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the daily death toll falling to a four month low on monday. at the very same time roughly 10% of the population has now been fully vaccinated, while nearly 20% have gotten at least one shot. an average of 2.2 million vaccinations are being given out every single day in this country. and we ve got to remember, all of this is happening just a year after the country first shut down. i want to start with my colleague peter alexander at the white house. peter, what is the administration doing to mark this one-year anniversary? yeah, that anniversary, of course, a somber one this thursday, now 48 hours away, and we at nbc news can now confirm president biden will be delivering his first primetime address at 8:00 p.m. eastern time this thursday to commemorate the day that the outbreak, the coronavirus outbreak was first declared a pandemic. jen psaki the press secretary detailing the tremendous loss, more than 525,000 americans who have now lost their lives in the course of ....
you re looking at live picture from the united nations. where all eyes right now are on this year s general assembly. president obama and the first lady, michele bachmann, expected to arrive in new york only minutes from now. at issue for the united states and much of the world this week, a showdown over the middle east. the palestinian authority president vowing to submit a formal application for statehood to the united nation s security council. it could have serious implications for the u.s. relationships with iz real and the arab world. much more on this part of the story coming up. let s get to the president s plan it slash trillions of dollars through the national debt. a plan he says will do the right thing. either we ask the wealthiest americanes it pay their fair share of taxes or asking seniors to pay more thor medicare. we can t afford do both. either we gut education and medical research or we ve got to reform the tax code so that most profitable corpora ....