Health care staff to be vaccinated. And that includes staff at the ni hiv and the indian health services and hhs plemployees wh are in contact with patients. Dr. Vivek murthy will require the public health service be vktd as the delta variant is surging across the country. Hospitalizations nearly doubling every two weeks. Many officials are running out of room in icu s. Take a look at this map here, too. In little more than a month, look at how the country has transitioned into a high transmission area. Cnn s jeremy diamond following the hhs developments with that announcement. So what more do we know about this? when is it effective. Reporter: this is the latest move by the biden administration to move into the direction of mandates and of requirements. That is because they view it as necessary at this point to move from the carrots to the sticks phase of this vaccine vaccination phase here. This is going to be 25,000 workers, volunteers and contractors at the department of health and
In california, the dixie fire, now the second largest in california history. And it comes as the u. N. Tonight issues a new and alarming climate report, calling it a, quote, code red for humanity. Tonight, we have the numbers here. How quickly the earth is warming. Fteth ty gh our team also in greece tonight, the fires there and in turkey. Parts of europe seeing the worst heat in 30 years. Some residents and tourists now boarding ferries to escape the flames. The developing headline from washington at this hour. President biden tonight, a major step closer to passage of his $1. 2 trillion infrastructure plan. The senate expected to pass the bill with bipartisan support as early as tomorrow morning. Rachel scott standing by with live reporting from the hill. And what democrats immediately plan to do next. The developments involving new york governor andrew cuomo tonight. His top aide now resigning. What she s saying. There is also news breaking involving prince andrew, now facing a new
Issues a new and alarming climate report, calling it a, quote, code red for humanity. Tonight, we have the numbers here. How quickly the earth is warming. Much faster than they thought. Our team also in greece tonight, the fires there and parts o europe heat in 30 years. Some residents and tourists now boarding ferries to escape the flames. The developing headline from washington at this hour. President biden tonight, a major step closer to passage of his $1. 2 trillion infrastructure plan. The senate expected to pass the bill with bipartisan support as early as tomorrow morning. Rachel scott standing by with live reporting from the hill. And what democrats immediately plan to do next. The developments involving new york governor andrew cuomo tonight. His top aide now resigning. What she s saying. There is also news breaking involving prince andrew, now facing a new lawsuit tonight filed by jeffrey epstein accuser virginia due fray. With u. S. Troops coming home, the worsening situatio
Last month the legislation could create close to a half million jobs by 2024. It s no wonder 65% of americans support the infrastructure bill according to a recent poll. Much of president biden s agenda is equally as popular. The same poll found 62% of americans support the 3. 5 trillion dollar democrats only reconciliation bill. Despite the broad popularity of the biden economic agenda, the chair of the democratic congressional campaign committee, new york congressman sean patrick meloni, he is warning democrats ahead of the 2022 midterm elections that the party is in trouble. Political reports at a closed door lunch he warned democrats that they would lose the majority if the midterms were held today. He followed that leak forecast which was confirmed by multiple people familiar with the conversation, with new polling that showed democrats falling behind republicans by a half dozen points on a generic ballot in battleground districts. Baloney advised the party to course correct ahead
To a delay of two weeks. We return to meet child victims of the syrian civil war, who stay hopeful, despite the traumas they ve been through. And questions about the pressures of top level sport, after naomi osaka withdraws from the french open because of her mental health. And coming up in sport on the bbc news channel: gareth southgate names his 26 man england squad for euro 2020, as liverpool right back trent alexander arnold survives the cut. Good evening. For the first time since the pandemic began, there have been zero daily covid deaths in the uk announced within 28 days of a positive test. The announcement is a milestone, but it does come as some experts continue to throw doubt on whether all restrictions in england should be lifted onjune 21st that s the date set out in the government roadmap. New covid cases have remained above 3,000 for the seventh day running, and there are still large numbers of people who remain unvaccinated. But downing street reiterated that borisjohn