Trump s direct attempt yet to reverse the 2020 election. The alleged proof handwritten notes from inside the department of justice. We saw someone who had such a disdain for the rule of law, such contempt for democracy, that he was willing to destroy it. And crushing setback due to the delta variant, just released cdc study shows vaccinated people can spread the virus to others just as readily as those who are unvaccinated. How the white house is planning to stop the delta surge. Millions of americans facing eviction this weekend as lastminute efforts to extend moratorium failed to pass in congress. The battle brews across the country between governors and teachers who disagree on face coverings in schools. Now some parents are calling for maskless students to be taught separately from those who are masked up. As wood morning, everybody, it is saturday, july 31st. End of the month. I m kendis gibson. I m lindsey reiser. We have a live shot from tokyo we can show you as well. We have a
That is what prompted the sudden reversal from the cdc about the masks, and the agency is now considering requiring vaccines for doctors and other health workers since a startling number of them refuse to still get the shot. And there is an unsettling question as all of this comes to light. Why did we first learn about it from the once secret document and not from the health officials themselves? however, and this cannot be said enough, the vaccines are still working. 97, 98, 99, and in some places 100% of covid patients being hospitalized or who are dying are the unvaccinated. Look at the covid hot spots closely correlating with the places that have the lowest vaccination rates. It is not complicated, if you are unvaccinated, your danger is much greater. And top health officials are warning that if we don t crush this now, and get as many people vaccinated as we can right now, we could be several mutations away from total disaster. A virus strain so powerful that it is too strong for
You ll remember that republicans squashed the chance for that bipartisan independent commission. Melanie broke the details on mccarthy s decision about the select committee and joins us now from capitol hill. Melanie, what led him to decide to participate and who will he name? reporter: initially there was a debate about whether to boycott this as a way to cast the entire investigation as partisan. Once speaker nancy pelosi appointed a republican, liz cheney, to her side of the committee, which essentially assures that democrats will have bipartisan buyin for their work it became clear that was no longer a viable option. So instead kevin mccarthy is in fact planning on naming republicans to the select committee, but he wants them there so they can push back on democrats, shape the counternarrative, run defense for donald trump and essentially throw sand in the gears of the investigation as much as possible. As far as names, you can definitely expect to see some trump allies in those wh
Reporter: i talked to state fire marshal about this. He put it like this, he says the entire pile of rubble is divided into a grid so the piece of the building that you see behind me because this is a partial collapse, that s considered the alpha section. That was evacuated on thursday. 35 people were removed from that building. Then there s other sections of this grid and it includes bravo, charlie, delta. What these rescuers are doing, they are tunnelling. Some of them are under that rubble suring up areas and r risking their lives to go under there looking for voids and signs of life. There are other rescuers on top of that mound and they are delayering. They are peeling pieces, debris, con concrete, some of it is pulverized. Some of it is very large pieces of concrete that is very dangerous. You are talking about the weather moments ago. That s one of the biggest issues baisz because rain makes the services very, very slippery. If you look at the actual alpha portion of the buildin
That makes up just over 40% of the population. Ten states have already reached the biden administration s goal of vaccinating 70% of adults with at least one dose by july 4th, that s according to the latest cdc data. Cnn s paul vercammen joins me now from santa monica beach in california. We want to begin, though, with cnn s natasha chen in miami beach, florida. Natasha, people excited to be back outside, i would man. Jessica, people are so excited to party, i mean, the crowds last night on the streets out here with so intense, it created traffic gridlocks and we are seeing people just very excited. Some of them taking their first trip since the pandemic began. Even the mayor of miami beach is saying the volume of people coming here is unprecedented, which, of course, creates its own problem with regard to crowd control and he s reminding everyone the virus is still here. We talked to people who traveled from gulfport, mississippi, to celebrate a birthday with 50 other people who also