Raise, join me at trying how come its monday, august 12 right now On Cnn this morning know them well, we will win critical Swing State Polling shows Kamala Harriss Campaign could be rebuilding the Blue Wall Plus yes. John miller harris, you are fired, youve done a horrible Job Donald Trump attacking harris on the border and the economy now accusing her up stealing one of his key Policy Proposals. And overseas ukraine admits to operating inside russia for the first time, while also accusing putin Theres Army of dangerous escalation at a nuclear Power Plant all right. 5 00 a. M. Here in washington alive looked at the capitol on this monday morning. Good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us. Vice president Kamala Harris, still riding high this week as former president Donald Trump continues to struggle with how to run against her someone who suggests we should terminate the Constitution Of The United States again Donald Trump confronted with new polling over
Remains of 22yearold Gabby Petito in northern wyoming. An autopsy to confirm her identity is scheduled. The cause of death still unknown. Sad developments there. There is a lot happening this morning. Kristen holmes has more on the vaccine news, trials for children. Kristen, tell us what the data shows here, because i know a lot of parents are watching. Good morning, jim and erica. We cannot stress what a big deal this is. Its something weve been waiting for, the first vaccine data for this 5 to 11 Age Group that weve seen yet. Now in addition to showing that the vaccine is safe, it also showed that it generated a robust immune response. The company says there were no instances of myocarditis, which is Heart Inflammation that has been linked to some mrna vaccines. All positive news here. While it has not been peer reviewed or published yet, this is the first step of getting these shots into childrens arms and in fact, the fda, excuse me, pfizer says they are going to submit this data t
Were going to bring in latasha brown, cofounder of Black voters matter, who is right now at the Lincoln Memorial in washington, d. C. Latasha, are you with me . All right. Were going to stand by for latasha. She will be joining us as soon as shes micd. We want to check in. Are you with me yet . Can you hear me . I cant. Can you turn it down a little bit . Okay, we can hear you. Were going to see you in just a second. I want to make sure that you can hear me. Latasha, do i have you . I can hear you. Great. Well see you there you go. We see you. We see you, and we hear you. Okay. The peril of live tv. Were happy to have you. Hi. You look great. Lets get into it. I want to know what is the point of this march, and what exactly are you hoping to accomplish . You know, today were doing this make good Trouble March because what we rally because we need to make good trouble. You know, we are right now in 2021, we have less Voting Rights now than we had in 1965 when the voting Rights Act was s
That setting off a heated debate. At the same time, politico citing two biden Administration Health officials who say the Delta Variant is far more widespread than federal estimates. The variant already makes up more than 50 of u. S. Cases. But in some parts of the country, like a midwest and upper mountain states, that number is closer to 80 . Right now, the sevenday average of covid19 cases in the u. S. Has gone up by about 11 just since last week, particularly in states where Vaccination Rates remain low. In fact, Cdc Director Rochelle Walensky says around 93 of covid cases in recent days have occurred in counties with Vaccination Rates of less than 40 . And in just about 30 minutes, the markets are set to open after a beating on thursday with the dow closing down more than 250 points on concerns about the global economic recovery from the pandemic. Ive got the best team with the latest details to help make sense of all this. Shaquille brewster in missouri, dr. Jha, and ron, cnbc Se
Meanwhile President Biden is facing pressure to take on the crime surge that is devastating the United States largest cities. This is the Faulkner Focus, im gillian turner in for Harris Today from washington. Things were joining us. Homicides are surging across the country. As you can see, the stats here. Republicans now and critics of the White House say the president is failing to connect the impact the far left, statelevel policies and riots have had over the past year. Yesterday the White House seemed to blame the Crime Spike on seasonal changes. Listen. Continues to work to address violent crime, we have seen it go up over the last 18 months around the country, including In The City of chicago. We see spikes in violent crime typically during the summer months, often unfortunately during holiday weekends. He saw that over the last weekend. Gillian meanwhile, the president is heading to the chicago area today. Hell be meeting with the chicago mayor, Lori Lightfoot. She says she is p