so she passed those out in savannah.own money from cleaning houses, and i matter and i actually -- [inaudible] i got to know that every when i got to know annie plummer and then she died in 2000 from breast cancer. she really has had a huge impact on people, and it was a great idea to make sure that everybody has a dictionary. >> so since 1995 when you founded "the dictionary project" along with -- french, how many dictionaries have gone out to children? >> over 33,700,000. >> how do you get them out there? >> through civic organizations. the project started out with writing grants and then i spoke to different organizations about this idea because they were intrigued with the idea of dictionaries and, of course, literacy so important and everyone is always trying to keep people learning new words and basically from becoming illiterate in schools. so they took it on a literacy project. most organizations have to have a literacy program as part of their charter that the implement. this was an easy program to do and really

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sam, good morning. >> reporter: savannah, good morning.months now about whether a third booster shot would be necessary to protect yourself against covid-19 now sources telling us that the biden administration backed that sort of plan with a time frame here of eight months after the second dose is received with the first shot -- or the third shot, i should say, going into arms as early as september that is pending fda authorization. now, the "new york times" first broke this story they have laid out the prioritization as follows. nursing home residents first followed by health care workers and emergency workers in older population of americans and then the general population and it comes, savannah, as the delta variant right now is, of course, ravaging communities across the country as you mentioned, parents are sending their kids back to school i'm in miami dade right now. there is full expectation that this county will pass a mandatory mask mandate with classes starting next week savannah, we have seen thousands of school kids quarantine

savannah. >> kerry sanders in naples for us.e stand monday in his long delayed murder trial. durst is accused of the execution style killing of a close friend at a beverly hills home back in 2000. erin mclaughlin joins us with more on this story. erik, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, craig. legal experts say it's highly unusual for a defendant to testify in a murder trial, but the story of robert durst is anything but ordinary. in court, under oath, durst strongly denied that he's a killer. >> did you kill susan burma? >> no. >> do you know who did? >> no, i do not. >> for two hours, alleged killer robert durst denying any involvement in the december 2000 murder of his close friend, susan burman. the 78-year-old was in a wheelchair, wearing prison clothes, wearing his lawyer's questions off a tablet, because he says he has trouble hearing. >> pause for a second. >> reporter: during his testimony, the defense trying to sow seeds of doubt. durst described a litany of health issues, including bladder cancer and recalled ch

>> in savannah georgia she had to split the limits of her ability to earn money and understand the world around her and what people were saying because she dropped out of school. when she was working as a crossing guard in savannah at the martin luther king exit off of 95 she thought the children were not bringing books back and forth to school and asked them why and they said because they were not allowed to take the books home from school so she brought everybody a dictionary and told them to use it to help them because she didn't want their life opportunities to be i guess diminished because they didn't have a large vocabulary. and she stamped in each book "a mind is a terrible thing to waste." she used her own money from cleaning houses. i met her and i know that area. [inaudible] she's had a huge impact on people and it was a great idea to make sure that everybody has a dictionary. >> since 1995 when you founded the project along with french, how many dictionaries have gone out to children? >> over 33,700,000. >> how do you get them out there? >> this project started out with grants

welcome back, it is a thursday morning, savannah likes to call it friday eve. is in for craig this morning. good morning, everybody. >> he calls it thursyay. >> savannah keeps making these things up. >> she's trying to make them stick. we'll see. >> i know. thursday by any name, here we are. let's get to the news at 8:00. president biden is doubling down on face masks and booster shots to try to slow the spread of delta variant. sam brock is joining us with the latest, good morning >> reporter: savannah, good morning. almost exactly one month from today on september 20th, the federal government is going to begin its roll out, a third shot assuming you are at least eight months from your second dose anthony fauci says it is so potent that it may not be necessary eight months from now. he talked about generating potentially between 10 and 20 fold the amount of antibodies. this comes as half the country remains unvaccinated and the battle over mandatory mask mandates continues to rage in miami as president biden is threatening legal action against states like flor

so she passes in savannah. i met her and i truly and so i got to know that area.e died in 2000. she really has had a huge impact on people and it was a great idea to make sure that everybody has a dictionary. >> so since 1995, when you found the dictionary project, how many dictionaries have gone out to children. >> over 30 $3m 700,000. >> how do them out there.00 >> my invitation in this project started out with writing grants and those two different organizations about this idea, they were intrigued with the idea and of course literacy is so important everybody is trying to keep people learning new things. basically summer becoming illiterate in school. so the ticket on as it literacy project. they have to have a literacy program, a charter that they implement and this was an easy program to do and really you get the best bang for your buck. if for the amount of money that it cost a has a very long term impact. most of these people, 25 years so the children in the third grade, they've gone through harvard already. who originally received dictionaries and people

savannah. >> that is just a nightmare scenario there, richard. thank you very much. >>> meantime, president biden i to respond with force to the terrorists behs chief white hou correspondent peter alexander is covering that part of the story. peter, good morning. >> reporter: hoda, good morning. president biden says he is outraged and heartbroken by the deadly attack. the white house calling thursday the worst day of his presidency. still, for the commander in chief, it has only reinforced his resolve for the u.s. to leave afghanistan by his august 31st deadline. president biden vowing revenge against those who carrie against those who carried out one of the deadliest attacks in america's longest war. >> we will not forgive we will not forget we will hunt you down and make you pay. >> reporter: the president condemning the terror group isis-k for thursday's bombing, a nightmare scenario he had warned about for days, and honoring the service members who lost their lives in kabul as the backbone of america >> it's an over-used word, but it's totall

savannah? >> all right. thank you.y, a "new york times" journalist and co-creator of the "framing britney spears" documentary. good morning. good to see you. >> good morning. >> you've been on the story a long time. were you surprised at this court filing in which jamie spears says not immediately but eventually he is willing to step aside? >> i was really surprised. this was the first time that jamie publicly said he's willing to step down. that has never happened before. >> but he was defiant. i was really struck by a particular paragraph in the declaration. it said if the public knew all of the fact of ms. spears personal life, not only the highs but lows, all of the addiction, mental health issues she struggled with, all the challenges of the conservatorship, they would praise mr. spears for the job he has done, not vilify him what did you make of that? >> yes his defensive tone was very clear throughout the filing. he also took a lot of attack towards britney's mother who is supporting britney in court lately. >>

and when she was working as a crossing guard in savannah at martin luther king exit off of 95, she saw that the children weren't bringing books back and forth to school and she asked them why and they said because they weren't allowed to take the books home from school. so she bought everybody a dictionary and told them to use them to help them because she didn't want their life opportunities to be, i guess, diminished because they didn't have a large vocabulary and she stamped in each book, a mind is a terrible thing to waste. and she passed out in savannah and she used to earn money from cleaning houses and i met her and i truly -- and i got to know that area when i got to know annie plummer and she died in 2000 so she really has had a huge impact on people and it's a great idea to make sure that everybody has a dictionary. >> since 1995 when you founded the dictionary project along with arno french. how many dictionaries have gone out to children? >> over 33,700,000. >> how do you get them out there? >> this project short-term started out with writing grants and then i spoke to diff

reporter: there are now ten rooftop venues in savannah.they're growing in popularity during covid. the enterprise technology company morning consult finds 75% of american adults feel comfortable dining outside versus 68% inside. more rooftop space is also opened during the pandemic in chicago including chateau carbide, then the rooftop at nobu here on the 11th floor of the nobu hotel which opened last july and offers expansive views of downtown chicago. it joins favorites like the up room on the 13th floor of the robi hotel, cindy's at the chicago athletic association, and offshore at navy pier. the largest rooftop venue in the country. >> landscape and architecture is gorgeous. we like to be elevated. >> reporter: and the pandemic is expected to keep elevated outdoor eating and drinking in high demand for some time to come. wendy gillette, cbs news, chicago. >>> coming up on "cbs this morning," we talk with representative seth moulton, one of two congressmen who faced criticism for taking an unauthorized trip to afghanistan this week. >>>

savannah >> kate snow, thank you. covid's renewed surge worldwide, the number of cases now surpassing a staggering total. more than 200 million. here in the u.s., infections increased sixfold in the past month alone. but news that the fda could be moving faster on final approval for one vaccine has some feeling cautiously optimistic. nbc's morgan chesky is in hard-hit new orleans with more morgan, good morning. >> reporter: hey, hoda good morning to you. doctors say this final approval cannot come fast enough in the hard-hit south their hope is that more vaccinations can hopefully slow down record hospitalizations filling up these rooms here at children's hospital in new orleans, doctors are spotting a troubling new trend more children get seriously ill with covid this morning even with vaccinations now doubling in the biggest hot spots, most of the country seeing a dangerous spike in cases driven by the highly contagious delta variant promising news in the fight the fda could soon grant full approval for the pfizer v

savannah >> peter, thank you. joining us now also from the white house president biden's national security adviser jake sullivan mr. sullivan, good morning to you. thanks for being with us >> thanks for having me. >> let's talk about the status of the evacuation going on at this hour. how many evacuees are left to go when do you expect this to be completed? >> well, first, savannah, i want to salute the skill and professionalism of the u.s. military who has now completed the drawdown of the u.s. embassy compound in kabul. all u.s. diplomates and civilian personnel have been removed from that facility and we're down to a very small civilian presence at the airport that is organizing an effort to ensure that we get out remaininn american citizens as well as afghans at risk, and we are in the process of trying to fully secure the airport and execute that set of evacuation flights which will proceed over the coming days. >> mr. sullivan, friends and foes alike are calling this withdrawal a fiasco, a debacle, and it is

sam, good morning. >> reporter: savannah, good morning. so many people probably confused about the booster shot it is the exact same shot. health officials hope the third time will prevent enough antibody creation to ward off the delta variant and our mutations. looking for a new weapon against the aggressive delta variant that's been rapidly undoing months of progress against covid, the federal invesgovernmi expected to unvail a plan today for an extra booster shot for all americans. >> part of our operational focus was ensuring we had enough supply to provide boosters shots should that be a decision made by the fda so that has been in our planning processes for months now >> reporter: the white house has not yet tipped its hand on many details. but nih director dr. francis collins did say a study out of israel is unnerving. it found for those 65 or older who received their second shot in january, the vaccine is now only 55% effective against severe disease >> that's the same thing we're starting to see in the u.s. data, although right no

hi, tom. >> reporter: hi, savannah. good morning yeah, big price jumps in july after big jumps in june. the consumer price index up nearly 5.5% in july. if you ate, if you drove, if you traveled, chances are you paid for it you know, the federal reserve is always looking for that goldilocks economy, not too hot, not too cold right now it's getting a little hot. if you're buying groceries, filling the gas tank, car shopping chances are you're digging deeper this summer prices rose a dramatic 5.4% in july compared to a year ago when covid shut down the economy. >> prices are going upe exploding pent-up demand fuelled by vaccinate everywhere, on everything. >> reporter: economist blame exploding pent-up demand fueled by vaccinated americans who are shopping, traveling and eating out again. a gallon of milk, $3.02 compared to $2.15 a year ago. a dozen eggs, about 24 cents higher chicken breasts, about 30 cents more. >> walking out and less and less groceries and paying more and more. >> since budgeting, saving extra, taking

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al and savannah can use that as a new forecasting tool if you'd like >> good idea, kristen.e all have that a little soupy out there >>> for more now on the severe weather, the tropical storm overnight and the heat, mr. roker. >> guys, we're talking literally coast to coast, we have a triple threat a lot of heat. temperatures in the triple digits for parts of the pacific northwest into northern california then we go into the midplains into the northeast, 133 million people heat indexes up to 110 the hottest days are going to be tomorrow into friday look at these heat indexes cincinnati today, 101. 111 in st. louis and memphis shreveport, 106. d.c., 105. and look at over the next three days, we cool off by saturday, but in the meantime, temperatures mid to upper 90s. you factor in the humidity and it's going to feel like triple digits for charlotte, cincinnati, nashville, on into little rock, even into new york and washington, d.c. we will see some cooling, but we also have severe weather today 27 million people, damaging winds, hail, tornados from the upper midwest into the c

richard, good morning. >> good morning, savannah. we are now in doha, qatar. we took one of those evacuation flights out of the airport it is the only way out of the country. the commercial airport is closed all of the external borders are controlled by the taliban. this is the only safe way out and for many people, it's life changing this is what you have to face to get into the last remaining u.s. base at kabul airport. shooting, violence, taliban whips and desperate crowds it's so chaotic, american troops worry if they open the gates, people will flood in one video appears to show a soldier lifting a baby up over the walls. inside the base, afghans are processed for departure and moved to the flight line that is where we met gina aboui, an afghan american from virginia she moved back to afghanistan to teach six years ago when it was much safer >> it was a dream come true for me i found a little house by the mountains. i just can't imagine leaving, but, unfortunately, it's time to go >> you left obviously the house -- >> everything. everything everything a s

kate, good morning >> good morning, savannah. the harassment allegations from these 11 women range from offensive comments to inappropriate touching and creating a toxic and hostile work environment some are telling their stories for the first time, many say they're speaking out after years of feeling powerless to do so. this morning, charlotte bennet saying calling for the governor's resignation is no longer enough. >> we should impeach the governor because he clearly cannot accept responsibility for any of his behavior. >> reporter: bennet was 23 when she joined the governor's office cuomo handpicked her she shared with him that she was a sexual assault survivor, but says an initially positive relationship became inappropriate. >> he started asking questions about, you know, my sex life and if i was monogamous and if i could have a healthy sexual relationship >> reporter: what did you think his intent was >> he said he was lonely he said he was looking for a girlfriend he was propositioning me for sex. >> reporter: in a recorde

gabe gutierrez has the latest. >> savannah, good morning. the state assembly's judiciary committee says it's wrapping up the impeachment investigation and the burning question in albany is what is cuomo's next move? >> reporter: this morning, governor cuomo is showing no signs of backing down. jake jacobs is the chairman of new york's democratic party, who spoke to cuomo. >> i was very clear and direct with the governor. i thought that his political decision was untenable. he was very clear that he had felt that his side of the story had not been fully aired and he wanted to do that. >> reporter: but calls for the governor to resign are mounting and the state assembly is moving swiftly to impeach him after new york's attorney general this week alleged cuomo sexually harassed 11 women, including a state trooper. cuomo, who has denied any wrongdoing, has been holed up here inside the governor's executive mansion and hasn't spoken publicly since his prerecorded statement tuesday. >> and the facts are much different than what has been portrayed.

earlier on today, nbc's savannah guthrie pressing national security adviser jake sullivan on comments made by the president in recent days and weeks, saying the u.s. departure from afghanistan would not echo america's chaotic exit from saigon in 1975. >> how do you explain getting this so wrong? >> first, savannah, to be fair, the helicopter has been the mode of transport from our embassy to the airport for the last 20 years. >> but you know it's not the helicopter. it's not the mechanism. no, no, it's the last-minute scramble. you know that. it's the last-minute scramble when the assurances from the president himself were this is not what we were going to see. >> it is certainly the case that the speed with which cities fell was much greater than anyone anticipated, including the afghans, including many of the analysts who looked hard at this problem. and part of the reason for that, is because at the end of the day, despite the fact that we spent 20 years and tens of billions of dollars to give the best equipment, the best training and the best capacity to the afghan national securi

when she was working as a crossing guard in savannah at the martin luther king exit off of 95, she saw the kids were not bringing books back and forth to school. she asked them why and she bought everybody a dictionary and told them to use it to help them because she wants there life opportunities to be i guess diminished because they didn't have a large vocabulary so she stamped in each book the mind is a terrible thing to waste. she used her own money from cleaning houses. i got to know her and then she died in 2000 from breast cancer. she h has had a huge impact on people and it was a great idea to make sure that everybody has a dictionary. >> since 1995 when you founded the dictionary project along with french, how many dictionaries have gone out to children? >> 33,700,000. >> how do you get them out there? >> great organizations. the project started out with writing grants and then i spoke to different organizations about this idea because they were ueintrigued with the idea of the dictionary and of course literacy is so important to keep people learning new words and basically be

morgan, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. lady of the lake hospital. wave of new infections. in fact, it's getting so bad, the federal government is now sending in emergency medical teams to try and keep up with this ongoing surge. now, i had a chance to walk the floor of an icu yesterday where a week ago there were only one or two covid patients, but now every single room is full. the hospital telling me 50% of their patients under the age of 50, and that includes several to the east in florida, the state reported more than 21,000 new infections on saturday, marking the highest one-day total at any point since this pandemic began. we're also seeing hospitalizations break records, as well. and this comes as florida governor ron desantis issues new guidance that defies cdc guidance saying there will be no new mask mandates in place when florida kids go back to school next week. amidst the surge, there are signs of optimism. for three weeks now, here in louisiana, over the month of july, they nearly quadrupled their weekly average of vaccination rates an

as you well know georgia posts the port of savannah which is one of the fastest growing force in the united united stan the hemisphere, while not just to george's economy but the u.s. economy. we continue to see the impact of ransomware attacks and other cyber attacks on u.s. critical infrastructure, the colonial pipeline attack. colonial pipeline also headquartered in georgia. i want to thank your personal who assisted in response to that incident. my request for you, mr. secretary, is that you commit that the next time your vacation to visit george and i hope to welcome you soon, that you will sit down with me and georgia ports authority personnel to discuss had dhs can better support cybersecurity to protect the port of savannah and perhaps you could comment now as well on your overall assessment of efforts to protect ports from cyber attack. >> so this is a very important area for us, cybersecurity structure agency is focus on port security and the cyber domain, and yes, senator, i would be pleased to visit georgia and visit the ports authority with you and address their concerns

hi, keir, good morning >> savannah, good morning.ympics. and the focus on the sportsmanship, showing why it was worth the wait fireworks and flag bearers, but no fans and few athletes at the closing ceremony of a games that made history simply for crossing the finishing line for an olympics held during a pandemic, a triumph of the human spirit like team usa's molly seidel, taking bronze over the weekend it was only the third time she had run a marathon >> just being able to come out and get past all the challenges of the last year, i'm so happy right now. >> reporter: and sprinter allyson felix becoming the most decorated woman in olympic track and field. >> 11 olympic medals for allyson felix. >> reporter: taking golds in the 4x400 saturday >> i know we've all had to overcome so much, but it was pretty special to be able to still be here. >> reporter: in the final days, u.s. women's volleyball won its first ever gold medal. the american men and women'sd. at the closing ceremonies, the olympic flag handed to paris, unveiling its plan

general sherman in savannah, meets with 20 black ministers under the leadership of the vitae race and. thisis was after sherman's march of the seasons with the people want and they said, and they had a stenographer there. and he's saying that they want land and left alone and land was how you acute related well and transmitted wealth. and they understood importance of property because and so they had an intuitive understanding of the importance of property and sherman case, couple days later, number 15 and reallocating confiscated land of the enslavers to the inside and that was the first and meal and that radical land redistribution proposition came out of the meeting with those 20 black ministers and cut to the 20th century, the things of the civil rights movement in the north of one of them certainly was clayton jr, just like his father, baptist church with 12000 members and then of course the face of the civil rights movement in the south after 1955 would be reverend dr. martin luther king jr. and jesse jackson the first white man who had serious and jesse of course the minister i

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that came from general sherman meeting the 20 black ministers in savannah.t do you people want? this is after sherman's march. what do people want? they said, they had a stenographer there the whole transcript is in the newspaper. we want land and we want to be left alone. they knew land would help you accumulate wealth and they understood the importance of property because we were property. so they had the intuitive understanding of the importance of property and sherman a couple days later issued field number 15 reallocated the land of the enslavers to the enslaved. that was the first 40 acres and a mule. and that radical land proposition came out of the meeting with those 20 black ministers now cut to the 20th century the face of the civil rights movement in the north certainly one of them was adam clayton powell junior just like his father the pastor of the baptist church and then of course the face of the civil rights movement in the south after 1955 would be doctor martin luther king jr., jesse jackson the first black man at least who had a serious cha

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we flew out of army airfield in savannah. in early may. of oh five. and then we flew to a stopover in germany. it is an adventure so far, right? then you land in kuwait. and that is when i knew this was going to be completely something else. >> was your first reaction was a most memorable thing when you got there? >> heat and dust. they put us on this abbas in the middle of the night, pulled all the shades, when an armed escort taking us to a base in kuwait. they're playing that arabic music i member sitting on the bus going colleague,. >> were mi and. >> this is a whole lot less fun than it was a little while ago. anyway it got daylight at 4:30 in the morning. and by 8:00 a.m. in the morning, it's 120 degrees. it is crazy. >> host: hydration was a mission? >> guest: yes it was and you couldn't touch anything. it was so hot you would get a cheek weld from your weapon. it would burn your face. as to the point you got to laugh about it. this is ridiculous. it is so ridiculous it's funny what are you going to do you are there. >> would you have any expos

our thanks to savannah sellers right there. >>> thank you, guys for watching this weekend.atching. so good to have you with us. we'll be back next weekend at 6:30. velshi is next. >>> today on "velshi." the senate is in session working through the weekend on the brink of a major breakthrough. we'll take you there live. the alarming new danger on the delta variant. we'll cut through the disinformation and tell you who's spreading it. >>> then reporting the clearer sign yet that republicans in congress who were in touch with a certain failed former president on the day of the january 6th insurrection might get hauled before the select committee investigating the riot. we'll talk to a member later in the show. "velshi" starts now. >>> good morning, it is sunday august 1st. i'm ali velshi. rare for the senate to work on a sunday but that's what's happening today. chuck schumer says the chamber will reconvene today at noon as lawmakers work to finalize the text of that $1 trillion infrastructure plan. senators waited on this package to be finalized and leader schumer is urging t

savannah and hoda have the week off. back in certain parts of the country. we want to tell you next week more of our ongoing series "kids under pressure." it's a look at how kids are faring in the pandemic and challenges they're facing. >> a great idea. we'll introduce you to a high school coach. a lot trained to spot mental health issues to help the young athletes off the field. kate snow has that story for us next week. >>> right now, your news at 8:00. first up, a new terror threat overnight escalating anxiety for some 1,500 americans still stuck in afghanistan. military officials fear that a terrorist attack on kabul airport, the main evacuation point, could be imminent. afghan civilians who assisted the united states also desperate to leave fearing reprisals from the taliban. last night nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel had a rare face-to-face sitdown interview with the taliban spokesman and top senior official who arrived with an armed entourage. >> when osama bin laden, guest of the taliban, organize

savannah and hoda off. sheinelle is here. we're here in our temporary home just upstairs from studio 1a while 1a gets a bit of a makeover. >> it will be nice. >>> we have a lot to get to this morning, with major headlines from around the world, including that full fda approval for the pfizer vaccine. >> what does it mean for possible school and work mandates? is it enough for people who haven't gotten the shot? we'll have complete coverage and talk live to dr. anthony fauci. >>> meantime, residents of new york are waking up to a new governor. kathy hochul sworn in just after midnight as the first woman to lead the state of new york in a fiery farewell from andrew cuomo, just ahead. >>> and we're going to start in afghanistan with the scramble to evacuate thousands of stranded americans and afghans and new questions this morning surrounding that august 31st withdrawal deadline with just one week to go. nbc's richard engle has made his way back to kabul. he joins us live with the very latest. richard, good morning to you. >> re

we do not say anything in particular savannah, we point to debates and bring them to the surface and put the teachers and the students to enter into those debates just as you yourself just did every student should it be able to offer an answer in the that you just did. michael: any response of the mark. mark: i think it raises the question whether 26 amendment of recounting is that contentious move and i think that will be a ridiculous question to pose even to pose the question in a classroom. to insert an idea of possibility there. it's like the sexual revolution in the gender re- founding. and again, the questions, the nature, i don't think that that gives two way to become the suggestiveness of it. and again, we will see on the proof of this will be what kind of item unit for curriculum will be built out of these questions. michael: let's talk about that. some people criticized the roadmap for not having hard that it is built around these questions. and that means that leaves out a certain amount of detail. and just last week at the thomas b. fordham institute we just released a m

. >> maiolo quickly deleted her tiktok but not before another user named savannah sparks re posted itith her own commentary. >> jessica as a member of team usa paint. all. i really don't think you're qualified to speak on public health issues, especially not when it's to fat. shame hospitalized teenager who probably didn't have a say in his vaccination sentence, savannah's response went viral. outrage growing on the platform. other tiktok users calling maiolo a vile human team usa noticed 2 investigated and now has fired maiolo a statement reads in part this our decision to dismiss miss maiolo from the team usa program is final. and in effect immediately. >> the professional paint ball are taking to instagram to apologize for what she calls a moment of regret going on to say i am deeply sorry for any attention i have brought to this family in dallas. markie. martin news nation. again. those markie. martin reporting. >> the u.s. senate has approved a major bipartisan infrastructure plan. a rare coalition of democrats and republicans joined together today to green light. the 1.2 trillio

here in the savannah chatham public school system we are still open.hink they have done the best they can at being able to identify, isolating, communicate with those that have been infected or exposed to covid. but this is going on across the state. our young people are getting sick. and a lo of it is because their parents are not vaccinated. and so that creates a bigger issue for us. we would just wish that our governor would partner with us and try to keep our young people safe, older folks safe, keep our communities safe instead of issuing unenforceable executive orders that really do no nothing but just hoe his unwillingness to be a part of our solution. >> and we've heard from experts over and over again that masking is an effective strategy to mitigate the spread of covid. to just makes you wonder why it's so hard to just allow people to mask up. >> the reason is because taking -- he has taken a public health issue and made it political. this not political. we don't care if you are a democrat or republican, independent, libertarian. just wear a

. >> later this morning, we'll talk to the mayor of savannah. something to say to the governor and he'll say it here. >> yeah. >>> right now, we do want to update you on the status of civil rights leader jesse jackson. he and his wife were hospitalized after testing positive for covid-19. doctors are monitoring their conditions. they've not released much more information than that. the 79-year-old, we know, is at least partially vaccinated. jackson received a dose of the pfizer back in january. >>> strong storm surge and winds, heavy rain. new england is getting ready for hurricane henri which is already starting to show a little bit of the punch it's got. we'll be right back. , we can he. okay, imagine this... your mover, rob, he's on the scene and needs a plan with a mobile hotspot. we cut to downtown, your sales rep lisa has to send some files, asap! so basically i can pick the right plan for each employee... yeah i should've just led with that... with at&t business... you can pick the best plan for each employee and only pay for the features

savannah has the morning off. let's get to our news at 8:00.icane ida victims and survivors, a lot of louisiana is facing weeks without electricity. nbc's sam brock joins us now with the very latest on the storm damage and what is going to be a massive, long recovery effort. hey, sam, morning. >> reporter: no doubt about it, hoda. good morning. the harsh reality right now sinking in as to what this state looks like after hurricane ida ravaged it. i'm told from neighbors there was so much water in the streets here, you could get boats through and, in fact, in neighboring communities, they did. i'm going to point your attention right over my shoulder to a trailer flipped into a home that is completely emblematic of what so many of these communities look like right now. the louisiana national guard had to come in and rescue some 282 people and 32 pets, as well. this as we're learning about the death toll rising after two people died in the state of mississippi. a highway there washed out with flood waters from ida contributing to that. three other

everything looks different savannah, hoda and craig have the morning off. as you can see, we're in a brand new space here while studio 1a gets a little touch up >> meantime, there is a lot to talk about this morning, especially on the weather front. tens of thousands are waking up without power now as henri, now a tropical depression, slowly moves over rhode island. >> it made landfall yesterday. trees and wires down across the region with the storm expected to continue throughout the day >> meantime, flooding is also the major story in parts of tennessee where torrential rain took residents by surprise over the weekend. that storm now being blamed for at least 21 deaths and more than 25 people are missing. we have it all covered for you this morning, including dylan's forecast but we'll begin with nbc's kathy park in rhode island kathy, good morning. >> reporter: sheinelle, good morning to you henri is being blamed for widespread damage here in rhode island the winds got so fierce that trees, massive trees like the one you see behind me, stood no chance in

so happy that you are joining us on this monday morning savannah is off. >>> we're following two major stories on monday. a new attack overnight in afghanistan, rockets fired at kabul airport where the u.s. military is rushing to get out of that country. this has the 13 service members killed last week return home to a solemn salute. >> but the big story we're following today, devastation in the south. ida slammed the shore as a strong category 4 hurricane, sat on top of louisiana for six hours. winds reaching 150 miles per hour ripping off roofs, bringing down power lines. millions are in the dark our team of correspondents is spread out along the gulf coast and we'll speak with the governor of louisiana in just a moment we do want to begin live from new orleans where al roker is. al, what's the hatest? >> reporter: you look around, the sun is out, other than a lack of people, doors are closed an there are some sandbags you would have never known that and now the big question people are asking, they keep coming up to us because they see we're in news, what have you heard about the pow

there is a j inside story from me, sam is a that i'm a whole team here now and by the savannah's way, like hell, ambia boucher has become a stomping grounds for trespasses as desperate people transgress and illegal passage to feed an emerging fuel trafficking market. we follow that perilous journey unguarded, through the line of fire, risking at all and his wayland columbia. on al jazeera, challenging the brazilian dictatorship, the democratically run football team. the team has changed the course of the nation . the center was a revolutionary football, known to locals, as the doctor football rebels concludes with the celebration of life and legacy of socrates and the corinthians, democracy movements on al jazeera in each and every one of us have responsibility to change our personal space for the better the more we could do this experiment, and if she could increase just a little bit, that would be worth doing. anybody had any idea that it would become a magnet, who is incredibly rough for women to get 50 percent representation in the constituent assembly here in getting this pick up

how we turned the movie show out on a saturday afternoon in savannah, georgia in 1950. thank you.could make a good night out, and who knows, you could even end up on stage yourself. now he's apologising to me! right, that's all we have time for this week, but coming up next time... the first instalment of raja's academic epic indian journey from 2017, when he crossed the entire subcontinent. these are areas really for the adventurous traveller, this isn't india on tap. from gujarat in the west, to assam in the east, along one of the longest railway lines in the country. it's still the lifeblood of the country today. if you'd like to see more of our recent adventures, you can find us on the bbc iplayer, we are also on social media, just search bbc travel show, we are on most of the major platforms. until next time,do keep planning those trips wherever you may be heading, and we will see you soon. bye— bye. good evening. i suspect most of you want some settled summer sunshine for the beginning of august — why not? unfortunately, today, it was a slightly disappointing story. there wa