I was on vacation in northern Germany when terrible news started coming in regarding flooding in the western part of the country. Strangely, the quaint rental apartment where I was staying had the 2004 disaster epic 'The Day After Tomorrow' already in the DVD player.
ahead. but back home, we re witnessing tonight what officials stress is a pandemic of the unvaccinated, but one that s impacting all of us, just as experts have been predicting, the covid outlook is continuing to worsen. as we come on the air, over 125,000 new cases to report. 566 new deaths, and more medical centers calling for help, even as summer events bring together massive crowds in communities already hard hit. florida recording nearly 23,000 cases today, the highest single day count since the pandemic began. while there has been some progress in the number of new vaccinations, little has slowed the current surge, and shot requirements are being imposed in more and more places. our miguel almaguer has details. reporter: hitting the new bench mark today, 50% of all americans, half our country is now fully vaccinated. the shot of encouraging news coming as the fda
brian: meanwhile the private number she has in that phone after years as u.s. senator and democrats in power right now. meanwhile if you look at oakland it s a mess. crime gone through the roof. in san francisco, you can t park for 12 minutes on the street without getting your car smashed and your stuff robbed. and then in chicago, we know how bad it was. even over the weekend, 73 hit by gunfire. 11 died. this is about a year since lori lightfoot came out with an ambitious plan, that s her words of a safety gap. she wanted to flood the zone in bad districts which were about all 22 police districts with more cops. with a push to get more jobs for kids and counter act the gangs. it s been an epic disaster. fatal shootings are up 566% from even two years ago. new york city, we show you this horrific video that s out. you have this 68-year-old being knocked to the ground, broken wrist, wrist, broken nose. you watch a woman with a walker get knocked off her feet. and they smashed her walker
police say the victim has a broken wrist and nose as a result. the nypd set of suspect attacked an off-duty firefighter who was walking his dog on friday night. chicago 70 were shot over the weekend and at least 12 were killed including a teenage boy. and in just moments police chief james craig will join us to react. mike tobin is reporting live for us. chicago leaders keep saying the violence is unacceptable but every monday morning we are here with the new shocking total of weekend bloodshed. nothing seems to slow it down. mayor lightfoot had implemented her plan called our city, our safety, with $16 million for trouble spots. the sun-times analyzed data and determine violence is up in the targeted areas and did not a little. the shootings are up by 566%.
right now barack obama leads hillary clinton among pledge delegates, 1,408 to 1,251 and there are 566 more that are at stake. he can t win the election. why not? i don t think that america is ready for it yet. for barack obama as a presidential candidate, the biggest risk factor, of course, was race because the biggest sort of achilles heel in the united states has always been race. david axelrod and david plouffe, the chief strategists for senator obama when he was running for president, really understood how to run a black candidate. there was a theory which is that you don t run too black. he needed to be palatable enough to white america so they wouldn t be afraid of him, so he wouldn t be seen as a race man that would come in and tilt the playing field toward black people. they were down playing race as much as they could.