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Indoor public settings in the city of philadelphia. although hospitalizations in the city remain low and also case counts are still averaging low, about 142 per day. city health officials say covid cases nevertheless rose 50% over 10 days and it suggests to them they may be seeing the beginning of a new wave. >> wearing masks, we should continue to go about our daily lives and take part in the life of our city without contributing to increasing transmission of covid-19. >> several universities h...

So this is news. elon musk will no longer join twitters board of directors. the ceo posted a message on sunday saying it was supposed to be official on saturday but musk shared he no longer wished to be on the board. musk also the ceo of tesla and spacex still twitters largest shareholder now and twitter says they will remain open to his input. >> hes very active on twitter. >> yeah. the new white house covid response coordinator said the cdc will have an update on the transportation mask mand...

The seal. you have to have a community worker escort you to pick up food deliveries, if youre lucky enough to get them and to get the distributions if theyre lucky enough to come. it is bizarre. >> two years for you. remarkable reporting. thank you for being with us this morning. >> reporter: thanks, john. the new white house covid response coordinator. nice to see you. congratulations on your new post. this morning is the big media rollout for you. there is a rise in the mid atlantic and wash...

Which includes a $137 million contract for a new testing strip factory. the facility wont be finished for another three years. while americans right now are forced to wait for hours in line for a covid test. republican senator rick scott calling out the president. >> joe biden is a hypocrite. first he says that -- he wants these mandates. this guy is a complete hypocrite. so they need to treat all the seats the same. >> the white house covid response coordinator says the free at-home test the pr...

Heres the white house coronavirus response coordinator. >> today, were taking additional actions including sending 5 million free rapid tests to schools each month. and providing another 5 million lab-based tests each month. these ten million additional tests available each month will allow schools to double the volume of testing they were performing in november. >> education secretary miguel cardona was asked this morning about the feasibility of providing schools with ten million free tests ea...

Something that he supports, and something that has the support of all 50 senators. but what is at question now is not the contents of the legislation, but how to pass it through the senate because current senate rules means you need the support of 60 senators and there is white house covid-19 response coordinator just said in the coming weeks americans will in effect start to receive those testing kits, he did not say how, but he said that there will be more information coming.

Starting next month, meet the press viewers may notice a familiar face at the white house. dr. jha, frequent guest on the program, named the new white house covid response coordinator, he replaces jeffrey signs. the announcement came as moderna and pfizer applied for another emergency use authorization for a second booster shot. pfizers only available for folks over 65. modernas fourth shot, asking for emergency use for everyone over 18. it coincides with spike in individual infections overseas....

We talk about that every day and to see people willing to die for it today, today. >> yes. >> in march of 2022, its gutting to hear the limits of what we can do to help them. so were going to come back to part a and 2b on a other side of a quick break. when we come back, a jailed putin critic is now calling on russian protesters to get back out on the streets, now, and demand an end to the war in ukraine. plus, a live report from the polish border where hundreds of thousands of ukrainians are se...

Schwarzenegger to produce that video. saying it came from the governors heart. posting to telegram, one of the few social media outlets able to evade censorship in russia. >> so interesting hes followed by the russian presidency. matt gutman, thank you. in the meantime, back here of the home to the pandemic, mderna requested emergency use authorization for a fourth shot, another booster for all adults in this country. dr. jha tonight on whether americans should begin to prepare for this possib...

President biden announcing a familiar face to all our msnbc viewers will be replacing jeff as the covid-19 response coordinator. while covid case numbers are down at home, europe and china are being hit by a new covid surge. in europe, the rising case numbers linked to a new stealth subvariant of the omicron strain and china continuing to battle the worst outbreak since the starts of the pandemic. at this hour, president biden celebrating st. patricks day with the annual friends of hour luncheon...