approval of vaccines to finalize a booster strategy and now according to the new york times and washington post, authorizing addition flaal shots in the com weeks for people with compromised immune systems. we have seen big companies doing their part with amazon, for instance, becoming the latest plan dating all warehouse workers mask up nationwide. that starts on monday. all across the country, city, county and state governments have been doing the same. today new jersey s governor ordered mask wearing for every one vaccinated or not in all schools, public and private notably from preschool through the 12th grade. not so in texas or florida where governors not only oppose these measures, they have issued orders barring cities and counties from imposing them. florida s governor framed it today as preserving parents freedom to choose what is best for their children. he did not mention the fact that florida leads the country in children hospitalized with severe infections from
women. his lawyers attacking an investigation by the state attorney general as flawed and biased just as one of governor cuomo s accusers files a criminal complaint against him. also tonight with the number of new covid-19 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. we re 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 cnn s 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
xfinity is here to inspire your biggest dreams we re so happy to say welcome to your new day here and to have your company. it is saturday, august 7th. i m christi paul. i m boris sanchez. thank you for spending part of your morning with us. christi, always a pleasure to be with you. you, too, boris. we want to talk about the health officials who say the u.s. is at a crucial moment. hospitals overrun with unvaccinated patients and the delta variant is spreading. the country has tools to get the virus under control. that s the most tragic aspect of all of this. it is preventible. yet for the first time since february the united states is averaging more than 100,000 new infections a day and deaths are also on the rise. the virus spreading quickly through unvaccinated communities and as we look at this map, you can see all the red in the southeast where vaccination rates lag behind the rest of the country. in states with the highest infection rates, the numbers are
adrian b adrian broadus is there. when you seeing any efforts to head it off? i can t believe we re still talking about superspreader events in august of 20 1. reporter: we are still talking about it. for example, if you need one of these masks, the city here has plenty of free masks to provide to its participants. there are hand sanitizing stations along the stretch of main street and the city is also offering free covid tests. they have thousands of those tests and partnered with the state health department. if you feel you need a test they will drop it off to you and you can get those results within minutes. it s a rapid test. meanwhile, this is the largest motorcycle rally in the world and this year an estimated 700,000 people are expected to attend including the state s governor who backs this rally. she is going to participate in a charity ride on monday. but people have come to sturgis from all parts of the country. we spoke with some of those riders. here s what the
massive wildfire rages out of control in california. i m pamela brown in washington and you are live in the cnn newsroom. great to have you along with us. new york governor andrew cuomo is in crisis. and now at risk of criminal prosecution in his sexual harassment scandal even though he says he did nothing wrong. just minutes from now a view from within the storm. governor cuomo s personal attorney rita glavin will join me for a one on one interview. governor cuomo and his legal team are adamantly pushing back against a state attorney general s report that found the governor sexually harassed 11 women, one of whom filed a criminal complaint with the albany county sheriff s office, claiming the governor reached under her shirt and groped her. this afternoon that sheriff spoke out. and before we bring in governor cuomo s personal lawyer rita glavin, let s set the stage first. cnn s polo sandoval is in albany, new york. what did the sheriff have to say, polo? reporter: i