Babies. The Game Stop Frenzy continues with backlash against robin hood for redistricting amateur trading. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. Restricting. It is friday, january 29th. With us we have White House Reporter for the asci press, jonathan lemire, Michael Steele, and former aide to the george w. Bush white house elise jordan, msnbc analyst as well. So we will get to the latest in game stop. That story ahead. Plus, a full year into the fight against covid. And were learning troubling details about the pandemic. A federal investigation found that u. S. Officials who greeted american evacuees from wuhan did not have training in Infectious Disease control and were told not to wear masks. Thats according to the washington post. The states Attorney General is investigating why the Cuomo Administration failed to report 3,800 Hospital Deaths as being linked to nursing homes, an undercount of 40 . Weve got details on both of those stories coming up on morning joe. But we begin wi
For sure and looking at the temperatures to the 20s, 30 easy and 40s again this morning and so bundle up. We have a freeze warning in effect for the north bay Interior Valleys until 9 00 a. M. The areas highlighted in purple under that is a freeze warning due to the temperatures down to freezing and even subfreezing in this area. So frost and freezing conditions, do what you can to protect your pets, livestock, pipes, plants and hopefully, those without shelter, experiencing the cold and frigid conditions and were looking at the temperatures again. Could see recordbreaking lows this morning. And this is the coldest temperatures we have seen since last march and april. Its been a long time before the cold snap for us. You can see across the rest of the region in the 30s and 40s for concord and oakland, liver more. San francisco, san jose and santa rosa to subfreezing and well talk more about some changes ahead. Details on that in just a moent. Now, lets check in with. Anafor the latest
And larryt nbc news norden, the director of the Election Reform Program at the Brennan Center for justice. Just a reminder, if you have questions as we chat, feel free to drop them into the chat below. Voting is on everyones mind at the moment, and with coronavirus, more voters than ever are trying mailin ballots or voting early. Alternatives to our usual voting methods, a lot of people are asking will voting become digital, as well . Thent to kick off conversation by asking, why would we even want online voting . My bias is coming from seattle where we have a robust mailin ballot system, and the process is already quite easy. Im curious what the conversation would look like around, why do we need this kind of technology . I think the appeal is in normas. Is enormous. In theory, it has largely been attempted in this country for military deployed service members. It could be used for people with disabilities who dont have a lot of ease getting to the polls. If we somehow had a robust on
Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 lets turn our attention to one of the important issues, and it is this. 20 Million Students and their families are in the middle of what has to be the strangest first semester of college in at least a century. Almost everything has changed for students except one thing, students still have to answer 108 questions on the dreaded fafsa form, federal aid application for pell grants and Student Loans to help go to college. For years now ive carried around the fafsa as a prop to make the case for simplifying it, but its no joke, especially this year. Many students are questioning their investment in a College Education at a time when many classes are only offering online courses, many of low income students who would benefit most economically from college long term are putting it off altogether. There was an 8 drop in the number of black undergraduate students enrolled in summer sessions compared with last summers enrollment according t
This follows the fed chair powells comments on an uncertain economic recovery. Airline stocks are lore wer as e group pushes for more money. Time we got the details on that. Later moderna laying out its time line for vaccine as President Trump and the cdc contradict each other about when one will be fully available to americans. Maybe were splitting hairs a little bit maybe not. Well separate fact from fiction. Kelly, bye it feels strange to be this close to someone other than any husband. Lets take a look at the big board behind me. Whats leading the way industrials and materials. The only two sec sotors in the frie green. Thats the trend we have been seeing this week its the opposite story for tech down today down about 8 in september after an epic run for this group. Lets get over to bob. Hello most of the big megacap tech stock amazon, facebook, apple are down were getting one of these periodic boost from the cyclical slash value, slash reopening look at these material names and in