it's now marching into tennessee. what you'll now have at the start of the school year are thousands and thousands of adles wants unnecessarily getting sick with covid-19, and now we're learning more and more about the consequences. one of the things the political right does is always point out the death rate from covid-19 among adolescents is low, and that's true. what they omit is the fact we'll still see lots ofied adolescents already hospitalized. and number two a percent will get long haul covid. a new paper has come out, and what they've shown is that a significant percentage will actually develop brain matter -- brain degeneration as a consequence of long haul covid with an uncertain recovery time. and that's important for memory, for cognitive performance. so what you're doing is you're condemning a whole generation of adolescents to neurological injury unnecessarily. >> i just heard antic dotally from a couple of people who got vaccinated but have tested positive for the delta variant. does that mean that eve

it's now marching into tennessee. what you'll now have at the start of the school year are thousands and thousands of adolescents unnecessarily getting sick with covid-19, and now we're learning more and more about the consequences. one of the things the political right does is always point out that the death rate from covid-19 among adolescents is relatively low. and that's true. but what they don't -- what they omit is the fact that we'll still see lots of adolescents get hospitalized like we're already seeing in mississippi, number one. number two is the fact that 10% to 30% will get long haul covid, or what's called p.a.s.c. and now we're learning about the neurologic consequences of long haul covid. a new paper's just come out from the group at oxford university. the neuroscience center there. and what they've shown is that a high -- a significant percentage will actually develop gray matter, brain degeneration as a consequence of long haul covid with an uncertain recovery time. and that's important for memory, f

tennessee state representative london lamar was part of that fight. earlier this year she told us why removing the bust was so important to her. >> every day i have to walk in to make legislation for all people of tennessee, i have to walk past a klansman before i go into the people's house. our state capitol is recognizing and supporting the first grand wizard of the kkk in a building that should be a building where all people can feel that we are entering these chambers to represent them and make their lives better. >> well, today, finally, we got word the bust will be removed. the state building commission voted 5-2 to approve the relocation of the forest bust to the tennessee state museum. the two "no" votes were from republican house speaker and lieutenant governor. this afternoon crews began preparing for the move. again, nathan bedford forest is not some on-the-bubble figure with a complicated legacy. he was one of the most loathed

there is no example -- of what's happening in tennessee, state with a 50% jump of cases. the tennessee department of health has willamette -- pressure from republican state lawmakers out because they didn't like how this state vaccination officials advising medical providers on what tennessee state law said about teenagers getting the vaccine. not only are these stopped vaccine outreach by holistic health office, they also fired their top vaccine official doctor fiscus. guidance she distributed for teens seeking for vaccines without their parents guidance. >> i was doing language around tennessee's minor major -- a case law from 1987 a tennessee supreme court ruling that children's 14 and older can receive medical care with their own consent without the consent of the parents. and i took that language that i was told in an email was blessed by the governor's office and that i could share with anyone that i so choose, put it into an email to our 19 providers unscented out. and overtime, a very short period of time, there was some backlash from what -- felt that that was an

when i was in the state legislature in tennessee, and people run down tennessee, but people are coming in in droves from these northern blue states. the reason is because the crazy spending -- in tennessee, we have a balanced budget amendment and we have zero debt in our state. when we pass legislation, if it is about dog catchers, the final legislation is about dog catchers. it is not about pay raises for legislators or bridge projects. that is the problem we have here. these projects have zero to do with infrastructure. if it is such good legislation, let's get an individual bill and vote it up or down. host: when it comes to the house, say the senate passes something, you talked about woke ness. give me an example that members would want in the bill that would not pass the house. guest: for me, what i want in the bill is roads, bridges, several dams that need work, railroads, airlines, things you would consider -- i could even go as far as internet coverage. a lot of our area are rural areas. i could move the needle as far as that. for the rest of it, it is crazy. it is green new de

and in tennessee where just 38 percent of the state's population is fully vaccinated, there is vaccine controversy. >> i didn't make the law, i don't interpret the law. >> reporter: dr. michelle ficus said she lost her job as tennessee's top vaccine official because she passed along information about the mature minor doctrine. this is out of a tennessee supreme court ruling that concluded that children ages 14 and older, if they felt that they were old enough and mature enough to make the decision, could consent for medical procedure was a parent being procedure without a parent being present. >> reporter: according to internal emails obtained by "the tennesseean," the tennessee health department also declined to order a stop to all county vaccine drives aimed at children. >> all of this has become so hyper-politicized that we have lost the perspective of the 600,000 people who have died. >> reporter: in a statement to cbs news the tennessee health department says it quote supports outreach efforts and in tacoro they've . norah? >> o'donnell: jericka duncan, td thank you. >> and we're

tennessee matter? because they came out of the box hot on vaccinations. they had it together. they were doing well. then the poison politics started. now they have one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country. covid cases are on the rise there again. one goes with the other. all right? you never hear anybody saying they have this unbelievable vax in this vaccination rate and unbelievable case rate. tennessee's top health official says she was fired not because of numbers but for trying to turn them around. she says she went against the predominant political vent. it cost her her job, but she is way more worried about what it's going cost the people in her state. how so? next. if zwroo ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ deposit, plan and pay with easy tools from chase. simplicity feels good. chase. make more of what's yours. there's an america we build and one we explore. one that's been paved and one that's forever wild. but freedom means you don't have to choose just one adventure. you get both. introducin

once again tennessee republicans are making us an embarrassment. last month in the government operations committee, which i was sitting in, the republicans were asking questions of the department of health about the information they're giving out to minors about vaccine distribution. they had concerns and they did not appreciate the department, what they said was marketing to teenagers based on this mature minor doctrine. well, at the time we only had eight teenagers that have taken the vaccine without their parents. three of them were the department of health and family and children. what we have done, because the republicans don't believe covid-19 is real and we're making political statements with the disease, we are make drg michelle fiskus an example. right now this is unconscionable. we are still in the midst of a pandemic where tennessee is the number one in the country for the highest rates of vaccine and it is immoral and irresponsible to deny education and receiving health care access if they so choose. again, our republicans claim to be t

only 38% of tennessee is vaccinated, far below the national average. so naturally the tennessee republican lawmakers have pressured the department of health to ban all outreach of any vaccinations to kids. like you said, not just coronavirus but also measles and hepatitis and rubella. so are you going to make measles and corona great again apparently to own the libs. and while this is happening, governor bill lee has decided that tennessee has to be one of the 19 states in this country that has permitless carry. so while gun violence is rising and killing our kids in mass shootings, you can own a gun and carry a gun without a permit, but god forbid if you do vaccine outreach during a health crisis that is killing, like you said, the unvaccinated across the country. >> you have dr. anthony fauci saying this morning, talking about the dangers of disinformation. take a listen. >> we'd probably would still have smallpox, and we probably would still have polio in this country if we had the kind of false information that's being spread now. if we had that ba

tennessee, one of my favorite states. i am from tennessee. you want to clear up the viruses and the malware and ransomware? you sue microsoft. they put out a faulty product. if you buy a car and the accelerator sticks, you sue the manufacturer. i have a degree in electronics. they put these viruses, cookies and malware on your system because they want to track you. they want to know where you spend your money, who you talk to, what you are buying, etc. they do not have to have these cookies on your system. they could have it on their server. they want to track you when they are not -- when you are not on their system. guest: i think it is gutless. congress is gutless. we do not hold their feet to the fire. big tech, we rail on big tech but still we are like dogs at the trough and we take their money. ultimately, that will be where it lies. if we could get some people with guts, you have people like rand paul in the senate who rails on stuff like that. he really needs some help. he needs some folks with technology backgrounds to articulate tha

and indeed there are massive steps being taken by tennessee authorities among them. it's not just a battle for cobra vaccinations for teenagers. it's now has spread to all vaccinations. basically, it's put a ban on any information being put on by the health department concerning vaccinations ranging from flu to h p b and including cobra. 1900 vaccinations. in addition, it's now prohibited the use of school venues for vaccination programs. only 2 weeks ago there was a massive vaccination program in a number of tennessee schools. now this has been outlawed by the state authorities . so this is a massive step against vaccinations in general. not just the cobra 19 reflecting an antique vaccine stance that appears to be growing within the state of tennessee. indeed, important to make the point that it applies to vaccines against all diseases. mike, and this is already a place as one of the lowest vaccination, right. in the u. s. what lies behind this move now? well, he mentioned the vaccination re, tennessee's around 38 percent of fully vaccinated adults. that is some 10

in the state of tennessee only 38% of the population has been vaccinated. that's low. according to the "new york times," the average daily case rate has increased by a whopping 404% over just the past two weeks. again, not great. well, today we learned the tennessee department of health, which is a state agency, will halt all adolescent vaccine outreach not just for the coronavirus but all diseases, amid pressure from republican state lawmakers according to an internal report and agency e-mails that were obtained by the "tennessean" newspaper. "the health department will also stop all covid-19 vaccine events on school property. it will no longer send postcards or other notices reminding teenagers to get their second dose of the coronavirus vaccines." the state has also fired its top vaccine official, dr. michelle fiscus, for her work trying to get teens vaccinated. in a statement dr. fiscus wrote, "it was my job to provide evidence-based education and vaccine access so that tennesseans could protect themselves against covid-19. i have now been terminated for doing exac

you are from tennessee. when you hear, this at least someone is standing up and saying we don't need to go into america's school pressing kids to get a vaccine. >> this is just another reminder, folks, this is tennessee, not california. and we will not stand for this. i would like to remind folks, especially the coronavirus fear mongers out there like chelsea clinton who were saying we are trying to discourage from getting vaccinated. no, simply as you mention, pete, all this is not going to have vaccine drives on school property and not send out postcards to minors telling them to get their vaccine tore get their second dose. those postcards will be sent out to adults. liberals fear not. really what this comes from. there was a top vaccine official at the health department who is now fired who was essentially giving a road map on how they could exploit the mature minor doctrine to be able to administer vaccines to 14 to 17-year-olds without their parents' consent. she put a road map, a memo out there about

tennessee matter? because they came out of the box hot on vaccinations. they had it together. they were doing well. then the poison politics started. now they have one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country. covid cases are on the rise there again. one goes with the other. all right? you never hear anybody saying they have this unbelievable vax vaccination rate and unbelievable case rate. tennessee's top health official says she was fired not because of numbers but for trying to turn them around. she says she went against the predominant political vent. it cost her her job, but she is way more worried about what it's going cost the people in her state. how so? next. had the heart attack. he's the most important thing in my life. i'm so lucky to get him back. your heart isn't just yours. protect it with bayer aspirin. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. [tv announcer] come on down to our appliance superstore where we've got the best deals on refrigerators, microwa

. >> and tennessee's top vaccine official is fired one day before the state removes all vaccine outreach to minors for all diseases, including covid-19. that fired official, doctor michelle fiscus joins me live. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes. today, more than six months after the insurrection with no real president in american history, a transfer of power marked by violence not by piece, the president of the united states, the man who the mob tried to stop from occupying the office came forward to say that the country is facing a major crisis. >> so hear me clearly. there isn't an food ling assault taking place today in attempt to suppress and subvert the right to vote in fair and free elections. an assault on democracy. an assault on liberty. an assault on who we are. who we are as americans. we're facing the most significant test of our democracy since the civil war. it's not hyperbole. since the civil war. >> it's an incredibly powerful thing to say. he says it's not hyperbole, and i agree with him it's not hyperbole. republicans are passing

. >>> and in tennessee, a fight against vaccines like we have never seen. state republicans going as far as mailing a muzzle to a state official before ousting her and now blocking schools from addressing covid vaccines with students. >>> plus it's jeff bezos' turn to head to space. we take you to mission control where final preps are being made for tuesday's takeoff. this is "american voices." >>> hello, everyone. i'm alicia menendez, today marjorie taylor greene and matt gaetz of florida proved so toxic, they're running out of places to hold political rallies. new reporting from the daily beast highlights their desperate attempt to find venues that welcome their america first rhetoric. just last night they were forced to hold a rally on a street corner in riverside, california, after three venues backed out. so this maga-touting pair forced to fund-race on a street corner. apparently four seasons total landscaing made famous by rudy giuliani not available. but whether on street or onstage, people still showed up to see the two in california, including som

there are some great people working at the tennessee department of health. i know a lot of them, and i think it's really important to let these professionals do their job in a way that doesn't politicize the great work that they're doing. >> all right, doctor, thank you so much for what you do, and i that's for talking to us today. i appreciate it. let's go to cnn's chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. sanjay, what concerns you the most about what the government of tennessee is doing in terms of no longer encouraging outreach when it comes to the covid vaccination for teens or vaccinations in general to minors? >> it's a clear sort of politicalization of a very sacred part of public health. we've seen this before. i've been reporting on these types of things before even before covid, you remember there were measles outbreaks in various places around the country. this is a clear politicalization of it. i think that's the bad news. the good news i think what the doctor was sort of alluding to is that tennessee in 2020-2021 were doing pretty well with

tennessee is one of a handful of states that by law allows teens between the ages of 14 and 17 to get medical care, including vaccinations, without parental consent. given the republican outrage, you might expect hundreds of tennessee's youth rebelled against their parents' wishes. but as of last month, the department filed only 8 instances of young people receiving vaccines without parental permission. five at a health facility for something else, opted for the covid vaccine while there. >> the other three were my own children who i sent unaccompanied to get a second dose, they're 16, and their mom works. >> reporter: the cdc recommends everyone 12 and older be vaccinated because it saves lives. >> i think there's a sense that we are hiding in dark alleys, whispering to kids, come get vaccinated. we're not doing that, we're not encouraging that. >> reporter: things have only gotten worse. daily coronavirus rate has tripled in the last three weeks. meanwhile, tennessee department of health stopped all direct outreach to teenagers to get vaccinated. dr. martin says timing couldn't be w

i also helped run a group called the safety and see project in tennessee that looks at what might be able to bring together people across the political divide to really talk about how is it we can maybe form even though seems impossible some kinds of common cause across the political spectrum. to really try to keep people and killed is safer and last part is i should mention i had a book come out about a half ago called dying of whiteness the looks a lot of topics that may limit gui suicide. i was doing research in southern missouri, living really in kind of, i am from missouri but what are called pro-gun communities and talking to people about guns, looking at the kind of tension between liberty on oned hand and safety on the other. >> statistics about gun violence particularly this year, 10,000 people related to that in the first half of this year. from your background research what's the best wayou to understand the rise in these numbers? >> i think it's really a question not an answer. i think in a way we are seeing certainly a spike in certain kinds of gun related injury and dea

tennessee's priorities aren't just limited to health care. it's also persecuting individual educators, like high school teacher matthew hong who was fired for assigning an essay by ta-nehisi coates and a poem about white privilege that included profanities, actions the director of schools classified as assigning inappropriate materials and refusing to provide students with varying points of view. to his credit, mr. horn stood his ground against this blustering of ill-informed school board members at a hearing. >> it takes more than 45 minutes to talk about some of these issues, like racism. you can't cover that in one class. the opposite of racism is racism. how am i supposed to show an opposing viewpoint to that? i don't consider white privilege an opinion. i consider it a fact, just like the pythagorean theorem or every lubrication. >> just because you consider something don't make it fact. >> here's another fact for the board members who fired mr. horn. tennessee ranks 33rd nationally in education outcomes. perhaps if there were more teach

cnn reached out to the tennessee state department. they said they cannot couldn't on health care matters. >> she joins us now, a pediatrician who served as the medical director of the vaccine preventable diseases and immunization programs at the tennessee department of health. doctor, thanks so much for being with us. first, can you just tell us about this memo, what it said and why you drafted it? >> sure, good morning, and thank you for having me on this morning. you know, i wrote the memo to covid-19 vaccine providers in the state of tennessee after i received several questions about what people should do if minors showed up to request a covid vaccine. we were right on the cusp of the pfizer vaccine being billable for 12 years old and older. i asked our office of general counsel to provide some language to explain the minor doctrine which has been in place since the supreme court ruling in 1987, and sent that out in a memo to vaccine providers, and received some backlash as a result of that. and some of our legislators felt that th

it's what's not going to happen in tennessee and mississippi, arkansas and now marching into deep south. transmission will continue to accelerate and what we'll see and the ones who will pay the price other than the unvaccinated are the little kids who depend on the adults and add he addless sents to slow or halt transmission. >> elizabeth, where are the companies, where is the government on emergency use authorization for those children under 12. >> pfizer and modernr are studying this in children. they're doing with children as young as six months old. these children are unprotected and we want to protect them because children do get sick from covid-19. they die of covid-19 and can have long haul symptoms that have neurological issues for months, if not for years. let's look at the when part of this question. when might we see vaccines for children under the age of 12. if you look at ails 5 to 12, pfizer which seems to be ahead of the game, they might be submitting to the food and drug administration for emergency use authorization in september. we have seen it is a matter of weeks th

has, just to clarify, tennessee's state motto is the volunteer state. like the university of tennessee, the volunteers, the volunteer state. if you want to carry that nickname forward, you can volunteer to drive someone to their doctor's appointment and help get vaccinated, you can volunteer at vaccines.gov, planyourvaccine.com. if you want to be a good volunteer, tennessee, volunteer to be part of the solution. everybody, sit night. we have a lot more that we want to talk about. before this evening is up. >>> coming up, what makes one athlete more marketable than another? a recent controversy has americans debating who can the face of america's national pastime be? >>> plus, our pandemic tv-watching habits could stick around a lot longer than we thought. we'll talk about the future of movies later this hour. >>> we are celebrating 25 years of msnbc. what should we remember from those early days as we faced the challenges of today? i'll share my thoughts in tonight's essay. >>> but first, richard lui is here with the headlines. hey, richard. >> hey, jos

schaffner, i want to talk about tennessee. let's bring it up on the map. it's the dark red on the cnn map showing its vaccine rate. the top vaccine official in your state was fired yesterday. you heard her say in erica's piece, quote, the people of tennessee have been sold out for politics. you're a medical expert. as far as you know, has dr. fistus done or said anything appropriate when it comes to vaccinations? >> well, jake, absolutely. we need to keep the focus on vaccinating children. that's very, very important. you know, for many vaccines during the covid enterprise, routine vaccinations dipped because children didn't go to their family doctors and their pediatricians. now that they're all going back to school again this fall, we really need to keep vaccinating them to get them caught up. and that's with routine vaccines. and now we have covid vaccine on top of that. we need to keep our children who are going back to school 12 and over well vaccinated. >> and i believe that was the message she was trying to deliver. also in tennessee, 14 to 17-year-

bill hagerty of tennessee. rightly appreciate that. we've interviewed tom barrett any number of times across what we have done on surveillance, and certainly the shock of seeing him jailed this morning is tangible off of allegations from the united arab emigrants -- the united arab emirates. we will see how that plays out. taylor: erik schatzker running to the phone to try to make some sense of it. if you'll bear with me i want to go back to a comment the senator mentioned. you have mitch mcconnell saying higher inflation has wiped out all of the wage gains, it is a tax on the consumer. i know with your focus on the economy i am simple find that, but you have the senator hitting -- hinting at inflationary pressures. that means their constituents are talking about it. i wonder what their constituents are saying. tom: i do not have the chart in front of me. the inflation-adjusted wage dynamics in our nation are simply grim. there is no other way to describe that. that will be one of our themes into our federal reserve coverage. i am told

right next door to tennessee you've got missouri and arkansas. they are seeing a huge spike in the delta variant. tennessee is only 38% vaccinated according to the health department. those most at risk are the unvaccinated, especially the young. she was pushing trying to get as many people vaccinated to be protected as possible, and she was fired. victor and alisyn. >> it is sobering. martin savidge, thank you for the report. >> reporter: you're welcome. >>> let's discuss it further with dr. gloria rashard davis, a physician at the university of arkansas for medical size ens and the university's executive director of diversity, equity and inclusion. thank you for being with us. let's start here with arkansas. it is near the top of the list when it comes to new covid cases, near the bottom of the list when it comes to vaccinations. it is not the only state there in the south that's having some trouble, but others are doing better. it is a red state, but some red states are doing far better. what is happening in arkansas? >> so, first of all, victo

this from an internal report obtained by the tennessee newspaper. no more events at school, no reminders, no encouraging at all. not just for covid but all vaccines the state chief medical officer no proactive outreach regarding routine vaccines and no outreach regarding the hpv vaccine. in france, there's a sudden and record breaking rush to get the vaccine because the president there told the country they'll need to be vaccinated if they want to do just about anything president macron delivered the warning last night in a televised address and since then, 1.3 million people have signed up to get shots that's daily record according to the system that tracks france's vaccine appointments most of the sign ups, people under the age of 35. president macron told the country they will have to show proof of vaccinate starting next month if they want to enter any restaurants, any shopping malls or get on any train or plane as it stands now france has 37% of its population fully vaccinated scammers are taking advantage of the pandemic by stealing hundreds o

tennessee disagrees. in fact, they've made it the focus of their new toimple ad. >> looking to get away? there's never been a better time to discover tennessee. scenic lakes. beautiful state parks. and soon polio. there are just so many things to do and catch in tennessee. ride the rapids and pick up a case of small pox. visit graceland and then mumpland. tennessee, the last place you'll ever visit. >> stephen: it works. it worked. we're learning a lot of new details about the last days in office of former president, the turd reich. and that might be my favorite. (cheers and applause) and the details are all coming from a slew of new deep dive tell-all, muk slings and gossdish tea sloshers like the book landslide, betrayal and nightmare scenario. also held how the former president describes having to read a book. other new books are using titles that are actually quotes of his like i alone can fix it, and frankly we did win this election. those of course join the ranks of other great titles like people ar

very powerful body within tennessee in society . but also he must have had, we're assuming some sort of conversation with the military because i guarding all of the main government and military ministry installations with his blessing. it is possible. and again, this is one of the many, unfortunately many elements that we don't know. we don't know enough about to speculate, but yes, it's very well possible that the president has been coordinating, you know, his actions with some of the key players and institutions in the state. the issue. he remains, however, that i'm sure that there would be further announcements for the communication by the president. so far he has preferred to speak through actions or rather than through public announcements. and his actions have been, i would say quite effective with powerful delay. this apology is the dismissal of the, the prime minister and the defense, municipal justice minister. so again, at some point, i do expect the president to speak. but in the timeline of this announcement of this comm

lee, thanks so much for joining us from the tennessee in capital. let's cost over $200.00. val corresponded who's covered to nicea and the revolutions since 2011 extensively for us here on the channel. but obviously a very busy day for the president had a lot on his plate besides speak, you obviously now to build jerry and president in the unions which, you know, he's been talking to in depth. he's now taking the decision to replace the defend son. justice ministers gives us the impression now that he is in charge and he's moving forward. obviously yours. that's, that should be the message. but also remember that replacing a defense minister at this time of crisis when the army is in the streets, is a sign of something wrong going on. is at least a sign of the president being gravely concerned about his situation and about his own safety. with regards to the military, i mean in a normal situation, the defense minister, when his armies are in the streets, should be in charge. if he is replaced, it means that there is probably some disagreement betwee

there are massive steps being taken by tennessee authorities among them. that's not just a battle for cobra vaccinations for teenagers. it's now has spread to all vaccinations. basically, it's put a ban on any information being put on by the health department concerning vaccinations ranging from flu to h p b and including cobra, 900 vaccinations. in addition, it's now prohibited the use of school venues for vaccination programs. only 2 weeks ago, there was not the vaccination program in a number of tennessee schools. now this has been outlawed by the state authorities . so this is a massive step against a vaccination in general. not just the cobra 19 reflecting an antique vaccine stance that appears to be growing within the state of tennessee. while infections of sword in the netherlands, by 500 percent in the space of a week with more than 50000 people, tested positive for coven. 19 politicians of been holding an emergency debate in parliament to discuss the government's handling of the pandemic. a prime minister mark, which are apologize this week ending

but the push for vaccines across the country is not universal in tennessee, for example, it appears they're going to be going in the opposite direction. as we reported here last night, the state's top vaccination official says she was fired after she tried to encourage vaccinations for teenagers without their parents' consent dr. michelle fiscus is a pediatrician she sent a letter to medical providers, notifying them they can vaccinate minors older than 14 without their parents' approval that's directly in line with a tennessee state policy in place since 1987 but the move angered some republican state lawmakers, and in response fiscus says she was fired as tennessee's top vaccine official, and according to a newspaper, the state department of health is stopping all vaccine outreach to adolescents. a spokesperson for the department of health did not comment on that report but did tell nbc news, the department wants to remain a trustworthy source of information to help individuals, including parents, make decisions dr. michelle fiscus is with us now, the fired tennessee vaccination official

tennessee's department of health says certain vaccine outreach tactics have hurt progress. meanwhile, there's growing concern in popular tourist destinations like cape cod, which are seeing so-called break cases of covid, those are infections among people fully vaccinated. this california man and his wife also fully vaccinated tested positive after visiting las vegas. >> it was scary. i mean, i brought home the li-teaniss thabeen kilng people the country. the only thing worse than that is knowing that i gave it to my kids. >> reporter: doctors say breakthrough cases are rare and the vaccines are still highly effective at preventing serious illness. amid the battle over requiring vaccines, six medical organizations have now formed a coalition to urge hospitals and other health care facilities to mandate vaccines for all health care workers. >>> new details about the condo building that collapsed in surfside, florida. documents show the pool deck and underground parking garage needed repairs back in 1996, just 15 years after the building was completed. the problems included e

reporter: there are massive steps being taken by tennessee authorities. among them, not just covid for teenagers, it has spread to all vaccinations. it has put a ban on any information being put out by the health department concerning vaccinations ranging from flu to hpv and covid-19, in addition prohibited the use of school venues for vaccination programs. two weeks ago there was a massive vaccination program in a number of tennessee schools. this has now been outlawed. this is a massive step against vaccinations in general, not just covid-19 but reflecting an anti-vaccine stands. anchor: infections have soared in the netherlands by 500% with more than 50,000 people testing positive. politicians have been holding an emergency debate to discuss the government's handling of the pandemic. the prime minister apologized for ending all of the lockdown restrictions, which he described as an error. narrator: on this episode of "earth focus," climate change is forcing traditional dairy producers to look for more sustainable methods. in central california, farmers

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tennessee, where only 38% of the population is vaccinated. the casualties of the republican death culture war don't even end there. a high school teacher in sullivan county, tennessee, who is tenured, by the way, is facing termination for teaching a poem about white privilege and for assigning this essay which examination how donald trump employed whiteness to dismantle the legacy of america's first black president, barack obama. this is what that teacher told the school board in march when it accused him of not showing opposing viewpoints. >> it takes more than 45 minutes to talk about some of these issues, like racism. you can't cover that in one class. and what's the opposite -- the opposite of racism is racism. how am i supposed to show an opposing viewpoint to that. i don't consider white privilege an opinion, i consider it a fact just like the pythagorean theorem. >> just because you consider it a fact don't make it a fact. >> it's 2021 and not just in the state that brought us the scopes trial in an earlier era. witch hunts against tea

and so, what you are referring to is tennessee's mature minor doctrine, which was -- was -- is tennessee case law from tennessee supreme court ruling in 1987. 34 years ago. that has been in place since then. and i sent a memo to the physicians that were providing covid vaccines across the state. um, because they asked me what to do when minors showed up requesting vaccines, if they weren't accompanied by a parent. and if it was within, you know, their ability to provide vaccines or -- or not. so i reached out to our legal counsel, at department of health, who provided me with the language that i put into the memo. said that it was public facing on the tdh website. that it had been blessed by the governor's office. and that i was free to use it, in any way that i saw fit. so i put it into a memo. sent it to those providers to answer the questions that they had asked. and what resulted was some blowback with accusations that i was, actually, trying to subvert parental authority. and -- and target children. which, you know, this was never public-facing messaging, until the people who object

but in 2015, a series of i feel attacks undermined tennessee is vital tourism sector. and even though the threat was eventually contain economy never really recovered by 2019 disillusion voters were rejecting the mainstream parties. and political outside of saved was elected president. parliament became increasingly fractured with parties, finding it difficult to form a government. now analysts say a rivalry is developed between the big 3 that is the presidents, the prime minister and the speaker, and it's preventing any effective action to deal with tentative economic problems. not to mention the pandemic. the sellers introduce you to today's panel, all of them into the, in the capital jonas's side. and they see a member of the trinity in parliament and an international spokesperson for the, an after party in cairo, on mythology danny human rights activist. a member of the executive bureau of euro med rights and on skype from tune his father, rita, who is the editor in chief of michigan, a tennessee and news and analysis website. so thank you all for your time today o

until recently she was tennessee's top health official. he should made headlines last week after she was fired. >> i'm not embarrassed for being terminated. i feel like i stood my ground. i forced them to justify something that's not justifiable. >> reporter: fiscus says she believes she was fired after a memo she sent to doctors in may upset some state lawmakers. in tennessee children 14 to 17 years old in some cases can receive medical care without parental permission. she says the memo simply explained the rules. >> what this was interpreted as was an undermining of the parental right to control what happens to their child rather than a restating of fact and a sharing of information about that particular doctrine. >> reporter: but public information requests unco memo listing reasons for her firing, including lack of effective leadership, lack of appropriate management and other complaints from employees. the health department told us that letter is an internal hr document and that the recommendation memo speaks for itself. but dr. fisc

ah, you want you to there with me the whole realm, the reminder of all told stories, tennessee, as president of the minister of defense on the acting minister of justice. after dismissing the prime minister earlier, i'm thinking parliament for 30 days, the biggest political group, the entire party is calling it a qu. the white house of calls to come into it that said the u. s. government has not yet determined if it was a coup or not. and security forces dressed in civilian clothing store the offices of al jazeera in tunis. the le staff were told to turn the phones off and with an removed from the building, press freedom advocate to condemn the false pleasure vouchers. there is offices, as did the spokes person for the un secretary general were dismayed by these reports. and we hope that all reporters, including the ones that al jazeera will be able to go about their work without harassment. and we want to make sure that as we have the situation on the ground in tunisia, that press freedoms are respected levels. the prime minister designate the g mccarty has promised to form a new government

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and they said that they represent the security services in tennessee. yeah, i asked them if the average destry permit and they said no, we don't have one. these are the instructions of the interior ministry. that's despite the fact that we have laws in tennessee and they can't do this. we see this is unfair. it's against fairness because it doesn't depend on the district ruling. so don't know our faith have the office. they have the keys, but we will go to the history and we'll see what happens. security forces are surrounding the office and the facility upstairs. they prevent anyone from entering our office and preventing us from using our computers for hope. this is a new decision which is unfair and it might development other action because to news. yeah. over the last 10 years we've gotten used to freedom of press of work and the specter of law shod regarding the staff voucher 0. we are prevented from talking to anyone today. i think they're trying to even go through our mobile phone with are concerned because within this illegal decision we cannot