For reopening classrooms helped to harden the views of many educators it would be unsafe. School that is are trying to reopen are seeing the dangers of inperson education firsthand. Georgia, the districts Largest School where these images of crowded hall ways went viral last week, now has 35 confirmed cases after reopening for mostly inperson instruction. About 20 miles to the east in woodstock, georgia two schools that didnt require masks have now more than 1,100 students and staff in quarantine. To that end nbc news correspondent ellison barber is with us from woodstock, georgia. What are they saying there now . Reporter the high school were in front of is Woodstock High School. They decided to temporarily halt inschool learning. School officials learned at this school right now at Woodstock High School there are 300 students and staff in quarantine. They have 15 tests for students out pending results. They think some of those presumably come back positive. Theyll have to quarantine
Destroyed in this hurricane, about 14,000 people sought shelter and as of last night 100,000 people in texas without power and thousands in louisiana. Id like to bring in peter hotez. We had to interrupt our conversation regarding coronavirus when the president began speaking. Also jake levine former aide to president obama. Is there concern this could converge and become a super spreader event when we talk about the pandemic . Absolutely. There is a lot of worry because even before this hurricane, texas still had one of the highest rates of transmission of covid19 in the country even though it was 10,000 new cases a day, it was down to 5,000 new cases a day, it is still 5,000 new cases a day and those are confirmed cases and what it really means is five or six times higher than that. Louisiana was around 700 new cases confirmed per day. So pretty screaming high level of transmission, one of the highest areas in the country. You have all that disruption. People moving, you know, Emerge
Economy, our health, our children, the kind of country we live in. Its all on the line. Good day, im Andrea Mitchell in washington. You hear the music. The Democratic National convention is getting under way today as the party tries to make a virtue of being virtual bringing in hollywood stars and emcees. Hoping for no technical glitches and injecting as much youth as they can to energize young voters to come out to the polls including joe biden doing an interview with rapper cardi b. Oh, snap. Is this real . How ya doing . Hi. How are you . How are you . The names joe. I love ya, joe the massive virtual effort we will see throughout the week is the democrats big chance to grab an audience and make their chance that joe biden is the right man to lead the country reeling from a coronavirus pandemic and a crippling recession. The latest snapshot of the race. Our new nbc news wall street journal poll part of a clearer pictures we see in three other major polls. Biden hitting 50 or higher
Administration, leaving 13 days until the inauguration of joe biden as the 46th president. And what a uniquely dark time in our modern history. This was, of course, the day after our humiliation on the world stage, an embarrassing, violent spectacle of american citizens looting and defacing our own capitol, which they overran and entered with ease. Tonight donald trump in something of a hostage video recorded remarks written for him on a teleprompter. He denounced the violence that he incited. And in a shocker to his base, he admitted hes out of there 13 days from now. I would like to begin by addressing the heinous attack on the United States capitol. Like all americans, i am outraged by the violence, lawlessness and mayhem. I immediately deployed the National Guard and federal Law Enforcement to secure the building and expel the intruders. America is and must always be a nation of law and order. The demonstrators who infiltrated the capitol have defiled the seat of american democracy
Thank you. That is tonights last word. The 11th hour with Brian Williams starts now. Well, good evening once again. Day 1,449 of the Trump Administration leaving 13 days until the inauguration of joe biden as the 46th president. And what a uniquely dark time in our modern history. This was, of course, the day after our humiliation on the world stage, an embarrassing, violent spectacle of american citizens looting and defacing our own capitol, which they overran and entered with ease. Tonight donald trump in something of a hostage video recorded remarks written for him on a teleprompter. He denounced the violence that he incited. And in a shocker to his base he admitted hes out of there 13 days from now. I would like to begin by addressing the heinous attack on the United States capitol. Like all americans i am outraged by the violence, lawlessness and mayhem. I immediately deployed the National Guard and federal Law Enforcement to secure the building and excel the intruders. America is