That makes up just over 40 of the population. Ten states have already reached the biden Administrations Goal of vaccinating 70 of adults with at least one dose by july 4th, thats according to the latest cdc data. Cnns Paul Vercammen joins me now from Santa Monica Beach in california. We want to begin, though, with cnns Natasha Chen in Miami Beach, florida. Natasha, people excited to be back outside, i would man. Jessica, people are so excited to party, i mean, the crowds last night on the streets out here with so intense, it created Traffic Gridlocks and we are seeing people just very excited. Some of them taking their first trip since the pandemic began. Even the mayor of Miami Beach is saying the volume of people coming here is unprecedented, which, of course, creates its own problem with regard to Crowd Control and hes reminding everyone the virus is still here. We talked to people who traveled from gulfport, mississippi, to celebrate a birthday with 50 other people who also travele
That is the idea of unity. If you could talk a bit about what you see as unity being. There are some people defining it as being bipartisan. Others are what some people define by some poll might believe, or perhaps its 50 plus one, or 50 plus two, or 75 . Given its such a key part of your message and your promise, can you talk more about what is unity as you define it . I think it makes up several of the points you made. One can unity requires you to eliminate the vitriol, make anything that you disagree about the other persons personality or lack of integrity, or theyre not decent legislators and the like. We have to get rid of that. I think thats already beginning to change, but god knows where things go. Number one. Unity is also trying to reflect what the majority of the american people, democrat, republican, independent, think is within the fulcrum of what needs to be done to make their lives and the lives of americans better. For example, if you look at the data and im not claimi
happens going forward. the stunning set back of the omicron variant sweeps across the nation. president biden saying he is sending americans a half billion testing kit. the new york times reporting the contract to buy the tests isn t even signed yet. good morning, everyone. i m julie banderas. benjamin is here. benjamin: i am benjamin hall and this is america s newsroom. if that weren t enough, the newspaper also reports that the website to order the testing won t be up and running until next month meaning the president dialing back his comments that the u.s. was near victory in the fight against covid. now admitting his efforts so far are falling short. president biden: nothing has been good enough. but look, here we are. last christmas we were in a situation where we had significantly fewer people vaccinated, emergency rooms were filled. you had serious back-ups in hospitals that were causing great difficulties. benjamin: rich edson is live at the white house with
the vice precedent missing on the southern border. dana: president biden asked harris to take the lead on immigration in march. she went to guatemala in june. according to the country s president it has been radio silence ever since. peter doocy asked jen psaki about it yesterday. is vice president harris still in charge of addressing the root causes of migration from el salvador, honduras and guatemala? she is. she is announcing a commitment this afternoon. why hasn t she spoken to the president of guatemala since june, six months? i did see this strange report from the president of guatemala saying that he has had no contact with the white house, which is inaccurate. he said vice president harris he has not spoken to her. if sthe is in charge, why is that? we have had a range of conversations, peter, as reflected in our read-out we put out last week. bill: that was yesterday. last week the new poll from abc news showing that nearly 2/3 of americans disappr
rules that are now taking effect? and an expansion of new york city s vaccine mandate. and the trump-fueled split in the republican party is worsening in georgia. an ousted u.s. senator and ally of the former president is now running against the top trump target. the state s gop governor. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s go straight to the white house and our chief national affairs correspondent jeff zeleny who is joining us right now. president biden is facing very significant new tests with both russia and china. and there are now new developments unfolding on both fronts. update our viewers. the white house is announcing a boycott of the 2022 winter olympic games in beijing. not for athletes but for u.s. diplomats. they are simply not sending a delegation to beijing next year, calling out human rights abuses. this is coming on the eve of a critical phone call between p