of the war in afghanistan. mr. laportea is now an excellent journalist. we have had him here on the show several times featuring his reporting from among other places the military times wrchl he now works as an investigative correspondent for the associated press. tonight he was first to break the news that a new phase is under way or at least a new resource is being brought to bear on the evacuation effort in afghanistan. this is very interesting, potentially important. mr. laporta first to report at the ap that u.s. forces in afghanistan including intelligence agencies have started using helicopters to pick people up to safely bring them to the kabul airport so they can be airlifted out. he said today, quote, i have been sitting on this but can now report u.s. helicopters ferried 96 afghans for evacuation, signaling military flights occurring outside kabul airport. cia/dia which means defense intelligence agency and sof, special operations forces, are collecting up u.s
so now with the much faster spreading delta variant, by far the dominant strain hospital intensive care units are once again getting crowded, filling up. localities are once again imposing mask mandates. the nfl this week imposing new penalties on teams with outbreaks with unvaccinated players. governors and politicians and tv personalities began shedding months of vaccine denial in defiance. not soon enough. in alabama, for example, the governor today pushed hard on people to get the vaccine. only 33.9% in her state have. that s the worst in the nation. another thing that s become clear this week is that some people for many reasons just don t want to get the shot not even as cnn s elle reid discovered when they ve got the best reason in the world to roll-up their sleeve. reporter: did anyone you know get covid? my son had covid. reporter: how old is he? eight. reporter: wow, so that s pretty rare for a young kid. what was that like? he s sick a lot. he s been si
good evening. we begin, this friday night, with the weight of a week s worth of evidence that our struggle with covid will not be over any time soon, unless, of course, a lot more people get vaccinated. without that, even though this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated, it s going to continue to limit what the vaccinated can do, as well. that s where we are tonight. the country is now averaging close to 45,000 new cases, a day. about four-times more than a month ago. at the same time, only about 600,000 vaccine doses are being administered, daily, now. that s down from a peak of more than 4.5 million, a day, in march. so now, with the much-faster-spreading delta variant, by far, the dominant strain. hospital intensive-care units are, once again, filling up. localities are, once again, imposing mask mandates. the nfl this week imposing new penalties on teams with outbreaks due to unvaccinated players. even a number of red-state governors and other conservative politicians and tv
that setting off a heated debate. at the same time, politico citing two biden administration health officials who say the delta variant is far more widespread than federal estimates. the variant already makes up more than 50% of u.s. cases. but in some parts of the country, like a midwest and upper mountain states, that number is closer to 80%. right now, the seven-day average of covid-19 cases in the u.s. has gone up by about 11% just since last week, particularly in states where vaccination rates remain low. in fact, cdc director rochelle walensky says around 93% of covid cases in recent days have occurred in counties with vaccination rates of less than 40%. and in just about 30 minutes, the markets are set to open after a beating on thursday with the dow closing down more than 250 points on concerns about the global economic recovery from the pandemic. i ve got the best team with the latest details to help make sense of all this. shaquille brewster in missouri, dr. jha
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