Already been vaccinated. World health organization says this delta variant is becoming the dominant covid strain across our world. The cdc says it will likely become the dominant strain here within a few months. Experts particularly worried about what it could mean come fall,. What it could mean in parts of the south where vaccination rates have lived way behind the rest of our country. We re going to see regional surges in places like the southeast of the united states. Little vaccine uptake rates. Once we hit the fall, we re going to get cold, dry air. That s what covid likes. It s really combatting this conception that back in 2020, young people thought well, it s my parents that are going to end up in intensive care. Now we re seeing this is a very different risk benefit calculation when it comes to taking a risk with the virus, versus getting the shot. Meanwhile, next week the senate expects to take up work on one of the presidents big list items. Majority leader schumer plans to
we begin with breaking news out of haiti where american mission nairs including children have been kidnapped outside the capital of the port-au-prince. the gang accused of taking them has a known history of abductions. according to a statement by the christian aid ministries, the group consists of 16 americans, one canadian citizen. five men, seven women and five children. in a statement the state department says they re aware of the situation. earlier on cnn ohio congressman adam kinzinger promising the american government will stop at nothing to bring these missionaries home safely. with me is jacqueline charles, a career correspond at the miami herald. jacqueline, thank you for joining me. i want to ask you, what is the situation right now? well, the situation right now, i ve been in contact with the haitian national police. they still don t have any confirmation of this, but we now know from the christian aid ministries that, yes, 17 individuals including 16 americans
i m martha maccallum. this is the story today. it s a big one. a border showdown is brewing in eagle pass, texas right now. a huge hub for illegal border crossings. there s a standoff that is underway between the federal government, which wants the razor wire that texas put in place there to protect its own state, they say it has to go. republican texas governor greg abbott says he will not. the biden administration has given him a deadline of tomorrow to allow border patrol access to the area. it s called shelby park. essentially setting up a confrontation potentially between federal agents and the texas national guard. when asked to the governor, will you comply with this order, here s what the governor said. watch. texas has a right as a state to stop criminals from coming in to our state. to make arrests of those criminals. we have national guard as well as texas department of public safety officers that are there to make those arrests and to deny illegal entry. mar
president biden is about to honor of hero of bloody sunday. it was 58 years ago that white deputies and state troopers violently turned on peaceful demonstrators. they were beginning a 54-mile march to montgomery, the state capital to call for equal voting rights for african-americans. this is obviously an important trip for the president. what can you tell us? reporter: well, jim, president biden s purpose here in selma, alabama today is two-fold. the white house has said he wants to commemorate the day, the events of bloody sunday 58 years ago so that they will not be erased from america s memory. the president will be speaking in just a short while with a backdrop of the edmund pettis bridge right behind him, where african-americans were severely beaten by white officers. the president in his remarks today is once again expected to put the spotlight on the need for vote being rights legislation. in the 2020 campaign, that was one of the central tenets, one of main promis
power grid across ukraine today. the strike such as this one which nearly hit a pedestrian bridge also in kyiv came during the morning commute. that bridge, by the way, is clearly not a military target. i ve been there. it s a tourist attraction, the place you might go for a stroll on a weekend with friends. this isn t a military target either. it is a playground in a city park. several missiles landed here and nearby at a busy intersection outside a museum. authorities say at least five people were killed in the city and 11 nationwide. lvil was also hit so was kharkiv and cities running south where this video was taken . the attack, the largest since the beginning of the invasion came days after a massive explosion damaged the bridge connecting russia to occupied crimea. something ukraine welcomed but did not claim responsibility for. president biden condemned the russian strikes promising continued support. using what they ve got on hand ukrainian forces say they shot dow