fuel to what the cdc calls the pandemic of the unvaccinated. nearly every state is seeing more covid-19 cases compared to the week before. less than half the country is fully vaccinated, meaning the game changed in herd immunity is still out of reach. and there is a projected worst case scenario of 4,000 deaths in the u.s. if vaccination rates don t improve. dr. anthony fauci telling cnn, that revising guideline for vaccinated people is under active consideration. in arkansas, the state with the third lowest vaccinate rate, health officials say there were more than 1,000 new cases just yesterday. today, republican governor asa hutchison tweeted a plea for people to get vaccinated. saying he can only imagine the strain on the state s health care workers. we don t have to imagine. one arkansas hospital posted one. its own doctors sharing what is actually happening as the delta variant cuts through his community. what i really wish you could see is to look into the eyes of a
virtual, that s a completion kind of model that we ve had in place for years. you re not in touch with a teacher live every day. so what do you do if there s an outbreak at a school without that live interact with the teacher considering you don t offer the state funded virtual option? so we would actually be similar to what we ve done in years past when children are out sick. we have some means of connecting them to the school and to the teacher for make-up work, for homework, for trying to get on line and see what assignment have been given. all of that will be in place again. the teacher can also voluntarily if a teacher is still in the classroom and a few students are out, then they can certainly voluntarily allow those students to listen in. but they cannot actually be instructing them at the same time that they re instructing a class full of students in person. all right. barbara jenkins there in orange county, florida. thank you. pleasure. brand new hour, s
right now at this stage of the coronavirus pandemic with three vaccines readily available. but that s exactly where we are. with covid infections rising in nearly every single state. that deep red that you see represents infection rates going up by at least 50% over the prior week. hospitalization rates, they re also moving in the wrong direction. and due to the staggering number of americans still opting out of getting a life-saving vaccine. there s even an active discussion happening right now to reverse the cdc s mask guidance for vaccinated americans. we re going in the wrong direction. do you think masks should be brought back for vaccinated americans? you know, jake, this is under active consideration. if you re asking, am i part of the discussion? yes, i am. so the surge may seem familiar, but one factor that sets it apart from the others is that it was fully preventable. we have multiple vaccines available that would enable the country to reach herd immunity a
civil war. barring any last-minute changes, the panel will consist of seven democrats and one renegade republican. house minority leader kevin mccarthy was given the opportunity to appoint five republicans but took his ball and went home after speaker pelosi rejected two trump loyalists that he put forward. congressman jim jordan of ohio and gym banks of indiana both made no secret of their plans to undermine the probe. history will decide whether pelosi was right to sacrifice the appearance of bipartisanship in favor of a sober and serious investigation. but the gravity of the moment is clear, based on evidence we ve already seen with our own eyes. we all saw the trump perpetrate the big lie that he won the election for months without evidence. we watched as he and his enablers gathered trump s most fervent supporters in d.c. and whipped them into a frenzy with hours of incendiary speeches. and we witnessed that mob storm the capitol, outfitted for battle, not peaceful prote
coast. millions of people facing torrential rain, life-threatening storm surge, strong winds and even the possibility of tornadoes. tropical storm elsa will affect almost the entire eastern coast of the united states. the national hurricane center issued a new advisory. cnn has a team tracking it all. let s begin our coverage with cnn meteorologist chad myers. he has the latest forecast. chad, what s new in this forecast that strikes your eye? boris, the latest is that making landfall right now, taylor county, florida, very close to steam chachly, north of horseshoe beach, certainly north of cedar key. it s getting bigger at this hour, at least convectionwise, not wind speedwise, over a swampy area in taylor county. we re not going to see more increase in speed circulating around the storm itself. still going to be a 65-mile-per-hour storm. what we are still seeing, tremendous amounts of rain on the tail end here near ft. myers and heavy rainfall about to come onshore acros