and we ll be there starting tomorrow night for world news tonight, tuesday and wednesday night. but we continue this evening to the other major news this monday night. the coronavirus in this country. the new concern tonight about the delta variant, first seen in india. as the u.s. is set to hit that awful milestone, 600,000 american lives lost to covid. the delta variant, health officials say, is more contagious and more lethal. the cdc now saying it accounts for nearly 10% of all cases here in the u.s., up more than 60% in just a week. authorities warning it could become dominant here in the u.s. and it is hitting the unvaccinated very hard. the best protection, they say, getting the vaccine. and the numbers tonight. more than 174 million people have at least one dose of the vaccine. 61% of everyone 12 and older in this country. also tonight here, the new study on just how effective the vaccines are against this particular variant. here s stephanie ramos. reporter: tonight, as
tomorrow night for world news tonight, tuesday and wednesday night. but we continue this evening to the other major news this monday night. the coronavirus in this country. the new concern tonight about the delta variant, first seen in india. as the u.s. is set to hit that awful milestone, 600,000 american lives lost to covid. the delta variant, health officials say, is more con stay use and more lethal. the cdc now saying it accounts for nearly 10% of all cases here in the u.s., up more than 60% in just a week. authorities warning it could become dominant here in the u.s. and it is hitting the unvaccinated very hard. the best protection, they say, getting the vaccine. and the numbers tonight. more than 174 million people have at least one dose of the vaccine. 61% of everyone 12 and older in this country. also tonight here, the new study on just how effective the vaccines are against this particular variant. here s stephanie ramos. reporter: tonight, as the nation nears that grim
powerful in that country. he in turn then funded pro-putin political parties in ukraine, including funding the career of trump s now-imprisoned campaign chairman paul manafort when he was working for pro-putin interests in that country. the problem is that u.s. law enforcement considers dmitry firtash to be an upper echelon associate of russian organized crime and the justice department has indicted him in a gigantic bribery scandal. they want to put him on trial in the northern district of illinois. now, he s been under house arrest. dmitry firtash has been out on bail, like $174 million, under house arrest, fighting efforts to extradite him to the united states to face felony charges. he s been fighting those efforts for years. i ve been obsessed with this guy for a long i mean, he s the reason kind of that i wrote this book. it s weird that it just came out at the same time this is happening with the president s impeachment. as interesting as this story is,
the fbi wanted him arrested in alleged involvement in a multibillion dollar bribery scheme. authorities in vienna weren t willing to arrest him at the fbi s request. but they have not been willing to ship him over to the u.s. to face trial on these bribery charges. first thing they did is they let him out on bail. guess what he paid his bail, he paid $174 million as his bail. hey, if you got it, why not? literally wrote a check, $174 million. that $174 million bail payment has kept him out of jail for i think, like, five years now. but they also haven t sent him abroad to face trial. he has been fighting his extradition from austria with the help of some of the most expensive lawyers that money can buy. and, again, if you got the money to spend, why not spend it on that? in 2017 around the time the new york times is reporting on
demitri was arrested. the fbi wants him arrested for investment and bribery. authorities in vienna were not ill withi able to request him. first thing they did was let him out on bail. guess what he paid his bail? he paid $174 million as his bail. and you got it, why not? literally wrote a check, $174 million. that $174 million bail payment kept him out of jail for five years now. but, they also have sent him abroad to face trial. he s been fighting his extradition with the most