Bernie sanders. The vermont senator will be center stage literally tonight, and he will likely face the kind of pile on like the one Michael Bloomberg experienced in las vegas. Sanders is the delegate leader. He has growing momentum and hes closing in fast on joe biden in South Carolina. Will joe bidens promised fire wall in the palmetto state hold . What can the other 2020 democrats do, if anything, to stop Bernie Sanders . Lets go right to our road warriors on the ground in charleston, South Carolina. Shaquille brewster following the sander campaign, mike memoli covering the Biden Campaign and Vaughn Hillyard is on the buttigieg beat. Shaq, Bernie Sanders again expecting the kind of incoming that Michael Bloomberg got last week on the strip. How is the Sanders Campaign trying to get ahead of that . Well, you saw last night the campaign releasing a list of pay for for some of his programs. The ideas include things like medicare for all, college for all, medical Debt Forgiveness and th
Unemployment numbers. 1. 48 million more americans filed new jobless claims last week. That brings the total to some 47 million over 14 weeks. For some context, thats about the combined populations of florida, pennsylvania and illinois. And for americans looking for help from government, this news, painful to report. A Government Watch dog now telling corning that more than 1 million americans that are no longer living received covid19 stimulus payments. Those payments totaled about 1. 4 billion, billion with a b. Well have more in a moment on how precisely Something Like that can happen. We start with the ongoing cases and admissions in texas and arizona. In texas more than 11,000 new cases in the last two days. Houstons mayor says 97 of icu beds there are in use. Meanwhile, in arizona with cases and deaths rising, around 88 of that states icu beds are now full. We have nbcs sam brock in houston. Houston has become the epicenter of this pandemic in texas. Nbcs joe fryer is in scottsda