Quickly the situation woild fall apart, just in the last few months the taliban now in control of more than 200 districts. In charge of border crossings now. They are currently threatening at least half of the country s provincial capitals, three of them are under siege, terrible fighting everyday. The question is when does kabul get targeted if it does get targeted. That is what has everybody here in the city in a real state of profound anxiety and also brianna i would have to say deep resentment against the american forces. They felt it didn t need to be this chaotic and hurried. I m fascinated to hear people were chanting in support of the afghan security forces. How strong is their belief that they can actually stop the gains clearly being made by the taliban? reporter: this is what everybody wants to know. Can the afghan national security forces reverse some of these gains? in the provincial capital in the province where so many u. S. Troops gave their lives, john, the military he
So now with the much faster spreading delta variant, by far the dominant strain hospital intensive care units are once again getting crowded, filling up. Localities are once again imposing mask mandates. The nfl this week imposing new penalties on teams with outbreaks with unvaccinated players. Governors and politicians and tv personalities began shedding months of vaccine denial in defiance. Not soon enough. In alabama, for example, the governor today pushed hard on people to get the vaccine. Only 33. 9% in her state have. That s the worst in the nation. Another thing that s become clear this week is that some people for many reasons just don t want to get the shot not even as cnn s elle reid discovered when they ve got the best reason in the world to rollup their sleeve. Reporter: did anyone you know get covid? my son had covid. Reporter: how old is he? eight. Reporter: wow, so that s pretty rare for a young kid. What was that like? he s sick a lot. He s been sick for a while and he
He worries about the coming school year, specifically in state with lower vaccinate rates. Here is what he said to us just last hour. In the northeast, we have all the adults and adolescents vaccinated. The kids will probably do well this school year. Down here in the south, in houston, the school year will begin in a few weeks. We start early. What that means is we ve got so few addlesadd he addless sent a young adults vaccinated, what makes people think this will go well. We ll have an enormous amount of transmission. We ll see a lot of young people and even adolescents and kids get sick. There s his prediction. Nick watt joins us now. The delta variant is infiectiou it s impacting some people fully vaccinated. Reporter: the headline sounds scary. More than 800 people, 20% were fully vaccinated people. They are breakthrough infections. The majority of them though were asymptommatic or very mild symptoms. Very few were admitted to the hospital. Very, very few deaths among this group.
Resistance to vaccines. This is an american tragedy. People are dying. They will die. They do not have to die though. If you are out there unvaccinated, you don t have to die. The administration is now confronted with the reality that it has worked to stopread d potentially face a major setback. Today, the president acknafct millions. It s time to impose requirements on key groups. Every federal in government employee will be asked to attest to their vast skin nation vaccination status. Anyone who doesn t a test, they will be required to mask, no matter where they work. Test one or two times a week. If in fact you are unvaccinated, you present a problem to yourself, to your family, and to those with whom you work. Tonight, the pentagon says it will also impose the same rules on all military and civilian personnel. President biden added that the justice department says it is for local communities and businesses to require vaccines. Several major companies have already announced the vacc
Vaccinated individuals infected with delta may be able to transmit the virus as easily as those who are unvaccinated. Vaccinated people infected with delta have measurable viral loads similar to those who are unvaccinated and infected with the variant. This afternoon, president biden took a much more aggressive stance in facing the escalating covid virus and resistance to vaccines. This is an american tragedy. People will die who don t have to die. If you re out there, unvaccinated, you don t have to die. The administration is now confronted with the reality that its work to stop the spread of covid could potentially face a major setback. Today the president acknowledged that threat and took the first step toward imposing tough new regulations that will affect millions. It s time to impose requirements on key groups. Every federal government employee will be asked to attest to their vaccination status. Anyone who does not attest or is not vaccinated will be required to mask no matter w