one of my favorite examples happen in savannah, georgia, where the clerk of the kings council in savannah, basically the person in charge of record-keeping at the colony house in savannah i guess gets woken up in the morning by one of his neighbors saying hey, the provincial congress, this revolutionary organization, we broke into the courthouse and what the keys to your office so we can get the colonial records. he basically says i'm not going to give you the keys. they come back a a couple hous later and they threaten his life and the say they would rough you up if you don't let us in and give us the colonial records. he still says no, i'm not going to give you the keys to an office. they come back a couple hours later and say okay we broke and your office, we can't make heads or tails of the records. what you show us what's what? he says all right, if you have already broken and i will go and at least you will not make a mess of it. they let him organize the records for them and take anything that is private for him and go about his way. it's at this kind of soft occupation almost, thi

savannah guthrieing to student sanitation worker. the surprise he spotted in the back of his truck just in time >> announcer: this is nbc "nightly news" with lester holt >>> good evening, everyone caught between the vise of back-to-back storms and unthinkable cold, millions in texas tonight are living a freezing nightmare without power, huddled against subfreezing temperatures after an extreme winter weather system that's led to at least 28 deaths and now tonight a second storm following virtually the same path as the one that brought brutal conditions from texas to new england this week we'll take you into the heart of it in a moment we're also taking a closer look at the drop in covid-19 infections even in places that had few restrictions what does that tell us about lockdowns? plus we've got savannah guthrie's frank conversations with high schoolers about stress and anxiety in our series "kids under pressure." but let's start tonight with the unfolding weather disaster in texas and morgan chesky. >> reporter: tonight a frigid icy

plus we've got savannah guthrie's frank conversations with high schoolers about stress and anxiety in our series "kids under pressure." but let's start tonight with the unfolding weather disaster in texas and morgan chesky. >> reporter: tonight a frigid icy fate facing millions of americans. from washington to maine, winter storms claiming at least 28 lives. subzero conditions shutting down entire states >> got a little chilly in here. >> reporter: in texas new record lows. dallas dipping to negative 2 the coldest day since 1949 >> we're huddled under all the blankets that we have. >> reporter: here in dallas the power outages have been widespread and across the state the cold snap's turned into an all-out crisis more than 4 million households left in the dark fighting to stay warm steve rivera couldn't let his wife, alejandrina, get any colder so he turned to a neighbor with a fireplace for the first bit of warmth in days over the past three days how much power have you had >> basically about three hours all total. >> reporter: three hours? >> yeah. >> reporter: the same winter blast

. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with savannah guthrie and hoda kotb, from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> hi, everybody. good morning. weome to "today." it is wednesday morning, and we're glad to have you with us. >> busy one, isn't it? >> a busy one. a cold one. we're also looking forward this morning to our exclusive conversation, live with vice president harris. it's been a month, of course, exactly, since the inauguration, so we'll catch up with her about the changing direction of the pandemic, the vaccine push, schools reopening, and the other challenges facing the biden administration. >>> but we are going to start off with our top story again, the brutal winter weather. there are two big factors adding to the misery. the threat of another nasty storm, and also this record cold. >> take a look at this. almost every state is seeing freezing temperatures with historic lows in the midwest and south. in some cities, more than 40 to 50 degrees below average. >> and that record-shattering cold is a real problem for millions entering, get this, day four without power

savannah, back to you. >> tom, thank you so much.lations. hoda and i have a million dumb questions for you. >> we do. >> like starting with huh, how did you even pull that off but let's talk about, i mean, you stuck the landing. nasa likes to call the final approach the seven minutes of terror did it live up to its name >> yeah, it was pretty nerve-racking, savannah. you kind of have time, real time on mars, when the event actually occurred, and then 11 minutes later, because of trip time of communication system signal, you get confirmation that that event actually happened. so for those seven minutes, it was fairly nerve-racking. >> we've been seeing the video of everybody high fiving and having, like, the time of their lives. we've seen it. will you put into words what was going on in that moment? >> yeah, so we all know how hard it is to land something on mars. although this team did an amazing job in preparing to land, it's never a guarantee and so it is almost like a dream, when you get that touchdown signal and get the first pi

savannah >> thank you, kristen. joining us with more on the impact of the democrats' case and what to expect from th defense, washington correspondent hallie jackson good morning let's talk about this strategy from yesterday obviously, earlier in the week, it was really about the raw emotion, seeing that video, hearing those heart-wrenching calls from police who were just surrounded by the mob. but the legal case has to do with tying the president directly to this incitement and to the actions at the capitol. how did democrats do on that front? >> reporter: well, if you ask the republican senators, the audience, right, in the chamber that these house managers are going after, a lot of them don't seem that convinced. they're pointing to one of the things you mentioned, savannah they don't feel, some of them, that the democrats met that bar for showing incitement, basically, and were able to connect the dots from what donald trump said and did before january 6th to his supporters, the rioters, who ended up sieging the

thank you, savannah. good to be with you. >> take care. >>> in other news also this morning, a rare and somber tribute is happening at the u.s. capitol, where officer brian sicknick, who was killed in the riots there, now lies in honor. nbc's chief white house correspondent peter alexander joins us with more. good morning. >> hoda, good morning to you. those powerful scenes at the capitol coming ahead of next week's impeachment trial, of course, with both sides now detailing their arguments. democrats say the former president is guilty of inciting insurrection. mr. trump's lawyers deny that. they say his speech was protected by the first amendment. >> reporter: overnight, president biden paying his respects to capitol police officer brian sicknick, lying in honor in the same building where he suffered fatal injuries at the hands of that violent mob. that deadly siege at the heart of next week's impeachment trial for former president trump. house democrats previewing their prosecution will argue that mr. t

savannah?>> sam, the fda also weighing in on the variants, the different mutating strains of coronavirus that are turning up. what do you know? >> exactly right. the variants are evolving by the day. certainly, they pose a different kind of threat. what the fda has said, they need to be able to rapidly change. whether that means shorter vaccine trials, a quicker approval process, it is unclear. pfizer and moderna said they are willing to tweak their vaccines accordingly. >> thank you very much. >>> now to big developments from washington overnight. the democrat-led house taking unprecedented action against controversial congresswoman marjorie taylor greene, stripping the freshman republican of her committee assignments for a series of incendiary comments and social media posts. a move that received support from 11 republicans. we have two reports from our chief white house correspondents. we'll start off with kristen welker. hey, kristen. good morning. >> hoda, good morning. with just days unti

savannah? joining us now is dr., dean of b >> miguel, thank you.rown unive joining us now is dr. jha, dean. good of brown university's school of. public health. >> good morning. good morning to you. >> it is nice to be talking >> good morning. about a drastic drop in cases. >> it is nice to be talking what do you attr about a drastic drop in cases. what do you attribute it to? i know there's some debate over that. is it the vaccine, seasonality, less testing? why are we seeing this drop? >> first of all, i think this drop is real. meaning, it is not just an artifact of testing. infections are clearly down a good 50%, 60%. hospitalizations are down. death numbers haven't moved that much yet, savannah, but i expect them to the next couple weeks and that, of course, will be good news. i think some of it is coming off the highs from the holidays. second, i think there's some evidence that people are being a bit better with mask wearing and social distancing. i do think in the next couple weeks, the effects of the vaccin

lester >>> vice president kamala harris weighs in on reopening schools and vaccinating teachers savannah guthrie's exclusive interview and plus in our series, kids under pressure, homework overload. >>> all right. we're back now with vice president kamala harris on the battle to reopen schools does she agree with the cdc's plan and do teachers need to be vaccinated first she spoke one on one with savannah guthrie >> let's talk about schools. we got a lot of parents watching right now. the cdc, a few days ago, finally put out some long awaited guidance on how schools could safely reopen, but here's the thing. they tied it directly to the rate of infection in any given community. and i'm going to put a map up. because if schools were to follow that right now, 90% of the counties, 90% of the schools would not be able to open under the cdc's own metric was it a mistake for the cdc to connect school reopenings to how much infection there is in the community? >> let's first say this, that in the last four weeks, schools are opening every week more schools are opening and it is because we are s

good morning, savannah. raising the minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 an hour, it was one of president biden's key campaign promises. but he's not going to be able to deliver on that promise quite yet, and it comes after a senate official ruled that raising the minimum wage can't be part of this massive covid relief package that congress is debating right now. the senate parliamentarian says it doesn't meet the complex requirements that would allow democrats to raise the wage without republican support. getting this done has been a huge priority for progressive democrats. they argue it'd lift so many people out of poverty. but this decision means that it's much less likely the minimum wage will go up any time soon. that's because democrats only control 50 seats in the senate, and now they'd need 60 votes to do it. many republicans are opposed to it. they point to a cbo report that says raising the wage to $15 could cost 1.4 million jobs, savannah. >> so that's the minimum wage piece of the package. there's stil

i went to savannah state university at the request of savannah state, historical black college that i've had a long-term relationship with. to give a speech on africa. in u.s. china policy with africa. again a 1500-dollar honorarium from the university for spending several days engaging with the student and talking to their students about careers in the foreign service. and talking about issues related to africa. i expressed to this committee early on in my strong and frankly, unacceptable what i saw in terms of what the confucius institute was doing in georgia. i saw them engaging in poor black communities with the poorest of people. it is the same thing that i have seen in africa. and i was appalled by it. and i expressed my strong regret for having given that particular speech at savannah university. if i had to do it over again, i would not accept it. i have spoken about china for 35 years of my career working across the continent. in 2005, raised the concern about the chinese sitting back north korean defectors to certain death. i have raised concerns about how the chinese engage in

savannah and hoda? it is continued celebration safely thank you, sam we'll have a lot more throughout the morning, including a closer look at that bond between tom brady and gronk, those two yes, we'll look at the commercials, as well. >> look forward to that. >>> now, more on the issue that hung over the super bowl celebrations across the country. we're talking about the coronavirus. while cases in the u.s. are dropping and vaccinations are increasing, this morning, there are new concerns over last night's gatherings and the dangerous strains of the virus nbc's tom costello joins us now with the latest. tom, good morning. >> hoda, good morning. quick note, i'm about 12 feet away from my photographer, but you're absolutely right, cases down 61% from their peak in january. hospitalizations also down here is the concern, a lot of people are struggling to get the second dose of their vaccine and that's happening just as greater and greater concern. and the fear is we're going to start to slip backwards. >>

savannah? >> shaquille brewster, thank you very much. >>> we have more to get to, including today's super bowl victory celebration in tampa, where it may be a little cold actually. hey, craig. >> hoda, good morning. good morning to you, as well. it is going to be a fitting party for tom brady and his fellow buccaneers. they're going to set sail for a boat parade there in tampa. nbc's sam brock on duty in tampa for us once again. sam, good to see you >> reporter: craig, good to see you. you were down here, you got a temperature check of the city. you know how excited everybody is here to celebrate the plans came together late we did not find out what the city was going to be doing, specifically, until last night, when an email came out distant boat parade, which is happening over my shoulder on the hillsborough river, if you've been to downtown tampa, there is a beautiful riverwalk that wraps around the city that's where fans will come out and celebrate as they watch the players come through on

savannah? >> meagan, thank you. let's bring in greg fife, a former senior air flight safety investigator with the national transportation safety board. greg, we're always happy to have you. good morning. >> morning. >> you look at these situations, obviously, with a very trained eye. what jumps out at you here? >> well, there are a couple things, savannah. one, of course, is this blade failure. this isn't the first time it's happened. it is a unique situation, but there was a previous united airlines 777 and a jal 777 that both experienced these failures over the last two years. so, of course, that is of concern. i think the bigger issue, besides the blade, in determining why it is failing is this post-event fire that continued to burn until landing. >> not only that, we also saw this debris field, where you have these huge chunks of aircraft raining down from the sky. that's got to be a big concern. as i understand it, it's something of a mystery. >> it is. but there is a phenomenon where these blades -- this is th

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. >> brad in savannah, georgia, democratic caller. >> good morning, greta. good morning, mayor. >> caller: i'm originally from pickle, ohio soyy know something about dayton. >> yes, you do. >> caller: i grew up there during the good old gm days and things there have changed quite a bit and there's no point in arguing that savannah is vastly different in a constitutional makeup than dayton, but as i look at the stimulus monies going forward i know that dayton as well as savannah has a separate local income tax as well as property tax where the majority of the revenues are generated. savannah being a tourist town was really hit and so, you know, their shortcomings are looking at just maintaining the public workforce. i wondered what position dayton was in and what the comparison is. is this money going to be stimulus money for infrastructure projects that were unaffordable prior to the pandemic? is this just to stop the bleed? somewhere this money going to go? >> well, it's great to talk to someone formerly from pickway and certainly savannah is a beautiful to

in the early 191950's he served our country in the air force and stationed in savannah, georgia. he first become active in politics in 1964 when he served as chairman of the u.s. senator barry goldwater's campaign for president in georgia's first congressional district n 1980, mac defeated long time democratic senator herman talmadge and served in the senate from january 1981 until january 1987. he was the first republican to serve in the united states senate from georgia since reconstruction. in his post senatorial campaign, president reagan appointed mac to serve as assistant secretary-general for defense support for nato in brussels, belgium. he was later appointed as ambassador by president gorge bush. he's contributed greatly to georgia and the united states as a whole through all the positions he's held. i'm thankful for his amazing life and i wish him and his family the best in the years to come. mr. speaker, i rise today to remember and honor steven tutele of savannah, georgia, who recently passed away at the age of 32 on december 20. steven was a man of remarkable charac

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there's tunnels that go to savannah river.the holes, the finish floor and the tunnels we know it must have been part of an underground railroad. >> wow, take me through a journey. >> these are the new pews, they were in 1901. >> you said original pews in the back, it's like markings right here. >> yes, sir. >> this is really incredible. >> kind of hard to leave the church to go to another spot but here we are at at the savannah art museum. >> within one country, you could have several different cultures, several different languages. >> made of tercata, textiles, wood. >> it's used in annual ceremony by people in nigeria in honoring ancestors. >> this comes from cameroon. this shows incorporated into the object itself. we are proud just because black history month isn't just one month for us, it's a year-round celebration. >> please enter from the front door. >> our next stop is beach institute. >> one of the first schools to educate african-americans in the city of savannah back in 1800s. >> it's a flagship museum that brings

she was hoping to greet savannah for her birthday like i said was actual.ay what's been the most and think that it was also the day they do a she wants everyone to remember her daughter for the bright light she was to so many people because so many people so i seen just do not know a monday bush savannah leaves behind her 4 year-old son who was her world search out making sure to especially celebrate his birthday separately considering it was the day after christmas friends are raising money to bring savannah back to her hometown of georgia point they trying get her which point going to do her life celebrations in and we're going to keep her memory alive rowena shaddox fox 40 news. >>it's 7.51 coming up on the kron 00:00am morning news, the warriors have injuries that are piling up making some changes necessary we'll see how steve kerr plans to roll with the punches. colgate optic white renewal removes ten years of yellow stains. that's like all the way back to 2010. they're jeans. they're leggings. they're jeggings! whoa. remove ten years of yellow stains

in fact, i have used it occasionally mostly, savannah, for what the cdc is saying.he fit is better. if you get the surgical mask on and you put a cloth mask over, those areas around where some aerosol can get in, a better fitting. again, minimal at least one mask likely a double ply type of mask would be good. but if you want to go further, just get a better fit. >> got it. quickly, we're going to answer a bunch of viewer questions next hour, but i know the number one thing has to do with folks who are elderly, my kid's grandparents a lot of them are getting their vaccines nown they see their once they're fully vaccinated, can they see their kids and go to a restaurant or costco? once they're fully vaccinated, can they go back to their normal lives? >> in essence, ultimately yes. the thing you would like to see, savannah, is if you have two parties vaccinated that's the question we get asked more often if i'm vaccinated and my daughter who lives in boston comes home and she's vaccinated, can we get much more of this pulling back on restrictions and saying we can sit

good to see you, savannah.ed out to your alma mater to bring us this important series. this partnership with nbc news and stanford school of education, tell us about this research. it is so important. >> yes, it's a group in the bay area that commissioned the study and nbc teamed up with the survey of high school students. it started before the pandemic, actually, but then continued through the pandemicsnapshot in time, and you see very distinctly that the level of stress that kids feel has really increased during this pandemic. it's of course having to study in this environment where you've got zoom school, kids are saying it's harder to learn. they're finding it harder to focus, they're sitting in front of the computer eight hours a day. they've lost friendships, they're missing out on all of these moments, and what the high school experience is supposed to be. some are trying to figure out how to get into college. there's also just physical stress. some of them have talked about headaches, backaches, neck ac

good morning. >> savannah, hoda, good morning.d morning to you, as well someone managed to access to computer system of a treatment plant in florida, and they tampered with the levels of a potentially dangerous chemical, as well. this morning, the fbi has opened an urgent investigation. kerry sanders joins us with details on this one. kerry, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. security experts have long said water treatment plants like this one here in florida have been our nation's most vulnerable soft targets this morning, federal officials are looking for the suspect, or suspects, who tried to poison the water supply here. had they been successful, it could have been a widespread disaster, as residents here turned on their showers and faucets. this morning, the fbi and secret service cyber units are investigating the hacking of the municipal water supply system in oldsmar, florida. >> we don't know whether the breach originated from inside the united states or outside the country. >> reporter: the sheriff said last friday,

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so under that metric as savannah pointed out as many as 90% of schools might not be able to reopen. the subtext to some of the exchanges was some frustration on the part of the vice president. i followed up with some top officials here to ask if the administration is frustrated that there aren't clearer guidelines coming from the cdc about how to reopen schools, and the response, hallie, is essentially, look, they are trying to follow the science and the science is not always black and white and it's about finding what is safe and what is expedient. but going back to that bottom line that it is the goal of the administration and of president biden to reopen a majority of schools within the first 100 days. as president biden said overnight, five days a week, not one day as was stated last week. now, the president was pressed on all of this, including when can people who want a vaccine get a vaccine? that timeline shifted as well. it was initially the spring, now the president, dr. anthony fauci, say it's the summer. take a listen. >> we came into office there was only 50 million dose

savannah? >> dylan, thank you. we'll check back. >>> the storm is taking a toll on the vaccine push from coast to coast. the cdc is reporting widespread delays. we have in-depth coverage on that and the new battle over reopening schools. nbc national correspondent miguel almaguer is in los angeles with that. miguel, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the problems created by that nasty winter weather are two-fold. it's forcing vaccine sites to close where conditions are just too dangerous and it's also impacting distribution to make matters worse, it comes as getting shots into arms is more important than ever. this morning as much of the nation waits anxiously for their turn to be vaccinated, protection from the virus can't come soon enough. >> everybody wants the vaccine, and it's a problem to get it. >> reporter: and this week's brutal blizzards are adding many delays and cancelled appointments. wicked winter weather impacting some 30 states. crippling the distribution pipeline nationwide. the snowstorm in

in her first interview since taking office, she spoke with savannah guthrie. the vice president addressed the reopening of schools and whether teachers should be vaccinated before they return to the classroom. >> so our goal is that as many k through 8 schools as possible will reopen within the first 100 days. our goal is that it will be five days a week. so we have to work to achieve that goal. >> meantime president biden back this washington after his first town hall event in wisconsin. while there, he actually focused on defending his $1.9 trillion price tag for a covid relief bill. many republicans say that is too high. the president also acknowledging that it will take longer than originally promised to make sure that everyone who wants the vaccine can get it. here is kristen welker. >> reporter: overnight president biden offering the clearest time line yet for vaccinating americans. >> by the end of july, we'll have over 600 million doses. enough to vaccinate every single american. >> reporter: those comments at a cnn town hall in milwaukee, coming just

savannah, good morning to you, as well. while speaking out on instagram live, congresswoman squoks ocasio-cortez shared the trauma she felt on january 6th, and she revealed it was made even worse by another terrifying experience in her past. nbc's kasie hunt joins us with more on that. good morning to you. >> reporter: craig, good morning to you. it's really one of the most harrowing accounts of the events of january 6th we've heard so far. alexandria ocascio-cortez, often referred to as aoc, sharing details about what happened to her during the insurrection at the capitol, telling her viewers she felt like she was going to die. >> we cannot move on without accountability. we cannot heal without accountability. >> reporter: overnight, new york congresswoman alexandria ocascio-cortez opening up for the first time about her experiences during the capitol riot. >> all of a sudden, i hear boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, on my door. and then i hear these huge, violent bangs on my door, and then every door going into my office. >>

>> you know, right now, savannah, i'm focused on what we need to do to get relief to american familiesnd that is my highest priority, our administration's highest priority. >> you're a former prosecutor. is that a strong case against the president, a criminal case that mitch mcconnell had raised as a possibility? >> i haven't reviewed the case through the lens of being a prosecutor. >> kristen, so that was pretty clear that the vice president didn't want to talk about donald trump either. let me just also share with our viewers, anyone who didn't see it, if you want to look for a contrast between the person known as the former president, the 45th president of the united states, and joe biden, the current president, this is his response to a second-grader who was with her mom and has been scared by covid, as so many children and adults are. this is how joe biden responded to her. >> well, first of all, honey, what's your first name? >> leila. >> leila. beautiful name. first of all, kids don't get the covid very often. it's unusual for that to happen. when things change, people get reall

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area where there's lots of grass and you feel nature here you can this is where the lagoon start savannah's and where i think the fun happens. because they. are all. you are not allowed to skate board at all in venice so that i work in this beautiful island it's amazing that i have all this space. the idea behind classic birds venice was to create a company that was offering sustainable choices as it pertains to the marine. the marine industry so to speak in venice so we thought to take classical craftsmanship traditional craftsmanship that was venetian and in particular a boat like this which is some people thought which is a traditional venetian sailing boat and rowing boat and to convert it instead of with an electric engine so that we could rent this without driver and so that gas could come to venice and experienced a venetian lagoon. this is a noble way but also in the traditional way. from this year from 2020 looking at it venice has suffered a lot in terms of tourism but on the flip of that we had a lot of guests who were looking for sustainable tourism which was incredible which wa

taking her 700 miles to arkansas before authorities finally caught up with him over would cause to savannah. >> reporter: when confronted by police, ice opened fire, critically wounding one officer before turning the gun on himself. the teen was not harmed. >> i'm just glad she's found. the community came together looking for her. >> reporter: northeast of orlando, florida, a deputy is hailed a hero after tracking down a 13 year old at a hotel. police body cam video showing the deputy walking in on 22-year-old tyler thompson, shirtless. when the deputy arrived, the teenager ran into his arms, giving him a hug. >> what's up, sweetheart? are you hurt at all? you're not hurt at all? your stomach hurts? >> she noticed i was a deputy and came running into my arms because she knew at that point she had been saved. william ice, the man who abducted the teen in north carolina was also talking to ten other juveniles online, and all of them were using school-issued laptops. kenneth, shirleen? >> wow, just incredible. >> so hard to keep up with what your kids are doing online but so important. >>> com

good morning >> savannah, good morning. with a key brief due tomorrow, the former president has hired two new lawyers and is now previewing his strategy for the upcoming trial in a statement, saying both of those attorneys agree, the impeachment is unconstitutional. that's after his previous defense team fell apart because, sources say, donald trump pushed for them to include his false claims of election fraud in their arguments. >> reporter: a last-minute legal team now coming together for former president trump, just days before his impeachment trial. two attorneys will defend him against the charge he incited an insurrection at the capitol january 6th. consulted with jeffrey epstein n david schoen, who represented trump confidant roger stone, and also consulted with jeffrey epstein not long before epstein's death, and bruce castor, a former district attorney in pennsylvania, perhaps best known for declining to prosecute bill cosby back in 2005 their hiring capping a scramble set off after at least three other attorneys,

please give a warm savannah welcome to them both. royal. >> well thank you for inviting us, i'll let you know the book is called the last negros at harvard. 61 years ago harvard admitted 18 negros, that's what we are called then, and it was the largest number at that time never admitted and we came from north south east and west and different economic and social economic backgrounds. and before that they had been admitting blacks to harvard, but only two or three of the time. most guys would just go and do their four years, then get out of town. they would leave cambridge. but for us it was different in the sense that we had numbers, and we could form and individual racial identity as well as a group identity. we were able to become a force for change at harvard, and we changed harvard, and harvard changed us. and essentially that is what the book is about. it's about our four years there, and what happened and what happened there and after harvard. so once ignorant thing we did, we formed the first black student group organization o

this event was part of the 2020 savannah book festival held before the coronavirus pandemic. >> kent garrett and jeanne ellsworth are with us do day courtesy of thomas and margaret morris. mr. garrett has had a 30-year emmy and peabody award winning career in television news and documentaries. jeanne ellsworth has a phd in social foundations of education from the university of buffalo and has devoted her life to teaching from elementary school to prisons, to universities. the authors live in roxbury, new york. please give a warm savannah welcome to kent garrett and jeanne ellsworth. [ applause ] >> thank you for inviting us. as you know the book is called "the last negros at harvard." 61 years ago harvard admitted 18 negros, that's what we were called then. we were the largest number at that time ever admitted to harvard. we were from all different parts of the country, north, south, east and west and we came from different economic and socioeconomic backgrounds. heretofore they had been admitting blacks to harvard, but only two or three at a time. most guys would just go and do thei

fauci tells savannah on "today," he's optimistic. >> by the time we get to april, anybody in any category can go out and get vaccinated >> reporter: the dodgers stadium shuts down, some local pharmacies will begin vaccinations tomorrow. it is just a fraction of the doses been given out here >> miguel. >>> as millions of adults get the vaccine, we don't know when it will be available to children >> reporter: caleb cheung is a typical 12-year-old may be the key to end the pandemic >> he's one of 2,000 children enrolled in the pfizer critical trial. >> do you feel like a hero >> i know doing this vaccine trial has a potential to really help out in the world of children >> reporter: while children are at high risk in developing severe illness and their thought of spreading the virus less than adults they make up a quarter of the population so vaccinating them could be vital to herd immunity >> you start vaccinating the children before the natural virus mutates. we need to start vaccinating children sooner or later. >> reporter: dr. fauci hopes it will be sooner by summer the timeline for youn

this is a race, savannah, between the virus and getting vaccines into people >> let's talk -- >> when someone waits not getting vaccinated, the better chance the virus has to get a variant or a mutation. so the sooner we get vaccine into the arms of individuals, whatever that vaccine is, once it gets by the fda for eua, if it's available to you, get it. >> that was just where i was headed you also are aware of the news this morning that there's now a new york city variant that they say may weaken vaccine effectiveness. how concerning is that >> well, we're always concerned about variants that's the reason why we say the two ways that we have within our power to prevent the evolution of these variants, you're not going to get a variant if the virus is not spreading around the community. that means it's replicating. viruses don't mutate unless you give them the chance to replicate. and the way you prevent that is "a," do the public health measures that we talk about all the time to prevent spread and "b," get vaccinated when the vaccine is available to you. and that's the reason why we

shep, back to you. >> savannah, thank you so much andy slavitt, before we get to the teacher vaccinationstion, though south africa variant keeps getting more worrisome. pfizer just announcing that the variant could reduce its vaccine's protection what dot thes the plan look likf this variant starts to take hold in the united states >> thank four hr having me, she. there's no question that there are variants coming into the u.s., some a little muir quickly than others. i think the news on the vaccine front on varpts has been, i'd say measure positive on the one hand, the b 117, which is the uk vaccine, we've got a high degree of confidence that both the pfizer and moderna vaccines work well but both pfizer and moderna as well as the other candidate manufacturers are working on a plan to continually update the vaccine should there be mutations that they don't perform well on. what's interesting about the south african data depends on how you read it. the way the scientists explained it to me is that it is less effective but still above the threshold. what does that mean? when i ask what do

every night on "nightly news" with lester holt and then again in the morning with savannah guthrie on "today" show. they're going to go through all the parts of the study so they can help us as parents better understand how in this pandemic we can parent better. i know i need it because sometimes i'm a little wacky. >> we have short fuses here. it goes for many of us. >> tough times. >> thank you, jessica. >>> up next at 6:30 opening day at the oakland coliseum not for the as but the federal vaccination site. was it a smooth operation? we'll show you how it's done. >> plus returning focus back on covid relief. new developments on the democrats' push to help the bill to help struggling americans. >>> right now at 6:30 a big day for california and the bay area. the first two federal mass vaccination sites are now open. one is the oakland coliseum and the other down in l.a. the key here federally operated. >> fema is supplying the vaccines and says the supply won't run out. the goal? to make it easier for communities hit hardest by the coronavirus to get vaccinated. nbc bay area's meliss

woman: there is a hidden jungle in cities like los angeles, and a hidden savannah and hidden wetlands, and other kinds of ecosystems. pauly: there's no magic line where nature stops and city begins. it's all a giant matrix. and in the most urbanized parts of los angeles, you can still find literally thousands of species of plants and animals. heise: the conventional wisdom used to be that cities are biodiversity wastelands, and we're now beginning to rethink that in two major ways. one is that actually, there's a lot of biodiversity in cities, much more so than we had originally known. the other challenge is to think about how we might make this environment that was built by us in terms of buildings, in terms of the parks that we've planted, in terms of the gardens that some of us take care of on a daily basis. how could we make this habitat more hospitable to non-hum species? [coyote barks] [barks] pauly: understanding how species are adapting to urban areas is an area of research that people are really just starting to get serious about studying. things like coyotes and mountain lio

the answer the vice president gave to savannah guthrie if that great interview wasn't an answer to savannah's question. her question was is it safe to send them back if they're not vaccinated? if i were a teacher watching this right now, i would be very confused. >> no doubt. this has become a point of provo provocation. the science shows it is possible to open schools safely without teachers having necessarily been vaccinated. i realize there are a lot of people who are confused by that and maybe a little frightened by that. that is what the science is showing. i will also say that a year ago or several months ago when i had to make decisions and everyone was making decisions ability sending their kids back to school, we didn't have a lot of data on this. there was a lot of uncertainty, many people, myself included, said without the adequate data, i'm going to err on the side of not sending my kids back to school. i'm worried they could get sick, teachers and staff could get sick. that was the thinking. we now have data. the study that the cdc talks about out of wisconsin, it was 17 schools

>> oh, dear. >> okay. >> well, you know, i'm a -- no, i don't want to go there, savannah. >> got yourdoctor, do you want to go where dr. fauci wouldn't? do you have a favorite on sunday? >> you know, i should follow his lead as an excellent speaker to reconsider before thinking, but i will say following the advisement of my 8-year-old son -- >> oh. >> -- is he's quite the tom brady fan and believes that sustained excellence should certainly be recognized. however, it's time for the new generation, that being pat mahomes so he says the chiefs. >> well. she took a position. dr. mercedes carnethon knows how not to cause trouble in the household. >> yeah. >> i thank you for that. much appreciated it. >> thank you. >> it's good to see you. >>> we have a lot more news coming up. a pro-trump attorney who pushed baseless conspiracy theories of election fraud is being investigated over whether he voted illegally. we'll have all the details after the break. you're watching msnbc. working, parenting, problem solving. at new chapter vitamins we've been busy too... innovating, sourcing organic ing

in an interview with vice president harris on the today show this morning, savannah guthrie kept the focus on reopening schools and what is necessary for reopening schools. vice president harris stressed the importance of vaccinating teachers. >> let me just say this. and the president has said it and we're all really clear. teachers should be a priority. teachers should be a priority. i love teachers. my first grade teacher attended my law school graduation. teachers are critical to our children's development. they should be able to teach in a safe place and expand the minds and the opportunities of our children. so teachers should be a priority, along with other front line workers and we're going to make them a priority. >> today president biden said that the momentum of public opinion is working in his favor for passing his covid relief package. >> based on the polling data, they want everything that's in the plan, not a joke. everything that's in the plan. 69% of the american people think we have to do this. >> in a memo, the senior adviser to president biden writes, quote, there

five days a week, and so we have to work to achieve that goal, but our goal is the goal of -- and savannah, here is the thing. i don't need to tell you, we are, the issue here is not just about statistics. it's about our kids, it's about their parents. it's about the fact that every day our kids are missing essential critical days in the . >> reporter: the two also discussed teachers returning to the classroom with the cdc currently their stance being teachers do not need to be vaccinated to make that return, to which vice president harris reiterated her stance that "teachers are critical to students development. they should be able to teach at a safe place so teachers should be a priority with other front line workers." we're live in san francisco, cierra johnson for "today in the bay." >> cierra, thank you. looking forward to that interview. you can watch the exclusive vice president interview coming up on the "today" show this morning, at 7:00 right here on nbc bay area. >>> staying with the conversation on vaccines, so far california has given out more than 6 million shots and in the b

see a little bit of it after this on nightly news with lester holt and on the "today" show with savannah guthrie. the results are kind of the stuff we expected, but to see it in black and white is scarey is you're a parent. >>> we'd like to remind you of the interactive map from the governor's office showing students doing in-person learning, not that many of them. mostly the rural areas. light blue represents hybrid learning. everything in yellow is pretty much 100% remote learning. can you find the full interactive map on our website. go to nbcbayarea.com and click on the school reopening map. >>> a contra costa county neighborhood is on edge after reports of a fourth coyote attack in less than a year. this time it was a toddler bitten by a coyote. nbc bay area poke with the mother about what happened. >> i heard ha scream, and i looked down and a coyote was biting her. so i screamed and yelled and at that point the coyote let go, and i kept screaming and yelling and waving a blanket i had in high hand. >> reporter: the coyote kept approaching them until a neighbor heard them scream. >