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To evict people in the midst of a pandemic is cruel, inhumane, unacceptable, and 100% preventible. >> so congresswoman, you mentioned that you believe the cdc should extend the moratorium. the speaker, nancy pelosi, has said the same thing. the white house disagrees, their legal team says that's not an option because of a supreme court decision last month. do you disagree with the white house legal team and do you think the president has done enough to try and prevent this crisis from happening with very little time left to go? >> we absolutely should have received word from the white house mu...

When you hear these unvaccinated american who's now regret not getting a shot, their messages to the public? >> thanks, jake. it's all preventible. it's tragic because it's preventible. look, i tell people i'm pro-prevention, and i use my story, my family's story, not only did i lose my beloved father but i've lost two cousins as well to this pandemic, and my sister who is a breast cancer survivor is a covid-19 longhauler. i've seen people in my community black and african-american and latino populations devastated, populations all across the united states. so my heart goes out to those who ar...

Impact that. the way that i categorize them, number one is the issue of mistrust. the second is misinformation. the third is complacency. and that alludes to that fact, and the fourth is convenience. >> reporter: and so they are trying to make this convenient, jim, for those here at the mall to get that vaccination. they may expand this pop-up beyond the three-day window and extend it. it depends on those numbers. so far looking at 56 who have been vaccinated today. there's still a couple of hours left for the mall to close, and those numbers, they sounds small, jim, but they're actually very ...

And so we have choices that we need to make now. and that is about investment and planning for investments moving forward and investing now in these issues. because investing now is much cheaper than dealing with the impacts of climate change in a year or two years, ten years. because the city of portland was not ready for this heatwave. people died all over the western united states. and that was preventible. we just didn't anticipate the frequency and severity of climate change and those things will escalate quickly and they are not going to be linear. it won't be an increase in temperature ...

Only about 30% of the people are vaccinated. but if 70% of the population is unvaccinated, that virus is going to find them and make them sick. all preventible. >> that is the keyword, prevention. you don't have to end up in the hospital. you can stop it. vaccines are highly effective. thank you both. dr. leana wen is with us now. she's an emergency physician. as you listen to laila and miguel, what goes through your mind? >> i'm extremely upset and frustrated, because we have been there before. listening to these reports is as if we are back in november or december of last year. the differenc...