Now. And day four of that annual Motorcycle Rally is under way. There is roughly 700,000 people, and wes want to bring in dr. Natalie azar. Good to have you. Morgan, let me start with you in texas. At last check a few hours ago you mentioned that just half a Dozen Icu beds were left in austin. What are officials there saying about how dire things have gotten in austin texas and beyond . Theyre saying things are reaching a crisis level. We have seen hospitals revert back to staffing levels, to operation modes, when texas was seening a real summer surge. Social media, phone calls, any way they can to say please stay indoors, dont so go to mask gatherings, and please mask up. For another big part of the surge is the fact they are unable to issue a mask mandate. It has been prohibited with an executive order. Six icu beds in the Greater Austin area. We have about Eight Million people there. At last check theyre about 75 icu beds available there. So no matter where you look youre running in
Were live outside athens, greece, where flames are swallowing forests and villages whole and many are forced to flee for their lives. A disturbing milestone in Americas War with the coronavirus shows that the Delta Variant is winning the race right now. The u. S. Averaging more than A Hundred Thousand cases each day for the first time since back in february before vaccines were widely available. The worst of it is in florida where hospitalization records are being shattered both in adults and children. Florida also seeing its highest number of Weekly Covid cases ever. Still is states republican Governor Ron Desanta is rejecting Mask Mandates for schools. I have young kids. My wife and i are not going to do the mask with the kids. We never have. I want to see my kids smiling. I want them having fun. And in what might be the ultimate example of the glass being half full or half empty, the nations covid Vaccination Rate now stands at just over 50 , far short of the level experts say is ne
Im Kim brunhuber. This is cnn newsroom. The final competitions of the 2020 Summer Olympics are wrapping up with the United States winning the most Gold Medals and the most medals overall. Only a few hours remain before the Closing Ceremony brings the games to an end. The u. S. Has clinched the win in the Gold Medal Count and overall Medal Counts. Lets get the latest on all this with Andy Scholes of cnn sports. The u. S. Was behind the Gold Medals for almost the whole games here. How did they pull out the win in the snend. It was a complete team effort. Track and field grabbed seven golds. On sunday, u. S. Womens basketball captured their seventh straight Gold Medal. And then the u. S. Womens Volleyball Team making some history, winning their firstever Gold Medal. And there were tons of tears on the court after they scored that final point to beat brazil in straight sets. Womens olympic volleyball, it started back in 1964. The u. S. Had medaled five times before making it to the Gold Me
Department in the closing days of the previous administration. He said that he had this information from his own secret sources that said the chinese intelligence had a special thermometer that could use to alter vote totals. The answer, of course, is they dont. But he asked his superiors in the justice department, Joeff Rosen and richard donoghue, to get a special classified briefing from the director of national intelligence to check this out. He went over for the briefing at the turn of the year, and was told that the intelligence showed there was no evidence that there was foreign interference that altered the vote total. Something weve known. And he came away not convinced. He kept pushing this idea, and we know he helped try to orchestrate a coup in the justice department, try to get trump to fire rosen. We know trump didnt do that, but it shows you how close things came in those crucial days. Its it just everything, it grows more absurd by the day. Cnn is learning that the Janua
Women. His lawyers attacking an investigation by the State Attorney General as flawed and biased just as one of governor cuomos accusers files a criminal complaint against him. Also tonight with the number of new covid19 cases surging to nearly 100,000 per day, hundreds of thousands of bikers gathering for the giant Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota, which experts fear will be a Superspreader Event. Were going to hear from some of the bikers just ahead. And new Focus Tonight on a Trump Ally at the doj pushing the Big Lie and trying to overturn the election by claiming, without evidence, hacking by chinese intelligence. I want to bring in now cnns senior Justice Correspondent evan perez. Evan, good evening to you. So we are hearing more each day about what Trump Ally Jeffrey Clark was doing within the doj to overturn the election. This latest development may be the most wild of all of them. It involves listen to this a bogus claim about Special Thermometers from china. Take it aw