Are saving lives at a critical time. They are needed more than ever. Just look at the numbers now for this Labor Day versus last year. Youre looking at a 300 increase in the 7day Average of new cases. Meantime several icus near or at full capacity. The u. S. Is now reporting an average of 1500 covid deaths a day. Nearly all of those patients and deaths were unvaccinated. Lets begin with our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. Bottom line here the data, the science, the boosters, science will dictate the date for the rollout. What is the Data Showing . Erica, a lot of this data is coming out of israel. Israel is essentially a pfizeronly country. Pfizer applied and will be heard first to see if they can do a Booster Rollout and pfizer will be relying on the israelis for the data that they have. Lets Take A Look at what the israelis have found about the effectiveness of a booster, of a third shot. So this the Israelis Sort of spotted the problem. They found this summer that thos
So lets begin with Cnn Chief white House Correspondent kaitlan collins. Of everything ive laid out, which is President Bidens top priority . Reporter i think coronavirus is probably top of mind for the White House right now. We know President Biden is going to give a major speech on that this week. Also, alisyn, as you noted he has several things on his plate when he comes back to Washington Tonight following this holiday weekend. And tomorrow you will see the president Go To New York and new jersey. Both the states he has declared states of Emergency And Disaster declarations under way there right now in an effort to help with what weve been seeing on the ground. And a lot of this he is going to tie to what he did in louisiana touring the damage there which is, of course, Climate Change. And his domestic agenda, something that we know will be at the forefront when lawmakers are back here in washington. But, alisyn, its not just that. He is still dealing with afghanistan, even though t
the damage of documents recovered from former president trump the property, sharing new details what its filter teams found in the materials. begin this hour with a major new development in russia s war on ukraine. senior u.s. officials tell cnn that ukrainian forces are now launching a significant counteroffensive. go right to cnn jim sciutto who broke the story. what s the latest from the plan from ukraine and how do we expect it to play out? reporter: the latest, the much anticipated counteroffensive, ukrainian officials hinted at some time. saying they have confidence they can carry it out, has now begun. u.s. officials began to see signs of shaping, as you mentioned, shaping means basically preparing the battlefield for a wider offensive. in this case, it means artillery, rocket, air strikes on things like weapons depots, air defense systems, ammunition dumps, et cetera. to then allow a combination of ground and air forces to move in and attempt, at least, to regain
artemis mission was postponed. basically there was an engine malfunction. artemis one is the first in a series of missions that would return humans to the moon for the first time since 1972. the launch team discovered a bleed in one of the rocket s four engines. cnn s space correspondent joins us. explain more of what happened and then what happens next. reporter: yeah, so, victor, essentially we all thought that this was an engine issue. what we learned during the press conference, the first post-scrub press conference that just wrapped up, is that nasa officials believe it s not so much an engine issue. the primary culprit was an issue with the cooling system that cools that particular engine, engine number three. they ve got to get that engine to the right temperature before liftoff because sthey don t wan the liquid hydrogen and oxygen to shock the system. it seems to be that is where the biggest problem was. they are troubleshooting now. another problem we learned ab
They re pregnant. it also allows private citizens to bring lawsuits against anyone who assists a person seeking an abortion. for more, let s bring in alisyn kosik. what are these companies doing? companies are often reticent to get involved in political issues, and if they are involved, mostly statements, not taking action. very different this time. bumble and match, both based in texas, both have women ceos are creating relief funds for people affected by the texas law that bans abortions for women from early as six weeks into preg pregnancy. the law also penalized once who aids or abets a restricted abortion, so logan green, lyft s ceo said they would create a