plus, a deadly race. 21 runners dying at a high elevation when hail, high winds and freezing temperatures swoop in. how an ultra marathon turned into an extreme test of survival. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper and we start today with our health lead and a return to pre-pandemic life for many americans. crowded restaurants, live music, fans in the stands. america largely appearing open for business in many places as covid cases, deaths and hospitalizations are at their lowest point in months and continuing to trend down, and a key milestone for vaccinations. 25 states and washington, d.c. have now fully vaccinated at least half of their adult populations and nine states have more than 7 a% of their adult populations partially vaccinated this. good news comes as new scrutiny begins about the or since of the deadly coronavirus. cnn has learned that a u.s. intelligence report found in a several researchers at china s wuhan lab were hospitalized in november 2019. the chi
holocaust. and the u.s. is reeling from a deadly weekend that with a dozen a dozen mass shootings as gun violence is surging across the nation. let s go straight to alexandra field. she s joining us from new york right now. alexandra s america s re-opening is on an even faster track right now just days before the unofficial start of summer. reporter: a story told by numbers across the country and you have half the population having received one dose of vaccine. in four states they re reporting about half the population has been fully vaccinated and perhaps most significant of all the number that tells the story of how effective these vaccines are, six states over the past week reporting fewer than one daily death on average. . it s the feeling sweeping across the country. it s time for us all to be together. new york city s public schools will fully re-open for in-person learning by the fall. welcome back to school! los angeles schools announcing the same plan. s
gorsuch in the majority. but it was done on procedural grounds. that means the states that tried to sue don t have the right to bring the case, but there was no ruling on the actual merits of the case. republicans attorney general argued that without the original mandate, which was already struck down, the entire law should go. beyond the legalese, the real life impact here is that tens of millions of americans will get to keep their health care coverage and those protections for previous conditions. democrats are hoping the third time is the charm. today the supreme court decision is a landmark victory for democrats to defend protections for people with preexisting conditions. we will never forget how republican leaders embraced this monstrous way to rip away america s health care in the middle of a deadly pandemic. the aca is here to stay. and now we re going to try to make it bigger and better. so for republican attorneys general who sued, it s a loss. but for many r
king. memorial day holiday weekend, the dos and don ts, safety tips if you will and compliments on the vaccine rollout heading into this holiday weekend. to the right of your screen that s the floor of the united states senate, a key vote under way right now, will the united states senate proceed to debate whether we should have an independent bipartisan commission to investigate the capitol insurrection? we expect the answer to be no. but this key procedural vote is under way right now. it should wrap up any moment from now. democrats need ten republicans to break ranks to keep the idea of this commission alive. let s get straight up to capitol hill and our chief congressional correspondent manu raju. as it plays out right now, explain the significance of the vote that should be concluded in a matter of moments. reporter: the significance here is that there are 60 votes to move ahead there s a possibility that an outside commission could be created to investigate the janua
midterms. i think the basic goal of our democratic friends is to keep relitigating and public what happened back on january 6th, rather than get into a quick solution through arresting those who did it, and security adjustments to make sure it never happens again. again, his beloved senate chamber was taken over on that day. it appeals apparently were a lot more powerful than those from the grieving mother of capitol police officer brian sicknick, we was attacked, as you recall, as he battled the rioters. he died about is that to be natural causes the following day. got a sicknick, a modest woman who never dreamed she d be in the public eye, of course just as she never dreamed she d have to bury her own son, she spent the day meeting with republican senators joining other officers who faced the rioters, in a last ditch effort to persuade deng to vote in favor of a serious investigation we of the serious violence on that day. we usually i m staying in the background, and