there is a lot on the table. i think the strongest cases to be made in georgia. we have to come back in a minute because we have to get eugene into this conversation. coming up a new, and new information in the fatal shooting of jalen walker in ohio. cory coffin will be speaking with roderick hounds, pat a of the baptist church of baffert in and the family of jalen walker. that is coming up on the top of the hour. first, stay with us as we continue to sound off after the break. f after th break. riders! let your queries be known. uh, how come we don t call ourselves bikers anymore? i mean, riders is cool, but bikers .is really cool. -seriously? -denied. can we go back to meeting at the rec center? the commute here is brutal. denied. how do we feel about getting a quote to see if we can save with america s number one motorcycle insurer? should flo stop asking the same question every time? -approved! -[ altered voice ] denied! [ normal voice ] whoa.
insight tonight. thank you so much. thank you. former obama education secretary john king on gop efforts to whitewash when our kids are learning. but first, cory coffin is here with the headlines. hey, ayman, the stories we re watching at this hour s new york city police are searching for suspects after a man was shot and killed on a subway car earlier today. witnesses told police the suspect appeared to be agitated before drawing his weapon and fired without provocation. he escaped when the train pulled into the station. pennsylvania lieutenant government john fetterman has been released from the hospital after a nine-day state. the democratic nominee for senate was recovering from a stroke and subsequent pacemaker implant. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy has ruled out ending the conflict with russia by declaring a cease fire or ceding territory. poland s president became the first foreign leader to address the ukrainian parliament since the war began. more ayman with ay
it, both of these. congresswoman debbie dingell of michigan, i appreciate you clarifying with some of your constituents are going through and i appreciate making time tonight. thanks very much. up next, what can the virgin galactic launch tell us about the future of space travel and maybe even space tourism? former astronaut mike macedonia joins us just ahead. and later, america s troops are leaving afghanistan. david rogue tells us about his efforts to help afghan interpreters who worked with him there. but first, cory coffin is here with the headlines. hey cory. hey joshua, thank you. stories we re watching at this hour right now, today we learned that 90 people including three young children can confirmed dead on the surfside florida collapse. more than 30 people are potentially unaccounted for. over in california and los angeles county were covid-19 cases surged by 165% in a single week. 83% of new cases affected people under 50.
done? we mentioned the pop-up vaccine sites. those will be in particular were younger people frequent. for example, where they re going to and from school. there s also going to be these incentive programs. here in new york, the governor, announced a program with ten scholarships for the hundred thousand dollars for kids to get the shot. again, 12 to 17. chris, right now there s a long way to go for this age group. they account for just 6.5% of the population that has received at least one vaccine so far. cory coffin, thank so. much i want to bring in dr. peter hotez. always good to see you, peter. the clue director of the center for vaccine development at texas children s hospital. good morning, let me ask you about this emergency meeting the cdc is going to have this week. what is the conversation going to be like? and what my come out of it? it s really to evaluate the risk for versus benefit of vaccinating adolescents. i think that s going to be a major component.
outpacing the b117 variant. just like it did in the uk. again, it s much more transmissible. so the b117 variant was more transmissible than the original lineage. and this dealt a very, is more transmissible than the one one seven. this is the most contagious one we ve seen. so we should expect almost anyone who has not been vaccinated yet has a very high likelihood of getting covid 19. particularly in the south this summer when we saw a surge last year in fewer than 10% of the island adolescents are immunize. which is exactly why, as cory coffin pointed out, they re trying to get younger people to get vaccinated. and get those numbers up. on the other hand, even though it s most often not serious, when you hear something about inflammation of the heart. it scares people. how concerned are you that they can add to the vaccine hesitancy? especially among young people. it could be, but the important thing to keep in mind is, because of this delta variant which is so