this point or in the near future? >> we definitely, stephanie, need to be moving back to a more normal economy, where a more normal set of rules apply. we want toes rules to be better than the rules we had before, higher minimum wage we were discussing. that's the building back better idea. but certainly when it comes to, you know, paying your rent, yes, at some point we need to go back to -- you have a responsibility to pay your rent. but there's still 11 million jobs short though. so i'm not in a huge, huge hurry

to get to that normalization. >> we also have a freeze on foreclosures. there are landlords out there saying when people don't pay rent, to me i can't pay my mortgage. i get that. but then you have to look at the housing market. the housing market in this country is up from 15% to 30%. good news, if you can't pay your mortgage, you can sell your house. >> yeah, the housing market is on fire in this country. i think a lot is coming together really quickly. . we're going to have to be patient for a few more months because it's a big, complicated economy, put it all back together, and broadly speaking supporting people is helping -- has helped that process. could get every part of it perfectly right? no. broadly speaking, the united states going to be in a better position than almost any other economy in the world at the end of this year? i think the answer to that is yes. >> without a doubt we're on a strong path to economic recovery. jason, always good to see you. thank you for joining me this

morning. this morning, numbers are showing president biden's restaurant revitalization fund is proving very popular as part of his american rescue plan. with more than $28 billion available, restaurants can apply for $10 million in assistance. >> the restaurant revitalization fund will provide direct relief to restaurants, bars, caterers. they can use it to cover rent, supplies, everything they need to start, stay open and reopen. >> stay and reopen. that's the best news. so far 186,000 restaurants and bars applied. remember in the last year 110,000 restaurants shut their doors for good. i get the best two guests here to make sense of all of this.

brittany vallas, manager/director of the tacos. and you're both in restaurants and are hiring. a lot of people left the service industry last year and took warehouse jobs that do may $16 an hour. is the answer the restaurant industry needs to change the way they pay and match that pay? >> yeah, i think for a long time the economics in the restaurant industry has been pretty broken and we are seeing that maybe play out now. for places like los angeles, new york, people realize they don't have to be in l.a. to have the high-paying jobs so a lot of people moved out. it's really upside down. we normally wouldn't advertise we're hiring but it's like everywhere because it's really been difficult. we're working like 18 hours a

day just to make up for the work. so, yeah, the hiring, to touch on your last guest, it's been really difficult to get anybody in. i hope it is relieved but it makes it difficult to get back to normal for sure. >> can i ask you emotionally, this time last year, you were firing all of your staff and now you can't bring people back. how do you feel? >> i feel like i have cosd or something. i feel like i'm trying to stay in the moment but the irony is not lost on me. last year 72 employees. and now nobody want to come back. those that do are back and we still need to cover the gap. it's crazy. every restaurant, go on instagram, look at any of your favorite restaurant, i'm sure there's a red post that says we're hiring. the competition is gnarly.

it's quite the juxtaposition from last year for sure. >> tom, 12 time to change the way people are paid in the restaurant industry? can we expect, especially coming out the of the pandemic, waiters, waitresses to want to go to work for $2 an hour and roll the dice hoping for big tips? >> stephanie, number one in new york, waiters -- minimum wage for waiters i think is $10.35, not $2 an hour. it's a little different in new york and los angeles. in fact, in los angeles, they don't -- >> tips are higher here. >> right. but what's interesting and going on right now, it's a labor market. if you want to hire a cook, they're coming in saying, pay me $23, $24, $25 an hour, and i'll work. it's happening on its own. there's a shortage of labor. which is interesting because unemployment is still high so you think that would put pressure downwards on wages but the opposite is happening right now. and it's about time. also, i think we have to get away from the idea restaurant

workers are unskilled. these are highly skilled workers, especially you go into a restaurant, you're trained, you're skilled. i think they're actually finding understanding that they're a commodity and they're going to demand what they need and because there's such a shortage, they're going to get it. >> all right then. they're high skilled. skills cost. i do want to ask you, tom, about this $28 billion. it's a huge amount of money and restaurants need it. on some level is it almost too late? 110,000 restaurants are gone for good. and now both of you are still in business and thriving luckily but right now there's huge consumer demand. we are seeing personal savings up. is that money welcomed but too late? >> no, it's not too late because a lot of restaurants closed. i closed one of my restaurants permanently. we still owe back rent. landlords have been working with

us. we still owe back rent. we still owe bills going back six, seven months ago. so us, we can use it for payroll and bonus people to come back to work. listen, that $28.6 billion will be going very quickly. as you mentioned the top of the segment here, 186 people already applied. the great thing about this, one third of those applicants are from minority-owned businesses, businesses that are doing under a million dollars and women-owned businesses. and that was by design. the way we set up the restaurant act, and the independent restaurant coalition worked with the fda and we set it up for where the first 21 days, those small businesses, minority-owned businesses, veteran owned businesses, they're the first ones in line. for the first 20 days, even though you can apply, they're only processing those applications. we're taking care of the smallest of the restaurants first. minority, women-own businesses.

that's something we fought for and great feature. but that $28.6 billion will run out very quickly. keep in mind, stephanie, we asked for $120 billion. we're down -- the lost revenue over the pandemic so far has been probably about $200 billion. we have a long way to go. >> brittany, i'm hoping you were at the front of that line, paying bills and paying higher wages. both of those things are great for the economy. how are you going to spend this money if you get it? i know you applied. >> yeah, i mean, i echo everything tom is saying and i think that the number of applicants particularly that are women and minorities show to the american public that restaurant owners are dedicated to coming back and to making sure their workforce is well paid and well compensated. for us, we're giving tons of bonuses, but not only because there's a bill but so many have worked during the pandemic and

put their health at risk every day, so wanting to gish bonuses to those who stayed. and here in l.a. we're at 50% capacity but 100% of the light bill is due, 100% of the rent is due, 100% of the gas bills are due. it's really to make up for that. we're in l.a. where it's beautiful and sunny and outdoor and totally fine but i think about philadelphia, new york, temporal climates where they have to literally build restaurants outdoors. also steph, many people are not comfortable coming out yet. the idea we're totally open and everything is back to normal is a fallacy in a lot of ways. i said last time i was on your show, this was a down payment, and i really agree with that. $28 billion seems like a lot but for 600,000-plus restaurants across the country, it's not.

i applaud the ease of the system and prioritizing women, but it's time to do a little bit more. >> it's also time if you live in l.a. to go out and get some tacos. and if you're in new york, check out tom's new place on 19th street. 24u thank you both for being here. coming up next -- we have to take you across the ocean to india. the coronavirus crisis is getting worse there, breaking its own record for death and infections. we'll take you inside the desperate need for life-saving supplies. life-saving supplies , i get to define myself through the scores of people who lead to me. bring your family history to life like never before. get started for free at ancestry.com in the romo household we take things to the max oh yeah! honey, you still in bed? yep! bye! that's why we love skechers max cushioning footwear. they've maxed out the cushion for extreme comfort. it's like walking on clouds! big, comfy ones! oh yeah! from prom dresses

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now to the devastating covid crisis in india, which just broke its own record with nearly 4,000 deaths in one single day. there's worry now that there could be half a million new cases there every day as oxygen is running dangerously low. nbc's keir simmons joins us now from london with the latest. >> hi, stephanie. there was a dip in infections but now in the past 24 hours,

they are back up again, 412,000 infections in just 24 hours. colleagues at the british network sky news went inside one hospital but really it is the story of so many hospitals in india. they are quite simply overwhelmed. desperate for oxygen for his patients, dr. sumet ray makes call after call. >> it's a struggle. 2:30 last night struggling for oxygen and again this morning. >> reporter: while fighting to keep patients alive, they just resuscitated this man. india has the worst covid outbreak in the world. more than 20 million cases, over 225,000 dead, and now some experts estimate millions are infected every day. >> we do not have time to feel sorry for somebody else. we're losing patients here. >> reporter: alex crawford from our sister network sky news reached this hospital. outside patients are waiting for

space with oxygen their families have often had to find for them. inside dr. sumit ray finally receives some good news. >> oxygen was just received. >> reporter: how many more minutes 20, 25. we don't know. we could have shut down any time. >> reporter: the oxygen is only enough for a few more hours. in india, they are talking about a double mutant. that's two variants together. they say that's part of the reason for this surging number of infections. there are many blaming the politicians saying they didn't prepare. >> keir simmons, thank you. tough to watch but important to do so. nurses here at home are sounding a different alarm. after the year they just had, they are burned out. what's making it harder is getting them help. g it harder is getting them help. our past for power,

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this morning, the united states is facing a health care problem. six in ten health care workers say they are burned out. in the same "washington post" poll, three in ten say they have considered leaving the job entirely. many say this last year was their breaking point. antonia hylton spoke with nurses across the country as we mark national nurses day. many have ptsd after this past year. >> reporter: that's exactly right. after a year of being told that they are heroes, nurses are telling me they don't feel like them. they have seen so much death and trauma over the last year and the pandemic and even before. now many of them are planning to leave the field. they are speaking out in the hopes things will change. look at what we learned. for more than a decade joanna loved nursing. >> it was a true calling.

i wanted to be at the bedside of the sick, the dying. >> reporter: last year when the pandemic year, the colorado nurse's love of nursing was tested. >> you are seeing someone scared and suffering. you are not able to be present with them. because you are so overworked. you either numb out or you are crying. >> reporter: in february, weary of a lack of ppe and grueling schedules, joanna left. she's not alone. according to a poll, three in ten health care workers weighed leaving the profession and six in ten say the pandemic burned them out. in new york, there was a 400% increase in nurses looking for new jobs. a recent yale school of public health survey founds a quarter of health care workers are showing signs of ptsd. to address burnout, these two started nurses anonymous, a

national nurse support group. >> what burnout is looking like is acute anxiety when you walk into the hospital and experiencing paralyzing fear. >> reporter: on tuesdays, they lead nurses through a group zoom call. >> we talk about problems we are experiencing at work. feelings of anxiety that we may be having. how to cope with these feelings in healthy ways. >> nobody wants to stop taking care of people. they don't want to feel horrible while they do it. >> reporter: health care advocates warn it can lead to life or death medical mistakes, including chart errors, administering incorrect doses of medical treatment. in california, joanna, who works in home health management is hopeful legislators will address this before it's too late. >> a burned out nurse is a dangerous nurse. an exhausted nurse is not a safe

nurse. unless there are changes, tangible changes. we will see this get worse. >> reporter: nurses are speaking out in the hopes that hospital managers and legislators are going to hear out their concerns. among the changes they hope to see, smaller nurse to patient ratios, a cap on the number of hours they can be made to work in a shift, and more time to rest and recover between those tough shifts. >> thank you. very important story. always important to remember to thank all those nurses out there. they are heroes. that wraps up this busy hour. i'm stephanie rule. hallie jackson picks up next. don't miss andrea mitchell's interview at noon with antony blinken. n. that' the bowls are back.

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