and frances fitzgerald as an american. and the most privileged by a longshot and intellectual family wealth and prestige and the cia director and her mother was democratic cardiologist and socialite. on her own, no job with a couple of ideas for freelancing. and taking a completely different view of vietnam. with the vietnamese point of view. and that led her to writing fire in the lake and in 1872 and was 31 years old. but then the australian. k-12 and intellectual born in new zealand raised australia. no credentials to speak of no job, and as an outsider worked a very different path for combat reporters. and then theem vietnamese. and the contributions were recognized from the kate webb award to the asian journalist and with that in journalism. now my book is not filled with a lot of analysis but i tell the stories of the women and they lived to be lives. she was already an accomplished pianist and parachutist when she left saigon and the only journalist male or female photographer a writer or reporter to is qualified wi

howard lutnick, cantor fitzgerald chairman and ceo.of which, we will have great coverage sunday at 9:00 a.m. we have a special coming up. richard branson's flight into space. we will be talking much more about that. ceo. talking of which, we will have great coverage sunday at 9:00 a.m. a slightly slower pace of life, maybe. rv travel boom taking off. we will talk more about that. the outdoorsy slower pace of ced for recreational vehicles. apparently it ain't slowing down, despite the fact that most people seem to be getting back on planes. are you in the rv think? taylor: trade in the jet for an rv. we will take a road trip. guy: that something a fantastic idea. i have a memory of my childhood in caravans in the u.k. and the rain beating on my head. that noise will never go away. maybe could i've got to be persuaded. that is coming up next. this is bloomberg. ♪ ritika: this is "bloomberg markets." i am richard good group to. -- ritika gupta. this is bloomberg. ♪ ritika gupta. ritika: let's check in on "first word" news. unemployment wa

this is ansys fitzgerald, crestor. as they say, she came with a lot of privilege, a lot of connections and that was used against her. people thought well, she's got it made. she's got money, she's got all the connections. you can get easy stories but she did the opposite. she did the hardest kind of reported reporting no one else was doing. she would go to the battlefields, not as often by a longshot at the man she would go to the sicilian hospital to see how the civilians were taking care. in her privileged life she had never seen anything like what these people were. bills, the smells, and she reported it all. she. then this is when she was trying to tell the story of how this damage in her was not helping the american cause, she did things like go and spend a lot of time in one village alone to write all along peacefully new york times call the life of the village. next slide please. because i showed you all the trees pictures i want to read you a little bit from the magazine article. this is 1966. the united states

meagan fitzgerald, nbc news, detroit. >>> up next, the historic queen of america's spelling bee. >>> finally tonight, can you smell historic the new 14-year-ol national spelling bee champ from louisiana is already setting records and breaking boundaries this is what 14-year-old zaila avant-garde is famous for this week. we say this week because you're surely going to hear from her again. zaila just became the first ever african american champion of the scripps national spelling bee the winning word -- >> murraya >> is it like the english name murray which could be the name of the comedian >> bill murray made the spelling bee >> it's actually a type of tree >> m-u-r-r-a-y-a >> that is correct >> reporter: perhaps fittingly, her next steps may be on the hard wood. you see, zaila says for her spelling is just an hors d'oeuvre. basketball is her main dish, with three guinness world records to her name, from dribbling to juggling. to what do you even call that? it's good to have goals. zaila sharing those on "today." >> yeah, going to harvard to play basketball, and maybe going to the wnb

meagan fitzgerald, nbc news, chicago. >>> up next tonight, are covid antibody tests worth it >>> we're back now with the price you pay and covid antibody tests. they can cost hundreds of dollars, but are they worth it? here is vicky nguyen >> reporter: covid-19 antibody tests are easy to find the fda has authorized 85 different tests they look for antibodies that develop after a covid infection. but can they detect your immune response after a vaccine? doctors say not reliably. >> i guess i was curious to see if the 46-year-old david latt says his antibody levels were high after he had covid so when he got vaccinated recently he took another test. >> i thought my antibodies would be through the roof instead they were barely positive. >> reporter: does that mean the vaccine didn't work on you >> not necessarily antibody tests really only probe one part of your immune system. >> reporter: mayo clinic scientist elisa field says antibody tests are most useful for research, and most multiple tests are on the market designed to detect different types of antibodies. >> just because you're pos

meagan fitzgerald is in germany >> reporter: tonight, days after catastrophic devastation. the best of humanity >> so many people killed, and ask can we help nice feeling >> reporter: neighbors and strangers helping each other clean up after the worst flooding germany has seen in more than half a century. so many people have lost everything. decades of memories now piles of rubble lining the streets of neighborhoods across western germany. three months worth of rain falling in 24 hours. streams and creeks turned into raging rivers, tearing through towns, washing away roads and bridges and everything in its path >> so many people dead >> reporter: the death toll nearing 200 while police continue searching for the more than 300 still unaccounted for, the trauma of the devastation is setting in >> i wanted to help them, but i couldn't he was calling "help, help, i can't swim." >> reporter: there was little neighbors could do in the face of the surging water, but doing as much as they can now to help each other rebuild. tonight many bridges and roadways are closed because there

for any reason we thought it would feel good to travel again, but lately it is a mixed bag meagan fitzgerald >>> when we come back, the ultimate wedding gift the doctor rearranging all of those flowers for good >>> there is good news the night about the power of flowers and the virginia doctor giving those leftover wedding bouquets a new purpose. she doesn't know the brides and grooms, but eleanor love has been to more weddings than she can count. >> you never know what you're going to get. >> when the party is over and the guests are gone, love gets to work >> we want to keep those blossoms nice and fresh. >> this first-year doctor and her bunch of volunteers collect leftover flowers to be delivered to patients at vcu medical center in richmond, virginia. what kind of difference do you hope these flowers make >> it is the feeling that they evoke, the sense of happiness and joy and the reminder that other people are thinking about you >> love, you might say, is sharing the love part of a project she founded in 2019 called "the simple sunflower. >> we are trying to comfort the people who are

fitzgerald, for five minutes. mr. fitzgerald: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. fitzgerald: i rise today to talk about a recent trip to mcallen, texas, where i had the opportunity to tour the southern border. what struck me the most was hearing from border agents about the sheer volume of fentanyl that is being seized right now. in fact, u.s. customs and border protection reported that 1,053 pounds of fentanyl was seized at the southwest border in june alone. that's more than the last three junes combined. following my trip, i introduced an amendment at judiciary committee markup to ensure criminal penalties are made for those that are caught with fentanyl. i would question my colleagues who voted against this, we must find a way of stopping the flow of fentanyl. however, i suspect, because most do not want to confront this issue at the border, that they're not going to address this issue. in the absence of action,

susan fitzgerald at kaiser permanente in san francisco. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> when we think of the battle against covid or promoting health and wellness, we think of kaiser. but we don't typically think of kaiser when we think about repaired for wildfires. explain what kaiser is doing now and why. >> in part of the answer, it lies in the question. i will focus on the health and wellness part of your question. wildfires over the past several years have effected all of us in one way of or another. we have the wildfire, the evacuation itself with a wildfire smoke which can come as we know, linger in the area for quite a while. going back a couple of years to the tubbs fire in 2017 and another fire in 2019, both of which led to hospital evaluations in kaiser permanente, santa rosa. since and during that time we learned a great deal about the need to be as prepared as possible and also how to prepare. when i say prepare i'm talking about prepare our merickel centers medical centers for the possibility of evacu

>>> meagan fitzgerald in chicago, thank you. the congressional committee investigating the january 6th attacks on the capitol will hold its first hearing this week. it comes amid steep gop opposition. but today a new republican signed on to serve. monica alaba reports. >> reporter: don't, the congressional committee investigating the january 6th attack on the capitol has another republican member. house speaker nancy pelosi adding illinois congressman adam kinzinger today, writing, he brings great patriotism to the committee's mission, to find the facts and protect our democracy. >> we will find the truth. that truth will have the confidence of the american people because it will be done patriotically and not in a partisan way. >> a frequent critic of donald trump explaining i'm a republican dedicated to conservative values, but i swore an oath to up hold and defend the constitution. when duty calls, i will answer answer. he joins congresswoman liz cheney on the nine-member panel. the only other gop voice since minority leader k

satelogic will go via a spac merger with cantor fitzgerald.with spacex on a multi-launch contract setting the goal to launch 300 satellites by 2025 joining us now to discuss the deal and broader m & a, cantor fitzgerald ceo and chairman howard lutnick thanks for joining us on the show today. >> great to see you. >> at a time we're talking about so-called billionaire space races and bezos and others making their first trip, why are you starting to invest in space right now? >> space, it's the final frontier i mean, it's the place to go, and these satellites, satellogic does incredible imagery of the earth. they have 17 satellites in the sky right now and when they have 300 in the sky and we're raising enough money for them to launch all 300, they can take a sub meter picture of every square inch of the earth so think about all the gps people who want to talk about how the arctic and water level, trees, every square inch of europe they can take a picture of it and have a great image of it and be able to catalog everything the data is going to be

meagan fitzgerald, nbc news. >>> it's been one week since bill cosby was released from prison.usively with eight women who have accused cosby of crimes ranging from drugging to forced kissing to rape. in a word, how did you feel when you heard the news? >> shocked. >> stunned. >> sickened. >> stunned. >> distraught. >> nauseated. >> disgusted. >> confused. >> reporter: the anger just kept growing and growing. victoria, who are you most angry at? >> i'm angry at the legal system. we put our necks on the line, and then the legal system yanked the rug out from under us. >> reporter: i first met all but one of these women in 2015 when i interviewed more than 20 of bill cosby's accusers in one room. most had never even met before. many of their stories eerily similar. >> very quickly, the room started spinning. >> i was just holding my head because i didn't know what was happening. >> reporter: bill cosby has consistently denied any nonconsensual sexual activity. the pennsylvania supreme court overturned his 2018 conviction saying his due process rights were violated. >> i really th

megan fitzgerald reports. >> reporter: tonight, fear and anxiety in neighborhoods across the country.n't want to be on the street. >> reporter: yvonne bryant lost her job in the pandemic and has been struggling, ever since. she is among the more than 6 million americans behind on ou on your -- on your rent?ee months. >> there are a lot of people in trouble, and a lot of people that need help. >> reporter: anthony is the ceo of a nonprofit in chicago that helps people stay in their homes. distributing some $2 million throughout the pandemic, but he says it's not enough. >> it's definitely a potential crisis. the vast majority of these people are gonna be low-income renters. and are least likely to be able to sustain the shock of loss of income, as a result of the pandemic. >> reporter: the eviction moratorium ends tonight. >> i'm like i might be homeless, at any day. >> reporter: in a last-ditch effort, the white house urged congress to extend the moratorium. but democrats didn't have enough votes. they are now recessed for six weeks. the federal government has allocated $6 billion to

um, and have identified fitzgerald. so and i guess this this is countered by the reason i'm somewhat uncertain one because the story in the louisville literary newsletter from 1839 is really not very reputable. it has among the long river. it has it has so many errors and they're pointed out in the book. but also this man james stevenson, i talked about those of the man in 1886 who was writing a history of bridger and he wrote 20 very knowledgeable people and he asked stevenson. what do you know about hugh glass and jim bridger and stevenson from the office of the smithsonian on a sunday morning wrote back in 1886. yes. bridger told me about this hugh glass episode, but there was no desertion. and there's certainly was a desertion, but i take that to mean there was no desertion about jim bridger. jim bridger was the topic of all the 20 questions that he was asking and so you've got you've got this one. flag who's writing that it was bridges and you've got someone in 1886 who said bridget told me about this and said he d

fitzgerald, distinguished newspaper publisher, for five minutes. rep. fitzgerald: thank you, mr. chair. i just wanted to back up a little bit. if we could address what some of the members have touched on and that was a profile being developed by specific courts and a predisposition on how they take cases, receive cases, who presents, which attorneys, either a shopping venue or looking for a specific judge because my experience has been if you want an attorney that practices in a specific court with specific attorneys, you go to one district or another. it is a predisposition that you would make the determination to which you are hoping for the best outcome. let's talk about the circuits. when you are in front of a three-judge panel and you know we are in pretty good shape going into this case, as i did with minis -- many attorneys representing the legislature over the years, isn't that as big an issue as anything we have discussed here this morning? >> i agree. [indiscernible] that is absolutely what we should aspire to. i'm not sure how you fix that. but i agree with the premise

actually alexandria and colonel john fitzgerald, who was with washington at this time, told this storywashington's adopted grandson, and he says washington rode up in between the lines and -- and gave another order to fire, and at this moment the british leveled their muskets and washington between the lines, both sides opened fire and fitzgerald puts the hat over his eyes so he doesn't see washington cut down in front of him and he lifts his hat up and the smoke clears and there's washington unscathed riding up and down the line, and this was repeated throughout the army. there's actually a great letter from a pennsylvania soldier who wrote to his wife a few days after who said when i saw him brave all the dodgers of the field, his important life hanging as it were by a single hair with is a now deaths flying around him, believe me i thought not of myself, and the americans are able to level their bayonets, charge forward and drive the british from the field, and this moment was so important in the washington story that -- that, you know, he almost becomes a hero overnight, and solidi

fitzgerald, distinguished newspaper publisher, for five minutes. rep. fitzgerald: thank you, mr.hair. i just wanted to back up a little bit. if we could address what some of the members have touched on and that was a profile being developed by specific courts and a predisposition on how they take cases, receive cases, who presents, which attorneys, either a shopping venue or looking for a specific judge because my experience has been if you want an attorney that practices in a specific court with specific attorneys, you go to one district or another. it is a predisposition that you would make the determination to which you are hoping for the best outcome. let's talk about the circuits. when you are in front of a three-judge panel and you know we are in pretty good shape going into this case, as i did with many attorneys representing the legislature over the years, isn't that as big an issue as anything we have discussed here this morning? >> i agree. [indiscernible] that is absolutely what we should aspire to. i'm not sure how you fix that. but i agree with the premise of your qu

meghan fitzgerald has more. >> reporter: days after catastrophic devastation, the best of humanity. >ce feeling. >> reporter: neighbors and strangers helping each other clean up. . after the worst flooding germany has seen in more than half a century. so many people have lost everything. decades of memories now piles of rubble lining the streets of germany. three months of rain falling in 24 hours, streams and creeks turned into raging rivers, tearing through towns, washing away roads and bridges and everything in its path. >> so many people dead. >> reporter: the death toll nearing 200 while police continue to search for the nearly 300 still unaccounted for, the devastation of the trauma setting in. >> they wanted to help him, but couldn't. he was calling help, help, i can't swim. >> reporter: there was little neighbors could do in the face of the surging water but doing as much as they can now to help each other rebuild. >> thanks to meghan fitzgerald for that report. >>> joining us now with a look at axios a.m. congressional reporter elena treen. great to see you. what is axios' on

nbc news correspondent meagan fitzgerald has the latest. >> reporter: the worst-case scenario among the unvaccinated. >> it feels like we're going back in the bowel again, and it's definitely another wave. >> reporter: the highly contagious delta variant fueling a new surge in cases across the country. the country's top doctor. >> we could have a considerable problem with the surge of infections. >> reporter: the variant sweeping through the south accounting for 40% of the new cases in the country. but in miami, thousands packing a stadium for a live concert as the cdc now says they could recommend masks for the fully vaccinated indoors. but in arkansas, a new law banning mask mandates goes into effect this week. >> it's important not to have the current debate about mask wearing but to have the current emphasis on getting a vaccine. >> reporter: only 49% of the country is fully vaccinated. those without the shots making up 99.5% of covid desks. frontline workers once again with urgent pleas to the public. >> we're seeing younger patients all unvaccinated that are sicker. >> reporter: d

meghan fitzgerald is following the latest in germany.es out in california. meghan, you've been talking to survivors in those flood zones. what have they been telling you? >> reporter: chris, neighbors in communities are devastated. you imagine they've lived here for decades collecting years of memories. you see here piled up alongside the street. we watched as people have gone inside their homes and dragged out items from inside and on top of their property that now is waiting to be collected. you can see this car behind me just one of many that we've seen around here that have been thrown in front of people's yards, up against their homes. heavy machinery coming up and down the streets trying to pick those items up, and take them away. the germans of course being very resourceful working as quickly as they possibly can to try and clear up some of the debris. there's folks inside this house there for example, trying to restore the home as best as they can but there's a lot of work that needs to be done here and in addition to that, you g

charles: joining me now, fitzgerald group principal keith fitzgerald and rebecca walser.orry about distortions in the labor market where people are being paid well for a lower skill set. and they get in the comfort zone and never improve their own lives or skill sets, i think it's a dangerous trap. >> yeah, charles. i mean, besides the creepy whisper of telling people to pay more, which is completely inappropriate in monetary and stimulus policy and would be more appropriate in a kind of real minimum wage, you know, we don't want to be using unemployment to force employers, small and medium-sized businesses specifically that have already been through so much this pandemic, so actual hire for more pay people that are -- you know, the market sets the price. obviously right now the market is distorted. this is the law of unintended consequences, and i'm really excited about the rolloff in september, because we really do need people to get back to work. charles: in the meantime though, keith, you do have large companies, the chipotles and mcdonalds of the world even pawing bo

fitzgerald puts a hat over his eyes so he doesn't see washington cut down in front of him. he lifts his hat up, the smoke clears, and there's washington unscathed, riding up and down the lines. this was repeated throughout the army. there's actually a great letter from a pennsylvania soldier who wrote to his wife a few days after and says, "when i saw him brave all the dangers of the field, his important life hanging as it were by a single hair with 1,000 deaths flying around him, believe me, i thought not of myself." the americans are able to level their bayonets, charge forward, and drive the british from the field. this moment was so important in the washington story that, you know, he almost becomes a hero overnight. it solidified a bond between washington and his men there at princeton. he was willing to do anything for this cause. they were willing to follow him anywhere. all right. so last question for you. was this the most significant military campaign in the war? now, this is partly a -- this is partly an opinion piece. i would really hope that you all get a chanc

so why are there so many canceled and delayed flights in sn here is meagan fitzgerald. >> reporter: forady to snap. >> call somebody, your manager, the cops, the faa. whoever the hell it call somebody. >> reporter: the airline says that we regret the inconvenience, it involve the multiple factors out of our control. and travel nightmares like this now seen across the country. >> my flight was delayed 14 hours overnight. >> reporter: passengers forced to sit and wait. >> flight delayed, delight delayed, now boarding, flight delayed. >> reporter: between july 1 and july 6, 51% were delayed. american airlines delaying 34% of its fleet. but it is not just the busy holiday weekend to blame. now that people are flying again, there is a surge in summer passengers across the board. why are we seeing so many cancellations and delays? >> good news is that america is ready to fly. it wasn't long ago we were canceling flights for lack of passengers, now we're canceling flights for a lack of pilots. so the pilots are here, we're ready to go, they just haven't trained all of us. >> reporter: dennis i

meagan fm chicago, thank y >> meagan fitzgerald from chicago, thank you >>> one big question about thethe weapons coming from? an associated press investigation found some of them are weapons of war the ap found at least 1,900 u.s. military firearms were lost or stolen between 2010 and 2019 at least some of those resurfaced in violent crimes kristen hall now, associated press journalist, one of the authors of that investigation. kristen, thanks so much. some of the stolen guns recovered. are the rest still missing or do we know? >> it's hard to tell how many guns are still missing we did an analysis of firearm a investigations and the navy and the marines. we found in about 55% of those cases no suspect could be found and the weapons remain missing >> has your reporting uncovered how people were able to steal these firearms >> yeah, one issue that keeps coming up is that it is often the troops themselves who are responsible for securing the weapons in the armories or using the weapons out in the field they are sometimes found trying to sell these weapons. >> you know, this goes far bey

nbc's meagan fitzgerald is there. >> it was another violent weekend here 35 people shot, 11 people killedresidents are calling on the mayor, the governor, even the president to do something to stop the violence >> reporter: but republican critics slammed democrats, saying they make police recruitment harder. >> we've declared war on the police, and that is backfiring on those who have done it >> reporter: with a new memo today, the white house points to places like walla walla, washington, and cincinnati, ohio that are already using some covid relief funds to hire more police as a guide for how other communities could respond to crime now lester >> all right, kelly, thank you. >>> now to our exclusive reporting from afghanistan what the commander of american forces told us as he stepped down today with a long u.s. mission winding down and fears the taliban will gain complete control. we begin with nbc's courtney kube. >> reporter: today a ceremony in kabul marked the symbolic end of the war in afghanistan. general scott miller handed over the reins of u.s. forces in afghanistan to centcom

to thank the committee who have been supportive of this initiative, the vice chair and secretary fitzgerald and former commissioner and of course david harding, president emeritus and one of our founders for their continued support of what we do and last but not least, the staff. he's not the newest employee right now but one of the newest and joining him is daniel davis who is our newest lawyer and of course david, the advisor in one of the major broker programs and he supported them with henry solomon who worked on this important initiative. thank you to the sponsors and with a consulting firm that we hired to help us. one last important element today how intriguing and challenging and important they all are to us going forward. it entails the great work of the former president and ceo. i don't know whether or not -- there she is. i am hoping that your resolution will appear on the screen if our consultant could get that done. you have the resolution -- let me paraphrase a little bit of this. we are going to post it on our website to our friends and supporters. it is my great pleasure to

megan fitzgerald is there. >> reporter: tonight as the water recedes, a clear look at the vast devastation in western germany. neighbors and strangers working together to try and clear out the debris as the trauma of the worst flooding in more than half a century starts settling in >> he was calling help, help i can't swim >> reporter: 12 people died at this assisted care facility. neighbors heard the cries and wanted to help but were helpless >> i wanted to help them they couldn't open the windows. they couldn't open the doors because it was also inside. >> reporter: so they were trapped inside. three months worth of rain falling into 24 hours. streams and creeks turning into raging rivers, tearing through touwns, snapping concrete walk ways and bridges and homes. this man was trapped on the fourth floor of this build fing for two days residents salvaging what they k they scoured the river banks and train tracks searching for hundreds that could still be missing. the death toll, now nearing 200. today german chancellor angela merkel toured defendant station. promising federal aid to help

as megan fitzgerald shows, it's already having a huge impact. >> reporter: one bad decision can change that's what happened to lasean johnson in 2003 when he was convicted for possessing a pound of marijuana. it was his only run-in with the law, but he's been paying for it ever since. >> when i go fill out that application and they're saying, yeah, we'll call you, but they never call. or you try to apply for a loan as i did to go to college, to try to better yourself, and they say, nah. >> reporter: for years he tried to get his record expunged on his own even writing to the governor asking for a pardon. >> for the last three years and seven months, i've been without incident. >> reporter: of more than 2,000 marijuana offenders federally sentenced in 2018, roughly 84% were people of color, and black people are nearly four times more likely than whites to be arrested for possession. 19 states have legalized cannabis for recreational use. 16 are expunging past records. written into illinois's law restorative justice measures including automatic expungement for low-level marijuana arrest

hello, doctor sean fitzgerald.ases are going to rise. he says that it is in our hands, if we tear the pants out of it cases will continue to search, if we are cautious maybe they will not search so much. is that right? it cautious maybe they will not search so much. is that right?— so much. is that right? it has alwa s so much. is that right? it has always been _ so much. is that right? it has always been from _ so much. is that right? it has always been from the - so much. is that right? it has i always been from the beginning so much. is that right? it has - always been from the beginning of the pandemic, a mix of responsibilities. it starts with ourselves, the sort of thing is that we can do to try to reduce the spread of this horrible disease, hands, face, space, ventilate, and then other things such as getting vaccinated, then doing things like voluntary testing, so that we can just try to be forewarned whether we should be going out and mixing with people and on top of that, secondly, the thing is that the go

neighbors began taking pictures after complaining that the block of this street between gilman and fitzgeraldthe bayview has become a place to illegally dump trash and old applnc. cely fire and could've spread to surris the rub. the ci unaccepted street meaning technically they are not responsible for the pick up, so who is x we did some research. it says it shall be the duty of the owners of the lots. and what if they don't do it? section 400.5 says the director of public works shall remove or cause to be removed the rubbish or debris. >> reporter: we contacted the department of public works and they said they run an illegal dumping operation here twice a week, but daniel, a neighbor, said the trash never seems to go away. >> reporter: how long has that been there? >> for months. >> reporter: for now, to that trash has been cleared but the mayor said the city will codumping. >> we will be looking through some of that garbage and looking through some of those things and doing investigations and going after people. >> reporter: the board president represents the district and he said cameras wi

. >> thanks to megan fitzgerald for that report. she mentioned florida which has been the epicenter. no state is coming close to experiencing the sunshine state's explosive surge in new cases. hospitalizations in some areas are increasing at the fastest rate since the start of the pandemic. according to the cdc florida accounts for one in five new pandemics. over 73,000 cases were reported over the weekend alone. the number of cases reported by florida have jumped more than fourfold, reaching its highest point since mid january. >> it's gotten so bad in florida that you're actually hearing ron desantis talking about the need for vaccinations. we've seen republicans who were quiet on this matter for quite some time who are now actually telling those in their states who are getting sick, going to the hospital and many dying, that they have to get the vaccine. so whatever risks are inherent in those vaccines, it's nowhere near as dangerous as not getting the vaccination. you see in florida and you see in other states that haven't encou

it had to be the french katrina, i needed a long-form journalist, francis fitzgerald and come combat reporter and the woman that was my role model and mentor kate webb from australia. then it was the easy part of doing the research and writing the book. >> yes, the easy part. >> you start with the story that is -- in some ways common to everybody on why they got on that plane. can you just recount why you decided that you were going to go to vietnam? >> well, i'm the late bird. i arrived in january 1973 for the last couple of of the war and i was in graduate studies at the university of washington thinking i knew a lot because i was in graduate school after getting my undergraduate degree in south asia and southeast asia and then i had a master's, my master's thesis, adviser turned down my thesis at the same time i turned down invitation to go to bed with him and being youngish, 25, i-i did the obvious thing and took fellowship money and bought one-way ticket to cambodia as one does. the thing here is that i had a friend who i met during my studies and travel in india who had gone on

this is frances fitzgerald. she came with a lot of privilege and connections. that was used against her. people thought she's god it made, her money, all the connections she can get easy stories but she didn't. she did the opposite. the kind of reporting no one else was doing. she would go to the battlefield. that she was there and then to see how the civilians were taken care of. but then the smell and the noise and she recorded it all. she wrote it down. but without knowing it was hoping the american cause that goes spend time in one village to write a long piece for "the new york times" the life and the death of the village. >> and because i showed you all of katrine's pictures and want to read you a little bit from that magazine article 1966 united states as we been at war for one year and already zeroing in on the problems. from but in the military facility to be insecure. the americans armies but the tracks and the airplanes have altered the villages sense of time and space the very numbers in the vast powers of their machines had determine the scale of p

case just day by day just tore it to pieces of fitzgerald and somers and they did it annually. and the argument from the u. s. side from the, the extradition side in the u. s. had hired guns there. there argue was, well, that, that argument doesn't have standing because this is curly about extradition and not about whether the charges have any merit or anything like that. so that was just kind of a pre, a preview of what you, you're going to see in a u. s. us national security court. but the main thing, the main part about all of this is in a democratic system. it doesn't matter what happens outside the courtroom. in terms of the public conversation and the press would normally lead that the press would elevate the issue. people would rally around that again. due process, rule of law is all of that. it's been wiped away. that says little more about the state of democracy. in the democratic world, it's leading the rules based international order and in the rules based international order. you as the, the gold makes the rules or he has the most money makes the rules. but it's fun