relates to the struggles of new york city hospitals in march of 2020. the e.r. physicians coming into the meeting look a little shell shocked. they re asking about things like i need some more oxygen tanks. there are people outside that we can t get to that we know are hypoxic. how are we going to get those people in tonight? what are we going to do in the morning? this is an every 12-hour decision for our hospitals now. we don t have a game plan for three days from now except that we know three days from now will be far worse. more than two-thirds of the u.s. population live in counties where people, including the fully vaccinated, should go back to wearing a mask indoors according to the new guidance from the cdc. they also forecast that by august 21st, the u.s. death toll could be 633,000, meaning 20,000 more americans will die in the next three weeks. let s bring in now dr. sanjay gupta, cnn chief medical correspondent. first on the delta variant, your reaction to what we hea
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get to work. i m focused on the border, you mentioned calling out the biden administration for extending travel restrictions in canada and mexico through august 21st, we need to open the canadian border so small businesses have the economic recovery they need to survive. why does this administration reject lawful border travel in the name of covid while at the same time look at the southern border allowing back and forth and back and forth among individuals were illegally and in many cases have no vaccination to covid whatsoever. that is frustrating to the american people. there is no logic behind decisions being made. we have a southern border, on an airplane with illegal migrants
as you say the real issue now is the delta variant and the unvaccinated. back to you. nick watt, thank you for that reporting from los angeles. well beginning august 9th canada will lift the travel restrictions from the united states allowing fully vaccinated citizens to enter the country with no quarantine required but the u.s. is not doing the same on the same timeline. the biden administration extending nonessential travel restrictions through august 21st and this comes with big implications for one town in washington state, point roberts, it sits, take a look, we ll see. we ll zoom in. it sits riemght there and doesn tuch any part of the united states. it is been cut off from nearly everything, isolating residences, forcing small businesses to close. i need the canadians to be able to cross to come to their homes, bring business back to the point roberts. 95% of my business, again, is
help texas state troopers patrolled the river. he sends his rate resources out to help with that. look at this, this is out of laredo, a rental truck was stopped while it was traveling on highway 35, border patrol ha those x-ray machines. like what they found inside, five illegal immigrants were being smuggled inside of the rental truck. you can see them in the attic o the truck, they were all taken into custody. you look at our drone down in the rio grande valley or fox reporting a major story, surgin covid infections with migrants down in the rio grande valley. up 900 percent in the first two weeks of july and just about an hour ago, dhs announcing they are going to extend nonessentia travel restrictions at all port of entry with mexico and canada through august 21st, they say they re doing that for covert precautions because of the delt variant, so essentially what though do is they will continue banning legal crossings at our