foothold in the united states and the resistance to the vaccine is largely to blame. it is now eight months after the first proven vaccine was made available and less than half of the u.s. population is fully vaccinated against covid-19, and that is not due to a shortage of supply in vaccine. that s for sure. president biden is taking action. cnn has learned tomorrow he will announce all federal employees and contractors must be vaccinated or get tested regularly. our team is following all the developments this morning, so let s begin with our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. elizabeth, good morning to you. for everyone waking up this morning, tell us what exactly this means for them. what this means is that if you live in an area of higher substantial transmission and, you know, more than like 45% of the country does 60 something% of the country does, you can see it s all in red and orange. that is a big chunk of the country, a majority of the country lives
okay. wally, last but not least. amelia earhart, and aviation icon and now a space icon. what was it like? i can t tell you. i had such a good instructor. he took us through everything that we were going to do, so when i went up this morning, the noise wasn t quite as bad, and we went right on up, and i saw darkness. i thought i was going to see the world, but we weren t quite high enough, and i felt great. i felt like i was just laying down. i was just laying down, and i was going into space. and i want to thank you, sweet heart, because you made it possible for me. i ve been waiting a long time to finally get it up there, and i ve done a lot of astronaut training through the world, russia, america, and i could always beat the guys on what they were doing because i was always stronger and i ve always done everything on my own, and i didn t do dolls. i did outside stuff. and i flew airplanes and i loved it. i love being here with all of you. your family. the four of us. w
welcome to tuesday. it s meet the press daily. i m garrett haake in for chuck today. elsa is has maximum sustained winds of 60 miles per hour. a patrol call storm warning is in effect with some areas under a hurricane watch. the storm could complicate ongoing search and rescue efforts at the collapsed condo in surfside where crews continue to work around the clock. we ll go live to the scene ahead. elsa broke the record for the earliest e-named storm ever for the atlantic hurricane season. about six weeks earlier than average. earlier and more sbebs storms, extreme heat in the pacific northwest and worsening drought conditions are a few of the many recent headlines further raising the a large on the growing climate crisis and many activists and progressive democrats are looking to congress for what they see as the perhaps the last best opportunity to meet this crisis head on. but much of what progressives want has been stripped out of the bipartisan infrastructure deal stru
i m christi paul. and i m boris sanchez. thank you so much for waking up with us, christi, a pleasure to be with you. good to have you, boris, let s talk about what s happening. americans are on the move, not just pandemic-era style of travel. the amount of people traveling by air or highway for the fourth of july is going to rival precovid. health officials have a warning if you re not vaccinated it s too early to declare freedom. they re particularly worried about the coronavirus variant named delta and the impact on parts of the country that are lagging in vaccinations. we have other parts of the country where the vaccination is below 30%. it s the latter group that i worry about, if you re vaccinated you re actually at low risk of getting sick. but if you re not vaccinated, if you re traveling and seeing others from various households, gathering indoors and not masked, then there s a risk that the virus will continue to spread. there no doubt the united states
that speaks directly to the moment that the country finds itself in now. she quotes her father the traj dai is we have a congress with a senate that has misguided senators who will use the fill bust tore keep the majority of people from even voting. you can see that she tagged kennedy republican mitch mcconnel and so-called centrist kifrt insinema. in order to pass much-needed federal voting protections and sinema dashed the hopes of achieving that any time soon with a speech signaling that she would not be changing her stance on filibuster reform and due to this ongoing tight to persuade just two democratic senators to join the rest of their party in trying to save voting rights, majority leader chuck schumer has pushed a planned debate on the legislation from monday to tuesday. at a press conference this week senator schumer said, quote, failure is not an option, and he s right. failure to pass federal voting protections is simply n an option when the opposing forces remain