she is the author of the education of an idealist, mmr, which brings her here today. please welcome connie britton and samantha power. compact [applause] >> it is so low. did you come here for me to break out song. it is so thrilling for me to be back in nashville today with my friends samantha power. and celebrating your incredible new book. before we start our conversation, will you please read a little bit from your book because it is so great to hear from you book. soon i think you so much connie. thank you nashville i love this town. i was spent some time with my ten -year-old this morning and he actually got to that kangaroos at the zoo. so thank you nashville. i tried to convince him to go to the giant cast museum but it was a zoo. so i'm just going to read a short passage, my focus we talked about, is different from any that i tried to write in the past. for starters, has a first person in it and irish people say that irish people have trouble using the first person even in therapy [laughter] and so i've had to overcome a lot. it's heavy no. but tell the story

washington state, two outbreaks prompted lawmakers to remove personal and philosophical exceptions for the mmr vaccine. the goal, get more kids immunized the threat of measles was most recently felt in samoa where an epidemic left 81 dead, mostly chirp children. more american school are taking action hoping to stop a preventable disease. joe fryer, nbc news. >>> next, that mystery in the sky, the swarms of giant drones lighting up the night and leaving authorities stumped. >>> back now with the strange sightings in the night sky that are unnerving homeowners mysterious swarms of giant drones flying in formation and no one seems to know why. gadi schwartz reports. >> reporter: tonight, a growing mystery in the night sky over colorado fleets of unidentified drones reportedly flying in grid patterns even spotted by law enforcement. >> i had a drone pass over me headed east towards yuma. >> reporter: some residents giving chase. >> we got close to one, and it descended, i swear it got closer to us and then the lights shut off. >> reporter: so far this video they shot is the best evidence to emerge

sometimes, some vaccines, for example the mmr vaccine, has traces of that.ts that particular vaccine, you would know if they are allergic to egg or not because because they would have had egg in all sorts of products. what about younger babies, though? there is no egg components in the other vaccines they are getting. i think what is important also, on the inserts, they have to list, notjust what is in the vaccine now, but also what was part of the vaccine when it was manufactured. that is not necessarily differentiated in the insert, so you get a whole bunch of stuff that is actually mentioned, but hardly any of it will be in the final product. assuming we were to go ahead and have our child vaccinated, it would then have its tetanus, polio, diphtheria, so why, when the hooping cough vaccine is offered to pregnant women, they are not then told that it has tetanus, diphtheria, and polio within it as well? i think it is part of the conversation that people should know exactly what vaccines they are having. i think the reason why it was done like that is becau

january 6th to get their children immunized or they can't return to class, to exempt kids from the mmr vaccine, parents in washington state can still cite medical or religious reasons which are different from personal or philosophical reasons. and across the country, there are five states that have removed the religious exemption. >>> a coffee cup controversy involving a police officer that went viral over the weekend. turned out to be a fake. this month a kansass police officer claimed that a mcdonald's employee wrote this offensive slur on his coffee cup. after police investigation, it turns out that the officer wrote that slur himself. that officer has since resigned from the harington police department and the police chief said things like this could tarnish the reputation of police officers all across the country. >> i truly hope that the former officer of the harington police department that did this, i hope he understands the magnitude of the black eye that this gives the law enforcement profession from coast to coast. >> the chief is also looking into whether there should be ot

parents can can still cite medical or religious reasons to exempt kids from the mmr vax 19, but across country, there are five states that removed those religious exemptions including new york, which made the change this year following a major outbreak there. >> vaccinate your kids. thank you very much. in our next hour, a look back at the legends we lost in 2019. and a look at the wild ride on the campaign trail to 2020. >>> but first, an update on the dangerous flare up in iraq. the latest on the breaking story, coming up next. the latest on the breaking story, coming up next. i've always loved seeing what's next. and i'm still going for my best, even though i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib not caused by a heart valve problem. so if there's a better treatment than warfarin, i'll go for that. eliquis. eliquis is proven to reduce stroke risk better than warfarin. plus has significantly less major bleeding than warfarin. eliquis is fda-approved and has both. what's next? sharing my roots. don't stop taking eliquis unless your doctor tells you to, as stopping increases you

this year, washington state passed a new law removing personal and philosophical exemptions for the mmrmove met with protests the change came after two measles outbreaks in the state sickened 87 people across the country, there have been nearly 1,300 measles cases in 31 states, more confirmed cases in the previous four years combined and the most in a single year in the u.s. since 1992 just in the past month, health officials confirmed that travelers carrying the highly infectious disease possibly exposed passengers at five different airports, l.a.x., denver, chicago o'hare, richmond, virginia, and austin >> we're trying to get on top of this, share as much information as we can to try to really contain this. >> reporter: the danger posed by measles can be felt on the island nation of samoa, an epidemic has killed 81 people, mostly children and babies a wise lieutenant governor led a mission vaccinating thousands there this month. >> we went from 30% of the country was immunized to 90% of the country in two days. >> reporter: samoa just started reopening schools after lifting a state of

our colleagues reprofb mmr mr. cicilline for raising ambassador sondland who was president trump's ambassador to the eu, which was fascinating to me because that's president trump's pick. he contributed a million dollars to the trump campaign. he became the ambassador to the eu. they don't like him now because he clarified his testimony to say, yes, there was definitely a quid pro quo at the heart of this whole thing. now of course they turn on the president's own ambassador. but we don't have to rely on his word. i started to mention this before, because he had a lunch with david holmes who was the senior state department official, the u.s. embassy in kiev, and they went out to a restaurant, and ambassador sondland got president trump on the phone. and afterward, and holmes could hear the conversation. and this is all uncontradicted by other witnesses who were there. and essentially ambassador sondland said to him that, you know, zelensky loves your ass and you're going to get exactly what you want from him. after

. >> the problem with kids going to kindergarten is they're supposed to get their second mmr shot beforeg to kindergarten. in areas of non-compliance mostly in new york this year but also washington state close to 90 cases of measles occurred because of vaccine non-compliance. the states are trying to tighten this up. california in 2015 after a disney outbreak they put a rule in that said you have to have this vaccine unless there is a medical exception. a study showed it improved the amount of kids that went to school that were vaccinated. it is successful. in the state of washington, though, they're going to allow you to still have a religious exemption which is very, very controversial. my view is you need to have complete non-medical exceptions gone. this is a public health hazard. you have to protect the kid around you. kindergartens are like petri dishes. we can't have kids coming close together with groups not vaccinated. >> molly: the district the hosting three free immunization clinics. some students out of compliance missing the vaccine won't be able to come back. in 2019 they

our colleagues reprofb mmr mr. cicilline for raising ambassador sondland who was president trump's ambassador to the eu, which was fascinating to me because that's president trump's pick. he contributed a million dollars to the trump campaign. he became the ambassador to the eu. they don't like him now because he clarified his testimony to say, yes, there was definitely a quid pro quo at the heart of this whole thing. now of course they turn on the president's own ambassador. but we don't have to rely on his word. i started to mention this before, because he had a lunch with david holmes who was the senior state department official, the u.s. embassy in kiev, and they went out to a restaurant, and ambassador sondland got president trump on the phone. and afterward, and holmes could hear the conversation. and this is all uncontradicted by other witnesses who were there. and essentially ambassador sondland said to him that, you know, zelensky loves your ass and you're going to get exactly what you want from him. after