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school districts said they ll insist on masks despite bans on state mask mandates. the u.s. education secretary actually says going rogue here is a good thing. i think it s more dangerous for students to be home and have interrupted learning because of the decisions that we re making. we re clearly at a fork in the road in this country. we ll either help students be in school and in person and keep them safe or the decisions with e make will hurt students. of course they re not vaccinated. the best safety for them spreading the virus is wearing a mask. months of remote learning took effect on nearly all students. take at an analysis found across 33 states, 10,000 local public schools lost at least 20% of their kindergartens. meaning they re not coming back to go to class. average daily covid cases are back up above 100,000 for the first time our early february. the situation especially dire in florida where hospitals are filling up. it s so high in florida that i ....
last month, what that tells us about the pace of economic recovery right now. and scorched earth. massive, devastating wildfires ripping through parts of the american west. we re on the fire lines, as officials work to try to contain them. new day starts right now. buenos dias, it s saturday, august 7, thank you for waking up with us. great to see you, christi. you as well, boris. the u.s. with 107,000 new covid cases in a day. this is a rate we haven t seen for nearly six months since the country was in that dangerous winter surge that we went through. yeah. not only are infections rising, deaths are going up as well. and hospitals are overrun with unvaccinated patients as the delta variant spreads. the virus moving quickly through unvaccinated communities, especially in the southeast. a lot of red there. vaccination rates lagging behind the rest of the country in the south. in states with the highest infection rates people are getting investigated at a pace ....
what does that mean for the economy? let s begin right there with cnn business anchor julia chatterly. good morning, jim. make no mistake, this was a strong jobs report. the u.s. economy adding back 943,000 jobs in the month of july, not the only good news today, though, too, we saw positive revisions to the prior two months adding back around 100,000 extra jobs we weren t expecting. all of this is good news. where did they come from? well, as you d expect, the toys, the leisure sector gave us back 380,000 jobs. restaurants, bars, hotels have been trying to add people back, forced to pay more wages. we saw that playing into these numbers in july. also the education sector, 220,000 jobs extra added back in the education sector. we know this has been a challenge all through the years as many students have remained educated at home. also the seasonal effects where you normally see jobs lost in the education sector this month, clearly not the case for the month of july. w ....
others have as well. needless taking needless toll on our country. we have a lot of hard work left to be done. both to beat the delta variant and to continue our advance of economic recovery. and we have good news on the economic recovery today. with the government announcing that employers added 943,000 jobs last month. the unemployment rate falling to a pandemic low. 5.4%. this comes as we learn the senate could vote on a bipartisan infrastructure bill as soon as this weekend. and take another shot at passing voting rights legislation. we re expected to hear from attorneys for andrew cuomo hours after a former executive assistant who previously alleged that cuomo reached under her blouse now filed kranl complaint against the governor. we ll bring that event to you life when it begins. but we begin this hour with the very latest on the coronavirus pandemic. so let s break down the facts as we know them for you at this hour. new vaccinations over the past week in a ....
splintering. and a member of the capitol riot committee tells us where this investigation goes next. up first for us this hour, a seismic shift in the american workplace toward requiring covid vaccines. facebook, google, netflix, all announcing that all employees returning to the office must be fax vaccinated. morgan stanley and black rock doing the same. the growing change reaches into every sector of the economy. the washington post, essential and history saying you want to come back to work, you have to get a vaccine. later today the president will put all federal workers and contractor or thes on notice, get a vaccine or face strict protocols, including regular testing and masking. we are starting off from the white house. a big shift from the president. there s no doubt. a dramatic shift in tone from president biden later today when we do hear him addressing vaccinations and covid-19. we re told by administration officials he feels like he s up against a brick ....