we have done everything in our power, actually there is an we will do more but we continue to try to make the case to the american people who haven t taken the vaccine that it s in your interesting can save your life can fundamentally impact the lives of your children and the people that youif love. laura: the language is frightening on its face and frightening on its face and what it could entail. and to barry and negative and 18 paragraph are more severe measures such as mandating vaccines for interstate travel the administration it would be too polarizing for the moment. as not to say they will be implanted in o the future as public opinion continues to shift as a means to restore normalcy that concern is to polarizing how about illegal constitutional right now the strategic arms director and jason david s author of never let a crisis go to waste. good to see both of you. what about the no id to vote issue or out of 2022. isn t that ironic? individuals don t have acce
overdrive on the road to a massive infrastructure bill. olympic glory. the latest on team u.s.a., and allyson felix s golden finish. and later, wonderful wally. a home town honors a trailblazer as she shares her story of soaring into space. i m looking out the window, and i say, wow! there goes the ground! this is the cbs weekend news. from chicago, here s adriana diaz. diaz: good evening. we begin tonight with the significant setback in america s covid recovery. new daily infections have reached their highest levels in six months, returning to numbers we haven t seen since the past winter surge. take a look. new daily cases bottomed out in june at 11,000. now they number more than 100,000. several southern states are facing their largest outbreaks of the pandemic. the worst is in florida, which had more than 134,000 cases last week. the delta variant is fueling infections, especially among the unvaccinated nationwide. and now there s concern that one of the world s b
point. we re tdown over 200 nurses that we can t fill. we ve had people literally walk off the job because they couldn t take it anymore. have you had days where you didn t want to come to work? yes, yes, i ve had moments where i sit in my car and cry. a special session of the arkansas general assembly resumes this morning to consider masking mandates. earlier this year republican governor asa hutchison approved a statewide ban on mask mandates, a move he regrets. cases were at a low point. everything has changed now. yes, in hindsight i wish that had not become law. after one week back at school, a covid outbreak in the marian school district in arkansas has put more than 500 students and staff in quarantine. louisiana is also facing a severe shortage of icu beds. louisiana state university will require all students to either get vaccinated or get tested monthly. doctors are now strongly encouraging adults to get vaccinated to protect children. it is hard for u
man blasting off successfully and safely to the edge of space aboard the new shepard, a suborbital rocket built by his space company blue origin. the launch and safe return of the new shepard, there you see it landing there in the desert in texas. new shepard name for alan shepard, the first american in space. a pivotal moment for the space industry, potentially. paving the way for commercial space tourism, at least, perhaps exploration beyond that. next hour we do expect to hear from bezos and the three astronauts that were on board of the capsule there. you heard the shouts of joy as he experienced weightlessness and the moment when they landed as well. you see there. that included mark bezos, jeff bezos s brother and 82-year-old wally funk, the oldest person to leave funk and a lucky 18-year-old oliver damon. two records broken there. kristin fisher is at launch site one in van horn, texas. and kristen, we are going to hear from jeff bezos and the crew soon. excite
troubled sequel? japan s 1964 summer games have been called the greatest ever, how the newest glory may dintdy for liftoff, amazon jeff bezos and company get set to soar to space with no pilots. s this is the cbs weekend news from new york, here is jericka duncan. duncan: good evening, to our viewers in the west we begin with covid surge that health experts say was avoidable. with new cases fueled by the unvaccinated. a new cbs news poll finds most americans think the fight against the pandemic is going some what well. and president biden is getting positive marks for his handling of the virus. for the latest we begin with lilia luciano in los angeles where some mask mandates have returned. good evening. reporter: good evening, to you, jericka. los angeles is the first county to require masks again. the mandate is for indoors and it is indefinite. masks are back in los angeles today, one month after claiming the state s covidtions recovery was on track. but now a spee