alabama, like a number of other states, is overwhelmed right now.y're now asking fema for federal help. federal staff, federal resources to help treat the unending overflow of patients that gets worse every day. but at this point, yes, one hopes to see more federal resources deployed. but at this point i have a hard time understanding how facilities, how hospitals, how states like this are going to cope. joining us now is dr. david kimberlin. he's with the university of alabama. doctor, i appreciate you being here. i know what a tense time this is. >> appreciate the time to be with you torchlts, rachel. thank you. >> i'm looking at this from the outside. i'm a layman, and i'm appreciative of the strain on health care workers and facilities right now. that math scares me in terms of how strained alabama hospitals are right now and the prospect that numbers of hospitalized patients, people who need to be hospitalized might double in ament's type. let me ask you if that looks different to you close up than it does to me from here? >> from the inside it

alabama, like a number of other states is overwhelmed right now.labama department of public health like louisiana is now asking fema for federal help. they're requesting federal staff, federal resources to help the unending flow of patients that gets worse every day, but at this point, yes, one hopes to see more federal resources deployed but at this point i have a hard time understanding how facilities, how hospitals, how states like this are going to cope. joining us now is dr. david kimberlin, codirector of the pediatric diseases at the university of alabama. i appreciate you being here tonight. i know what an intense time this is. >> i appreciate the chance to be with you tonight, rachel, thank you. >> i'm just looking at this from the outside, and i'm a layman here, and i'm appreciative of the strain on hospitals and health care workers right now. that math scares me in terms of how strained alabama hospitals are right now, and the prospect that numbers of hospitalized patients, people who need to be hospitalized might nearly double within a m

come on into the alabama department of public health. you're welcome here to be vaccinated. >> joyce, political leaders in alabama have banned vaccine mandates. it is even written into law. how do those constraints get in the way of public health officials as they work to defeat this virus? >> well, it's difficult to combat the politicalization. and the statute, although it prohibits the separate issuing passports and schools for vaccination attendance, although that is an unfortunately broad statute that has discouraged the vaccine and made it tough for folks in public health to have the sort of systemic sort of constraints that they need to encourage people to vaccinate, in alabama we don't have any sort of an anti-mask mandate. there is some public sentiment, but schools in other areas are able to freely use mask mandates. i suspect that some of the schools that have tried to shift the burden and the cost of getting tested frequently if you're not vaccinated that we will see legal challenges there. like the doctor says, the important

that's the crisis level for alabama.iversity of alabama birmingham are predicting by this month time next month is gonna be more like 5000 people who need to be hospitalized in the state. where are they going to go? and you can see the strain and individual communities all across the state. for example, in coleman, alabama, which is the city where president trump plans to hold what he's calling his, epic political rally, tomorrow. in advance of that rally, coleman today declared a covid state of emergency. today, a hospital down in southern alabama on the golf course announced that they are getting a deployment a federal medical staff. federal federal medical staff from the department of health and human services to come reinforce their staffing, because they are stretched beyond breaking. as alabama struggles, one of the thing the states is relying on heavily really trying to pivot hard to is getting antibody treatments for people who have tested positive in order to try to keep them out of the hospital. monoclonal anti

and with great pride, some that come alabama -- summa, alabama, -- selma, alabama. that was a wonderful honor to have, laura bush as well. two think all and acknowledge -- mr. clyburn is not here but this is what his life has been about. steve cohen and his committee did such a great job. it took so many people, but also took the spirit of our caucus which has long been inspired by the spirit of john lewis. what an honor it was to serve with him, what a further honor is to pass legislation in his name, and how fortunate we are to have such a great sponsor of the bill. persistent, persistent, persistent. terri sewell. thank you so much. it's my pleasure to yield to someone who has been on this case for a very long time as well. he knows the history, people, possibility, he makes things happen. when it comes to voting rights in summer, probably been there more than any other member. our very distinguished letter -- leader, steny hoyer. rep. hoyer: thank you very much. all of us standing before you have an extraordinary privilege. we served with john lewis. the boy fro

it's the oldest baptist church in the state of alabama. and the story goes that the individuals that worshipped here -- um -- they would be singing spirituals with so much conviction and passion that their owners started having headaches and nightmares. and ultimately, he emancipated them. he set them free. and they were worshipping not too far from here. and they moved to this location. well, not only was it against the law for african-americans to be educated in alabama. it was against the law for them to have property deeded in their name. well, fortunately, this was an integrated parish and the property was deeded in the white parishioners' names. and they continued to worship together here, until somewhere around 1860 and they moved the deed to the african-american parishioners. they continued to grow the church. and in 1930, they decided that they would build a new church. well, we all know what was going on in 1930. it's the great depression. but they felt so strong about that faith that they said we'll start this project and comple

alabama state health officer dr.cott harris, saying the state of alabama has not had a particularly good week. as we reported last night the state of things in alabama right now is not good in a simple and easy to understand way. as he said they have negative icu capacity. they have no icu beds available at all, and the ones that are in existence and being used have a wait list for them. hospital beds in the state are maxed out all over the state. that is happening with a statewide patient census right now, statewide patient numbers right now of 2,700, 2,800. that's the crisis level at alabama. now doctors are predicting by next month it will be more like 5,000 people that need to be hospitalized in the state. where are they going to go? you can see the strain in individual communities across the state. for example, in coleman, alabama, which is the city where president trump plans to hold what he is calling his epic political rally tomorrow, in advance of that rally coleman today declared a covid state of emergency.

vernacular with an alabama accent. they didn't speak this in west africa. so the question is what happened to him that this is now the language that he speaks and everything that happened to him is encoded in that language. this is why these publishers didn't want to publish that or to read it or to be forced to read something. that wasn't what what they're used to hearing. they want they want to change it. so they can access it rather than changing themselves so that they can access what coastal i was talking about. okay, next one. as one of the descendants who spoke earlier today talked about alice walker's forward to barricoon and alice walker looks at barricoon as both. i show you know, he shows us closer shows us our wounding. and then he also shows us what the medicine is for that wounding. and so the wounding is this grief. the warning is this pain the wounding is his loss. the wounding is everything that he would never ever again be able to see or to experience. the loneliness you know the not only there he los

malone attended the university of alabama. that was when george wallace stood in the door and said segregation today, tomorrow and forever. robert kennedy was attorney general and sent in the national guard. of course, he stepped out of the way, and she entered the school and graduated. and from stories with the sisters, she did not have any difficult times while she was there. and i must say, she was not the first african-american to attend school there. but vivian was the first african-american to graduate. so when she graduated, no one in alabama would provide her a job because they were still i guess upset that she had gone to the school. so ultimately she gets a job with the department of justice in washington, d.c. and the school did ask her to come back to do the commencement address, and she did. and to make a long story short, the theme of her commencement address was that you must always be prepared, because you never know what door you may have to walk through. and that's the story of ms. vivian malone jones who ope

in black vernacular with an alabama accent. they did not speak this in west africa. so the question is what happened to him that this is now the language that he now speaks? and everything that happened to him is encoded in that language, and this is why these publishers didn't want him to publish that or to read it or to be forced to read something that they were used to hearing. they wanted to change it so they can access it rather than change it themselves so they can access what kosola was talking about. okay. let's go on. and as one of the descendents spoke earlier today talked about alice walker's forward to barrakoon, hopefully shows us the moment and then hopefully shows us what the medicine is for that wounded. and so the wounding is this grief. the wounding is this pain. the wounding is this loss. the wounding is everything that he would never ever again be able to achieve or to experience. the loneliness. not only there, he has lost so much when he was uprooted from the continent, and so much also that he lost right

how does he winds up in alabama speaking a black vernacular with an alabama accent?dn't speak this in west africa. the question is, what happened to him that this is now the language that he speaks? and everything that happened to him is encoded in that language. this is why these publishers didn't want to publish that or to read it or to be forced to read something that wasn't what they are used to hearing. they want to change it. >> are you descended from lewis? >> no. i am a descendant of charlie lewis. >> who was charlie lewis? >> he was one of the older survivors of the clotilda. they ranged from the range of 2 to maybe 24. so he was one of the older ones. he was chief of the takei tribe. charlie lewis was enslaved by colonel buford. and lewis bought land from buford in 1870. we have family members that still live there today in the area we call lewis's quarter. >> so there were displays and tables at the festival. what was that? how did you come up with that idea? >> that's another thing. i wanted people to -- when they walk around, i wanted them to get informa

when i think about representing alabama's 7th district, alabama's civil rights district, it's not just about protecting and advancing the rights of the people i represent today, but it's about making sure that the legacy of this district is respected and that we understand how important the voting rights act of 1965 is. and we all know the shelby versus holder decision gutted it. in doing so, it really left open for congress to truly come back and come up with a modern-day formula, a more recent discriminations for voter protection, so that's exactly what h.r. 4 does. it threads a thin needle, since we know that not only are states and localities having a concerted effort at passing more restrictive voting laws, but we also see a supreme court hostile towards the vra. we saw in june two arizona cases where they literally made it harder to file section 2 lawsuits as well. so the h.r. 4 not only restores the full protections of section 5 pre-clearance, but it also strengthens and clarifies congressional intent. you know, the supreme court just made up factors that would go to voter denia

please, come into the alabama department of public health. you are welcome to be vaccinated. >> they have banned making mandates. it is written into law. how do those constraints get into the way of public health officials as they work to pete this virus? >> well, it's difficult to combat the politicization of public health that's taken place here. the statute prohibits the state from issuing vaccine passports, prohibits schools from requiring vaccination for attendance and requires businesses to avoid collecting vaccine information or a refusing to serve patrons because vaccine status. although, that is an unfortunately broad statute that has discouraged the vaccine and made it tough for folks in public health to have the sort of systemic constraints to mask people. in alabama, there is public sentiment. schools are freely able to use mask mandates. i suspect some of the schools that have tried to ship the burden and the cost of getting tested frequently if you are not vaccinated, that we will see legal challenges there that will test the st

and then, this is the site of alabama power. and so, when they purchased this, they did leave the -- the concept of the two doors and the platform. so, there was two doors and the platform, that you see. and -- and that's where they would bring them out to auction them. okay? our next stop is africatown. so, we are now traveling on land, the same route that the last illegally shipped with kidnapped individuals to come into the u.s. back in 1860 and it was the result of a bet made by a local, rich white plantation owner by the name of timothy meaher and that bet was he could bring in 100 illegally kidnapped individuals in 1860. well, keep in mind that, in 1860, slavery was still legal. but the slave act of 1808 had passed and it said that it was against the law to import anyone from outside of the u.s. and if you were caught and found guilty by a jury, you could be hung. well, timothy took this chance, anyway, because he thought that alabama was gonna succeed from the union. and slavery would have been legal, again. so, he goes o

this was the first of a two-part tour of mobile, alabama. you can watch this and all other american history tv programs at cspan dot org slash history. the door of franklin finley african-american heritage trail in mobile, alabama includes over 40 historical markers that tell the story of the city from the former location of a slave market through the civil rights era. previously on american artifacts tour guide eric finley took us from the slave market to africa town founded by captives of the slave ship clotilda. next in part 2 we pick up the story after the civil war with mr. finley describing how african-american's establish businesses on the north side of town. the door of franklin finley african-american heritage trail in mobile, alabama includes

vernacular with an alabama accent. they didn't speak this in west africa. so the question is, what happened to him that this is now the language that he speaks? and everything that happened to him is encoded in that language. this is why these publishers didn't want to publish that or to read it or to be forced to read something that wasn't what they're used to hearing. they wanted to change it so they can access it rather than changing themselves so that they can access what was being talked about. >> are you descendent from cudjoe lewis or -- >> i am a descendent of charlie lewis. >> and who was charlie lewis? >> charlie lewis was one of the older survivors of the clotilda. they ranged from the age of 2 to maybe 24. so he was one of the older ones. he was chief of the toka tribe. charlie lewis was enslaved by colonel thomas beaufort. charlie lewis bought land from colonel beaufort in 1870. we have family members that still live there today. the area we call lewis' quarters. >> so there were displays and tables at the

from alabama seek recognition? mr. brooks: as the member designated by mr. barry moore of alabama, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. barry moore will vote nay on h. res. 4. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> as the member designated by ms. sanchez pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that ms. sanchez votes yes. as the member designated by ms. leger fernandez votes aye. as the member designated by ms. roybal-allard pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that ms. roybal-allard will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? mr. babin: as the member designated by mr. duncan of south carolina pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. duncan will vote no on h.r. 4. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition?

joins tour guide eric thinly to learn about the early history of mobile, alabama, and learn about africatown, founded by former slaves. recently discovered under the mud of the mobile river, the clotilda smuggled 110 west africans to mobile in 1860. he took the tour and he enjoyed it. after nine months of searching he finally found a young lady that said i will take on the opportunity. her name was dora franklin finley, and dora was my double first cousin. that's another tour. we won't take that one today, but she accepted the opportunity, and she spent five years of her life doing research on places and african-americans that have made significant contributions to the city of mobile. when she finished she had 39 locations throughout the city. we're going to visit about 20 of those today. if i took you on all of them, i'd have to find out how you like your fish, fried or broiled, you want your steak medium or well because it would take us probably about six hours, but she set this up where we should be able to get through it in about two hours. i can hold your attention. i can't hold your at

alabama is a state that ran out of icu beds last tuesday. it's a federal disaster team that came into the hospital to try to keep them afloat, because alabama hospitals are so overrun by very sick covid patients. mobile alabama, had no ambulances available. if you call 9-1-1, there was no ambulance to come get. you because they are so tied up with sikh covid patients there, and there were no ambulances left to respond. trump at the rally this weekend, suggested that people there should get vaccinated. the crowd mildly booed him. when he told them that. and when he reminded him he himself had been vaccinated. that got a lot of attention, for various reasons. i say that they sort of mildly booed trump. because it was a scattering of boos. if you really want to see someone get nearly booed off the stage though, booed to the points of intimidation, look at how that same crowd, at that same event responded in alabama to congressman mo bricks. one congressman mo brooks was not talking about vaccinations in covid, when instead he was talking about

coming up, alabama has the lowest vaccination rate of any state in the country, but this city in alabamaighest -- retired office administrator, dorothy oliver. who has made vaccination her project, remarkable, dorothy oliver will join us next. oliver will join us next oliver will join us next did you know prilosec otc can stop frequent heartburn before it begins? prilosec otc uses a unique delayed-release formula that works to turn down acid production, blocking heartburn at the source. with just one pill a day, you get 24-hour heartburn protection. take the prilosec otc two-week challenge. and see the difference for yourself. prilosec otc, 1 pill a day, 24 hours, zero heartburn. introducing aleve x. it's fast, powerful long-lasting relief with a revolutionary, rollerball design. because with the right pain reliever... life opens up. aleve it, and see what's possible. (judith) in this market, you'll find fisher investments is different than other money managers. (other money manager) different how? don't you just ride the wave? (judith) no - we actively manage client portfolios based on

i had a lot of friends from alabama were going to the university of alabama. i was very happy to be there. also my high school football team my senior year in high school 11 football game. the year before he got to the university of alabama was the national champion in football. my whole perspective changed. but anyhow i had a typical childhood, i attended public schools. i had a number of different jobs. my first job was delivering newspapers to the jacksonville journal which was in the afternoon newspaper. then i worked at it winn-dixie store the first job i ever had in my life. i was a bad boy. then i worked in a drugstore, that was not a bad job. i delivered prescriptions and worked stock and things like that pretty red electric meters for a while, i worked, they reassessed the households in homes and jacksonville, florida. i worked from the time i graduated from college in may of 1966 until august of 1966 reassessing, reevaluating homes in jacksonville, florida for tax purposes. other than that, i was pretty much an average student. i did not start excell

i tend university of alabama. i was in rotc because back in those days you were required any land-grant university to be enrolled in basic rotc the first two years, then the vietnam war broke out all i was in therd there's a lot of talk about the draft really come into play and a lot of folks getting called up and being sent to this place called vietnam, or vietnam, depending on whether or not you are lyndon johnson. i along with a bunch of my friends enrolled in advance rotc. i graduated in 1966, in may 1966 and after a few months of waiting for my assignment orders i went back to jacksonville, florida, and had a temporary job trying to make a few bucks before i left. in august i received my orders assigned to the 25th infantry division in vietnam. first i had to go to school, nice states army quartermaster school at fort lee virginia. >> before we get into your military, tell us, do you have siblings and tell us about your family. >> okay. my dad was the son of immigrants. my grandfather was from russia. my gran

. >> four in neighboring alabama, new cases are averaging higher than any time since mid january. you can see the sharp increase here since july on your screen. and with the states fully vaccinated right at just 42% of the eligible population, the alabama hospital association said on wednesday there were negative 29 intensive care unit beds available in the entire state. which is less than zero. for keeping track of. home doctor jeanne marrazzo is director of the division of infectious diseases for the university of alabama at birmingham and she joins me now. what does it look like on the ground when there are no icu beds in a state. what happens if you have a stroke or heart attack? >> thanks for having me. it's absolutely terrifying for people and for people who are experiencing adverse health outcomes, but also for the staff who are taking care of patients. imagine if you are having a stroke or heart attack, you come to an emergency room, most of the times you can accompany your family member in. and because everything is so chaotic, because of covid, and you're faced with a si

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and as of now, alabama does not have a state wide mask mandate.is doing what he can to encourage masks in his community. mayor reed joins me tonight. sit does require masks in all city facilities and your mask advisory for montgomery recommends both vaccinated and unvaccinated people wear masks indoors when around people not from their household, why issue an advisory rather than a mandate? >> well first, thank you for having me. we wanted to issue a advisory really just to jar the collective member of our residents and try to encourage them to start wearing masks and to understand that we're not through this pandemic just yet. as much as we all would like to be on the other side of it, and we didn't think the mandate was the first step that we needed to take. now that was last week and we're looking at this on a day-to-day basis. our covid-19 numbers are up over 136%. we've seen a 210% increase in hospitalizations. and the icu capacity is at or above 98% which typically can happen, but not so much when we have -- we're seeing so many covid-19 pat

james -- seoul was born in alabama, and lived a unique life. among the minority of stillborn people -- a gifted born pilot, a runaway, a soldier in the union army. and finally, the owner of a dairy farm at a time when there were only a handful of black-owned businesses of this type in the country. just as important, he had been -- african american history. he had put his money and freedom -- the letterhead been a member of the important black southern mutual aid social and birmingham. he had fought along with black veterans for a bounty as a soldier. and had been the first reparations movement member. james that also been involved in african stories from the very beginning. and that chosen to tie his life -- while still maintaining his influence. and although he never lived in africa town, he was buried in the africans graveyard. thank you. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i am my ancestors. wild and dreaming. first, i would like to think the most high for this infrequent opportunity to stand before royalty and the greatness. in which whom we are the descen

and like many it was cooked up in a strange and unusual place in alabama.e us a sense of how unusual that was in the prevailing view of bombing. >> it was brand-new. they were using this conventional military thinking is they were toys. they were not significant at all but along came the bomber mafia and said they are not toys they are the most important element and that we think a w modern bomber would be unstoppable and it could drop bombs and destroy everything we need to destroy with the territory. and as a result every other element of the modern military is made obsolete. we don't need tanks or troops or artillery's or infantry, you name it. all gone. you have a band of men in their twenties and thirties and montgomery alabama who are pursuing and promoting the idea that the conventional understanding of military goes back thousands of years and they say it's over. it's obsolete. >> and what is double about it is that at the time the airport is not a separate branch of the military they had a few planes basically. >> they have this notion from within

. >>> coming up, alabama has the lowest vaccination rate of any state in the country but panola alabamae in the state thanks to retired office administrator dorothy oliver that made vaccination her project. the remarkable dorothy oliver will join us next. dorothy oliv will join us next. (burke) this is why you want farmers claim forgiveness... [echoing] claim forgiveness-ness, your home premium won't go up just because of this. (woman) wow, that's something. (burke) you get a whole lot of something with farmers policy perks. [echoing] get a quote today. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ helen knew exercise could help her diabetes... but she didn't know what was right for her. no. nope. no way. but then helen went from no to know with freestyle libre 14 day, now she knows what activity helps lower her glucose. and can see what works best for her. take the mystery out of your glucose levels, and lower your a1c. now you know. freestyle libre 14 day. now covered by medicare for those who qualify. after my dvt blood clot... i was uncertain... was another around the corner? or c

. >> reporter: alabama out of icu beds as millions defy public health officials' pleas to stop the spread. >> i'm not going to stop living my life. >> would you hope more people wear masks >> no, absolutely not. >> reporter: hospitals confronting the onslaught of new patients, so overwhelmed they are setting up field hospitals, like this one in a hospital parking garage in jackson, mississippi. others airlifting patients to facilities hundreds of miles away, the closest bed available. >> when you say you're at max capacity, what does that quite literally mean >> beyond being full, we have patients stacked up in the emergency department, whether covid or other. >> essentially, their care is being sacrificed as a result >> being cared for in a makeshift, not makeshift but in a different location with different equipment than they would be cared for if they were in the icu. >> reporter: at this eastern alabama hospital, a backlog just to get into the emergency room >> ambulances with patients that were being brought to the emergency department, but there was nowhere to put them yet. >> repor

some alabama hospitals have started limiting some elective procedures as covid emissions rise. we'll have much more on this worsening situation just ahead. meanwhile, even as the white house works to get the latest surge under control, the president did score a big win today. the senate passed the one trillion dollar bipartisan infrastructure bill at long last, a big part of the presidents agenda, the vote was 69 to 30, republican leader mitch mcconnell and 18 of the republicans actually crossed the aisle to vote yes with the democrats. earlier today vice president kamala harris summed the administration's view up after presiding over the vote. after >> madam vice president, your reaction to the bill passing? >> it's a good day. elections matter. >> at the white house, the president praised the bipartisan group of senators who worked on the bill. >> i want to thank the group of senators, democrats and republicans, for doing what they told me they would do. after years and years of infrastructure week, we're in the cusp of an infrastructure decade, that i truly believe will tran

jeannie morattso is from the university of alabama at birmingham and she joins me now. what does it look like on the ground when there are no icu beds in a state? what happens if you have a stroke or a heart attack? >> yeah, thanks, zerlina, for having me. it is absolutely terrifying for people who are experiencing adverse health outcomes but also for the staff who are taking care of patients. so imagine if you are having a stroke or a heart attack, you come to an emergency room. most of the times you can't accompany your family member in because everything is so chaotic because of covid and you're faced with a situation where you may not be admitted to an icu bed. what's happening is people are having to create alternative spaces to provide intensive care in these settings. we, for example, have opened up additional icus on floors that were not previously used as icus. we also, unfortunately, are having to board patients in the emergency department, as are many hospitals in alabama. that creates a huge amount of pressure for not just the patients who are there but also

one alabama patient, very frustrated telling alabama online, quote, i am angry that i must choose betweenmental health which would improve by being in school as well as their physical well-being that is in jeopardy by schools playing politics instead of following science. so is that what you're up against? >> we are, and i think that the more plain talk we have with parents, with students and our grassroots leaders the better off we'll be and we've done that in montgomery and we're continuing to do that and we have to be mindful of the message that many people in alabama have heard from the trump administration initially all of the way through, others that shouldn't get vaccinated and there's a lot of buildup here now to try to dismember what some of the leaders in our state, political leadership and assisting in that endeavor and those are things that we've been doing in the local level since day one. so we have to go about this strategically and intentionally, and we have to make sure from our standpoint we're sharing information and we're listening to the concerns and then we're also t

but now that you have cases up in places like alabama, way up in places like alabama, hospitalizations up in alabama, and that delta variant taking hold of this state and almost every single county they are experiencing high levels of community transmission of the virus, people are getting concerned. and as the economy opens, as the masks come off, as social did schools get ready to go back to in-person session, and parents and young people that want to get back to life are starting to opt for the vaccine. so in places like alabama, while it is not huge, the numbers are going higher in the terms of number of people getting vaccinated right now. so that is good news and much of that is being driven by people who as that economy reopening, they figure better to be safe than sorry and that the delta variant that they've heard is about is too transmissible and if they pass on it, they don't want to injure somebody even worse. back to you. >> miguel, thank you. let's go to louisiana now. health care workers there are being pushed to the edge as the number of covid patients coming in is surg

trump held a big rally in alabama just last night. i mean, why is an ex-president holding political rallies eight months after leaving office? why is not off building homes like jimmy carter or painting portraits like george w. bush? >> well, first of all, picturing donned doing one of those things is really kind of funny even though there's nothing very fun bet situation we find ourselves in. he's doing it. he can't help himself on the one hand because he needs the attention, but the reason it matters -- he doesn't matter. the reason it matters is because he's continued to be enabled by republican leadership, you know, these elected republicans who go down to mar-a-lago, to kiss his ring and ask for his endorsements and ask for his permission. that's why these rallies matter, plus, of course, in the middle of covid in a state that has now icu beds left, know, and that's, again, that's part of this long-standing problem which is donald's really good at asking for micro concessions and now he's asking people to risk their lives in a cr

it's alabama. it is miserable out there.hoe ♪ >> so we can swing this song, we can think about another way that we can understand the connections between like labor and politics and african-american communities. so the song is important, hoe emma hoe, it is important because it was a cultural development shaped by the work of slavery. it was also a cultural development that allowed end slaved people to try to shape the work they were doing. so the song was a way they tried to shape some of the terms of their labor. and this is just one example of one of the tools that enslaved people might use in pursuit of some control over their lives. so the institution of slavery was a constant struggle between slave owners trying extract as much labor as possible from enslaved people and enslaved people looking for and finding ways individually and collectively, ways that they could collect their own lives. so if we look back at the writing, we can see the struggle play out, right? the lashes flying morning to night the whole day long.

caller: i'm not a landlord, i am a resident in alabama.ight now, i get 700 $94 a month in disability and they have money sent to alabama with us. all of us out here are getting a check already, it is more than a check. so now alabama residents, we are getting told there is no funds available for us. and we are staying in a motel with it -- month which is $880 a month. if it was not for my fiance, i would be on the streets. what we do from that? guest: thank you for the question. i don't know who is telling you there is not resources for folks in alabama. there are rental sources -- resources for every state in the country. billions of dollars has been allocated. if you have access to wi-fi even on your phone, you can go to the cfpb website and put in wherever you are living right now and that will give you the global ranking. i encourage you to talk to them because that is their job. they put money out to folks that need it, not just rent you need right now but rental assistance going forward. there are resources for every state, there is

a great believer in the vision all based in alabama and the thirties that you no longer have to kill thousands or hundreds of thousands of civilians in a conflict you could use it just to bomb those crucial targets you needed to overrun your enemy. just take out the powerplants and the aqueducts and the ridges. you don't have to destroy the whole city just take out the militarily significant targets. he carries that vision into the second world war and convinces the top military brass of the moral and strategic correctness of his position takes it through europe all the way to japan to the war against japan in the winter of 44. he is a leader of the group that calls themselves the bomber mafia. >> i read it as a very idealistic approach that war is unnecessary there are ways to force the country's political leaders into changing their behavior to be in a very precise way this was a radical idea not just we have a slightly different strategy but almost unheard of and like many unheard of ideas cooked up in a strange and unusual place in alabama but give us a sense of how prevailing th

there were thousands of people at that alabama farm on saturday night. right now, 56% of the eligible population of alabama has received at least one vaccine dose. that's not high enough, but that is a majority of the people who can get it. so just i would bet a fair number of people at that rally were vaccinated. and again, you can see the crowd right behind him. it's not like tens of thousands of people booed in unison when he said get the vaccines. he got heckled a little bit. and those people, the kind of people who not only show up to a donald trump rally in alabama in august outside, but boo donald trump when he says you should get the vaccine, they are statistically, i think, a tiny portion of the population of this country. they were a tiny portion of the crowd. and yet, they have effectively seized veto power over american public health policy. that is the story when you look at this chart of covid deaths in florida. at least in part, those kinds of people, the ones who show up at school board meetings and scream at public health officials and f