venus williams joins us to talk about that and why she wants more americans to focus on their mental health. thanks for being here. we begin this hour with president biden's big announcement. today the president will deliver what the white house is calling a major speech on his strategy to tackle the pandemic. dlu including an announcement that biden will require all federal workers to be vaccinated with no testing opt out option. that is one part of what sources tell cnn is the six-point plan that biden will be laying out and here is where the urgency comes from, these graphs. the u.s. is averaging 1500 deaths a day from coronavirus right now. efforts to get more people vaccinated have hit a wall with daily vaccinateds declining in the last week. and with coronavirus infecting more children, los angeles would require all eligible students to be vaccinated. let's get to all of this. first with cnn's john harwood who is live at the white house this hour. john, on the the president's speech, what more are you learning about it? >> reporter: well, kate, he's going to talk, as you indica

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, coach to his two daughters, top tennis players serena and venus williamsuld bejoined in the best actor race by peter dinklage. the game of thrones star was very impressive in telluride with a musicalfilm, cyrano. you are from belfast, where everybody knows you. belfast, a black and white film memoirfrom kenneth branagh, also generated oscars talk at telluride. it is a very personal story of his experiences as a young boy in belfast, as life for his protestant family was thrown into turmoil by the troubles in the late 1960s, before they relocated to england. will we really have to leave belfast? why did you want to tell or put together a film about this part of your life at this moment in time? i think the lockdown provoked a sense that the story of the film, which has its own lockdown, a street that has a barricade erected at either end of it, at which you have to register to get in and out of, had, for me, some resonance with the kind of life that we have had to live over the last 18 months, where old certainties are gone, and families have to make quite

venus williams on that patriotic red and kim kardashian, that is what everybody is talking about.biles, the gymnast, loved their looks. lily reinhardt as well, very beautiful sparkling looks as well. welcome to the weather for the look ahead. fantastic week. parts of england and wales on tuesday were seeing temperatures around 30 celsius and this tuesday we had more of a months worth of rain in the new market and over 60 mm fell in just over six hours. in many other parts of eastern england had 30, 40 mm of rain brought forward by the city of low pressure. lots of surface water but it is moving out of the way in for wednesday and thursday, the middle part of the week, ridge of high pressure because thejet middle part of the week, ridge of high pressure because the jet stream is buckling to the west of us and thatis is buckling to the west of us and that is disrupting the flow of these areas of low pressure, at least temporarily we also notice and we switched to a southerly wind direction and that should warm up a little bit as well. during the course of thursday, wednesday and fri

venus williams just won her second u.s. open title. jennifer lopez had the number 1 song in the country "i'm real" and nokia had come out with a phone that was getting so popular they couldn't keep it on store shelves. the 3310. it was long before we had smart phones. it was six years before we had something called the iphone. it was a different time entirely. again, in just a few days later, we wouldn't be talking about phones or jennifer lopez, would why? we would be talking about something that changed the very fabric of capitolism and this country when markets shut down, more than 2,000 were killed and a lot of people began to wonder whether we would ever come back. we did. as someone who resembles someone else... i appreciate that liberty mutual knows everyone's unique. that's why they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. [ nautical horn blows ] i mean just because you look like someone else doesn't mean you eat off the floor, or yell at the vacuum, or need flea medication. oh, yeah. that's the spot. on

open final since 1999, when venus williams took home her title.congratulations from queen elizabeth herself, who said, in part -- it is a remarkable achievement at such a young age, but there were no losers. the runner-up won the hearts of new yorkers with this message, noting the significance of the day. >> on this day, it was especially hard for new york and around the united states. i hope i can be as strong and resilient as new york has been the past 20 years. >> more history could be made today in the men's final, he would be the first men's singles player to do that since rod laver back in 1969. >>> the highlight of the weekend happened as a small cat dangled off the dangerously high upper level at hard rock stadium in miami gardens. the tiny animal held for as long as it could before dropping. luckily some quick-thinking fans using, given the day, an american flag. the rescue of the cat appeared to be the biggest applause of the day. >>> we are approaching the top of the hour, you're watching msnbc reports with yasmin vossoughian. >>> welco

venus williams joins us to talk about that and why she wants more americans to focus on their mental big announcement. today the president will deliver what the white house is calling a major speech on his strategy to tackle the pandemic. dlu including an announcement that biden will require all federal workers to be vaccinated with no testing opt out option. that is one part of what sources tell cnn is th

you had world class athletes supporting you like venus williams and tom brady. >> yeah. >> and, yes,n't easy speaking out, especially on such a global stage, but having their support meant the world to me and i just kept getting really good feedback from it. so it made it a little easier because this olympic process has not been easy and going over there without an audience, without your parents and kind of being secluded was so different than any of the other olympics. >> yeah, vulnerability is a strength. you know, people sometimes -- no, it is a strength. it takes real courage to stand up like that. so how are you doing? how are you feeling? >> i'm doing okay. it's been a whirlwind since i got back home, but at least i got a couple weeks to be at home and unwind, take care of myself, rest up, be with my family and my friends and those who care about me the most, and that's been just really heartwarming. >> i know your mom is here in the studio. >> i know. >> to see her here -- she's just beaming. even under her mask i can see she's beaming. what's your advice for anyone, not just