so is the law on his side pretty joining me to discuss mayor knox county tennessee.acobs is back. one of my very favorite freedom fighters. welcome back rated so this is obviously executive overreach regardless of how you feel about covid-19, nobody likes their want anybody to get it. but the president cannot make these mandates as you say is a violation about the first and second amendments. guest: absolutely and this is not about the maxine. yes completely different issue as you said it is not about covid-19 although that precipitated all of this of course but it's the president's finding that i'm going to write on myself. going to go around congress values these emergency orders in the department of labor, and impacted tens of millions of people going to do it without this you do things constitutionally enough how we should do things in the country. kennedy: and you pointed out, the labor shortage now, it's really hard to get people to go to work and are you finding out in knox county. guest: absolutely, knox county employs about 2700 people so we are pretty large

well, today, schools canceled in the state's knox county after an anti-mask event yesterday in which parents openly plotted mass civil disobedience. including blocking the entrance of schools to stop kids from going to school. i'm going the play some of the sound from that event for you. the video is very grainy but you can hear what's being said >> communicated that some monday morning until this is over, we need to bring knox county school to a screeching halt staff has said parents, student, staff and bus drivers. so we have a moral obligation for our children's future. block the entrance to the school with your car. that's my suggestion block the entrance don't even let a bus in your schools. if you can be that bold in your groups, do it. >> here again, the key dynamic at play. the core of the issue for us as a society, as a country, there's real grass roots energy among certain part of the right wing republican base to protest the very basic health measures like masks and vaccines that will help get us out of this pandemic and save the lives we are losing and again, it's importa

and by not wearing masks in schools, it's irresponsible. >> wow, grady knox, student at rutherford county what courage it took you to stan up there with your mask on knowing there were some people who didn't want that to happen, a mask mandate. >> thank you for having me. >> first i want -- yeah. i want to give you a moment to talk about your grandmother, and what happened. >> so my grandmother had been living in a -- like a retirement type community. and we had minimal contact with you, you know, just giving her groceries so she could stay safe. at one point there was guests over and one of them graduate covid in. we feel like if they had been wearing masks better, then we could have probably avoided the issue. >> what was it like when you stood up there at the school board meeting to tell your truth, to advocate for wearing masks in your school and you heard people laughing and yelling at you and saying "sit down"? >> well, i knew going up that people were going to disagree with me, because, i mean, there is wherein there was a school board meeting. there were going to be people that di

knox was sharing the story at a school board meeting of losing his grandmother and many in the crowd laughed at him. >> this time last year my grandmother, who was a former teacher at the rutherford county school system died of covid because someone wasn't wearing a mask. this is a very -- >> no. >> those two minutes of roughly a three-hour meeting have spread on social media. knox says it is not a reflection of his home county rutherford county, tennessee. >>> wow. all right. so minnesota senator amy klobuchar says she was diagnosed with breast cancer early this year but that treatment has been successful. she says doctors made the discovery during a routine mammogram. a biopsy was recommended by the doctors. the biopsy revealed the senator had early stage breast cancer. the 61-year-old says that like many others, she delayed routine examinations because of the pandemic. now health officials recommend mammograms every two years for women between the ages of 50 and 74. don't put it off any more, ladies. >>> right now fresh fire fears this morning. putting on a dangerous show and a lightning storm setting fires unleashing some much needed rain in some spots. will it be enough? >> look at

teenager grady knox was trying to make the case for masks only to be mocked by the crowd when >> my grandmother, who was a former teacher at the rutherford countyool system, died of covid because someone wasn't wearing a mask. this is a very -- >> no. >> this is a very -- >> shut up. >> reporter: meantime, as covid cases surge more companies are postponing their return to normalcy. microsoft is now telling its employees their return to the office will be delayeds indefinitely. >> elizabeth, thank you. the tsa is increasing the fine for airline passengers who don't wear a mask. this confrontation on a jetblue flight is the latest example of an unruly passenger. fines will now range from $500 for first time offenders to $3,000 for second time offenders. >>> the justice department is suing texas over its new abortion l restrictive in the country. attorney general merrick garland slammed the law saying it was passed in open defiance of the constitution. the law bans abortions at around six weeks before most women even know they're pregnant and it leaves enforcement up to private citizens through lawsuits that can earn them payouts of $10,000 or mor