for starting over 1500 wildfires. this includes the camp fire. and that one pg&e pleaded guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter. for many in northern california, including me, pg&e has become a four-letter word. i m just taking a poll of everybody i talk to. word association. pg&e. fire. corporate greed. outdated. outdated. fall guy. lacking. my word is accountability. accountability, yeah, that would be nice. fighting for that accountability is mark tuolumne, the executive director of the utility reform network. we re an organization that s been around for about 50 years fighting for customers of pg&e. and law professor katherine sandoval from santa clara university. she is a former commissioner of the cpuc, the body that regulates pg&e. so pg&e was convicted of
are fueling the dixie fire that has ravaged town after town in northern california s sierra mountains. the impact of this fire is pretty tremendous, pretty tragic. country, crring almost half at million ac siz hon. despite the efforts of thousands of firefighters, california s wildfires have turned hundreds of homes to rubble and ash. it s hard to drive away from your house and wonder if you re going to see it again. reporter: smoke from the dixie and other nearby fires are choking northern california s skies. it hit me like a ton of bricks. reporter: .and blanketing parts of utah. this time lapse shows the smoke rolling through salt lake city, air quality ranging from unhealthy to hazardous is impacting at least eight western states. i think it s frustrating. it s like this every year. it s like, we can never get a year away from it. reporter: and in lake tahoe,
area. and i played table tennis with lily ten years ago. she just kicked my butt. she s amazing. even better now. yes, i wouldn t challenge her. lester holt is next. bye. we ll see you at 4. vaccine mandates as covid surges in the u.s. california and new york city now requiring vaccinations or weekly testing for all their employees. the department of veterans affairs the first federal agency to issue a vaccine mandate. and the list of cities reimposing mask mandates growing as the delta variant rapidly spreads among the unvaccinated. the drama here in tokyo. swimmer caeleb dressel leading the u.s. men s team to gold. katie ledecky, her duel in the pool. and simone biles hopes to bounce back after a tough start.
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begin back home with local authorities now imposing indoor mask requirements for vaccinated and unvaccinated people. some places going much farther. california and new york city telling ac weekly covid testing. this as projections show we could see additional deaths in the thousands per day if this surge is not arrested. we begin tonight with miguel almaguer. reporter: well before any fall surge, tonight some hospitals across the nation are already struggling to manage the 60,000 new daily covid infections plaguing the u.s. as icus fill up. some models suggest our nation could see upwards of 4,000 deaths a day by october. the 100 million americans who are unvaccinated driving the numbers and the risk, even for those who are inoculated.