there are a lot of good things in life. >> reporter: cynthia mcfadden, nbc news >>> adopting a server in need, inspiring america. >>> i want you to meet a mother and daughter during this pandemic >> reporter: devin just had a frozen birthday. all made possible by the kindness of strangers. her dad was a server at louisville restaurant and laid off in march >> it is really hard being a single dad and trying to give your girl a good life with the circumstances we are in right now. >> reporter: struggling to pay his bills, lawrence turned to a facebook page called adopt a server members of the community looking to give. >> i have never experienced this kind of generosity and kindness from strangers >> reporter: the mother and daughter started the louisville group. one of several around the country. >> we just want to give back to them >> reporter: were you overcome by the amount of need out there? >> there would be days i would sit there and cry for hours knowing the need is everything from cat food to electric bills cayla, a teacher among those adopted lawrence, sending necessities and

. >> reporter: a wet cynthia, for sure. >> a wet cynthia mcfadden from uganda >> cynthia takes these and brings it home we appreciate that, cynthia. >>> it is now 7:42, let's turn it over to mr. roeker and get a check of the weather >> you know how you upgrade your known, things get better we talk about the american model, but guess what, the american model got an upgrade. we've been using it for a while, but they just put it in real time use the tropical cyclone lead times will be improving. improving, the location of frontal boundaries, all helping us bring you a better forecast as far as temperatures are concerned, out west, we have the snowstorm. denver, 39 18 degrees cooler than average dallas 66, four degrees colder look at rochester, 68, 23 degrees warmer 73 in nashville, chicago warmer than average, and it continues tomorrow from philly, memphis, down to austin, but out west, cheyenne, 37 las vegas, 64 degrees. that's ten degrees cooler than average, and look at the week as we get in here, almost 70 degrees on friday in new york city, 75 in atlanta, and new orleans, st. louis

john torres, thank you for that as always >> speaking of vaccines, your friend, cynthia mcfadden is on the ground in africa has an update on the vaccine roll out in uganda >> cynthia >> reporter: hi lester, where he in africa of the country of uganda. this is a series of islands of 52. we took a couple of planes and cars and several boats. this is an important place in the world we come with unicef that cares about children all over the world. they're not vaccinating kids they're vaccinating healthcare workers that's vital to the life blood of this community. they are vaccinating elder an community we care about our grandparents we learn a l schools is not in session. only 1% of kids are going to school and the kids in the islands when they are in school, many get there by canoe, not exactly on a school bus. we learn a lot about the life here. it is tough, people work hard and they live in sometimes very difficult circumstances but something really are the other and you will see just like kids around the world they love to play with cameras and to post. back to you, lester. >> thank yo

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back to you guys. >> cynthia mcfadden for us thank you. >> thank you >>> we're going to turn and getcoming off the southeastern atlantic coast. as far as temperatures are concerned, we are looking at cool conditions. 30s as you make your way from the great lakes to northern new england. 70s and 80s in southern florida. texas on into the southwest. for the country today, fairly quiet. again, rain in the southeast for the morning hours. mild in the plains that welcome rain coming in through california sunshine into the pacific north and pacific northwest and the interior west. that's what's going on around the coun >>> good morning, i'm meteorologist kari hall. let's look at our seven-day forecast. it will be mostly cloudy to start today because of the rain they're seeing to our south but we are still in for a nice and dry day. that dry weather continues into the rest of the workweek, and then this weekend we will have a chance of showers moving in very early on saturday morning. the rest of the weekend we'll have a chance to let that rain soak in with being more showers in the forecas

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cynthia mcfadden has a report. we're so glad to have you.e about what you're seeing. how it m copairs with what is happening in the u.s., and this journey you have been on to deliver the first vaccines to this community. >> well, hallie, it is always great to talk to you. it was a really incredible day. the vaccines just arrived and health officials had to sort it all out. unicef is the lead agency here and we're traveling with the health ministry and unicef. what is so fascinating is that we think it has not been as bad here in africa. the pandemic has not struck has hard as predicted and these people still need vaccines. they need them for humanitarian reasons. and they also need them because of worldwide pandemic reasons. all of the epidemiologist that we have spoke to say that until we're all vaccinated none of us are safe. it brings us to today. it was really a thrill. unicef let me handle the bag with 40 precious doses of the vaccine that we took out to this incredibly remote island. it's a series of islands, in fact. 52 of them from v

nbc legal and investigative correspondent cynthia mcfadden got a look at vaccination efforts in uganda began vaccinating in uganda. cynthia, our intrepid traveler tell us about your journey. >> it is 7:30 at night here and we can barely see lake victoria behind me and we are in uganda, as you say and we came to witness a small, but significant part of a very major international issue and that is the rollout of this vaccine. what we were able to see is going from island to island carrying vaccine with us the joy on the faces of the people as they saw that vaccine coming. i was -- they allowed me to carry the cooler of 40 doses of astrazeneca into the community. unicef is the coordinator of all of this here in uganda and around the world. as you know, this covax operation intended to vaccinate 20% of the world's poorest people in the hundred poorest countries. they've had to pull that back, and they haven't been able to meet that goal. they're now hoping by the end of the year to vaccinate just 3% of the world's poorest people. so this is a little window into what that effort looks like.

nbc's cynthia mcfadden has the story. >> reporter: when sergio joined the army he was so young his parentsserved as a combat medic but when he came home intense ptsd came home with him. >> i remember going into trader joe's one time, i was anxious, i was trying to remind myself, i'm not in iraq, i'm here in the u.s. >> reporter: before the pandemic sergio says he was doing better than in a long time. he had a steady job for the first time in years and while it never went away the painful voice inside his head had quieted and then came march of 2020. >> i was just like -- i'm supposed to isolate but i was fighting for so long not to isolate, to try to communicate with other people and stay in touch with other people. >> reporter: veterans suffer from ptsd at least twice the rate of non-vets, covid has struck many parly hard. we spoke to four vets with ptsz. >> when i started getting help the first thing the therapist told me you have to stop isolating. i got involved with my support system and people in my life and then this happened. >> reporter: did covid make what you had been going thro

cynthia mcfadden is going to take us inside what has become an emotional fight on both sides. >> we lookuld be given as early as today, adding to the millions of americans who have already been vaccinated. now, at the same time, health officials, they're concerned about a troubling trend. nbc's tom costello brings us up to date. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, hoda. the cdc director is warning, while we did see a dramatic decrease in cases and deaths since early january, it's starting to tick up. she says it is really important that communities not yet let their guard up. the numbers are as follows. about 67,200 new cases every single day. that's up 2% over recent weeks. about 2,000 deaths per day, also up 2% over recent weeks. now, it's down dramatically from early january, but the uptick has people concerned. in the meantime, as mentioned, the j&j vaccine rolling out nationwide. likely we will see americans starting to receive that vaccination sometime today. 4 million shots or so by the end of the week, 20 million by the end of the month. keep in mind, this is a single-dose s