june occurring among the unvaccinated. the vaccines we have work really well against this variant. it doesn t need to be this way. reporter: but the pace of vaccinations is slipping. down more than 80% since the april peak, cdc data shows. 14 states reporting less than 40% of residents are fully vaccinated. meanwhile, health experts say those being hospitalized are often younger and sicker than earlier in the pandemic. we re seeing a lot of people in their 30s, 40s, early 50s. we re seeing some teenagers and some pediatric patients as well. 91% of our icu patients today are on ventilators. that s shocking to us to have that kind of number. reporter: arkansas s governor planning to step up the state s vaccination efforts. we want to have our churches involved. we want our communities, organizations. if it means going into a community door by door and letting them know of this, then that s okay.
100% would still get the vaccine. reporter: health officials say vaccinating young people is the key to crushing this pandemic. just a third of 18 to 24-year-olds have been vaccinated. that age group now experiencing one of the highest rates of infection. hospitals in missouri are seeing it up close. we ve been seeing much younger patients needing management within the hospital, some as young as their late teens, in their 20s and their 30s, and unfortunately, all of those unvaccinated and very sick. reporter: the more contagious delta variant now in at least 48 states, accounting for nearly half of all infections across parts of the west and midwest. first lady jill biden with country star brad paisley in tennessee, making a push for the vaccine in the south, where they are struggling to get shots into arms. it s so wonderful to be back here in nashville. reporter: but when she revealed the numbers, the crowd wasn t happy.
boy in birmingham on monday. the suspects include four men in their 30s, as well as two males aged 13 and 1a. a postmortem examination revealed the victim, who has not yet been formally identified, died from a stab wound to the chest. opposition parties in israel have until midnight to form a new government that would end prime minister benjamin netanyahu s 12 years in power. israeli centrists say there there are still plenty of obstacles. but their chances of success were given a big boost when a far right party said it would join a proposed coaltion with the far right leader standing as prime minister for two years before handing over to the centrists. failure to reach a coalition deal would likely lead to another election. let s get more on this from out middle east correspondent, tom bateman, who s injerusalem this is the inside of the israeli
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orders? i think traditionally in this kind of investigation, you start with the people lower down for lots of different reasons. these are people in their 30s, 40s who say, wait a minute, i ve got a career in front of me, or at least i hope i have a career in front of me. i m not going to take a call for a president or for a senior white house adviser. so i think that s part of the way you break apart what looks to be a unified group of people. what are they supposed to do? you worked at some of the inside levels that some of us never get to and you do things that are questionable. the intelligence agencies, the cia, you do tough stuff and i m sure people think, god, did we cross the line? what happens if it s not tough and on the line but so over the line that somebody says, i don t know that we should carry this out. i don t know that we should work with a foreign government to sabotage a domestic candidate.