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session, getting ready for a final vote on that massive bipartisan infrastructure bill. mitch mcconnell just wrapped up speaking a few minutes ago and we're expecting to hear from chuck schumer also within the hour, just ahead of the final vote. also our latest vote count on how many republicans are expected to support this bipartisan bill and just how short-lived that bipartisanship will be today, with democrats preparing to turn immediately to their $3.5 trillion budget plan. leigh ann, they're back. it's infrastructure day. things are happening. we're expecting an action-packed morning. walk us through what the next few hours are going to look like. >> hey, garrett, that's right. this vote is finally happening

on a bipartisan infrastructure bill, something that the former president donald trump talked about a lot and wasn't able to get done, even president obama used to talk a little bit about infrastructure, wasn't able to get that done. it will be a big day for the senate and president biden today. this vote is expected to pass going to take place around 11:00 a.m. this morning. if we look at how many republicans will vote for it, a good indicator is a key procedural vote that took place a couple days ago where 19 republicans came down in support of it. one of the republicans, senator lindsey graham wasn't there for the vote because of a covid diagnosis. he is back on the hill today and also is expected to vote for it. as many as 20 republicans will vote for the legislation. all eyes are turning to what is happening next, and that is the $3.5 trillion mum infrastructure

legislation, where senate democrat also start the process today, even senate minority leader mitch mcconnell already turned his attention to that and let's listen to what he said on the senate floor moments ago. >> today the american people are learning exactly where each of their senators stand, the many people elected a 50/50 senate an incredibly close house of representatives and a president who pledged to govern down the middle and unify the country, but as soon as president biden, speaker pelosi and leader schumer got the keys they handed them right over to the far left. >> reporter: and so what he's talking about is that human infrastructure bill we'll see after the bipartisan bill passes later this morning, a long day, perhaps a long night of senate political amendments that are going to be voted on, the first step of this human

infrastructure bill before a very long process that also the house of representatives has to get involved in very soon. garrett? >> not even a moment to catch their breath on the bipartisan nature what they will accomplish before turning to the next bill. over at the white house, the president obviously this is a huge milestone for the president. he's been pushing behind the scenes to land a bipartisan deal. can you put into context how big this moment, this vote will be today for the president and perhaps also the risk of spiking the football too early. this is only going to pass one chamber. >> reporter: i know you miss olympics coverage, so to keep in the sports metaphors, absolutely a danger of celebrating too early and the match is only at halftime. plenty of time left on the clock when it comes to the two-track plan of infrastructure. absolutely expect the president to tout the fact that this

bipartisan bill will become a reality, this nearly $1 trillion plan that he worked so hard to negotiate and was a key part of. of course in terms of optics, we're not expecting to see any major celebration with a ton of lawmakers at the white house or anything like that, because the process is not completed yet and because of course this white house envisioned this two-track plan, they'd like to see the human infrastructure $3.5 trillion package advance in parallel to this other one. i think for a candidate who campaigned on bipartisanship who promised it, sometimes was mocked for said he'd be able to find common ground with republicans on some things, he is probably going to come back to washington, d.c., today and say when we want to work together on something, we can get that done. he's said that in the past. he also got into a little bit of trouble a few months ago when he did directly tie the two pieces

of legislation together and said i'm not going to sign one without the other. eventually he walked that back because of how problematic the language was or the ultimatum was in the view of some lawmakers. instead today they'll talk about the key milestone, the procedural votes, all the hurdles that were completed over the weekend and final passage today are a key indicator of what they are going to be able to do, but that the second half of this, human infrastructure is just as if not more important in the argument of some democrats. you'll see the president walk that fine line as he departs wilmington, delaware, later this hour and heads back to the white house. >> monica alba, traveling with the president. i would have gone with the pass the baton metaphor to keep our olympics spirit alive. i'll see you soon. turning now to the covid crisis, and the nation adding another 1 million new cases in a week. more hospitals are hitting capacity forcing extreme

measures. texas governor abbott is asking hospitals to postpone elective procedures to preserve hospital beds. he's also not backing down on his ban on mask mandates. this as two large school districts announce they'll require masks anyway. the state's largest school district is considering making the same moof. they could decide later this week. more of the same clashes in florida, the governor is threatening to withhold the salaries of officials who require masks for students while more kids are returning to school this week and dr. anthony fauci throwing his support behind calls for vaccine mandates for teachers. >> i'm going to upset some people on this but i think we should. i know people must like to have their individual freedom and not be told to do something but we're in such a serious circumstances, mandates should be done. >> morgan chess can i is outside

a hospital in austin, texas, and mark barrett at a hospital in memphis, tennessee. morgan, governor abbott is asking other states for help in texas. some hospitals are setting up overflow tents. what is the situation like on the ground there? >> reporter: getting worse by the day. multiple professionals over the state are saying this time around it's not a ppe problem. this is a health care provider problem, a staffing problem felt in almost every corner of the state. we know at last check, there are six icu beds open here in the greater austin area for a population that sits around 1 million people to the north and the metroplex, we have less than 100 beds available for a population that touches about 8 million people. we do know that they hopefully should be getting reinforcements sooner than later from a staffing standpoint but in the meantime, we are seeing those tents open up across this state. the governor has also said that

he plans to open antibody infusion centers. those will treat the covid patients who may not necessarily have to spend days in a hospital freeing up additional space. those centers should be opening up shortly, and those people can get treated there to give space to those who need it most here. also, there is a mobile vaccine program that the state's making available, where a group of five or more people can contact the state and then health care workers they can vaccinate. if you get a vaccination today it's not protecting you from the delta variant for several weeks to come if not longer. we hear time again from health care professionals please avoid going in the groups if you can with the large numbers of people. stay home if at all possible. the numbers here trending in the i don't think direction and we already know contingency plans are in place to potentially fly patients out of state if hospitals run out of room.

garrett? >> can you touch on the mask mandate points in schools? austin and dallas isds are going to ignore the governor's order and require masks. houston is considering doing the same thing. >> reporter: we have heard the governor say repeatedly should his ban of mask mandates be essentially defied, school districts could face fines and/or a loss of state funding. we've seen austin and dallas. we have yet to see any action against that. dallas judge clay jenkins will file a lawsuit against the governor essentially saying that his ban on mask mandates is harming the public and remains to be seen how that will play out. garrett? >> thank you, morgan. mara, hospitals there in tennessee are at a similar inflection point.

the health commissioner is warning the state's children's hospitals will all be full by the end of the week. what happens at that point as we're seeing more and more children who needed to be hospitalized during this latest wave? >> reporter: these are children that are being hospitalized, more than 38 active cases across the state, 17 of those here in labonner children's hospital in memphis over the last two weeks, two children passed away from covid complications and over the past week, they've seen 65% increase in pediatric hospitalizations, so it's really serious right now when it comes to children specifically and the fact is a lot of this is because adults aren't getting vaccinated and they're seeing a big difference in the types of cases in children. i spoke with dr. nick heisman here to hear about the comparison he makes from now the cases in children versus 18 months ago.

>> upping in now for the last 18 months the experience with the pandemic, kids have come in for other reasons, trauma, broken bones that sort of thing and just happened to be positive and ended up in our covid area. that's different than what we're seeing now, kids come in with respiratory illnesses, cough, shortness of breath, needing supplemental oxygen on a respiratory floor and unfortunately some needing to be intubated. >> reporter: kids are more impacted by the delta variant and hospitalized and the added respiratory illness that comes two, three weeks after getting covid they're seeing in children right now. pediatric levels they see in the winter but obviously it's summer. they are getting tight in the icus. doctors frustrated with the fact there is this political battle around mask mandates. in shelby county vaccination is only about 37% so a mask mandate in schools like shelby county is doing but across the state could have a big impact but as we've

seen, not a ban on mask mandates in school but the republican governor bill lee discouraging that. garrett? >> the low vaccination 80s a problem. morgan and mara, thank you both. coming up, the military will require all u.s. troops to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. i'll talk to the director of the national institutes for health about why the pentagon is taking this step and why now. plus the fbi is reviewing documents related to the 9/11 attacks to determine whether they can be released publicly, 20 years later. the decision comes just days after survivors and victims families told president joe biden to skip memorial events this year. we'll go back to our top story later, infrastructure bill, congresswoman debbie dingell joins us live. with clinically-proven ingredients and his gum problems have vanished. (crowd applauding) therabreath, it's a better mouthwash. at walmart, target and other fine stores.

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breaking news just in from new york on governor andrew cuomo. his attorney will apparently be speaking in about 45 minutes.

msnbc's lindsay reiser is outside the state capitol in albany. what do we know about this press conference, kind of coming out of nowhere. >> reporter: garrett, good to be with you. she was on with our colleague eamon mohyeldin on msnbc and she was asked when will we hear from cuomo, she said very soon but it appears we'll hear from her. so many developments and the governor digs his heels in. yesterday for the first time we heard from brittany comisso one of cuomo's accusers on cbs news and detailed her allegations of a november 2020 incident which she says the governor put his hand under her blouse. two high-profile resignations in cuomo's circle, roberta kaplan, chairwoman of times up, she was implicated in the ag report for reviewing an op-ed that was

never published that was critical criticizing trying to discredit one of cuomo's first accusers and melissa derosa, a top aide to cuomo and secretary also stepped down, but in her statement made no mention of any of the allegations. she denies any wrongdoing though she was also named in the ag report for an alleged retaliation campaign. pretty quiet at the albany strait capitol, a protester holding up signs calling for his resignation. i talked to committee members at the new york state assembly. they met yesterday to discuss impeachment proceedings. friday we have a big deadline for cuomo, when he can submit any defense documents to the judiciary committee and then the judiciary committee will present findings to the assembly. the assembly will vote on whether to proceed with impeachment and the governor has 30 days to respond. after that, the trial would go to the senate.

we are talking about hundreds of thousands of documents. they look in detail the ag report next monday in a secure location but we will all be watching very closely today at 11:00 a.m. eastern here as you mentioned to hear from cuomo's attorney and what she'll say. >> yes we will. we have to wonder how much longer cuomo can go before he takes questions. lindsey reiser in albany, thank you. the u.s. could release documents between a possible link with saudi arabia and the hijackers for 9/11 after enormous pressure of a group of nearly 2,000 family members, survivors and first responders, last week asked president biden to stay away from 9/11 memorials unless he upholds what they call a complain promise to be transparent with those documents.

kelly o'donnell, people have seen the documents before the 20th anniversary next month, what do we expect to learn from them? >> reporter: the timing will be decided by the department of justice as they're reviewing these files and the fbi indicated publicly they have closed some portions of their investigation which could open up the possibility of rolling disclosures of documents long kept confidential. president biden said in a statement that he wants to see this disclosure with more information of what happened. as he promised in his campaign "my administration is committed to ensuring the maximum degree of transparency under the law and adhering to the rigorous guideness issues during the obama/biden administration on the state's privilege." the government can say there are national security interests so the documents could not be made public. with the passage of time and with the investigations, at

least in part coming to a close, there is this expectation now that more will be made public. the timing, not a lot of window left between now and september 11th and the 20th anniversary but the president clearly signaling he wants to see more of that. as you mention kshlg pressure from 9/11 families and survivors who want to know if the saudi government had a more defined role than publicly known in financing or supporting the hiing jaers. we've known early days the majority of the hijackers involved in the attacks on 9/11 were saudis, so was osama bin laden. was there an official relationship in any way between the saudi government, a close ally of the united states, and having any influence in the attacks beyond what we know. it is potentially very explosive in terms of the political and

diplomatic issues here and deeply personal and painful to the families and survivors who want more answers and feel that the u.s. government has more answers and has not disclosed them during these many years. time makes it easier to do and the president is saying it's time to release as much as possible without harming u.s. secrets. one of the issues is time makes the secrets less urgent to holdon to. that say big question and what will it mean if there is evidence that links the saudi government or prominent saudi family members in ways we haven't known until now. garrett? >> less urgent but still incredibly diplomatically challenging. kelly o'donnell at the white house, thank you. and the taliban is making advances in afghanistan. it now has control of five provincial capitals. we're live in kabul with the atrocities the taliban is committing towards civilians.

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the pentagon will require vaccines for all american servicemembers. the secretary of defense lloyd austin telling troops he'll make the vaccines mandatory no later than mid-september or immediately upon fda licensure,

whichever comes first. spiking infection rates in the military due to the spread of the delta variant. the military says 64% of active duty troops are fully vaccinated and they say it endangers the readiness of the force. we bring in courtney kube. mandates are divisive among the civilian population but the military mandates just about everything active duty members live their lives and a bunch of other vaccinations, so how do we think troops will react to this order? >> that's right. there are 17 vaccines that are mandatory for troops right now and there are a number that you have to get just before you get in to boot camp. many of them are regional. so if you're deploying to afghanistan or iraq, you're going to get most likely have a different set of vaccines that you have to get versus if you're deploying to south america. that doesn't mean there isn't some controversy with vaccinations and there have been in the past. one most talk about is anthrax. when that was made mandatory it was under emergency

authorization and it's change the way the military has done since then, that was several decades ago. there is a reticence among active duty military to take a vaccine or any medications not fully authorized by the deaf and that's where this covid vaccine has entered a rocky territory. it is still as you well know, garrett, not fully authorized by the fda. we expect pfizer will be fully authorized in the matter of a couple of weeks. that's one of the things that changed the calculus at the pentagon. once it's authorized they will not have to get a waiver from the white house to make it mandatory for servicemembers to get it. now we're in the final days that moved the ball here, and in it will now become mandatory no later than mid-september for all servicemembers. it will be added to their list of mandatory vaccinations.

i should point out it doesn't mean all servicemembers, active duty, guard and reserve have to be vaccinated by mid-september. it just means it will be added to their list of mandatory vaccination no, sir later than then. >> they have to start. courtney kube, thank you very much. i want to bring in the director of the national institutes of health, dr. francis collins and courtney sets you up there, doctor. do we know anything about when the vaccines, particularly pfizer might get that full fda licensure? >> fda is working 24/7 on this. they have to go through hundreds of thousands of pages in this application that covers everything from safety and efficacy to manufacturing, even do some inspection of facilities and they are working hard. we expect within a month, maybe a couple of weeks that approval will be granted. for people waiting for that who are still unvaccinated not necessarily just people in the military, this would not be a good reason to wait wendell ta is spreading so rapidly.

the experience fda is going to provide this is almost complete. we have to wait for the final announcement. >> we've seen lots of federal workers, universities, google and facebook and disney putting in place some version of a vaccine mandate. are those mandates in your mind enough to reverse the case trend that we're looking at now or are we talking about bending the curve four to six weeks down the line as you have the larger employers start to require more vaccinations? >> it's a good question, garrett. keep in mind even somebody who decides to get vaccinated today, we're talking about six weeks from the time they start their first dose until they've had the second one and have gone through that two weeks of full pektive effectiveness. j&j is quicker with the single dose. you look at the way delta is spreading we're in a steep slup jope that shows no signs of reaching its peak. this would be the critical moment, not a couple months from

now but right now to get people into the vaccination lines. i approve everything businesses and the federal government is doing to try to require vaccination. we know these are safe, we know they're effective. good heavens, 96% of physicians are immunized. doesn't that tell you what they learned? this is the moment to get off the fence, roll up your sleeve. it's time. >> sticking with mandates for a second, we've been hearing reports about skyrocketing hospitalizations among kids, many can't get the vaccine. as kids head back to school as the delta variant hangs around and the country's largest teachers union talks about mandates, i want to get your take on school-based mandates. here is what the head of the teacher's union said on nbc a little while ago. listen to this. >> i think that on a personal matter, as a matter of personal conscious, we need to be working with our employers, not opposing

them on vaccine mandates. >> that was "meet the press" over the weekend. is it your view teachers should be one of the groups that faces a vaccine mandate to be in classes with students this fall? >> yes, to be honest, i think they should. my colleague tony fauci said that earlier this morning. >> he did. >> we want to protect our children, of all the people vulnerable. we have more kids in the hospital right now covid-19 than during this entire pandemic. almost 90% of teachers and other staff at schools are immunized. let's make that 100% and push on the 12 to 17-year-olds that can get vaccinated to protect them and their classmates from other outbreaks that will wreck the idea of everybody coming back into the classroom. we have so many things we can do right now. let's do them. >> it all starts and finishes

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you're looking live at the senate floor, where we're about 20 minutes away from seeing that final senate signoff on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. senators getting ready to vote on that bill and make an immediate turn towards the much larger $3.5 trillion bill that democrats plan to pass entirely on their own. with the vote to open up debate as the first step in that

process, the budget resolution that would kick off committee work, that all is set to take place in the next few hours. on the house side, speaker pelosi got her work cut out for her with democrats split on how things should unfold in that chamber with these two separate bills. joining me is a democratic congresswoman, debbie dingell of michigan, deputy whip for the progressive caucus. the senate bill is a huge lift for them to pass anything even close to this big but the plan for house democrats is basically to hold onto it until they see the reconciliation piece. that could be october. does that diminish the importance of what's getting done if the speaker says thank you very much, now we wait? >> no, i don't think it diminishes it at all. we need to have a good strong bipartisan bill. people want to see us work together. i work hard across the aisle when i can. last thursday i was at the white

house when president biden announced a target to sell 50% electric vehicles by the year 2030. that's an important goal. we have global common issues which people can't ignore and i have to protect the workers in my state. i have to make sure we're putting the money into this plan that will make such a transition from the internal bust is shun engine to the electric vehicle transmission successful that we're building batteries here in the u.s. that we're developing the technology that we need, building out the infrastructure so that people have confidence they'll be able to get a charge and updating our electrical grid. that's part of the discussions here. we have to do and can do both. >> we're enjoying a brief moment of bipartisanship on the senate side here. as you know, the minute this bill passes, that is going to be gone. what is the plan for democrats over the course of this long summer to defend and sell the need to spend $3.5 trillion?

we know republicans are going to be hammering this bill. >> so first of all, i think we need to talk about what we're really trying to do, and so when you talk about what's really in the bill and what we need to do, child care has kept so many -- 3 million women have had to leave the workforce because we don't have child care. we're trying to support child care, schools and education. i just talked about what we're trying to do in terms of transitioning for electric vehicles. there's a long-term care piece where the only industrialized nation in the world that doesn't do something to help our seniors as they age. when we talk about the pieces of this bill how it helps the economy and the workers, we have to do point blank, not let other people frame what this bill is and i still believe, i'm working with republicans on a lot of this. so i think sometimes the media likes to pit people against each other, certainly republican strategists do but a lot of us know that america's got needs

and we have to work together to address hem. >> with all due respect, congresswoman, you know as well as i do, you will get zero republican votes on the reconciliation piece. that's not media spin. that's the way that's going to be, when do you a reconciliation bill. >> i never say never. >> okay. >> you may be right but never say never. >> i admire your optimism but working with the actual math, you're going to need to get every house democrat to support the reconciliation bill and you have the tiniest bit of wiggle room. how do you keep everybody on board on both pieces? friends at punch bowl said the progressives need the moderates right now more than the moderates need the progressives. do you agree with that framing here? >> absolutely. >> how do you keep these folks on board? >> what i'm tired of is everybody pitting everybody against each other. i'm a whip for the whole caucus and i try to think of myself as somebody who works with everybody. there are a lot of issues that we have and i'm tired of

everybody putting labels on people, if you want to know the truth. it's the truth. we're americans. we have problems we got to work on together. and we want to get the lead out of water pipes. there isn't enough to get the lead out of water pipes in america. republicans and democrats want to do that. so we talk about the problems we're addressing to get done and that's how you get the bills through. >> quickly, on the debt ceiling piece of this, right now there is not a raise to the debt ceiling in this reconciliation bill. could that change for the need to raise it in september? >> i think people are trying to figure out how that happens. the secretary of treasury has said she does not think that's a good idea. i know we have to do it. we cannot close the government down again. i'm so absolutely dead set against closing the government down in the midst of a pandemic.

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this morning, a blunt message from the u.s. state department to the taliban. that any government that comes to power through force in afghanistan will not be recognized. the development comes amid a week's long relentless taliban offensive as american and nato forces finalize their pullout from war-torn afghanistan. the families fleeing the taliban left traumatized, angry and desperate. nbc's kelly cobiella spoke to some of those refuged in a park in kabul. >> all the peoples who are from the northern areas of afghanistan are gathered over here. they don't have a place to stay at night. they don't have their own relatives, even in kabul, it's very tough. it's very difficult to these people to live a normal life. so that's why because of the war. it's because of taliban.

>> horrible turn of events there. kelly joins us from kabul and kelly, just tell us more about what you're learning, the conversations you've had with people fleeing the taliban. >> reporter: these are all people who had good-paying jobs many had government jobs, lived in a big city, the city of kunduz, city of about 300,000 in the north. they had homes, cars and like i said good-paying jobs and had to flee the city, harrowing stories of survival, told in the middle of the night you need to get out, the taliban is coming, leaving their homes, trying to in one woman's words smuggle themselves down to kabul without being caught by any taliban fighter. one woman, a 28-year-old woman, who worked as a court clerk in kunduz says she and her husband were told to leave in the dead of night. she said that the taliban had

been taking names of women and widows and young girls to marry them off to taliban fighters asking every household for those names and also saying the fighters were killing civilians, specifically government workers especially if they were women. take a listen to what she told me. me. >> translator: one of my colleagues, they took her by her hair first. >> another man who just arrived at that park today just moments before we did said that there's no water, no food left. the people who are left at the airport are essentially besieged, have no supplies left and that city was taken by the taliban on sunday, and they have taken a sixth capital.

and there's efforts to get the taliban back to the negotiating table, and they are trying to get the taliban to stop this offensive. garrett, a lot of the people we spoke to here know his name and blame him for what is happening north, and he said he's the reason, in their minds, they have been pushed from their homes and are suddenly torn apart by war once again, garrett. >> kelly cobiella, thank you. we're now just minutes away from the senate vote over on capitol hill on the massive bipartisan infrastructure package. i want to bring back in my colleague, leigh ann caldwell,

and what else are we watching in these last moments before the vote? >> garrett, that's right. we are watching to see where these republicans stand. we know 50 democrats will support the legislation and we know that there is going to be at least ten republicans moving forward. there are key procedural votes where 19 republicans voted for it, but final passage, of course, is a different thing. senator thune just caught up with members of our team and said the reason he is not voting for it is because it's not fully paid for, and senator thune is somebody that is up for re-election and has not announced if he is running again yet, and he's been on the wrong side of the former president recently and he decided to be a "no" vote on this legislation. his colleague also from the same state, senator rounds, who is not here and able to vote was his wife is sick, and he put out

a statement, he too, would be opposed if he were here. the number we are watching is exactly how many republicans will come down for it, and if the senate minority leader, mitch mcconnell, will vote for it, and we will seal if that stands on final passage. >> thank you. no rest for firefighters in northern california. the dixie fire still going strong. officials believe conditions could get worst there. we are live on the ground with the desperate effort to contain those flames. y layers of residue trapped inside? things like hard water metals, odors, and oils. try 9 elements laundry detergent and purifying softener. its vinegar powered clean is like detoxifying your clothes. and it's never made with more than 9 ingredients. try 9 elements.

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the dixie fire continues to engulf parts of northern california. firefighters warn it could get worse with rising temperatures and winds forecast, and the second largest wildfire in state history is now in its 27th day of burning and more than 82,000 acres and flattening entire towns along its way and is only 22% contained. let's bring in emily in greenville, california. emily, you spoke to one volunteer firefighter that says they simply can't keep up? >> reporter: that's right, hey, garrett. in small towns like this one they find resources are thin and so volunteer firefighters will be called in numerous directions, and that's what we

found in will, and this town has since been decimated, and he was called back to his family's rank, a 500-acre ranch, and he calls some of the chaotic moments. listen here. >> it was 20 hours a day, anytime the wind would come up we had spot fires everywhere just like you are seeing here all over the ranch, up by the houses and on the hill. every time i would fill the truck up with water they would be calling me and saying, hey, there's another one, you have to come back now. we just couldn't get to any of it quick enough. >> reporter: i want to show you just some of the elements these firefighters are up against. take a look at the video of a fire tornado, just fierce as the

dixie fire continues to bull doze forward, and just 22% contained so this won't be a thing of the past for at least several weeks. garrett? >> emily, thank you. thank you at home for watching this hour of "hallie jackson reports." right now more news with my friend, craig melvin. ♪♪ good tuesday morning to you. craig melvin here. we have a lot of big breaking stories coming to a head this hour. first off, any minute now, andrew cuomo's outside counsel will be holding a briefing. the governor, was know, facing investigations by the assembly there in albany. also a number of district attorneys offices into his conduct, and cuomo has continued to deny any wrong doing, and we do not have a great deal of

guidance that will be covered, and once it does start we will take you to the briefing there. also right now, the senate on the cusp of a blockbuster bipartisan break through. it's a big step for president joe biden and something he promised and a lot of folks doubted would actually happen. a major infrastructure bill. in seconds the senate will be holding a final vote to pass, and a live look on the senate floor right now. this is senator tom carper of delaware speaking. we expect senator chuck schumer to address the bill in just a moment. breaking news from the upper chamber. we will go there as well. also, the pandemic intensifying in new dangerous ways. we just crossed 36 million covid cases in our country since all of this started by nbc's tally, and it only took eight days to add 1 million new cases.