of violent oppression came down especially hard in mississippi.as happening in new york city. a 25 year old map teacher at a private school in the bronx was reading about this and felt compelled to get involved. there he found out not only had a talent for math in education but also had a incredible talent for organizing and talking to folks, for mobilizing. his name was bob moses. and 1964, this softspoken matched teacher with a masters degree in philosophy from harvard, would become the principal organizer of the freedom summer project, an effort to dislodge the state of tyranny by initiating voter registration. >> we hope to send into mississippi this summer upwards of 1000 teachers, ministers, lawyers, and students from all around the country who will engage in what we're calling freedom schools, community center programs, voter registration activity, research work, work in the white communities and in general a program designed to open up mississippi to the country. >> people did come and so did the violence to meet them. in the summer of 196

he went down to mississippi.talent for math and education, but also had this incredible talent for organizing. for talking to folks. for mobilizing. his name was bob moses. and in 1964, this soft-spoken math teacher with a masters degree in philosophy from harvard would become the principal of an effort to dislodge the state of tyranny by initiating voter registration drives. >> we hope to -- to send, into mississippi, this summer, upwards of 1,000 teachers, ministers, lawyers, and students from all around the country, who will engage in, what we are calling, freedom schools, community-center programs, voter-registration activity, research work, work in the white communities. and in general, a -- a program designed to open up mississippi to the country. >> people did come. and so did the violence to meet them. in a summer of 1964, alone, mississippi journalist jerry mitchell reports klansmen had killed six people, shot 35 others, and beaten another 80. the homes, businesses, and churches of 68 mississippians asso

>> well, in mississippi we are doing several different things. we are holding in-person events in cities. we had our first one last week, you know, over 1,000 people came, land lords and tenants. you know, hundreds of complete applications filed. working with utility companies, you know. one of the things we did to publicize the jackson event was drop a flyer in everybody's water bill because we can, you know, pay rent and utilities. so it is just, you know, running up against this eviction deadline. the eviction deadline is not hopefully going to be the cliff that we fear it will be. hopefully landlords will act in their own best interests and in the interest of their tenants. >> gosh, let's hope not. pam, i know you are in the know in that area. you have gotten a lot of text messages, messages from folks, people coming up to you asking for help because of what is happening with this eviction moratorium. people already homeless, not even waiting until midnight, right? >> absolutely. >> folks already living in their cars. give me a sense of the s

repeated flooding on the mississippi river. the south is a predominately minority population and faces unique economic challenges which are made worse by the recurrence of flooding. this region is flooded in eight out of the last 10 years and most recently this year with nearly 300,000 acres inundated. flooding was worse in 2019 with over half a million acres under water for months. water over top roads closed three highways cat many residents are from leaving their homes 32 and 31,000 acres of cropland were flooded destroying livelihoods in a region where a group culture is the main income driver and wildlife was forced to flee to higher ground pick 686 acres were destroyed and two people were tragically killed. according to one study from mississippi state university the 2019 backwater floods resulted in residents with $2000 in a pocket expenses. q. in you imagine people refusing to build levees around the property to keep the floodwaters from encroaching. these are cost of many residents cannot afford. roughly one third of t

she grew up in jackson, mississippi and worked for years in low-paying jobs.e many parents who can't afford reliable child care, she had to come up with patchwork solutions which included having her older kids watch their younger siblings. >> i wanted to be able to work. i wanted a career. i wanted a place where my kids could grow and be kids and not have to worry about the responsibility of taking care of the younger kids a having such a burden on them at a young age. >> reporter: ethel's story is not unique. mississippi has the nation's highest rate of women as primary breadwinners for families. and most are in low-paying jobs, living below the poverty line with little to nothing left to pay for child care. according to one study, a typical family in mississippi, with an infant and a four-year- old, has to spend about 20% their income on child care. but there are federal programs to help low-income parents-- head start and child care subsidies in the form of vouchers. and neither program is universal. carol burnett is director of the nonprofit mississippi lo

for the "pbs newshour" i am t wise in mississippi. tomorrowight as our series travels to nebraska where a lack of affordable childcare highlights how rural parts of the country face a dilemma similar in many ways for in major cities. , too and you can watch last nights story and all our coverage in this series on our website, pbs.org/newshour. ♪ as statues of generals robert e. lee and stonewall jackson were taken down in charlottesville, virginia this weekend, communities around the country continue to grapple with reminders of confederate culture. in an exhibit in lincoln, massachusetts, a sculpture park and museum features the look and winning behind the confederate flag. special correspondent jared bowen explores the exhibit of the 2020 winner of the museum's prestigious prize, as part of our "race matters" and "arts and culture" series. reporter: feeling much of the gallery space is a confederate flag of truce, or as the title of the exhition explains "we should know." >> i want everyone to know what this flag is so we can concei

mississippi, he described was a theater in the civil rights movement.used mississippi to really amplify the national fight that we were in. he understood that the local fight had global implications. as a result of that, along with so many others, they organized freedom. they addressed an issue of the democratic party with exclusionary primaries and they broke that barrier. they created world community help centers that stand today. he was and is one of the most profound thought leaders of the civil rights movement. he put community interest above his ego, he understood that egocentric leadership failed every time, but community centric leadership is what would prevail, and we must stand in solidarity. he was such a profound leader. amy: derrick johnson, we wanted to play bob moses himself, the former field secretary of sncc and founder of the algebra project. this is from a documentary, that was about the freedom summer. we will play a clip, a 2009 interview with bob moses on mocracy w! later,ut right no a clip om the cumentary film "1964: the , fight

one out of every six jobs in louisiana is from the mississippi river.to say it's one of our greatest-- probably our greatest natural resource. >> reporter: hathorn has navigated large ships up and down the channel for decades. >> our area is one of the most treacherous pilotage areas in the world-- very congested, with tens of thousands of barges, hundreds of tow boats. we have i think seven bridges in between new orleans and baton rouge to navigate through. it can be very trying on a person. >> reporter: even in normal conditions, navigating the mississippi is so challenging that a specially-trained local pilot must steer every international freighter safely to port. but the unpredictable high water season is making that job tougher. 2019's flooding was record- setting for both its duration and volume. >> we've had twisted anchors, broken anchors, brok chains. ten, 15 years ago, you didn't see that. >> reporter: captain jared ruiz of the east baton rouge sheriff's office deals with the aftermath of broken chains and twisted anchors. >> we'll come out h

the university of mississippi medical center. and they tell us that as of this morning they had six children in the hospital because of covid-19. three of them in intensive care. the vast majority of those children under the age of 12, which means they are not currently eligible to get vaccinated. doctors here say the issue is that people around those children are not getting vaccinated. adults, older children, who are eligible in this state, many of them have opted not to get a vaccine, and because they have not gotten vaccinated, there isn't a bubble, if you will, that can protect those who are not able to get vaccinated just yet. mississippi has steadily been at the lowest rate of vaccination statewide. they're 49th today. typically they rotate with alabama, back to 50, and have gone kind of back and forth, back and forth. one of the big issues appears to be misinformation. people for whatever reason are choosing to believe what they read on the internet instead of doctors who they normally trust. doctors here are doing everyt

it began in winona, mississippi, on a july morning in 1996.er tardy furniture opened for the day, the store's owner, book-keeper, delivery man and a 16-year-old were shot in the head, execution style. no one saw it happen. when you heard about the crime and the way they were murdered, what was your reaction? >> curtis flowers: well, my heart dropped. the, the first thing, you know, i-- i felt sorry for them. then i thought, well, i could've been there. >> alfonsi: curtis flowers had worked at tardy that summer for three days, delivering and fixing furniture, but he was let go after he stopped showing up. almost immediately after the murders, some victims' families suspected flowers. the police questioned him, but made no arrest. months passed. flowers moved to texas to live with his sister. and there's a knock at the door. >> flowers: and i answered it. and the next thing you know i was all up against the wall, being handcuffed. and he explained to me that, "we just have a warrant for your arrest back in mississippi." i said, "for what?" and h

mississippi formally asking justices to overturn roe v.e, a case and a decision that could make abortion illegal nationwide less than a year from now. what you need to know, coming up. good morning, i'm hallie jackson in washington with our nbc news team starting us off. keir simmons in tokyo, cal perry outside los angeles, antonia hilton in provincetown, massachusetts and dr. natalie azar. covid is the big story, it always has been, and today keir you are at the center of that international headline and the other big one the olympics beginning today, the opening ceremony happening as we speak on our sister network nbc news and a lot of frustration with japanese folks about these olympic games, not many people are vaccinated, businesses hit hard by covid restrictions, athletes, more today testing positive for covid and you're talking with the prime minister about all of it. >> that's right, hallie the opening ceremony celebrating the history of japan, like this amazing temple in kyoto. we've been out on the streets across japan talking to

depiction of the home front in mississippi yeah, steve. i think the way that he talks about the slaves who are trying to escape was ridiculous because it he sort of like made it into this like deep deep sea, like spiritual exodus that like the white characters couldn't understand and all the slaves were moving. it's like a solid mass towards this this freedom. they thought they could obtain, but it was eventually hopeless and like they didn't know any better. i feel like i don't know i've i feel like it's kind of offensive non that he like painted the black characters as like, you know, untrustworthy or bad or unintelligent because like they're not that it's just like he's saying that they have these like spiritual motivations that that can't be understood and it really can be understood. they're just trying to not be slaves anymore. i feel that the fact that he paints them as is so like you know sort of a sense of being like other or different and in that sort misguided is just he kind of i feel like it's just kind of a not even a racist.

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wallace, the same thing with the mississippi basin. there were thriving mississippian cultures throughout the mississippi river basin up until between 1200 and 1500, and they began to disappear largely because of prolonged drought. what we are experiencing with climate change is not new. in your work, how are you preparing for the climate change that is coming that we cannot do anything about, or are you taking that into account, or have you looked into the history of climate in the region? >> yes, and we are continuing to do that, knowing what has happened, that history. there's a few things we are trying to do to prepare ourselves for the future and act now. we are working on our science. the u.s. geological survey now has a next generation water program which intensely monitors a basin. one is the illinois river basin -- >> i'm very happy you are doing that. i've only got a few seconds left, and i want to bring this up. i grew up dirt poor in rural alabama, and i'm concerned. there was an article that was in "the new york times" tha

mississippi reported more than 1,800 new covid cases today.e at saint dominics, they're getting ready. they're going to be adding 24 beds to their covid wards, and doctors and nurses are getting mentally prepared for the next surge. covid patients are again filling up the rooms at saint dominics in jackson. for the doctors and nurses... >> i'm very concerned about p.t.s.d., i'm worried about them questioning their choices of going into health care. >> reporter: mississippi continues to have one of the nation's highest rates of infections and one of the lowest vaccination rates. >> non-vaccinated. non-vaccinated. non-vaccinated. non-vaccinated. non-vaccinated. non-vaccinated. >> reporter: on tuesday, there were also six more reported deaths, including a child. in the past week, more than 38,000 new cases were reported nationwide, just among children. to the c.d.c., the vaccine is the key to victory over the variant. >> if we get people vaccinated who are not yet vaccinated, if we mask in the interim, we can halt this in just a matter of a coupl

mississippi is a rural state, and as we discuss we are a would basket in mississippi. i have raised this issue before with the force service, but i want to raise it again, because it's really important and significant to rural communities and my state. to the rural economic development and southwest mississippi, which is one of the prettiest parts of our state, that's where we can capitalize on, is the forest there. it just has tremendous potential. section 80 6:31 of the 2018 farm bill is the amendment of the that i gave to authorize a transfer of 150,000 acres from the u.s. for service to the scenic rivers development alliance, which is a regional organization dedicated to rural economic development and outdoor recreation. they are in southwest mississippi. the land surrounds a kiss lake. it's a 1075 acre recreational lake for our fishing, boating, picnicking and swimming, and it's just absolutely beautiful. unfortunately, the lake alone is not doing very much for the surrounding rural communities. we spent a lot of money developing that lake, but it's just not offer

let's take, for example, the state of mississippi. new cases are up 95% in mississippi over the last two weeks. hospitalizations are up 79%. only 34% of mississippians are fully vaccinated. they are tied for last place with the smallest proportion of their population fully vaccinated. the states with low vaccination rates like mississippi are and will continue to be in dire straits until more people get vaccinated. that's going to take work. it's going to take creativity. it's going to take someone like denise taylor. she used to be a professional basketball coach. she was the head coach at jackson state for ten seasons. she went on to be a coach for the wnba. these days she works in health care. she runs an operation for a clinic in the western part of the state and right now she's doing something in mississippi that quite honestly could be the playbook anywhere struggling to get people vaccinated. ms. taylor is a one-woman traveling salesforce, trying to sell the vaccine across her community to people who haven't gotten it. she driv

what's bold is that mississippi said you need to overturn two cases. what will be argued in the fall. will the supreme court overturn roe? wouldn't seem to be in keeping with the recent style, which is to do everything incrementally. this would be a huge step. but of course, the challenge for mississippi is how do you allow a state to ban before viability if those decisions on the books say you can't do it. how do you fit that square peg into the round hole has always been the real problem for the state. so this is a bold move by mississippi, acknowledging basically what was always lurking in this case. >> always lurking and now it is here. pete williams, thank you. leave it there. >>> coming up, after an historic night for sports with all women broadcast team, what now? and how do we make sure it is not just a one off. alana rizzo is one of the journalists and joins us next. n jonaurlists and joins us next. ♪ ♪ when technology is easier to use... ♪ barriers don't stand a chance. ♪ that's why we'll stop at nothing to deliver our technology as-a-service

mississippi takes this big step.t to curb it, but it's asking it to overturn roe v. wade, the landmark opinion almost 15 years old that established the right to abortion. of course, this is going to thrust these justices into the center of the political hot spot. they are going to hear this case next term. they will decide it by the end of june, and that's right before the midterm elections. and as you said, this law, this controversial law, most abortions after 15 weeks, no exceptions for rape or for incest. lower courts struck it down because they said look at roe v. wade. a conservative judge, a trump appointee in the lower court said, look, my hands are tied here. that's why mississippi asked the court this big step to overturn roe v. wade. all eyes are going to be on the conservative justices. think of chief justice john roberts just back in 2020. he sided with the liberals to block the louisiana law, but he did leave some room for restrictions. and on the other end of the spectrum you've got justice clarence th

that's really where we are. >> reporter: hospitalizations in mississippi have more than doubled since the beginning of july, including 12 children in the icu. ten of them on ventilators. 85% of all new cases are linked to the delta variant. now the state is sending vans to reach everyone who wants a vaccine like 67-year-old kelvin smith. what made you want to do it now finally? >> well, it's getting bad. >> reporter: the shot here comes with a pep talk from the clinic's operations director. >> you're doing the right thing because i'm telling you, this delta variant is no joke. >> reporter: of the 12 children, four are being treated at the hospital behind me. two are on ventilators. dr. bryan says the state is also facing another crisis -- worn-out health care workers bracing for the next surge. omar villafranca, cbs news, jackson, mississippi. >>> out west more than 14,000 fire crews are fighting raging wildfires covering close to one million acres. the bootleg fire in southwest oregon is now the nation's largest wildfire, exploding in size yesterday. the flames grew to more than 200,

they have made mississippi state and the entire magnolia state of mississippi proud. in the words of the late jack crystal, the voice of the bulldogs for many, many years, you can wrap this one in the maroon and white. i yield to my colleague from mississippi. hide. mrs. hyde-smith: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from mississippi hyde thank you. i'm pleased in congratulating mississippi state university baseball team on its recent 2021ncaa world series championship, the first ncaa championship in school history. mississippi state capped off its extraordinary season by defeating an incredibly talented vanderbilt university team 9-0 in game three. my house was full. we were all cheering. their impressive and remarkable run through this year's college world series is a testament to the rich tradition of the m.s.. baseball program which has now appeared in 12ncaa college world series in its history, including most recently three consecutive series. the inspiring performance of this baseball team continues to be celebrated all over our state, maroon is e

nbc's ellison barber is in jackson, mississippi, for us. ellison, this state has been pretty hard-hit and has a pretty low rate of vaccination overall. what are you learning on the ground there? >> reporter: yeah, i don't think this state has ever been above second-to-last in terms of the rate of vaccination. they seem to rotate between 50th place and 49th place, mississippi and alabama. where we are at the university of mississippi medical center, they have the only designated children's hospital in the state. and they tell us as of this morning, they have six children admitted to the hospital because of covid-19. three of them in intensive care. when you look at their total population of people hospitalized with covid-19, that means children now make up 13% of their hospitalized covid cases. and that is the highest percent they have ever seen. and we're some 16 months into the pandemic right now. mississippi, as you said, as we talked about at the beginning, they have one of the lowest rates of vaccinations in the country. and it is reall

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. >>> one of the states hit hardest by the pandemic is mississippi. and one doctor there is taking on the widespread hesitancy to get vaccinated. omar villafranca reports. >> reporter: covid patients are again filling up the rooms at st. dominic's in jackson. for the doctors and nurses -- >> i'm very concerned about ptsd. i'm worried about burnout. i'm worried about them questioning their choices of going into health care. >> reporter: mississippi continues to have one of the nation's highest rates of infections and one of the lowest vaccination rates. >> unvaccinated -- >> reporter: on tuesday there were also six more reported deaths including a child. in the past week, more than 38,000 new cases were reported nationwide, just among children. back in mississippi, the covid map now looks like this -- red indicates the highest level of community transmission. how do you not get frustrated or angry everyday coming into work? >> i think you do. >> reporter: dr. reginald martin caught covid and was a patient at his own hospital. >> two weeks before high h

cbs' david begnaud is in hart- hit mississippi, but cbs' manuel bojorquez is going to lead us up a from florida, which now leads the country in new infections. good evening, manny. >> reporter: good evening, norah. the university of florida health system here in jacksonville is seeing more covid-19 patients now than at any other time during the pandemic. at one point last month, theythy had only 14 covid-positive patients. now there are 178, more than 90% are unvaccinated, and doctors fear we may not see the peak of this surge until september. wha has this been like for you? 62-year-old curtis sanderlin recently lost his wife to covid, now he, too, is battling to survive. did you get the vaccine, the shot? >> no, no, sir. >> reporter: is there a reason why you decided not to -- >> i haven't not decided not to get it, i just haven't, you know-- i have been contained. >> reporter: you haven't gotten around to it? >> right. >> reporter: more than one out of every five new covid cases in the u.s. are in florida. the state's cases jumped 60% in one week. >> we're going in the wrong direction

tony in mississippi. harold, in colorado. move west to be with harold, they suffered a lot of fertility issues and had miscarriages. it's a sadness to her. back in mississippi, tony's brother todd and sister in law rhonda were also struggling to have a baby. but after years of disappointment for both couples, all their prayers were answered. >> we both ended up pregnant at the same time. >> that must of been a very happy time considering what you went through to get there. >> exactly. >> and all of a sudden, good news here, good news there. get ready because you are going to have a house full. >> in june of 2005, tony and harold welcomed their baby girl, haley. by then, todd and wanda had already had an in kate. when the girls were a little over a year old, they came to mississippi and the new cousins got to meet. >> it was a very happy occasion, and i have to remember tony just being so happy, to have haley, so. so is harold. well >> and although tony had always wanted to be a mom, it was pretty clear harold was mr. mom. >>

texas can _ mississippi... texas and florida. texas can especially. _ mississippi...exas and florida. texas can especially. but does l mississippi... texas and florida. i texas can especially. but does that mean that what you might end up happening is almost a series of public health experiment side by side, with one state doing something quite different to its neighbour? yes, though they are likely to be separated by coasts. so it's not likely to be vermont doing one thing, new hampshire is different. the thing you have to understand about the business side of this is on the business pages, there are two separate stories going on. one is reporting... they are looking for other places to work. secondly, a large series of business surveys shows that millions of people are missing from the labour force. so companies, particularly middle sized and small businesses are desperate for workers. and small businesses are desperate forworkers. many and small businesses are desperate for workers. many of them are in those 12 states. so if i am a company on either coast, i don't

linda in marks, mississippi. democrats line. caller: good morning. can you hear me? host: yes, we can. you're on the air. caller: all right. thank you. nancy pelosi did the right thing. jim jordan, every committee he's ever been on, he is a disrupter. he does not want the truth. not kevin mccarthy. if he wants to ever be speaker of the house, he must, like liz cheney said, he must go by the constitution and rule of law. he is a republican taking it to an autocracy. they don't want democracy. in every move they make, they're looking towards a dictatorship. you're supposed to love the constitution, not the man that's in the white house. regardless of whose. -- of who he is. we are the united states of america. not the republican, not the democrat, but the united states of america. people have to wake up or we're going to end up like they are in russia or north korea. you know, loving the man, not the rule of law. host: going to go to the republican line. earl's next in amory, wisconsin. caller: yes, i have questions on it i think jim jordan can answer. there are there

only one-third of the state of mississippi is vaccinated.se are the things that the governor of mississippi needs to worry about instead of the cdc mandates that are geared to protect americans. >> dr. bessette, thank you very much for joining us this morning. let's hope people are listening to the science here. >>> right now louisiana has the highest seven-day average of new cases per capita in the country. at one baton rouge hospital the nurses say they're seeing the number of patients with covid increase rapidly. miguel marquez joins me now with his reporting. have you seen it all. truly, with you were on the font lines in the e.r. when the pandemic began and then there when people were getting vaccinated. and now you're here now to see people who are unwilling to and facing dire consequences. >> believe me, if i never had to go into another covid icu, i would be perfectly happy not to. i am vaccinated. i am wearing a mask again even though i'm vaccinated. and when i travel and i do all of the this stuff, i make sure and do that because p

mississippi hospitals are consumed with severe cases of covid-19 attacking children. >> we're seeing more symptomatic children, and children seem to be able to spread the disease to each other much more readily. >> reporter: the concern is growing for kids not yet eligible for a covid shot. mississippi health officials are reporting seven children with covid are currently being treated in the icu, two of them on ventilators. >> i suspect that's probably because this delta variant is imparting a little more severe illness in the pediatric population. >> reporter: at least 44 states and territories are reporting a weekly increase in covid-19 cases. with the delta variant now estimated to account for close to 58% of all new cases. some health experts labeling the new numbers a harbinger of what's to come. >> we can expect to see hospitalizations rise. we'll probably see deaths go up. >> reporter: in new york city cases more than doubling in just one week from 182 on july 6th to 429 on july 12th. in los angeles county, a 500% jump in cases over the past month. exper s everye patient hosp

"usa today" reports mississippi officials are pressing the u.s.eme court to overturn its landmark roe versus wade decision in a blockbuster abortion case. the office of the state's republican attorney general made the request in written arguments filed yesterday. the high court agreed in may to hear a challenge to mississippi's ban on most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. cthw six-member majority a chance to roll back the 1973 ruling. abortion rights advocates say the case threatened access to abortions across the country. the justices are likely to hear the case this fall. >>> the "miami herald" says a stage partially collapsed one day before the rolling loud hip-hop music festival was set to start in miami gardens. organizers say a giant video screen connected to one of the stages suddenly came crashing down yesterday. the festival said no one was hurt when the screen toppled on to the stage at hard rock stadium. officials say the projection screen was not secured, and it fell as a result. it's expected tobe repaired before doors open toda

>> all right, ellison barber there in jackson, mississippi. let's go to gaud now. it's been about a month since los angeles county dropped most of its restrictions for vaccinated people. now they're reinstating the mask mandate for everyone regardless of vaccination status. what are you hearing from folks about that move? >> reporter: craig, a lot of people are surprised they're going to have to wear the mask again. moments ago we went into one of the coffee shops and one of the first things they told us, we're surprised but also not surprised they decided to do that because they say a lot of people that were unvaccinated were choosing to take off the mask. health authorities here in los angeles had a press conference where they shared statistics to try to justify why they think it's necessary to implement this mask mandate for all of those vaccinated and unvaccinated when going indoors. we'll hear part of this press conference. >> it really is about making this a universal practice. it's the easiest thing to do in terms of ensuring that we're all protected. regard

taylor machine works in mississippi is one great example of a u.s.pany conducting r&d in the materials handling industry. and whose innovations today are being replicated throughout the world. this committee took important steps as the distinguished chair mentioned in passing the endless frontier act now known as the united states innovation and competition act, or usica. i don't like that, as well. this bill is authored by senator young, and passed by 68-32. the legislation would create a new supply chain resiliency program within the department of commerce to monitor supply chains and develop ways to address vulnerabilities. it also supports semi conductor manufacturing and r&d. this is a much needed response to the semiconductor shortages that have disrupted manufacturing across the nation, including my home state of mississippi. undoubtedly, we will hear about that from the distinguished panel. the legislation also includes contribution from the finance committee to combat china's manufacturing imbalances and threats to free and fair trade. today

what happened in mississippi? >> well, arkansas was, you know, i was talking about sharecroppers and how they did relatively well that year. so the price of cotton was through the roof. so a lot of -- a lot of sharecroppers in various parts of the south started to try to organize to create a collective where they would go to the cotton gins and say this is our price. they started to have meetings. and they're holding a meeting in hoopsborough, arkansas, which isn't even a real town at a building there and white police show up and shooting starts. and some white officers are killed. well, that's -- that sets off a white posses roaming the county killing people for days. they then rounded up a bunch of african-american sharecroppers, beat them bloody and had them confess to a grand conspiracy that was never really defined that there was a plot to kill every white person in the county. that was challenged by the naacp and others in a very, very long legal suit that eventually led to the supreme court. and those men w

and mississippi is now moving the goal post. last year mississippi said its appeal would not require the court to overturn roe v. wade. that case made abortion legal in the united states. but this week the state attorney general reversed course, arguing roe should indeed be overturned. joining us now to discuss the politics at play, msnbc legal analyst melissa murray. she was a former law clerk to justice sonia sotomayor and nick ra thad. how could this case potentially alter reproductive rights in the united states? >> mississippi has offered the court two different paths for dismantling reproductive rights, which is where the fetus can be outside the womb. you can regulate post-viability. mississippi asked the court to do away with that. the more maximalist approach that mississippi offered to the court is to completely overrule its existing precedence, roe recovery, and planned parenthood versus casey. >> melissa, the decision could come next summer months before the 2022 midterms. how do the justices consider the political a

on june 26, 1919, as many as 10,000 whites gathered in a field just outside ellisville, mississippi, to watch a bound, exhausted and wounded black man named john hatfield as he was hoisted up the branch of a giant sweet gum tree. vendors sold flags, trinkets and souvenir photographs, local politicians delivered speeches, young boys crowded in the tree to look down at the wild-eyed screaming hartfield. it was a country fair, political rally and public murder rolled into one. after world war i black americans fervently hoped for a new epoch of peace, prosperity and equality, but this civil rights moment was not to be. instead, the euphoria of victory evaporated to be replaced by the worst spate of anti-black violence, labeled the red summer, the riots and lynchings would last from april to november 1919, claiming hundreds of lives. blacks responded by fighting back with an intensity and determination never seen before, introducing the first stirrings of the civil rights movement that would change america forever. friends, please welcome our guests this evening, cameron mcwhirter and sa

mississippi has children in icu. some on life support from covid.edly younger and they're sicker and they're dying, and the u.s. surgeon general says these are all preventable deaths. think about that's where we are right now. but here she is, luann woodward, talking about science and her word as a medical professional being drowned out by facebook. >> sometimes i feel like the voices of science and medicine are drowned out by the, you know, facebook experts. but there are many voices out there saying this is the right thing to do. this is what we need to do. the vaccine is safe. but sometimes i feel like we're outnumbered. these are mississippians we are here, we love the state, our families are here, they're saying please get vaccinated and it's like we are yelling into a void. they trust us for so many things but there is just this big disconnect and blind spot around the vaccine that to me i cannot reconcile rational thought with that. >> this is a frightening moment in our country's history and the u.s. surgeon general dr. vivek murthy joins us

and mississippi is now moving the goalposts. last year mississippi said its appeal would not require the court to overturn "roe v. wade." that case made abortion legal in the united states. but this week, the state's attorney general reversed course, arguing roe should indeed be overturned. joining us now to discuss the politics at play, msnbc legal analyst melissa murray, a former law clerk to justice sonia sotomayor, and nick is back with us. how could this case potentially alter reproductive rights in the united states, melissa? >> mississippi has offered the court two different paths for dismantling reproductive rights. the first path, is to vitiate viability, which is the marker at which the fetus can survive outside the room. you cannot regulate previability but you can post-viability. mississippi has asked the court to do away with viability as a salient concept. the more maximalist approach that it offers the court is to completely overrule "roe v. wade" and "planned parenthood versus casey." >> melissa, how do the justi

mississippi is dead last in promoting health of women.use there is only one remaining abortion clinic in the state known as the pink house. this has been the main target of anti-abortion protestors and lawmakers. mississippi had five abortion clinics in the '80s, but now only the penk house remains. data shows that it is more dangerous for black women to give birth in mississippi than it is for them to term naet a pregnancy because they are three times more likely to die due to pregnancy and labor complications than white women are. whether the mississippi supreme court case is successful or not, a women's reductive rights are already under attack. states have enacted more than 1300 abortion restrictions with 561 new ones being introduced this year. and my body my choice. but only when it is convenient. but only when it is convenient >>> senate negotiators say that they are nearing a deal to an infrastructure deal. senator padilla will join me next. that i should get used to people staring. so i did. it's okay, you can stare. when you're

wade, that's why mississippi has asked for it to be overturned.vative wing of the supreme court. keep in mind that justice clarence thomas for years has said that roe v. wade should be overturned and that leaves the three liberal justices led by justice stephen breyer who is under some pressure to retire, they are going to work as best they can to limit the damage from their perspective to try to preserve as much of roe as possible. boris, kaitlan? >> thank you, ariane. as you noted there could be a decision by next june. those oral arguments are expected to happen either early fall or this winter. meanwhile, though, the cia inspector general is looking into cases of the so-called havana syndrome as the number of the reports of illness continues to rise. hundreds of u.s. diplomats, spies and troops around the globe have been sickened by this, some so severe that they ended up retiring. >> yeah, let's get to cnn reporter katie williams covering the story for us. good morning. what can you tell us about this cia ag investigation? what are they hopin

cbs' david begnaud is in hard- hit mississippi, but cbs' manuel bojorquez is going to lead us up a from florida, which now leads the country in new infections. good evening, manny. >> reporter: good evening, norah. the university of florida health system here in jacksonville is seeing more covid-19 patients now than at any other time during the pandemic. at one point last month, they had only 14 covid-positive patients. now there are 178, more than 90% are unvaccinated, and doctors fear we may not see the peak of this surge until september. 62-year-old cu s d ythecoo >> no, sir. >> rorter: is ere a reasonwhy y- >> i haven't decided not to get it, i just haven't, you know-- i have been contained. >> reporter: you haven't gotten around to it? anne out of eve five new covid cases in 6 one week >> we're going in the wrong direction. if you look at the inflection of the curve of new cases it'prpl e cases. >> reporter: today a groundbreaking question from the president, the lingering impacts from covid including brain fog and chronic pain are now covered under the americans with disabilities

he's got a job working on a ferry boat to help travelers cross the mississippi river at the st. louis region, and then you started working for a man named philip kramer early early biographies have said that bridger was apprenticed to a saint louis blacksmith. of little renowned and that's not true at all. he apprentice to philip kramer. who was the most noteworthy gunsmith for hundreds of miles? and he lived in illinois not in missouri and richard was 12 and 13 when he started working as an apprentice to philip kramer who was one of the most noted gunsmiths in the midwest of the country. and one of his first assignments was to go up the the illinois river to a place called peoria, which was in is an indian name. and he was working under kramer, but trying to help provide goods. and repair guns for the potawatomies and the potawatomies were not nearly as in a good position as they were in the war of 1812 when they were siding with the british. when bridger was 17 there was an ad that was put in the missouri republican and several other newspapers. and the ad was at was asking fo

it is a leading manufacturer in mississippi. taylor builds forklifts and a wide variety of material handling machines for both industry and defense purposes. mr. taylor has first-hand experience with the topics we will cover, and i know he and other members of the panel will make a valuable contribution to this discussion. thank you, ma'am. >> thank you, senator wicker, for leading up with you, doctor, thank you so much when you get were honored to have you before the committee and their expertise in this area. please proceed, dr. gereffi. [inaudible] >> madame chair cantwell, ranking member wicker, members of the senate commerce committee, it's a pleasure and an honor to be invited to testify before you today. my name is gary jarecki. i've been a professor at duke university for many years and i direct the global value chains center there and i spent a number of decades studying global supply chains and this is the first time that a think my neighbors and friends want to talk about that topic. not necessarily for good reasons t