Works be a solution to guarding against Influence Peddling . Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. And we start with the Health Lead Today and a statistic that Health Professionals cannot stress enough at this stage of the pandemic. Take a listen. The data thats hitting you right between the eyes is that 99. 5 of all the deaths to covid19 are in unvaccinated people. Again, almost all of the covid deaths in the u. S. Are among those not vaccinated. This as covid cases are starting to explode in the united states. Right now in the u. S. On average daily cases are up 47 in just one week. Notably in the regions with low Vaccination Rates. And Health Experts say it is the aggressive Delta Variant driving that spike. So what to do about it . Well, Health Experts insist stepping up vaccinations will surely help. Whats not helping . Those in politics and the media still trying to score points off a pandemic as Cnns Athena jones reports. Reporter Americas Progress Fighting Covid19 Isnt just stal
Quickly here in the u. S. In regions where there are high numbers of unvaccinated americans. Cases on the rise. In the u. S. Now, up 51 in a month. More than 17,000 new cases a day. Also tonight, were monitoring the potential for storms as we come on the Air Tonight across the northeast. Philadelphia, New York all in the path. And in the west at this hour, the record Heat Wave. The third Heat Wave already this summer. The fires in california and oregon exploding. Swirling flames forcing firefighters to run to their trucks for shelter. Ginger zee standing by on all of this. The battle in this country over voting rights. Tonight in texas, one of the states trying to enact strict new voting laws, democratic lawmakers are now leaving the state to avoid the vote, all in their effort, they say, to protect Voting Access in texas. Rachel Scott Tonight on what this could mean for the larger debate across this country. The rare and historic images from cuba tonight. Protesters in the streets fro
Love in the air. We begin, though, right now. With the lengths that texas democratic state lawmakers have just gone to try to block republicans there from passi restrictive new voting law. They have left the state entirely, and are just minutes away from touching down at washingtons dulles airport. Were expecting to hear from them, shortly, and talk to one of the topdemocratic lawmakers as well. Cnns Dianne Gallagher is there for us now. What is the latest on this flight to d. C. And what texas lawmakers hope to accomplish . Well, anderson, the first of those two private planes thats carrying the democrats who are breaking quorum, by leaving the state, just landed abouttwo minutes ago. And the second one should be landing, before i finish talking to you tonight. They are on those flights because they feel the only way that they can prevent legislation that they think will restrict Voting Rights and be harmful to their citizens is to break quorum. Because they told me that they simply d
Minneapolis Police Officers involved in the death of george floyd. The charges all four of them are facing. The sign of the times, Major League Baseball its back, for one team at full capacity. It is saturday, may 8th, we are so grateful to have you waking up with us, hey boris. Hey, christi. Grateful to be with you, christi. Grateful our audience is joining us this morning. And the more i keep reading about this story, christi, the more surreal it seems. Its happening right now, 100foot long, more than 20ton used Chinese Rocket is barreling toward earth at 18,000 miles an hour. But nobody knows exactly where this thing is going to land. A Defense Department spokesman suggests its going to be in the earths atmosphere sometime today. They also say dont worry, theres one expert that says this is a small risk. Cnn the odds go ahead. I was going to say the odds are not zero, there is a chance this is going to land somewhere where there are people. In fact, its happened before. Cnns david c
Covid. All right . What we need to do is make sure the hospitals can still function. Omicron with its extraordinary, unprecedented degree of efficiency, of transmizability, will ultimately find just about everybody. Unfortunately, those who are still unvaccinated are going to get the brunt of the severe aspect of this. So it will find you. What does that mean . Well if youre vaccinated and boosted like dr. Fauci said there, almost definitely not much. You are largely protected against severe infection, but the unvaccinated are not. The unvaccinated are pushing hospitals to the Breaking Point this morning. Were going have much more on that in just a moment. Also new this morning, a scary incident on an American Airlines plane in honhonduras. A man breached the cockpit and damaged it before trying to climb out of a window, as you see him doing here. Passengers delayed eight hours before they got a new plane and that flight could finally take off and the suspect arrested, though still no