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the goal is to avoid stopping operations on the ground and avoid delays. pete muntean, cnn, silver spring, maryland. hello i m brianna keilar alongside john avlon on this new day. good morning. good morning. the pandemic of the unvaccinated. an urgent call from one republican governor in the face of rising cases and low vaccination rates. and the nfl threatening big punishments for teams with unvaccinated players as they head into the new season. president biden says eliminating the filibuster would throw the senate into chaos. and hunter biden meeting with potential buyers at his upcoming art shows, raising ethics concerns for the white house. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is friday, here we are, at the end of the week. here we are. finally. it is july 23rd. and we are 18 months now into the pandemic. more than 600,000 americans have died so far, even with a safe and effective vaccine available. and we find ....
relief money on antiracist education programs. their guide for reopening links to a radical group called the abolitionist teaching network. bill: that group encourages teachers to, quote, disrupt whiteness and other forms of oppression, and then, end a spirit murdering a black and brown children. aishah hasnie has the story today. good morning, bill, julie. we ve been following this group for quite some time. to put simply, they are activists. they want to send white teachers to antiracist therapy and abolish anything they deem oppressive. that could be anything from suspensions to even school uniforms. watch. after a turbulent year of protests and covid lockdowns, america s children are heading back to school, and there could be new lessons to learn. president joe biden s american rescue plan authorized $122 billion to the department of education for state education agencies. 90% of that money will go to local school districts, which in turn must reserve at lea ....
plus simone biles pulling out of another event. is she going to compete in the remaining final? the faa kicking off a big hirer push why you would have a better chance of getting hired if you play video games a lot of people have been practiing for a lifetime for that role. good morning, everybody. it is sunday, august 1st. i m kendis gibson. we have a lot of news to get to, including some shakeups in tokyo. but we definitely want to begin withel the delta variant that i driving a riseha in infections across the country. the u.s. averaging more than 70,000 reinfections a day. in florida 21,000 new cases friday and more than 409 deaths last week. and more signs this morning that thisis is a pandemic of th unvaccinated, especially in texas.in msnbc gary is live for us in austin, texas, where hospitals are now running out of icu beds. what a troubling sign that is, gary. it really is, kendis. 80,000 positive cases across the country yesterday of er coronavirus. 9 ....
the situation room. we begin this hour with america s covid-19 emergency. cnn national correspondent erika hill is following all the new developments. the aggressive delta variant is now more dominant than ever and rapidly infecting people who are unvaccinated. what can you tell us? reporter: that s absolutely right. the numbers here don t lie, jim. in fact, some 22%, nearly 73 million people in this country, 22% of the population, live in a county that s considered to have high transmission. what we know is the lower the vaccination rate in many areas, the more we are going to see some of these surges fueled by the delta variant. that is prompting new cause for concern, new calls for new americans to get vaccinated and also more concern that maybe some americans may never get the shot. dreams of a covid free summer turning to a nightmare. the delta variant now represents 83% of sequenced cases. this is a dramatic increase up from 50% the week of july 3rd. in some ....
hours, much higher numbers we have seen, but please keep in high the high numbers are due, in large part, at least, to florida s weekly reporting, which is put out on fridays. important context. things in florida particularly bad right now, as the rate of new covid cases continues to increase. it s an evolving situation. the biden administration has been clear. while they were certainly taken action, they won t return to more lockdowns, but they are taking steps. the cdc recommending, even vaccinated american should be wearing masks indoor. this renewed concern was sparked by an alarming new report from the cents that unity scores how it leaves them so vulnerable, but it shows that vaccines have been literal lifesavers. vaccines reduce the risks tenfold or more, meaning effectiveness reaches at least 90%. the report also shows that vaccinated people can still spread the virus, though to be clear, the unvaccinated are driving most of that spread. it is spreading, rapidly ....