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all right, wild crowd tonight, they are all stoked. as someone once said it never let a crisis go to waste, i think it was brian kilmeade s makeup person. these days the covid crisis is used to create conflict and those pushing it are turning up the theatrics, not only because they are losing control of those they hate but because it gets them on tv and attention from the equally narcissistic media peers. what did innocent americans do to deserve this? for a few of you it s vaccine hesitancy, and the dumbest man on the planet thinks you re a criminal. the anti-vax-ers are criminal at this point, what they are doing to this country is undermining our future, they are taking with the future of this country. greg: imagine this irony. this is the mayor of new york city, where repeat criminals who brutalize elderly women and drugstores are quickly released back on the streets and he thinks people who don t get the vaccine are the criminals. this from a guy who ran for pr ....
progressives and moderates battling for the soul of the democratic party. and the pressure is mounting as millions brace for the possibility that they could get kicked out of their homes when a official eviction ban expires tomorrow. welcome to meet the press daily, i m chuck todd on a busy friday as the white house confronts a big messaging mess on its hand when it comes to the covid response and the cdc has just put out new data on breakthrough infections. and the data is quite alarming. all of this as an internal cdc document first reported by the washington post paints an alarming portrait of the delta variant. for both the unvaccinated and the vaccinated. this preliminary finding warns that breakthrough infections may be as transmissible as unvaccinated cases. it recommends universal masking which goes well beyond current guidelines. and it also points out that the delta variant is more contagious than ebola, the spanish flu, smallpox and the common cold. it ....
host the summer games. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. and our coverage continue begins with disturbing new numbers, a dramatic rise in covid cases here in the united states. it has now reached all 50 states. erica, every trend seems to be heading in the wrong direction. reporter: yeah, that s exactly right, wolf. we are seeing cases rise in all 50 states. that s something we haven t seen in months. deaths, hospitalizations also up as vaccinations continue to split. one county health official from missouri telling cnn earlier today that she actually doesn t think we have seen the worst of it. and that it is fears like that that is promising this change we re seeing in southern california. masks back off in los angeles county where new cases are surging. anything is on the table, you know, if things continue to get worse, which is why we want to take action now. repo ....
the author, michael wolff, he s standing by, he will join us. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, and you re in the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight with the latest on the surging coronavirus pandemic. cnn s erica hill is joining us from new york right now. erica, update our viewers. so we just learned from l.a. county where cases, by the way, are up 500% over the last month that all of the covid patients admitted now are unvaccinated. here in new york city, we learned today that from january to june, nearly all of the new cases, hospitalizations, and deaths were also among people in the city who were unvaccinated. all of those headlines, all of those numbers just underscoring the boost in efforts to try to get more shots in arms. the white house calling in pop star olivia rodrigo in an effort to boost vaccinations, especially among teens and young adults, as misinformation and politics threat ....
other graves over there or working simultaneously. the ambulances that carry the bodies keep coming one after the other. us health officials change course on wearing masks now vaccinated people are advised to wear them indoors, in places where infections are high. and you re never to old to cheerlead. we meet the seniors injapan who re getting ready for their 25th anniversary show. it s seven in the morning in singapore, and eight am in tokyo where it s day 5 of the olympic games. tuesday had some major surprises, but none bigger than the womens team gymnastics. the russian olympic committee won the gold beating the us who won gold back to back in london and rio. but the real shock came earlier in the final. simone biles, a four time olympic gold medallist, pulled out of the final after her first vault, later saying she did it due to her mental health. she said i was just shaking. i ve just never felt like this going into a competition before. at the end of the d ....