governor greg abbot refuses to make the schools mandate, as cases rise among the unvaccinated.tro brothers, msnbc political analyst and julian castro and texas congressman, joaquin castro. it is great to see you. start with the doj's decision for its prove to restrict transportation of migrants. the governor now using migrants as a political tool to shift the blame for the surge in new covid cases and why this is particularly alarming is because it comes two years after the gunman fueled by anti-immigrant rhetoric from president trump killed 23 people at an el paso walmart. does the governor understand the harm he can cause by his words and actions. >> governor abbott knows exactly when he's doing. he's putting a target on backs of brown-skinned imgrants and he's scared of losing his republican primary and he's using everything he can to play to his base and he's issued an executive order encouraging law enforcement to basically stop anybody who they think might be carrying migrants, but there's -- how would you determine that? how would you figure that out in a fair and reason

covid cases in the last week include texas governor greg abbot, a fierce opponent of mask mandates who were fully vaccinated and there are bombarding icus with children filling the beds. >> please get vaccinated. the best action you can do to protect yourself and others is to get vaccinated in the first place. >> we begin this hour with the situation in afghanistan, and nbc national security and military correspondent courtney kubi and weekend today co-host peter alexander, david ignatius and retired four-star army general mccaffrey. let's go to foreign chief correspondent richard engel. >> garrett, things here are looking more orderly than a couple of days ago, this is the kabul international airport and on monday this is where we saw thousands of afghans climb on to the fence, storm on to the runway and hanging on to civilian planes and u.s. military transport jets stopping the evacuation process. more troops have been brought in. more military vehicles are on display and there are fighter jets above and all day we've been watching groups of afghans escorted on to base, taken to proc

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now, officials have to also deal with governor greg abbot's executive order a mandate against mandates. localities here in texas cannot mandate vaccines and mandate masks and any operating restrictions on businesses or closing at midnight for bars and things like that. that is leading businesses and leading local officials do they start a legal battle with the state and things like n-95 masks are95 used to reus to the sprea of the virus. people taking things into their own hands and making decisions for themselves. i want to introduce you to one woman who one woman. >> it is by example. it is one-on-one conversations. it is unexpectation of accountability and being personal with it and being genuine and sincere. it is being available. making it accessibility and not backing down. not accepting the excuses.il >> so, guys, when officials asking nicely or incentives doesn't work, sometimes just those personal conversations with friends, neighbors and family that are the most effective. kendis, lindsey. >> thank you so much. >>> for more on all of this co-director of the center of vaccine

he is up for re-election next year as is his partner in carnage, governor greg abbot.ng political ambitions over the health of the citizens. school districts in florida are rejecting the lunacy. tell me what went on inside and outside that school board meeting in broward county today. >> today was a very, very interesting day. we had parents there advocating for masks options. a lot more apparents advocating for mandatory masks and we had elected officials present. we received hundreds and hundreds of e-mails for parents begging us to protect and to keep their children safe. i get to serve with a group of phenomenal women and always have dialogue about the law and about the consequences and about the health concerns and about the risks. and it kind of just came down to doing the right thing to protect the people that elect us to serve them as local school board members. you know we concluded we were not going to be bullied into self interest by the governor who is threatening to withhold our salary, the superintendent's salary. we just decided, eight of us decided that

school authorities in dallas and austin are requiring masks in defiance of republican govenor greg abbot's order. this comes as pediatric wards in houston are nearing or at capacity. one 11-month-old baby in houston was recently airlifted to a hospital 170 miles away because there wasn't enough space to get treated in a houston hospital. that is where we are going, and, -- where we are going, to houston, where we are joined by dr. christina propst. she is a pediatrician at a private practice and a member of the american academy of pediatrics council on children and disasters. she is also a member of the texas pediatric society committee on infectious diseases and immunizations. dr. propst, thank you so much for being with us. can you start off by explaining what the derrick -- with the delta variant has to do with this increased number of children being hospitalized? why are they so vulnerable right now? dr. propst: right now, we are in an unfortunate situation where the delta virus prevalent. the delta variantf covid-19 is the prevalent circulating variant in this country. it is more easi

county officials have ordered an indoor mask mandate in defiance of greg abbot whose statewide ban onenged in court. joining us now is houston mayor sylvester turner. thanks for taking time for us today. are optimistic that this mask mandate will not be overturned. >> it is to protect our families and children and people going to work. that's the emphasis. let me just say, yes, andrea. the local hospitals admitted 393 patients suffering with covid. that is the fourth largest number since this pandemic began. 393. there are about 2300 people in our local hospitals and we are now in phase 2 of our icu capacity. so the numbers -- [ indiscernible ] >> those are very high numbers, 393, how many of those are breakthrough cases of unvaccinated people? >> probably 90% of people who have elected not to be vaccinated. this is a pandemic of those who are unvaccinated and that's why we continue to encourage people to get the vaccination and we encourage people to put their masks on. >> and are you see anything uptick in vaccinations as there have been in other places because people are now really

greg gabbert made the announcement a day after dressing republican supporters indoors without wearing a mask. he's been staunchly against mosque mandates, despite the rapid search in new cases driven by the delta, various abbot issued an executive order last month. the bod, government entities for making masks mandatory or the us health agency suspects. there might be a 2nd case of the bowler in ivory coast. after confirming its 1st infection there in 25 years, they were in health. mister confirmed a woman who travelled from neighboring guinea was infected. she's believed to have been in contact with 9 people. 18 year old has been in hospital in abbey jump. world health organization has sent the bowl of vaccines to ivory coast. a project led by a former child soldier doing sierra leone. civil war is helping save the lives of children with life threatening illnesses. the project raises money to send kids abroad for treatment. dozens from poor families have been treated and all leading healthy lives. how many drink met some of the volunteers on the streets of frito. c volunteers from the sic picking project working the streets of frito looking for help. 3 times a week, they hit the st. visit wash of center's b

abbots order defied. county challenges ban on mask mandate. the require mask mandates. dallas and senate tone year or two big texas cities that have sued the republican governor greg abbottan any locality or any school districts from having a mask mandate. san antonio got somewhere with that, the big one a ruling who issued a temporary restraining order against governor greg abbott and his mask ban on all texas localities, dad judges order will allow send intoning to require masks and schools. which their health department wants them to, do as kids head back into the classroom. joining us now is the mayor of san antonio ron nirenberg, mayor ron nirenberg, thank you so much for being here i know this is a busy time for you in your city. >> thank you for having me, rachel. >> let me ask you first of all if i explained that correctly in terms of that impact of that ruling in the nature of this conflict that you have right now with the texas governor? >> the delta surge is so dangerous and rapid that every day matters. we contended that the governor used his emergency powers unconstitutionally to bind the harried of local officials, from dealing with -- to prevent us from de