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plus, explosive clouds and fire tornados. climate change making sci-fi nonfiction as a historic wildfire impacts people from coast to coast. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper on this friday. and we start today with our health lead. the alarm bells are sounding, and the only way to turn them off is for more people to get vaccinated. it is as simple as that. the average of new daily coronavirus cases in the united states is up 65% just from this time last week. so, to put that into context, the surge we re dealing with right now, which is driven by the unvaccinated is worse than the horrible original spike from last spring. but despite all of these warnings from top health officials, doctors, politicians, local leaders and basically everybody, the daily pace of vaccinations, it keeps falling as cnn s athena jones reports. reporter: as the biggest public health crisis in a century threatens to get a lot worse, the warnings to the unvaccinated ....
has an increase of covid cases all of this as the cdc reverses course on indoor masking even for fully vaccinated americans. we have lawmaker reaction to mass confusion but we begin live from the white house. reporter: vaccination rates are going up and that is good news with adult of byron lawn - delta virus. the first time we had four days in row over 700,000 shots. 3million got there first shot and also a significant increase. the white house is trying to motivate more people to get the shot it is offering to reimburse employers for those who have time off and also to make sure they can pay people. the pentagon is examining whether the vaccine could be required for armed forces and federal workers and contractors will get tested they cannot prove they got the vaccine or to wear their mask in the office. the cdc faces blowback over the latest guidance millions of americans wear masks indoors even if fully vaccinated. it s only a suggestion it s up to cities and state ....
white house. it comes three months before she leaves office. she has worked with four u.s. presidents, and this visit to washington is her 23rd trip. cnn international diplomatic editor nick robertson and cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins are with us. nick, let s start with you. inside this meeting it is being described as a working session. what do we expect to come out of this? president biden would like to win germany and angela merkel moreover to his view of dealing with china from a german perspective. this is a big deal, from a german perspective since 2016 they feel they ve done and do more business with china than they do with the united states. you know, since president biden came in and angela merkel had such a fractious relationship with former president trump, there s been a real sense in germany maybe they don t want to follow along with what the united states is doing, whether that s nord stream two gas pipeline with russia, but deali ....
into the public. tennessee senator phil haggerty and brian kill meet will join u coming up to. the day after a big reversal at the cdc unmasks, they biden ministration may be ready to make a big shift when it comes to vaccines for federal workers. hi, sandra, happy wednesday peart began sandra smith in new york. president biden says a vaccine mandate for federal workers is under consideration. it is a sharp departure just months after saying he would no make the vaccine mandatory. we have coverage for you thi afternoon. dr. marty mcgarry will join us this afternoon. correspond or petey or dc standing by outside the white house for as. the president says he supports this big update to the cdc guidance that requires masking vaccinated folks in areas of substantial or high transmission, but today he doesn t want to talk about that or about these reports that he may soon require every federal employee to get vaccinated or tested regularly, but. are you going to re ....
members of the state legislature are trying to pass. 21st century jim crow assault is real. it s unrelenting. wear going to challenge it vigorously. while while this broad assault against voting rights is not unprecedented, it s taking on aec new and literally pernicious forms. it s no longer just about who gets to vote or making it easier for eligible voters to vote. it s about who gets to count the vote. who gets to count whether or not your vote countedun at all. it s about moving from independent election administerors who work for the people, to polarize state legislatures and partisan actors who work for political parties. to me this is simple. this is election subversion. it s the most dangerous threat to voting in our history. never before have they decide who had gets to count count what votes count. some state legislators want to make it harder for you to vote. if you vote, they want to tell you that your vote doesn t count for any reason they make up. the ....