the end of the "a" block tonight, but it was unavoidable. i knew i could not steer away from that before i started telling that story. i knew it was going to end that way. i'll see you again tomorrow night where i'll have it much more together. "way too early" is up next. the reason most people in america don't worry about powe owe, smallpox, measles, or rubella today is because of vaccines. the threat of the delta virus remains real, but we are prepared. we have the tools. we can do this. amid a surge in case numbers, the biden administration is pushing new strategies to fight the new coronavirus. the question is will the new rollout be smoother than the rush to get vaccines? plus president biden doubles down on his defense of the exist from afghanistan. he said the decision was

necessary. the question is was the chaos avoidable. and there is a growing humanitarian crisis in haiti as crews struggle to get to the country following a deadly earthquake and tropical storm. the question is much more can be done to help the island nation recover. it is "way too early" for this. ♪♪ good morning and welcome to "way too early." i'm alicia menendez on this august 19th. the biden administration is employing new strategies to fight the new virus like encouraging booster shots and mandating vaccinations for staff. nbc's miguel almaguer has the latest. >> reporter: making it official, the first booster shots for the general public will go in the arms on the 20th.

most adults fully vaccinated for the first eight months will qualify. a top priority, protecting health care workers, nursing home residents, and seniors who were vaccinated first. the booster shot, a third dose of the same formula and vaccine for those who were fully inoculated with pfizer or moderna. >> it will be easy. just show your vaccination card, and you'll get a booster. >> reporter: for those vaccinated with johnson & johnson, a booster will likely be needed, but for now there's simply not enough data, citing a multiple variety. the cdc released complex charts and bar graphs containing data from pfizer and moderna. the takeaway is simple. your chances of catching the virus increased. still, effectiveness against hospitalization while slightly decreasing remains relatively high. perhaps the biggest concern, the

threat from delta. this graph showing a significant drop in efficacy. >> we are concerned that this pattern of decline we are seeing will continue in the months ahead, which could lead to reduced protection against severe disease, hospitalization, and dealt. >> reporter: while the fully vaccinated still have a layer of protection, the cdc estimates likely near the eight-month mark after inoculation, antibody levels decline, saying a booster increases them by at least ten-fold. meantime, the president using federal leverage to mandate nursing homes to vaccinate staff amid a rash of new infections. he's also ready to fight governors who are banning mask mandates in schools. >> i'm directing the secretary of education, an educator himself, to take additional steps to protect our children. this includes using all of his oversight authorities and legal action if appropriate. >> reporter: with the country still struggling to give even

the first dose to some 85 million americans, authorities say the booster rollout will be much smoother than the original rush to get shots, never mentioning the need for mass vaccination sites, the white house says 80,000 locations nationwide will be ready, including 40,000 local pharmacies. >> this is no time to let our guard down. we just need to finish the job. >> reporter: our nation planning for tomorrow as we all face an uncertain future. >> and an important note, the surgeon general who you just heard is coming out on "morning joe." some school districts are now instituting strict mask mandates. in florida, the state's largist school district, miami-dade county, voted last night to mandate masks for the upcoming school year. it comes at florida's department of education will investigate and possibly fine two school

districts over mask mandates. now with more than 10,000 students an staff in quarantine or isolation for possible exposure to covid t school board voted last night to mandate masks for at least 30 days. meanwhile on the other side of the country, the state of washingtons who governor is a democrat requires all teachers or anyone who works with children to be vaccinated. staff must be vaccinated by october 18th or face possible dismissal. the policy is the industries ticket manner date in the country. the governor also ordered a mask mandate indoors for anyone over the age of 5 regardless of their status. meanwhile mark zuckerberg was fined. in an interview, zuckerberg had this to say. >> well, if we see harmful

misinformation on the platform, we take it down. it's against our policy. do we catch anything? of course, there are mistakes we make or areas where we need to improve. we have millions who used our vaccine finder tools to take the steps toward getting a vaccine and hundreds of people have visited in the u.s. and other places have visited the coronavirus information hub to get authoritative information about this. >> zuckerberg also said facebook has removed 18 million posts for misinformation about the posts regarding covid-19 but wouldn't say how many times those posts were removed or shared. president biden said the platforms were killing people by allowing misinformation to spread. the leader tamped down the remark saying certain users were killing people by posting the misinformation, not at the platform itself. joining us now, dr. ebony

hilton. my friend, good morning to you. this information about debating face mask mandates, what do you say to people who think it does more harm than good? >> look at mississippi. it's already quarantined over 6% of their elementary school to high school kids in the short period f o time they've been open. what we know is that there are more consequences to covid than death and our children luckily -- the majority survive. however, we're seeing pediatric icus are being overfilled a that point. there's no place for these children to be taken care of to be able to live and survive, and if we're looking at what are the consequences of that, if you're a mother in preterm labor and you have to deliver your baby, your baby that could have lived before now has the potential to

die because there is no space for it. we have to realize the collateral damage left in the wake of covid. >> i know. the ripple effects are becoming clearer and clearer. dr. hilton, the biden administration recommends a booster shot for adults eight months after the shot. what are you hearing about the efficacy after the shots? >> i had my second dose of covid-19 vaccine back on january r5th, so i'll be in that group. however, do i feel like i should be getting booster shot? no. what we do know is we have many americans that have still not had their first dose. not only americans. we have to think globally. right now we're at 15%, 16% of the global population being fully vaccinated. if we look at them, that's less than 3% of the entire continent of africa. if we don't have a global approach to, this we will get a variant that will make delta variant look like child's play

and could completely eradicate the usage of the vaccines in the first place. we have to start thinking broader than the united states and america. >> which is so much of what we've been hearing. i do want to ask you though, dr. hilton, so much of how this happens will have to do with the rollout itself. what will it look like to get this right? >> the rollout. unfortunately what we saw is the first rollout took a mobilization. those have disappeared. the reason why we're saying we're going to wait until september 20th, we to revamp. we have to re-create those spaces again. it's a push on america to say how have we been carrying out health care in the first place? five states have seen over 90% of their icus being utilized right now. if they're completely full, that means the entire hospital is stretched. we can't have this millions of

surge come into the hospital trying to be vaccinated. we simply don't have the staffing or resources available. hue we're going to do this is going to take a lot of hard work and a lot of patience on the americans' part. >> thank you so much. still ahead t very latest out of afghanistan where u.s. military forces are picking up the pace of evacuations. this as president biden digs in on his defense of the military withdrawal from the country. plus, tennis superstar naomi osaka reflects on being in the spotlight after her return to the winner's circle. those stories and a check on weather when we come right back. .

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league leading 40th home run of the season during last night's game in detroit. he's the first left-handed hitter in franchise history to reach 40 homers, passing hall of famer reggie jackson's 39 hits back in 1982. the two-way sensation returned to the mound to finish off his start, completing eight dominant innings to lead for a 3-1 victory over the white sox. the braves' freddie freeman is strengthening his resume as mvp in the american league. he hit for the psych last night's 11-9 victory in miami, competing the feat in just six innings with a two-run homer over the center field wall. freeman is just the second braves player to hit for the cycle in his career. in the bronx, the yankees completed a sweep with the boston red sox with a three-game sweep thanks to a swig by

shortstop andrew velazquez. anthony rizzo also drove in a pair of runs. they combined for a dramatic final out. martinez goes from first. grounded in the hole. diving stop. velazquez gets it at first. it government past the diving odor somehow. >> this is the victory. the yankees have a one-game lead over the red sox in the a.l. east as well as a one-game advantage in the wild-card spot. now to the ongoing conversation about sports and mental health. tennis star naomi osaka completed a win against gauff.

later she spoke to reportersing being in the spotlight after her emotional display during monday's news conference. >> thinking about this since the last time i sat here, like i was wondering why am i -- why was i so affected, i guess, like what made me not want to do media in the first place. the choice go out there and play -- to go see fans, that people come out and watch me play, that itself is an accomplishment. i'm not sure when along the way i started desensitizing that. like it start not being an accomplishment for me, so i felt like i was very ungrateful on that fact. i don't know. i think definitely this whole covid thing was really stressful with the bubbles and not seeing people and not having the interactions, but i think like -- i guess seeing the state of the world, like how everything

is in in haiti, how everything is in afghanistan right now is definitely really crazy, and for me to just be hitting a tennis ball in the united states right now and have people come and watch me play is -- i don't know. i wouldn't want to be myself in this situation than anything else in the world. time now for the weather. let's go to meteorologist bill karins for the forecast. bill? >> hey, good morning. we've got some interesting things happening with henri in new england as we go through this upcoming weekend. first let's deal with the immediate. that's dealing with the remnants of fred. we still have a lot of heavy rain. we had tornado warnings in new jersey overnight from this storm. we're going to see exiting during the day. we have flash flood watches in areas of green. in maroon, we have flash flood watches in new york, right

around utica. additional rainfall. a lot of the heaviest rain will be in southern new hampshire, vermont, 1 to 2 inches. all of this mess from fred will finally be gone by this evening. let's get to the interesting stuff. this is tropical storm henri. this is about 200 to 300 miles southwest of bermuda. it's slowly going to be making its turn to the west and north in the days ahead. i do think it will be a category 1 hurricane off of cape hatteras. look how close it is to nantucket and cape cod. slowly weakening by the time we get down. our interest, our high concern for our friends in rhode island, maybe the twin forex of long island, and definitely eastern massachusetts. we'll watch this in the days ahead, all of those squiggly

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welcome back to "way too early." it's 5:30 on the east coast, 2:30 on the west coast. we're going to do everything in our power to get all americans out and our allies out. >> does that mean troops will stay beyond august 31st if necessary? >> it depends on where we are. americans should understand we're going to three to get it done before august 31st. >> but if we don't, the troops will stay. >> if we don't, we'll determine at the time who's left. >> and? >> and if there's american citizens left, we'll stale till we get them all out. >> officials say nearly 6,000 have been evacuated since last sunday ant around 1,800 tuesday

night alone. it's estimated up to 15,000 americans are still in afghanistan while 65,000 afghan support staff still remain. in that same interview, president biden argued it was unavoidable. >> we've seen the pictures of people packed into a -- >> that was four days ago, five days ago. >> what did you think when you first saw those pictures? >> what i first thought was we have to gain control of this. we have to move this more quickly. we stro move in a way in which we can take control of that airport, and we did. >> so you don't think this could have been handled better in any way, no mistakes? >> no. i don't think it could have been handled in a way that -- we're going to go back in hindsight and look, but the idea that

somehow there's a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, i don't know how that happens. i don't know how that happened. >> so for you that was always priced into the decision? >> yes. >> chairman of the joint chiefs of staff mark milley is acknowledging they did not predict how fast the afghan government would fall. >> i have previously said from this podium and in sworn testimony before congress that the intelligence clearly indicated multiple scenarios were possible. one of those was an outright taliban takeover following a rapid collapse of the afghan security forces and the government. however, the time frame of a rapid collapse, that was widely estimated and ranged from weeks to months and even years following our departure. there was nothing that i or anyone else saw that indicated a collapse of this army and this

government in 11 days. joining us now, white house reporter for the "washington post" tyler pay jert. good morning to you. you had the biden administration saying they didn't know this would happen this quickly and also saying it was unavoidable. how are they squaring those two declarations? >> yeah, that's what we're happening, how this went so wrong so quickly. as you just played general millie acknowledging kabul collapsed much sooner than they anticipated. we heard from jake sullivan and secretary of state tony blinken. i think that comment we heard from president biden, there's nothing they could have done to make it more orderly is going to come under a lot of criticism. those videos we saw over the weekend of people returning the tarmac or falling off the planes

as they deported from kabul, that's very different and something that could not have been avoided. a lot of larms both democrats and republicans are alarmed by how the americans left kabul. and i think another point that's important to mention is there are still thousands of americans reportedly there, and while the president sayings they have the airport secure, one of the concerns is there are americans not at the airport and they're not able to say how they're going to get them to the airport. they're relying on americans to get them, but there's no guaranteed safe passage. they try to get every one they want to. >> there are still thousands of americans and afghan support staff in afghanistan. do we have a sense of what the time line for final evacuation

looks like? >> no. and i think that's what biden was pressed on yesterday in his abc interview about will he keep american forces past that august 31st deadline. and after being pressed about it, he ultimately said yes. so that gives us no sense how long american troops are going to be there to complete this mission. i think obviously americans are the ones right now. but there are thousands and thousands of afghans who helped the u.s. over this 20-year effort and are trying to get out, fearing for their safety from taliban rule and their families as well. and that process has been extreme. there's been a lot of criticism from advocates and lawmakers that the biden administration did not move quickly enough to earn sure that these visas calling special immigrant visas were process. they're saying they're moving quickly to try to move through that, but there's still thousands of people at the

airport, beyond the airport, trying to get to safety, fearing for their lives. there's a sense that the u.s. government and its allies in afghanistan over the last 20 years put them in grave danger of taliban rule. >> one of the things i was struck by, you have george stephanopoulos asking about the images we saw, these heartbreaking images and you have the president saying those images are from five days ago, six days ago, which suggests to me the administration wants the conversation to move in a different direction wrchlt is it they want the conversation to move? >> i think what they want to focus on is that i have resumed flights outside of the country. they have secured the airport, and they're now moving at a more regular pace, and you're not going to see these images currently of people running on the tarmac, jumping on the plane as it takes off, and they're assuring the american people it's a more orderly departure out of the country.

what we're seeing is outside the airport as taliban has controlled the city and is controlling access to the airport. that's posing difficulty for afghans trying to get out of kabul, fearful for their lives and unable to reach the safe zone americans have secured. while the american military is saying there's order at the airport just beyond its gates where the people are trying to get to the airport is far from that, and i think that is a disparity we will continue to hear about and potentially see as long as there's so far media able to work safely in the country. that disparity, i think, is incredibly important because it stands in contrast to what the president is saying. >> "washington post" tyler pager. thank you so much. still ahead, the total dlirchlt way country singer garth brooks is doing things his way to beat back coronavirus. "way too early" the back in a moment. coronavirus "way too early" the back in a moment

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time now for something totally different. garth brooks has canceled the next five shows of his tour amid rising covid cases. he writes in part, quote, in july, i sincerely thought this pandemic was falling behind us. now watching this new wave, i realize we are still in the fight and i must do my part. so it is with a heavy heart we announce the decision to cancel all five shows but with a hoeflful heart we can reschedule and start over. ticketmaster is going to automatically refund 350,000 tickets. the country singer hopes to be back on tour by the end of the year. meanwhile a college in connecticut is doing its part to battle the pandemic, enforcing

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less than one day after taliban spokesman guaranteed safety for the afghan people, the reports of deadly violence from the group. a former police officer tells the news people were killed trying to reinstall the flag. they're beating people who try to enter. this violence appears to be corroborated by photos from the "los angeles times" showing a woman and child bloodied and unconscious. on tuesday national security adviser jake sullivan insisted

the u.s. intended to hold the taliban to their commitment providing a safe exit for afghans. joining us now our next guest who previously served as policy director for former first lady michelle obama. always good to see you. i'm very eager to talk with you about all of this. what are the conditions on the ground you're hearing on afghanistan? >> what you're showing is exactly what we're hearing from the ground. obviously we know at least seven people have been killed in the chaos. we've received reports of the taliban going door to door, holding people at gunpoint, determining whether they are american-affiliated afghans. people are terrified and we're constantly receiving pleas on the ground from women. certainly here in the u.s. afghans that have already traveled are worried sick about their family. >> you know, krish, you and i have talked many, many times on

my weekend show about this administration's effort to rebuild refugee and an asylum system here in the wake. we've had that conversation largely in the context of migrants coming to our southern border. here what does resettlement really look like for afghans? >> yeah. so obviously the most important thing is going to be to evacuate them to u.s. territory. we anticipate that many of the afghan allies so long as they can get airlift out will arrive. they'll go to ft. lee in virginia, fort mccoy in wisconsin, and ft. bliss in texas. but beyond that, they will work with partners like the refugee service i lead in communities all across the country. we'll help find them affording houses or apartments. we'll get volunteers to work with us to get them to their english as a second language course. for many of them, they come with

hope, but obviously a lot of fear and despair as they leave the only country that they've ever known. >> so, krish, i don't have to tell you, refugee asylum-seeking in this country has become highly politicized in the past few years. is this country the last few years. is there a way to do this, have this conversation without it becoming a political issue? >> i have to hope there is still a possibility we'll return to a day where immigration and refugee resettlement is less politicized. people need to bear in mind, ronald reagan resettled the highest number of refugees than any president. there is bipartisan consensus certainly around afghan allies. that's incredible to see, even during an era like this one. so my hope is people will understand these are people who put their lives on the line. they put their family's lives on the line in order to protect u.s. soldiers and the u.s. embassy. they deserve a hero's welcome.

>> what is the political capitol you want to see the biden administration put on the line for this? >> we've been advocating that afghan allies should have been evacuated months ago to u.s. territory. what we saw was the panic was unfortunately predictable. so we want to see now swift action. we know about 4,000 afghan allies have been evacuated out of the country thus far but we still have 76,000 who are still in country. half of them outside of kabul. we want to see swift military action. we have the full confidence in the u.s. military now that we have seen that increased presence but we also need to make sure there are other broader pathways to come. for those gender rights activists, journalists, who are still in harm's way we need a robust pathway for them to arrive. there's an opportunity. when you think about the refugee

resettlement system, yes, the administration has put resources into a system that was decimated under the previous administration. but we've only resettled about 6,200 refugees this fiscal year, that's a refugee cap of 62,500. so at a time when there is immense need, particularly in afghanistan we want to see all of the allocations used. >> thank you as always. earlier in the show we asked why are you awake? brendan writes we are up way too early because our new pups enjoy staying informed. going to an estate sale so i can fight old people over toy cars. and another viewer is up way too early getting some exercise i want to get a walk in before fred lands in boston. up next, members of congress

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pshh, mine's so fast, no one can catch me. that's because you all have the same internet. xfinity xfi. so powerful, it keeps one-upping itself. can your internet do that? congress is poised to grill the biden administration over the chaotic u.s. exit from afghanistan. according to the hill, lawmakers from both the house and senate could kick off efforts to question president biden's team as soon as next week. leaders from both sides of the aisle have already requesting briefings on the matter. joining us now, ana palmer, an msnbc contributor. good morning to you, what are you hearing about how congress sees its role in looking into what happened in afghanistan? >> it's not just republicans that want to hear from this administration, you have also started to hear from quite a few senior democrats particularly in the senate, like senator mark

warner on the intel committee saying they want to know what happened and why the evacuation was so mishandled. we're also lining up several private briefings that members of congress are going to be having with administration officials over the next several days. as the biden administration tries to kind of give more information, try to have this conversation privately before it plays out in public. >> while you have the biden administration contending with what happened in afghanistan, you also have the bipartisan infrastructure bill, the house returns next week. do you have a sense of how pelosi plans to pace out everything that she has on her plate? >> she has got a very tricky job in the next couple of days. clearly there's still unresolved issues with the moderates in the house who are really pushing for a passage of this bipartisan infrastructure package without the resolution. so far that has not been resolved and that has to be something she's going to be

working the phones on. trying to figure out over the weekend in terms of can she get the moderates on board. she's been sending a lot of her colleagues letters. but they haven't been in person. that's key monday, tuesday, where do they end up on the package, can they do the dual track and get moderates and progressives on board. >> your conversation on how the dual track shifted from the progressives in her caucus to the moderates in her caucus? >> it has totally shifted the last couple of days as we've been on congressional recess we've seen democrats step up and say, listen, we are going to hold the line here. moderates typically have bowed to the pressure of the speaker when it comes to the big packages but so far they're holding firm and they've been public about it. she's going to have to find a way to bring them together without necessarily having them totally cave and be embarrassed because that would be hard for

the dynamics of the caucus. we focus on the aocs of world but we're seeing the moderates really hold their power here. >> in addition to reconciliation and infrastructure, there's this lingering question about voting rights your sense of the appetite on the hill to begin to contend with that? >> democrats clearly feel this is an existential crisis, they're getting a ton of pressure on the outside to take action here, but so far, particularly when i look at the senate, republicans have not moved at all on this issue. it's going to be very, very difficult. i think you'll see some messaging bills go forward, see democrats try to continue to keep the drum beat on here, but so far there does not seem to be any bipartisanship on the issue. anna palmer, thank you as always. and thank you for getting up "way too early" with us this thursday morning. "morning joe" starts right now. >> the reason most people in america don't worry about polio,

measles, mumps, is because of the vaccines. the threat of the delta variant remains real. we are prepared, we have the tools, we can do this. >> that was president biden tripling down on vaccines pushing for a third shot to protect americans from covid-19. we're going to be talking to the u.s. surgeon general just ahead. good morning and welcome to "morning joe." it's thursday, august 19th, mika has the morning off. willie, a lot in the news as usual. absolutely. in addition to covid-19, president biden is reiterating his defense to withdraw american troops from afghanistan. in a new interview the president argues some of the chaos we've seen was inevitable. we have a pair of reports from kelly o'donnell and then richard angle. >>