exceptions for rape or incest. we will bring you the attorney general s comments as soon as he starts. we re also watching the white house, where this afternoon president biden will unveil his new six-part strategy to try to curb covid. the plan includes his executive order that requires all federal workers and contractors to be vaccinated with no opt out for regular testing. today his chief medical advisor dr. fauci said the pandemic is under not even modestly good control. the u.s. is averaging 150,000 new cases every single day with the delta variant preying on the unvaccinated. we have an average of 1500 americans a day dying from the virus. compare that to the fourth of july. the case average was about 12,000, deaths were at 200 a day. right now nearly 100,000 americans are in hospitals with covid. also, at the same time the president is set to speak, los angeles unified school district will hold its meeting where it s expected to approve a vaccine mandate for studen
abortion law in texas. how the biden administration says they are going to try to stop it, but do they have a case? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we begin in our health lead. in the next hour president biden will lay out his six-point plan to try to get the coronavirus pandemic under control. the this is nine weeks after biden declared independence from the virus. that was, of course, a premature declaration with deaths back up to roughly 1,500 a day in the united states and hospitalizations also rising and above 100,000. sources telling cnn that biden s plan will include an executive order requiring all federal workers to be vaccinated and the department of labor will require all private businesses with 100 or more employees to ensure all their workers are either vaccinated or tested for the virus at least once a week. the big question, of course, is how will the biden administration enforce this, and will these policies have any effect on the tens of millions of a
to freedom is fast closing. jake, one of the striking things about all of this is the fact that the americans are having to use what they re calling alternative routes. these remain secret military secrets, but we have seen a large amount of helicopter activity, and without giving the game away, you can imagine what the other kind of routes are being used and the sorts of people that are going out and picking people up, trying to get around this log jam outside the airport. jake? sam, we know afghans who applied for the special immigrant visas, the sivs, to the u.s. were told to stay away from kabul s airport because the u.s. is prioritizing evacuations for american citizens and legal permanent residents. do we know how long that might be the policy for sivs to stay away? no, we don t know, jake. what we do know is that the process inside the airport is now much better than several days ago. there are very, very frequent takeoffs. that means they can be processed more qui
go to delaware this afternoon. we re going to take you to the white house for a live report in just a moment. meanwhile, the breaking news from overseas as scenes of chaos and desperation are playing out in kabul. the u.s. embassy put out a new security alert, officials say a new threat has emerged outside the gates to the airport. so they re advising americans to stay away for now. large crowds inside and outside today, american citizens, residents, visa holders and afghans who are just anxious to leave, all as the taliban consolidates its control over the city. here s part of a report from nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engel. reporter: taliban fighters marching through the streets, dressed in all white, the color of the taliban s flag and a simple they re ready for martyrdom. outside the last remaining u.s. base at kabul airport, chaos continues. this is what crowds have to face to get inside. [ gunfire ] reporter: shooting, violence, taliban whips. american t
covid-19. look at map on your screen. that s every area you see in orange and in red. the cdc is requested to recommend that students and teachers wear mask in schools k through 12 schools raegardless f vaccination status. let s bring in dr. sanjay gupta and white house correspondent kaitlan collins. is it your understanding that this is not universal masking. you have to know what the transmission rate is in your own community and this is for indoor mask wearing? that s the understanding that i have is we re talk about indoor masking for vaccinated people. that s the big change. unvaccinated people, the recommendation was they wear masks indoors. this would be for vaccinated people. in areas where there s high or substantial viral transmission. i think you put up the map, we can show it again. it s about two third offense the country that sort of fall into this higher substantial spraead sort of area here. we know there was some pressure on this administration to make