900,000 shots being given every day, mean time with the Delta Variant sending people, kids, to the hospital. Regular testing for all teachers and other personnel statewide. In texas, counties defied orders from their governor and imposed Mask Mandates. Governor abbott and some people in there political party following President Trump has politicized this masking, public Health And Vaccination when there is no politics. The virus doesnt care what your politics are. What your political party is, how you feel about any issue. That is Dallas County Judge Clay jenkins. Hell be joining us shortly. First, Chief Medical Correspond dr. Sanjay gupta and the distributor of Minnesota Center for Disease And Research and policy. Sanjay, the news that the fda is expected to give authorization. Can you explain what that means and who you think would be eligible . Yeah. I think were talking nine to Ten Million people here, three to four percent of the population. For example, Cancer Patients who are getting Chemotherapy Or Transplant recipients who have to take immunoexpressive drugs. Nine to Ten Million people. Let me hoe you what this might mean for transplant recipients specifically. This study looked at what was the effect of a third shot, and if we have the graphic we can show that, but basically we saw what happened after a single shot and we saw a significant increase overall in antibodies with that third shot. And they compared that in this particularly study, which they have the graph well show it. You can look it up. I dont think they have the graphic. Ok. So they had a placebo they compared it to and saw no change with the placebo. This is what its about. Basically, this are idea that people who did not mount as strong an Antibody Response actually did get significant benefit by getting that third shot. What do you think it means for people who received the one dose of the Johnson Johnson Vaccine . I hope they address this. I think its really important. Wie heard, for example, in communities like San Francisco that have made a shot of Moderna Or Pfizer available to those who received the single shot johnson johnson. About 22-million'>22 Million people in the country received johnson johnson. We dont know what percentage of them have this are also i immunocompromised. This should be part of the discussion. Professor, how do you think the update will roll this out. Do people go to the pharmacy and say theyre immunocompromiseds . Do they have to have a note from a doctor . Will doctors give the third dose . How does it work . This is an important consideration and its not been worked out yet. We have people who really need the additional immunization versus those who just want it. The World Health Organization put out a statement calling on a moratorium on Booster Doses for these people who dont have the. This is a third dose of a Threedose Series that immune compromised people should get. We have to work this out. I think people are going back to their primary doctors so that the Record Management will be complete. And people will get permission to do that. Sanjay, a study by Johns Hopkins researchers found that theyre 485 times more likely to end up in the hospital or die compared to those vaccinated. Why did experts think theyd be protected and might not need this third dose and why did it apparently turn out didnt turn out that way . I think in the beginning it wasnt clear how much immunity response these people would generate. I mean, keep in mind were measuring with the body. Its a fairly easy thing to measure. The question was was there Immunity Jen Rated in the body by these vaccines in the form of tcells and bcells. It is pretty clear now that if youre vaccinated and immunocompromised youre far more likely to be getting severely illinois in you become infective. I think the data has become pretty clear on this. Why didnt they anticipate this . Part of it is what they didnt know. But we talk about this term Herd Immunity. Part of the Herd Immunity was to say we know not everyones going to get protected. If we get enough protection we can essentially form a herd of protection around those who are vulnerable. When you get to that point in the country, and thats why were having this discussion now. When it comes to kids, how concerned are you that 494,000 new covid cases in children in the week ending august 5th. Is this part of the socalled category five hurricane you thought might happen earlier this year . I think this entire surge is part of what were concerned about. And i appreciate the fact we keep talking about when we hit 60 or 672 or 62 of the population vaccinated. If you look at the united Kingdom Or Israel where they have higher levels of people vaccinated. Israel had the highest number of cases reported today than during the entire pandemic. Yet they have these high levels of vaccination. We have to vaccinate virtually Everyone Or Someone will likely know a covidrelated outcome. Kids were seeing it in spades today. The viruses, particularly as we talk about delta is highly infectious in children. We do Need Vaccines as soon as possible. They are working on that, getting the dosing down to assure the safety. But as any of us know, that cant come soon enough. So when you say the Delta Variant is highly infectious in children, is it more i mean, do children are they more vulnerable to the Delta Variant than they were to what originally we were dealing with here in the united states and, i mean, i heard one doctor in an interview saying that what theyre seeing is more i think it was particularly lung cases with children. She said kids are getting hit harder. Is that actually, factually do we know that nationwide . Lets break that into two separate issues. One is is it more transmissible. I can tell you when we were dealing with the strains of the virus last year when much of the data was collected about ow infectious it is in kids, we saw very often very little transmission from kids to others. The conclusion was made its not very infectious. The Alpha Variant came around and changed that. We had a number of outside breaks here in minnesota. With delta were seeing that the transmission in kids are at least that. Were not saying that its more, were seeing it now has not been restrained for some reason as a year ago. The severity of illness is still an open question. Its possible that this is more severe. It doesnt take anyone to think twice about the fact that what it is doing right now is in fact a major, major health problem. As you know, youre seeing your network has broadcasts from these hospitals around the country showing just the impact that this is having on kids in childrens hospitals. Sanjay, just briefly, do we know about long covid in children and the Delta Variant . Do we just not have enough studies at this point . I dont think we have enough data. Im glad you raise it. I think often times he measure these things in terms of who has lived or who has died. People say this is not a serious illness in children. I dont think we know. I think michael you will strum would agree with me. You dont want this virus. There is so much about it we dont know, no matter what. Thank you, appreciate it. Thank you. Live reports from two of the hardest hit states, florida, and texas. Later, what happens now . Ferk has paved the way to see the former president s taxes. 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. Before we talk about taxsmart investing, whats new . 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What we have in florida is we have about 1. 3 of the covid positive patients that are hospitalized are pediatric cases and for the whole pandemic, weve been between 1. 1 and 1. 4 of the census at any given time has been pediatrics. Theres been no change in the proportion of pediatric patients who are covid positive. And anderson, we actually checked the governors math. Its not quite right. According to the cdc about 2 of covid patients hospitalized throughout the whole pandemic here in the state of florida are pediatric patients. He said 1. 1 to is. 4 . The cdc is saying its higher. Right now there are about 200 children hospitalized with covid here in the state of florida. What about the schools right now . Well, the governor as you know, issued that Executive Order last month saying you cant have a Mask Mandate . Schools. Many counties have gone ahead with the Mask Mandate including here, but they dont have any type of rules around that Mask Mandate. So anyone can Opt Out of it. But in three counties in the state, you actually have to have a medical reason or a doctors note to Opt Out. Today one of those three counties, leon county, where tallahassee is, actually reversed that and said parents can Opt Out for any reason. Part of this is because the governor and the Education Commissioner threatened to take away the salaries to have superintendent and the School Board and in a letter, the Education Commissioner actually threatened to remove the School Board. To superintendent and the School Board didnt want to lose their jobs so they rolled that back. Now well have to see what the other two counties who have those Mask Mandates in place with that medical reason for the Opt Out, well see what they have to do. Right now theyre under investigation for noncompliance. Anderson. There was a story about ventilators that were sent to florida. Right. The governor was asked about these ventilators yesterday. He said he was unaware of the request for the ventilators. Hed have to check and he doubts that was true. Well, cnn has confirmed that hundreds of ventilators were sent by the biden administration to the state of florida earlier this Week And Katelyn collins was told that the White House says it doesnt send ventilator to states without their interest in receiving them. In other words, somebody must have requested them, whether it was the Governors Office or the state health department. They werent just sent randomly, according to the White House but the governor has not addressed that. Hasnt cleared up how the ventilators ended up here, anderson. Randy kaye. Appreciate it. Texas, where the governor promised to bring in medical Person Emout of state. Public health experts seem confused. When you have authorities for reasons that and i cant explain. Is it political, is it libertarian . What is it . How can you prevent the local authorities from doing what it takes to protect the children for what reason is more important than protecting the health of the children . In a moment, the top elected official in Dallas County fighting Governor Abbott on this, first Ed Lavendera joins us. What are you hearing about what officials need . Hospital officials across the state that ive spoken with today are sounding the alarm in a way that i havent heard, even in the worse days of the pandemic in this state. There are more than 10,000 people hospitalized with coronavirus. This has spiked dramatically and quickly. These are numbers we have not seen since late january, early february. There are just under 370 available icu beds across the state and some regions are reporting single Digit Number of icu beds available and the ceo of the Harris County Health district in houston speaking to state Lawmakers Today said that the state is headed for a medical catastrophe if urgent Action Isnt taken soon and he says hes frightened about whats coming in the weeks ahead. There is no intervention out there that i am hearing about from the State Or Anyone else that is going to have an impact on those numbers anytime soon. If this continues, and i have no reason to believe that it will not, there is no way my hospital is going to be able to handle this. There is no way the region is going to be able to ham this. Handle this. And Hospital Executive also described a scene in one of his hospitals this week where there were 30 different coronavirus patients in need of Icu Care who were waiting in an emergency room lobby. In some cases it took 30 hours to get those patients into a room. Meanwhile, the governor of texas insists that the time for Mask Mandates is over. He has once again talked about how it is the personal responsibility or texans across the state to get the virus under control. But you see once again, the struggle between local officials in the state and the state leaders. Weve seen talked to local County Officials in Dallas County seeking to defy the governor on the Mask Mandates. How has the governor responded . Well, youre really seeing an open revolt from County Officials, School Superintendents across the state who have been issuing mask requirements. The governor and the Attorney General here have filed a petition to block the Dallas County mask requirement. Theyre calling all these local officials activist characters and theyre vowing to take any of them to court if they continue to issue mask requirements. Thank you. At the center of this, Judge Clay jenkins. Prorussi. I want to thank you for being with us. How do you respond . Well, the courts will deal with that. What has happened is thus far the courts have agreed with us that the governor doesnt have the authority to stop an emergency response. He has the authority to suspend certain regulatory laws to make it easier, for instance, for nurses and doctors from out of state to practice here, but not to stop an emergency response. In his statement, the texas Attorney General essentially called you not by name an activist Character And Attention grabbing judge. It certainly doesnt help the situation were in right now to be kind of hurling fektives like that. What does it say about the state and Public Health . Well, this is not about democrats and republicans. We should all be on team Public Health. That virus doesnt care with what your politics or anything else is. Its relentlessly looking for a host. And so i dont want to get into that, the Name Game or the Blame Game with people. Im listening to what our doctors and the cdc are telling us, which is we are in a state of crisis and we have to act quickly and we need to put masks on people in public settings. Today in the metroplex with 7. 7 Million people, a 19county area, we had two Pediatric Icu Beds Open for anything, car crashes, cancer, anything. Our doctors are making it better for adults. Our doctors are Making Decisions now on caring for people that would have been unthought of two or three weeks ago. The time to act is now, not when its even worse. You signed the Executive Order this afternoon. What is your next step . So the next step is starting tomorrow, all students in public schools, Childcare Centers and prek will be wearing a mask. All shoppers and employees in or customers and employees and businesses will be wearing masks and people in County Buildings will be wearing a mask. And that the doctors tlels help slow the spread, give them a little bit more time. Whats happened in texas is the governor stopped supporting the hospitals with temporary staff. That staff has gone to other states and headhunters have taken staff from our hospitals, further increasing the problem. The people in our hospitals have been working nonstop for 19 months. They are retiring early in record numbers. Although the numbers in our hospitals are currently lower than they were at the peak, the bed to staff Ratio Or Doctor and nurse to Wind Chill Ratio has never been worse in the history of north texas. So the governor, as i mentioned, made an Announcement Today that over 2500 medical personnel will be deployed to hospitals around texas to care for the increasing number of patients. How do you square that action with is that enough . And how do you square that with his edict about masking . You cant square these two things. The doctors help but it takes after them toe get there. This is a race against the virus to give us enough Bed Capacity so we can avert catastrophe. Look, heres my view and its ream simple. The virus doesnt care about politics. So we need to listen to those adults who have trained their entire adult life to advice us in these moments and thats the doctors and they are all uniformly, including the governor when he had Health Advisor ors, telling us the same thank. Masking indoors is critical to saving lives at this time. We need to do it. I appreciate your time, thank you. Thank you. Coming up next, a member of congress who may see the former president s Tax Returns after a major decision about the privacy of those records. Details ahead. Washed your hands a Lot Today . Probably like 40 times. Hands feel dry . Like sandpaper. Introducing new dove handwash, with 5 x moisturizer blend. Removes germs in seconds, moisturizes for hours. Soft, smooth. New dove handwash. The one thing every Student Needs for Back To School is confidence. 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What is your reaction with regard to the Ruling Today . Anderson, i thought the judge issued a carolly narrowly tailored. He had two basic findings that trump admitted to reimbursing the treasury 400,000. And the judge says the american people deserve to know what foreign payments did he receive. Thats why we need his Tax Returns. I think the american public would want to know. Second, the judge said trump had a deal for his hotel with the government, the Government Contract said that no Government Official should ever benefit from the deal. Obviously, trump was president. He was benefitting from the deal. We should find out whether that contract was legal and whether trump should have Dwivested Fro that property. When the former president was in office and not going back to 2011 at the Oversight Committee originally saw it . I was. I believe its relevant, the prior Tax Returns to seeing whether he had a financial interest in foreign engames and foreign activities, but its what shows that the judge was careful and fair. He had the narrowest possible ruling and he said what is certainly relevant are the Tax Returns while trump was president and thats why i think the ruling will stand even if the former president appeals it. The judge did specific refute the argument from the former ps allies that the committee is on a baseless fishing expedition, which is what they had said and that there was quote detailed thaefd they likely received payments during the term of his presidency. In order are you does for there to actually be a violation, does there have to be proof that not just foreign money was received from foreign guests staying at the hotel or that they were overcharged but that that actually resulted in some sort of foreign Policy Decision or legislation . I think if there is a tie between the money that was received and any influence on a foreign Policy Decision, obviously, that is the most blatant violation. But short of that, if you have evidence that trump was receiving compensation beyond the market rate, that also is deeply concerning. The Oversight Committee is one of the most careful committees. I often want to move fast oar. They are very deliberate. They dont overrate. The Judges Decision was a vindication of how carefully they prepared this. They had the evidence of why we deserve those Tax Returns for legitimate purposes. Jerry conley tweeted out something. I want to read it. He said well see Tax Returns, thats a good thing. We issued the subpoena two years ago that he was able to run out the clock and avoid accountability. Its an abject failure. How concerned are you that the former president is out of the White House and never had to face this really head on. It did take too long, anderson, because our System Wasnt designed for someone like donald trump. Every president before that complied. They would put it in a blind trust, disclose their Tax Returns. A lot of our constitutional democracy depend on norms that both democrats and republicans follow. Obvious Lip Trump flouted them and its taken years for our legal system to catch up with that. What congress needs to do is enact laws so that this never happens again. Disclosure, while i think every elected official should have to disclose any foreign payments that youre receiving while in office. That would be one reform that would prevent this. I appreciate your time. Thank you so much. Thank you. Up next, the other big battle in texas. A new blidh to pressure democrats who abandoned the State House to stop a Voting Rights overhaul. The question is will they be forced to return . Well talk to a texas leading democrat next. 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The speaker did sign civil Arrest Warrants as you pointed out. So far those warrants have only been handed over to the House Sergeant at arms who visited all of our capitol Offices Today is my understanding. I wasnt there to see it but thats my understanding of what happened. To my knowledge, thats the extent of what has happened so far. So im not concerned this is a civil matter. Not a criminal one. So in our view theres really not a role for Law Enforcement to play here. So some of your democratic colleagues are still in washington trying to prevent the republicans and the state from passing voting restrictions. How long does this continue . I mean, you returned you still have i guess enough who are still out of state to stop there from being a quorum, is that correct . Well, theres its a 20 or last day in washington, most members left over the weekend at the end of the first Special Session, which ended last friday. We stay in washington until that session was over to kill the bill in that session. Thats what we did. We also dont see a reason to go back to the house right away when Greg Abbott has called another Special Session Thats Nothing more than a 30 Day Campaign commercial for his reelection campaign. Were not interested in helping them pass an antivoter bill. Were going to continue to use our voices to argue for federal Voting Rights legislation. Frankly, a lot of us All Of Us have work to do in our communities to combat the Covid19 Crisis that is unfolding across the states, thanks unfortunately to Greg Abbotts failed leadership on this issue. You were talking with my friend Dallas County Judge Clay jenkins about that. Get people wearing masks and combat the spread of this pandemic, which is spreading like wildfire right now in texas. Regarding the Voting Rights, you stead way this has to end is democrats in washington passing a federal voting Rights Bill. Senate democrats tried to pass another bill Last Night and were blocked by republicans. There dont seem to be the votes. Kite go on indefinitely. Youre right. Thats what ive said, that thats how this has to end is congress has to enact strong Voting Rights acts. There was no surprise how that vote was going to turn out. We knew republicans would vote along party lines. Ted cruz did it himself. Someone whos defended a lot of antivoter laws from his time in the Attorney Generals office. So what hopefully that vote does and what it should do is pave the way for senate democrats to say, you know, we tried work with republicans on this. Theyre not interested in being by partisan. Now its time to revisit the senate rules and decide how were going to get a bill passed in the u. S. Senate when we come back in september. Thats number one. Number two, theres very good news on the House Side in that the u. S. House the majority leader, Steny Hoyer said yesterday that the house would come back the week of 23rd'>August 23rd and is likely to take up hr 4. Thats at least six weeks ahead of schedule what she had previously planned before we went to washington. We believe our advocacy helped. We need them both to pass. Appreciate your time. Thanks very much. Thank you. Still to come, New York will have a new governor in less than two weeks. Which for a lot of people its the first time they are meeting her. Well tell you who it is. We spoke oneonone with Lieutenant Governor kathy hochul. At philadelphia, we know what makes the perfect schmear of cream cheese. The recipe we invented over 145 years ago and me. The worlds best, and possibly only, schmelier. Philadelphia. Schmear perfection. [engine revs] ricky bobby, today the road is your classroom. 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House of representatives to county clerk. The transition of Govrgeing A state of about 20 million people. The pandemic, hochul says, will be the. Make sure we overcome the worries. She says in a Oneonone Interview she plans to stick around. We understand youve formed a political team. Does this mean youre going to seek a full term in 2022 . Yes. Its not the time to talk politics but i am prepared to run for reelection. Ill begin the process as soon as we get everything under control in the state. Cuomo said he would step aside after mournting calls for him to resign. Claims he denies. The governor expressing confidence in his successor tuesday. Kathy is smart and competence. This transition must be seamless. She said Shes Intent on leaving the controversy behind. Her husband is general counsel, senior Vice President and secretary of the buffalobased Hospitality And Gaming Company Delaware North and could be so thats the same plan . We were reexamining it to see if Theres Anything that would change with my responsibilities changing. Reporter and in that Oneonone Interview i had with hochul after that News Conference i asked her does she think the governor should be impeached or was his resignation enough . And hochul said that she isnt in a position to comment on that or interfere with the process, but she says she has full faith in lawmakers. As far as that impeachment process, anderson, the Judiciary Committee is knowing to meet again on monday to discuss what the possible next steps could be or what that will look like. They have received all of the documents from the Attorney Generals report. And a source telling cnn all options are on the table. Anderson . Appreciate it. Thank you. Coming up, u. S. Troops are leaving afghanistan, but that may not be the only reason the taliban is seizing ground so fast while Steam Rolling afghan forces. Our Clarissa Ward joins me from kabul, afghanistan. 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Clarissa, the speed with which the taliban is recapturing, retaking cities, territory is really stunning perhaps not all that surprising. But its remarkable after all this time in which the u. S. Was pouring in, you know, billions and billions of dollars to build up the afghan police, build up the afghan national army, theyre just collapsing it seems in the face of this. Yeah, and thats certainly what weve been seeing on the ground, anderson. We just got back from a trip and we drove past an afghan army check point. Take taking fire and we literally watched afghan soldiers running down from the base. They hailed a civilian car, jumped into it and drove off. And the next day when we returned through the same checkpoint there were still afghan soldiers manning the checkpoint, but they were wearing civilian clothes because theyre trying to keep a very low profile. And i think that really speaks to the sense of Morale Or Lack of morale within the afghan army. Theres the sense they know theyre losing and most p prominently they dont want to die. The afghan army dont want to die. How are things in kabul . Are people panicking . What is it like there . Reporter i dont think were at panic yet but its grim, anderson. Its definitely grim. The writing is on the wall i think at this stage. Weve heard all sorts of predictions, it could fall within a matter of months. And i think its a little early to predict when kabul might fall but certainly its not looking good. And theres a lot of fear what comes next, how do people get out of the country, how do they protect their families, will they be targeted by the taliban, will they go into hiding . And theres a resentium too not that people understand they cant rely on the u. S. To stay here forever where but the way in which this withdrawal was carried was somehow hasty, it was chaotic. There werent enough sort of measures put in place to ensure the taliban had to meet certain conditions before that withdrawal would be complete. And now were looking down the barrel three weeks left or whatever it is and, yeah, people here are very frightened about what happens next. Do you think the taliban will be able to take over the entire country . Will there be pockets like kabul or, you know, even in the past when the taliban was there the Northern Alliance which relied on warlords and their forces. Reporter so president Ashraf Ghani is trying to get the warlords involved again. He also called on ordinary people to take up arms, to go and join the various militias and launch a kind of popular uprising. I mean the risk you have there is the thing becomes even more fragmented. And youre not just trying to get two people to sit down at the Negotiating Table potentially in a years time, you might be trying to get five different people to sit down at the Negotiating Table. What i dont think is clear yet i think the taliban believes from what weve seen and heard that they can win an outright victory. But its not completely clear to me yet whether they want to indeed take kabul, take the entire country over. I do still think the one bit of leverage that the u. S. Has in terms of other than the Air Strikes is the idea of recognition by the international community. I dont believe the Taliban Wachbts to be an international pariah once again like it was in the 90s. At the same time how far does that go . At this stage its not looking good, anderson. Clarissa ward, appreciate you being there. Thank you so much. Thanks. Want to let you know about a special event taking place in new York City to try to celebrate the citys efforts to reopen after the pandemic shutdown. Theyll all be on stage in Central Park along with more great musicians. You can watch we love new York City the Homecoming Concert 21st'>August 21st on cnn. Want to turn it over to don lemon. The news continues with don Lemon Tonight. Hello, everyone. Thanks for joining us. This is don Lemon Tonight and ive got to get right into this, okay and i want you to really pay attention to this because you have to see whats happening around the country, chaos. What is going on with a lot of americans when it comes to wearing masks to stem the spread of covid especially Mask Mandates for children who are heading Back To School . Its turning so many people into angry lunatics, quite frankly. Last night the Williamson County School Board voted to in favor of having children in their Elementary Schools w