the new images of an apparent tornado ripping through annapolis, maryland. tornado watches and warnings in effect from north carolina to maryland, including washington, d.c. and philadelphia torrential rain drenching the midatlantic and the northeast at this hour students rescued from a school bus in maryland after it became trapped in rising floodwaters and over night, waters also surging into an apartment in rockville. a 19-year-old killed at least one person still missing. and later, we'll tell you about millions more americans facing extreme weather from the gulf coast to fire out west nbc's tom costello starts us off tonight from annapolis, maryland. >> reporter: touching down in and around annapolis, maryland this afternoon tornadoes on the ground for many miles, after spinning off from hurricane ida that slammed louisiana. >> please make sure you're inside. please make sure you're in your lowest level of your house. >> reporter: in downtown annapolis, power lines and signs ripped down in front of businesses. in nearby neighborhoods, roofs torn off and

host: anthony in maryland, and we hear next from jane also from maryland -- we hear from walter also from maryland on the republican line. caller: hello. this is so hypercritical. i can't see how we have to, especially down in texas, having to monitor every single president now -- single pregnancy now? if i want to preach a small government, i would preach small government. but it is the biggest game i could ever imagine. i do not understand why at every turn we just want to be hypocritical to everything in bidens budget. i understand it spends a lot but a lot needs to be spent. if we came to the table with reasonable suggestions, i'm sure he would want to listen. don't understand what is so complicated about understanding how we should all work. host: that is james in maryland on the flipside of the president's spending initiatives , how to pay for the section that is also the subject of the story in the new york times this morning. they say members of the senate finance committee meet this week to go over more than two dozen tax proposals. lobbyists are expecting the top individual

we are in maryland this morning. to crack a crab for the first time ever. >> first time? >> so it's an emotional day for janai as well. >> absolutely. got a lot going on. >>> also ike ejiochi is out there in baltimore with a group of health care heros from mt. washington pediatric hospital. we're going to tell you about a story how they pulled together to help a little girl that will surely touch your heart. >> ike and janai have it all covered for us in maryland this morning. >>> first, a lot of news starting with covid concerns. new fears that a surge in labor day travel could result in a similar surge of covid cases. this as people head back to work and the school year kicks into high gear. let's go back to our transportation correspondent gio benitez still there at newark airport for us. good morning, again, gio. >> reporter: hey, robin, good morning. yeah, the numbers just came in from the tsa. more than 7.3 million people were screened at u.s. airports since friday. and that doesn't even include all of the peop

i'm from anne arundel county, maryland.alk to you. >> that's a shock. >> and she was very shocked. she said, about what? maliek? and i said yes, actually. >> in an interview room at the sheriff's office the detective asked dolores about the night of the murder. if she was in maliek's apartment and if he was with her. >> she admits that she was there that night. >> what happened at maliek kearney's house? >> she was in the living room and he went to bed. as far as she knew, he was there the whole time. >> was this a sexual relationship? >> she said that they had been intimate for several years. >> so she's a long-time paramore. >> they definitely had a long relationship. >> detectives now knew one thing for sure after talking to dolores delgado. maliek kearney had lied to them. about being faithful to karlyn for starters. >> but more critically about what happened the night of karlyn's murder. >> stay at home, text on my phone. >> if you have somebody that can account for your whereabouts during the time of the murder, why w

. >> o'donnell: breaking news: a tornado touches down in maryland. tonight, the damage as the threat from more twisters continues. inside the disaster zone: we're in grand isle, louisiana, where every building is damaged, and the road to rebuild is uncertain. >> reporter: how bad is this? >> the worst. >> reporter: the worst. worse than katrina? >> y >> oonnell: on tro thcaldorire explodes. the fight tonight to savndom toe. how firefighters are using snow machines and high-tech military machines to control the blaze. abortion showdown: the protests against the new texas law, considered one of the most restrictive in the country. why it means someone could be sued for driving a woman to get an abortion. 32 count indictment: three officers and two paramedics face manslaughter charges in the death of elijah mcclain in colorado, the 23-year-old who was injected with a drug and put in a chokehold. $4.5 billion settlement: what victims of the opioid epidemic are saying, after a judge approves the bankruptcy agreement of drug company purdue pharma. and, ste

local officials believe a second tornado hit in edgewater, maryland, just across the south river.ere injuries, but officials told me 2,500 people are without power there's also been reports of both above-ground and underground gas leaks. extensive damage to commercial and residential property and the county has set up an emergency shelter for anyone who needs a place to stay and are offering free rides to get there. >> what's so scary about it is that even though we know the conditions were there, nobody knows when it's going to happen or where it's going to happen. it's really hard for people other than to shelter. >> reporter: now the national weather service had lifted the tornado watch for ann arundel county, where we are a coastal flood advisory remains in effect until 10:00 p.m. shep, it will take at least until midday tomorrow just to clean up this section of west street back to you.midday tomorrow just >> ylan mui live in maryland there are multiple tornado warnings at this moment in the philadelphia region. let's dip in live to nbc 10 in philadelphia where meteorologists

this one reported near annapolis, maryland, today. debris flying through the sky in front of this driver. damage littering the road after it passed. the rain triggering flash flooding and high water rescues in rockville, maryland. and near pittsburgh, children were rescued from their school bus trapped on a flooded road. again, watches and alerts from virginia right up through washington, d.c., philadelphia, new york city and boston through the night. and authorities are warning of significant and life-threatening flooding into the night. abc's senior meteorologist rob marciano leading us off. >> reporter: tonight, remnants of ida wreaking violent havoc on the northeast, spawning a flurry of tornado warnings near baltimore. >> we are tracking multiple tornado-warned cells. you can see lots of polygons firing up. >> reporter: this tornado spotted in annapolis. our janai norman on the ground just after the storms passed. >> check out the damage left behind here in annapolis, maryland, from the storm. knocking down trees, knocking down p

this is virginia in waldorf, maryland. good morning. caller: how are you?ng well, virginia. caller: my daughter is in new york, right down from the twin towers. so was her apartment actually. the devastation was really bad. after the towers fell it put them down in the basement of the building until the air could clear out. unfortunately, i'm in d.c. i worked at 1710h, right across from the white house. we lost one employee. we had employees that came out of the pentagon with their hands on their knees. you could feel the repercussion of the building, the pentagon when he got hit. our building in d.c. it was just a devastating day for anybody that has to experience it. the city was locked down. the buses could not come in. you had to ride the subway, and only certain lines. it was mass chaos. we had sharpshooters on top of our building. we had -- with the white house is, they blocked it off. you cannot get anywhere from vermont avenue to the white house, over to about g street, i guess. almost 21st. it was mass chaos. it was terrible. host: thank you virgin

, voluntarily more on the state of maryland to redraw our state's district. i'm also a senior fellow at the cato institute. good to have you and katie. i love you on the, shall tell everybody why introduce yourself. hi, i'm katie k. here i am, the executive director of an organization called the people. and i started a constitutional amendment to change how re districting happened in my state of michigan so that we could end gerrymandering. all right, so i'm going to give you 2 assignments, david gerrymandering, katie redistricting, all right in 30 seconds. david g start. sure redistricting is a great idea, right? because populations change and people die and new voters come into the system. so you want every district to be equal. the trouble is when you are politicians, draw those lines and determine where they go. they could create lines that favor their own side. that's when redistricting becomes gerrymandering. and it has become what used to be a dark arch in american politics has become a dark science. katie. your take? yes. and because they live in a re

tornadoes have been spotted in maryland as the storm heads north. flash flood watches are up through much of the northeast as the storm dumps buckets of rain. some areas could get 10 inches. tonight, the death toll from ida is up to six, and the situation in louisiana remains dire. tonight we're in grand isle, which took a direct hit from the category four hurricane. look at this-- every structure was damaged. we have more pictures ahead. and the lines for gasoline, they stretch block after block in the state. there's little clean drinking water, and the power is still out for nearly a million people, meaning there's no air conditioning as-- and-- and no relief, really, as these heat indexes top 100 degrees. we're going to go to louisiana in just a moment. but cbs' errol barnett is going to lead us off tonight in annapolis, maryland. good evening, errol. >> reporter: good evening, norah.. >> reporter: good eve we have a dangerous situation right now. this is as close as we can get, because emergency crews are rushing to plug several gas leaks after

. >>> to the south, tornadoes destroying homes from new jersey to maryland. the new images and where this storm heads next, plus, the growing crisis after ida slammed louisiana. the desperate search for gas and the long wait for the power to return. >>> breaking never night, a landmark ruling from the supreme court on abortion. what the justices have decided and what it means for roe versus wade. experts weighing in. >>> also, the six-hour manhunt for the suspect in a deadly high school shooting in north carolina finally comes to an end. >>> the urgent warning for parents about several popular baby items, linked to death. >>> this massive whale and paddleboarder. >>> why the ice cream machines at mcdonald's are the subject of a federal investigation. >>> good thursday morning, everyone. we begin with the deadly flood disaster unfolding right near in the northeast from philadelphia to new york and boston. >> the remnants of hurricane ida have unleashed a historic amount of rain overnight as you can and the storm is now making its way into new england after lea

others in pennsylvania, new york and maryland. kind of weather, john, that this place never sees. >> no, we just don't see something quite like this. again, nine deaths now up here, which is more than when hurricane ida hit louisiana as far as we know. we may learn more from louisiana and mississippi, but nine deaths from what was a really bad rainstorm here tells you just how catastrophic it is. and i have to say it's not surprising based on what i've seen on my way in here to you, which has been a little bit of an odyssey this morning. trees down everywhere. cars smashed from the trees. hopefully no one left in the cars. and then really, just cars abandoned everywhere. clearly people were caught in this, didn't expect it last night. they were out on the roads. the parkways the highways, and couldn't do anything. they got either their cars lite literally got swept away or they had to leave them where they were and abandon them in place. >> and it's not even just people's cars. the reason this travel ban was in effect until 5:00 a

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phil from des moines, charlie baker in massachusetts, larry hooker in maryland. i worked for all of these. guys i love. them but here's the thing, they are so out of touch with their own party, they can't take their state party chairman. and you know for years in

flooding has been reported over 400 kilometers from maryland to new york.ent says the last -- dealing with the increasing numbers of people heading for the border. it comes after days of violent clashes as mexico's national guard attempted to break up a caravan of migrants from central america. more now from mexico city. >> these are mexican national guard troops carrying out raids in southern mexico. in the dark and the pouring rain, the images show regions -- show agents rounding up migrants and asylum-seekers. those who avoided capture expressed confusion about what to do next. >> i was afraid and i had a feeling this mess could happen. that is why i want to turn myself in because they grabbed my husband and my two children. i don't want to go on by myself. >> confrontations between asylum-seekers and immigration authorities have escalated in recent days. government agents were caught on video violently kicking migrants. the u.n. has called on mexico to do more to ensure the rights of migrants and asylum-seekers. >> appoint mexico's president addressed d

phil scott in vermont, charlie baker in massachusetts, larry hogan in maryland. i work for all these guys. i love them. but here's the thing. they're so out of touch with their own party, they can't pick their state party chairman. you know from your years in

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland seek recognition? mr. brown: mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. defazio of oregon, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. defazio will vote yes on the johnson amendment. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. babin from the great state of texas, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. babin will vote no on the johnson amendment number 36. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? mr. veasey: as the member designated by mr. swalwell, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. swalwell will vote nay on the johnson amendment. . teufplt for what purpose does the gentlewoman from illinois seek recognition? ms. underwood: as the member designated by mr. rush pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. rush will vote yes on the amendment. as the member designated by mr. kim, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that

these tornadoes that spun off it as well, hitting the not only new jersey, but also the state of maryland. so really we as reporters and authorities who have been trying to fix the problems and put out the damages of just going all day to in stock, you mentioned the state of emergency that was in new york in addition to the fatalities that were suffered and more than 100 people who had to be rescued from vehicles who were pushed aside, they're dealing with a flooded subway system. we saw really dramatic footage of on social media of water just dumping into the subway. and it's pretty rare that new york subways have to close down, but they, they shut down completely for some time. now they're coming back online, mostly back up. but they'll be assessing those damages for days and weeks to come and, and working on them. and in fact, we heard from president joe biden today as well as addressing the situation here in the northeast and the continuing problems from ida in the southern united states in terms of power outages. and he is relating the increased frequency and the increased damages fr

i can tell you are all over the northeast from maryland up to new york. and including here in new jersey, the rain came so hard and so fast that many were caught off guard to be fair. new york did issue a flash flood warning emergency on wednesday evening. but it is such an unusual event here. the 1st time such an alert was ever issued in new york. it really seemed to catch a lot of people, including emergency responders and officials, a bit off guard. the record was broken for rainfall in an overnight period overnight. more than 20 centimeters fell in new york central park . normally that's what new york would see for the entire month of september, not just in one day. and it broke a record that was set for the most rainfall in an hour record that was set literally a week ago, almost doubled the previous record. so it was a very intense storm. and really just calculating the damages in that, in the destruction. here it is, is what's been happening, it's, it's course not just loss of life, but the subway system in new york city was massively flooded. part

here at anne arundel county in this area of maryland, the schools are closed. schools are delayed in some places. there were no injuries or deaths. that's good news. >> yeah. >> reporter: about 6,000 people are out of power. and so this, of course, is the eastern shore of maryland. this is not tornado alley. this is where that residents here are not used to this type of activity. we talked to one business owner earlier, who was talking to us about his business, his roof is completely ripped off his business, but his workers are all okay. hallie? >> gary live for us in annapolis, gateway to the east shore. i want to bring in now meteorologist bill karins. this is somerset, new jersey, a chopper shot coming in live from one of our affiliates. if they zoom back in -- again, we have no control over this camera. we're watching this with you live as it unfolds. it looks like there's another boat, another potential rescue. look at this. look at the flooding in these communities. look at how high the water is, coming up now to these homes. those are traffic lights. and

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated mr. defazio of oregon, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. defazio will vote yes on the bowman amendment. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated congress member napolitano, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that congress member napolitano will vote yes on the bowman amendment. madam speaker, as the member designated by congress member vela, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that congress member vela will vote no on the bowman amendment. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york rise? >> as the member designated by chairwoman eddie bernice johnson, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that chairwoman johnson will vote yea on the bowman amendment. as the member designated by congresswoman grace meng, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that congresswoman meng will vote yea on the bowma

the storm spawning several tornadoes in maryland, pennsylvania and new jersey.gain for al-qaeda extremists, terrorists, our next guest served on the front line of war on terror, they are not done serving, they are running for congress, retired david duke for the 47th congressional district. eli running for arizona's first district and morgan latrel, multiple tours in iraq and afghanistan and wants to represent texas eighth congressional district. former navy seal commander, former congressman, interior secretary ryan zinke is running again now in montano second district. the president of the united states says the chaos with the dismount from the country was unavoidable, do you agree? >> i do not. we abandoned our allies and we have abandoned our citizens and we are disgusted at our actions and this president and the cabinet are responsible and accountable. i'm sad for the loss of life and liberty and i'm angry because it was beth predictable and preventible. brian: morgan, looks like the chairman of chiefs of staff is open to talking to taliban an combined effo

our first call from maryland. good morning. caller: my question is -- what about the young afghan men aged 20, 25, who have grown up seeing their mothers engage in society, be educated, growing up with their sisters who went to school with them? what role can they play in supporting the women of afghanistan today? guest: that is a brilliant question and gives me an opportunity to tell you a story, without giving any names, of an evacuation that we tried to do three times in the last week of a family, of which a mother and father, two sisters, two brothers. the two brothers are exactly the age you are talking about, about 20, 21. their entire lives they grew up seeing their mother working, their sisters being educated. in the perilous attempts to try and get out of the country, they were defending their family and trying to help as much as they could. without giving too many details, it was disappointing it didn't work to get them out. they were right there defending their family's honor, defending their sisters, defending their

maryland just decriminalizeed paraphernalia. so there are pockets of progress but until we undo the war on drugs, which has been such a failure. it has not done anything to save a life. it has not done anything to reduce the number of drugs, the amount of drugs on the streets. when you talk about money, it goes to the dea in blocking packages coming in so what happens? they smuggle in smaller apples but with more lethal drugs. so, i really think the war on drugs is at the heart of the problem. >> so, we are coming down to just a few minutes left and i guess i would like to -- before i ask ben and jessie for closing statement i'm very curious what ben might be working on next. can you share anything with is? >> yes, my next book is about my relationship with my little brother me, mentee in the big brothers big sisters program. so we were padres paired two 2005 and together for 11 years until he was murdered in 2016 near his home in ferguson, missouri, which is near where i live in st. louis, and the murder was unsolved and so thi

host: that is susan in maryland.the washington post" highlights other states that have made changes to bring voting laws -- their voting laws. they provide a map. they highlight the fact that in 2021 that laws were made to pass voting. they highlight 11 states in which they became more restrictive, including idaho, wyoming, iowa, texas among them. 18 states doing that, california, oregon as part of that. colorado, new mexico, and minnesota including several on the east coast. there is a map you can find online, if you wish. texas is what we are focusing on, as far as the changes introduced by the governor there, signed into law. not restrictive enough is one way you can tell us, if that is what you think. maybe you think they are too restrictive. maybe you think they are just right. from oklahoma, this is jim on the line for not restrictive enough. hello. caller: every minority should be insulted by the accusation that it is restrictive to them because everyone in this country that is a legal citizen has an id to con

the maryland general assembly. jesse's percentage moyer, cover my dreams in ink, is a searing condition of one mother's desperate attempt to save her son, modify diagnosed from early childhood, he grows into man hard plague its be me. issues and addiction until his life ends at age 34 and an overdose mix its with fentanyl. she tells her story laced with his post triand all the fervor of a mother trying to experience others from experiencing the same. also with us today is ben west hoff, an award oning investigative journalist, his book bit culture, drugs and poverty are taught around the world, like jesse, ben also testifies before government body friday in this case on the national level. his latest work, fentanyl inc. is a near nextbook look at how send send send that's tick drugs killing children. >>> we have tales from across the done rim no north dakota to st. louis to the streetses los angeles include think where ben is today. he describes an out of control drug industry where it's far too easy to flip a mole

host: that is jeff in maryland.his is our lane in minnesota on the line for those who oppose the mandates. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i totally oppose this mandate. why is he mandating the american people to go ahead and get the shot when we are letting thousands and thousands and thousands come through our border from mexico and all over the united, all over the world, on american soil that have not been vaccinated? now we are bringing over the people from afghanistan. none of them have been tested. none of them have had a shot. how are we ever going to get this under control if we do not take care of the people that are coming here illegally to begin with first? host: that is arlene in minnesota. in the rules in the rules on how these mandates will occur and how the biden administration is moving them, the department of labor is set to issue those workplace standards in the coming weeks under an emergency temporary standard implementing that requirement for businesses that ha

third, william marbury is a wealthy bank president from a fable maryland family. a justice of the peace is a lousy job. it's even worse than being ya supreme court justice. it pays nothing. the job entails arresting prostitutes and drunks and deciding paid cases for less than five dollars. marbury doesn't really want this job so he's got to have some other motive for taking this case to the supreme court. finally, marbury cannot prove the commission was issued because madison refuses to participate in the case and provide him with a copy of the commission. and the only witness to the commission is john marshall who can't exactly testify in his own court. so marshall's brother james who is a district court judge finds an affidavit contesting that he meant to deliver the commission but forgot. none of this makes any sense. in my research, i discovered evidence that suggests the whole case was a setup. chief justice marshall , his brother james marshall, charles lee and william marbury sat down and plotted the case from the beginning to create a vehicle for marshall

and william marbury is a wealthy bank president from a maryland family. the justice of the peace did a lousy job is even worse than being a supreme court justice. and it means nothing on the job entails the risking of the prostitutes and the drunks in deciding cases from less than $5. margaret doesn't really want this job. he doesn't need this job pretty stories that have some other for taking supreme court. simple medicine wishes to have the case and provide him with a copy of the commission. and the only witness of the commission is john marshall who can exactly testify in court. so marshall's brother james is it district court judge, signs an affidavit attesting they meant to deliver the commission but he had forgotten and none of this makes any sense. in my research, i discovered evidence that suggests the whole case is a setup. the chief justice marshall and his brother james marshall charles late and william marbury sat down and plotted the case from the beginning to create a vehicle from washington to assert the court authority against the threat p

our first call from maryland. good morning. caller: my question is -- what about the young afghan men aged 20, 25, who have grown up seeing their mothers engage in society, be educated, growing up with their sisters who went to school with them? what role can they play in supporting the women of afghanistan today? guest: that is a brilliant question and gives me an opportunity to tell you a story, without giving any names, of an evacuation that we tried to do three times in the last week of a family, of which a mother and father, two sisters, two brothers. the two brothers are exactly the age you are talking about, about 20, 21. their entire lives they grew up seeing their mother working, their sisters being educated. in the perilous attempts to try and get out of the country, they were defending their family and trying to help as much as they could. without giving too many details, it was disappointing it didn't work to get them out. they were right there defending their family's honor, defending their sisters, defending their

>> i would advise maryland to wait for the moderna data.at the fda is waiting for currently. they have what looks like enough data for pfizer to make a recommendation, but for moderna, they don't have such because they received ua approval much later than pfizer. so i would caution maryland about going out and getting a pfizer vaccine and waiting for the moderna day to return. >> dr. lahita, this viewer question is one we've gotten quite a few times recently. about the covid vaccine and flu shot. margaret is asking can covid booster shots or initial vaccinations be given concurrently with flu shots? >> what's the recommendation? >> get one or the other and wait two to three shots. both of the shots have adverse reaction for some like headache, fever, muscle aches. i'm advising her patients to get the flu shot right away, when it comes out, then wait two to three weeks to get the booster shot if the booster shot is available and recommended by the fda. >> our next viewer question is another one we've been getting a lot. this is deb. do we ha

that video is from maryland a tornado touching down in maryland this afternoon badly damaging buildingsg southeastern pennsylvania bringing down trees and power lines and one western pennsylvania town, flood waters making roads impassable. 41 passengers had to be recused from a school bus trapped in the flooding. comes as we're learning more about the destruction, the utter destruction that ida left behind in louisiana. ed lavenandera is "out fron fro "tonight. > >>>. >> reporter: ronald hit the road to get out of new orleans. he made it 30 miles outside of town before running out of gas. >> we had enough gas to get there but stood in the line like this and we ran out of gas trying to get in this line. that's why we pushing so they went to get a -- we had a little can. we just trying to get by to get to lafayette. >> reporter: more than half of the gas stations with power in new orleans and baton rouge don't have fuel. many gas stations still haven't even been able to reopen. nearly a million customers are without electricity, many water systems across the region aren't fully functionin

host: let's go to vincent, calling from gaithersburg, maryland, on the republican line.aller: good morning. very quickly, i wish the people who -- president trump, who did so much for this country, that was not told, just educate yourselves. read his last speech. there is nothing in it to insight what happened. nothing. but, you must read the speech. they don't emphasize the fact that he did nothing. why would a man who loves this country want to try to destroy it with an insurrection? when will mayor bowser and pelosi, when will they be investigated? why did you hold back the extra national guard and whatever else was needed, while all of this was going on? that's all i have to say to everybody in america. have a blessed day, every day. let's all try to get along. host: let's talk to mike, who is calling from marion iowa -- marion, iowa on the democratic line. good morning. caller: hello. i want to go back a little. terry branstad was elected the governor of iowa and then i think it was the 17th, donald trump sent them to china. by the time they got to it, then shortly

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speak to two governors trying to bridge the divide, larry hogan, the republican from blue state maryland, and andy beshear, the democratic governor of red state kentucky. >>> plus the newly elevated fight over abortion. texas enacts the most restrictive abortion law in the country, dismaying abortion rights advocates. >> as a matter of reality, roe versus wade is a dead letter in texas today. >> the supreme court lets the law stand for now, cheering abortion opponents. >> a child is a child. this person is a person. >>> my guests this morning, former democratic senator claire mccaskill of missouri and former republican congresswoman barbara comstock of virginia. >>> also, long-term power outages in louisiana. record rainfall and flooding in the northeast. what hurricane ida tells us about the threat of climate change. joining me for insight and analysis, yamiche alcindor, the moderator of "washington week," washington post contributing columnist, matt bai, betsy woodruff swan of politico, and republican strategist brendan buck. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> announcer: from

and if that wasn't bad enough, parts of pennsylvania and the state of maryland were hit by --. drone footage showing damage caused in one city, annapolis. that's on the east coast, and meanwhile cleanup continues in the southern state of louisiana. parts of it have been devastated by ida when it passed through on the weekend. nearly one million homes and businesses remain without power and me towns have been completely destroyed, according to some reports. president biden is due to travel there on friday to assesshe damage for himlf. ♪ ros: now, we have to turn to some very, verg news from the d of music, because abba have released their first new music for the first time in 40 years. not just a track or two, they have released a whole album. pretty hard to exaggerate how much abba has already achieved in their career, selling over 400 million albums in around50 years. in 1982, they broke up and vowed never to return, and stuck to that for a long while. he we are, 2021, and they have released their first new music since en. ♪ ros: of course, reunions happen all the time, gave l

host: baltimore, maryland, emma on the moderate line.aller: good morning i think you for taking my call. host: you bet. caller: i do not have the problem with the progressive agenda and i think socialism is just a catchphrase. i have a problem that the democrats air their dirty laundry constantly. my position is, get it done. i don't care what you got to do. i don't care if you have to take something out. get it done. i am so sick and tired of my party fighting amongst themselves. i compared it to the republicans. they don't care what the proposition does. they will lie, cheat and move on. i am not saying that is the position we should take, but i have had enough of the back fighting and constantly, we are not going to give this. give something but you're going to be outcome 2022. thank you for taking my call. host: senator bernie sanders has a piece in usa today. usatoday.com, for america's sake we cannot cut the $3.5 trillion spending piece. the chairman of the senate budget committee, i proposed a $6 trillion reconciliation bill that

host: that is susan in maryland. "the washington post" highlights other states that have made changes to bring voting laws -- their voting laws. they provide a map. they highlight the fact that in 2021 that laws were made to pass voting. they highlight 11 states in which they became more restrictive, including idaho, wyoming, iowa, texas among them. 18 states doing that, california, oregon as part of that. colorado, new mexico, and minnesota including several on the east coast. there is a map you can find online, if you wish. texas is what we are focusing on, as far as the changes introduced by the governor there, signed into law. not restrictive enough is one way you can tell us, if that is what you think. maybe you think they are too restrictive. maybe you think they are just right. from oklahoma, this is jim on the line for not restrictive enough. hello. caller: every minority should be insulted by the accusation that it is restrictive to them because everyone in this country that is a legal citizen has an id to c