with the taliban leader baradar in kabul as first reported by the washington post. mr. biden has been meeting with his national security council along with g7 on a secure video line this morning and we are following breaking news from capitol hill. the house is back in session and now moving towards a procedural vote this afternoon to begin debate on a massive budget bill, the first step towards the democratic leadership s goal of trying to pass the budget before getting to the smaller bipartisan infrastructure bill and on the coronavirus, dr. anthony fauci saying today that the fda s full approval of the pfizer vaccine will bring new national enthusiasm for vaccine mandates and already today lsu announcing that the school will require fans 12 and older to provide proof of vaccination or a negative covid test before attending lsu football games, but let s begin with nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engel in kabul, nbc news correspondent courtney kube and kelly o donn
josh, walk us there what we are expecting to hear in the president, hopefully beginning any mom. reporter: we expect to hear the president, when he speaks, try to change the focus from the rough initial phase of this drawdown and this evacuation, on to the progress that the white house feels they have made over the last 72 hours or so, in ramping up what they are calling one of the largest airlift operations in history. so they are going to be pointing to some of the numbers that show that they re getting more and more people out of afghanistan, including about 3900 people in the most recent 24-hour period, according to the white house, who were airlifted on u.s. military aircraft making for a total of 25,000 since august 14th, who versus airlifted on military as well as commercial flights. the president has a lot of explaining to, as he s under a barrage of criticism, not only from u.s. allies, including nato and g7 members who the president will meet with virtually on tue
researchers. what they found is that vaccinated immunocompromised people are 485 times can you believe that, more likely that many times to end up in the hospital or to die from covid-19 compared to the general population that has gotten the shot. and the cdc s vaccine panel is scheduled to meet today to discuss booster doses. so the amount here. dr. fauci says it is inevitable that even healthy people will require booster shots soon. right now the decision is we don t need to do it right now. it s not imminent. but we re preparing as if it will be imminent. so we re going to be ready to do it when ever the data shows that the protection has gone below a certain level because of combination of the durability of protection and the special effect you re seeing with the delta variant. dr. fauci also says the delta variant is putting more children in hospitals at this moment nearly 1800 children are battling kcovid in the hospital. that s the highest number at any point dur
coronavirus cases over the previous week. this as we are learning more about the delta variant. the cdc making what it calls a pivotal discovery, saying a new study shows the variant produces similar amounts of virus in vaccinated and unvaccinated people if they get infected. and that prompted new mask guidelines this week, even for the vaccinated. several major cities have already put new mask mandates in place. today, washington, d.c., joining that growing list. but we begin our coverage in georgia. cases there have exploded in recent days, and health officials say in the last two weeks ago, new cases have risen over 200%. natasha chen is at a vaccination drive in the atlanta area. obviously, there is a big push to get more people vaccinated right now. what are you seeing today? what are you hearing from people who are showing up to get vaccinated? reporter: well, jessica, it s clear that incentives actually work. because this is the largest number of people dekalb county