Selling the speech, public confirmation of private plans, and new help now on the ground. up first, president biden taking his state of the union to the union, pointing to the economy, saying his plans are working, but what about those calls for bipartisanship with republicans ramping up their investigations on capitol hill? we ll take you there live. also this hour, a new global response in the headlines over that chinese spy balloon. the secretary of state this afternoon appearing alongside the head of nato revealing the u.s. was not beijing s only target as the u.s. gets ready to declassify aspects of the program sometime soon. dozens of americans now on site in turkey helping in that huge rescue operation from those devastating earthquakes. we re learning now even more people have been killed. we ll take you to the scene live. i m hallie jackson in washington. let s start with nbc s mike memoli with the president in wisconsin. chad brewster is in the key voting state. ali vitale is live on capitol
Today marks exactly one year since daunte wright was shot and killed by a minnesota police officer during a traffic stop. now a group of friends in minnesota hopes to stop similar incidents with a new idea. nbc s chad brewster is live in brooklyn, minnesota. it s an app. the significant thing is what the app actually does. explain it. reporter: exactly. the owners and founders of this company say it s about providing deescalation techniques and giving drivers a peace of mind when they get pulled over by law enforcement. the idea is that the app by voice activation or a push of a button, records, but also video conference and an attorney. putting an attorney in the passenger seat of the vehicle. i spoke to founders about it. they said it was inspired after the murder of george floyd. i asked, was this about trying to police the police. listen to what they told me. we always say we re bridging
A.b. stoddard is here, an associate editor and columnist for real clear politics. also with us, msnbc legal analyst and former assistant u.s. attorney maya wiley, nbc news correspondent chad brewster joins us from milwaukee and former u.s. attorney joyce vance is back with us once again. joyce, i ll start with you. i m putting up a graphic here for you and our viewers to see, a map that the supreme court allowed to stand, speaking to speak to us a little bit, if you will, about the impact of this ruling on alabama voters, a state you know very well, and how this decision by the supreme court could affect redistricting efforts elsewhere. so, let me make it clear that i m not an expert on redrawing maps based on new census data, but i don t think that you have to be an expert to look at that map and see how oddly it s drawn. the two arms that reach off the body of the one remaining district that gives black voters a chance to elect a representative of their choice,
History says: fine jewelry for occasions. we say: forget occasions. (snap) fine jewelry for every day, minus the traditional markups. covid concern and confusion this morning over a disturbing spike in cases around the country, and what that might mean for the fall when kids head back to school a matter of weeks away. many of the kids not eligible to get vaccinated. different mask guidelines from state to state on how to keep kids protected. chad brewster is on the ground in kansas city and dr. padilla director of the boston
University center for emerging infectious diseases join us. chad, you are in a place where they have devastatingly doubled their new cases in the past week. there is no way to cut it. that s not good. that s not the direction that doctors want to see things trending at, right? what are experts and leaders telling you there about things that people come into the hospital for covid have in common? reporter: well, the easy answer, hallie, many of them are unvaccinated. let s go back to the trend that you re seeing in terms of the rise of cases, because last week, we were in missouri, where we were springfield, missouri, doctors were saying it was the worst that it has ever been. over the weekend they added a new covid ward, more wings in the hospital than they have ever had since the start of this pandemic, and while they re not seeing that here in kansas just yet, the concern is that there s that spillover effect in places where you have counties in this area that have lower vaccination rates than they do over the border in missouri. so that is the concern that