walensky will join me. our conversation on the brand-new covid boosters. the potential for a once a year covid shot and the pandemic that s still killing nearly 500 americans every day. but first, it s decision time for the justice department. faced with the hugely consequential choice of whether to appeal a florida judge s decision to appoint a special master in the case of those classified documents seized from mar-a-lago. that ruling is now the subject of a ton of push back, even from conservatives including former attorney general bill barr. the opinion i think was wrong and i think the government should appeal it. it s deeply flawed in a number of ways. i don t think the appointment of a special master is going to hold up but even if it does, i don t see it fundamentally changing the trajectory. when you think the stakes can t be any higher, the washington post is revealing one of the documents taken last month revealed details about another country s nuclear cap
it was finally hereconnected yesterday. here is sam kiley. he has the latest. this is very troubling news, sam. reporter: pam, the international community remain extremely concerned about the future of the nuclear power station with increased allegations again of shelling both from the ukrainians and the russians both accusing each other of threatening that nuclear power plant by shelling in the environment. so just about 20 minutes drive from here on the ukrainian government side, casualties, civilian casualties but that has been used and is being used as a fire base. a lot of pressure to try to let international observers into that power station. that is where on this very extended front line fighting continues with confirmation a third american has been killed fighting on the ukrainian side with russian backed rebels on the east offered to hand over his body, his remains, we don t know when or if that would be followed through on. this in a weird way is an almost step fo
global cases dropped 21% compared to last week. new cases in the u.s. are down 25% in the past two weeks. here is cdc director dr. rachial walensky. there are certain jurisdictions, new york, chicago, san francisco that are starting to report they re starting to see a downward trend. i want to be cautiously this optimistic about these, we re seeing vaccine get out behaviors change, harm reduction message being heard and implemented and all of that working together to bend the curve, if you will. well, california state regulators voted this week to ban new gasoline powered car cells there by the year 2035. if they do, it would certainly be a historic move in the u.s. and the first one like it anywhere in the world. now more states are looking to put similar rules in police in the c place in the comes year. chris, this is an ambitious plan and tight timeline.
expected. when you look at the delta variant, we had a four to six week lag before things start picking up. i had thought this wouldn t be accelerating like this until january but it s starting. we heard pretty startling news from the cdc director what row sh rachial walensky, this is going to be upon us before christmas. one of the things we re looking for, one, we saw a lot of pediatric hospitalizations in south africa with the omicron variant. that s one of the things i m looking for. i m worried about our children s hospitals, we ll see a lot of pediatric cases, maybe more so
so that s so there s a lot of moving parts to this very, very fast moving epidemic here in the united states and i think we have to take it very seriously and especially our health care administrators, our hospital administrators need to get ready for a very concerning surge over the next few weeks. it is very concerning. listen, so concerning there is much more to speak with you about. doctor, if you stick around, i want to get back with you after the break. we re coming up on 800,000 people. the doctor says it s going to go to about a million people will die because of covid-19. we have 900 students testing positive at cornell university and we heard from dr. rachial walensky. the vote has begun. mark meadows former chief of staff, the house is voting whether to hold him in contempt of congress, criminal contempt