day. tropical storm henri is tracking to make landfall in the northeast. what the federal government is doing right now. plus, imminent approval. a source telling cnn the pfizer vaccine could get full approval as soon as next week. what that could mean for efforts to get more americans vaccinated as hospitalizations among kids reach their highest levels yet. and desperate to leave. look at these pictures here. thousands of afghans camped out at the airport in kabul. what we re learning this morning about those evacuation flights and the efforts to get americans back home. good morning and welcome to your new day. we re grateful to have you this saturday, august 21st. good morning, christi. good morning, boris. good to see you. this morning there are more than 5 million americans in the northeast that are getting ready for what could be the first hurricane to hit new england in 30 years. it s a tropical storm right now. warnings for that have been issued for new york
fronts in the war against covid. starting with booster shots, which will be offered to all americans beginning the third week of september. the reason most people in america don t worry about polio, smallpox, measles, mumps or rubella today is because of vaccines. the threat of the delta virus remains real. but we are prepared, we have the tools, we can do this. if you aren t going to fight covid-19, at least get out of the way of everyone else who s trying. the biden administration will also require that nursing home staff be vaccinated in order to continue receiving medicare and medicaid funding. these developments come as america s hospitals are back in crisis mode, overwhelming health care workers who are facing burnout. states like alabama are out of icu beds. they re done. a hospital association president called it uncharted territory with some patients being treated on gurneys in hallways. but what is perhaps most troubling is the spike in covid cases among childre
said, much bigger than the 7.0 earthquake of 2010. the problem right now is they don t have equipment nearby, rescue equipment that is sorely needed, and the prime minister has called a state of emergency, but i m not quite sure how quickly they can get the resources out to people to help save some lives. right now they are releasing they are confirming 29 dead, but i m afraid that that toll is going to rise rather dramatically in the next few days. gary, something you know so well. 2010, and you just mentioned the number of casualties, that the numbers will probably grow. you remember how the big problem was rescue and hospital resources being mobilized? that was a big cause of 300,000 people being lost in 2010. how are those specific resources today in 2021? reporter: well, not much. a lot of the rescue is done by international community, the u.s., canada and other countries sending help. since then, unfortunately, haiti has not really shored its emergency preparednes
so spooky. 2021 the nightmare has been replaced by another horrifying reality, the modern republican party. for many hardcore trump followers and the orange emporor with no clothes himself. this day of friday the 13th is the day of his return to power. the military, which is secretly in power will hand over the white house to the bloated according to one report trump is telling people he would be reinstated as president. that explains why the hashtag trump is a laughing stock trended. it was cooked up and pushed by right wing heretics. the morning of august 13th, it will be the talk of the world. hurry up. let s get the election pulled down and right the right. august 13th, donald trump will be reinstated as president. elias is going to overturn nearly 30% of the republican party actually believes the nonsense. well, it is past 7:00 p.m. and joe biden is still the president. he is not a holgram. because there is no constitutional mechanism or legal tool to reinstate
of the vaccination fight in the current covid epicenter to a massive gathering of hundreds of thousands of bikers in a high-risk area, we re looking at how the nation is again fighting to balance the pandemic and the hope of returning to normal. adrian broadis is at the sturgis motorcycle rally in south dakota for us. a rally that last year led to a massive outbreak. but we begin with natasha chen in orlando. natasha, are people there in florida taking the reality of this seriously with florida now the worst in the nation when it comes to this pandemic that just won t quit? reporter: well, jim, i think people are definitely sensing urgency here and that s because at the mobile vaccination clinic that we were at today at a shopping mall where there was a tax-free weekend for back-to-school, there were double and triple the numbers that health staff had seen compared to earlier this summer. more than 20 people here at the mexican consulate were vaccinated today. over at the m