today san antonio got somewhere with that. they issued a temporary order, against governor greg abbott and his mask ban. that will at least for now allow san antonio and bexar county itself to require masks in schools which their health department wants them to do as kids head back into the classroom. joining us now is the mayor of san antonio. i know this is a really busy time for you and your city. >> thanks for having me, rachel. >> let me ask you first of all, if i explained that correctly in terms of the impact of that ruling and the nature of this conflict you've got right now with the texas governor. >> the delta surge is so dangerous and so rapid that every day matters. and so we contended that the governor used his emergency powers unconstitutionally to behind bind the hands of local health officials from dealing with the actual emergency. it's tragically ironic he'd use his emergency powers from dealing with the emergency. effective immediately our public health authority has implemented a mask mandate for all public

today san antonio got somewhere with that. they issued a temporary order, that will at least for now allow san antonio and bear county itself to require masks in schools, which their health department wants them to do as kids head back into the classroom. joining us now is the mayor of san antonio. i know this is a really busy time for you and your city. >> thanks for having me, rachel. >> let me ask you first of all, if i explained that correctly in terms of the impact of that ruling and the nature of this conflict you've got right now with the texas governor. >> the delta surge is so dangerous and so rapid that every day matters. and so we contended that the governor used his emergency powers unconstitutionally to bind the hands of health officials from dealing the actual emergency. it's tragically ironic he'd use his emergency powers from dealing with the emergency. effective immediately our public health authority has implemented a mask mandate for all public schools. it is effective immediately. it's already going to have

joining us now is the mayor of san antonio ron nirenberg, mayor ron nirenberg, thank you so much for being here i know this is a busy time for you in your city. >> thank you for having me, rachel. >> let me ask you first of all if i explained that correctly in terms of that impact of that ruling in the nature of this conflict that you have right now with the texas governor? >> the delta surge is so dangerous and rapid that every day matters. we contended that the governor used his emergency powers unconstitutionally to bind the harried of local officials, from dealing with -- to prevent us from dealing with the emergency, we did win that ruling in court so effective immediately or county -- excuse me, our public health authority has implemented a mask mandate for all public schools. it's effective immediately, it's already going to have impact and we believe it will save lives. >> tell us about the balance of health capacity right now, in and around san antonio in terms of how bad the current surge is and how strained your health resources are, and what you are expecting as schools g

we'll talk to the mayor of san antonio in a few minutes who says, i hear your threat governor abbott, i see the legal brief you filed yesterday, but i'm doing it anyway because i want to protect our people. we're hear his argument in a minute. the cdc has updated its guidance to recommend pregnant women do get vaccinated against coronavirus. they previously had a neutral stance on whether immunization was safe for pregnant women. now they say there's no increased risk of miscarriage among those who have been vaccinated. the cdc found pregnant women were more likely to get severely ill than not pregnant ones. a 30-year-old woman died days after giving birth to her daughter on july 27th. she cradled her newborn long enough to take two photographs before being taken to the icu. let's bring in dr. kavita patel, an msnbc medical contributor. lots to get to with you, but let's start with pregnancy and the new recommendation from the cdc, did they make the right call here for pregnant women? >> yeah. we've been speaking for months this is safe and now we got more data, this is from a cdc reg

i'm in san antonio now. i got an emergency alert that said, nine and ten of hospitalizations are people who are unvaccinated. there are kids going to school next week. greg abbott was telling cities, no, you don't need to mandate masks. these are unvaccinated children. they don't have to disclose covid cases. in san antonio, if your kid has lice, you have to disclose your kid has lice. yet you don't have to disclose your kid has covid. there's something wrong with that. i was reading there are about 329 icu beds in the entire state. this is failed leadership at its core. you will have the courts -- my hope is you will have the courts reverse some of these decisions, because we saw what happened in florida today. you have the biden administration sending ventilators. i won't be surprised if the same thing happens in texas soon. >> let me play a fun video for you, tim, because i know you will appreciate it. this is ted cruz. this is what he said when it comes to covid guidelines and democrats. take a listen. >

i live in san antonio. i'm here right now. and this morning there was a town hall or forum that was for utility assistance and rental assistance, and hundreds, if not thousands of people showed up to that. but they went out to the people and tried to make it as easy as they could for folks to come and get their questions answered, get their applications in. these are not only tenants, but also landlords. that's important, because some people when they hear about the eviction moratorium, they say these landlords have had to wait too long. these funds are actually available to landlords, ultimately. so only 11% of these funds have gotten distributed. 89% have not. states and localities need to get their act together, cut the red tape, don't wait, but go out into the community. on top of that, i believe that congress should act as soon as possible to extend an eviction moratorium and states that don't have one in place should immediately consider one. >> secretary julian castro, i appreciate your time and i especially appreciate

i live in san antonio, i'm here right now. and this morning there was a town hall or forum that was for utility assistance and rental assistance. and hundreds if not thousands of people showed up to that. but they went out to the people and tried to make it as easy as they could for folks to come in and get their questions answered, get their applications in. these are not only tenants but also landlords. that's important, because some people when they hear about the eviction moratorium, they say, look, these landlords have had to wait too long. these funds are actually available to landlords ultimately. so only 11% of these funds have gotten distributed. 89% have not. states and localities need to get their act together, cut the red tape, don't wait, but go out into the community. and on top of that, i believe that congress should act as soon as possible to extend an eviction moratorium and states that don't have one in place should immediately consider one. >> secretary julian castro, i appreciate your time and i especially

alicia hart who is a surgeon at heart baptist hospital in san antonio, texas. and tell us how they plan to enforce it. >> geoff, it is interesting to be here to witness this new normal in new orleans. i'm basically in the french quarter watching as people are going to the doors of bars with and restaurants and asked for the proof of vaccination or a negative covid test that is no more than 72 hours' old. so far, it is all compliance from the folks, and most of them have been aware that the mandate was coming, so there is little agitation among the people today so far, but the business owners say it is a way to keep the light on. it is of course, another pandemic staffing hurdle, they will have to deal with who is responsible for checking the vaccination mandates and things to decide in coming weeks. some of the managers are choosing to stand at the door this week and next to see what they are greeted with and what bugs they may incur in this program. but as for now, they are saying that this is a way to keep the businesses open and functioning, and in a dire si

joining me now is julian castro, former mayor of san antonio. he's now an msnbc political analyst. thank you for being here. it's helpful that you're also a former mayor. your thoughts on the governor now testing positive, the fact he's still holding maskless events, and refusing to allow schoolchildren to be protected with mask mandates. >> it's absolutely maddening, joy. it's the height of hypocrisy. you put out the stats there. texas right now has one of the worst covid-19 situations. only 314 icu beds left in a state of 29 million people. more pediatric cases of covid, i think, right now than any other state, or right around the same amount as florida. it's surging here, and at the same time, the governor is in a tug-of-war with communities across the state and school districts that want to do everything that they can to protect children and businesses that want to protect customers by requiring vaccination or at least requiring masks. school districts that want to require masks. they're fighting that out in court. the governor has said, no, you can't do that. you can't take th

the legislation of the house floor is to un-do what the appellant court did in san antonio to say that the local governments can run the cities and the school districts require masks in schools, and the attempt is to un-do it and not to help. two, the people have to do what they believe they have to do, but we are working on the consensus and transparency and the announcement for them to go back was not known for the larger caucus, but a number of us committed to fight, and we want reforms at the national level and we will hold out unless and until we can get the federal voting rights on the president's desk. >> what does that commitment look like? how long can you stay away from providing a quorum? a year? until the next election? i have to tell you that i cover the congress, and i don't think that the cavalry is coming to help you guys in terms of a federal voting law any time soon. >> i appreciate the perspective, and i believe in hope, and moral consciousness and i believe it is elevated to the top of the talking points at a national level, because people are fed up. when you are l

antonio area where i and my family live. we see economic uncertainty out there. i completely agree it is not only about renters, it is also about land lords. you do have folks that own a single family home, a duplex, four-plex, you have big corporations that don't allow units, you have individuals that may have no mortgage on the property they're renting out. that's why fha and others took steps to provide forbearance for multi family owners, folks renting single family property or duplex or whatever it is. on top of that, these funds go directly into the pockets of landlords. the problem is and i think this is where there's agreement is that states have been very, very slow to actually get funds into the hands of those landlords and make them whole. that's where we need massive improvement, that's what the biden administration is focused on. >> will that solve it, stacy? there's $46 billion allocated for rental assistance. once it gets through, you have 26 states that haven't given out 10% of their money yet. >> that's the

we are seeing in san antonio, the school district mandating that faculty and staff have to get vaccinated. we're seeing bare knuckled fight between localities, school districts, and the state. i have lost count of the number of lawsuits every county, every school district, every entity is suing, it's fighting with the state. now, when we're looking at our public universities, for example, u.t. we can't have a mask mandate west can't ask our students if they're vaccinated. we can't ask them to wear masks. however, what the university is doing to accommodate that, that we are enduring a surge, is they're giving us as professors, discretion. so today we got a communication saying, if you feel the need for your health or the health of your family or students, you need to move online for the first month, you can do so. that's fine. so at the very least, we haven't seen a collective sigh of relief. while many of us are vaccinated. for example, i have kiddos who aren't vaccinated yet. they're too young. so what we're seeing is chaos, more so than we were at this time last year and a lot of fear

. >> the numbers yesterday, there is explosive growth along the corridor between austin and san antonio. republicans currently hold 23 of the 36 congressional seats in texas, but the state's gaining two seats and nine of the 23 gave more of the vote. they have no choice but to draw one new democratic seat likely in austin to shore up their own incumbents. that limits their ability to make big gains. they need to take a district and divide it into a bunch of republican districts. why does that not work for them this time. >> the growth in democratic votes in the austin area in particular and dallas and houston they will protect all of their current members and get greedy and add new seats. i think a 25-13 break down is the most likely scenario. . >> all right, let's go to a state. what is fascinating here. john reese who is a native, non-new york city will demand another new congressional district even as the state overall lost power. how will they pull this off? >> this is the story that no one is talking about, chuck. we talk about how they have big gerrymandering advantages in texas,

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fema agreed to the requests and those mortuary trucks are being deployed to san antonio as we speak. expected to arrive by the end of the week, and will be displode across the state of texas to handle the dead bodies that are piling up faster than texas funeral homes can handle them because of covid. cases and hospitalizations increasingly -- the federal government moving into new phases, and new ways to help. in order to cope. this is all hands on deck. stay with us. stay with us se... i appreciate that liberty mutual knows everyone's unique. that's why they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. [ nautical horn blows ] i mean just because you look like someone else doesn't mean you eat off the floor, or yell at the vacuum, or need flea medication. oh, yeah. that's the spot. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >> yesterday the washington post, the wall street journal in the new york times did something together. which is unusual for three competitive rival newspapers, but together they all sounded an alarm. t

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in san antonio, claire barnett left her consulting job for more work flexibility and time with her kids. >> being home gave me that opportunity to think about it from a family/life balance perspective. >> reporter: nationwide employers report a staggering 10.1 million job openings, even in picturesque boseman, montana, soaring home prices made it difficult for software company zoot enterprise to attract employees. it offers day care, cafeteria, physical therapists and flexible working options. >> we're seeing employees outside of work they don't want to be at work. we're seeing a pretty significant shift in that. work is something that we do but it's know the only thing we do anymore and their lives really do matter. >> that change of mindset is forcing companies big and small to change their return to work approach as a new study finds 38% of employees are seeking new jobs right now. >> we're seeing more perks around flexibility, different kinds of schedules but in the end what many people care about is compensation, higher wages, bonuses. >> reporter: a pandemic forced power shift, em

antonio, houston, and austin and everywhere in between, it is not going to go that far, so right now, everybody is hoping that more reinforcements can come as frustration mounts here in texas. >> and morgan, tragic when you have the health experts saying that the second surge, this entire thing was entirely preventable. and dasha over to you in florida in broward county where it is the first day of school, and the governor is threatening the school districts if they impose mask mandates and we will speak to a broward county official who is doing just that and defying governor desantis. what are you seeing there? >> this is behind me a busy day of school closing, but broward county is kicking off the school year in the middle of a political tug of war. this is imposing a mask mandate despite the governor's issuing a refusal to issue a mandate. and there was a phone call with people volatile of it, and one person calling in favor of the mask mandate, and a person saying that the superintendent should be investigated on murder, and another saying that she should be brought up on tyranny

two days ago in the seventh largest city in the united states in san antonio, there was no eps service for about half an hour. that means if you were in a car wreck and called 911, there would be no plans to show up. the reason is that's how burdened our hospitals are with covid-19. so, for example, if i go into one of my shifts, i will see patients i admitted a couple days ago. there are no rooms. in the emergency department with see critically ill patients. i try to take care of them to the best of my about. we have patients admitted a couple days ago, truly deserve the icu for close monitoring. that's what we are seeing. one other thing is i work at some free-standing and critical access hospitals and the job at these hospitals is to stabilize patients and transfer them to tertiary centers if houston and austin, once again, those patients are stuck at those sites without the true close monitoring they need for the best care that they deserve. >> tell us about this disease rsc. respiratory synktial virus. >> it's a respiratory illness. it's common in the winter season. the ting that'

two days ago in the seventh largest city in the united states in san antonio, there was no eps service for about half an hour. that means if you were in a car wreck and called 911, there would be no plans to show up. the reason is that's how burdened our hospitals are with covid-19. so, for example, if i go into one of my shifts, i will see patients i admitted a couple days ago. there are no rooms. in the emergency department with see critically ill patients. i try to take care of them to the best of my about. we have patients admitted a couple days ago, truly deserve the icu for close monitoring. that's what we are seeing. one other thing is i work at some free-standing and critical access hospitals and the job at these hospitals is to stabilize patients and transfer them to tertiary centers in houston and austin, once again, those patients are stuck at those sites without the true close monitoring they need for the best care that they deserve. >> tell us about this disease rsv. respiratory synctial virus. >> it's a respiratory illness. it's common in the winter season. the ting that'

the same is taking place all over the state, dallas, san antonio, austin. so parents want their kids protected. >> thank you so much for taking time out for us. appreciate it. >>> and a wrongful conviction led to one man spending more than a quarter of a century behind bars. in his first network television interview, walter ograud spoke to lester holt for being wrongfully convicted for the murder of barbara jean orrin and the failure of the justice system. >> in 1992 four years after an unthinkable murder rocked philadelphia, police announced they found the killer and that he'd confessed. his name was walter ograud. a single, 27-year-old truck driver wo once lived across the street from 4-year-old barbara jean horn. >> he let that poor little baby just lie there. if that's not intent to kill, maybe you haven't seen it yet. prosecutors were seeking the death penalty. ograud claimed he was innocent and detectives coerced a false confession from him. the little girl's parents were outraged. >> how did you feel him to hear him describe that story? >> angry. >>

they'll be based in san antonio and sent around the state as needed. the state's seven day death rate has reached its highest levels since mid march. the school board for hillsboro county schools in florida is set to hold a hearing tomorrow to consider a mask mandate as thousands of students are in isolation or quarantine. as of yesterday morning nearly 5,600 of the students and 316 staff were either in isolation after testing positive for the coronavirus or in quarantine after coming in close contact with someone who tested positive. hillsboro's case count stood at 731 at midday. nearly 20 times higher than it was after the first week of fall classes in 2020. a mask mandate in the district would violate an order from florida governor ron desantis prohibiting schools from requiring face coverings. >>> a 13-year-old girl has died of the coronavirus in mississippi. mckayla robinson passed away on saturday hours after testing positive. the week before her death, she attended classes in the smith county mississippi school district where masks were optional

antonio after the judge heard the case. that is the legal play-by-play that is happening here on the ground with things changing by the day as parents are trying to make decisions about what is going to be best for their students this school year. here in austin, this is the first day of school and austin has implemented the mask mandate so students are showing up today with their masks and that mandate hangs in limbo as the school district waits to see what the supreme court and what judges are going to say about the orders here and we've had an opportunity to speak with some of those parents this morning about all of this, and i want to play some of those conversations. take a listen. >> we need to keep the masks on. i'm surprised we're even starting school. i thought we weren't going to start school where we're at. >> if the mask order goes away does that make you think about sending your kids in person? >> not at all. not at all. i have big faith in my lord, and we have been generally okay. >> and most of the parents we

antonio and austin and houston doing what's necessary to protect the residents of those areas. >> to that point, governor abbott is seeking legal action to upholed his anti-mask mandates saying any local government officials that decides to defy the order will be teen court. this is the state of texas versus everyone else. so i take your point about this being reprehensible. it also to me doesn't square with the supposed conservative pin of small government, of trusting local elected officials to decide what is in the best interests of their communities, to say nothing about going against a free-market idea, the fact that you have him taking on restaurants that want to have mask mandates, it doesn't square. >> look, what it reflects is not only a campaign against vaccinations and coronavirus restrictions on conservative media that have radicalized a part of the electorate, but the reflects the culture war against cities, the places that are defying the mask mandates are cities in texas, which tend to be more liberal than the rest of texas, even though texas is a conservative state. s

both of my kids, a 12-year-old daughter and 6-year-old son go to school in san antonio, and like a lot of parents i'm wondering exactly how they're going to keep the kids and teachers safe especially because they're not fully empowered in those school districts to do so. it's giving a lot of parents pause, and if the governor thinks he's doing himself any favors, he's not. >> they're all different stripes who see this as knuckle headed. as seeing as lacking common sense and joaquin is right. he's doing this because he's trying to appeal, woe have a republican primary base because he has 11, and he's afraid of losing. so he's sacrificing the health, potentially of all of our concern in order to keep his seat. >> congressman, i want to be transparent about how we all came to be here today talking about this. my team and i get on a call where we talk about the stories that we talk about, and it was very important to me to mark the two-year anniversary of the el paso shooting and we needed to talk about the doj and voting rights and when we stepped back and we said, wait a second. these ar

. >> reporter: a san antonio judge allowed the local school officials to issue their own mandate and in kentucky, the governor is mandating all schools mask up. as covid cases top 36 million, despite the fda urging no need for boosters some states like mississippi are advising the doctors to consider it. as pfizer and moderna conduct their own safety trials, texas officials are confirming some people are intentionally getting more doses than they should. experts say that decision is premature. >> i don't believe that most people should be doing this on their own, it will cause a lot more confusion. we want to actually look at the safety and the efficacy data of third shots before we make guidance about who would benefit from it, and who wouldn't. >> morgan chesky reporting there. >>> more now on schools, thousands are heading back to the classroom this week as the debate over vaccine and mask mandates escalates. let's bring in nbc news correspondent kerry sanders from palm beach county. what are you hearing there? >> well, good morning. there's a real debate in the state right now ab

antonio, but hours later a judge in bear county issued an injunction on that order, allowing the mask mandate to stand. this is something that's changing by the hour, making it somewhat complicated for parents working to make decisions for their students. steph? >> complicated for you, stephanie. what is your plan now that the texas supreme court is siding with the governor blocking mask mandates? >> great to be with you, stephanie, i certainly should be able to remember your name. we're going to keep focused on what our main job is, that's to educate our students with academic and social and emotional opportunities and experiences. right now we're going to continue ensuring that we utilize all of the protocols available to us because again, the health and safety of each and every member of our community is in the forefront of our decision making. >> have you been in touch with the governor? >> no, ma'am, i have not. >> what is the reaction you're getting from the majority of students and parents? you're always going to have outliars on the fringe, but the majority of the student body

san antonio had no ems service for about half an hour for a week ago. our icus are full not only with covid patients but with patients with rsv, a surge of that is happening right now. and then, for the entire state, we have just over 300 icu beds left. that might sound like a lot to some people, but that is an entire state of texas, and that icu beds for covid, and for if your parent or grandparent has a heart attack or stroke, if you are driving down i-ten and are in a major car crash, that is an icu bed for you as well. so we are continuing to be really, really strained. and a few weeks ago, when transports and admissions to other states was a rarity, now that is a common occurrence on a day-to-day basis. >> it will take such a toll on so many people who are there on the front lines. the dallas morning post released a new report saying some doctors were considering using vaccination status as a factor when choosing who will get icu access, because of the shortage. should medical professionals consider that when admitting patients into icu? >> you kno

>> well, joy, this is all going to play out real quick because even the san antonio superintendent wanted to have a vaccine in the district and he got sued by the attorney general to stop him so he had to stop that. there's also a bill that was introduced yesterday to prevent us from having masks. let's see if it survives the special session. now i think that even republican voters in our state are saying, wait a minute. we're playing with fire here. and so i think the tide is starting to turn and we'll know in two weeks because that special session will have to adjourn in two weeks and we'll see what happens here if the tide is really turning with our voters on both sides of the aisle. >> i will note that that special session, we talked about it yesterday, did not include any measures that would protect children in the state of texas from dying of covid. covid was not on the agenda. all that was on the agenda was a lot of republicans with talking point of materials with stopping people of color for voting. >> dr. roslyn osgood, dr. michael inohosa, thank you for standing up to your gover

antonio and austin and houston doing what's necessary to protect the residents of those areas. >> to that point, governor abbott is seeking legal action to uphold his anti-mask mandates saying any school district, public university, or local government official who decides to defy the order will be taken to court. this is the state of texas versus everyone else. so i take your point about this being reprehensible. it also to me doesn't square with the supposed conservative principle of small government, of trusting local elected officials to decide what is in the best interests of their communities, to say nothing of going against the sort of free market idea, right? the fact that you have him talking on restaurants that want to have mask mandated. it all just doesn't square. >> look, what it reflects is not only a campaign against vaccinations and coronavirus restrictions on conservative media that have radicalized a certain portion of the republican electorate against public health measures, but it also reflects the republican culture war against cities. the places that are defying

i heard official there's say for 26 minutes on thursday all of san antonio is without any free ems units. meaning they had no available ambulances. >> we're seeing rising cases. every person i see come into the emergency department is covid positive. i think back to the last four shift that's i worked, that fourth shift when leaving the emergency department, i still had a patient that admitted for covid pneumonia on that first shift. and they were still stuck there. that's because the icus are full. our in patient beds are full. the patients have nowhere to go. when i heard the term this is the pandemic of the unvaccinated, that is true. if it you're in a car accident and all the ems units are tide up waiting at the hospital because they can't off load the patients because the hospital is so full, that ambulance may not come f you're having chest pain and you're at home and you might be having a heart attack and you call 911, that ambulance may not come. although the folks with covid-19, a majority of them run vaccinated in the hospitals, they're affecting everyone. >> do you envision a

good thing is, some of the courts recently allowed the big cities, san antonio, houston, dallas, austin to be able to implement mask mandates for their schools. >> doctor, i want to talk to you also, texas is planning on bringing in 2,500 out of state medical workers to help with this crisis. i mean, we talked to dr. derek qass in the last in the hour and she said what we are seeing in the south is going to bleed into other states. right now this is a solution but as more and more states might see an uptick in cases, this is enough to avoid catastrophe. >> 2020 was technically the year of the nurse, 2021 is burning them all out. you may not have that many emergency nurses left to staff these beds in 2022 because people, the american people are not doing what they need to do in order to help us get control of this pandemic. >> dr. cedric dark, we certainly hope things improve there in your area but we appreciate you coming on with us and hope you'll come back and update us and have a better picture to paint. thank you, doctor. >>> heavy rain across the florida keys this morning as tropic

fema agreed to the request and those mortuary trucks are being deployed to san antonio as we speak. expected to arrive by the end of the week. they will then be deployed across the state of texas to handle the dead bodies that are piling up faster than texas funeral homes can handle them because of covid. cases and hospitalizations increasing rapidly all across the country. the federal government innovating and moving into new phases and new ways to help in order to try to cope. but this is all hands on deck. stay with us. deck. stay with us with relapsing forms of ms... there's a lot to deal with. not just unpredictable relapses. all these other things too. it can all add up. kesimpta is a once-monthly at-home injection... that may help you put these rms challenges in their place. kesimpta was proven superior at reducing the rate of relapses, active lesions, and slowing disability progression vs aubagio. don't take kesimpta if you have hepatitis b, and tell your doctor if you have had it, as it could come back. kesimpta can cause serious side effects, including infections. while no

antonio independent school district, they all were waiting for this mandate to be able to say, this approval to mandate it, not to have to do this compromise of vaccine requirement plus testing. i think the approval signals that days of carrots, we talked about lotteries, handing out financial incentives to get people vaccinated sounded good in the beginning before the delta variant. we don't have the luxury of that time. it gives tail wind to people that are waiting for the approval. i think on top of that, it will give businesses and local retailers more conviction to put up a sign in the store front, say all of our staff are vaccinated, you can feel safe coming in, and i think that's not unreasonable to expect across the country. >> number one, fair point. number two, i think sean hannity just called dr. dean. if you need to take hannity's call. >> shall i be taking some worming, cow deworming or whatever it is called. i have a question. >> go ahead. >> so i'm very worried about the illness, the nature of the illness of children because they can't be vaccinated. this delta is cle

however, we've seen districts from across the state in houston, san antonio and austin and openly challenge the governor there with a bit of back and forth happening in the courts, but as it stands right now, the governor not changing his tune and keeping that ban in place as he recovers from covid-19. garrett? >> that's interesting, morgan. my public high school had a strict dress code and that they couldn't control what students were wearing including on their faces is an interesting one. thank you for that report. morgan chesky in dallas. dr. gupta, the irony of governor abbott's case while he's been opposing mitigation efforts like masks isn't lost on anyone. what do you make of his likely prognosis and the fact that morgan pointed out that he's asymptomatic, but taking regeneron. >> good afternoon, garrett. first of all, let's hope that the governor remains asymptomatic and continues -- >> absolutely. >> -- with the course that progresses first and foremost. the indications for monoclonal antibodies that medication that president trump received way back when in october last year have b

we're seeing it in texas, smaller counties around dallas, austin, san antonio, houston, all growing, all growing in the direction, if you will, of the democratic coalition. that's what's so -- when you look at this, map makers, particularly in texas, their rural base has gotten smaller. the suburban areas have gotten bigger. can they even draw districts that definitely favor the republican side? that's going to be a real challenge and why long term this census may be a harbinger for more democratic power even if in the short-term republicans gain in '22. >>> when we come back, the fight over who decides whether children should wear masks in school. d wear masks in school to j.d. power. number one in reliability, 16 times in a row. most awarded for network quality, 27 times in a row. proving once again that nobody builds networks like verizon. that's why we're building 5g right, that's why there's only one best network. when you really need to sleep you reach for the really good stuff. new zzzquil ultra helps you sleep better and longer when you need it most. it's non habit forming an

the trailers will be paced in san antonio and sent around the state as needed. texas has seen a surge in new cases amid the spread of the delta variant. the state's seven day death rate has reached its highest levels since mid march. >>> the school board for hillsboro county public schools in florida is set to hold an emergency meeting tomorrow to consider a mask mandate as thousands of students in its district are in isolation or quarantine. as of yesterday morning nearly 5,600 of the students and 316 staff are in isolation after testing positive for coronavirus or in quarantine after coming into close contact with someone who tested positive. according to the tampa bay times, the case count stood at 731 at midday, nearly 20 times higher than after the first week of fall classes in 2020 a year ago, a mask mandate in the district would violate an order from florida governor ron desantis prohibiting schools from requiring face coverings though that hasn't stopped other districts and mayors from violating his order. >>> then there is this, a 13-year-old girl died

yes, i'm a state representative, i represent the urban core of san antonio but i'm always a dad who sent his kid to public school for the first time this year in pre-k. so the idea you have administrators and school districts trying to make a safe environment for our children in the face of a governor who is trying to remove those protections, this news from the fda is incredibly important because it means that at a minimum, despite his efforts, we will have a safer environment than we did before. hopefully it improves beyond that, at a minimum as they go through the course with the mask mandate, at a minimum these vaccine mandates i think will help quite a bit. as a dad, as a parent, someone who believes in the science that's taught in the schools our kids are going to, it is very welcome news. it is reassuring and we need to get on with it now. >> it is good to end on a positive note after what has been, to say the least, a challenging legislative session for democrats in texas. we thank you so much, state representative diego bernal, for spending the time with us this afternoon. >>> a

antonio, now the host of "our america" podcast. and ally mistal is also here. i'm going to start with this. we talked about this several weeks ago on my podcast on slate. this eviction moratorium is an absolute mess. one, there's billions of dollars of money made available to help people stay in their homes not yet properly distributed. worse, if there's a stop gap created by nancy pelosi and the house you run into the situation of hundreds of thousands of people having an eviction on their record which will make it more expensive to get another place to live. how did we get here and what are the options to protect hundreds of thousands of people while we're in a raging pandemic from being thrown out in the street or into a hospital? >> yeah, it is a big fail, jason, on so many different levels, the failure of the court, as justice breyer pointed out in his dissent, this is an issue that the court has not adjudicated on, not opined on exactly before. so they should have taken time to actually hear the oral arguments and make a fina

in san antonio clair barnett left a consulting job for more flexibility and time with her kids. >> being home gave me an opportunity to think about it from a family life balance perspective. we can make different decisions. >> reporter: employers report 10.1 million job openings. even in boseman, montana, soaring house prices make it difficult to attract employees so there's on site day care, a cafeteria, fitness programs, physical therapists and flexible working options. >> we see employees that really when they are outside of work don't want to be at work and seeing a significant shift in that where work is something that we do but it is not the only thing we do anymore. and their lives do matter. >> reporter: that change forces companies big and small to change their return to work approach, even as a new study finds 38% of employees are seeking new jobs right now. >> we are seeing more perks around flexibility, schedules. but of course, in the end, what many people care about is their compensation. higher wages, bonuses. >> reporter: a pandemic forced power shift. employees making li

>> this is not san antonio am. i feel what we are dealing with is much biff than what seen in the past. >> reporter: he tells us the biden administration is now deporting more families who don't qualify for asylum. >> friday we had our first plate, central american, northern triangle countries, back to central america these are family units. >> reporter: we met a one-year-old onja. they brought him here from inaugural nicaragua. >> we had nowhere to sleep ep. we had to sleep on the dirt, itself. >> reporter: the biden administration is facing growing backlash over the border policy including the unprecedented step of releasing 50,000 mike grants into the u.s. without court daughter. the county sheriff. >> it just doesn't seem that our officials in washington are listening to us and we all feel abandoned. we have a crisis down here. >> reporter: the mayor filing a disaster declaration. >> last night we had town 1800 immigrants come in and catholic charities the sent more. >> reporter: meanwhile, immigration advocate

. >> reporter: in texas after multiple school districts defy the mask ban a san antonio judge issued an order allowing local schools to issue their own mandate. and in kentucky the governor demanding all schools mask up. as covid cases now top 36 million the push to vaccinate and confusion over booster shots continues. despite the fda urging no need for boosters some states like mississippi are advising doctors to consider it. as pfizer and moderna conduct their own safety trials, texas officials confirming some people are intentionally getting more doses than they should. experts say that decision is premature. >> i don't believe most people should be going out and doing this on their own. it's going to cause a lot more confusion, and we want to look at the safety and efficacy data of third shots before we make the guidance who would benefit from it and who won't. >>> more now on schools. thousands of children heading back to the classroom this week as the debate over vaccine and mask mandates escalates. let's bring in nbc news correspondent kerry sanders from riveria beach, florida