this is lansing, michigan a year ago. a rally organized to protest covid restrictions with members of the state's militia groups openly taking part. what happened here was less violent than what took place at the u.s. capitol on january 6th. there were some scuffles and one arrest but according to law enforcement, a seed was planted, among a small group of people a plan was taking shape to do something much, much worse >> reporter: the alleged plan was to kidnap the governor and put her on trial for treason. all because of michigan's covid lockdown >> when that rally took place in lansing, i was very concerned about some of the people attending because i knew who they were. >> reporter: former u.s. attorney matthew schneider was part of the state and federal investigative team now speaking publicly about the case for the first time they had been watching the group called the wolverine watchmen for a while. by the fall more than a dozen men would be arrested for the alleged plot one man pleaded guilty the rest not guilty.

just been a downhill spiral since then. >> reporter: he's been here at lansing sparrow hospital since friday. frid >> just feels like somebody is sitting on my chest, a 500-pound guy sitting on my chest, and i just couldn't push him off. >> reporter: nationwide, the latest spike in covid cases is driven by younger americans, according to the c.d.c. >> we are learning outbreaks in young people are related to youth sports and extracurricular activity. according to c.d.c. guidance, these activities should be limited. >> reporter: also there's a spike in the b117 variant that originated in the u.k. and is now believed to be responsible for a third of all the cases here in the united states. >> we know that b117 is more transmissible, somewhere between 50% and 100% more transmissible. whether it's more transmissible specifically in different age demographics we don't yet have evidence. >> reporter: look at this jump in new covid cases here in michigan. >> all done. >> reporter: but there's also good news nationwide. four million vaccinations were reported on saturday alone. now more than o

, the farrow hospital here in lansing, because patients in the emergency beds are 18 to 49, and people who prior to this week did not have access to the vaccine, and i asked doctors what is driving the spread in that community. take a listen to what one doctor shared with me. >> because younger people tend to move around more, and maybe are a little less careful on average with their isolation or distancing and use of protective equipment that they may therefore be more contagious before they become ill enough to be in the hospital or isolated at home, and that, i think, is part of what's making a spike if you will worse along with the variants we're starting to see. >> reporter: the other big question here, of course, is will there be enough supply to meet this new demand. we know the white house is sending additional 60,000 shots to michigan this week and it will be interesting to hear if anything the president has to say about that, katy. >> thank you. dr. ramirez, what is your sense right now, and we have the guidelines from the cdc on vaccinated americans being able to travel, and

joining us now is a doctor, he is a family physician in lansing, michigan.lead for the committee to protect medicare. it's a pleasure and honor to have you with us tonight. thank youfor taking time out of your busy practice. >> the pleasure is all mine, thanks for having me. >> could you use more vaccine in your practice? >> absolutely. we could use more vaccines in our state. look, the -- i appreciate all the efforts that the biden administration as undertaken to help americans get to where they have gotten. they have instituted a national plan where they did not have one before. but michigan is hurting. and we are hurting for a lot of reasons that i am sure we will get in to. but, the federal government can do a lot of more to help with the vaccines that we get week after week after week. if you don't know how many vaccines you are getting, you cannot schedule people or patients effectively. you cannot schedule when you don't know how many are coming and how much you are getting. if the federal government surged our capacity, then entities across the state

this is lansing, michigan, a year ago. a rally organized to protest covid restrictions.aking part. what happened here was less violent than what took place at the u.s. capitol on january 6th. there were some scuffles and one arrest a. seed was planted. among a small group of people, a plan was taking shape to do something much, much worse. the alleged plan was to kidnap the governor and but her on trial for treason, all because of michigan's covid lockdown. >> when that rally took place in lansing, i was very concerned about some of the people attending. because i knew who they were. >> reporter: former u.s. attorney mathew schneider was a part of the federal investigative team, now speaking publicly for the first time. they'd been watching the wolverine group, by fall, more than a dozen was arrested. one man pleaded guilty. the rest not guilty. at what point do you switch from, okay, this is just a hairbrain idea, they're just talking to they're getting prepared to commit a crime? >> that is the critical point for law enforcement. when i saw that the folks had actually

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it take to bring relief to the millions of people suffering and joining me to debate this are from lansing mi. anti-war advocate an assistant professor of education at michigan state university and from new york peter styles barry senior analyst for yemen at the crisis group thank you both for joining me in the arena peter i want to start with you that the war in yemen has often been described as a proxy war with the saudi backed coalition bombing the country in order to curb iranian influence the u.s. and the u.k. have supplied weapons and many believe that iran continues to arm the whole of these with missiles that been fired into saudi arabia 1st what do these foreign powers have the right to be in yemen in the 1st place well that's a good question and there's no one simple straight answer to it's a thing the rights it's a pretty loaded question to start with right so is there a legal basis for justification for intervention arguably yes on the basis that the internationally recognized president had the us than to intervene and lead to the u.n. security council issue security council re

kristen umphlett have been taking in migrant children at their home with their four other kids in lansing, michigan, since last year. >> it's gone from being this is sort of a one-time thing with the government to now who knows how long it ould be ongoing. >> reporter: more than 172,000 migrants were stopped at the border last month, the most in 20 years. the biden administration telling migrants not to come, but unlike the previous administration, children traveling alone aren't being sent back to their home countries. >> this problem will continue to get worse because of the policies that have been adopted by the biden administration. >> reporter: and tonight we are learning more about 10-year-old wilton eniel gutierrez, the nicaraguan boy found alone near the border. his uncle misael, who lives in miami, telling univision his whole family cried when they saw that video. he says wilton and his mom were deported after they crossed into the u.s. two weeks ago, and then they were kidnapped. misael says he only had enough ransom to free wilton. the smugglers abandoned the boy after getting

berkeley california already bad offices for making stops for many traffic offenses in cities like lansing, michigan, dc following suit. >> you've got to show the law enforcement wants work hand in glove on those matters that improve the system, not stopping people because the taillight is out, not stopping people because their license is expired. this continues the discredited approach of broken windows in 1990s policeing, this needs to happen on a broad basis all across the nation. >> is this what they are doing in san francisco, petty crimes don't matter, but, go to the bathroom in the streets, all fine as long as we feel good about each other. bear in mind should be george floyd policing act pass, the great bananas the urban league and that is like it, one of those in line to receive 5% of the police force budget to create its own oversight protocol, they are on tv advocating and they will get a piece. this is a brazen attempt to destroy policing from within, and destroy the rule of law and biden's war, this is it, pitting american against american based on race, demonizing the police

cities like lansing, michigan, d.c. is following suit. >> you've got to show that law enforcement has to work hand and glove on those matters that communities do. not stopping people because a taillight is out. not stopping people because their license is expired. this continues the discredited approach of broken windows of 1990s policing. this used to happen on a broad basis all across the nation. >> sean: >> laura: isn't this what they're doing in san francisco, by the way? petty crime don't matter. go to the bathroom in the street. it's fine as long as we feel good about each other. bear in mind, should the george floyd policing act pass, the group known as the urban league and others like it, one of those in line to receive 5% of the police force budget to create their own oversight and protocols for local departments. i mean, so they're on tv and they're going to get a piece of it. this is a brazen attempt to destroy policing from within and destroy the rule of law. biden's war, yes, this is it. it's pitting americ

our lead national correspondent david begnaud is in lansing, the state's capital. what is happening there? >> good morning, just when you think we're at the end of the road with this pandemic with all of the vaccinations happening across the country, up pops michigan with yet another wave. this one is being driven by young people. it's not the elderly folks driving this. in fact half of the patients in this hospital here in lansing are younger than 60. >> it definitely feels like deja vu all over again. again, we know what to do. >> reporter: dr. meredith hill is the medical director of the emergency department, and she says that experience is making a big difference here at sparrow hospital, which is nearing capacity yet again. >> we are running probably 95%, 96% right now. again. >> we're nearing 95%, 96% right now. >> reporter: now michigan's test positivity rate is over 17%, compared with nearly 4% just a month ago. >> there's obviously more community spread right now. it could be because of the variants that are out there. schools are back in session. sports t

joining us now is a family physician from lansing michigan and the michigan state lead to protect medicarereal honor to have you with us tonight. thank you for taking time out of your busy practice. >> thank you. the pleasure is all mine. >> could you use more vaccine in your practice? >> absolutely. we could use vaccines in our state. look, i appreciate all of the efforts that at this time biden administration has undertake tone help americans get to where we have gotten and instituted a national plan when we didn't have one before. but michigan is hurting for a lot of reasons i am sure that we will get in to. the federal government can do a lot more. if you don't know how many vaccines you are getting, you can't schedule patients effectively. if the federal government were to surge our capacity then entities across the state that are administering vaccines could scale up. i talked to the health director in my area and she would love to scale up our capacity. we can quickly start immunizing people seven days a week but can't do that if we don't know how many vaccines are coming our way. i

. >> let's talk to clarence who is calling from east lansing, michigan. clarence, good morning. >> good morning. >> i've been inspired while hearing more about the speech that i never realized was given. so far i've just been receiving snippet tz of the. i think he was one of the great statesmen. we -- i feel like he doesn't get enough credit. thank you, sir, for enlightening me, and i'm going to seek further to find out as much as i can about the gentleman. thank you. >> well, thank you for calling in. i think churchill's words resonate today. not only the iron curtain speech but a lot of his great speeches as an orator. he had a vision and could see a global landscape like few leaders can. it was worth studying and i'm glad we have the chance to talk about him here at the national churchill museum every day, but certainly with milestone universities, it's time for us to look fresh and new at these words. >> like you said earlier, the speech was called "the sinews of peace" but came to be known as the iron curtain speech. how did that become known? >> ir

capacity and officials in michigan want the biden administration to surge vaccines to the state but lansingthe white house aren't exactly in sync. >> we are seeing a surge because of these variants. that's precisely why we're encouraging them to think about surging vaccines into the state of michigan. >> vaccine doses administers how we're going to get through this. it means responding differently. and right now the most need is in the state of michigan. >> we have to do this in a fair an equitable way. we're in the middle of this process. we have -- we still are in the middle of it. we have a lot more people to vaccinate and so we're offering personnel help. you mentioned the federal help that we're bringing down to michigan to help with, to be vaccinators. >> nationally covid deaths continue to fall. last week the case numbers and hospitalizations are leading indicators those -- president biden's deadline to make all adults eligible for vaccine is one week away but distribution of j&j will fall 84% this week. with some of the manufacturing problems they face, it's unclear when the supply

i think we saw people storm the capitol lansing, michigan.i think one of the most, i think in december, trump storm the capitol in salem, oregon, the first time they have been hostile to police. that was new. i don't think we will see the same thing around covid-19 now that the vaccines are here, but i think the one thing i will be looking at is gun laws, so i think how gun laws, what laws, joe biden has promised to come his promise about the ban, he was one of the senators that passed it in the 1990's. it is one of the many factors that drove the emergence of the modern militia movement, so diane feinstein has promised something soon, so it depends on that, whether we will see that kind of violence. >> i wondered if you saw in the way that the militia movements are usually oppositional to the state, which is very different under trump, or for the first time the state was beckoning to them and inviting. we we see a return to that? very briefly, qanon contain so many things and got all wrapped up in stop the steal, there is an intersection the

. >> reporter: at lansing's sparrow health system covid-19 admissions have risen 600% in a month. >>re trying to see where we can pull extra staff from. >> reporter: the hospital had disbanded its covid incident command center with cases piling up they are reestablished it. >> in december we had a high of close to 150 patients, right now we have 95 and at the rate it's going if it doesn't abate we will be at 150 patients in 15 days. >> reporter: 15 days? >> yes. >> reporter: do you know where the top of the curve is? >> we do not know where the top of the curve is. >> reporter: this doctor specializes in caring for patients at covid at beaumont health royal oak, part of the largest health care system in michigan. covid tests of some patients sent for dna analysis indicate a worrying sign. sharp increase in the new more contagious possibly more lethal b.1.1.7 variant. >> right now the regular covid test we do is still just showing covid/no covid. we send a lot of those out to the state and are seeing 40% of our patients b.1.1.7. so a big percent. >> reporter: as older michiganders and

but still warm in lansing. some 40's 50's 60's and yes, even 70's as you head out the door. so quite the temperatures spread. 25 degree difference from coastal areas specifically pacific and happen bay currently at 48 degrees pittsburgh, though, in the low 70's with widespread low to mid 50's in between for most bay area. cities conquered, though, 67 degrees and we're tracking widespread low to mid 50's around the bay area shoreline downtown san francisco 50 degrees and oakland currently in the mid 50's as nevado currently at 54 degrees. so the air conditioning system that mother nature has is right on blast and on our coastal areas right now throughout the san francisco peninsula even extending inland into the east bay valleys but not by much because temperatures there still in the low 70's for some of our warmest inland spots. but we're going to track some gusty winds on tuesday where we could see gusts upwards of 45 miles per hour. less luckily in time with our cool down, bringing us back down to near average. so no fire weather concerns there, but just stay safe and be c

stacey abrams in georgia makes that point and mayor quiche yeah, lanse bottoms makes that point.e president make that point, but i assume that's something that major league baseball and other major businesses have to think about. >> this is not a zero sum game. we're excited about the jobs the all-star game is going to create in our area, jobs in the service industry, a big weekend, hospitality industry so there's going to be a net gain of jobs in colorado, a chance to showcase. cole alcohol been in the running. we were working on preparations for a bid for an all-star game '24 and '23, a couple years out. we're ready to go. in my conversations with the commissioner, i told him we're scrappy and ready to move quickly. working closely with the mayor of denver we were able to make the case. here in colorado means jobs for low-income workers who have been hit hardest by the pandemic and frankly among many other things to be excited about, i think that's something we can all celebrate. >> i want to give you a chance to respond to those republicans who are pushing back on major league

. >> at lansing, covid-19 admissions have risen 600% in a month. >> we're trying to see where we canstaff from. >> the hospital had disbanded its covid incident command center with cases piling up they've reestablished it. >> in december we had high close of 150 patients. right now we have 95. at the rate it's going if it doesn't abate we'll be at 150 paishts in 15 days. >> 15 days? >> do you know where the top of curve is? >> no. >> reporter: doctor who specializes in caring for patients with covid at beaumont health royal oak, part of the largest healthcare system in michigan. covid tests of some patients sent for dna analysis indicate a worrying sign. sharp increase in the newmore contagious possibly more lethal b.1.1.7 variant. >> right now the regular covid tests we do, that's still just showing covid/no covid. we do send a lot out to the state and showing 40% of the patients b.1.1.7. >> oh, right. >> yeah, big%. >> reporter: those get vaccinated hospitalizations for them have plummeted. now the hospitalized typically younger and healthier. >> each surge brought different challe

. >> let's talk to clarence, who is calling from east lansing, michigan. clarence, good morning. good morning gentlemen. >> good morning. i have been inspired since january or march about the speech. i never really realized that was given. so far, just been receiving snippets of churchill's speeches he gave. i think he is one of the greatest history people in history, one of the greatest statesmen that ever lived. i hate to say it but possibly we may have been speaking german or japanese or italian if it were not for people like him, you know? i feel like he does not get enough credit. so thank you, sir, for enlightening me. i'm going to seek further and find out as much as i can about the gentleman. thank you. >> thank you for calling in. i think churchill's words resonate today, not only the iron curtain speech, but a lot of his great speeches and oratory. he in fact had a vision, and could see a global landscape like few leaders can. it is worth studying. i'm glad we have the chance to talk about him here at america's national churchill museum every day, certainly with milesto

in lansing, here's nbc news' priscilla thompson. >> reporter: shep, michigan has been leading the country in new coronavirus cases for the past several weeks, and in the last 24 hours, the state has reported more than 11,000 new covid cases. that is the highest single-day record since this pandemic began more than a year ago and doctors here at sparrow health tell me that the majority of patients that are filling their hospital beds right now are not those older patients that we saw early on in the pandemic but they are people under the age of 50, those who have not yet had an opportunity to be vaccinated yet now, the good news is michigan this week has expanded their vaccine eligibility to include anyone over the age of 16, and doctors and elected officials are hopeful this could help to curb some of those numbers but many folks tell us it will get worse here before it gets better take a listen to what one doctor shared with us. >> if our predictions continue to hold, we will significantly exceed the peak we had before. so part of us in our leadership role is to remind people of the real

they had an insurrection at the capitol on january 6th, they stormed the michigan state capitol in lansingapons like this. we're done. we're tired of being scared. i'm sorry you don't like them anymore. we'll have a buyback, but we're done. we're done negotiating over this. and i don't know what the counterargument is. i don't know what logical pushback is to americans who are like, screw it, we're scared, we're done. >> the first thing i'll tell you, joshua, is that that's a compelling argument you make to most americans. i can tell you that i certainly don't see any need for me to have any of those kinds of weapons. but there are people out there who are very passionate about this issue and they view any infringement, any restriction as the beginning of a slippery slope that will eventually end up in the government taking all of their weapons. now, of course, that's very unlikely. and a lot of people have been manipulated by groups and organizations and politicians to believe that that is actually possible. but those are the arguments that you will tend to hear from republicans. >> donna

let's talk to clarence who's calling from east lansing, michigan clarence. good morning. yes, good morning. gentlemen. good morning, you know. yes, i've been inspired just about hearing your more about the speech that i never really realized. that was given, you know, so far just been receiving just snippets of a churchill speeches that he gave. i think it's one of the greatest history, you know people in history one of the greatest stations that ever lived in i hate to say it, but possibly we may have been speaking german or japanese. so italian now, it's a wonderful people like him, you know. i feel like he doesn't get enough credit. and so thank you, sir for enlightening me and i'm going to you know, seek further to find out as much as i can about the gentleman. thank you. well, thank you for calling in. i think you know we churchill's words resonate today. not only the iron curtain speech but a lot of his his great speeches in order he was in fact had had a vision and could see a global landscape like few leaders can so it's it's worth worth studying and i'm glad we'r

really good news to the doctors and nurses across the state, especially here at sparrow health in lansing. because the majority of cases filling up the hospitals and bring it to almost capacity are younger patients, ages 18 to 49, who are getting sick enough to need to be hospitalized as a result of this virus because they had not had the opportunity to get vaccinated yet. but, of course, with this increase access to the vaccine comes a question of will there be enough supply to meet the demand? we know the white house is sending 60,000 additional doses here to michigan this week and providers are going to be working to get those into arms as quickly as possible. stephanie? >> priscilla, thank you. >>> joining us now with some invite, dr. kavita patel, former white house policy director for president obama. dr. patel, what do you make of this news, president biden moving up the date to april 19th when all adults should have access to this vaccine, how big of a deal is that? >> good morning, stephanie, it's a huge deal and it can't come soon enough as you're covering this increase in cases

nbc's maura barrett is in lansing. maura, what is going on there? >> stephanie, michigan is beginning it's seventh straight weeks of an increase in hospitalizations. and they're vaccinating several thousand a day here but they said they still haven't seen the peak of testing when it comes to the latest surge, and he's predicting it will be eight more weeks until they find their way out of this surge, regardless of any more vaccine allocations the governor is calling for coming from the white house. she spoke yesterday on cbs "face the nation" and why she needs this extra help. take a listen. >> when there is a surge, we think that it's important that we go to -- we rush in to meet where that need is. what's happening in michigan today could be what's happening in other states tomorrow and so it's on all of us to recognize we can squash where we're seeing hot spots. it's in everyone's best interest. >> so the white house said they will not be allocating more vaccines to michigan because they're pushing all available vaccines nationwide and anything t

. >> reporter: at lansing's sparrow health system, covid-19 admissions have risen 600% in a month. >> see where we can pull extra staff from. >> reporter: the hospital had disbanded its covid incident command center w. with cases piling up, they've re-established it. >> reporter: in september, we had close to 150 patients. right now, we have 95. the rate it's going, we'll be at 150 patients in 15 days. >> reporter: 15 days? >> yes. >> reporter: do you know where the top of the curve is? >> we do not. >> reporter: dr. justin specializes in caring for patients with covid at beaumont health royal oak, part of the largest health care system in michigan. covid tests of some patients sent for dna analysis indicate a worrying sign. a sharp increase in the new, more conte contagious b.1.1.7 variant. >> we're seeing something like 40% of our patients now with it. >> reporter: oh, right? >> yeah, so big percent. >> reporter: as older michiganders get vaccinated, hospitalizations for them have plummeted. >> each surge has brought different challenges and when we address them, we felt very strong

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