in for brian williams. day 198 of the biden administration as the nation searches for a way out of the delta variant fueled covid surge. the wall street journal has new reporting about booster shots. the journal reports the fda excepts to have a strategy for vaccine boosters by early next month. one that would detail when and which vaccinated individuals should get the follow-up shots. tonight, vaccine maker moderna preparing for boosters. the company says people who received two doses of its vaccine will likely need a third dose before winter. one of the most important things we need to do is actually bring the delta variant into the vaccine. and that way we re teaching the immune system what the delta variant looks like in our vaccine, just as we did with the prior variants. this is all taking place as the u.s. reported more than 100,000 new covid cases yesterday. numbers that have not been seen since february. hospital admissions are up 41% over the last week. covid
numbers not seen since february. hospital admissions are up 40% over the last week, deaths up 39% over the same period. these cases are concentrated in communities with low vaccination rates. over the past seven days, florida and texas have accounted for about one third of new cases. health officials in texas are among those sounding the alarm about the virus resurgence. they say this outbreak is different from what we have seen before. what you can see is the rise in cases is similar to what we have seen in previous waves, and may even be deeper. and that really shows how contagious the delta variant is. it s spreading much more rapidly among unvaccinated people than the viruses we saw last year. and the houston area, where the covid-19 threat level has been raised to code red, officials paint a stark portrait of the situation. we find ourselves retracing our steps, toward the edge of a cliff. it is very conceivable that we could once again be heading toward a publ
breaking news. the new york state attorney general expanding its investigation of the trump organization, saying it s actually investigating the company in a criminal capacity along with the manhattan district attorney s office. it s also continuing its own ongoing civil investigation. the house expected to vote tomorrow on the creation of an independent bipartisan commission to investigate the deadly january 6th capitol riot, but gop leader kevin mccarthy trying to derail the commission before it even gets off the ground, now saying he s opposed to it, siding with republicans who are trying to downplay the violence that day. it s important to point out that mccarthy originally blamed trump for helping to incite the insurrection. the president bears responsibility for the attack from mob rioters. he should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding. but then two weeks later, mccarthy completely changed his tune. and let s not forget that mccarthy ma
had conversations with the former attorney general already. that s right, the chairman confirming that the committee has spoken to former trump attorney general bill barr, loyalist who made an abrupt and ugly exit after the 2020 election. what might he know about the trump efforts to overturn the results, efforts that reached a fever pitch on january 6th? in a moment, i m going to talk to january 6th committee member congresswoman zoe lofgren about that, as well as where the committee is now and where they re headed in the investigation. plus, a new nbc poll shows major divisions in the country, but one thing that appears to unite almost everyone, fear that our very democracy is in danger. this time, the threat is from within, but democrats in congress say they re willing to continue to fight for it. i think there is widespread understanding of what we have done for the last six months has failed from the policy point of view, it has failed politically. we need to chang
i was thinking of people that did something heroic but you re right, whoever better or worse and the better is michael smesh con smerconish. you re on this weekend, right, saturday? tomorrow morning. all right. i ll let you get out of here because you need rest. thank you. have a great week. thanks for saying that. this is don lemon tonight and make no mistake, the warning lights are blinking and blinking red. january 6th was not the end. we were just talking about it. what dominated the news cycle more? january 6th? what was it? whatever it is both say our democracy is at risk and we re running out of time to do something about it. the committee issuing six in pa seepa subpoenas that tonight and made a direction connection between organizers of the january 6th rally and the former guy, the then president. you may not know their names but these are people that know what was really going on behind those closed doors at the white house leading up to january 6t