with that delta variant leading to a surge in infections, hospitalizations, even deaths. just ahead, we're live on the ground and talking with the medical expert on where we go from here. plus at any minute in new jersey as we are coming on the air, the governor there is about to look at the damage in one delaware river community inundated by epic rain, major floods from ida ahead of president biden's visit tomorrow. we're live in louisiana where frustration is boiling over. hundreds of thousands of people still do not have power. it is still incredibly hot out there, and they still don't have potable drinking water, more than a week after ida made landfall as a category 4 hurricane. plus defense and diplomacy overseas after the fall of kabul and afghanistan. defense secretary austin meeting with your allies in aquar tap secretary of state blinken on the way. covid and staggering new numbers. we talked about how the u.s. has

hit 40 million covid cases but it's not just new infections. we've got covid deaths up in 48 states, nearly every state in the country. since the pandemic started, more than 651,000 deaths are being blamed on covid-19, all of it as millions of americans might be finishing up labor day travel heading home today. there's also new concern this morning with covid hospitalization rates in kids and teens, rising five-fold, given this delta variant. i want to go live to guadvillegas. >> if you look at the numbers over a thousand schools have been forced to close because of the spread of the virus and the number is expected to increase as more kids become infected. this morning, as americans look ahead to the fall, questions about when many adults can take

a covid booster shot, while children under 12 facing a new school year are still unable to be vaccinated at all, as the covid case count continues to rise. a staggering 40 million infections in the u.s. and with covid deaths rising in 48 states, the country has now surpassed 650,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic, as the highly contagious delta variant drives the latest surge. the white house is preparing to extend its booster time line while the third shot for some of those fully vaccinated with pfizer and moderna was expected to be available in two weeks, regulators now warn moderna likely won't make that deadline after the company's booster data was found to be inadequate. the biden administration adamant on waiting for approval. >> no one is getting boosters until the fda says they're

approved and the cdc advisory committee makes a recommendation. >> reporter: this as the number of kids infected with the virus is on the rise. a new report from the american academy of pediatrics and the children's hospital association found children make up one in five new covid cases, and between late june and mid-august, numbers from the cdc show hospitalization rates for kids and teens increased five-fold. >> we know certainly more children are getting infected and therefore more are getting hospitalized. >> reporter: covid put then 4-year-old lincoln in the hospital for a week last march. >> i think i don't feel so good. >> i know you don't feel so good. >> reporter: his mother, ab in a, stayed at his bedside as his condition worsened. >> i remember the moments that he said "mom, i just don't feel good. i don't think i'm going to go home." that's the thing that nobody wants to hear their 4-year-old say. >> reporter: luckily, lincoln's condition improved but he would have to spend three more weeks on oxygen. >> i just think that people need

to know that this is possible. >> reporter: so difficult to see the images of children that get sick with the virus. when it comes to the booster, dr. fauci said it could be a few weeks before the moderna booster is approved and the white house says they would be able to roll that out within hours after approval. hallie? >> guad venegas live in l.a. we bring in dr. blackstock of advancing health equity and msnbc medical contributor. doctor, good morning and thank you for joining us. >> good morning, hallie. >> let's talk about the booster shots, right, and some of a little bit of mixed signaling from the white house when they'll be widely available, preparing to extend the time line past september 20th. two questions. what would a potential delay in the start of booster shots mean? >> well, first, hallie, i'm going to say that communications, it was a misstep. we know that communications is a huge piece of success in this pandemic, and it's also

incredibly important to gaining public trust, so for the biden administration actually put a fixed date on when the boosters would be available, probably would not be a wise idea at all. in terms of the boosters, right now what we're seeing for the most part is that the vaccines are still effective at preventing the worst outcomes of covid-19. we may be creating more breakthrough infections but we're still seeing decrease in hospitalizations and severe disease and death because of these boosters, and so to be honest with you, a few weeks or months will probably not make a difference. i think that probably for select populations immunocompromised, elderly people, nursing home residents, it may make a difference but otherwise for the general population, it will not. >> so you don't anticipate necessarily an increase in the number of breakthrough cases, a surge there? >> well, i mean, what i will say

is that i don't think a few weeks will make a difference in terms of the breakthrough infections or significant clinical indifference in terms of infecting more people. >> got it. >> which is why i think vax mandates sore important. we are focusing so much on the vaccines that we also need to focus on these other nonpharmaceutical interventions like masking and testing to bring numbers town. >> one of the things we talked about at the top of the broadcast dr. blackstock is hospitalizations up five-fold for kids. we know kids under 12 are not getting the vaccine at this moment. kids under 2, my own daughter, for example, not even wearing masks, right? what is your advice to parents as we head into the back-to-school season with outbreaks at schools across the country, hundreds of schools getting closed already this school year alone, first week of september. what should schools be doing and importantly, what should parents be doing? >> i understand i have a 4 and

6-year-old returning to school next monday. very important. any children that are eligible to be vaccinated, anyone over 12 should be vaccinated, really want to encourage parents to vaccinate their children. any adults in those households should also be vaccinated. and then in schools, everyone should be masked up. students, teachers, as well as staff. the cdc is saying that every school should have a mask mandate, and that is at a minimum. we also know that there are other strategies within schools that work. for example, rapid testing is very important, that's something incredibly underutilized in this pandemic, really every family should have rapid testing at home so they can test their kids before they head out the door in the morning. we also know that ventilation is incredibly important, so we need parents to put pressure on their schools to make sure these mitigation measures are in place to create a safer space for their kids. >> let me ask you something else, john allen has a piece on

msnbc.com federal vaccination data showing a mixed record on equity. the biden's community vaccination centers are hitting the mark in some cities but falling really short in others. what can be done? i know this is a focus of your work in particular. what can be done in some of those communities where the rates are falling short? >> right. we actually are still seeing data as recently as august showing there's still a racial health inequity who is dying and hospitalized because of covid, and so what i will say is those vaccine outreach efforts engaging with trusted messengers, we also know that federally qualified health care centers are places where a lot of people of color are getting vaccinated so making sure that those centers are getting the resources and funding they need to operate well and all that public health messaging is incredibly important. we need to be seeing commercials on tvs, on buses, in trains, so that we can normally the discussion around vaccines and to make sure that information is out there for people who have

concerns about it. >> dr. uche blackstock, thank you very much for your perspective and being with us this morning. we appreciate it. we turn to the latest in the aftermath of ida. we are still talking about it, why? because it is still a developing story. you have tomorrow president biden back on the road, visiting new york and new jersey, looking at the devastation in two communities. you see them there, manville, new jersey, queens, new york, devastated by flooding from this rainfall. issa gutierrez is in new jersey, vaughn hillyard in louisiana. the new jersey governor murphy as we speak, 10:00 this morning is about to visit another hard-hit spot of the state before president biden comes to where you are. >> reporter: that's right, hallie. good morning. residents here in manville, new jersey, are simply overwhelmed. they don't know where to go from here and they're really looking for answers for guidance, for assistance from the president tomorrow, and also from the

governor. what we've heard from the governor over the last couple of days and we expect to hear from him again today is infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure. he says that this state and as across the country people are not ready for the extreme weather events back to back to back. he hopes that congress passes legislation that will give resources to states to build back better after this, so that they're better prepared for this kind of event that is just becoming more and more common. i want you to look at this house, what was a house behind me. this was one of several in the neighborhood that were destroyed when water impacted a gas leak, caused a gas leak and destroyed a banquet hall here in manville, new jersey. actually right now as we speak, we have the gas company here working in the area, the power also is still out on this block. this house here you can see what it looks like. this is what many of the houses as you drive by around the

neighborhood look look like. all the families belongings in the front yard, their entire lives now garbage picked up on the side of the road, during the day we've been seeing families coming out here trying to recover whatever they can. hallie, right now, they are desperate. a lot of them are saying that we're all still in the middle of a pandemic here. >> right. >> already hit hard by that and now they feel like they can't keep up with these storms that they've been dealing with as well. hallie? >> isa, thanks. down south to vaughn hillyard in lafitte, louisiana. lafitte we kept hearing from officials over the last week, incredibly hard-hit, eight days ago the storm hit but still spots near where you are that are underwater even now? >> hallie, half a million in louisiana are still without power here and just take a look at some of the footage we shot

yesterday afternoon here of lafitte, louisiana, where we are right now. that standing water and mud created a swamp here across this town of about a thousand here, but this is a big shrimping industry area here. there's a lot of business retail that comes in and out of here and essentially so much of it is still under water or under mud. you can see behind us here family trying to get their trailer that is stuck out of the mud using the pickup truck but the mud is so deep, it is so difficult. i want to let you hear from katie arias, one of the residents about the hardship they're enduring eight days later. >> you're drowning and you're reaching up and saying, help me, and no one's coming. for years i've done this over and over again. this is the worst i've ever seen. >> reporter: this house right here is katie's house, and the water rose almost up to the roof here.

they were able to ride out the storm here across the street, where you can see that this house was put up onto stilts, hallie, after hurricane katrina, but essentially, you can see his white car, her husband's car, chris, is still stuck in the mud under here. this is one of the better areas. you look at that drone footage, so much of this community is still under water and just how deep under that water, nobody is going in because of what may be in the water. this is tough circumstances, half a million people, again, still without power and being told it may not be until the end of the month in several parishes for residents to get that power back on. >> heartbreaking to have to think about. vaughn hillyard and isa gud rez, gutierrez, thank you. more republicans pressuring tech companies not to release phone records to the committee investigating january 6. how serious is that threat? plus new reports the taliban is blocking planes with u.s. citizens on board from leaving afghanistan, and not a lot of

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that kind of treatment. what kind of goffance will that lead to the next time these folks get in power? you've got some house republicans now backing up their leader kevin mccarthy and warning tech and phone companies not to comply with the request to preserve records, wanted by the committee, looking into the january 6th attack on the capitol. 11 republicans have sent a letter to these companies asking them not to do this. sahil kapur is on capitol hill. kevin mccarthy sent some messages to the companies effectively saying if the gop ends up taking the majority again, you might regret this. i'm paraphrasing, those aren't the words he used. what is the latest now? >> hallie, kevin mccarthy warned these companies that there will be retribution if they end up complying with that congressional request from the

january 6th select committee to preserve these records. this puts ten companies, tech companies in a difficult position. they want to be able to comply with congressional investigations, but they don't want to be caught in this kind of a partisan warfare and kevin mccarthy is taking away that choice from them. there has been pushback. mccarthy said they would be violating federal law if they were to comply, but nbc news asked mccarthy's office what federal law they would be violating and he has not said. one member of the congressional select committee adam kinzinger, a republican from illinois, reacted to this yesterday on one of the sunday shows. i want to play some of what he had to say. >> we'll decide what we need to see and what's in the american people's interest and i think to turn around then and make ominous talk to these telecom companies that when we take over, it's going to be different or payback, that's just not frankly the republican party i remember and the republican party i joined.

>> reporter: kinzinger also said that if republicans continue to be the party of lies and conspiracy theories they should not hold the majority when the elections come up next fall. strong words from a man who had always been in good standing with the republican party, just up until several months ago, the january 6th attack and his strong reaction to it and criticism for former president donald trump over that. >> right, so he's obviously on the january 6th committee, is so liz cheney. she's been elevated to vice chair. this is news that we heard about last week. today talk about the reaction that we've heard just in the last 24 hours or so, from some of her fellow republicans presumably sahil we know they're not like super psyched, right? >> reporter: that is right. they're not super psyched. the reaction has been pretty negative from those who have reacted. a group of about 16 house republicans led by andy biggs, chair of the hard right freedom caucus written a letter to kevin mccarthy asking him to change the rules of the house republican conference to remove

liz cheney and adam kinzinger from that conference. it would be an extraordinary move but it kind of shows the anger that's bubbling up in far right circles over the fact that cheney that, cheney's been promoted on the committee and kinzinger is on the committee. cheney in her statement accepting the vice chair position, had a line that was notable here, kind of a response this this saying she will not be deterred by threats or intimidation and that the committee will not rest until they get to the truth. this is a significant statement by the chair of the committee, benny thompson, who is of course a close ally of speaker pelosi that they want to a bipartisan committee, elevating a republican helps speak to that. they want the american public to trust the findings on what happened january 6th and what led to it. >> sahil, thank you. coming up on the show, the taliban says it captured the last province in afghanistan that was not under its control. the latest on the chaotic

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conflicting reports on multiple charter planes in afghanistan unable to leave the country for days now. look at this newly obtained

photo, shows six planes on friday at an airport in northern afghanistan. a white house official says these claims of a so-called hostage situation and americans on board from top republican in the house foreign affairs committee are not confirmed. listen. >> we have six airplanes as ma st a sharif airport, six airplanes with american citizens on them as i speak, also with these interpreters and the taliban is holding them hostage for demands. >> white house not confirming that but the taliban says it did stop the planes from leaving and they're also claiming victory today over opponents in the country's last free province, those opponents by the way the fighters say this is not over yet. raph sanchez is in doha, qatar. a lot going on where you are, secretary blinken set to arrive there in doha, just about an hour or so from now. bring us up to speed on all these developments. >> hallie, right now, we are not

expecting to hear anything from secretary of state blinken today. he is going straight from the airport to dinner with the amir of qatar and secretary of defense lloyd austin also here and the facts that the leader of this relatively small middle eastern country is having dinner tonight with the two most senior members of president biden's cabinet shows you how indebted the biden administration feels to qatar right now for pulling this evacuation off. in terms of what is happening in mazar sharif is confusing and the state department is not doing very much to make it less confusing. their line basically is we don't have people on the ground. we don't control the air space and these are private charter planes so we don't really know what's going on here. we do know as you said, there are a number of flights waiting to take off and the taliban have said they are not going to let them go, and so even without knowing all the details, even without knowing how many or

whether there are americans on those planes, hallie, this is what everyone was worried about, when u.s. troops left, we would be at the mercy of the taliban to allow people to come and go and now that they are the governments of afghanistan, they can hide behind bureaucratic procedures and say listen, we're not holding anybody hostage here. this is just about having the right paperwork. as you mentioned, the panjshir valley was the last area of afghanistan holding out against the taliban. they were led by a man named acmed masood, the son of a legendary resistance fighter in afghan but the tide seems to have turned decisively in the taliban's favor over the last 48 hours or so. they have captured very significant changes of that remote area, about 60 miles north of kabul, they have raised their white flag over the governor's mansion in the panjshir. i spoke earlier to a spokesman for ahmed masood, he insists his

leader remains in afghanistan, has not fled the country the way president ghani did when kabul fell but not saying where he is. >> raph sanchez, thank you for the reporting. i want to bring in marina lagree of the organization ascend which empowers women in athletics and marina, good morning to you. i should note, too, i'm familiar with your organization since one of my in-laws used to be on the board. thank you for being here. can you give us a status update? where do things stand at 10:29 eastern time on the planes and evacuation? >> good morning to you, too. unfortunately there's not much to report. i was hoping we'd have something that shifted overnight and the day is basically over in kabul and it's been a full seven days and everyone is sitting there waiting for information, waiting to move and nothing is happening. >> are you getting any

communications from your people on those planes? are they being told anything? >> i was just texting them while i was waiting to come on with you, making sure nothing else happened but no, nothing's happening. we're in constant contact around the cloak and they're holding steady. the girls are pretty, they're tough and they know that everybody's out there pulling for them and also frustrated and confused why they're still sitting there. it's been like i said, a week and these are some of the same people who also were called to the airport for flights on which they were manifested but weren't able to get into the airport. so this is day 10 and 11 for some people. one of our people has a 3-year-old son that's been hauled around on this experience, so we're pretty tired of it, and i don't know, we're not privy to the overall picture so i'm not sure if it's purely about money or what exactly is at stake here, but what we do know is that we have people who are women at risk and they can't go back and we got to

go. >> you talked about the feelings of frustration, of confusion here. do any of your people feel like they are in danger? >> yes, they're terrified. just to be clear, nobody's sitting on planes. they haven't made it that far. they're being held in facilities nearby, waiting to get the call. >> right. >> and the facilities it starts out reasonably okay, but they're getting more and more crowded. the people who are supposed to be managing them are letting in extra people for a little bribe at the door, so they're filling up every day with more people who don't belong on the manifest, and you know, my team is mostly teenaged girls, and we couldn't bring their whole families so we said you have to come alone so we've got teenaged girls traveling without their families in this kind of crowded situation, so it's not safe at all. the taliban have come in to the facility a number of times and hauled people out. we're not sure exactly why, but

they're just right there exposed to whatever may happen. >> to your knowledge, are there any kind of demands being made by the taliban? would you characterize it as a hostage situation or does that go too far based on the knowledge that you have right now? >> i would not have chosen that word because nobody's forcing them to stay in a room. if they wanted to, some of the girls moved around the city for example to see how things are and scared, they're putting on burqas, which is absurd. these are girls that climb mountains and professionals and never had a burqa in their lives but that's what they have to do to see what's going on in the city, taken a peek and scurried back in. it's not safe and the way between mazar and kabul, these are not people from mazar. they've taken a long trip to get there and the road is fully controlled by the taliban of course so going back home isn't really an option at this point. that's where we stand. >> i see you're working from

home, understandable the noise in the back ground. what is your hope as far as a time line? have you heard anything from u.s. government officials giving you any optimism that this process will accelerate asap? >> unfortunately, we've heard nothing from u.s. government officials. i wish we heard something. we don't have a line in to know what the u.s. government is or isn't doing on our behalf. we're left confused and try igto comfort our people and of course there are lots of increasingly far-fetched ideas how to get people out of this situation. we're trying to be patient and hope and trust that our government will pull some kind of levers with these people that they've been negotiating with for a long time in doha. i feel like the relationships are there. there must be levers that can be pulled, but i don't have any insight into what might be done on our behalf. >> the most important thing is you note the women and the girls, the teenaged girls specifically in afghanistan right now, your organization shared with us some audio of one

of those afghan girls, one of the athletes. i want to play a little bit for our viewers here. >> our sufferings in the country are so great and a lot that we cannot express in words. afghanistan is the darkest and black place in the world for women and girls. we do not want our living to go down and i call on the world international and humanitarian community to help us and not to forget the people of afghanistan and the brave girls climbing mountains. >> "brave girls climbing mountains. "people want to help. what is the most important thing you need right now in order to help these girls? >> we need the u.s. government to leverage the relationships that it has with the taliban via the qataris most likely, and get

them to let our people go. it's that simple. we're hoping they will be welcomed. we're trying to get visas so they have a legal path wherever they might land. these are girls that will be an asset to any society. wing look are for visa options for them in our own country and also in ireland, in new zealand, in scotland and we hope they'll be welcomed where ever they land, after everything they've been through and ready to get started with the next phase of their lives. but first we got to get out of there. we need intervention and we need it now. >> yes, you'll know, right, marina, you're in constant communication and constant contact that when something happens you'll get alerted to it? >> absolutely. nobody's sleeping. >> sure. >> nobody's sleeping and nobody is satisfied -- nothing's happening. we're in on assistant contact looking at every clue but so far nothing. >> we hope, please give us updates. we want to make sure that we're staying in touch with you as well and the plight of these girls stuck in afghanistan at the moment. marna legrre with ascend,

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women led and headquarters in texas are pledging to support workers and their independence, creating relief funds to access abortion services. the texas attorney general defending the law despite the backlash. >> all texas is trying to do is protect the unborn. we have a right i think to do that. >> reporter: the new state law bans abortion after about six weeks and gives a $10,000 incentive to private citizens who successfully sue anyone who provides an abortion or helps a patient get one. some in the gop say they're uncomfortable with the mechanic simple. >> i'm pro life but i don't like the idea of every citizen being able to tattle. >> the bill in texas seems extreme with the problem of bounties for people that turn in somebody that drove someone to an abortion clinic. >> reporter: all of it as more republicans in red states signal they'll consider using texas as a blueprint to craft their own abortion laws. the white house now gearing up for a fight. >> we're going to do everything we can to try to remedy that

situation for people in texas. it is just a cruel and destructive law on the rights of women. >> reporter: i'm joined by democratic congressman barbara lee, the co-chair of the congressional pro choice caucus. good morning. >> nice to be with you. thank you for having me. >> let me pick up where the story left off. what we are seeing from corporate america is different, right, in texas than what we saw for example when the voting rights restrictive bill was making its way through the texas legislature. fewer companies, much less vocal, less response from private businesses. are you disappointed we're not seeing that same wave of backlash at this time? >> i hope that we do see even larger wave of backlash this time. voters have already said clearly they support woman's full range

of active to reproductive health services, including breast cancer screenings and mammograms and birth control and abortion care, the full range of reproductive health services is extremely important for women, for low income women, women of color, indigenous people, or people of color for the lgbtqi community, for young rural people, it's extremely important. uneveryone should have access to their constitutional right to an abortion and this is a fundamentally anti democratic, anti american bill and we're going to do something in congress very quickly and i want to just applaud congresswoman judy chu who has the women's health protection act. we're going to pass that. the speaker made a commitment to that. >> that would basically enshrine the protections of r versus wade into law by congress. this is one of my questions, congresswoman. you have no doubts this will pass the house, right? >> well, we have over 200

cosponsors. hallie, we saw this coming. congresswoman judy chu, the pro choice caucus, we have the largest pro choice caucus in congress. we saw this coming years ago and she's been persistent to get us ready for this moment. the senate of course there are 47 cosponsors so of course we know that's an uphill battle but we're ready for it. we've been ready for it and we intend to make sure that roe versus wade becomes the federal law in terms of a woman's right to make her own decisions based upon her own desires to control her body. that's what this is about, a woman's personal decisions in terms of reproductive health care. >> you talk about congresswoman how congress will do something to protect the protections under roe, to make that law. sure, this can and is likely to pass the house. as you acknowledge, it is a way different story in the senate. the republican support isn't there under the rules that currently exist. there is no indication that

democrats who are in the senate want to change those procedural rules, want to end the filibuster basically for this issue for any other issue. short of that, where does the fight go? does it languish after it passes the house, at least as it relates to this bill? >> no. we're going to keep fighting. we're building a coalition. i think the people in our country are outraged by this decision, and no one said it was going to be easy. we know that, but we can't let this go away. this is about life or death for many women. hallie, i remember the days of back alley abortions. i had to go to mexico at 15. these are heart wrenching, gut wrenching decision. we're not going to go back to those days.

they were terrible days, horrible days. you see what's happening now, the chilling effect on this law in terms of the bounties that are being offered. this new echo system, this economic echo system that's being developed is outrageous, and so hence we're going to have to fight. we're going to fight. we're ready to fight. we've been ready for many years, and the people in our country are ready for this. as i said earlier, the majority of voters want to see us codify and make into federal law the women's protection, women's health protection act. it must happen. >> congresswoman barbara lee, thank you for being with us on this holiday monday. we'll be following the story obviously as it develops in the house. appreciate your time. coming up on the show, what kids who weren't even alive on september 11th, 2001 know about the attacks, 20 years later. first out west, gavin newsom is fighting to hold onto his spot as california's governor. we'll take you inside the final

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develop this morning out west, california governor gavin newsom getting a boost from some top democrats to try to help deo try to thwart off a recall attempt. elizabeth warren rallying for the governor in the area. amy klobuchar doing something similar. on wednesday you have kamala harris going to california to help, but will it be enough for newsom to keep her seat. let's me go to libby, thank you you being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> we have been covering the story on our show and there are something like 45 candidates looking to replace governor new

newsom. >> as you mentioned elizabeth warren, amy klobuchar, the vice president coming this week. newsom has been able to widen a lead to keep his seat. this recall ballot has two questions on it. do you want to recall the governor and the second question is the 45 candidates. and if newsom is able to get 50% plus one on the first question, the candidates on the sect question of the ballot won't matter so much. the governor's strategy has been to say vote know on the recall. rally as much support as possible, and you have seen him turn on the tap of money as well. a ton of adds, especially online advertising. targeting voters to make sure they know about this september 14 recall. everybody in the state got a ballot in the mail. so the message from the top democrats has been to turn in your ballots and make sure

republicans that have not been able to win a statewide race since 2006 sneak in here. >> if it gets to that second question, there is a few that are standing up, right? >> yeah, the number one, of course, is larry elder who has been on the air waves in los angeles. now there are folks who have elected experience. kevin kylie, kevin faulkner being mayor of san diego. elder just running away with the second question of the ballot. he has been able to consolidate republican support, but that is okay with governor newsom so far. larry elder holds conservative beliefs to the right of california. he beliefs the minimum wage should be zero.

he promised to roll back vaccine and mask mandates. he sent mixed messages on what he would do on abortion and especially right now with the texas law, if is a huge deal in california. >> libby bankman covering all of it. thank you for being on the show, we appreciate it, we look forward to being with you for the next eight or so days. turning now to the anniversary of 9/11 coming up at the end of the week. nearly two decades after we lost nearly 300 americans. teachers are tasked with explaining what happened to their students. from the war in afghanistan to the increased security measures that came after the attacks. we're looking at how teachers navigate that complicated history around 9/11. >> we were all still in the building when the first tower

fell. >> just four blocks from ground zero, anne tom still teaches english. she and her students wrote a play called "with their eyes" about experiencing 9/11. >> is there advice you would give to a teacher struggling to teach 9/11. >> it's important to give our students the credit and trust them that they're able to have complex conversations. >> far from the sight of the attack, billie jean teaches u.s. history in a mississippi high school. her memories are still vivid. >> i remember walking back to my classroom crying and wondering, it still brings tears to my eyes today, how i would explain that to the kids coming in on my next block class. a difficult conversation then, even more difficult now. the students born after that day. >> at this time can you feel the

confusion. fulton creates a 9/11 lesson plan that far exceeds the state requirement. >> 9/11 is probably going to take up a page or two where vietnam we usually have a chapter. >> a page and a half for 9/11. >> yeah, well, you know i think we're still writing the history of it. >> a recent study shows 25 states mention the attacks. 9 mention terrorism or the war on terror. 16 didn't mention 9/11 at all. experts say age matters when teaching children about dramatic events so students are not just frightened, but informed. >> the younger they are the more general you become. it's more about ego centric, am i safe, can you protect me? those kind of lessons. the best teachers have a pulse on their class and they adjust the lesson to fit where the students are. >> raise your hand if you

learned something new about 9/11. >> these students know more now than ever because of how fulton teaches using personal stories. jules, this is brian. i'm on an airplane that's been hijacked. >> it's different from how i imagined it. i understood that people died, but seeing the buildings, the people, the planes, it was devastating. >> with these lessons, both toms and fulton aim to make the 2977 people that died that day more than just a number. >> you think an emotional connection is one of the most powerful ways to connect your students to history? >> absolutely. they have to have some kind of feeling about it. the best way to get them engaged is emotionally. >> do you think you will ever forget this lesson? >> it's something you can't

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