to protect those already vaccinated, keeping schools open, increasing covid testing and mask requirements, economic recovery and improving care for covid patients. our senior white house correspondent phil mattingly starts us off this morning. reporter: as president biden heads into what his top advisers are calling a major speech on the pandemic, he is really doing it with dual purposes. one on the policy front, no question amidst the delta surge more than 1,000 deaths per day, more than 150,000 cases on average per day, there needs to be policy changes or in this case of the white house policy advancements. officials say the president will focus on vaccine mandates both for the public and private sector, also particularly on kids going back to school. millions of kids going back to the classroom, the president with a focus on safety and testing. all of this underscores recognition inside the white house of the very real problem the delta variant has opposed, pot just poli
biden s awful august. approval sinks. large majority call afghan war a failure. 43% of american as prove of the job he s doing. the lowest in that poll since biden took office. as the president looks to push past afghanistan, the media is ignoring a big development. the major networks largely avoiding biden s phone call with then afghan president ghani where president biden reported the afghan lead tore say the taliban wasn t winning. all right, guys. it s friday. we have dark topics to discuss. joey, what do you make of this? the president calling this an extraordinary success. it s about blaming biden for the crisis. we can talk about. it s about being a leader. strong leaders make bad decisions. every leader makes a bad decision but they lead through it. when as a leader president biden cowers. he says the buck stops with me. you well your way into a victory speech. you ve just don t show the american people that you understand the gravity that is felt in this house that
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12,000 cases a day to 90,000 cases a day in less than a month. new mask mandates announced in the last 24 hours go into effect in the san francisco bay area starting today, and state of louisiana tomorrow. good news in all of this, it is not just case rates that are going up, vaccinations are going up too. on monday, the nation as a hole hit president biden s goal of having 70% of eligible adults at least partially vaccinated. but the majority of states are still below the mark. a dozen haven t even hit 60% mark. and the country hit biden s milestone a month later than he originally hoped. we got word the president will be speaking later today about vaccines amid a new surge of infections. i want to dig deeper, head to serious hot spots. morgan chesky in baton rouge, kerry sanders, in florida. dr. patel who served as policy director in the obama white house, and the mayor of miami beach, dan gelber. news week ran an article that said louisiana hospitals are so overrun, doctor
breaking news. cnn confirming an internal cdc document that warns, quote, the war has changed. the document saying the delta variant may cause more severe illness and spreads as easily as chickenpox. and it warns trust in the vaccine could be undermined by breakthrough cases. it s coming out just hours after president joe biden announced all federal employees need to be vaccinated or submit to regular covid testing. plus republicans on defense, trying to explain where they were, who they spoke to, and why they were wearing body armor on january 6th as a select committee prepares to subpoena key witnesses. i want to get to our breaking news now. the chair of uc san francisco s department of medicine, dr. bob wachter is here, and he has seen the cdc document. doctor, i appreciate you joining us. you got a very early look at this internal cdc presentation warning delta infections are likely more severe. you walked away from it significantly more concerned. tell me