there is chaos down there especially in the dell rio sector. jillian: the texas governor accuses the president of turning a blind eye to the humanitarian crisis unfolding at the border at the end of homeland security is talking tough, governor abbott says troopers are the only one securing the area. todd: the president arrives at the united nations arguing america is back bar america s allies and adversaries buying it as the administration grapples with multiple crises? jillian: good morning. todd: an autopsy set to happen on the body federal agents believe is gary petito. jillian: her missing boyfriend s family no longer having their attorney address the media. carley shimkus is outside the home where agents executed a search warrant. it was a busy day at the house yesterday. carley: to say the least. i m standing outside the laundrie family home which looked very different yesterday. it is extremely quiet outside the media presence but dozens of fbi agents swarmed the laund
at war for the first time in 20 years. he also promised to work with congress to double u.s. climate funding to $100 billion calling climate change a challenge without borders. the president also said we have given more than $15 billion toward the global pandemic response and have shipped 160 million vaccine doses world wide. and with just about every challenge he mentioned, he note add group effort will be required to solve it. to fight the wars of the past, we are fixing our eyes on devoting our resources to the challenges that hold the keys to our collective future. ending this pandemic, addressing the climate crisis, managing the shifts in global power dynamics, shaping the roles of the world on vital issues like trade, cyber and emergent technologies, and facing the threat of terrorism as it stands today. all this coming against the backdrop of this pandemic, of course. big vaccine news in the last three hours. johnson & johnson says its booster shot is 94% effective
actions. what happened prior to what we re seeing right now. do we know if family members are there to receive the bodies of their loved ones or if they are there to meet with the president, do we know if any are there on base? just out of view are members of families watching. after that they will be released to the family. he understands what it means to have a family abroad. he understands loss and he s burr ripped two children. he understands what that means. he spent two and a half hours this morning with his wife meeting with families and having these conservations. we heard stories of what he understands loss to be. it meeps things to him like looking at the kitchen table and seeing the empty seat at the table. that s the piece these 13 families will be experiencing for birthday, holidays, for special events. it s that empty seat at their table. he has a line that he says that i want to read for you here. he says a time will come when the memory of someone will bring
about half a million of those people for the first time. we are also learning an explosive delta variant outbreak in provincetown, massachusetts, pushed the cdc to change mask recommendations for people who have been vaccinated. new data showed three-quarters of those infected in that outbreak were fully vaccinated, but, thankfully, full required hospitalization. the data also suggested vaccinated people could spread the virus. the data that we saw in massachusetts were corroborated in numerous other places, and that s when we knew we had to take action. meanwhile, more businesses are announcing mandates. broadway s theater owners and operators say audiences must be vaccinated and wear masks to attend performances when they resume in the fall. vaccines will be mandatory for walmart employees at its headquarters and disney says all salaried and nonunion employees will be required to receive a covid-19 vaccine. meanwhile, florida s governor is pushing back on mandates f
it is only a matter of time before you catch the highly contagious strain. first to steve harrigan in atlanta, the home of the cdc. steve? trace, the cdc as expected today releasing data backing up their policy. the two main policy changes they re making is that they suggest that fully vaccinated people wear masks under some circumstances in areas where there s a heavy rate of covid and making the point that fully vaccinated people can transmit the virus, especially this delta variant. this comes a day after washington post obtained internal cdc documents, bomb shells in there, saying the battle against the delta variant was a different war that required extreme measures. and the delta variant was more contagious than chicken pox or the common cold. the challenge right now is to balance urgency without creating panic. some health officials have criticized the cdc director for her messaging. it s an issue of messaging. she s trying to be cautious and not sound many bells