Telling them they have to vaccination. they have to do this and do that. these are the type of actions they were doing. they were not very open or clear what they wanted to do or how they wanted to do it. people had very good questions. the process how they did it was ridiculous and making people do this or you are losing your job was ridiculous. brian: lori lightfoot who comes out and battling with her police force and the police union are saying we are not doing this don t go why the mandate. don t even come to work. in terms of washington, 77.6% have at least one shot. 71% fully vaccinated. they told us originally if you have 75%. you have herd immunity. why is it necessary to fire these people, especially because you asked them to work throughout the entire pandemic, same thing with hospital workers and teachers. for some reason there ask a big blackout on people that have gotten fired. i give delta credit. delta says i m not going why this i m not going to fire people they have go
This feels like a number worth celebrating. 77.6% of all eligible adults in the u.s. have received at least one dose. is the number still 85% that folks feel like we need to reach, or have the infections been so vast and so tragic and so sweeping that we may be inching towards something that 77% is a good number? you know, i think 77% is a good number in every zip code, nicole. the problem here is that in parts of florida, you still have 20% of the most vulnerable not vaccinated, which is why florida icus are full. i was just in tennessee, shipping patients that were critically ill over 65 to cleveland for advanced icu care. so it depends on the demographics of the zip code, so that number is great, but it would be great if it was in every single zip code. 75% or higher. tell me where folks like yourself who have sort of seen
It s investigating the allegation and says if the claims are true, it will take immediate and decisive action. some incredible pictures out of arizona. a massive dust storm blew across the phoenix area this weekend. the national weather service issued the dust warning saturday afternoon. winds gusted from 25 to 40 miles an hour and poor visibility forced some roads to be closed. dust storms in the area have been more common this summer due to drought conditions and higher temperatures. this summer s heat blew away the dust bowl standing as the hottest ever. the july average high temperature reached 77.6 degrees, edging out 1936. the century average high temperature is only 74.3 degrees. university of miami professor ben kirtman who specializes in meteorology and physical oceanography joins me now. good day, professor. good day to you, richard. what s your thought here? what s contributing to the record heat we ve been reporting? is it global warming that has been the headline c
killing three soldiers in the country s southern helmand province. cnn s chris lawrence is live from the pentagon. what are your sources telling you about this attack this morning? well, john, they say they are still trying to figure out whether this was actually a true afghan police officer or someone just wearing the uniform. although the taliban is claiming that this was an actual afghan policeman who lured these three soldiers to his residence or to a party and had planned to kill them for some time. u.s. military officials are now confirming that part of the detail. but again, it speaks to a larger issue, which is trust in the fact that if this is a so-called green on blue attack, where afghan troops turn on their american allies, it would be the third time just this week. in fact, in the big picture, there have been more attacks already this year of that kind than all of last year, john. all right, chris lawrence at the pentagon. the story developing at this momen
report facts. we begin tonight with the new mitt romney ad. in 1996, president clinton and a bipartisan congress helped end welfare as we know it. but on july 12th president obama announced a program to gut welfare. under obama s plan you wouldn t have to work or train for a job. they just send you your check. in a moment you ll hear from newt gingrich to defend the ad. but first, i want to show you how mitt romney is campaigning on the claims made in that very ad. with a very careful compuexee action, he removed the requirement of work from welfare. it is wrong to make any change that would make america a nation of government dependency. we must restore and i will restore work into welfare. listening to that and watching the ad you would think that the white house somehow managed to undo what the elected representatives accomplished on welfare reform. you get the obama administration wants an america where hard working americans pay taxes and lazy ones sit around col