there was race violence in alabama. what was your personal experience that drew you into becoming a civil rights lawyer, as you say, your goal in life was and is to continue to destroy segregation? >> when i grew up, in my community, there was no discussion about lynching. there was no discussion about segregation, about white people. we knew that we were black and that we were working for white people and we went to black schools. my mother was very religious and my father was very religious. i had a religious background. and i guess my first experience really with white people, i met the lady who my mother worked for. betty aldrich, she did domestic work. to show you the relationship they had, when i was born, i was born as fred lee gray. but, my mother was working for miss betty and miss betty told her when she came back to work after i was born that she thought that my middle name should be david. you know what my mother did? my mother officially changed my name from lee to david. i grew up under an all black enviro

state, alabama a&m in tuskegee. the other part of that was i was going to take advantage of some money they would give us in order to go out of state to take those courses to keep us from going to the white schools. but i was going to become a lawyer, and this is the part i didn't tell them about. i told people i wanted to be a lawyer, but i didn't tell them what kind. i was going to finish law school, take the alabama bar exam, pass the bar exam, become a lawyer and destroy everything segregated i could find. that was my commitment as a youngster, an upper teenager in the cradle of the confederacy. my introduction of becoming a lawyer, and now i've been one for over 65 years. >> that's an extraordinary story, and obviously just the beginning of some of things we want to dig into today. you're in that law school, i think some of your fellow alumni are on this. you want to give a shout to your law school, where you attended? >> oh, yes. i attended what was then western reserve university in cleveland. it is now [inau

and i wanted to get back to alabama there. governor kay ivey, her comments that made national news, saying it's time to start essentially blaming the unvaccinated folks, were her words. we know that alabama has the lowest vaccination rate in the country. she said, i've done what i can. i have had mask mandates. it's now up to people who haven't been vaccinated to get the shot. how do we get the word out, encourage more people to hear that message? >> david, this can for having me back. i don't know if it's useful to blame people. ly tell you at this point across the country we're seeing a lot of unvaccinated people getting very sick and dying. my message to people is it's about protecti about protecting yourself, your family. these vaccines make an enormous difference in you getting sick and dying. this is how we put the pandemic behind us. >> perhaps a more productive message than the governor, but she was clearly frustrated by the cases she's seeing in her state. and we're also worried about the breakthrough cases among thos

quote, alabama's covid vaccination efforts have failed.ts 20 bucks to get the shot. the popular football coach nick sabin pushed vaccines, the governor. why aren't these messages having more success? >> i think that's a very, very important question and a real challenge to me as a physician personally as well as a public health official. the misinformation that continues to circulate on social media and through other channels has been a huge challenge in alabama. and we continue to return people to the information that is science-based, that is fact-based. just today our medical center in birmingham had a very important message from a doctor against speaking to the issue of facts. and the facts are that this is a deadly virus. we have a safe, effective, and free vaccine. this is what works, and we need for alabamans to listen to those experts as well as those of us who have experience in public health and have done this for a number of years. we must continue to fight misinformation. >> all over the country we've seen different groups that

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in alabama, for example, the governor, today, pushed hard on people to get the vaccine. only 33 -- 33.9% in her state have. that's the worst in the nation. another thing that's become clear, this week, is that some people, for many reasons, just don't want to get the shot. not even as cnn's elle reeve discovered, when they've got the best reason in the world to just roll up their sleeve. >> reporter: did anyone you know get covid? >> my son had covid. >> how old is he? >> 8. >> wow, so that's, like, pretty rare for, like, a young kid. what -- what was that like? >> he was sick a lot. he's been sick a lot, for a while. and he is still sick so going to have to get him looked at and see if there is further damage. i don't know because he got real sick. fever, every day, for weeks. >> are you guys going to get the vaccine? >> no. no vaccine. >> how come? >> i just don't trust the government. >> it is extraordinary to hear that. an 8-year-old child -- child, sick for weeks, with a fever. still, sick. maybe, going to go see a doctor but the parents, the family still won't get

now, alabama is one of those states.tied with mississippi at the bottom of the vaccination list. the cdc says alabama's vaccination rate is not quite 34%. community groups are pushing a pro-vaccine message, but it's still a tough sell. here's natasha chen. >> take it from me, i'm 15 years old. go get the vaccine. >> reporter: the effort to get covid vaccines into arms in alabama is an uphill battle. >> if you have not had the vaccination, then you are part of the problem. >> reporter: pastor cedric has passed out flyers in his community. sometimes he meets pushback from people who bring up the tuskegee experiment. he says it is not a good experiment, and he warns. >> you can't get your news from social media. >> reporter: but the rampant spread of misinformation on social media is the biggest hurdle according to officials. some are buying into false narratives including people under 30 who are the least vaccinated in alabama. birmingham city schools have been hosting vaccine clinics at their high schools, getting the ban

. >>> alabama is at the bottom of the u.s. vaccination list. the cdc said the vaccination rate in alabama is not quite 34%. community groups are pushing improved vaccine message but it's a tough sell. natasha chen has more. >> take it from me. get the vaccine. >> reporter: the effort to get covid-19 vaccines into arms in alabama is an uphill battle. >> reporter: the pastor has passed out fliers in his community but sometimes gets pushback from people who bring up the infamous tuskegee experiment. he warns it's not the same. >> reporter: the rampant spread of misinformation on social media is the biggest hurdle, according to health officials. some are buying into false narratives including people under 30 who are the least vaccinated in alabama. birmingham city schools have been hosting vaccine clinics at their high schools getting the band to play and cheerleaders to perform. but some members of the pep squad need a pep talk. half the girls told cnn they're too scared to get vaccinated. they don't want the virus injected into them, which is not

in alabama, for example, the governor today pushed hard on people to get the vaccine. only 33.9% in her state have. that's the worst in the nation. another thing that's become clear this week is that some people for many reasons just don't want to get the shot not even as cnn's elle reid discovered when they've got the best reason in the world to roll-up their sleeve. >> reporter: did anyone you know get covid? >> my son had covid. >> reporter: how old is he? >> eight. >> reporter: wow, so that's pretty rare for a young kid. what was that like? >> he's sick a lot. he's been sick for a while and he's still sick. going to have to get him looked at and see if there's further damage. he got real sick. fever every day for weeks. >> reporter: are you guys going to get the vaccine? >> no, no vaccine. >> reporter: how come? >> i just don't trust the government. >> it is extraordinary to hear that. an 8-year-old child sick for weeks with fever, still sick, maybe going to go see a doctor. but the parents, the family still won't get vaccinated. tonight conservative radio talk sho

will are deali with. >> gabe, you are at the university of alabama medical center. is the university requiring vaccines of all their stufrnts? i'm guessing if you are required a vaccine to go to alabama made football game, everybody would do it. >> reporter: no, this hospital is not requiring vaccines for its employees. there has been some hesitancy among health care employees across the country. and here at uab, 70% of its staff is vaccinated at this point. >> dr. patel, let's talk about these 57 medical groups, they represent millions of doctors, nurses, our health care professionals, they are demanding mandatory vaccines for all health care workers. why on earth hasn't that happened already? >> reporter: yeah, good morning. and as you heard gabe say, this is an alarming statistic that about 30% to 35% of health care workers have not been vaccinated. i think that there are three huge reasons driving it. number one, we don't have a fully approved vaccine. it is something that becomes kind of a gray zone in some people's minds, not mine, but some people's minds. num

it is pure greed in the state of alabama.ost: wouldn't it make your life easier if it was legal in alabama? caller: no, sir. i have been growing and selling pot for 50 years. the government ruined my business. host: explain how making it legal ruined your business. caller: i am an illegal pot grower and i have been making good money. host: by making it legal they are sending your customers to other places? caller: yes, sir. the government is sticking their nose in everything. they are sticking their nose in the pot business. they send airplanes and helicopters with machine guns for years and now they want to legalize it. i have something else i want to say, too. tell all of the hippies to get off the phone and let someone with good sense talk. host: let's go to rick from spokane, washington. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for this interesting topic. as someone focused on therapeutic applications and working with our medical school to design a pain management study that would allow individuals who are suffering

heading to alabama state for her last semester of college.istorically black university providing the 23- year-old pittsburgh resident with an educational link to family and community in the deep south. >> i am still grasping the depth of it all. when it means to me cuand to be more about my ancestry and history, as a black woman, and so for me, like all i can do is go back to look at my parents being deceased, i have to jump back a generation and use my grandparents as much as i can from what they remember, from what they were able to access. >> reporter: a big jump for a young woman whose lost so much. >> i had lost my dad when i was in elementary school. somewhere around elementary school. >> reporter: when he mother pamela lost to breast cancer when she was just 15 years old. >> the glue. i like to call her the glue. always smiling, independent, but very caring. stern, and, yeah, like, just a light. >> reporter: pamela's daughter is light, too. making the honor roll at pittsburgh high school. interning every summer during college in high t

and the coronavirus cases in alabama, if we could look at the seven-day average of daily change, you see that there are a lot of orange, red spots there. so, not looking good for the health officials in this state and across the country. here is what officials are saying about this deadly combination of the delta variant spreading and many people still choosing to be unvaccinated. >> it's coming for us. it's a beast. that's what we're seeing in the hospital. that's why we're nervous. >> unvaccinated americans are not protected against serious illness, hospitalization and death. and we're seeing it in the data. unvaccinated americans account for virtually all recent covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths. >> here in alabama, some of the least vaccinated age groups are young people. 18 to 29-year-olds only with under a quarter of them have initiated the first dose of a vaccine. state health officer told me yesterday the virus is not really respectful of you just because of your age. and so there is a targeted effort now to reach younger people. that's why we're at a high school that's ha

civilians say that alabama is in control. elsewhere, the violence is continuing. at least 24 people have been wounded in an explosion that targeted a police vehicle. reporter: alabama supporters celebrating victory. it is the second most strategic entry point. it lies south and gives access to the province in pakistan. it's capture is the latest in a series of gains as u.s. forces withdraw. >> the taliban is trying to control the economic checkpoints to pressure the government and population. would dead control and border crossings, there will be difficulties in supply. reporter: afghanistan authorities denied the takeover, but pakistani security forces said the taliban were said raising flags. last week, they claim to to be in control of 85% of afghanistan after seizing border crossings. foreign ministers expressed support for the afghan government. >> member states of the shanghai cooperation support the efforts of the government and people of afghanistan to restore peace, economic development, counterterrorism, drug crimes. reporter: the un has called for a cea

alabama has seen 500 additional people hospitalized with covid-19. that's according to the latest community profile report. >>> the white house says biden is getting regular briefings about the spread of variants and updated guidance. there's a heightened sense of urgency lately but the administration made no move to implement new restrictions like masks or lockdowns saying only that they are considering all possibilities. cnn's jeff zeleny has the latest from the house. >> reporter: heading in to the weekend with the delta variant spreading more than ever before the white house is sunday the alarm about the your betweency of the covid-19 pandemic here in america. no question now. this is a tale of the unvaccinated living with the pandemic much more so than the vaccinated. but even there's a sense will there be new mask guidelines. more restricts. right now the white house say there will be no changes. we know from biden he's directed his government health officials to study this data coming in, if there's a need for more protection for the vaccinate

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in alabama, the state with the lowest vaccination rate in the country, 34% -- >> the new cases in covid because of unvaccinated folks. it's time for them to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks. the unvaccinated folks are letting us down. >> reporter: governor ivy is fed up. >> these folks are choosing a horrible lifestyle of self-inflicted pain. >> what is it going to take to get people to get shots in arms? >> i don't know. you tell me. folks supposed to have common sense. >> reporter: as the more contagious delta variant super charges covid-19's spread, especially in places with low vaccination rates, the country is averaging more cases a day during the first cases in 2020. cases up 65% over just last week. almost four times higher than a month ago. covid hospitalizations rising nearly 30% nationwide in just the past seven days. almost all among the unvaccinated. and with the daily pace of vaccinations at the lowest point since january, doctors and government officials are begging the unvaccinated to protect themselves. >> it seems like we're fighting a losing

more now on alabama, where about 34% of the population is vaccinated, according to johns hopkins.here are more than 48 ho00 new cases reported last week. now everyone from church pastors to high school cheerleaders are being asked to share the pro-vaccine message. it's still a tough sell, though. >> take it from me. i'm 15 years old. go get the vaccine. >> reporter: the effort to get covid-19 vaccines into arms in alabama is an uphill battle. >> if you had not had your vaccination, you are part of the problem. >> reporter: pastor cedric has passed out fliers but sometimes he meets resistance to people. >> you can't get your news from social media. >> reporter: but the rampant spread of misinformation on social media is the biggest hurdle, according to health officials. some are buying into false narratives including people under 30, who are the least vaccinated in alabama. birmingham city schools have been hosting vaccine clinics at their high schools, getting the pan band to play and cheerleaders to perform. but some members of this pep squad still need a pep talk. half of these

aderholt of alabama, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. aderholt will vote yes on en bloc number 5. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from new york seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. katko of new york, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. katko will vote yes on en bloc number 5. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from new york seek recognition? ms. velazquez: as the member designated by by chairwoman carolyn maloney of new york, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that chairwoman maloney will vote yes on en bloc amendments number 5. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california seek recognition? -- the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> as the member designated by congress member villa, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that congress member will vote yes. as the member designated by congress member napolitano, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that congress member napo

blaming the unvaccinated for the state of affairs in alabama. i'm curious what you're hearing people say, is she facing a backlash at all? >> sure, it depends on who you ask. yes, the governor was very blunt on friday when she was asked about this and said basically those that were unvaccinated were letting the rest of the population down. certainly among certain portions of this state they feel, you know, they support what she said. we have been speaking with some of the health care workers here and they say while they don't want to get involved in politics they think that, you know, more outreach has to be made to people who have not been vaccinated. but it is a uphill battle as we have been mentioning. alabama at 34% is at the lowest parts of the country right now. when it comes to getting people vaccinated pl controversial comments in this part of the country, garrett. >> people have been told they have to use their mask again. there is a blue city and a very red state. i'm curious how this is playing out there and how people and businesses

alabama now has the lowest vaccination rate in the country. last week, its republican governor, kay ivey made headlines when she said it is time to blame the unvaccinated nbc's gabe gutierrez is in birm birmingham. >> reporter: with just 34% of its population vaccinated, alabama has the lowest vaccination rate in the country. we're at uab, the university of alabama at birmingham where hospital workers say they have been seeing a rise in cases. over the weekend it rose significantly from 35 covid patients on friday to now about 54 patients. and the doctors and nurses we have been speaking with say that they're noticing their patients are younger and sicker >> it is frustrating because it's really sad to see people so sick and to see their families suffer because they can't be with them in the hospital, and to see our community suffer because it is a lot of unknown and a lot of fear. >> reporter: still, it's important to note, shep, that this recent uptick in cases because of the delta variant is still far less than what hospital workers here sa

there's also a contest to try to reach young people in alabama. state health department has launched a tiktok contest for people under 30 to put content online, tell people why you got vaccinated for a chance to win some money, fred. >> all right. for a variety of reasons, still a lot of confusion out there. thank you so much. >>> so with the delta variant and lack of vaccinations driving a surge in covid cases across the country, the biden administration is stepping up efforts to counter all that misinformation out there about the vaccine on social media that is contributing to a lot of vaccine hesitancy. earlier today, i spoke with u.s. senator john ossoff of georgia about the issue. i'll ask about what the president said yesterday on covid and that facebook and the misinformation on facebook and other social media outlets are killing people. this is what the president had to say. >> they're killing people. i mean, really, look, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated. and they're killing people. >> he is referring specifically to fa

alabama is the least vaccinated state in america. just 33.9% of residents are fully vaccinated there. more than 50,000 new cases were reported in the u.s. yesterday alone. with the seven-day average well above 40,000. just for context, that is almost four times what it was last month. again the vast majority of those cases are among the unvaccinated. hospitalizations are rising to the highest levels in months and the situation is growing more dire in the state of florida which leads the nation in new coronavirus ipfections. that is why layla santiago is, in miami to be specific, where the governor is under increasing pressure to get the surge under control. layla, what is the governor saying? >> reporter: well, dana, he will probably encourage vaccinations and the science behind it. but in that same tone -- in that same moment will also say do not expect lockdowns, do not expect mask mandates and he continues to bash dr. fauci. now another thing that he will be quick to say is that this is seasonal. he believes these are the same flu

and so this is the conundrum republican governor indicate ivey of alabama finds herself in. months ago she signed a bill banning public institutions and private businesses in alabama from requiring vaccines. now she is blaming the unvaccinated for the state's plight. >> reporter: governor, you talk about the vaccine saving lives, but alabama still is last in the country when it comes to vaccination rates. besides, you know, this emotional plea you just gave us, what is it going to take to get people to get shots in arms? >> i don't know. you tell me. folks supposed to have common sense. but it is time to start to blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks. it is the unvaccinated folks that are letting us down. >> reporter: as the leader of the state, don't you think it is your responsibility to try and help get this situation under control? >> i've done all i know how to do. i can encourage you to do something but i can't make you take care of yourself. >> now, i've been spending a lot of time on this program and as a reporter trying to think about and research on

aderholt of alabama, pursuant to h.r. 8, i inform the house that mr. aderholt will vote yes on amendments en bloc number 4. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from virginia seek recognition? ms. wexton: thank you, mr. speaker. as the member designated by mr. mceachin, pursuant to h.r. 8, i inform the house that mr. mceachin will vote no on the amendments en bloc number 4. as the member designated by ms. porter, pursuant to h.r. 8, i inform the house that ms. porter will vote no on the amendments en bloc number 4. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? mr. correa: mr. speaker, as the member designated by congress member napolitano, pursuant to h.r. 8, i inform the house that congress member napolitano will vote no on amendments en bloc number 4. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? mr. jeffries: as the member designated by chairwoman grace meng, pursuant to h.r. 8, i inform the house that congresswoman meng will vot

during a camping trip to alabama, during a campaign tripped her alabama 1987, he bragged about gettingaward from george wallace. first of all, because he's a liar, nobody can remember him getting an award from george wallace but that said, he bragged about and what's interesting about 1987 if i recall, george wallace was repenting. he was meeting with black leaders in alabama making statements that all of these things he did during his career, all these horrible things he did to black people and the things he said and so forth he began repenting and get, while in alabama, campaigning, joe biden basically refers to the pre-1987 george wallace and bragging about getting on work from him but that's not all. in a 1998 speech, joe biden called 100,000 juveniles to be arrested for violent crimes in the united states, predators. he was talking about black predators who quote weren't exceptionally exceptionally tough treatment. that is what he said at the national association of attorneys general conference in march, 1998. there is more. the democrat party has been the party of slavery, the pa

across the bridge in alabama taking transient blows to the head. heat wants. >> this is a risk that you take standing up to democracy. we are talking about voting rights here, people that were beaten by clubs and attacked by dogs and people were murdered to protect themselves from the finger-pointing. >> edmund pettus bridge, aaa, same idea and different error. as you can expect kamala harris wants in on the action. since two years old she's been demanding freedom that she said so now she's going to meet with these freedom fighter sometime

the governor of alabama said it is time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks.i'm not sure about the exact number but i know that we were saying is 65 or 70 people recently so i things that 110 would make sense. i will say with c and i see a lot of c. randy is well read and says c. but erica says a, and she is on top of things. >> somebody say b. >> that we all know that is true. so it is between a and c. i don't think we know that yet that it is more likely to cause a loss of smell. so c is the lie. >> you are a star. 2 for 2. there is no definitive way to tell if you have the delta variant or not. it is even difficult to tell if you have covid-19 versus another form of a cold virus that is popping up again. there is not early and total evidence of people are less likely to have a loss of smell. a and c are very important, too. i do not remember what a said right now. kristen, you and i have talked about it. from what we are seeing and hearing reported, the actual measures in the olympic village are not will adhere to. they're not a lot of restrictions being re

i want to talk before i let you go about your home state of alabama. it is one of the least vaccinated states in the country. according to the latest data from the cdc, they say it is one of the least vaccinated states. you wrote a piece in the "washington post" saying, quote, this time around, alabama is facing a two-front war. this is inducing a kind of pre-traumatic stress for health care workers. tell me a little bit about that. explain how traumatic this is and how concerned you are about what lies ahead in your state. >> right. so the two-front war analogy was basically, we're fighting the virus with everything we have. but on the other side, we have a lot of activity on social media, spewing hate and disinformation that's making our job a whole lot more difficult. pause the unvaccinated people are locking in on that message and sort of fighting the public health messaging. our governor has gotten behind us. she's telling people to get vaccinated, unlike what we're seeing in florida where governor desantis is putting mandates off the limits, whic

alabama adding 2,667 new covid cases. added more than 2,000 in a day was in february. what's your take with what's happening on the ground? >> well, thanks, first of all, for having us on to talk about this. to say this is worrisome and really frustrating for us as health-care providers and people who have been out there preaching to the choir for a long time is really an understatement, and there are several things that are really concerning. first is the pace at which things are happening. you mentioned 217%. i can tell you just last week in the state, we had about 500 people hospitalized and we are now over 1,000, and i suspect by the end of this week we'll be close to 2,000. what is so upsetting about that is that it doesn't have to be that way. vaccination does prevent severe disease and almost all of these hospitalizations are occurring in people who received no vaccinations. so, the key is to try to get people vaccinated against this devastating surge, which is largely hear, being driven by the delta variant. >> so

eating salad in an airport is very much like the civil rights leaders of old, crossing the bridge in alabama taking trench and blows to the head, you watch. >> this is the risk we take to stand up for democracy. we are talking about voting rights here. there are people who were beaten with clubs and attacked by dogs and people were murdered to protect the sacred rights. this threat in this finger-pointing by the governor is not going to intimidate all of us. we are strongly united and we want to bring, you know, voting rights home to this country. >> tucker: same idea, different era as you would expect. kamala harris wants in on the action. she's been protesting for civil rights since growing up as a child in canada -- sorry, america. since two years old she's been demanding freedom, she said so she announced she's going to meet with these freedom fighters sometimes this week.

that is what the governor of alabama said a few moments ago.s that the message officials should be sending right now? what do you think? >> blame is a really tough word. and really what we're talking about here is we need to protect people. we need to protect especially the unvaccinated. the vaccines prevent the spread of delta, and they prevent death. they also prevent longhaul covid. the best way not to get long covid is not to get covid in the first place. and the best way not to get covid in the first place is to get vaccinated. but ramping up vaccination means listening to people, understanding their concerns and addressing their concerns. i am somewhat encouraged that we seem to be seeing an increase in covid vaccination rates over the past weeks, especially in places having a lot of resurgence with delta. unfortunately, it takes, there's two doses of the mrna vaccine, a couple weeks and you do need that second dose because delta does overwhelm a single dose only of the mrna vaccines. >> that's right. the time to go out is right now becau

before the pandemic i was in rural randolph county, georgia, over 2 1/2 hours away from alabama. i saw staysee abrams. to install snet service for community members to participate in the online census and get jobs and i stopped in selma, alabama and visited the housing authority to discuss an initiative of bringing free broadband to children in low-income housing, george washington carver homes. and i heard from a mother of three who said her life was transformed by the program and completed her online assignments to get a job. and that is broadband for the people. >> there is a picture about how important broadband subsidy program is. i want to remine our audience members, drop it in the question and answer. i want to turn it over next to former f.c.c. commissioner clyburn. you spent nearly nine years at the federal communication commission working on these issues. how should they be working with i.s.p. and low-income communities get connected to broadband? >> i really want to set the stage as what you do and how you have been incredibly helpful. i see ourselves at this intersec

she's heading to alabama state soon. >> the hbcu aspect can give me some leverage and give me a sense of community, too. i guess it's more about challenging myself and seeing what can come from that as well. >> rotation will actually be graduating from chico state since her semester in alabama is a program offered by the school. she says she has always dreamed of going to an hbcu, so she jumped at the chance to finish her graduation requirements there. >>> you can learn more about students rising above and its scholars by going to kpix.com/sra. >>> if you're searching for something to do this weekend, we've got you covered. k cbs radio's megan lakeland looks where you can rock out in san francisco. >> reporter: '70s punk band, x, are going to be shaking things up this sunday at stone grove. the l.a. rockers are on the road, swinging up the west coast, hitting san francisco of course this weekend. you'll be able to rock out to the high octane hit songs that put them on the punk musical map. los angeles, seoul kitchen those are the hits. showtime this sunday at the grove in san francisc

she was a cook in alabama who lost her job after testifying against segregation. so she opened up her own restaurant, organized, big sale of the civil rights activist, specifically during the montgomery bus boycott. let's rewind in december 1955 rosa parks refuses to vacate receipt for a white man on a bus, montgomery, alabama, and the police arrest her. because back then buses are segregated, meaning there are separate sections for white people and black people per rest mobilizes the black community and sparks the montgomery bus boycott led by doctor martin luther king junior. for 381, the black people in montgomery refused to take public transit. instead, they set up an alternative carpool system that they run by themselves. but that of course, cost money to georgia. gilmore finds a way to raise a ton of cash to keep the boy kept going. she rallied black women in montgomery to cook meals or baked dessert like peach parts, and seldom to fund the carpet. but the cooking and baking with all the covert operation, ga gilmore, had to keep the identity of her fellow co

i'm a proud native of alabama, a rural area located between montgomery. it has a proud history of fighting for equality and the right to vote. in addition, in the early 1900s, sharecroppers organized jobs and justice. we served in the united states military. we have a legacy of holding democratic values even when they failed us. i sit on the values i learned as a country girl that grew up with a healthy respect for nature. i appreciate what our creator has provided for us which includes the knowledge to know when we are out of balance with creation. that failure is exempt aside -- exemplified through powerful storms, high water tables, drought, floods, unsafe mobile homes, pollution, raw sewage, failing wastewater systems. i've taken policymakers and people from both sides of the aisle to see the infrastructure inequalities that exist in to hear from local people for what is needed to address them. as one travels through the county now, the fresh graves of the victims of covid are a constant reminder of what happens when poverty, inequality, sanitation in

that orange line is mississippi, alabama is the red line. and as we learned, where hospitalizations are high the sad reality is more deaths are expected to follow. let's begin this hour with elizabeth cohen. good morning. this latest spike has i number of republican leaders feeling the pressure and a number of them now speaking up very vocally about this, including alabama governor kay ivey, where the vaccination rate is the lowest in the country. what is she saying? >> this is apparently what it took for some republicans, not all, but for some republicans to say, look, guys, you need to get vaccinated. so let's take a listen to governor ivy. she speaks in very plain language. >> these folks are choosing a horrible lifestyle of self-inflicted pain. >> what is it going to take to get shots in people's arms. >> i don't know. you tell me. folks are supposed to have common sense. but it is time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks. it is the unvaccinated folks that are letting us down. >> you could see how angry she is.