I. C. U. Nurse there says in her view, what shes seeing, its critical. Its not normal. This is not okay. We cant live this way. Im never going to accept this as our new normal. Weve had lots of very sick young patients that normally we, you know, with the first couple rounds of covid we didnt see or wouldnt have necessarily been i. C. U. Level. Here are some of the numbers. Last week more than 23,000 children caught covid19. That is nearly double what was reported at the end of june. It comes as children in some major School Districts are now heading back to class. This month or in a couple weeks. Lets begin with cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. Listen, the data doesnt lie, right . Its clearly coming back principally in unvaccinated areas. Tell us what the numbers tell you. Jim, you know, we thought we were done with this, and now here we are and there are two reasons for this. One, this Delta Variant which has been called a variant on steroids, and also that so many, half the country is still not fully vaccinated, allowing this variant to do its thing which it does so well. So, lets Take A Look at the growth of the Delta Variant. If you look at this graph on the far left, that was where we were in late may. 3 of the Covid Out There was the Delta Variant. Now look. Less than two months, this Delta Variant went from being 3 of the covid thats out there to being 83 of the covid thats out there. It just shows you how fast it took over. And why was it so fast . Well, number one, it replicates fast in the body. It does what viruses do, it makes copies and copies and copies of itself very quickly. In one study they took nasal swabs and they looked at the viral load for delta. The viral load in the nose was A Thousand times higher than when they looked in the noses of people who had the original strain. So that just tells you right there that it is so much more transmissible. Youve got, elizabeth, an increasing number living in the areas that the cdc has deemed a high level of transmission of covid. That is a lot, what did we say, 91 Million americans in that situation right now . Right. Thats a lot of people and its a lot more people than it was just weeks ago. Lets Take A Look at a map that shows that, those 91 Million people. So, these red areas are areas of high transmission. That is a fair chunk of the United States, about 27 . However, when you look back in the beginning of june, it was only 2. 4 . So we went from 2. 4 about a month and a half ago living in areas of high transmission to nearly 30 . I mean, that is a huge difference in a short time. Lets talk about children here and with context. We are seeing it Cases Increase among children. We are also seeing children go to the hospital, get very sick from this. How, though, widespread is that, right . The percentage of children who contract this that go to the hospital, how does it, for instance, compare to seasonal flu . I mean, is it getting to the point where it is well beyond that or do we still have a ways to go . It is well beyond that unfortunately. You know, people unfortunately think of, oh, covid its not a big deal for children. It actually is a big deal for children. Dr. Rochelle walensky, head of the cdc said children arent supposed to die. This isnt happening to 90yearolds. This is happening to children. Lets look at how much worse this is for children really than the flu. In your average Flu Season you get 100 children flying. Thats an average Flu Season. For covid in the same period of time, weve had 400 children die. That is a huge difference. So, you know, we worry about children dying from the flu, so we should really worry about children dying from covid, and thats why, you know, 12 and up, get your child vaccinated and soon in a matter of months we should have shots for younger children as well. Thats a key marker there. With the original strains, i believe the Death Rate from covid was comparable or lower than seasonal flu. See it jump above that, its notable. Elizabeth cohen, thanks so much. Thanks. The first place this Delta Variant was first detected you may remember was in india. The scenes we saw there months ago, hospitals overwhelmed, people fighting to find their own oxygen as their Loved Ones languished in covid wards that had run out of it. Today a new study estimates that as many as ten times more people may have died in india than what the official Death Toll states. There is quite a difference, we should note, of course, vaccines were scarce in india. Right. 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It can be avoided. Such an important message. Lets bring in william shatner, from vanderbuilt medical center. Doctor, good morning. Lets start with the issue of children that we were talking about with elizabeth cohen. Let me play this sound from the Cdc Director and get your thoughts on the other side. I think we fall into this flawed thinking of saying that only 400 of the 600,000 deaths from covid19 have been in children. Children are not supposed to die, and so 400 is a huge amount for a respiratory season. What message do those numbers send . What do they tell you . Well, poppy, first, My Heart goes out to miss thomas and Miss Jones who just spoke so eloquently about the importance of vaccination, and im so sad that they lost Family Members. Dr. Walensky was very eloquent. She said clearly, yes, children are at lower risk, but its not zero. You know, covid has become within one year one of the ten leading causes of death in children in this country. Wow. As elizabeth said, 400 children have died of covid since this Virus Hit our shores. Thats serious business. You know, you can talk about lower risk, but if its your child, its 100 . These vaccines are safe. They are effective. We should be vaccinating every child 12 years of age and older. And, of course, all the adults in school. In addition, another thing that could be done in order to make schools safe is if our communities were safer. If everyone currently unvaccinated would please go to a Vaccination Site and get vaccine, even then that would reduce the transmission of this virus in our communities and schools would be much safer when they open up just starting two weeks from now. Dr. Schaffeener, help us here, right, because folks are bombarded with information, right. There have been frankly confusing messages about risks to children, right, because for months we had been told the risk to children is far less than it is to adults. The data back that up. There is clearly something different with delta as you saw you elizabeth cohens numbers comparing it to seasonal flu, deaths from seasonal flu. 400 children, ive got my own. Any child losing their life is too much. But in a country this size, just help us understand the risk because parents have judgments to make. Theyre going to send them back to school in a couple weeks time, right. Are you saying the risk is so great they have to be considering doing what we did last year, remote learning . Are you saying that this is more incentive to get vaccinations . How do people use this information . Because its easily misunderstood. So, jim, i think and most people think the American Academy Of Pediatrics thinks its time to open up our schools again, and we can do that at very, very low risk. We have to do a whole series of things. Most importantly, vaccinate all the adults in the school and all those children 12 and older, and then do the usual things. Masks, good hand hygiene, good ventilation and all those things for children under 12 years of age. We can do this. Its just a matter of our getting together and doing it. Whats the Danger Enter youve got at least seven states where republican governors have enacted legislation that will ban School Districts from mandating vaccination for students. Whats the danger of this . Well, poppy, im not sure we have to mandate it. That would get an awful lot of pushback from a lot of people. We need to do this on a voluntary basis. And if we can get but dr. Schaffeener, respectfully, there are a lot of vaccines that are mandated in every single state for our kids to go to school, like mmr, like polio, tetanus, diphtheria. I understand that, and i believe in those mandates a, believe me. They have to be enacted State By state. There is usually a fairly elaborate political and administrative process that you have to go through. It can take several months with hearings so that people can come and speak on both sides of the issue. We havent got time for that by Mid August and early september when schools start. So were going to have to do this on a voluntary basis, and we can. In the meantime, i would think that all adults associated with schools should by now be vaccinated. If not, shame on them. Quickly get yourself vaccinated. Yeah, the states banning even mask mandates which is now the recommendation. Thats where we are. Dr. William schaffeener, thanks so much for helping us. Its difficult to navigate all this information. This afternoon, the senate will vote on whether to move ahead with a bipartisan Infrastructure Plan, but, well, i said bipartisan. Republicans are expected to block that vote. Democratic senator Chris Coons will join me live next. Also wildfires raging across 13 western states fueled by Extreme Heat and drought. 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Well, republicans are expected to block a Vote Today that would start debate on a 1. 2 trillion bipartisan Infrastructure Bill. The White House reached a deal with the bipartisan team back in june, you may remember. A moment outside the west wing, it includes 570 Billion in new spending. Joining me now to discuss where this all stands, where it goes, senator Chris Coons, a democrat from delaware who is a member of that group of 22 democratic and republican senators working on this. Senator, thanks so much for taking the time this morning. Thanks, jim. Great to be on with you this morning. All right. So, here we are. There is a Deadline Today set by the Majority Leader Chuck schumer. Republicans are going to be unified in voting against beginning debate on it. Was this deadline counterproductive . Well, jim, weve made great progress, and i think we are very close to finalizing every detail today. Ill just say generally that if you look back a year at the process that produced the unanimous vote in the senate for the c. A. R. E. S. Act, there were two motions to proceed votes just like were going to have today that failed before we finally got the unanimous bipartisan vote that produced the c. A. R. E. S. Act. I think it was helpful to have a clear forcing mechanism and whether or not everybody is going to join in voting for this motion to proceed Vote Today, i think we are continuing to make real and solid progress, final Bill Text i would expect by this weekend, and im very optimistic that it will be ready for Floor Action next week. But youve been on the record saying it would be better to give the two sides time to work this out. Is it a mistake to push this Floor Vote if the outcome is preordained . Well, jim, up until we have the vote, im not going to pass judgment on the timing of it. Whether it should be Today Or Tomorrow or monday. At the end of the day, its a forcing mechanism and i respect that the Majority Leader realizes we have a very short amount of time left this summer to get several big things done. Okay, fair enough. Listen, and i know republicans as well as democrats have said, okay, set this vote aside. We are actually very close to agreement. But to be fair, you and i and everybody watching right now has heard that before. Yep. Explain why they should be confident that this time theyre going to bring it all together and before you guys go on recess next month . Well, were not going on recess for several more weeks. I think we have the time to finish this bipartisan bill. Jim, all im going to say in conclusion on this point is ive been a part of bipartisan negotiating teams in the past where it really felt like the folks in the room didnt want to get to yes, and were finding excuses for the group to blow up. And ive been part of groups where it felt like everyone was determined to pass something significant and we held together and bore down and got the group done. And got the legislation done. To me this very much feels like the latter. The Core Group of ten senators who have been at this for weeks and weeks have a great and positive dynamic. Theyre working well with the White House, and they are clearing difficult final issues before we get text release. So im optimistic this will get done. I also frankly think, jim, it matters to our country. I had a dinner with a foreign Head Of State last night here in washington who reminded us that the rest of the world, after january 6th, is left wondering whether or not the United States and our democracy can still function. Passing a trillion dollar bipartisan Infrastructure Bill will help answer that question at home and abroad. Well see. You wrote about that, you know, in your oped just earlier this week, making exactly that same point. I do want to ask you about voting, because the focus first on covid relief, now very much on infrastructure. You know that there are members of your party who say, listen, the real threat to this country is not bipartisan agreement on infrastructure. Its protecting the vote. And you have laws already being passed, not just about voter access, but the key is about even certification of votes, right, allowing partisans to just say, hey, i dont like these results. Forget about it. Whats the urgency, and should there be more urgency from the president and democrats to act on voting . Jim, weve got a number of urgent and important issues right in front of us. One of them, as you are pointing out, is that if you look back at the 2020 election, we came very, very close to having Election Results overturned through partisan interference. President trump, former president trump, refused to accept the results of the election and pressured local political officials to take actions that they werent empowered to do. And now in several states, laws are being changed so that there would have been a different outcome in 2020. That is alarming. So, too, is Climate Change, jim. I think we should all have a sense of urgency about Climate Change as we see Forest Fires across the west and tornadoes and hurricanes recently in the Center And Southeast of our country. Thats why i just introduced a Border Carbon Adjustment bill that would take us a big Step Forward Towards Harmonizing having the same approach towards International Trade and Climate Change as our neighbors in canada, as our partners and friends in the uk and eu, i think thats another urgent issue we need to address. Frankly, immigration is another. So, jim, weve got a lot on our menu. Thats why Leader Schumer has been pushing this bipartisan group to get to a final deal and why im optimistic we will to create time to deal with other issues like voting that are urgent. I get it. I did want to ask you about Climate Change. It did seem like the planet is sending us signals. Part of it is a civilian climate core. Why do you believe that needs to be included in Budget Reconciliation in the next step of this kind of Twotrack Plan . Make your case for it. Well, jim, im a big believer in americorps that allows 75,000 Young Americans to give a year or two of their lives in service to our communities and our country. And to earn an opportunity to go to college, money for college as a result, to learn skills, and to engage with their communities. President biden campaigned on a civilian climate corps that would put a new generation of young people into americas forests and national lands and public lands to help with climate resiliency, to help with preparation, to make sure whether its in my Lowlying State of delaware or in the forested highlands of states like New Mexico and colorado, that their forests are better maintained so theyre less vulnerable to Forest Fires. I think this is a great idea to revive the C Krrk C from the 1930s as a modern updated diverse inclusive, strong 21st century civilian climate core. Well be watching where that goes. Well watch infrastructure first. Senator Chris Coons, thanks so much for joining us this morning. Thank you, jim. Just hours from now, President Biden is set to join cnn for a Town Hall in ohio as his administration faces a number of congressional hurdles, including that infrastructure hurdle. Right. Our Jeff Zeleny joins us from cincinnati. Good morning, jeff. What are we going to see tonight . Reporter hey, good morning, poppy and jim. Theres no question that President Biden wants to sort of focus the country on the particulars of the infrastructure and jobs plan. Never mind the, you know, how the deal is getting done or not done in washington, but on this Infrastructure Plan, building bridges, building roads, expanding broadband. So look for a focus and a lot of questions on infrastructure, of course, and covid19. You can just feel the level of concern rising among, you know, those who are unvaccinated and vaccinated, of course, the economic fallout from this, the Health Fallout from this. So always interesting at these Town Halls are the real questions from real people. These are not, you know, washingtonese like questions. These are questions on the minds of citizens and voters. Ive been here the last several days talking to people and there are real questions about schools. There are certainly real questions about voting rights protection, about police reform, about just the economic health overall. So those are some of the central issues. It is on infrastructure that President Biden wants to talk about. Hell be delivering a speech before the Town Hall here this afternoon in cincinnati at a Union Hall talking about jobs, and always in cincinnati there is a bridge, the brit spence bridge. It spans from cincinnati to northern kentucky. President obama planned to fix it. President trump planned to fix it. Their transportation and Infrastructure Plans always fizzled. Look for questions to be asked on that specific bridge and the broader Infrastructure Plan again here tonight. Jim and poppy . It will be a great one. Thank you, jeff. Appreciate your reporting. Be sure to watch it tonight. Our president Ial Town hall live 8 00 eastern moderated by our friend Don Lemon. It is less than one week until the first hearing of the January 6 Select committee. 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She has yet to do so, but one of the strategies we are seeing emerge is the fact that they want to basically change the subject from what led to this attack to why wasnt the capitol secure. And you are hearing from people like jim jordan, one of former president trumps closest allies on Capitol Hill, that he wants to ask questions about House Speaker pelosi. We asked the top democrat on the committee a little bit about this, and he argued pelosi is not in charge of Capitol Security on the day of the insurrection. Thats not her job. And heres what he said. He said, quote, well, if you look at the charge that we have in the resolution, it says the facts and circumstances around january 6th. I dont see the speaker being Part And Parcel to that. Its a free country. People can say what they want as to whether or not it has a place in this committee remains to be seen. House Speaker Pelosis Office also arguing that this is not pelosis job, and that basically republicans are trying to distract from what the underlying cause of this insurrection was. But that doesnt mean that republicans arent going to try this strategy. We also know that over the weekend we could expect they could have a Prep Session or early next week. They want to make sure they have their line of questioning ready. Theyre going to be talking to Capitol Police officers and d. C. Metro police. They want to be careful about towing that line and dont be dismissive of what those officers went through. Thats going to be one of their tough decisions coming up here. Republicans making the case that they are going to try to muddy the waters between what the lead up cause was to january 6th. Sounds like it. Lauren fox on the hill. Thanks so much. Also this morning a former adviser, very close friend to president trump, Tom Barrack is facing charges of acting as an agent of a foreign Government And Obstruction of justice. Barrack, you will remember, was once a chair of trumps inaugural committee. He is accused of using his influence to influence the former president to illegally lobby Foreign Policy Goals of the united arab emirates, and then also accused by prosecutors of lying about it when he was questioned by federal agents in june of 2019. Ellie honing is here, former Assistant Attorney for the district of new york. Just reading from the indictment here, its damning on both those fronts. Part of it reads the defendant is charged with acting under the Direction Or Control of the most senior leaders of the u. A. E. Over a course of years. For Semen Anyone who may dismis, why is this important on a national Security Front . Poppy, it threatens our national security. Its not necessarily illegal to lobby on behalf of a foreign country, but it is illegal to do that in secret without registering. You have to register with the justice department. The fact that barrack didnt do that was very close to the president and in position to and actually did influence our national policy, our foreign policy, if we dont know that, thats what a secret agent is. Thats a threat to our national security. A gun for hire, right . Youre representing another countrys interests for money. Weve seen this with other members of trumps circle, right, not registering. One of the charges here is something else weve seen with members of his circle and that is Obstruction Of Justice, specifically false statements to the fbi. Why do you think thats potentially more significant than the, than the foreign Agent Registration charges . Two reasons, jim. First of all, the Obstruction Of Justice charges on their own actually carry a higher potential penalty than just the foreign agent charges. If 45hes convicted of both theyll merge for a higher sentence. It says a lot about Tom Barracks state of mind. It suggests that he lied. Look, people lie for a reason when they talk to the fbi. And if youre a prosecutor, you get to stand up in front of a jury and say, folks, he lied to the fbi. He did that because he knew what he was doing was wrong. He knew he had something to hide. That could be really powerful evidence. Just to be really clear here, he has not entered a plea yet, but his team, spokesman for barrack says he plans to plead not guilty. Just want to make that clear for our viewers. But given what they have here, which is emails and Text Messages and a lot, what would a defense here be, ellie . Reporter thats a really good question. He is as anyone else, entitled to the presumption of innocence. One thing that jumped out to me about the indictment, this does not appear to be a case based on a cooperating witness. As we know, cooperating witnesses can always be crossexamined, right. You pled guilty to crimes, youre a liar, you have incentive to help them. If you look at the indictment, it looks like this case is built on emails and texts and the prosecutors here appear to have dozens of them. So theyre going to be using barracks own words against him. So hes going to have to come up with something creative, maybe looking to take a plea or cooperate to try to save himself. Its interesting looking at the list of trump associates that have been charged. One thing several of them have in common, pardons by the former president. Of course, that former president no longer in office. Something Barrack Cant have now. Ellie hoenig, thank you very much. 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And they are having a difficult time with this fire. Its 0 contained. We saw helicopters trying to make some water drops yesterday and they were barely making a dent. Fortunately the Property Damage has been limited, but you have a number of communities that have been forced to evacuate. We caught up with some Residents Yesterday as they were allowed to go back in and check on their homes and grab some essentials. Take a look. Just hoping to see our house still standing. I know, you know, they say its okay, but i really want to see it for myself. Its scary. Deputy just told us that our house is still standing. We just want to check it all out. Reporter we have about A Thousand firefighters working this particular fire. We are at the Incident Command Post where you have some crews that just got back from working the fire line, while others are about to go out. And, of course, this is just win of many fires burning throughout the west. 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We should note that time studios is producing an exclusive Documentary Series on the Inspiration 4 mission. Good morning and through for being here. Good morning. Thank you for having us. Jeff, this is both of your areas of expertise. You piece prompted this segment. Explain to people this is not 11 minutes or 90 minutes. This is three days up higher than the iss. What are you going to do up there . Whats the mission going to be like . Well, my understanding, and dr. Proctor could be clearer on this than i am, but there will be scientific experiments undertaken. There will be the routine, and its not terribly routine, Maintenance And Operation of the spacecraft. There will be observations that will be Crew Observations that will be shared with the earth, imagery shared with the earth. An aggressive attempt to raise funds for st. Jude Childrens Research Hospital which is the philanthropic engine behind this mission. These astronauts over the course of the 72 hours theyre up there are not going to have a whole lot of free time. Theyre going to be working pretty hard. Doctor, to you exactly that question, to someone that, as i mentioned in the commercial, you cant Stop Smiling about this. Youre quite excited. You were literally born to do this, Born On Guam the daughter of a Nasa Engineer who worked on the apollo mission. Youve been waiting for this. Yes, thats exactly right. My parents were on guam from 1966 to 1970 during the apollo era. Both Me And My Brother were born there. I was born 8 1 2 months after Neil Armstrong made those historic steps on the moon. I like to think of myself as a celebration baby, my dad and my mom, im the youngest of four. So just space has been a part of me and my family my entire life. To have this amazing opportunity is just its thrilling. Yeah, I Cant Stop Smiling. I want your take on the future of this, where this goes because theres this big debate now, as you know dr. Proctor, about a Joy Ride for billionaires. Yours is raising a lot of money for st. Judes. Thats great. Or is this the future in humanity in exploring what is available to humanity in space. Listen to what Jeff Bezos said yesterday to our anderson cooper. We need to build a road to space, build infrastructure, reusable space vehicles and so on so that the next generations can build the future. Its really about moving heavy industry i know this sounds fantastical, and it is fantastical. Remember, if you went back to the Kitty Hawk area, they would think thats fantastical. We have to move heavy industry and polluting industry off earth. Nuclear power plants, coal plants. Everything. They need to beam the energy down to earth. Really dr. Proctor . Is that feasible . Is that going to be feasible . I think so. When we think about the future of how humanity, how amazing we are as a species and the things were able to create, what we imagine we turn into reality. This is one of the things we think of as scifi. As he was saying, flying used to be that way, and then space travel. If were thoughtful about it, then solving for space solves for earth. If we put that mindset forward, then we can take and look at some of the major problems we have on earth, and we figure out solutions to them by going to space. There is also a very special Crew Member thats going to be joining dr. Proctor, jeffrey, and thats haley arceneaux, a survivor of childhood cancer, the first person to travel to space with a prosthetic. She said im going to be the first, but i wont be the last. Can you speak to this from a journal its perspective of, yes, these get a lot of attention, but also a lot of boundaries that can be broken on multiple fronts . Sure. When you think about the earliest astronauts and contemporary astronauts as well, theyre held to a standard of physical excellence. Theyre held to a standard of almost ideal physical specimens of human beings. Certainly space is a very rigorous place to go. It requires extreme physical health. But were also learning that we can democratize space. We dont always have to have the Fighter Jocks and perfect physical specimens we had 60 years ago when the first astronauts flew. Haley will be flying with a pro these sis for her left femur she lost to childhood cancer. Shes the first pioneer helping to prove that you do not have to be a flawless physical specimen to fly in space. As she says, she will be the first, she wont be the last. I think this helps kick the doors open to the rest of us who may not be as fit and as ideal a specimen as the astronauts who are currently flying. I think she is perfect. I cant wait to watch this. By the way, dr. Proctor, amen to more women getting into space than at the beginning of all of us. Come back. Come back before or after the mission. Wed love to have you. Thank you. Well be right back. Theres a world where every One Of Us is connected. Everyone. Everywhere. Where everyone is included. Where everyone has access to information, education, opportunity. When Everyone And Everything is connected. Thats really beautiful. Anything is possible. Good morning. Cisco. The bridge to possible. Top of the hour. Good morning. Im poppy harlow. Im jim sciutto. Its sad to say but covid infections and hospitalizations ar