The last borscht belt comedians. Out speak up, be offended enough people should car to speak 9out speak up, be offended enough to make an issue out of it. Duncan: and later, how american g. I. S changed the way the japanese ride the waves. This is the cbs weekend news with jericka duncan, reporting from the new york. Duncan: good evening, thanks for watching. America s covid recovery is being threatened by a summer surge. Hospitalizations and deaths are up nationwide. The highly contagious delta variant is giving new urgency to the country s vaccination push but that s actually lacking. Seven months after the first shots only 49 percent of americans are fully vaccinated. We begin tonight with cbs lilia luciano in pasadena, california, lilia, good evening to you. Reporter: good evening, jericka. That national vaccination rate is nowhere near enough to stop the spread of the delta variant and now health officials are bracing for an even bigger spike in infections. Tonight, there are new
Virus is with the vaccine. Please get vaccinated. Get vaccinated now. It works. It s safe. It s free. It s convenient. You know, this virus doesn t have it doesn t have to hold our economy back any longer. The only way we put it behind us is the if more americans get vaccinated. A large portion of americans simply won t. And those same people are overwhelmingly bearing the brunt of the surge. If you are vaccinated, you are very well protected against hospitalization and death. Unfortunately, that s not true if you re not vaccinated. We re seeing 99. 5 % of deaths from covid19 in our country that are happening among the unvaccinated. This summer surge is a tale of two americas. We begin in the heart of unvaccinated america, natasha is in alabama where vaccine demand is way too low. What are you seeing? well, ana, this is a city of birmingham event to try and help people resolve their traffic tickets. So they actually paused for the lunch hour. More people will be coming back soon. But t
Too early for us. And former aid to the george w. Bush white house, elise jordan and also katty kay on the way this morning. In the united states covid cases are on the rise again driven up in increases in places with low vaccination rates. And now the former surgeon general is suggesting the cdc should once again ask everyone to mask up indoors. Nbc news correspondent kathy park explains. Reporter: no signs of covid backing down. In los angeles county a 700% increase in positive cases in just the last month as masks go back on while indoors. I think better safe than sorry for sure. Reporter: former surgeon general on mask weighing, the premature guidance was wrong. The cdc should be advising to vax it and mask it. The current surgeon general defended the cdc s decision on masks for the fully vaccinated. They gave communities and individuals a flexibility to make decisions about what to do with masks. Reporter: across america, cases rising in all 50 states some hit harder than others.
Progressives and moderates battling for the soul of the democratic party. And the pressure is mounting as millions brace for the possibility that they could get kicked out of their homes when a official eviction ban expires tomorrow. Welcome to meet the press daily, i m chuck todd on a busy friday as the white house confronts a big messaging mess on its hand when it comes to the covid response and the cdc has just put out new data on breakthrough infections. And the data is quite alarming. All of this as an internal cdc document first reported by the washington post paints an alarming portrait of the delta variant. For both the unvaccinated and the vaccinated. This preliminary finding warns that breakthrough infections may be as transmissible as unvaccinated cases. It recommends universal masking which goes well beyond current guidelines. And it also points out that the delta variant is more contagious than ebola, the spanish flu, smallpox and the common cold. It is as contagious as th
Longtime trump organization cfo allen weisselberg is reportedly saying that might directly implicate the 45th president of tax fraud. Also, undercutting trump s frames of winning last year s election. We won the election by a landslide. We won it big. But when you win in a landslide and they steal it and it is rigged, it is not acceptable. We won this election and we won it by a landslide. This was not a close election. This was a landslide. We won this election in a landslide. He and his backers have been focused on arizona. We will explain why you probably will hear a little more about votes in the grand canyon state. As the nation remembers john lewis on the oneyear anniversary of his death, the voting rights bill he inspired is facing an uncertain future in congress. President biden continues to issue dire warning about the fight to protect voting rights, activists remain concern that his actions are falling short. Nbc s josh letterman is at the white house with more. Josh, how is