we begin in washington where fences are going up around the u.s. capitol ahead of this saturday s right wing rally. dubbed the justice for j-6, organizers say their goal is to show support for the hundreds arrested in the january 6 insurrection. and now capitol police want to make sure there isn t a repeat of those riots. cnn s ryan nobles filed this report before the fences went up. reporter: it is very clear that capitol police and the security forces responsible for protecting this area are preparing for the very worst on saturday ahead of that rally in support of the people that were arrested for taking part in the january 6 insurrection. right now this area behind me at the capitol is all open to the public, but in just a matter of hours, security personnel will begin constructing a large fence that will wrap around this entire area. and you can already see some of the security precautions that are in place, these are cameras that have been put at strategic places arou
many as 200,000 cases a day, four times our current rate, within another four to six weeks. that would be horrible. the seven-day average is now higher than 55,000. one month ago, it was about 12,000. some cities and government agencies springing into action. in new york, all city workers required to get vaccinated or be tested once a week. the same goes for california. the v.a., the veterans affairs, now requiring its front line health care workers to be vaccinated. this is a big deal. why? because the v.a. is now the first federal agency to require vaccinations. and the justice department is weighing in here. they say that it is legal to mandate vaccines, even if vaccines only have emergency use authorization. and more federal agencies could be joining suit here. the city s of province town, massachusetts, of course in the middle of tourist season, savannah, georgia, st. louis as well, announcing new requirements for indoor masking. florida is now the epicenter of the s
delta variant is now the dominant covid strain in the united states and we re seeing case numbers heading in the wrong direction in areas with low vaccination rates. for those who are vaccinated, there is new confusion about booster shots. pfizer is raising questions about how quickly americans may need another third shot as the fda and cdc say, no, no, not yet. joining me now, the president s chief medical adviser on the covid-19 pandemic, dr. anthony fauci. dr. fauci, thanks for joining us. i want to start with this new reporting from reuters today that israel, the government of israel, is beginning to administer pfizer boosters. third shots to people they consider vulnerable. here in the united states the cdc and fda say we do not need booster shots. do you think boosters could theoretically help vulnerable people? well, certainly they theoretically could. what the cdc and fda were saying is that right now, given the data and the information we have, we do not need to gi
myself, but just watching how people are suffering with their breathing, how hard it is for them to breathe, how poorly they feel. they feel terrible with this. and you can see the regret on their face. they don t necessarily express it all the time. but it s clearly there. the patients who are being hospitalized, unvaccinated. and what else, generally speaking? what s the age range of patients you are seeing now? so it s kind of interesting, because earlier in the pandemic, and certainly before we had vaccinations, we were seeing a much older patient population in the emergency department and getting admitted to the hospital. in recent weeks, we ve been seeing a much younger population. and really even quite a few people who don t have any underlying medical problems. so, the age skew is much younger. we re seeing people in their 30s, 40s, early 50s. we re seeing some teenager and some pediatric patients as well. how sick are the patients you re seeing? honestly, the
this era of covid. speaking of dr. fauci what does he have to do with modern dating? raymond arroyo explains that in friday follies. but first why this day matters? that s the focus of tonight s angle. if you re like me, you probably every now and then think back on what things were like just one year ago. think of how many things have changed in the past year. a year ago, we had a booming economy. we had strong borders. and a whole host of rights and privileges that we took for granted like the right to travel without being surveilled and questioned. the right to worship without restrictions. the right to have your kids attend school. the right to speak freely on most social media platforms. the right to walk in the park or anywhere without a mask or two or three on your face. the right to visit loved ones in hospitals and nursing homes. but the arrival of the chinese virus followed by the idiotic lockdown policies of blue state governors and then, of course, defeats of