safe at last. the first flight of afghans who risked their lives to help american troops arrives in the u.s. but what will happen to thousands more with taliban targets on their back? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. and we start today with the health lead and the new data backing up what top health officials had been warning about for weeks, the delta variant is aggressive. the delta variant is highly contagious. even among those who are fully vaccinated. the new data out today is some of the same data that prompted the cdc to change its mask guidance earlier this week. its pivotal discovery centers on a covid outbreak in massachusetts where vaccinated people were still infected. the though we need to emphasize, the vaccine can keep serious illness at bay. but those individuals can still become very contagious to others. cnn s athena jones joins me now live from new york. athena, what else are we learning from this alarming new data? all of this data really raises
in the icu, with two on ventilators. a poll last night by abc news and the washington post found that only 6% of democrats say they aren t likely to get vaccinated. whereas, 47% of republicans fall into that camp. of course, the virus doesn t stay contained by political boundaries and the ferocious delta variant which now accounts for an estimated 57% of all cases. poses a risk to not only those who choose not to get vaccinated but also kids are and those for medical reasons can t get vaccinated. so how do we reach the vaccine hesitant? can anyone persuade them? what about the person on whose watch the vaccine was developed in record time, former president donald trump? you would think that donald trump would be eager to remind that the vaccines were formed on his watch and relative to warp speed. relative to the times he spends complaining about the 2020 election results he hardly mentions it. last week, he send out a missive saying that his administration did a, quote, gr
of one city whose city is now the first in the nation to charge gun owners for gun violence. is that even legal? welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, it is monday, july 12th. right now the delta variant is spreading in the u.s. as pfizer is set to brief government health officials today on a possible covid-19 booster shot. the company said last week that there is waning immunity to the virus among people who received its two-dose vaccine. but that announcement has confused a lot of people as federal guidance that fully vaccinated people don t need a booster right now is not expected to change. there are studies being done now on going as we speak about looking at the feasibility about if and when we should be boosting people. so this isn t something that we say, no, we don t need a boost right now. the story has ended forever. no, there s a lot of work going on to examine this in realtime to see if we might need a boost. but right now, given
cnn interview. republican congresswoman liz cheney goes on the record about her role on the insurrection committee and sends a message to kevin mccarthy. and new covid cases are up in 46 states. the young and the unvaccinated filling up hospital wings. where the virus is spiking overlaps with where vaccinations are low. we begin here today, with the president and what you might call the goldilocks challenge that will define his first year. the president will visit capitol hill to celebrate a new agreement among senate democrats on a budget resolution with $3.5 trillion in new spending. it keeps the core of the biden and the democratic agenda, but the $3.5 trillion price tag is too big for some moderates, way too small for many liberals. so for a president whose party has no votes to spare in the senate and only a handful extra in the house, today begins the effort to sell $3.5 trillion as just right. let s get to capitol and manu raju. the president will be there momentar
myself, but just watching how people are suffering with their breathing, how hard it is for them to breathe, how poorly they feel. they feel terrible with this. and you can see the regret on their face. they don t necessarily express it all the time. but it s clearly there. the patients who are being hospitalized, unvaccinated. and what else, generally speaking? what s the age range of patients you are seeing now? so it s kind of interesting, because earlier in the pandemic, and certainly before we had vaccinations, we were seeing a much older patient population in the emergency department and getting admitted to the hospital. in recent weeks, we ve been seeing a much younger population. and really even quite a few people who don t have any underlying medical problems. so, the age skew is much younger. we re seeing people in their 30s, 40s, early 50s. we re seeing some teenager and some pediatric patients as well. how sick are the patients you re seeing? honestly, the